HUMIDITY

[bucksnbears]

Heat stroke is no joke!! I was hauling square bales in my teens and being indestractable at that age, i just sucked it up and kept throwing bales. It was over ninety degrees and I didn’t have enough water with me. When the dizziness and dry heaves hit me it was over. that was over 30 years ago and to this day I can’t take heat. Once I start sweating hard I need to cool off quick. it seems like it’s a life long affliction.

Yep, 80* and humid, I'm done.

 

[Jiffy]

Heat stroke is no joke!! I was hauling square bales in my teens and being indestractable at that age, i just sucked it up and kept throwing bales. It was over ninety degrees and I didn’t have enough water with me. When the dizziness and dry heaves hit me it was over. that was over 30 years ago and to this day I can’t take heat. Once I start sweating hard I need to cool off quick. it seems like it’s a life long affliction.

it is! Once you get it you’re more susceptible.

 

[lunkerslayer]

101 today and talking the same for tomorrow ugh, mother nature decided to make up the difference in a few days compared to the heat we dealt with last year.
Update weatherunderground said 101

 

[Prairie Doggin']

AC decoded to ahit the bed today. Noon time, creeping up but blamed it on oven. Continued up. Settled in at 81. Hopefully it's a $300 15 minute fix tomorrow.

 

[Allen]

Heat stroke is no joke!! I was hauling square bales in my teens and being indestractable at that age, i just sucked it up and kept throwing bales. It was over ninety degrees and I didn’t have enough water with me. When the dizziness and dry heaves hit me it was over. that was over 30 years ago and to this day I can’t take heat. Once I start sweating hard I need to cool off quick. it seems like it’s a life long affliction.

This is not an uncommon experience. Many who experience something on the Heat Injury scale have a distinct sensitivity to similar conditions afterwards. I've been on the edge a few times, and even in my anecdotal observations I know I am more sensitive to the extremes.

 

[Auggie]

Drove from Devils Lake to Dickinson today. Stepped out of the pickup to fuel up and my eyeballs (not glasses) fogged over.

 

[LBrandt]

Anyone have a camel for sale and not a cigarette, asking for a friend. LB

 

[Retired-Guy]

AC decoded to ahit the bed today. Noon time, creeping up but blamed it on oven. Continued up. Settled in at 81. Hopefully it's a $300 15 minute fix tomorrow.

AC decided to shit the bed today. Noon time, creeping up but blamed it on oven. Continued up. Settled in at 81. Hopefully it's a $300 15 minute fix tomorrow.

Fixed it!

 

[Prairie Doggin']

Fixed it!

Yeah, that one needed some work.

 

[LBrandt]

How would you like to be a Black Angus this week. LB

 

[Davy Crockett]

And the poor buggers crowd into a tight herd to protect from flies. I always felt sorry for the ones without shade. Ours spread out and had to eat around trees , then laid in the shade during the day

 

[Skeeter]

How would you like to be a Black Angus this week. LB

There is about 50 of them standing in the corner of the pasture by my place. I’m thinking by the end of the day after 3 days of this shit medium rare steaks will be had. I moved my critters this morning so they can at least have some shade, those black cows beside me are screwed. No a tree in site.

 

[Kurtr]

I’m ready for cool frosty mornings the older I get the less I like summer. Give me -20 over this shit

 

[1lessdog]

I’m ready for cool frosty mornings the older I get the less I like summer. Give me -20 over this shit

I can dress for the cold, you can't dress for the heat.

 

[NDbowman]

And the poor buggers crowd into a tight herd to protect from flies. I always felt sorry for the ones without shade. Ours spread out and had to eat around trees , then laid in the shade during the day

Mine crowded into a corner near trees to good last night. They broke the corner post off. Got a call this morning at 730 am my cows are out. Put them back in and drove the fence, took awhile to figure out where they got out. Then dig the stub out, replace post, rebuild brace, and tighten wires. No one should have to sweat like that, that early in the day. While I was working I watched them stand in the shade and then head over to the waterhole and a nearby slough, drink, then head back to shade.
Had to quit cutting tonight about 945pm, Windows were so fogged up with condesation from The AC I couldn't see anymore. Auto steer kept me going for awhile, but was afraid I'd drive into a low spot full of water and get stuck.

 

[Davy Crockett]

Ouch. I don't miss chasing cattle. I only remember one that was real hard . Our pasture was in solid timber so I hunted it with a 30-06 and was ready to field dress it but I couldn't get a good shot , wilder than a whitetail, it jumped the creek that was about 10 feet wide. It finally got into a neighbors corral and I got it loaded and it tried crawling out the 10x10 window and got a bloody face. The last time I saw it was at the livestock ring when I opened the trailer door and it was gone. Got the check in the mail so it must have stopped sooner or later. That was one crazy critter. Mad steer disease or something. Never saw anything like it and it was tame at one time.

 

[Allen]

Ouch. I don't miss chasing cattle. I only remember one that was real hard . Our pasture was in solid timber so I hunted it with a 30-06 and was ready to field dress it but I couldn't get a good shot , wilder than a whitetail, it jumped the creek that was about 10 feet wide. It finally got into a neighbors corral and I got it loaded and it tried crawling out the 10x10 window and got a bloody face. The last time I saw it was at the livestock ring when I opened the trailer door and it was gone. Got the check in the mail so it must have stopped sooner or later. That was one crazy critter. Mad steer disease or something. Never saw anything like it and it was tame at one time.

About 7 or 8 years ago my stepdad got out of the cattle business. He had one cow that proved near impossible to catch and keep in a corral.

She wintered with the local mule deer herd. It took a couple of weeks of conditioning her with a moving feed spot to get her to go into the corral. Snuck down and closed the gate, only to have her do a jail break and wreck some corral panels. That was one of the few times I was legitimately afraid of a cow. Another couple weeks of conditioning her by moving the feed closer and closer to, and then finally in the barn did the trick as she couldn't jump over the fence at that point.

A person can get all kinds of nostalgic about when we had cattle, but at this point I don't miss them, haying, or feeding cows at all. This guy is hilarious! https://www.facebook.com/UnhingedRancher

 

[KDM]

About 7 or 8 years ago my stepdad got out of the cattle business. He had one cow that proved near impossible to catch and keep in a corral.

She wintered with the local mule deer herd. It took a couple of weeks of conditioning her with a moving feed spot to get her to go into the corral. Snuck down and closed the gate, only to have her do a jail break and wreck some corral panels. That was one of the few times I was legitimately afraid of a cow. Another couple weeks of conditioning her by moving the feed closer and closer to, and then finally in the barn did the trick as she couldn't jump over the fence at that point.

A person can get all kinds of nostalgic about when we had cattle, but at this point I don't miss them, haying, or feeding cows at all. This guy is hilarious! https://www.facebook.com/UnhingedRancher

Had a similar experience, but it was with the cows getting into the neighbors sunflower field. They broke the fence and 110 cow calf pairs got into the field. What a mess. Took 6 or so hours to get all the herd back in but two open cows. Lost lots of the skin off my forehead and hairline due to hitting the sunflower heads with my head scooting through the stalks chasing cows. Those last two just wouldn't go back in and my uncle decided he'd had enough. He called the butcher and asked if he could get an emergency processing date for an hour from now for two cows. A loader, truck, and two 243 rounds later, we were headin' to town with a whole bunch of hamburger. Never forget that fiasco as long as I live. My uncle had to write a pretty substantial check for the damage to that sunflower field. 110 cow calf pairs knock down an obscene amount of sunflowers when given the chance. Not good!

 

[Kurtr]

If cows didnt taste so good there would not be any.