For those that dont know I make glass for a living.

Today it was 120° in my shop and I had to make a bunch of stuff. Friggen miserable. It isnt oficially summer yet and I'm already melting:mad:
I think I drank over a gallon of water and didnt pee once.
Cant wait till septeber:smash:

Drink more water, Eben. My Dad, as a kid was the beer runner for glass blowers in Morgantown, he was amazed at how much they could drink and not get S-Fed. My spray booth wouldn't go below 109 today, ya make me feel like a woosie:D !!

A beer runner?!?!?!?!? shoot. I gotta get one of those. Maybe someone to run beer from the mews tavern up the street to me. Yeah thats the ticket:D
looks to be a bit cooler today.

Eben, I'd volunteer, but the beers wouldnt make it... geuss I'd be the half empty beer runner :D

I feel ya eben, ive been slaving over the grill at work. When theres no breeze we get cooked and smoked out:peessed: :peessed: Hopefully should be a lil better when we get our hoods installed in a week or two. Least you can get out for a bit if ya want, i gotta stay put till i fill all the holes are filled.

I shut down early today... its nice being the boss:D

Bastard, the hotter it gets the more holes i gotta fill.

I love to watch glass being blown. I drive my wife nuts when we go to King Richard's Faire and I spend an hour of it watching them. That is something I have always want to try. I really respect the craftsmanship that goes into the pieces. :cheers:

I used to visit the glass blowers at Simon Pearce in VT. It was fascinating to watch them.

During the summertime, at least they had the option of cooling off in the Queechee river or grabbing a brewski at the gin mill. :D

I did blacktop for 15 years try standing on 350 - 500 degree asphalt all day in 90 plus heat now thats cookin. gotto admit I loved doin it. One thing we used to do is raise the back of the truck and open the coal shute doors to asphalt in a backhoe bucket, that was hot and good chance of getting burnt.

I can see this now:

Eben: Hey you guys wanna go grab me a beer here's a 20.

Chef, Hound, Vic: Umm sure........

*Eben closes the store 6 hrs later, we're still at the mews*

Eben: Where's that beer?

All: your half is on the bottom of the pitcher :D


But umm yeah its hot as heck in there, I work in ac but I cant come and go as I please, well mebbe I could but dont think its the best idea. ...

I used to be a shaker on the back of garbage truck and our route was Brockton, ma. , I could drink 3 gal's of h2o on a summer day and not pee once, then I got promoted to driver / shaker could drink 5 gal of h2o and not pee , if anyone has done this job on city trash running behind a truck gotto give ya the thumbs up, I loved that job got in great shape
ohhhhh didn't mean to Hijack the thread
later LINK SR.:cool:
ps I also drove a 1967 B-87 MACK tractor w/a trailer dump no A/C got to be over 120 degrees in the cab seat welded to floor so I could fit lost over 25 lbs that summer oh baby that was one bad a$$ truck HAMMA DOWN MUTHER TRUCKER

:D way to go link sr... My dad used to do cross country tr#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g, now he's slowed down and runs timber out of maine.... you might hear him on the radio, he goes by 69 and also 'Bones' Man the stories he can tell... fighting off lot lizards, gas thieves in the middle of the night... Cooking steaks on the exhaust system of his western star....I kinda wish I led that lifestyle as i melt in my dungeon...:smash:

i love punishing truck drivers on the CB
Gravel queens are the best

Gravel QUEEN'S ya baby DIRT DUMMIES me I'm a CEMENT HEAD
later link sr:cool:

Oh a spooge queen:D

Know how you feel there did some work on a DA tank at work. Stepped outdoors to cool off got goosebumps when it was 90 + outside. ThomT

i drove a tractah for 6 years with the heat stuck on :smash:

I drove a trachta fo 12 years with a patch over one eye and spinning plates on a stick while knitting wool mittens with my toes
later link:cool:

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I was a shaker at 17 then driver at 18 . was good money and plenty of scrap metal . I was in great shape back then with all the running and spinning the barrel to the old folks back yards .

then I drove a 63 ton tank which was the best . We also had some great ammo carriers to drive too .