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Going through it all right now as well as you know, Mo.
I'm getting up there too (55) and I'm not a little guy either (250), with mush for a left knee, bulging disks/pinched nerves, all that jazz.
Add to it the 3 times cancer and all the wonderful "new me" features that that brings to the table and getting under the GTX is an adventure.
Concrete for some reason just seems to drain the life out of me when I get down on it.
I use the usual cardboard sheets, too. I have a fancy creeper but seldom use it because you just can't get low enough on it, seems like. Thought about a portable lift, but beyond the price of it, the ones I've seen just look like their own mechanisms would get in the way of what I'm working on.
Until I find a better way, I lower myself to the floor in a pushup style maneuver (staying off knees), then roll on my back on the cardboard, pushing into position underneath once on it.
To get up, I move quickly (so as not to give the folks from Greenpeace time to get there to "save the whale!") by rolling back onto my stomach and getting back into that pushup position, walking myself up into a humpback sort of position, then grabbing something stationary to help balance while I get upright again.
It helps to make all those cool old man noises while you're doing it, too.
I'm getting up there too (55) and I'm not a little guy either (250), with mush for a left knee, bulging disks/pinched nerves, all that jazz.
Add to it the 3 times cancer and all the wonderful "new me" features that that brings to the table and getting under the GTX is an adventure.
Concrete for some reason just seems to drain the life out of me when I get down on it.
I use the usual cardboard sheets, too. I have a fancy creeper but seldom use it because you just can't get low enough on it, seems like. Thought about a portable lift, but beyond the price of it, the ones I've seen just look like their own mechanisms would get in the way of what I'm working on.
Until I find a better way, I lower myself to the floor in a pushup style maneuver (staying off knees), then roll on my back on the cardboard, pushing into position underneath once on it.
To get up, I move quickly (so as not to give the folks from Greenpeace time to get there to "save the whale!") by rolling back onto my stomach and getting back into that pushup position, walking myself up into a humpback sort of position, then grabbing something stationary to help balance while I get upright again.
It helps to make all those cool old man noises while you're doing it, too.