Getting Old

[spuddog0507]

Just turned the big 60 and still doing plenty and enjoying it, had 2 days with 2 of us on site a couple of wks back sorting some windblown out which i do enjoy doing and over the 2 days we sorted just over 70 tonne out, OK i did not feel up to much the day after 😂 but i did go down yard and cut n split a crate of logs in afternoon,, i go to yard most days if nowt else to do and cut n split logs, Most enjoyable thing in recent yrs has been working on a Leyland DAF T244 Ex MOD truck that i bought 5 yr ago that i have set up for moving timber with and now out n about in it moving timber back to yard from our own jobs and a bit from some local estates,, way i look at this now is if i can still do the job in 5 yrs i will do and if i can still do it in 10 yrs i will do ?? but i do know the job takes its toll on your body and the aches are not getting any less as the days rush by now,, 

[petercb]

74 and still busy every day maintaining woodland, rentals and farm. Energy levels and strength aren't what they were but you just work differently. Happy and fortunate to be able to do it still.

[spuddog0507]

3 hours ago, petercb said:

74 and still busy every day maintaining woodland, rentals and farm. Energy levels and strength

aren't what they were but you just work differently. Happy and fortunate to be able to do it still.

You say energy levels and strength aren't what they were, but it's like Mick Dempsey said, experience, and that accounts for a lot in today's world,, 

Edited Friday at 13:47 by spuddog0507

[petercb]

1 hour ago, spuddog0507 said:

You say energy levels and strength aren't what they were, but it's like Mick Dempsey said, experience, and that accounts for a lot in today's world,, 

Yup work smarter.

[5thelement]

21 hours ago, Rich Rule said:

50 years old here.  Climb most days.  Usually decent sized trees.

 

This was yesterdays job, 2 guys but took just under 2 hours.

 

I did the side you are looking at.  I have ached most days for years now.  Usually a combo of work and Martial Arts.  I would love to sack in tree work but I guess I will just keep plodding on.

 

I had initial problems when I first moved to France. Stopping work all at once and no longer doing Wing Chun 3 times a week. 
Started getting stiffness and back pain/injury from mundane things like weeding/splitting logs, couldn’t sleep or tie my shoe laces for the best part of a month.

Started back doing my forms and long sessions on the Muk Jong until the work picked up. Back to climbing most days now and training in between, touch wood I’ve been injury free since, saying that, I think I would be aching after trying to do that tree in two hours. 👍

[Mick Dempsey]

I’ve always maintained climbing is largely beneficial for your back, or at least not detrimental. 
 

Bending over and picking up sticks or branches to stick in the chipper is not good for the back however. 
 

I have a new climber being trained up at the moment. So I’m grounding more than usual, often on easier things like lime repollards, where you picking up hundreds of bits. 
Feeling it in the evenings. 
Lots of Vitamin I(buprophen)

Edited Friday at 16:19 by Mick Dempsey

[5thelement]

1 minute ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I’ve always maintained climbing is largely beneficial for your back, or at least not detrimental. 
 

Bending over and picking up sticks or branches to stick in the chipper is not good for the back however. 
 

I have a new climber being trained up at the moment. So I’m grounding more than usual, often on easier things like lime repollards, where you picking up hundreds of bits. 
Feeling it at the moment!

Unfortunately I am climber and groundy on most of my jobs, still, at least were both reliable and turn up on time. 👍

[woody paul]

Try and spread jobs out in the week so I get a change, also do as much as I can with machinery. 

 

[peds]

12 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I’ve always maintained climbing is largely beneficial for your back, or at least not detrimental. 
 

Bending over and picking up sticks or branches to stick in the chipper is not good for the back however. 
 

I have a new climber being trained up at the moment. So I’m grounding more than usual, often on easier things like lime repollards, where you picking up hundreds of bits. 
Feeling it in the evenings. 
Lots of Vitamin I(buprophen)

 

Hard agree. Climbing is great exercise, groundie-ing less so.

Like every type of good exercise though... you need rest days mixed into it or it's draining.

[5thelement]

5 minutes ago, peds said:

 

Hard agree. Climbing is great exercise, groundie-ing less so.

Like every type of good exercise though... you need rest days mixed into it or it's draining.

Im more in the Willy Nelson camp, “You slow down you go down”.