Pastor Dave's Highlights

[Baymule]

I'm glad it was something that doesn't need cutting. After my shoulder surgery the Doc recommended physical therapy and I went once. They had a jury rigged flex band hooked to a door that they acted like was prime equipment. I hope you do better than that.

That was some kind of a lousy place! Gheesh! The place my husband went was a physical therapy facility, but also had work out equipment and sold memberships. So you got a rubber band and a door?

 

[Bruce]

Yeah but he can cheat by moving the door with his other arm

 

[Pastor Dave]

We will see what the CT scan produces.
My mom has fractured both shoulders at different times. First one didn't require replacement, but repair. Dad put a pulley over a door and a thin rope for her to exercise her arm.
Her second fracture required a new shoulder and the same pulley and rope. She got pretty good mobility back in bith shoulders. My mom finds trip hazards very easily. She should have made a profession out of helping businesses and facilities solve their safety hazards.

 

[RollingAcres]

So you got a rubber band and a door?

That's state of the art, high-tech PT equipment! You didn't know that?

 

[Pastor Dave]

Got it back. Hydraulic 3pt hitch. Will lift approx 400lbs. which is abt the weight of the tractor. Now I can put attachments on the back to lift square bales or lift a pallet of some feed sacks. Pull gravity operated implements, or self powered mowers, etc.

 

[Pastor Dave]

Well, It's come to T H I S

I keep telling myself that I CAN still throw around the 50lb sacks. I am choosing to be smart and buy the 25 pounders.

As picking them up to carry out of the Feed and Hardware store, I almost threw one over each shoulder until I remembered my whole goal was to decrease my load.

It appears the abdominal bulge my doc believed to be a hernia is a protrusion caused by separation of stomach muscles and probably won't be surgically corrected, so going to have to find other ways to help myself.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

My brother has some major issues with his stomach muscles also - he wears a really tight elastic binder when he does anything physical. Not sure if that would help you...but he says it is helpful. Not so comfortable when it's hot out - but pick your poison I suppose...

 

[CntryBoy777]

If ya get a back support belt that has velcro on the 2 sides, it will give ya support and tightened and loosened rather quickly and it is handy to tighten when there is work to do.....ya just have to get use to it being on ya....if ya wear it on a hot day of sweating use some body powder or cornstarch around your waist to help prevent chaffing.....

 

[Latestarter]

Sorry Dave... Hope it doesn't detract too much from your quality of life.

 

[Bruce]

What sort of contraption do you have on the front of the GT to keep the front end down if you put 400# on the back??

When my ~250# open arm drum sander came I needed to get it up on the stand. So I used my gorilla ladder as a support for a metal rod over which I ran the cable from the winch on the front of my GT. About the time the sander started to lift off the ground, it stopped doing so and the front of the tractor started to lift. Had to have my 100# (sometimes) daughter sit on the hood to lift the sander. I guess if I had a multipart block and tackle I could have raised it without the "front weight".