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i had pain in hands, tingling, numbness, pain in elbow and shoulder for ages - work occupational health was scared of havs so wanted me off for a year which i refused as just seemed to not fit. 

 

saw my physio and was discs in neck seized up , few very painful sessions later and all great. now see him couple times a year for a tweak and its fine.

 

so can be referred issues from other body parts, a good physio and once over can rule in our out stuff.

 

 

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1 hour ago, AA Teccie (Paul) said:

You need to be properly assessed by a Occupational Health Specialist (OHS) and probably at Doctor level (Tier 4)...and who is competent in HAVS, respectfully not a GP.  

 

Gloves are helpful but mainly because they keep hands warm, improving blood circulation, rather than damping vibration.

 

Battery powered machinery is the way forward.

 

Regards,

Paul

As has been said, always wear gloves! And as Paul always mentioned, give serious thought to the battery tools. Hedge trimmers inparticular are horrible for vibrations compared to chainsaws. The battery trimmers are a huge improvement.

 

I would be interested to see stats for white finger in 50 year olds now, and 30 years ago. Theres been a huge improvement in anti vibration in that time, as well as education. It must have had a considerable impact on the numbers.

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7 hours ago, david wood said:

i had pain in hands, tingling, numbness, pain in elbow and shoulder for ages - work occupational health was scared of havs so wanted me off for a year which i refused as just seemed to not fit. 

 

saw my physio and was discs in neck seized up , few very painful sessions later and all great. now see him couple times a year for a tweak and its fine.

 

so can be referred issues from other body parts, a good physio and once over can rule in our out stuff.

 

 

Thanks David, when I saw the physio yesterday he didn’t mention any of that, when you got checked out how did they try and determine it was HAVS? 

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20mins on 10 mins off

This seems pretty extreme but I noticed some contractors strimming and they were doing that, I thought they were just lazy stopping all the time but must of being about HAVS?

 

Was 6 people strimming balsam and they all stopped together every 20 mins for 10 mins just stoosd around, then repeat etc.

 

Do others also do this also now thinking I should whilst strimming? ?

 

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Oddly?, despite my father being a "gulpin" of a farmer, he told me about the dangers of "white finger" some 50 years ago, after some intensive large tree felling around the farm with his new toy, a big Remington chainsaw.

I never forgot.

I suppose I was then a trifle perplexed when our H&S Officers then "discovered" HAVS in about 2010/2012!

But refused to give any advice as to which brushcutters to buy(a simple either-or choice btw), or how to manage their use.

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34 minutes ago, difflock said:

Oddly?, despite my father being a "gulpin" of a farmer, he told me about the dangers of "white finger" some 50 years ago, after some intensive large tree felling around the farm with his new toy, a big Remington chainsaw.

I never forgot.

 

What's a gulpin? (I googled it - all I got was it's also a type of Pokémon)

 

Worst tool I have for vibes is a little Bosch multi-cutter, the one with all the different shaped saw blades that moves side to side about 2 millimeter and a million times a second. 

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2 hours ago, Haironyourchest said:

What's a gulpin? (I googled it - all I got was it's also a type of Pokémon)

 

Worst tool I have for vibes is a little Bosch multi-cutter, the one with all the different shaped saw blades that moves side to side about 2 millimeter and a million times a second. 

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gulpin - from 'The Hamely Tongue: A Personal Record of Ulster-Scots in County Antrim'

I would actually have suggested, the same as an eejit, not realizing gulpin was an ageist descriptor.

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