Ever notice

Erik Ks farmer · Jul 10, 2013

That when it gets really dry it feels hotter no matter the temp? I just came in for a break after I put a new sickle in the haybine, sweating like all get out. Check the temp and it's only 82, would have told you it was 95, but I've been laying in the dirt staring at those cracks that keep growing in the ground.

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Jul 10, 2013

To me it seems the opposite, when humidity is high it feels hotter.

Kerry50 · Jul 10, 2013

Dang Erik, sorry to hear your not getting any rain there. We've been getting some rain here this morning in mid-MO. I can definitely relate to what you are saying about the heat. I've been combining fescue seed for the last two weeks. Riding in a K2 with no air is no fun at all. Might be 90 outside but feels like 105 in the cab.

GordoSD · Jul 10, 2013

Can you do that at night or is it too damp then?

Chuck (CA) · Jul 10, 2013

Yup.. "It"s not the heat, it"s the humidity."
I live in an area that"s relatively low humidity and I can stay out there until it reaches triple digits. And then, I can still stay out if I"m in the shade.

James Howell · Jul 10, 2013

It could be the humidity in the air.

Here in NE Texas the humidity levels get high; you walk outside and start sweating no matter the temperature.

The are days that I change work shirts twice daily.

Try to get my work done early in the morning before 9am and late in the evening after 7pm.

Made some adjustments on one of the JD 350 sickle mowers yesterday at 11am was completely soaked with sweat down to my work boots.

Be sure to drink plenty of water and don't get dehydrated.

old · Jul 10, 2013

Yep know what you mean. Yesterday we picked up the last 75 square bales of hay and before we where done it was almost like it had rained as wet as I was. Got the bales covered with a tarp before giving up. Good thing since we got around a 1/2 inch of much needed rain last night and looks like it could start raining again at any moment. Did not unload the trailer because we have to take 62 bales to a guy I know up the road

Bill in IL · Jul 10, 2013

What was the dew point at your location? When it gets up to 70 I try to stay in the house. If its in the 60s its bearable but the 50s is best. I usually watch the dew point more than the daily temp in the summer.

Erik Ks farmer · Jul 10, 2013

Some days I wish I could stay in, still have around 150 acres of hay to put up and cows to look after. With drought it just seems hot when the ground is parched, it's mainly mental. When a guy watches his 3 consecutive corn crop fail it happens. I'll agree with you guys on the humidity.

notjustair · Jul 10, 2013

We are in the same boat over here. We finished harvest on Monday. Folks stopped trying with double crop beans - if it doesn't rain soon the ones that are already in the ground aren't going to make it either.

I'm not sure what to do with the ground I was going to hay. It is tall but all seed. After last year it was so stressed that it didn't do well - brome was pretty good but fescue suffered. I think I will run over the tops and shatter the seed down hoping that it will rain again someday.

Everyone said it would do this - another drought but a fake out initially. I had such high hopes.

I run water in the hog pen each day but I can't even get a good mudhole. It all just disappears. The hogs just lay under the water pipe hoping for part of the cold trickle.

Billy NY · Jul 10, 2013

I'll agree with the humidity, if its hot but humidity 60% or less, not so bad, even better with a breeze but 80%-90% humidity is just uncomfortable, sweat just pours off, I keep a wash cloth in the right back pocket to wipe the brow. Its bearable if in the 80's like it has been, but like it was in 2010, especially in the barns, misery, in an hour, it looks like someone hung you upside down, and dipped you in a stock tank, soaked, the heat never let up that year, 90's and humid for weeks, so if its 90% humidity, 90 Deg F, real hard to get anything done, + all the insects if you are in the field. This year the rain has been a bit much, and we have the tropical air, constant thunderstorms, but the heat has not been oppressive just yet, I've soaked my shirt twice today, but its been overcast, a breeze and hardly any bugs, you just never know what kind of summer you're going to get here, that is for sure !

sotxbill · Jul 10, 2013

Its not the heat, its the humility that gets you. A hundred grees here is a lot hotter than it was over there. :roll:

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