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Started by Tom, January 17, 2007, 04:51:44 PM

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Captain

Just another chapter beginning of a great story.  Congrats Tom, we expect pictures  ;D

Bibbyman

That's a long road back ol' buddy Tom.  Keep'r up.

I've got an idea what you're talking about. I've been mostly holding down the LazyBoy and working the remote for the past week now with the ice storm and now snow, etc.  I feel like went backwards in the general health department.  After a couple of hours,  I got to get out and do something.  We got to saw Friday afternoon and I felt much better.

I went up yesterday afternoon and cleaned the snow off my folk's front porch and ramp down to the drive.  There was some ice under it so got out the bag of salt and spread some salt.  By the time I walked and shook out salt over a run of 20 feet or so and back,  I was about done in.  I didn't think the bag was that big but it was 50 lbs.  But it was enough to whip me.

Double that with Mary inside cooking all day long.  We just had breakfast and I noticed four sticks of butter setting out on the counter getting soft.  So in a hour or so I'll have to smell her baking cookies or something.  :-\
Wood-Mizer LT40HDE25 Super 25hp 3ph with Command Control and Accuset.
Sawing since '94

ADAMINMO

Glad to hear you are back in the saddle. It is hard to do things with a body that can't keep up with your youth! Keep it up buddy and we know you will overcome it.

Bibbyman

Quote from: ADAMINMO on December 17, 2007, 09:38:05 AM
Glad to hear you are back in the saddle. It is hard to do things with a body that can't keep up with your youth! Keep it up buddy and we know you will overcome it.

Are you talking to ME or Tom or the both of us?   :D

smiley_old_guy
Wood-Mizer LT40HDE25 Super 25hp 3ph with Command Control and Accuset.
Sawing since '94

ADAMINMO

Both of you young whippersnappers. You 2 should have been blessed with a body that can keep up. Probably good for your wives that you don't have that luxury. They can keep a better eye on ya's and keep ya in line! :D

OneWithWood

Tom,

I am very happy for you  8)
You are not the type that can take sitting around being non-productive for very long.  Keep going a bit at a time and your endurance will pick up.  At some point even the pain begins to feel good  :D


Bibby,

At first it feels good to set and take it easy, then you start getting soft, then you start getting softer and wider, then you try to get back doing what you once did all at once and you keel over.  Best to not take it easy for more than an hour or so  ;)
One With Wood
LT40HDG25, Woodmizer DH4000 Kiln

Engineer

It's a great feeling to get back to it.  My mill's been sitting for over a year now, and every day now I look out the window and figure out when I'm gonna get back to it myself.

Keep sawin', it's just like riding a bike, only the seat don't hurt so much.   :D ;)

Faron

Way to go, Tom!  I am glad to hear you're doing something again that makes you happy.  Bibbyman, just devote some of that Missouri farm to your own cow herd.  You won't have to worry about getting soft and unhealthy during bad weather, I will guarantee! ;) 
The older I get the more I value having a shop I can get in and work during bad weather.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.  Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. - Ben Franklin

Ivey

Tom, good to hear that you are back at it.
Take it slow, don't over do it. Wish I were closer, I'd
pull boards for you, and learn something!
Logmaster LM-4 , New Holland 4x4 w/FEL , Ford L-9000 tandem w/ prentice TS-33 loader, Nyle L200M, Cook's 4" board edger, John Deere 310se backhoe w/ forks

RMay

 Tom I'm glad you are sawing again :) keep it slow you don't wont to burn out your off bearers ;)
RMay in Okolona Arkansas  Sawing since 2001 with a 2012 Wood-Miser LT40HDSD35-RA  with Command Control and Accuset .

JimBuis

Tom,

Sawdust is good therapy. As long as you are sensible about it, some careful milling will help you get some of the old strength back.

On a related note, I just spent the last two weeks working with an old childhood friend of mine. His name is Neil. I went to grade school with this guy and have known him for over 40 years altogether. I refer to him affectionately as "Old Man". He's 52 and I'm almost 51. He's had some replacements already: one knee, the second one is scheduled for surgery, one shoulder, and one hip. Open heart surgery, diabetic, always wears a brace on his left ankle and foot, and lastly walks with a cane.

He and I were working on a production woodworking project during this time making 200+ widgets. This was the first time he had worked at anything in more than two years as he had almost never even been out of the house. He told me about every other breath how much he was enjoying spending time with me and reliving his childhood.

At the end of our stint together, he told me he was feeling better than he had in years just from the work we did together. God has blessed me with a body that has held together a bit better than Neil's has, so I probably was not as empathetic as I should have been, but I am glad I could be here for him. He was taking several pills in an 8 hour day for pain, but he made it.

Tom, I don't know what my little story has to do with anything except maybe the general idea that moving around is usually a helpful thing for the body that hasn't done much recently.

Merry Christmas,
Jim
Jim Buis                             Peterson 10" WPF swingmill

Corley5

Congrats on getting back to sawing Tom 8) 8) 8) 8)
Burnt Gunpowder is the Smell Of Freedom

ADAMINMO

Well Tom ......... I just wanted to follow up and see how your "therapy" is working for you. Nothing like levers in your hands and sawdust in the air to get the blood flowing and the motivation up and at em.

tcsmpsi

Dear Tom,

                smiley_divide

\\\"In the end, it is a moral question as to whether man applies what he has learned or not.\\\" - C. Jung

Tom

Well, without the gory details or whimpering,  It's been a bad year.  There'll be sawing stories later, I hope.  :)

tcsmpsi

I think Life was built from hope and hardheadedness.   And one meant to get slap dab in the way of the other, from time to time.   ;)
\\\"In the end, it is a moral question as to whether man applies what he has learned or not.\\\" - C. Jung

Mooseherder

When you git ready to git ready Tom,  I'm only about 4 hours away.
I could leave now if you wanta start early.  Saturday is usually good for me. :D
I'll bring my own Peas and Opener and Spoon and also know where to get my Steak.  Heck, I'll even cook it fer ya. ;D

DanG

Careful there, Mooseherder!  You're about to get me thinkin' about sumpthin! ;D
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

Mooseherder


beenthere

And we found out how Mooseherder can cook a steak, at least he can when in the UP...
south central Wisconsin
It may be that my sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others

DoubleD

Some day ago I read this whole thread again and said to myself: I hope that when I will reach Tom's age, I will deserve the same respect and carying he got from his wife friend and acquaitance.

Tom I m simply proud of knowing you


Davide :)
Wannabe a sawmiller

LAZERDAN

Man    after reading 19 pages             I'm sorry        I think I'm gonna cry (so happy)

Tom

Thank you, DoubleD.

Just being around a bunch of smiley faces, like you fellows, makes aging go a lot slower.  I am pretty proud to know you fellows too.  It's not every day that someone a generation or two younger will take the time to acknowledge an older fellow.  I've certainly taken note. .....and when I get to be an older fellow, I'll remember it too.  :D

Things were going along pretty good, except that I kept getting sorrier and sorrier.  Then in September of 2008, I went to a pulmonary specialist who put me in the hospital immediately with a pulmonary embolism.  That's clots in your lungs.  When it's in your heart, it's a heart attack.  When it's in your brain, it's a stroke.  Pretty serious stuff.  My lungs were full of clots.   A week in the hospital, a year on coumadin (warfarin) and I'm slowly healing.  The Doctor said that recovery will be slow. He is right.   But, every day that I put two feet on the floor is a blessing and I thank my lucky stars that this Doctor made the diagnosis.  I'm not up to sawing production, may never be, but I hope I'm not through sawing.   I still can't breath good.  The Oxygen doesn't get into the blood.  It seems that lung tissue dies when it doesn't get blood  and the clots had blocked capillaries.  I need to grow more.  Today, I am able to walk the length of a football field and still get back, if I rest a bit in between.  That's a lot better than I was when I first got this mill and definitely better than just before the embolism was found.  I had gotten to the point that I couldn't walk across the living room.

I doubt that I will ever be on a sawing circuit again, and I don't think that I'm wanting the aggravation of fighting the city, county and state bureaucracy with a business here on the place, but I sure do intend to saw some more.  I have a lot of trees on this place that will make me happy for a long long time.  :)

Don't you ever forget how good you can make a fellow feel by saying things like you just said.  I certainly appreciate it.  God Bless!  :)

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