toolmaker
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..............and it sorta hurts.
I'm 60 yrs. old, not a logger, but I have a love for saws. Used to burn 6 to 8 cords every winter when I was married. I'm a Journeyman Tool & Die Maker and have been teaching my craft for 25 years in a Technical School.
Health problems too. Arthritis, Double bypass surgery when I was 43, bad Knees, prone to Kidney stones. I even died once for 43 seconds on the operating table while having Kidney stone surgery, woke up with 5 broken ribs, a catheter, and a naphrostomy tube coming out of my back.
I'm a weekend warrior on the saws. I have a campsite along a trout stream where I dammed it up and have it full of 2 ft. plus trout that I feed every day. Love to go out there on weekends and cut some wood and have a big frickin' fire and sit there til midnight and listen to the yodel dogs howl.
Well, I've been having a lot of pain lately, and through the process of elimination I have narrowed it down to my built 460. Some times when I pull the cord it rips the handle out of my hand so hard that it hurts my wrist. when the handle slings across my belly it hurts. After I use it for a few hours, especially if it kicks back on me, I pay for it for 3 or 4 days. Neck, shoulders, arms, hands. I wake up at night and can't feel my hands from numbness. I guess my body is not as strong as it used to be, and I 'm not the young buck that I once was.
It's sad. It bothers me.
I went out to the log landing last week and offered my 460 to the logger to "try" how I sharpen my chains. It was really a test, but he didn't know it. He's probably in his mid-30's, been a logger with his Dad all his life. He ripped the cord a coupla' times and the saw came to life. Bucked a few logs and handed it back to me with a smile. But I was frowning inside. He made me realize that the problem is me.
I'm 60 yrs. old, not a logger, but I have a love for saws. Used to burn 6 to 8 cords every winter when I was married. I'm a Journeyman Tool & Die Maker and have been teaching my craft for 25 years in a Technical School.
Health problems too. Arthritis, Double bypass surgery when I was 43, bad Knees, prone to Kidney stones. I even died once for 43 seconds on the operating table while having Kidney stone surgery, woke up with 5 broken ribs, a catheter, and a naphrostomy tube coming out of my back.
I'm a weekend warrior on the saws. I have a campsite along a trout stream where I dammed it up and have it full of 2 ft. plus trout that I feed every day. Love to go out there on weekends and cut some wood and have a big frickin' fire and sit there til midnight and listen to the yodel dogs howl.
Well, I've been having a lot of pain lately, and through the process of elimination I have narrowed it down to my built 460. Some times when I pull the cord it rips the handle out of my hand so hard that it hurts my wrist. when the handle slings across my belly it hurts. After I use it for a few hours, especially if it kicks back on me, I pay for it for 3 or 4 days. Neck, shoulders, arms, hands. I wake up at night and can't feel my hands from numbness. I guess my body is not as strong as it used to be, and I 'm not the young buck that I once was.
It's sad. It bothers me.
I went out to the log landing last week and offered my 460 to the logger to "try" how I sharpen my chains. It was really a test, but he didn't know it. He's probably in his mid-30's, been a logger with his Dad all his life. He ripped the cord a coupla' times and the saw came to life. Bucked a few logs and handed it back to me with a smile. But I was frowning inside. He made me realize that the problem is me.