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....................Being in severe pain is not exactly a condition conducive to learning. I hope you are able to make it, but take it easy - it's not worth hurting yourself worse.
Great to hear you are doing better!I've never managed to get my neck and upper back injury completely healed - I can get it fixed, and be pain free, but the area is not stable, and it doesn't take much to mess me up again. This is despite visits to a Chiropractor, and being married to a Physical TherapistWearing a chainsaw helmet aggravates it, especially if I do it all day. This year, once my land dries out, I hope to work up to it more gradually to see if it's a muscle conditioning thing. I also want to get my wife to watch me as I'm working in the woods: she's really good a spotting poor body mechanics, and might spot something odd I'm doing with my head or upper body.Another thing that aggravates it is reaching out repeatedly with any kind of weight in my arms. (I think the way the muscles in my back support my arms tweaks things in just the wrong way, throwing things in my upper back out.) I've gotten much better at keeping the chainsaw close into my body, rather than reaching out with it (that reaching out is poor body mechanics anyway). That has helped. I have not figured out how to stack firewood without causing me problems. Even repeated lifting of relatively small pieces (4" diameter x 16" long hardwoods) can cause me upper back problems, especially if I'm raising them much above belly high. I think it's more the reaching out to put them in the stack than the actual lifting. I have not figured out a way around that yet.
Yeah John, that's the ticket, keep changing it up. One of the things I did last year that helped lengthen my day was buy and use a short pickeroon for picking up and moving the cut rounds up to, and on, the splitter. It keeps me from bending over at all for the smaller pieces and serves as a good handle for picking up those 90 pound RO rounds. I like that pickeroon so much that I got a second longer one (24") for dragging logs into position for skidding. Look around at what you do and see if there aren't tools that can help take the load off your back.Best of luck to you!
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