Bet that heading made a few take a gander. I meant the weather here is bloooooody hot. Had hottest xmas day on record and today is even higher and a few days of the same to come. Wishing i was in Southland.Attachment 186569
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Bet that heading made a few take a gander. I meant the weather here is bloooooody hot. Had hottest xmas day on record and today is even higher and a few days of the same to come. Wishing i was in Southland.Attachment 186569
Only that! 44 here in North Perth.
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Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
Up here in the Kaimai's it got to 29 today, last mid January it was up to 38...still a lot of warm to come yet.
Xmas 1983 in South Australia: pulled a 10 day shift during the closedown period maintaining the crusher and ball mill at Mt Gunson copper mine (just south of Woomera). 55 degrees at 3pm, 6 days in a row. Was 65 degrees inside the ball mill. Only permitted 10 minutes inside on the end of a harness and rope before you were swapped around. Drank about 15 litres of water per shift.
Years ago we spent nearly seven months in WA on our second leg of our trips around OZ in the Canter Camper l built ,also scored some good paying contract work at the mines up north & at Kal ,as we had our own self sufficient accommodation ,when none was available. We spent a couple of weeks diving down all along the coast south of Bussleton from Augusta & Albany.
As well as spending a fair bit of time in the Desert country ,the Hot wind is what l hated the most & those trees on the coast growing side ways from the wind must have seen some shit in their time ,you could feel your lips cracking straight away ,me & the missus are both keen Spearo's so we loved a little stretch of coastal towns that were old cray fishing hubs like Lancelin (with a old Blue Stone Pub?) all the way up to Exmouth, we had a ball & if we were forced to live there it would either be Exmouth or Broome .
We often keep a eye on what is happening there because we have such fond memories of that trip ,you are at the end of the heat wave now though aren't you ?Hope you had a Aircon or Swamp rattler to sit in front & still had a great Xmas :thumbsup:
When I was a boy our family travelled around aussie for 4 years in a 24 ft caravan. Up in the North West driving from Parabadoo out to the coast the locals reckoned it was 53 degrees. It was bloody hot I know that much. Probably the main reason I'll never move to Australia to live. Hate the heat.
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Hot weather is just starting :( just got a pastoral permit to shoot on a property at Sandstone, owner said camels and wild bulls are becoming a nuisance but temps are over 50c I said how about April :thumbsup:
My daughter and son n law in Jondaloop?44c.One morning in Pilbara my son n law was just finishing a 12hr shift as a machanic at 6am.It was warming up at 42c at 6am,going to be a hot day he reckn.
Wait till it gets over 50c up north.:oh noes:
Did fido from newcastle to mackay for a couple of years.
Most of the time on site we were shade or aircon.
occasionally we had to do maintenance in pit under the sun. When doing this we were allowed to run utes with aircon running and have a sit down and and drink shit tons of water.
Drove out of pit one of these days and it didnt feel like any other but was 49 deg on the hilux temp gauge up the ramp.
Dry as a chip so made it ok.
If it was humid it would've been tough.
First summer in our new house in Tanilba bay 30 min north of Newcastle, super hot day, was 40 degrees as I got out the car at 5pm. Getting out of the air con car was like being in front of an oven getting a pie
Could hear people in the back yard in the pool. Tough choice working out whether to get a beer or get into the togs and jump in the pool.
Managed to do both lol
Yeah, as a driller we were the only ones without air con. Dozer, digger,truck drivers all had aircon, We would regularly flog the Coca cola umbrellas from the recreation centre swimming pool area and weld them to the side of our drill rigs, to get some relief out of the sun.
ICI freebied us a shitton of grog for that Xmas (we used either 3 tonne or 15 tonne of their explosives a day, depending on overburden or ore shot), and you can imagine the scene of a dozen drillers all standing in the pool, drinking limitless grog for hours at a time, and no one getting out for a piss:o
I think 'wet' mines are a thing of the past now. Several haul truck drivers were renown to be a 'bottle of bundy a night' sort of guys:omg:
We would start our shift at 6am in a vain attempt to knock off before the hottest part of the day. Yes, that far away from the coast the humidity was almost zero, so made those temps almost bearable.
My nephew is Nth of Perth and has been telling us some horror stories. Bugger that!
Was fairly warm in Napier the other day. This was driving along about 4.30
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Half past 6 in the morning. Going to be another hot day!
Note the jacket. We became wooses used to working in 40-50 C. So first thing in the morning it was an ungodly 20 degrees, hence a jacket was worn until it got to a balmy 35 degrees at 9am:thumbsup:
Oh, and post script: None of that namby pamby Hi Vis shit and silly plastic barriers back then too!!!
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I worked in a butchery in Perth back in the 90's. The hottest it got to that summer was 41C. You got used to it. What I didn't get used to was going from working in butchery cold a/c all day straight out into 41C, it was like walking into a brick wall! But I did find 36C in Tonga in Jan/Feb way worse than 41 in Perth; you could have cut the humidity with a knife in Tonga!
It's actually not real good for your respiratory system charging straight from a dry air conditioned environment into hot humid air. At in law's place in Uruguay (often 35-40c in summer, and 90% humidity) they have to have a steam generator running inside the house when they have the AC going in summer or you end up getting crook. The two years I was over there we didn't have AC in our house on the farm and it was bloody miserable during summer! Mrs went and stayed with her parents for four months of the year purely because the heat and humidity sucked so bad! We had ceiling fans and a big stand up fan in our home but they just pushed the warm wet air around. I didn't care that there was Caimans in our irrigation lake on farm would spend the worst evenings jumping in and out of the lake to try and keep cool.Quote:
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Worked at Kinleith on the paper machines.
Constantly hot over the summer.
Very pleasant over the winter.
Used to have to sort out paper breaks, rope replacement and the like in the dryers.
Soles used to melt on boots etc.
Couldn't wear watches as they got too hot.
Used to drink all day without taking a leak.
Did a few years in the freezers at a meat works, passengers frowned at my having heater on full bore when driving home in summer.
Even in Vic we had stinkers. Mind you in Vic it could be roasting hot for several days then raining there after. Temperature would plunge 15 or so degrees. Blessed relief.
As soon as the wind shifted to the North we knew it was going to be unpleasant.
The worst aspect was trying to sleep. Still 30 degrees at midnight was not coducive.
One of my shifts started at 11 pm. Many was the time I was still in our backyard pool at 10:30.
And working was very unpleasant with all machinery running at or over max temp. I worked in a steel mill so a hot unpleasant place to start with.
Unusual summer here in south east SA. Its only been around 22 rhe last couple of days. We have had xmas and boxing days up at 44with a hot bastard wind
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@Ryan_Songhurst When I got out of my apprenticeship I worked in a butchery that had a huge concrete wall behind it that held the heat and reflected the heat into the butchery. Was bloody sweltering! Conversely; most of the shop back wall was made up of louvre windows. During frosty mornings the place was ice cold (cold coming through all that glass) and the big concrete wall was shaded til the late afternoon. That butchery was so cold in frosty weather that when you opened the chiller door you felt the warm air hit you from inside it! And the shop never warmed up a bit til about 3pm.....
@Ryan_Songhurst you want to try Ecuador the humidity was so close to %100 you would hardly notice the rain.
At least in Melbourne it would get to 40+ but it was dry and the sweat dried off.
I did do some work in Fiji once (terrible posting) at the cement works, the only problem apart from the crippling humidity was the cement dust sticking to me and my overalls which started to go solid.
At least it's not going to piss it down during a "summer" camping trip in Perth. Agree with the comments about humidity. It makes Northland feel hot sometimes when in reality, it barely scrapes 30 degrees.
Amateurs !
Telfer WA, 9th December 2018.
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Have a photo somewhere of 53c on xmas day in South Hedland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moutere
Yeah lots of things that were taken for granted but you don't see here, or are quite rare.Quote:
Originally Posted by 300CALMAN
Aunger rear louvers on cars. (They're reasonable effective, not just bling.)
Front windscreen covers (Aunger or the like), plus beach towel over the dash and steering wheel. Learnt that one pretty quickly when knocking off at 3 in the arvo and I couldn't hold the steering wheel. Once I'd managed to lower my arse onto the seat that is.
Local shopping centre had one lonely tree in the middle of the car park. You get there early to hopefully get a park under it.
Top of back seat of my 4 year old Holden totally buggered by the sun. Previous owner never protected obviously. The local upholstery shop did a roaring trade in replacing back seat tops. In part also due to piss poor Holden fabric quality.
First hot weather we did the Kiwi thing, opened all windows and doors (all had fly screens). Wrong wrong. Soon learnt to ensure all windows shut and drapes in place from early in the morning. With doors we used rolled up towels stuffed along the gap at bottom.
Our house, (like my car), didn't have aircon but was built in the Aussie standard of bricks and high pitch tile roof.
All rooms had vents high up the walls jus gelow the ceiling. First sighting of a Huntsman spider was when it emerged out of the lounge room grill. My wife freaked out despite them being harmless. Caught it on the end of a broom. It legs encircled both sides of the broom.
I won't start on snake stories and the number I killed and the stupidy I displayed whilst killing them.
Plenty of other Kiwis ex Oz or currently living there will have good stories I'm sure.
Did train 1 & 2 on the Burrup in the 8o's, try lugging Scaffolding around in summer , tube & clip in those days , no harness or hi vis , singlet & volleys..the good old days ..
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Originally Posted by muzza
I know this isn't anywhere near what you guys are sweltering in but this was on one of our cameras we checked today.
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Damb branch sat there for a couple of days setting the camera off but we did get some nice dear shots 😉
At home that same day (24th Dec) it was 35deg and the poor staff were extracting honey in the honey shed at nearly 40 deg. I've worked in there at 38 and by the end of the day you know you've done a day's work. When I milked cows in a past life I used to put an ice pack in my overalls to keep cool but it's the humidity that kills you.
@Mrs Beeman....if you havent got a water shortage (or can collect it for reuse) and shed has tin roof....put a cheap as chips garden sprinkler up in centre of roof and turn it on while working inside...the difference is huge...it works like the wet canvas water bottle,as water evaporates it takes the heat away.just cooling the tin itself makes huge difference,we did it on cowshed roof and used to have to push cows out from under the eaves back into heat.
Too hot It would be the end of my days. The ideal temperature for me is 15 ° C or less.
@nor-west l could not remember what year it was we had the Bush Pig Camper over there & then the missus asked me out of the blue did l remember on Boxing Day in 04 we were in Geraldton when the Tsunami hit ,we had a little dive boat hooked on the back & we stayed in Geraldton waiting for a new Transducer to be shipped in so we could go out to the Abrolhos Islands to see a mate.
He owned Cray boats & he flew back in & showed us the damage the Tsunami had done to in the Commercial Marina ,a couple of boats were sunk & the wave had lifted the floating pontoons off their mounts ,incredible the power of nature .We made the local rag as the old Bush Pig stuck out like dogs balls & always drew a crowd when in towns.
The blokes talking about Humidity ,we spent just over 2 decades living & working on & off in remote PNG & the Top End of Australia where Humidity in the high 80's /90' & temps in the high 30's/40's was just a fact of life,it still really bugs me sleeping under heavy blankets or wearing 10 layers of clothes especially clothing tight around my neck as we were basically semi naked for the entire couple of decades.
Here is the Bush Pig l built myself out of 2 wrecked ex Bush fire brigade 4X4 Twin Cab Canters we toured in this for years on & off ,all self sufficient & all kitted up for our love of hunting,fishing & Spearfishing .We would just park it up at mates houses some where in Oz fly out for work & then just hop back in & continue touring a really enjoyable time ,the missus would go & do it again tomorrow .
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This me back at 28 yrs old in 89 in PNG on the Indo border ,we spent 3 yrs up there & this is about as dressed up as l got for decades in PNG or the Top End of Oz
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Here is how we lived the whole time in PNG , our 4 Star accommodation to try to beat the tropical heat for 3 yrs ,no electricity & the river was your running water .
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Was not all work , plains were loaded with deer ,ducks & pigs
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Hey Bunji, Bensbach?
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@Dicko That is the Irian Jaya /PNG Border Crossing Sota ,back then it was one of the remotest border crossing & was only really there as far we could tell, as the the Indo's had a military out post there that the elite Kopassus Special Forces ran Death Squads out of, assassinating /snatching PNG activists/ leaders & being so remote they could do cross border operations with out our idiot politicians in the West ever knowing or caring.
That border marker was not far from the head waters of the Bensbach River ,probably under a 100 klm from memory but then we were based in the foot hills around 85 miles away from Sota & that would take 2 1/2 days to travel if you were lucky ,we would only go there as it was where we would pick up our monthly supplies.
As life pans out in later years l was partners in a guiding & dive/fishing boat operation in PNG travelling along the costal rivers & we spent a fair bit of time in & around the Bensbach river ,it really is a hunter/fisherman's paradise.
Here is us travelling by river in the head waters of the Bensbach , to meet with the local elders ,we had a group of 4 locals working for us, they were top blokes getting us out of hairy situations many times with War Parties etc who thought we were Indo/Western spies, they would physically put themselves between us until cooler heads would prevail.
It was genuinely sad to leave them & their families after 3 yrs ,we all gave part of our Bonus payments, making them local "millionaires" to enable them to move their families to a safer area like they all wanted ,l still often wonder how they got on.
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Another day at the office & where my love of Tojo's began
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These "barge" crossings were only built for people ,so we would have to pay locals to modify them for the Tojo's ,this brought us to the attention of the Kopassus scumbags & the local Indo soldiers at the border crossing would warn us that the Kopassus would show off photos they had taken of our camps & brag about slitting our throats & blaming the locals .After local rains it was bloody dangerous as huge logs etc would be washed down the rivers & if one hit us while we were on this top heavy pile of tied up sticks, we would have gone ass over .
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Here we are collecting supplies with the local Indo soldiers we got to be friends with as we would get cartons of Marlboro cigarettes' sent in for them with our monthly supply drops. They hated the Kopassus as much as the locals as they would be regularly beaten by them while drunk .These guys were high as a kite or drunk most times we made our monthly trek in to pick up supplies as they would only receive a part pay at the end of the month & blow it on drugs that other soldiers travelling between Garrisons would supply . They still used Bren Guns back then .
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Had a college mate manage a plantation up there. He used to have down time at Bensbach Lodge and send photos of his Barra and Rusa. Mid 80s.
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Thanks for sharing the story @bunjiQuote:
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much appreciated, I really want to get up there one day.
The Black Bass fishing is the best l have done anywhere in the world & l rate it over Marlin fishing etc & having lived in Barra fishing heaven of Arnhem Land & the remote Islands off the Top End of Oz.Quote:
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Back then the Abu 7000 was king & for PNG Black Bass you had the reels drag system modified to use fifty pound line & they supplied a wrench ,when fishing for them in real snaggy territory where the big ones lurked ,you used the wrench to tighten the drag as much as you can. Otherwise the balls of muscles would just bury you all day .you had to literally lock drag ,burning a hole in your thumb still & gun the boat away from the snag to have any chance ,which in tight fast flowing creeks is no easy task & many a boat tipped over.
The plains & swamps were covered in Ducks & Geese ,that would black out the sky & it is where l found my love of eating Magpie Geese ,l still get cravings for it now & the pigs were every where .It was not unusual for boys to paddle us around a bend & be confronted with something that looked like a Disney movie with ducks Rusa ,Chital & fallow deer standing up to their bellies in the river to keep cool & the river flat covered with them bedded down in the shade so they can go for a quick dip to cool off.
A true outdoorsman paradise
@300CALMAN It is one of my favorite places in the world & a outdoorsman paradise ,we have been lucky enough to live & work in some of the worlds most remote places & faced/Hunted Dangerous Game ,but PNG has you waking up in the morning with your body tingling because you are literally in one of the great remote & dangerous experiences in the world.
If you ever do look like heading up let me know as we still have good contacts there ,my missus was a Critical Care Nurse for over a Decade & nurse for nearly 30 & when we were in Arnhem Land , PNG & Africa she would work with NGO's & Government clinics , training the local medical staff on the job ,it was our way of giving back to the locals .Through this we have many high ranked local officials & tribal elders as close friends & were invited to many beautiful Traditional Owner approved access only parts of the world, off limits to the average joe :thumbsup:
