What Do You Do For Winter Work?

Burby

When young, it was fun to work outside in the cold & snow in the Mtns in NH. Wouldn't trade them years for anything, often look back now and wonder how ever did it, but did.
Getting older with injuries, and when the boom fell out in the mid 80's I headed South and life was good again.

Now been here so long that days in the 50's, fook that, it is cold to work outside.. lolol

Here in the summer with heat index in the 100's somehow we end up working outside, beautiful spring & or fall, we stuck inside, cold winter we back outside, wtf?? lol, but we do what we gotta do, hahaha

Like one suggested, save your $$$ and move south.
Like one said, charge enough to take the winters off.
Like one said, in the winter plow snow, get some seasonal work.
Like I said move south and wish you were back up North.. hahaha

I think all areas have their ups & downs. Just when you think you have it made somewheres, you become acclimated to the weather and once again, you will be to cold or to hot.

Make the best out of your situation, look at options and make the best informed decision possible..

Good luck

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AtlRemodeling

No joke indeed, if they so much as hint that we will have ANY frozen precipitation, the grocery stores get emptied. I laugh my ass off each and every time there is a mass run on the local Publix/Kroger.

on the other hand, God help us if we actually get anything that is frozen for we do not get snow we usually get freezing rain which will screw up Georgia Power for quite some a while.

MALCO.New.York

Was it '99 or 2000 that the viscous Ice Storm hit? All night I heard limbs cracking and trees falling!

Eerie!

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AtlRemodeling

It was early 2000. I remember very vividly. I had just gutted the kitchen in my 1950s house for a full renovation. Not believing that we would get any accumulation I torn everything out. As the afternoon wore on, I sent everyone home b/c it was already starting to build up.

I had 60+ people scheduled at our house for a friend's baby shower in 3 weeks (yes I said baby shower). We did not have power for a week but thankfully I had a generator so we were able to keep going. We painted the walls the morning before the crowd got there the night of the party.

Funniest thing that night was about 2am. A VERY loud crash from a giant oak tree woke my wife and I. My wife looks at me, states "Nothing good can come from that" and falls back asleep. Sure enough, 10 seconds later you here the transformer sizzle and explode and there went the lights. I was still laughing at here comment when the TV went blank.

Damn overhead lines!

carpenter1075

I try to work indoors as much as possible but plowing snow is the alternative good money but long hours and i dont really have to get in and out of the truck to much

dlcj

Move to the south. Oh wait, no, stay there
If it looks like snow i stay home. Below 30 i aint going no where.
Besides like Atl and malco said, if they call for snow you"ll get ran down in front of the win-dixe any way.

CambridgeAl

My friend was a ski instructor at Jay and then moved to Winter Park, CO. Has been there for 3 years now.

I do alot of commercial new construction plumbing in the winter. My friend owns a large company and in the winter he gets really busy. COLD work tho. When I'm not working I'm ice climbing.

MALCO.New.York

I have Skied Jay Peak!!! MANY Times!

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john5mt

grow a set and work

leave the indoor work for the women

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Snow Man

Iv gotten a vacation for less than them there typed werds.

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easy coin ..................collecting is the hard part

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MALCO.New.York

Still calling "it" that, huh???????

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dirt diggler

um ... make enough money when it's sunny & hot out so that I don't have to go outside in the cold??



Honestly, the cold weather keeps you healthy - it's when you stay inside all winter - that's when you get sick

(im a hypochondriac - so avoiding illness is important to me; hence, I will gladly work out in the cold and snow)

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buildpinnacle

I follow the fire trucks around during the cold months for burn out work. Seriously, though, I don't follow them...I read about it in the paper and go by the next day.

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MMC73

Manage your money effectively during the rest of the year and it will make no difference if you are not super busy when the weather stinks.
I work on my house for two weeks every year...week before and after Christmas. I do not give a Christmas bonus my crew...not that there are 20 of them but give them two weeks off with pay. I just bought another house and this year I am doing the Master bath and lower level 1/2 bath.
In fact I am looking at the piles of crap I have been accumulating in my Living Room for the upcoming projects. Who knew boxes of Travertine would make great foot rests.

Duane1982

Temperature should have nothing at all to do with working. When you start siding a house and try to find your siding cut table that was there before tyveking and now there is 4 feet of snow is the problem

When you can't see the house you are working on from inside your truck 5 feet away is the problem.
Try Working in Oswego,fulton,Wolcott, Mexico etc. in the winter when it snows up here. Check out a link from last year:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n2458142.shtml

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Snow Man

^^Provided you pay no taxes and hit a home run on every job^^

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Deadhead Derek

I started a fine / traditional woodworking school.

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MMC73

You're funny Snow Man. It is actually possible to not stress when the weather turns and pay your taxes...lol. I have a very small crew myself and four other folks. I am rather picky about the G.C's I work for because of past payment issues and I bid high with my home owners. Does it work all of the time no, however it has for the last few years, no changes planned here. Not all of us have lived outside of our means for the last few years and don't have mountains of credit card debt and mortages we cant pay. Frugality takes a little getting used to, we only have cable for three months of the year, the rest of the year who needs it when youre out busting your butt for 12-15hrs a day?