Feeling like an old man!

[SciFiJim]

I did a brake job today on my Toyota Tundra. I've done numerous brake jobs on the family cars in the past. Replacing the pads on a Tundra is extremely easy if you are not having the discs turned. The problem is removing and then replacing the tires. Passenger cars tires are easy. The truck tires will make you feel like and old man or make you realize that you are old. I didn't realize just how heavy those things are. A new perspective was gained today.:???:

[scattershot]

I feel like that sometimes, but then I AM old.

[CastingFool]

I did an oil change on my truck early last fall, and I think I am done with crawling around underneath a truck. I couldn't beliebe how sore I was when I got done!

[jlm223]

Yep, I have a Jeep with 33" tires on it, what a bear!

[Gewehr-Guy]

A trick I use to wrestle on a heavy wheel and tire, is to lay a long handle spade or sand shovel directly under the hub, and roll the tire into the shovel . Then you can lift on the long handle with one hand, and position the wheel onto the hub with your other hand. Usually you can lift the wheel up an inch or two, if you need more, s lide under a piece of 2x4 to get more leverage.

[sghart3578]

I helped my 31 year old son swap out an engine recently and I realized I am not the man I was 30 years ago. I hurt all over.

I told him that I used to hunt and camp in an old F250. One time I swapped out the C6 transmission in that thing by myself, no jack.

Those days are long gone.

My oldest brother summed it up for us. I was talking to him about his recent health problems and he said "Little brother, some days I wake up felling like I'm 19 years old. And some days when I wake up my body feels like a tow sack full of broken beer bottles and door knobs."

Hang in there,


Steve in N CA

[bob208]

oil change truck goes to jiffy lube. putting wheels back on takes much cussing and creative jack work. I am 70. never thought I would make this far.

[Elroy]

We have an old tractor ,and it has loaded tires,and you talk about heavy !!..My wife's back ached for a week after I made her rotate the two back tires on it. LOL

[jsizemore]

We have an old tractor ,and it has loaded tires,and you talk about heavy !!..My wife's back ached for a week after I made her rotate the two back tires on it. LOL

Dare you to show this thread to her. I got some coupons you can use for eatin'.

[buckwheatpaul]

I did a brake job today on my Toyota Tundra. I've done numerous brake jobs on the family cars in the past. Replacing the pads on a Tundra is extremely easy if you are not having the discs turned. The problem is removing and then replacing the tires. Passenger cars tires are easy. The truck tires will make you feel like and old man or make you realize that you are old. I didn't realize just how heavy those things are. A new perspective was gained today.:???:

Jim, I know how you feel today I cut my fence and hung a gate and dug three holes, with a tractor post hole digger, then planted 3 eight inch posts and filled the 3' deep holes and tamped the wet mud clods into the holes; then re-stretched the 5 strand barbed wire; and then hung the 8 foot gate....what use to take about 1 hour took almost 3 hours....and boy was I wiped out.....getting older is not for sissy's!

[Winger Ed.]

Roll the tire up to the hub and time the hub out so a lug bolt is at 12 o'clock, and a bolt hole on the tire lines up with it.

Tilt the tire over onto it and start a lug nut.
Jack the car up a little and the tire will be pulled up and it'll fall onto the other lug bolts.

I learned this on 5' tall tractor tires.
Now days, I do it on everything bigger than the neighbor's golf cart.

[bedbugbilly]

I have a theory . . . . that's why they make young people . . . . like we used to be!

[RoyEllis]

I'd like to meet the jackbag that coined the phrase "the golden years".......and punch his lights out!

[Alstep]

I'm 78, and everything said above is all too familiar. A lifetime working in the trades, driving truck, and some farm work have worn out my bones. I'm still in fairly good shape, but even so, I just take my time doing stuff, and it gets done one way or another. Just have to work a little slower & a little smarter. I count my blessings every day & life's still good. I am fortunate indeed.

[samari46]

Totally in agreement with the jerk who coined the term "Golden Years" I'm 73 and used to work rotating shifts around the clock. Now I'm paying for it. So work a lot slower and a lot smarter when it gets done is when it gets done. Frank

[lightman]

Like all of the rest of you, I worked for a living. And I can't do the things that I once could. I plan ahead for the things that I still try to do knowing that it will take longer. And I pay others to do some of the things that I once did. Its hard to admit that you can't do the things that you once did. And sometimes its hard to find someone to do them for you and to do them right!

A while back I posted that my SIL's Cat died and that I buryed it for her. It took me about 3 hours to dig a decent hole and cover it back up. About 20 minutes worth of work for me 5 years ago or for any other young healthy person.

[rockrat]

Tractor seems to have gotten taller over the years. Harder to get on/off the thing. Dozen times on/off the thing and I head for the tylenol. Tripped in the barn the other day and hit the concrete. In my younger days, I would have just bounced off the floor and gone on with what I was doing, nowadays it just plain hurts

[jimlj]

My problem is getting down on a creeper, realizing I left the tool I need on the workbench. I lay there trying to figure a way of doing the task at hand without the tool because it's too hard to get back up.

[fixit]

I am "only" 58, but my philosophy is, I am not going to slow down until my body forces me to, even if it hurts! I'm scared to death of losing the ability to do the things that I do, so I continue doing them. Just this past fall, for example, I was up in a 50 to 60 foot tall walnut tree in my fence line, between my house and the neighbors, cutting it down limb by limb, piece by piece, so that there was no longer a risk to either house. I don't pay people to work on my car, in fact I have a small clientele of people that pay me to work on theirs. (That pays for my shooting habit). Yes, this is a brag, but it is what I do to keep my body moving for fear of not continuing to move.

[popper]

Was in St. Augustine last week, tried the water - nope, still OLD.
Recovering from spraying the yard for weeds today. Even passenger car tires are heavy anymore. I can usually use my foot to snag that last inch to the lug.

[elmacgyver0]

I'm only 68, still a pup! but I hire my car work out anymore.

[unclemikeinct]

I retired a few years back. Wish I had done that when I was younger. The first few mins. after I wake up I still think I'm in my twenties. Then reality sets in...Good grief, I hurt some days. unclemikeinct

[Went2kck]

I have a theory . . . . that's why they make young people . . . . like we used to be!

I have yet to see a young person like we use to be. Most are lazy and have the I want syndrome with their no common sense attitude. that cant live without the cell phone.

[robg]

the problem is your head still thinks you can do stuff you used to do but your body says no way pal.

[lightman]

I have yet to see a young person like we use to be. Most are lazy and have the I want syndrome with their no common sense attitude. that cant live without the cell phone.

This is true in some places but I still know some hard working young people. My 2 Sons were raised to work for what they want and there are a few neighborhood kids that are workers. It may be because of being in a farming community.

[Wheelguns 1961]

I have yet to see a young person like we use to be. Most are lazy and have the I want syndrome with their no common sense attitude. that cant live without the cell phone.

I used to think this way also, then when my wife was in the hospital dying, I noticed a whole lot of young people working hard and taking care of business. Our elders used to say the same thing about us.

[Rapidrob]

I had to repair a rear flat tire that rolled off of the rim of my John Deere 4020 tractor and then remount and set the bead for inflation. I realized right off the bat I was long gone from 28 and at 68 it was a work out I do not want to do again anytime soon.

[Gewehr-Guy]

This afternoon I removed the carb from my old '72 Ford grain truck, to fix the accelerator pump leak. I really need to do a valve job on it, but after leaning over the radiator for an hour, my back said no way I'm going to pull the heads. I'll find some young guy that wants a weekend job.
I don't mind working under a vehicle so much, as I can take a little nap under there and if someone drives by and sees me they just think I'm working hard:wink:

[woodbutcher]

[smilie=1: Hi Roy.My Dad used to say"Beware the golden years.They just might be brass plated pot metal".
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[woodbutcher]

:grin: Hi GG.Heads and intake manifolds are easy.For heads,make a plate that bolts to the intake side and do the same for the exhaust side.Drill a hole at the front and rear intake and exhaust port area of the plate and secure an eye bolt in the holes.Hook your cherry picker to them and hoist away.For the intake manifold get one of those lifting plates that bolt to the carb mount pad a lift away.Works a treat,and no more sore back.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[snowwolfe]

I am slowly learning it is sometimes easier to write a check rather than do the work myself. Washed my car last week, scrubbed the tires and wheels and then dried it off. You would of thought I had just finished running a marathon.
Gettin old sucks.

[winelover]

Gettin old sucks.


:holysheepBut the alternative is much worse.:groner:

[762sultan]

The best is yet to come my friend. Good luck.

[bob208]

when working in the shop or the reloading room a long magnate and those long reach grippers are my friend .

[Rapidrob]

Yesterday, my wife tells me that the Roofers are coming out to replace the roofs on my shop and garage. I had to move over a ton of lead and stack it at the far end of the property after removing it from from the outside wall of the shop and a thousand pounds of well casing pipe from the outside of the garage to allow the men safe access to both roofs. It took me all of nine hours to do both jobs and I feel it but the "work-out" loosened up the joints enough I can continue on today with moving 55 gallon drums of used oil which I heat my shop with. I'll be draining those bad boys into 5 gallon carboys! (I'm not that stupid to try to move them filled.)

[Winger Ed.]

when working in the shop or the reloading room a long magnate and those long reach grippers are my friend .

When I have to bend over to pick something up--

I ask myself what else I need to do now that I'm down here.

[dnepr]

I am doing head gaskets on my 1992 Toyota , I am getting it done but not like the old days, I used to be a mechanic at the local Toyota dealer so I have done this before , I got out of being a mechanic 15 years ago , for various reasons but being hard on the body was one of them. Pretty clear to me that I couldn’t go back to doing that 8 hours a day .

[facetious]

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[Alferd Packer]

Your brain can write checks your body has trouble cashing.
Getting old sucks, but it beats the alternative.

[Petander]

When I have to bend over to pick something up--

I ask myself what else I need to do now that I'm down here.

This is why I don"t like self loaders any more.

And jerry cans are heavier than they used to be. I let professionals work on my cars to avoid injuries...

[Hickok]

My sister-in-law told me this on my birthday, "Always remember, you're not getting older......you're already old!!!"[smilie=p:

[Mal Paso]

And jerry cans are heavier than they used to be.

Are you kidding? Everything is heavier!

It's amazing how fast I loose muscle tone. If I relax a few days it's tough coming back.

The last car repair I paid for, they stripped the threads in the block for the timing belt tensioner and it started coming apart 3 years later so I am back to doing my own. Probably better for me but it sure hurts, LOL.

[skeettx]

Older, slower, weaker, but still as crafty.
Just takes longer to heal up and more band-aids
when the skin peals back

Mike

[Mal Paso]

Older, slower, weaker, but still as crafty.
Just takes longer to heal up and more band-aids
when the skin peals back

Mike

Forgot about Old Man Skin. That's 2 more getting old things.

[Mal Paso]

Older, slower, weaker, but still as crafty.
Just takes longer to heal up and more band-aids
when the skin peals back

Mike

Forgot about Old Man Skin. That's 2 more getting old things.

[Petander]

Are you kidding? Everything is heavier!



And there's all that fine print everywhere.

[Mitch]

An old couple is in bed the Wife wakes the husband hollerin i am dead.he said you are not dead.She said i surely am dead.He asures her again that she is not dead.Woman why do you think you are dead.She replies nothing hurts.

I am 58 and tell people it is not the age it is the mileage.You think you need a bigger melting pot then build it and figure out you only will fill it half full next time.
I must say this thread made me feel good knowing i am not the only one.

[Cheeto303]

I did a brake job today on my Toyota Tundra. I've done numerous brake jobs on the family cars in the past. Replacing the pads on a Tundra is extremely easy if you are not having the discs turned. The problem is removing and then replacing the tires. Passenger cars tires are easy. The truck tires will make you feel like and old man or make you realize that you are old. I didn't realize just how heavy those things are. A new perspective was gained today.:???:

Yep, you done got old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itN1Sh1TvAk

[rondog]

My lumbar spine is turning to poo, arthritis in hips, hands, knees and feet, both knees bone-on-bone, both shoulders worn out -

Yeah, I'm hip about the "getting old" stuff.

And they ask me why I drink.....

[woodbutcher]

:lol: There is another old song out there.Two of the entertainers that performed it as a duet were Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.The title is"I`m in pretty good shape for the shape I`m in".It pretty muck says it all.
Woke up this morning and I swear my hair even hurt.Misty and drizzly all night.AGAIN!!!!!!
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo