Life is tough

37 chief · Mar 11, 2020

Life is tough, but tougher as you get older. I go into the shop for something, and forget what I went in for. Today I installed a bearing race in a wheel hub back wards. Didn't think I was ever going to get it back out, without a lip to pound on. I have my trailer 4 ft off the ground, and still have a hard time crawling under it to work on the wiring. The list goes on and on. stan

Vern · Mar 11, 2020

Wait until you reach into your 8os.
Vern

jeffcat · Mar 12, 2020

That is why I bring home big cardboard boxes and split them open. Lay them on the ground and you have a nice clean area to work on. Also the cardboard insulates your body from the ground pretty well. All done,,,,use it to start the wood stove or trash pile.

flying belgian · Mar 12, 2020

I use the deluxe model. Go to the dumpster behind the flooring shop and get an old carpet. Cut it into 4x4 pieces.

showcrop · Mar 12, 2020

Chief, you need to quit working on the ground and back the trailer into your shop and put it up on your lift. Be sure to back it in far enough so that you can close the overhead door to keep the AC in. When you need to do something like remove a bearing that you started in backwards, just call the shop where you got it to run a replacement out to you while you blow the stuck one out with your torch. They probably won't get there before you get it out so take a break with a cold beer while sitting under the tree on your front lawn watching the cars go by.

1970-1655 · Mar 12, 2020

I have the same problem. I do believe in the here-after. I go to the shop and can't remember what I am here after.

rick n ohio · Mar 12, 2020

The main thing is don't forget where you put the toilet paper

Tony in SD · Mar 12, 2020

I now know why grandpa had me remember things for him, pick up things he dropped and thread a needles....... I thought I was just helping but didn?t know how much until recently.

Traditional Farmer · Mar 12, 2020

For me concentration is the key paying close attention to detail,no distractions like someone there talking,radio playing etc.

Geo-TH,In · Mar 12, 2020

Stan,
It's nice to know I'm not alone. I have too many senior moments. I Put the ice cream in the refrig last night.
I can't find my memory pills. Don't think they were doing me any good.
geo.

wjytexas · Mar 12, 2020

I recovered from injuries a lot faster when I was in my 60's

BarryfromIA · Mar 12, 2020

One place I worked at one of the guys serviced the trailers that were used move the grinders. They had made a plate with a piece of pipe and large washer on the end of that to bolt to the end of the trailer. Then the trailer was brought in with the forklift and parked then using the hoist and the forklift the trailer was lifted up using straps and rotated to up side down like a rotisserie and then lowered back down on to steel sawhorses. Then any thing that that the trailer needed was done to it including straightening of cross pieces. If only we had overhead hoists in our shops.

Texasmark1 · Mar 12, 2020

Cheer up dude, you aren't alone. I've decided that it's because I have my head way ahead of my body.....thinking about what the next project will be while working on the current one. Like yesterday, I was servicing my tractors and during the process I headed into the shop to get something. When I got to the location of the "thing", I paused as I had forgotten what it was that I went after.

Well, I had the keys to 2 of my tractors on the same key ring and was trying to service both simultaneously meaning I had to run both simultaneously. I decided to split the keys but needed a ring for one of them and was headed over to the key bucket to get one. The list goes on. Many times I wonder how I "multifunctioned" back when I was working a regular job.....don't recall having these kinds of problems......age related? Naw. Admit to it......!@#$%^&*()_ NO. Grin.

37 chief · Mar 12, 2020

I have a good supply of old carpet pieces, and cardboard. Stan

Ellis Kinney · Mar 12, 2020

I recently tried to pull the brake seal cage out of a Farmall M to replace the seals. Busted the cage and had to remove the axle and bull gear to replace the busted cage. Four hundred dollars later I am running again. Ellis

RedMF40 · Mar 12, 2020

This is all pretty typical, happens to everyone i think. Everyone has a brain, but the way people use it varies. I forget something that I've come to get, and it's usually because I've started thinking about the next thing--whatever that is. I just slow down my thinking, focus on whatever it is I'm doing.

Hay hay hay · Mar 12, 2020

Yep. And when I think that all 3 of the guys wanting be prez are roughly my age, I think they are crazy, or we are. 24/7 at age 75 no way.
Not sure that many of us are still even capable of it.

Dave F. 54 · Mar 12, 2020

Vern, I am 65 you are scaring the crap out of me. Dave F.

James Howell · Mar 13, 2020

I use a rubber mat on the ground, then split an empty dog food bag for the top of the rubber mat.

If I need a tool that is out of reach, then I just bark.

Credysis · Mar 13, 2020

hahahahaha, you might have covid19 because you forgot where you put the toilet paper

Ted in NE-OH · Mar 14, 2020

When you forget where to use the TO then you really have a
problem

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