Melton orientation in the heat

90 degree heat your not going to need alot of clothes mate. shorts a singlet and flip flops would be the way to go mate, however seeing your in a work zone best to don on the right gear i'd keep covered up if its hot and just keep drinking lots and lots of water. Because of the type of work i do the industry standards stipulate long sleeve shirts and long jeans or pants regardless of how hot it is, so that all we can do when we're not in the air conditioned cab is keep hydrated.

 

I'd love to get into car hauling someday, especially some of the specialized stuff like you may see in ad sections of car magazines. I love cars to death. It'd be cool to get paid to haul some nice ones.

 

I bring 8 days clothes, Jeans black, boots, adequate socks, strong belt, a couple good shirts for suit work and rest are working shirts for a variety of weather, long sleeved, short sleeved etc.

I ALSO bring outer garments for all 4 seasons. There are times you come out of the blazing desert and climb up into 2 feet of snow raging at the pass up top and back down into the springtime green valley on the other side all in the same day.

Heat means hydrate more than anything. A duffel bag of your favorite gatorade takes care of that. I used to spend 30 dollars a day on nothing but large gallon gatorades in blacktop. When you make a few hundred a day potentially some days gatorade and fluids is a good investment and defense against heat stroke or exhaustion.

Hydrate. When you start peeing, easy and back off the hydrating a little bit. Remember as long you are sweating you are doing good. If your body stops sweating you have a BIG problem medically. In fact it's already a emergency and you need a airconditioning room, more fluids and a bar of hersheys chocolate plus something salty such as a small bottle of planters salted peanuts with more fluids. Repenlish your lost salt which allows your heart to maintain timing and the sugar is for the mind to keep it running (Otherwise it will rob your muscles first and work to the fat and other systems in your body to support what it craves.) And the fluids to maintain adequate blood PH and pressures sufficient to keep your kidneys working. If you don't take fluids long enough, your eyes lose fluid and start working against itself like sandpaper against your vision for one and your kidneys dry out causing renal failure among other problems. Failure to hydrate also causes your gut to store body solid waste to the point of potentially increasing septis wastes into your blood. You literally get sick, then run a temp that wont stop as your blood is increasingly polluted. Your liver is supposed to remove the waste but without a adequate fluid in your blood with good PH, your liver might just take time off. That would eventually kill you in several different ways.

85 to 90 is hot. But that's not hot. Blood temp is around 98. Any time your outside temp is above 86 you cannot cool down without hydrating. By the same token once you get sick enough to start running a temp from overheating, that temp might go all the way to 106. You will not be doing well past 103.9 or so. You will be in a sort of coma prior to death at 104 and above as your brain cooks. Worse case scenario it herinates by leaving your skull leaking out through the C1 spine joint under great pressure. You are dead soon after. The only way to stop that problem is to drill a hole and remove enough skull to get the pressure off for a few days or weeks until everything stablizes.

Heat is one thing. Hydrating and pacing yourself and getting cool now and then during the work day is key to doiing well.

Also remember preexisting heart issues that has never been caught or diagnosed will reveal itself during times of overheating. I actually have orders to stay out of the heat msyelf, it's a standing order. I have three bad valves specifically and when it's stressed from the heat the rest of the body simply does not get adequate oxygen.

 

It's already too #### hot here in the Midwest this year.

 

Texas got me feeling ####ed up already with these 100 degree days.

APU can’t keep up with the heat so I’m idling the truck every hour or so...

I should’ve gone home for Memorial Day weekend

 

An acquired taste like blood sausage...Lmao.