Had a nightmare job in Phoenix last week where a client insisted we prune a mature mesquite in 110 degree heat.

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Read an article last year about a heat safety group in Arizona. They said doing yard work in that kind of heat is like running a marathon in an oven. Your body just can't cool down. The piece mentioned a landscaper who passed out and got second degree burns from the pavement. It's scary stuff.

danielwhite10d ago

Watched my buddy take a landscaping gig like that once. He came back looking like a ghost, said his gloves stuck to the metal pruners. They made him trim a whole row of oleanders at noon in July. He drank two gallons of water and still got dizzy. Some clients just don't get what that heat does to a person.