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Not the man I used to be

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miangus

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I had to put a set of front weights on my gas 4020. With the ice on the farm drive the truck wont climb the hill with a load of round bales on the trailer. When i hooked the trailer on the three point, the front got light going up the driveway. I think they look better with the weights. I also got another lessen in I am no longer the man I used to be or thought I was. Taking it easy today.
 
Not the man I used to be
I'm not the man I used to be too.
I think I've had too many Birthdays.
I have front ballast. About 10# of ballast
hanging over my belt.
 
At my last doctor visit I had the usual lab work and finally paid attention to my red blood count being low and should have been paying attention to it in the previous tests. I started adding Iron pills to my daily vitamin and such pill collection and have realized a lot more strength and not feeling tired all the time. Has really made a difference in my mental attitude toward taking on laborious tasks and having the energy to complete them.
 
After hernia surgery while I was still out the doc talked to my wife. Told her to tell me I'm not 18 anymore! I need to slow down. I think he's right. I retired 8 months later.
 
So very true. My father in law at the age of 87 decided to lift a cast iron block Onan engine from the back of his 330 mustang skidsteer
loader up to his work bench to overhaul it. He could have asked me for help but he was very independent. He did the repair and got it running again.
It caused him to become basically bedridden for the remaning 5 years of his life! There was lifting equipment there for him to use, but took a shortcut that cost in pain and suffering cannot be measured.

Beagle
 
(quoted from post at 06:31:27 02/27/22) Not the man I used to be
I'm not the man I used to be too.
I think I've had too many Birthdays.
I have front ballast. About 10# of ballast
hanging over my belt.
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I resemble that remark!!!!!!!
 
I never thought of it that way having a tool shed upfront.
Forward ballast helps prevent me from falling on my butt. Instead I can kiss the sidewalk easier, saves from cracking my butt.
 
A guy I know says, once a man, twice a baby. Talk to him for a while and you will here it more than once.
 

I've always been told three things about big bellies on men.

1. Are you pregnant (someone asks)? My dad would say, "yep, going to have an elephant". Usual reply of "what?" and dad would finish with, saw his trunk today.

2. Dunlap disease -- my belly has done lapped over my belt buckle.

3. Every good farmer builds a shed over his equipment. The bigger the shed, the larger the equipment.
 
One of my granddads was 80 with a small farm and trailer park he worked daily. Holidays brought their 7 kids and their families to grandmaws. They told him the same thing and he caved in to the pressure. It wasn't 6 months later the family was back at the house all wearing black. Tell them to mind their own business. It's your life. Live it the way you want.
 
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