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Started by TexasTimbers, December 08, 2006, 08:58:04 AM

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TexasTimbers

I can't keep my feet warm in winter no matter what i do. Oh if I pile the socks on and jam the feet into a pair of insulated boots I might get lucky, but I can't motorvate very well that way.

I have always had a problem with cold feet, so it's a genetics thing but there has to be some tricks I don't know about. i even googled "heated socks" and "battery powered socks" etc and nothing seems practical.

Y'all fellers Yoos guys up North are bound to have figured this out by now what is the trick? I'm miserable!

The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

metalspinner

I was told by a northerner once that the secret to not being cold in the cold was to relax all of your muscles.  And it works, too - until you start shivering. :D
I do what the little voices in my wife's head tell me to do.

logbutcher

Quote from: kevjay on December 08, 2006, 08:58:04 AM
I can't keep my feet warm in winter no matter what i do. Oh if I pile the socks on and jam the feet into a pair of insulated boots I might get lucky, but I can't motorvate very well that way.

I have always had a problem with cold feet, so it's a genetics thing but there has to be some tricks I don't know about. i even googled "heated socks" and "battery powered socks" etc and nothing seems practical.

Y'all fellers Yoos guys up North are bound to have figured this out by now what is the trick? I'm miserable!


So am I listening to this,  :D   Soooooooo---

1. Cut whining.
2. Harvest some of your mesquite. Then buck it, haul it, split it, burn it.
3. OR, mill some of that scrub oak near those "doggies".
4. If 1,2,and 3 don't work to warm those pinkies, try the Eskimo thing for the old ones:
"take a loooong walk on the ice."  ;D :D

"We 'Northerners' "  :o, do have some "tricks" called EFFORT 8)

MERRY CHRISTMAS

TexasTimbers

I made this post knowing full well I was opening myself up to ridicule, but I figured if I got one single tip that would help then it would be worth it.

So, thanks for the tip metalspinner, telling me to relax is a good suggestion I am always a little high strung cold or not.  :)

As to effort, I doubt you hang with me butsherboy coldfeet or not.  ;)
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

Paul_H

I heard a saying somewhere that went something along the lines of

'if your feet are cold,put on a hat'

Science isn't meant to be trusted it's to be tested

DanG

I think it is all the freezing and thawing that goes on down here, Kevjay.  Them Yankee's feets go numb about the end of Septober, and stay that way until the middle of May.  Their feet are cold, but they don't know it. :D :D
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

sawguy21

 :D :D :D :D I wear light cottonsocks under 1 or 2 lb wool ones. This refers to the weight of 1 dozen pair of socks so these are the lighter ones. Get a comfortable pair of boots with thick soles large enough to trap some air around the feet and keep them treated with a water repellent like dubbin. Wet feet are cold feet.
If the boots get soaked, stuff them with newspaper and let them dry but don't put them near high heat.
old age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm

ohsoloco

I typically wear a heavy pair of "hunting socks" with a set of boots.  It depends how cold it is whether I put on the insulated boots or not.  If I'm moving around a lot and it's not bitterly cold, I can't wear insulated boots cuz my feet start to sweat.  The only thing worse than cold feet is wet feet, and it's already been mentioned that they're closely related  ;)

Sawguy, I'm curious why you mention not putting your boots near high heat  ???  If my boots get soaked I will set them next to the woodstove for a day to dry out.  Yes, they're a little tighter when I put them back on, but haven't noticed any other ill effects. 

RichlandSawyer

kevjay, goodmorning!

i have a couple suggestions for you. Too many socks can make you colder then not enough, if your toes dont have room to wiggle then the blood cant flow and cold is soon to follow. Check out cabelas or Bass Pro and find yourself a pair of thinsulate socks, they will give you room and wick away moisture. Another problem is if you are on the move a lot your feet can easily sweat and that will lead to cold feet so try changing your socks at lunchtime. Last Paul_h has a very good point a good hat can keep the whole body warm, but for feet a pair of longjohn bottoms or a pair of thin pants that will slip over your jeans will make quite a difference too. If your legs start to get cold then your body turns off the blood flow to your feet to keep your legs warm. My personal secret is to do something fun! if i'm working i freeze if i'm hunting i dont notice the cold, funny how that works.

RichlandSawyer
Every log i open up, a board falls out!!!

sawguy21

Putting them near the woodstove should be o.k. but too much heat will dry and crack the leather. Paul brings up a very good point, a lot of heat is lost through an uncovered head, especially for us follically challenged guys. :D
old age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm

leweee

  just get them feet closer to the wood stove fire_smiley :D I have boots that are one size bigger for freezing weather.....tight boots=cold feet. ;)    next I have socks with a high wool content....My nieghbours wife...Kards,spins & knits them from her flock of wooly critters. Keep them dry so you have dry socks in the morning. If your feet sweat a lot, change them at noon.  ;D or better yet if you have lunch near a woodstove take them boots off ...get your feet elevated & relax. :)


PS if you find your lunch break keeps getting longer you know your too relaxed. :D
just another beaver with a chainsaw &  it's never so bad that it couldn't get worse.

Jeff

My procedure is to wear one pair of cotton socks inside a pair of removable felt pac boots like sorels.  Make sure the boot is not tight so you yave breathing room for your feet as mentioned. The most important part of keeping your feet warm day to day is take those felts out EVERY night and place somewhere they can dry before you put them on the next day. what really gets your feet cold is the moisture they create during the day. The felts will keep that moisture away from your feet, and in turn, its your job every day to get the moisture away from your felts.  Take it from a guy that used to sit in a sawbooth 10 hours a day not moving his feet other then to steel peddles on a floor that was not insulted, but was elevated and exposed to air as gold as it gets when you are running a mill.  It works.  Heavy socks dont. Multiple socks dont.  Expensive boots dont, unless you can remove the moisture from those boots every day. If they dont have removable pacs, then you have to find a boot dryer somewhere. That moisture has to be removed or your feet will get cold.
Just call me the midget doctor.
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Paul_H

Quote from: leweee on December 08, 2006, 10:55:46 AM
 or better yet if you have lunch near a woodstove take them boots off ...get your feet elevated & relax. :)



Don't forget to de-elevate your feet before going back to work,it's hard to be productive when your butt is dragging. ;)
Science isn't meant to be trusted it's to be tested

Coon

It is called THINSULATE and use a pair of warm socks.  Keep your feet dry as well.  I go out in a pair of thinsulate boots in -40C and don't have to worry.  Also if you are worried about having hard toe boots for the cold get carbon fibers NOT steel.

Brad.
Norwood Lumbermate 2000 w/Kohler,
Husqvarna, Stihl and, Jonsereds Saws

Bro. Noble

I've always had a problem with cold feet since I've got to be in the wet conditions of the dairy barn and outside doing chores.  I've had heavy insulated rubber boots that kept my feet dry,  but were too heavy to do much walking.

A couple of years ago a friend told me I ought to get some boots like he was wearing (it was summer time) and he isn't even a farmer.  They are called 'muck boots' and are lightweight and hold up better than any dairy boots I've had.  They are warm in the winter and cool in the summer.  I always wear them to the barn and also to the mill when it is wet or cold.  They sell for around $6o dollars at most farm stores or online,  but one local feed store has them for $45.  They also sell a taller, cameo version for huntersfor around $100.  It got down to 6 or 8 degrees last night and it wasn't my feet I was afraid of freezing off :D :D  We decided to wait till noon to work at the mill.  I'll be wearing my muck boots ;D  Now as far as what to wear when it's cold like in yankeeland-----I'd just sit by the fire if I had the choice.  
milking and logging and sawing and milking

thurlow

Far as  drying your boots...........I've had a pair of them electrisitical boot dryers for years; they work great.
Here's to us and those like us; DanG few of us left!

beenthere

Silk socks under wool socks, and leave plenty of room to wiggle the toes, and dry out the felt liners. (my fix for cold feet, as well as silk t-shirt under wool shirt to handle sweat when working in the woods when it is cold).

Good blood circulation in one's feet is another plus. Those without it have more of a struggle to keep the toes warm. Keeping the toes dry is a must, one way or another.

Tolerance of cold is a plus, as some people have more than others (pain tolerance I suspect) and DanG probably is close to the answer (again :)).
south central Wisconsin
It may be that my sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others

leweee

Quote from: Paul_H on December 08, 2006, 11:10:44 AM

Don't forget to de-elevate your feet before going back to work,it's hard to be productive when your butt is dragging. ;)

Paul ...you sure you weren't my boss in a previous life :o ::) :D :D :D
just another beaver with a chainsaw &  it's never so bad that it couldn't get worse.

Paul_H

Science isn't meant to be trusted it's to be tested

TexasTimbers

great suggestions all. I think I will take all of them, add them together, and get the sum total which would look somethingn like . . . .



I just got back from that largest retailer in the world with a new pair of lightweight scooters. thinsulated. Wicking built in. Steel toe (couldn't find any without it), brrrr, but so far they are working pretty good.
I have more than my share of boots, insulated and not, biut none of them are this lightweight so I can hop around on rafters with etc.

It's 11:11 and it is still too slippery to be decking this roof up there but I I got no choice.

thanks for all the tips I will read them all thoroughly later. PaulH go back to work and get them feets away from that warm farr.  ;D
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

Burlkraft

Kevjay,

I got 2 words fer ya...electric socks

I always had cold feet. Tried a pair deer huntin' one year and I'll never sit all day in a stand without them... ;D ;D ;D
Why not just 1 pain free day?

Paul_H

I tried electric socks once but found that lugging the generator around made me tired and the noise scared the deer away.
Science isn't meant to be trusted it's to be tested

DR_Buck

Quotelightweight scooters. thinsulated. Wicking built in. Steel toe


Guess my response is to late.     I was gonna say all of what has been mentioned is good, except stay away from the steel toes in the winter!
Been there, done that.   Never got caught [/b]
Retired and not doing much anymore and still not getting caught

crtreedude

My wife, who's family has lived in the North for 350 years has the following solution. Find the bare back of your husband, stick your cold feet on it until he either screams or they warm up.

My solution - move to where you never have cold feet.

So, how did I end up here anyway?

TexasTimbers

Yeah the steel toe is not hurting me that much it seems. Got one side decked already so maybe it is the activity. Feet not WARM but not FREEZING  either. Just kinda cool. But they are perspiriiring, um can't spell that word, sweating, too so I dunno. Maybe a different sock tomorrow.

hey Fred I noticed your soultion to everything is to move to CR. That would cure the cold feet. Hows taxes down there I hate paying all these DanGed taxes up here.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

crtreedude

Just giving you what worked for me...

Taxes, hmmm - I think my tax rate is 15% down here - but there is a value added tax of about 13% I believe too.

Property tax is very low - I think on over 300 acres we pay about 400 dollars or less per year.

So, how did I end up here anyway?

PineNut

Paul_H mentioned about a hat. I have found that the first place I get cold is my feet. I find that if I keep the rest of my body warm, then my feet will usually be warm if I have a reasonable protection for my feet. The hat is a very important part as your body will keep your head warm at the expense of your extremities. But still the best way is a warm climate.

rebocardo

Well, if you are not sloshing through stuff, here is what I use to wear in MA, NH, ME for the winter. Two all cotton socks, heavy thick syn. wool type sock, water proof leather boots with thinsulate (no leather boot really is waterproof). If going through slush etc. skip the wool type sock, and wear pac all rubber boots (no zipper or seams) with thinsulate (sp) booty liner. L.L. Bean has some nice ones good for -30.

When weaing these socks do not wear tight ones! The socks should be loose so they do not cut off blood on your leg or toes. I have big legs so what I do is put a cut in the top of each sock. If the sock leaves lines on your legs, it is too tight.  As someone mentioned if you can not wiggle your toes they are too tight.

What you do NOT want your feet to do is sweat enough so it pools in the boot if you are outdoors exercising.

If you are female and have the skin disorder (forget what it is called - where your skin turns blue) you pretty much can not keep your skin feeling warm during winter.

If sitting around inside what you want to do elevate the discomfort is ditch shoes, boots, slippers, etc. Where a pair of thinsulate booties for the Pac boots and a thick syn. wool sock underneath it. Eventually the metallic material will wear off the bottom though you can still pad around in them.

Don_Papenburg

I wear my regular shoes with one sock either cotton or wool . Then if it is real cold I wear a pair of rubber boots that are two or three sizes larger than my shoes . That leaves an air space . Tight fitting overshoes transfer cold very fast.  Another thing to do is buy coveralls that are also two or three sizes larger than you need .
Frick saw mill  '58   820 John Deere power. Diamond T trucks

Tom

Which foot do you put the sock on, Don?  :D

TexasTimbers

I wore those Wally World Boots (Brahma) climbing all over those rafters, decking the 24' x 24 add-on (32 x 26 on the roof) and those clodhoppers like to have killed my back.
Didn't have nothing to do with the fact I was hefting the OSB across the roof and putting it all in place alone, I have done it many times (in my youth ::)). Didn't have nothing to do with my age I am still 21 and vigorous ( nose getting real long :D).
They wore my back out from having to use muscles to balance that i normally don't have to use when framing because I normally wear marine deck shoes framing, almost like hopping around bare-footed. So that is a downside but now the roof is decked ( 8)) so that is no longer a factor.
As far as the warmth, my feet were sweating like hogs and bordered on the verge of getting cold all the time, but the boots are insulated just enough I guess that the heat could not escape as fast as the cooling effect was that was trying to take over from the perspirition, hate that word, sweating and evaporative cooling effect that was trying to  take place.
I have been told about these fnacy schmancy electric socks enough that I think I have to try them.
I know about heat loss through the head (like 90%!) but have never worn a hat hardly unless it is extreme like sleeting etc., but today, I wore two hats; one right over the other. That made a big difference. It is a two-hat combo and it is pretty effective and looks cool too.
Thanks for all the tips and info.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

Corley5

I wear Rocky Blizzard Stalker steel toes with 1200 grams of Thinsulate and Goretex lining for waterproofing and my regular cotton socks.  I just ordered another pair as after several winters these aren't as waterproof as they used to be but still keep my feet warm.  They're going to be my forwarder operating footwear  ;) ;D  The key to boots without removable liners is a Peet or similar boot dryer.  I'd don't like pac boots anymore. 
Burnt Gunpowder is the Smell Of Freedom

jon12345

I got a pair of boots with thick felt liners and usually wear a pair of them big socks that are grey with red around the top or carhartt socks.


Sometimes instead of a hat I'll wear my helmet liner, especially if its windy. I used to wear old army hats with a flap  that could be folded inside the hat if it wasn't that cold, those weren't too bad but my head is bigger than the person I got them from so they don't fit anymore  :D


What is considered 'cold'  ???
A.A.S. in Forest Technology.....Ironworker

TexasTimbers

Quote from: jon12345 on December 08, 2006, 11:40:51 PM
What is considered 'cold' ???

If there ain't no skeeters peckin at ya and no butterflies flappin around it's too DanGed cold.  :)
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

Furby

That would be T-shirt weather Kevjay. ::)

TexasTimbers

Oh, yeah. :-\ ::) A man can dream though.  :)
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

jon12345

Yes, when the mosquitoes stop biting is definitetly tshirt weather.  

What will really warm you up is spending a couple weeks in the -20 to -30 range,  then when it does warm up to around freezing you will be nice and toasty.  ::)
A.A.S. in Forest Technology.....Ironworker

Furby

It's HARD getting use to the cold in the fall, but what was cold in the fall, feels nice in the spring after having colder days during winter. ;)

DanG

That about sums it up....if it ain't t-shirt weather, it's cold!
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

leweee

DanG cold :D :D :D



I wonder if he's wearing a T-shirt? :D
just another beaver with a chainsaw &  it's never so bad that it couldn't get worse.

gary

You can try putting anti -persperant on your feet . My feet sweat all the time in cold weather I will change my socks about every 2 hours . I don't tye my boots untill I have too then I tye them loosely so that I get some air in my boots.

Burlkraft

Is that a picture of the outhouse in The UP  ??? ??? ??? ???

I hope that ain't Da Boss sittin' there........ :D :D :D
Why not just 1 pain free day?

leweee

snow sculpture at the CNE Toronto ON. :D

Real close to yooper country. ;D
just another beaver with a chainsaw &  it's never so bad that it couldn't get worse.

Paschale

Quote from: rebocardo on December 08, 2006, 08:32:48 PM

If you are female and have the skin disorder (forget what it is called - where your skin turns blue) you pretty much can not keep your skin feeling warm during winter.


There's also Raynaud's Syndrome.  My ex-girlfriend had it, and her hands were cold and white all the time, but men can have this too.  A colleague of mine has it, and he functions well be always wearing huge mittens and warm socks and shoes.

My favorite kind of socks are Smartwool.  Comfortable, and they wick away the moisture better than cotton, if you ask me, and they'll keep you more warm than cotton if and fact your feet do get a little wet, though of course that's best to avoid, as everyone's said.
Y'all can pronounce it "puh-SKOLLY"

thecfarm

I use to have a hard time when I was up on ladders and walking on rafters all day.Now I don't have that job and mine feet stay warm with white socks and a heavy pair of stockings.Now about my hands,that is another whole differant story.Heated handles on the Husky keeps them nice and warm.
Model 6020-20hp Manual Thomas bandsaw,TC40A 4wd 40 hp New Holland tractor, 450 Norse Winch, Heatmor 400 OWB,YCC 1978-79

logwalker

You might be surprised what a little cayenne pepper sprinkled in your socks does for cold feet. You also might try a small aspirin a day to improve circulaiton. Its good for the heart as well. Joe
Let's all be careful out there tomorrow. Lt40hd, 22' Kenworth Flatbed rollback dump, MM45B Mitsubishi trackhoe, Clark5000lb Forklift, Kubota L2850 tractor

Don_Papenburg

Tom I put the sock on the cold one ;D :D
Frick saw mill  '58   820 John Deere power. Diamond T trucks

Gary_C

Corley5 has the right answer. 1200 grams of Thinsulate and a good boot dryer every night.

Pac boots do not work for me anymore either.
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

Minnesota_boy

Wet feet are cold feet.  It takes more than overnight to really dry out the boots, so buy another pair and wear them every other day.  In extreme cold, buy a third pair and wear your boots on a 3 day rotation.  Heat travels best when there is direct contact, like through the sole of your boot.  Can't fix that when you are standing so improve the insulation on the boot bottoms by putting in wool felt liners.  Wool wicks the moisture away from the sole of your foot which helps keep them warm.  Wool socks help too.  Make sure they have  a high percentage of wool.   I've seen socks advertised as wool with as little as 15% wool.  I like mine to be 90% wool, 10% nylon because they don't wear out quite as fast then.

I've given up on leather boots.  They get wet through too easily and crack when they dry.  Make mine Cordura.  Waterproof is good, Goretex is better.  You need to get rid of the sweat or you have wet feet. (see above about wet feet)  If it is really cold out or you have to work in slush, nothing will wick the moisture out quick enough, so change boots and socks when you start to feel wet feet or cold feet.  Remember the part about more than one pair of boots?  I have 6 or more.  I'm going to wear them out an will need to replace them anyway, why not buy several pair right away and have comfortable warm feet.  I change boots frequently.

Keep moving if you can.  Walking keeps the blood circulating to your feet which helps keep them warm.  Keep all parts of your body warm if you can so you have nice warm blood flowing to your feet.  Hats help.  Hats with ear flaps help more.  Ears make such efficient radiators.  ;D

I find that I can keep my chest warm and my legs warm by walking and stacking the wood, but my belly was getting cold, so my wife made a wool liner for my coveralls that just wraps around my middle.  It would look funny but I put it inside the coveralls so nobody sees it. :D  I only need that if it gets more than 10 below zero F.
I eat a high-fiber diet.  Lots of sawdust!

Sprucegum

If you are away from the house when the weather turns bad, so you can't get to your dry boots with the correct socks,and your feet are starting to get cold enough to bother you.
Stop work for 5 minutes, if Paul will let you,
take off your boot,
take off your sock,
swing the sock around your head 10 times
put your sock back on,
put your boot back on.

Now your foot feels warm again  8)  So get back to work!

leweee

Sprucegum.... I prefer the dryem on your feet next to the woodstove method. fire_smiley :D :D :D





PS keep an eye peeled for the "Boss" while useing this method. smiley_heh_heh
just another beaver with a chainsaw &  it's never so bad that it couldn't get worse.

Coon

Quote from: Burlkraft on December 09, 2006, 12:32:30 PM
Is that a picture of the outhouse in The UP  ??? ??? ??? ???

I hope that ain't Da Boss sittin' there........ :D :D :D

That's da BOSS' deer stand. ;D ;D
Norwood Lumbermate 2000 w/Kohler,
Husqvarna, Stihl and, Jonsereds Saws

BigTrev

When I used to go wandering up mountains or through the freezing bush I put some roll on deo on my feet, followed by talc, cotton socks and polyprop socks over top. Traps a lot of air in a little space, and stops your feet melting at the same time.
If at first you dont succeed, try a bigger hammer

farmerdoug

Pacboots are hard on the ankles.  There is just not enough support there for working in the brush and rough terrain.  I have twisted my ankles often before switching to workboots. :(

Electric socks are great but if your feet are sweating you will not use them long.  The sweat tends to short them out so they either quit working or you get a really hot foot fast.  Been there an done that. ::)

The best is an insulated workboot and motion.  If you are working then you are usually warm enough.  If you start sweating then you will get cold with any amount of insulation. :o

Farmerdoug
Doug
Truck Farmer/Greenhouse grower
2001 LT40HDD42 Super with Command Control and AccuSet, 42 hp Kubota diesel
Fargo, MI

wiam

I can usually keep my feet warm in mickey boots.  I have not found them with safety toes though.  I have had bad luck with fake ones ( not to military specs ).

Will

TexasTimbers

The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

jon12345

Giant goofy looking white* boots that people will think you are nuts for wearing if you don't live in the arctic, but very warm from what I've been told :D

*color may vary (the white ones look silly though)  :)
A.A.S. in Forest Technology.....Ironworker

wiam


farmerdoug

Kevjay,

Just wondering how you are coming at keeping your feet warm so far this winter?  I have been wearing my rubber uninsulated kneehighs most of the winter so far but this looks like it may finally change, I hope.  Just thought you may still be freezing in Texas.   ;)

PS. Us northern have antifreeze in our blood.  I think it is from the water because if you stay in the south to long it wears off. ::) :D :D

Farmerdoug
Doug
Truck Farmer/Greenhouse grower
2001 LT40HDD42 Super with Command Control and AccuSet, 42 hp Kubota diesel
Fargo, MI

TexasTimbers

I'm doing better (nose getting long), sort of (longer). Okay not really. Problem is I can't even wear my own size socks now. They have to be a size bigger to be loose enough on the leg so as not to dig in (I am battling with some diabetic issues right now like edema), so that the foot part I have to scrunch up inside the boots/shoes. Very uncomfortable.
They get real cold when I stand in one place on the shop slab for too long and so I stand on a board whenever i know I'll be at a work station like my table saw router etc doing repetitive work.

Today, I had 2 loads of rock delivered just before the cold front hit. They were supposed to get it here yesterday but they didn't, so of course, right as the front hit with the freezing rain (it dropped 30 degress like instantly), I had to spread that stuff and make a road. I was wet and froze to the core by the time I was done with that chore. Took an hour to thaw enough that I could even type return emails PMs etc. Gave up on it in fact.
Ended up taking pictures for ebay stuff and that entailed - you guessed, standing in one place for a long time on the concrete slab. I didn't bother getting a board to stand on because I didn't think of it, but I remebered to after I noticed, you guessed, my feet were getting even more frozen.

I'm now back at the house with my feets propped up each on a chair with lots of loose socks on because I don't have to cram them into any work boots, and they are not as cold. The supplemental  electric heater is doing it's job and shortly my socks should burst into flames giving me the longlast relief that I need.   ;D

Thanks for asking.  :)

But be careful next time you ask someone "Hey there how ya doing?" They might bore you with an honest answer.  ::)  ;)



The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

farmerdoug

Kevjay,

If you cannot ask someone how they are doing then what is the sense of asking anything else.  Hope you better with the swelling.  Tight shoes and clothes are uncomfortable as well as cold.

PS.  I had a wisdom tooth out today so I am not going much better. ::)

Farmerdoug
Doug
Truck Farmer/Greenhouse grower
2001 LT40HDD42 Super with Command Control and AccuSet, 42 hp Kubota diesel
Fargo, MI

TexasTimbers

That was just my way of warning you I type way too much most of the time. I also joke too much too. I meant no disrespect.  smiley_ignore

I appreciate you asking, actually.  :)


Sorry to hear about your tooth. Ain't no fun. I had three of those things taken out in boot camp. You didn't get to lay out very long back then either.

Hope you have got some nice pharmacueticals. They don't kill all the pain but will knock you out sometimes. Here's wishing you plenty of this . . .  zzzz_smiley zzzz_smiley zzzz_smiley
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

farmerdoug

Actually I am doing pretty good with it.  They gave me a painkiller that helps but I have a real high tolerance to pain anyways.  I guess that is the mule part of me but if to pain is more than I can bear then watch out I am mean as a mule. :o

I took your jest as a joke but just wanted to let you know I was thinking of your cold feet. ;D  I cruise the old threads and answer them ocassionly.

Farmerdoug
Doug
Truck Farmer/Greenhouse grower
2001 LT40HDD42 Super with Command Control and AccuSet, 42 hp Kubota diesel
Fargo, MI

Onthesauk

kevjay, take a look at the stall pads the co-op sells for horse stalls.  Cheap enough that you can put a few of them down around the work bench and a whole lot easier to stand on then the concrete.
John Deere 3038E
Sukuki LT-F500

Don't attribute irritating behavior to malevolence when mere stupidity will suffice as an explanation.

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