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I had a handkerchief that I found at a golf course pro shop. It was a closed tube with what seemed like rocks inside. Once you soaked it in water the rocks would swell up and become jelly like. Then you put it in the fridge, don't freeze though, and that thing would stay cold for a good part of the day, even on hot days. You just tied it around the back of your neck. It was not cumbersome and it really worked well. If you have two and throw one in your cooler, you will have a cool rag around your neck all day if needed.

I'll try to see if I can find out who makes this and where you can find them.

Oh yeah, working under a metal deck, about 15 feet up, with 100 plus temps 100% humidity in Cape Coral Florida. The decking was so hot, if you touched it you would need to run it under cold water immediately or your arm would blister. At least I was drenched with sweat before I ever got the tool belt on so it really didn't matter much.

Bill,I was a combat medic in that conflict several years ago that we got our butts kicked in and no one likes to talk about,had several casses of heat problems there,from that was with a search and rescue team in the rockies and from that with several saftey committees through the years so the nick name sort of stayed with me.
Folks for 10 + years every weekend I hit the water and bass fished,the wife would read and fish some hot or cold did not matter then it seems as I have gotten older like over night it has become harder for me to take the heat so you guys watch your self the heat can over take you quickly,every one remembers 1980 it was hot in texas never missed a weekend and i mean dawn to dusk so heat I could handle. Well I am rambling so will hush

I have nothing but complete respect for 'Nam Vets...

Thank you Doc...

I actually used the box fan idea yesterday.
Philadelphia suburb. 90 deg outside. Probably 120 in the attic. I set up the fan 10 min. before going into the attic. The fan blew the AC into the attic, and I was up there for about an hour with minimal sweating.

Redsy, I too used a fan in an attic yesterday,July 18, to blow in air to stay semi-cool. Helped, but still had sweat dripping off my eyelashes. And it was about 110 degrees in there.

you bunch of big ole whinney hinneys come on over here and climb up into the top of this big old tin building I'm in,not even a fan much less any ac,what do u think the heat from that tin is at around 3:00 in the afternoon in the top of this 30 ft. building
if u guys would work a little faster you will move enough wind past you to keep cool
ha ha ha

I warned them about the pampering. I think that if you work without a fan long enough, you might lose the ability to reason out why a fan is needed.

Friday the 13th:
Replaced the exhaust fan system in a compressor room. We set up as many fans as we could get our hands on. Head temps on the compressors were running @ about 90°C.
We had to keep going to get this in so that the comps didn't kick out on overtemp, and shut down the whole plant (NGK spark plugs)

I'm a Whinny Hinny??.... My whiney hiney.


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Plenty toasty today. the secondary red iron was 128 degrees & the metal floor was 113 degrees. I ran out of water (1 gallon) by 3 PM.
Tom

It's in the mid 90's here, humidity is way up too. I suppose that might be an unremarkable day many other places in the country, but us woodchucks are'nt used to it. I spent the week in a ditch doing pvc. I was given a crew by the company i was working for, there was'nt a dry shirt to be seen after 9 o'clock on. We forced fluids , but it still takes a lot out of you to pump a shovel in this wheather.
You know you're breakin' a good bead when you drink gallons all day and never need to whiz....