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Originally Posted by GOPAPA
Any of you going through the golden years with second thoughts of doing what you used to do,,like climbing ladders ?
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Back on to your original question, I'd answer yes. I'm not in my golden years yet, but my working career's been a long hard ride for sure. I'm still climbing and carrying but am to the point of trying to not carry as much weight as I used to. I come home hurting from all sorts of things I do. Pretty much have learned to live with it, but when I go a while on lighter work it sure feels great!
I find myself lately wondering if my siding days are over. Just finished a complete re-side insurance job on Friday. This guy had extensive landscaping/shrubs/trees all over, no grass at all, and it would have been crazy for me to have done it alone like I usually have worked since '05. I still have the muscle to throw a 30' walkboard up on my shoulder and carry it around the house, but I feel like it's bad for the bones and joints now. I look at that scaffold when it's home on the rack and wonder when they day will come I sell it off because I don't want to use it again. Feel that way now, but that's what I do, just not every day now. If the phone rings I'm taking the job.