No pain no gain

[Andy Collins]

I used to find raising the item onto a pallet to carve helps, only about 4" higher but seems to alleviate the strain

[Frax]

Crap in the eye is the main one for me, I'd say. Although every other day I seem to manage a smack on the arm, head, flick in the eye from some rogue twig... par for the course

[Steve Bullman]

welcome frax. i hate the eye thing too, u wear visor or glasses?

blocking down on a windy day is the worst

[munkymadman]

shoulders and wrists are meant to be the most common injuries, i intergrated yoga into my training over the last six months. works really well. stretching throughout the day also helps and knowing when to stop is the most important. i cringe when i know i have to do a large hedge or use pole pruners. taking glucosamine and fish oil supplements, also seems to speed up recovery time.

[munkymadman]

blocking down on windy days i wear ski goggles, all you have to worry about then is getting crap in your mouth.

[MattyF]

left wrist and right elbow are my weakness.....down to much cuttin and holding and chucking especially in leylandii hedges.

top tip munky ill be keepin my moto x goggles in the truck.

[Frax]

welcome frax. i hate the eye thing too, u wear visor or glasses?

blocking down on a windy day is the worst

 

Cheers Steve. I wear a visor, but when it comes to dust, they're pretty hopeless! Gotta agree with blocking down, not very nice. Squinting kinda helps. Maybe I ought to invest in goggles...

[TimR]

one word

 

 

Silky.......

 

new blade=nice line of pinpricks of blood

 

ok forget the pinpricks of blood lets try copious amounts oozing out of a two inch gash taken out of the side of my finger cut a ash branch and it didn;t break and drop, it hung on so i reached over to hold it and then with other hand went to cut the last of the cut and the bloody branch dropped off taking the hand holding i straight down the blade of said silky .am trying to type with a finger wrapped in dressing and paper sticthes . all i can say is i am glad that i carry personal first aid kit on me helmet as was able to staunch the flow and carry on. follocks ..

[Steve Bullman]

post a pic then i dare ya

[Pete Mctree]

your not going to turn this into a gruesome pics thread are you steve? lol