Bragging Rights at 46

Sissies! :-)

My brother and I once unloaded a railcar of 1,100 GAF 100 lb bag of #93 white granules, by hand working straight through the night. We had 24 hours to get the railcar unloaded and off the siding. Our warehouse was an old packing plant with narrow halls - we had to unload the granules off the railcar into our dumptruck, drive to the warehouse, and carry them on our shoulder down 2 long narrow halls and stack them in an old meat locker room.

We started off cocky, sometimes showing off by carrying 2 bags at a time. That cockiness when away fast. That's 550 bag each of us carried. If memory serves, we were late getting it done but we worked sun up to sun down to past sun up.

And that's why I have a bad back.

In years past, I spent many hours standing on top of a stack of shingles that was in the bed of a pickup truck and backed up to the lowest point on the roof. At 6'4", I was always the guy designated to pass them up to the other guys on the roof. Human laddervator so to speak. I don't know how I avoided the bad back thing all these years. At least so far anyways. Knock on wood! :dry:

A crew I worked on in Georgia years ago that did all new construction, had a hungarian guy that loaded all the roofs. His legs were nearly as big around as my whole body. He would carry up FOUR bundles of 3-tabs at a time, step off the ladder and hump them to the ridge. Most of the roofs were 6/12. They paid him a whole dollar a square. :huh:

I've been married to the same woman for 26 years...................

I once took six bundles of shingles up two small flights of stairs, By the time I got to the top of the second I just leaned forward and dropped them to the floor. My back felt like a wet noodle ready to snap! Oh the good ole days of testosterone and stupidity....... Kinda fun though :woohoo:

Did Jack Legge change his name?

twill59 Said: Tom Hay, said years ago, wait until you hit 50, youll slow. me being a Young Turk in my early 40s just laughed.

Well here I am, 55 and feeling the pain. Just got back from the Chiro.....just a tune up.

Im just an office worker now anyway....

I thought this was worth bringing back to life. I worked my butt off to end up being able to afford a lot of things.

There is not a price I would not pay for a better back so the true meaning is I did a lot of stupid things for nothing.

Please do not take me wrong, lot of happiness. The straw that broke the Camels back was doing things when I didn't let the healing process work.

Learn from ALL of us that made these mistakes. OSHA is NOT the joke I thought it was.