I went in to the doctor finally about a sore on my ear that wouldn’t heal.
He took of part of my ear! I should have asked him for a deposit! I want it back.
I wear baseball caps and they don’t shade much except the front.
I guess I have to wear something that has a brim that goes all the way around.
Meanwhile I’ve been slathering sunscreen on. Better late than never I guess.
What do you guys wear on you head to protect it from the sun?
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I have one of these that I really like:
http://www.duluthtrading.com/search/searchresults/95873.aspx?feature=Product_2
http://www.columbia.com/Product.aspx?top=6&p=5536&cat=61030&viewAll=False
That's my choice
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That one looks a little g-a-y to me. No redneck in his right mind would wear it.(-:
It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.
Is there such a thing as a redneck in his right mind?
warned ya about the wisea** remarks <g>
I've also had more than few basal cells removed...get a dematologist with some surgical skill if it's a prominent place, I/ve got one scar that looks like it was done with a rusty back saw...another right next to it is quite petite<G>This spring I had an actinic (sp?) keratosis thing cut out of the end of my nose...had to go in twice...but the doc was at Duke, and has a thing for noses. When I went back for a follow up, he didn't like the way it looked, so he sanded it down w/ 80 grit, oy! There were a lot of folks in the waiting room that make me look like Cary Grant, ha.Apparently, most of the damage came from childhood... I'm from before tee vee...lolI grew a full beard, figuring the dermatologists can't see in there, and it's worked so far. Now I'm working on an ear hair combover.I've been told to wear sunscreen, I use 50spf daily, and wear hats with at least a 4" brim and they should be solid so no sun can get through. I found some packable hat from Buzz Off at REI that works pretty well...they just all look so dorky <G>but, hey, good luck! Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out but when they will I can only guess.
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
Well, if you wore one of those, your neck wouldn't be red, would it?
:-)George Patterson
I have one of these that I wear sometimes (when I'm not wearing a bike helmet):
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It keeps the sun off and is pretty good in the rain too. The felt absorbs sweat pretty well.
Oh, I thought this was gonna be how many different jobs do you have (hats to wear). Mechanic, real estate agent, excavator, sometimes even get to stay awhile in either wood or metal shop. Variety, the spice of life.
But I've found it best to work in the shade. Usually when I have to do something in the sun I'm making a lot of noise and wear ear muffs over my cap.
Too bad about your ear. At least you have everything he left. No trees there, wherever there is?
PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
I forgot to mention that I sweat like a ? drunken sailor in Manila ? I'm working on the west side of a house in the sun with brick covering that side of the house.
I wear two baseball caps rotating them but they are both soaked pretty quickly. I wear glasses and it gets to the point of dripping into them and then I can't see. I pull off the hat and the glasses to whipe off my bald head with a towel but is a pain in the butt.
It seems every time I build up a head of steam at my work their is something that isn't working.
Maybe I need two systems. One for the sweat and one for the shade. Anyone use sweatbands?
I'll order a hat from Duluth. They look like a good choice. There is a Nashbar bicycle store two blocks away. I'll see if they have a sweatband that would work.
I ride bikes also. That's where I got some of the sun damage also.
Edited 9/5/2007 1:43 pm ET by popawheelie
Yeah, an absorbant brimmed hat can help a lot. Just keeping the sun off your head/neck/shoulders reduces the "apparent" temp ten degrees or so, and the absorbant brim can cool you further by evaporation.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
what ever baseball cap the venderors are handing out..Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I keep telling guys all the time to protect their head when they work outside all day in a shaved head but they friggin' never listen.
If it's a grunt job where it's all hanging out sometimes I'll flip a T-shirt around with it drapping over the ears, over the shoulders and down the back.
Or a number of different leather and cotton skullcaps, baseball type caps without the plastic adjustable strap which is detestable,
or beret style caps, occasionally an english cap with brim, or a derby when I'm acting the roadie for the local band.
The sun can be merciless on the bare skin. The tops of ears is often a trouble spot.
sobriety is the root cause of dementia.
Top of my right ear I had frozen off once by a doc with liquid nitrogen and then twice with a chemical cream that debrides the pre-cancerous ####. I seem to be getting a return there every two years or so.When I used to roof all the time, I wore a wide brim, but now that I'm doing more inside work I wear ball caps mostly. Wife got to see a lot of skin cancers when she worked for a dermatologist. When we got married and she saw my ears almost black on top, she convinced me that the wide brim was the right thing to do.
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Heck, here in MN we get our ears frozen off for free every winter.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
Bandanas.
I swap em out throughout the day as they become sweat soaked.
Hats just add to the misery.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
You can take a T-shirt by the arms, flip it over to roll up the top a turn or two, then put the middle over your forehead and tie the arms behind your head. Toss the body of the shirt over your head and let it drape over your ears and the back of your neck.
I used to do that when I was framing, rather than wear a hat. The T-shirt is comfortable, it absorbs all the sweat that wants to run into your eyes and it keeps the sun off your neck, making you cooler. There are several major arteries in the back of the neck which feed the brain. Keeping them cool makes me more alert.
It was also a good way to use up old T's that had seen better days.
Edit: you'll probably have to put up with some ribbing about looking like an Arab.
Edited 9/5/2007 2:20 pm ET by Hudson Valley Carpenter
Arab, shmarab. They must know something about the sun living in the desert for all those years.
I just got a call form the doctor. He's refering me to a dermatologist because it's on the back of the ear. If I heard the Dr assistant right, it's basil cell carcinoma.
Not bad considering what it could be.
I just got a call form the doctor. He's refering me to a dermatologist because it's on the back of the ear. If I heard the Dr assistant right, it's basil cell carcinoma.
That's probably correct. I had a basil cell removed from the bridge of my nose about fifteen or so years ago. Hasn't returned. I also had a melanoma in situ removed from my upper back, about five years ago. That's the dangerous kind but not until it grows large enough to penetrate through the skin.
I currently see the dermotologist every six months, to check for anything new and to remove precancerous stuff, called A.K.'s. Liquid nitrogen, very cold, is applied carefully to each spot. That kills the A.K. and some surrounding skin.
I'd suggest that you do a self check up before you go, to locate anything that seems peculiar for yourself, and write down any questions that come up. You're sure to get a complete inspection but it's a good idea to ask, so that you become better acquainted with the many skin anamolies which show up as we get older.
I'd ask about using sun screen too. From what I've heard, it's not effective against the part of the UV rays which cause skin cancer.
Edited 9/5/2007 4:30 pm ET by Hudson Valley Carpenter
According to that old dermatologist, the sunscreen does help, but not like most people think.It gets sweated away or rinsed off swimming so you have to keep re-applying it.Also, the numbers like PABA 30 mean almost nothing. A 12 is about as good as you are going to get for practical purposes. That number means that in perfect conditions with no sweating and full coverage, your skin will absorb the same UV in 12 hours as it would without the stuff in one hour.
So who is gonna lay out in the sun for thirty hours and not sweat?So the bigger number is just for marketing purposes. The trick to using it is use plenty and keep re-doing it.Doing it good - just use some Chinese makeup with lead in it.
Yeah, That'll do it!
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The way it's been explained to me is that there are two types of UV rays. One burns the outer layers of skin, the other penetrates deeper and eventually causes cancers to form.
Sun screen is made to stop UV rays but is only effective against the kind that burns the skin.
Yeah, I had a few plugs of that cut out of my back. They weren't concerned in th eleast - like as though I was having toenails trimmed - just keep on top of it and learn what warnings to look for and they can keep carving hunks out of you with no problem as long as you don't let it go.
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Like I said, in the hot sun the brimmed hat makes a major difference in how hot you feel.For sweat, in my bike helmet I use (ahem) "mini-pads". They go by an odd assortment of names (mini, maxi, super) unrelated to how thick/absorbant they actually are, but the ones I currently have (looking at the package in my bike bag) are Target brand Maxi, "heavy absorbancy".
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
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http://www.davidmorgan.com I need a large crown. This had just barely fits thru a wall on 16" centers.
You get out of life what you put into it......minus taxes.
Marv
Working on Roof in NOLA. I bring my own shade.
You get out of life what you put into it......minus taxes.
Marv
Edited 9/5/2007 3:44 pm by Marv
>>Roof in NOLA<<
When were you there? I went last December and another group from our church is going in November, another in January, another in late March. I was on trip #6 from our church.
December we were still gutting houses except for one day spent with HfH in their Musician's Village Project, November trip will be working at some HfH sites.
Jim
Never underestimate the value of a sharp pencil or good light.
>>Roof in NOLA<<
When were you there?
I took a travel trailer down to Covington last October. I think I will go to Biloxi this October.You get out of life what you put into it......minus taxes.
Marv
Here's what I wear. Cheap, light, fairly cool and provides a big shadow.
http://tinyurl.com/2nczl2
Around here farmers wear give away baseball hats. When the docs find spots on their ears, many buy Tilley hats from a local dealer. They aren't cheap at around $70.
I was curious why guys that never paid for a work hat in their lives would shell out the bucks. I got to looking at one and bought it.
You actually buy a size too big and a string looped behind the back of your head holds the hat on. The extra space around your head allows for airflow. It is the most comfortable hat I ever wore.
It washes up well
I was wearing a straw hat, but it is a pain to carry plywood or work under a house eave and bump your hat all the time.
The hats are guaranteed for life. Just send the old one in and they send a new one.
I also wear a Tilly when the baseball cap is not enough.
After 25 years, no, it does not clean up all that well.Quality repairs for your home.
AaronR ConstructionVancouver, Canada
Yep, I have two Tillys. One that is my cleaner outdoor hat, hiking, canoeing, that kind of stuff and then one that is my work hat that is torn up. I send one in every couple of years for a new one and keep them in a rotation kind of like my tennis shoes.I also wear a rolled up bandanna around my head under the hat and sometimes one draped down the back of my head and neck if I am going to be out in a lot of sun. I only wear a ball cap if I am going to be inside most of the time.I try to stay in the shade as much a possible by timing which part of a house I am working on when it is in the shade as the sun crosses the sky. For really hot jobs or when I have tools setup outside I have a pop-up dining fly I got from the surplus store here that I setup and work under. Makes life a lot easier.Day
The guy at the store said everybody ends up with two. They don't want to be without when they send the other in.
I got a Tilley about a year and half ago, really like it, great for fishing, mowing, arrowhead hunting.
Haven't wore it to work, don't think it would help much in attics and crawl spaces.
Yeah I love how they float and have the pocket on the inside of the top, both have been useful at one time or another.I was hiking alone in Jamaica five years and had a guy with a knife 'ask' for some money. When I showed him I only had ten dollars in my wallet and no credit cards, he made me empty my pockets and remove my boots and belt to make sure I was not hiding cash anywhere but my Tilly with $300 in it never left my head.At work I end up outside a bit redoing siding, trim and windows and also building decks so I get a lot of sun time. I use a bandanna when I am in a crawlspace or attic.
Edited 9/6/2007 11:45 pm ET by restorationday
Nice idea. Next time I know to check the hat too mon. :)
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Edited 9/7/2007 1:47 am ET by Gunner
I don't clean up as well as I did 25 years ago. I hope the wife doesn't have a replacement policy on me. :)
Hardhat, although I don't put it on much anymore since I now work inside. On really hot days I used to hang a wet rag from the back to cool my neck. I'll put it on when helping a friend or doing anything even remotely dangerous around home. Trimming trees, splitting wood, anything involving ladders causes me to put the lid on.
This is what I like when I need shade or I'm tromping around in the woods. (keeps the ticks off me too) I either wear the bush hat, or the packer no particular preference. They are a little heavy if your going to be working hard all day but I like the feel of them. Also I always wear a bandana under them in the heat. Great for keeping the sweat out of your eyes.
http://www.filson.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2092428&cp=2069836.2064999.2118241&parentPage=family
http://www.filson.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2092244&cp=2069836.2064999.2118241&parentPage=family
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Whale Oil Beef Hooked.
Hey, that packer hat, does it have a chin strap?...and how floppie's the brim?...I gotta find something to hang on tight in a boat, and keep me stylin'<G> Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out but when they will I can only guess.
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
The packer hat doesn't have a chin strap but the first one I linked too the Bush hat does. It's got a stiff brim that you can shape however you want.
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Whale Oil Beef Hooked.
http://www.walkmoreeatless.com/
The hat you sent me a couple years ago is a tin cloth packer hat, right ?Well, you sold me on the Filson's.=0)Still wearing it. (You can see it in pictures in some threads here at BT.)It's looking more like a bowler hat, now, though. LOL Getting kinda worn and old.I'm thinking that next hat I get will be the green bush hat you linked to. If it's anything like the packer, it's a great hat. Bigger brim, obviously. And my favorite color, to boot. Well, a darker color of green than I usually like, but for a hat it looks pretty much perfect. Better than a lighter shade.
Yeh... That'll work.
Edited 9/6/2007 4:33 pm by Luka
http://www.sundayafternoons.com/index.cgi?id=38123452075&c=Men's_Hats
http://www.scoutgear.com/ng5462.html
My two hats for work and play are the Sunday Afternoons Adventure hat and the Nordic Gear Air head. My people came from a northern latitude where it was damp and dark. I do not get along with the sun. I have had spots removed and put on strong sun block EVERY day.
Those are two really cool sites. Very usefull.
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Whale Oil Beef Hooked.
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Yep that was a packer. I like them both. The packer is better if your in heavier brush. The bush hat is better to keep off the sun and rain.
Filson is pretty high priced stuff. But their hats are a great value for the dollar. For the quality and durability they aren't priced too bad.
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Whale Oil Beef Hooked.
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I've got a hat made out of terry cloth (the same stuff towels are made of) with a brim that goes all the way around. It protects me well from the sun and absorbs sweat great. On really hot days I have soaked it in cool water, rung it out, and put it back on. This helps a lot in cooling me off. I'm not sure where to get one. I picked mine up at a little surf shop in Myrtle Beach.
those hats are available from cool-it headgear. i know because...i saw them on the net and tried to order one, but they wouldn't deliver to canada. so i got it shipped to my friend in santa monica and then she sent it here usps.so i'm all excited when it finally arrives, i put it on and i look like an idiot. can't have that.so i offer it to another friend (female) who is undergoing chemo and she says no. even a bald headed cancer patient wouldn't wear it.the idea is great, but boy are those hats ugly.
hey popie
Usually I wear a ball cap also unless I'm outside and the
sun is beating down then I'll put a TILLEY hat on. My parents
just came back from D.R. and picked me up a 10 dollar camo
hat somewhat like a tilley and it is soooo comfy as compared to
my 80 dollar Tilley, which is also guaranteed for life'''
I wear a baseball cap from Duluth. I've had two cancers removed from my right jaw just below my ear. I avoid sunburn anymore, but what's the danger of that if you stay outside and tanned a lot?
Here is my new one for out in the sun. I've been cut up a little also, lost a sister to melanoma ten years ago.
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Mike
Trust in God, but row away from the rocks.
Edited 9/6/2007 12:16 am by ruffmike
4 years ago I was diagnosed with skin cancer on my face. Luckily, it was treatable... after the Dr cut a chunk out.
The medications I take for my transplant make me more suseptible to skin cancer. So, when I go out in the sun I put on 50 block very liberally and wear a hat with a brim all the way around it (one like the army's jungle hats) that has sunblock protection in the material.
And now I get to go to the dermatologist 2 times a year for regular check ups. Man this getting old stuff stinks.
Thanks,
Barney
I wear baseball caps. I'm too embarrassed to wear my Atlanta Braves cap at the moment so any other will do. When I was fly fishing a lot and didn't want to sunburn my bald spot, or get the bizness end of a fishhook embedded in my scalp from one of my casting experiences, nothing was better than the Australian "Driza-Bone" slouch hat. Sun, Rain,...good to go.
<He took of part of my ear!>
Hah! I kid my dad he looks like he went a few rounds with Tyson.
Forrest - dad wears a straw hat on the course.
Usta wear cowboy hats with the brim blocked, but that doesn't offer protection from the sun. Now I wear the soft crushable "boonie" hats with a wide brim, and pull it over my ears.
Don't worry about your ear. You're gonna have a lot more of that ahead of you. Just like me, 30 years of sun exposure will have the doc cutting pieces off here and there for the rest of your life. The damage is cumulative. A burn you got 20 years ago will surface as a cancer next week. I had a "lamb chop" cut out of my back a few years back because of a "melanoma-in-situ." I've had squamus and basil cell too. "T" shirts don't give you protection against sun either. Some manufactrers are producing sun-proof cloth "t's."
See your dermatologist every six months, and get some "No AD SPF-50" sunscreen and use it. A melanoma will kill you if you don't find it. Have DW look at your head and back where you can't see. That's how I found that one I had.....
best sun hat ever is a pith helmut, i learned this from my Dad a Seabee , In the south Pacific in WW2, My grandfather was a mailman and wore one in the summer, I got mine from The local mailman 15 years ago, wet it down its very nice, Its light and like an unbrella over you, I used to get sunburn on my ears and the back of my neck with just a baseball cap
Had one years ago. Laid it down for a minute and a maintainer backed over it.
Pithed me off....
I had a real pith helmet a long time ago. It was cloth with some sort of glue/paste to give it shape. Maybe linseed oil? My mom would bring them home from the thrift store she volunteered at. Somebody went oversees to India and brought it back I guess.
I live in Tucson, Arizona, let me give you some advice, go to an Asian import store and buy a coolie hat. They are designed so air can flow under the brim and around your head. A regular hat seals your bean from any air flow so you just bake. If you buy a regular type hat that has mesh in the crown to let air in, you let the sunshine in also! Don't count on your hair blocking the sun. The Asians figured this one out ages ago and us Occidentals are too caught up in how we look to see the obvious.
I hope all goes well with the cancer. Sorry to hear about that. I've known people who have died from skin cancer. Serious stuff.
Get the coolie hat! If someone laughs at you, lock their foot to the deck with the nail gun and tell him the next shot will void the warranty on his zipper!
a tilley, get the real one though, they have them at leevalley.com