Originally Posted by Zep
Originally Posted by Theo Gallus
One negative: if you are prone to getting a hernia, handling 3-6 pallets of Quikrete bags will let you know. Get young helpers.

Tell me about it Theo.
I recently picked up six 40lb bags of salt and six 50lb bags of sand at Lowes.
From shelf to cart, from cart to SUV, from SUV to final destination.
That's a lot of lifting for me.
I thought I had a hernia for about 3-4 days afterwards...Advil helped.
Now the pain has 95% gone away.
Next time I will follow your advice and get a young helper.

Get this. I'm carrying a 50# bag of fish food to the feeder thinking "this is kind of heavy" then realizing 16 months ago I was 100# heavier than I am today and had I been at my then weight I would have been carrying an extra 150# out to the feeder (100# fat plus 50# feed). I can't imagine how I even did it back then. I considered myself a little fat back then, but not horribly heavy.

John

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