At last, a faceplate

[liveaboard]

I bought one at a factory auction in Belgium and put it in my garage here in Portugal.

The chainfall is rated at a ton; I have exceeded that I think, lifting the center section of my tractor.

But there was a problem; not with the crane, with the garage. Sound propagates through into the house, driving other resident up the adjoining wall.

So I moved the machine tools into a container outside, and made another crane to go in there.

I plan to make another shed, and have another crane in there too.

Can't have too many.
Just say NO to manual lifting.
Never do any work by hand that could be done with a machine, even of the machine takes more time.

[Patio]

Liveaboard, nice use of materials.

[liveaboard]

Just got results from a CT scan; the doc says my spine looks like a scrapyard.

Better build more cranes and hoists while I can...

[Inspector]

Or a new spine.

I have a back like that too, only the scrap is worth necks to nothing.

[liveaboard]

I'll see the specialist next month. But the nephrologist I talked to yesterday doubted that repair would be an option at the moment.
Too many points of damage, none quite bad enough to merit surgical intervention.

On the plus side, the polyps I was worried about are all harmless.

Getting old; I never thought it would happen to me.

[Harold_V]

Getting old; I never thought it would happen to me.

There isn't a day that goes by when I don't ask myself what the hell happened? How did I get to be 81 years old? Seems like just yesterday I was drag racing on State Street, in Salt Lake City, Utah, racking up tickets. I was quite the moron as a young person.

H

[liveaboard]

At 59 I suppose I'm a spring chicken compared to you, but it's all relative.
Each day is little older and a little weaker for us now.
I'm surprised about the chronic back injuries; I was aware something isn't right, but he said I have 4 herniated disks and compensatory bone growth.
He suggested heavy pain meds; but I don't have that sort of pain.
Yet.

I wasn't too bright either. I suspect all those motorbike accidents might have something to do with my back injuries.
Sure had fun though!

[BadDog]

Seems to be a common thread. Back when I was racing cars and motorcycles in a variety of venus (including illegal), folks would often say, "one day this is going to catch up with you". My foolish young man response was, "well, at least at these speeds it will kill me and I won't have to deal with the rest." Yeah... I eventually did crack up in a highly modified 72 Corvette at ~135... and lived to find myself a week later busted all to pieces, hanging in traction with both arms and legs broken (the left was reattached at the knee). But there were so many other injuries and broken bones that after the big wreck my x rays look like a prop from the early terminator movies. But I think the worst is the nerve entrapment in scar tissue. I'm 54 and now on my second knee on the left side, having had both replaced a couple of years back. Now looking at more aggressive treatments for an entrapped nerve in my neck/shoulder that causes my shoulder/arm to simultaneously go numb AND hurt like a muscle spasm. The outlook for my "golden years" isn't particularly promising without full body transplants...

[NP317]

Bummer to hear of your (plural) various physical challenges.
So I'm feeling better about my 70 years of age, one knee replacement, two knee operations, and a shoulder rebuild.
And two steam locomotives, one steam launch, two motorcycles and other toys entertaining me.

Looking at the title of this thread: let's not go to "face..." anything!
RussN