Thread: Work and heat.

Originally Posted by Chops

Good luck with that when its winter,,,

generally feels 'warm' when you get out, or at least you're already half frozen so the shock isn't severe lol

Originally Posted by PAT303

It was hot enough two months ago to melt the tread off my MTR's and I had to wrap my wheel brace in a rag to hold on to it,I couldn't even kneel down the ground was that hot. Pat

I was working on a IP survey above Kununurra, WA, in October 1973, got too far away from the FJ45 and the bottle of water.
I started to do some daft things until I tried to pickup the crow bar off the ground, I quickly came back to reality with a very sore left hand with a welt across the palm.

Can't remember the chaps name, but he was a slaughterman and was between jobs at the time, so the Geophysicist's put him on to replace another that stayed on at the pub in Kununurra when we did the tucker run in.
Well he reckoned he was pretty good, wore only shorts, didn't need to carry drinking water and got all the moisture he needed from his beer at Tea time back in at camp.

He came unstuck while not thinking one stinking hot day, one of the wires that should have been attached to the IP survey generator that go to the electrodes, came apart and this smarty in his haste to keep the boss happy, did something that could have killed him.

He grabbed with both hands the uncoupled wire ends, but didn't think first to turn the power off before he did. The Geophysicist wasn't getting his readings like he should, so looked up to see what was going wrong and here is the lacky writhing around on the ground about two hundred metres away.

The Geophysicist ran and booted the wire out of the machine, then poured some water onto this unfortunates smoking hands, to cool the wire before prising them out of his grip !

He came back from the Hospital just before we broke camp and had dinner with us and while he had his sense of humour back, he didn't enjoy having both his hands bandaged that much he couldn't hold a knife or fork.
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