[AT] Old tractors and old men

[Richard Fink Sr]

Greg i  can relate to what you are going through,have not had the 
appendix out but all the rest plus 3 open heart surgery's. I don,t farm 
just liked playing with old tractors, almost 3 years ago lost my better 
half and that changed things dramatic for me. My mind don,t work at 35 
or even 50 it works as i am 76 forget many thing and get a lot of 
excersie going back for them. I have used a electric cart over 10 years 
now as my back is messed up playing with legs that don,t go far. I sold 
all my toys 2 months after losing my wife,now keeping a lawn tractor 
going is about all i can keep up with. I have 1 grandson that is a great 
help. OK enough from a century +1 year old complainer. Have a great day 
to all that read.

R Fink

PA


On 2/2/2017 8:19 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
> This will be somewhat of a ramble and may wander so bare with me. Lately
> it seems some have hinted at problems so I suspect I am not alone. At 69
> much of what I thought would be the fun in life has left. Many of the
> things I looked forward to enjoying are going by the wayside. My brain
> is at about 35 years old but my body says go to he- double hockey
> sticks. A few months ago I found out my back is shot and can not be
> fixed.  It started 5 years ago while planting spring crops, every night
> I ran a small fever and in the morning I was fine only to run a fever
> again that night. After about 3 weeks I went to the doctor who ran some
> tests and found nothing. A week later the fever spiked and I went to the
> emergency room about midnight. More tests were run which showed nothing.
> The doctor said it had to be hiding somewhere and ordered a cat scan. A
> couple of hours later the results were in. For at least a month I had a
> ruptured appendix. That was bad enough, but come morning, they told me
> one of my kidneys had cancer. Six weeks later, I had surgery and they
> removed my appendix and my kidney. Fast forward to late fall; at the
> last checkup for the surgery, they told me I had prostate cancer. 50
> radiation treatments later I was moving forward but had lost the
> interest to do a lot of things. I have the best shop of my life to work
> in. It is only 24 x 24 but is heated and I have some nice tools such as
> a bridgeport  mill, torches and 3 welders plus other tools but have lost
> the go to it to go out and work plus my back is always sore. As someone
> has mentioned, if I get down on my knees I must get a hold of something
> to get up. Also for the last 4 years I have not enjoyed the 3 tractor
> shows I like to attend each year because of the pain in my hips only
> lets me walk about 200 feet at a time so I don't see much. I thought it
> was bad muscles but now know it was my back. For this year I hope to
> enjoy shows more as I bought a small electric handicapped scooter. None
> of our shows allow golf carts or 4 wheelers of any kind. 3 years ago I
> took my Polaris Ranger to one and it was great, but someone  else with
> one "bumped" someone and they sued the tractor show and that ended that.
> Handicapped scooters are allowed as they only hold one person and are
> slow moving. I guess the purpose of all this is how do some of this list
> handle problems and work on old tractors and such. I farm 110 acres and
> only have 2 pieces of equipment under 40 years old.  I used to look
> forward to getting  up in the morning and working on equipment.   All my
> life I have enjoyed working on mechanical things but now I still want to
> do it but I can't get the will power to do it. It's not the lack of time
> as I have lots of that but no getting it done. How do others on the list
> with health problems get it done. I don't want to sound like I'm
> complaining as I have much to be thankful for, however , not being able
> to work without pain and even then taking all day for a 1 hour job does
> get me down. I hope my thoughts are sort of clear and are not to off
> topic as these problems affect old iron in a big way.
>                  Greg Hass
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