Originally posted by RAIDER14
it will be in 20's + wind chill later
that aint cold
Just nice brisk day.
Try working out side in the single digits with that wind.
I've done it
Now THATS cold
Work started at 8:00 By 8:30 yoru feet and fingers are cold as hell.
8:45 they are so cold they hurt. 9:00 they dont hurt anymore cause they are frozen.
10:00 they hurt again cause you just smashed one of em with a 2 1/2 Lb sledge hammer while breaking out mortar. But you dont stop and you keep working cause the motto is
"Unless the digit or limb is completely severed. Keep working"
Around 11:00-11:30 your fingers and toes start to tingle and you can almost feel them again at high noon. By 1:00 everything is numb again Till around 4:30 -5:00 when you get in the truck to go home and they start to thaw out.. then THAT hurts.
Now imagine all that while suspended 5 stories in the air on a Rope (Swing)scaffold in NYC where everything had to be hoisted up by hand using Hemp Rope cause the sheer lunatic you work for HAS to be labled as "the Last of the old Tyme Steplejack Tuck point and Waterproofers" and HAS to do eveything the old fasioned way.
And nothing so minor like a little cold weather and wind was gonna stop him no matter how much it blew the scoffold around.
Oh and BTW. "Its only a little (@($)# Wind! Get up on that #)$(@ ledge when you lower down that container of anti hydro! Your gonna ruin my *@*$)@ rope!"
No electric hoists or cables for this guy. nonono.
I swear sometimes I still pull hemp splinters out of my hands.
And this took place 25 years ago
bah.. Dont even get me started on the cold LOL
