Summary: <br> <br> <br> Jeff McGovern the pest coach talks about getting into<br><br> termite inspection shape for termite season. With the warm weather hopefully on<br><br> the way. I see the weather reports up north and well it doesn’t look like it’s<br><br> quite there yet. The ice and snow is still around but I guess as time passes<br><br> the next few months everybody will have the joy of doing termite investigations<br><br> once again. Course living here in Florida. That’s kind of stuff goes on all<br><br> year round. But I don’t normally spend a lot of time in the termite arena. But<br><br> I thought I’d make a few comments about that, and about that type of work in<br><br> and of itself because it’s physically extremely demanding. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> When your older your body doesn’t cooperate very well<br> <br> <br> And when you’re working in pest control, You know it doesn’t<br><br> work well if the body doesn’t cooperate and when you’re involved in doing<br><br> assessments and evaluations for termites or what some people call a termite<br><br> inspections it beats the living daylights out of the body. But let’s let’s take<br><br> a moment and look at this from a far more practical point of view. As we age we<br><br> are not as mobile. We are not as supple. Oh yeah there’s some people that are<br><br> but you know they all we’re all jealous of them. But the reality is we don’t<br><br> work as well. We don’t move as well. And we’re a little bit slower. <br> <br> <br> So let’s. Just imagine for a moment you’re in your living<br><br> room or in your family room and you’ve got work coming up next week and you<br><br> know it’s gonna be the first time you crawled around since maybe late last<br><br> fall. It’s been a few months. You’ve been sedentary. Yeah. You’ve been doing<br><br> some pest control work but the down and dirty grungy crawl under buildings and<br><br> scaling through attics and such hasn’t been done for a little while because<br><br> it’s just been too cold and too icy. Are you truly in shape for that and how<br><br> can we tell. And how can we tell what type of protective equipment we really<br><br> should have. You know there was a time. Back in the mid 1970s when I was just<br><br> getting started in pest control that I could have crawled under the house and<br><br> T-shirt and shorts that would’ve been fine. I was indestructible and could do<br><br> anything that is not the case anymore and I have to be far more careful. We all<br><br> do. But let’s say you know we’re in the living room in the family room this<br><br> weekend and we want to find out just what kind of shape for it. Well hey good<br><br> carpeting on the floor.<br> <br> <br> You know it’s a it’s a nice nice afternoon. I’m going to try<br><br> crawling around the living room crawling around family room cutout in your<br><br> hands and knees and try that. How comfortable is that. Can you move all right.<br><br> The thing is hurt because if they do it’s going to be far more magnified under<br><br> the building. Now to find out how good a shape we’re really in. Maybe we should<br><br> add a level of difficulty to this task. So most of us have kids and grandkids<br><br> they have Legos. So maybe we should go get a bucket of legos randomly scattered<br><br> those around the middle of the floor where we’re going to be crawling THEN<br><br> LET’S TURN THE LIGHTS OUT. AND LET’S GET A FLASHLIGHT AND NOW LET’S TRY<br><br> crawling through that room on our hands and knees and belly crawling with the<br><br>
