Taking a day off tomorrow

Finished a mowing job last Saturday. That afternoon my right knee started hurting. Sunday not much better. Monday did another mowing job. Now both knees bother me. Today mowing again. Now both knees are very painful. The only thing I think may have cased the problem. When I climb up on my tractor, the first step is fairly high. I grab the steering wheel and pull my self up. All my weight is on my knee. So tomorrow I am going to build a lower step, to see if that helps. i can't go on like this. Stan

I know what you are saying. I have added steps to couple tractors, and I'm 6'3. Same here that it takes a sore knee to figure that out! Should of put that step on 20 years ago, right!!

I think a step will help a lot . Even 6 inches will make a big difference .

Doc said to ice mine down,I hate to but it helps

2 things will fix you right up...with you being somewhat careful and getting your step and pulling harder with your arm muscles:
Glucosamine, Chondroitin & MSM (Swanson Viamins.com has them), taken daily, dose on the bottle...takes a little while to start replacing the worn out tissue. If you hands get to where they quit working and you can't to things like close a tight fist, those pills fix that too...taking a little time obviously.

Or a trip to an Orthopedic Surgeon who does the liquid injections. I'm 6'5 and tore up my left knee joint getting into and out of a typical height sedan, opening the door, pivoting on the ball if my left foot, bending that knee to stoop so that I could get my head in the car, twisting on the ball of that foot while getting in and sitting down. After a couple of years of that , doing it some couple dozen times a day, the knee gave out.

I went into the office on crutches. Got in the visitation room, Dr. comes in chats a little, feels a little, says he'd be right back....comes back in with 2 large syringes. He injects both into that knee with a brief but reasonable amount of pain. He says sit there till I get back...About 10 minutes later he returns and says get up and stand on your feet....ok worked....said walk around the room....ok worked. Said see you in a couple of weeks to see how you are doing.

I put the crutches under my arm and went to checkout. Completed that, pushed open the door to the waiting room and walked through it waving the crutches and praising what a great guy the Dr. was. That was probably 25 years ago and had zero problems since.

I put another step on my VAC Case.
It really helps.
Gonna add one to my 8N soon.

It's not just the step up but the step/jump down that jars the joints and causes problems later.