You will pay for it.

[Auggie56]

Aw, come on it's probably a 140 ci six Ford he's picking up how heavy could it be?

 

[Kern Dog]

 

[zyzzyx]

I'd have to put rubber bands around my ankles if I did that when I was a youngster!

 

[ws23jrt]

Gravity is relentless and takes its toll. My issue is in the lower spine. Jacking it up and pining it is my option. What would be next to fix hip joint pain? How far am I willing to go to make myself like day one? Hmm- a few car resto projects come to mind. Can I actually be "restored"? Would I be for display only?

 

[Kern Dog]

I'd have to put rubber bands around my ankles if I did that when I was a youngster!

I don't understand this.

In my late 20s, I used to carry as much lumber as I could..... just to show off.
In my early 30s, I still did the same but also entertained a hobby....Shooting video for a couple of home movies with car stunts. I jumped cars, wrecked a few, rolled one and all of this was with stock seats and 3 point seat belts. Most of the time I am fine but 2 to 3 times a year the bulged disc flares up just enough to sideline me for about a week. Anti-inflammatories and Flexoril take the edge off until I heal.
I recall carrying 4x14" beams alone. Engine blocks, axles....never a Dana though!

 

[zyzzyx]

The rubber bands kept my pant legs tight to my legs so my Nuts
wouldn't roll out on the floor!

 

[kiwigtx]

I popped a disc in my lower back at age 21 while lifting the battery out of my '70 Road Runner - awkwardly across the fender. I don't know why I did that....it had started raining, and somehow I must have thought the hood would cover me.
I paid for that dearly....couldn't walk for a few days. Doctor nearly paralysed me when my father took me to see him. He thought it was a spasm, and raised my arms above my head....I blacked out, and woke up 15 minutes later on the stretcher....to see a very nervous Doctor looking at me. Physio and time helped, but I still feel it in winter, and I am always thinking when I lift heavy stuff now.

BTW...it was a heavy duty truck battery, not those light-weight cheapies sold at Parts stores.

 

[5.7 hemi]

Duracell eh? LOL!!!

 

[Triplegreen500]

I have a metal rod in my left femur that goes from my hip to my knee. I have a plate and hinge in my left hip. I have a metal rod from my right knee to my right ankle. Probably nine or ten screws hold them all in. There are days where NOTHING will touch the aches, and the pain. It isn't muscle. It isn't overexertion. It's...structural, and it does not go away.

I keep a bottle of this in the cabinet, for those days:



I have a buddy I ride motorcycles with, who lives in Canada. He gave me a bottle one day, after a ride, when I could barely walk and I explained what hardware I had in me. "Don't worry about it, I'll grab another bottle when I get home - we have it in our pharmacy stores next to the aspirin and the motrin."

For the uninitiated, a "222" is a pain relief pill made by Johnson & Johnson - Merck. It contains 375 mg aspirin, 15 mg caffeine and 8 mg codeine. While perfectly legal in Canada, any product using codeine in the US requires a prescription.

ONE of those, will take the edge off anything. No haze, no incoherence, no fog, no chemical hangover, just....no pain. I don't need them often - I think the bottle I have has an expiration date around 2011 - but when I do need one...it does the trick.