Squirltech, post: 428565, member: 11959 wrote: ...If it can bite, sting or poke you, it live in Texas. No thanks.
And then you have the insects and animals to deal with too.....
I occasionally will wear them when it gets above 100 in "urban" environments. Some folks sweat more and are more prone to heat rash, so it's definetly understandable.
Shorts or long pants? What would Jimmy Buffett do?
Funny you should ask, Alan.
Mark Mayer, post: 428573, member: 424 wrote: It wasn't more than a week ago there was a thread about melanoma..
It was actually a month ago now. Time flys.
During the week or two of hot weather (anything over 70) around here, I love my convertible pants I can unzip the pant legs and enjoy some sunshine on my pale legs. Nice change from Carharts.
Items which may make a person working in an urban setting wish they were wearing long pants include broken glass and human feces.
Long pants man, at least around here.
in these parts only tourists and a few laborers wear short pants. Tradesmen and Professionals never do, indoors or out.
We have a lot of Oaxacan field workers, they are especially smart about proper outdoors attire
Backed into a nettle bush on the side if the road. Almost made me leap into traffic. Survived plenty of hot work days wearing jeans.
The right equipment for the right job.
I enjoy locating the ever changing shoreline. In the summer I would not dream of visiting the shore with pants.
Had a crew member wear shorts on day 1, February 1... Had to get him into pants just to not look stupid.
I used to wear shorts occasionally but that was before the ticks came.
Gregg
spledeus, post: 428638, member: 3579 wrote: The right equipment for the right job.
I enjoy locating the ever changing shoreline. In the summer I would not dream of visiting the shore with pants.
Had a crew member wear shorts on day 1, February 1... Had to get him into pants just to not look stupid.
I worked for fourteen years for a surveyor who grew up in Edgartown...he wore shorts from March to November. Every day, didn't matter if he was in the field or at a planning commission meeting. I think he wore them to funerals
I was a lot tougher when I was younger, and wore shorts almost all the time when it was 70 or above, even in thorns and poison ivy.
Actually, I'm not sure if I'm less tough now, or just smarter, and only wear them when doing road topos or small boundaries.
I know a few people around here who wear shorts all year long. They may be wearing a parka and boots but there are shorts in between. They appear at basketball games in January in shorts when everyone else has about four layers of clothes on. Two fellows I can think of immediately are brothers and hairy enough to hang out with bears without the bears noticing.
I spent so much time as a kid riding tractors (no cabs in those days) or hauling square bales of hay that shorts rarely came out of my dresser drawer. Come to think of it, I am full or part owner of nearly 20 tractors at the moment and only one has a cab. Anyone need a 1940's vintage Allis-Chalmers?
Heat rash and chafing are definitely common when working in FRC jeans in the Louisiana summers.
Kris Morgan, post: 428585, member: 29 wrote: I would have to be on the beach running levels before I wore shorts to the field. I don't even hardly wear shorts to mow the grass.
Maybe it's a Texas thing, but I don't see many local surveyors wearing short pants either. I myself maybe own one pair, and those are for swimming. The idea of not having the tops of my boots covered is almost as bad as the thought of me wearing short pants in public beyond age 8.
