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You will pay for it.

that pic reminded me when i was about 25 lifting up a 305 with the rotating assembly in tact onto a trailer that was headed to a scrap yard. young and dumb, I tell my grandkids not to do dumb stuff like that.
 
After all those years as a Millwright in the steel mills and foundries. I made it out with all my original body parts but there are still times I remember some of the dumb stuff I did and made it out alive.
 
Well crap guess I should of payed attention I'm jacked up now
 
I clearly recall the day I picked up a heavy pallet -flat- and turned 90 degrees to put it down. I felt (even thought I heard) a squish in my lower back. It was not particularly painful but I knew it was not good. The following weeks involved some light pain and muscle control loss that diminished.
A few years later I needed back surgery and one of the repairs was to attend to a badly ruptured disk that was impinging on vital nerves.
 
"You will pay for it."
Dearly, yes - in ways I couldn't even imagine.
 
I’m finding this out now. I wish someone said something back then. (Whom I kidding, I wouldn’t have listened anyways)
 
Trying to think of something that rhymes with Ibuprofen
 
Working in a heavy equipment shop with a welding shop attached, listening to an air-arc rig every day for years, and listening to KISS, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin took it's toll on my hearing.
 
thats no lie put many motors in by hand . and my body sounds like a motor with no oil pressure :drinks:
 
Do you use anything to help your joints?
Like bandages while I lift? Yes but only in my wrist, not my knees, the rest only a good warm up, and there i go, love my sport, national sub champ, I was told by my trainer that weight lifting is a jeleaous lover, one day you'll pay for all of this excess, and am doing just that, but like many of you that practice a sport In a competition level love what I did and if I have the chance I'll do it again.
 
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Just lifted my 383 out of my Ram 1500 bed after the block came back from the machine shop. It was heavier than I remember. Now my everything hurts.
 
Read my signature line. I was a UA Steamfitter for 30 years (in the field). Pipe is heavy stuff.
Mike
 
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