@roamer-1
"I don't think I can bend my carcass into it anymore. "
Yeah,I can identify. When I first hurt my back this time I thought it was going to be like the dozen or so times before,and it would get better,so I put up a 60 x 40 quonset hut workshop with 6 inches of concrete in the floor with wire mesh as well as rebar.
I also had a septic tank put in,running hot and cold water,and a 12 x30 "office" with a shower,toilet,and sink. Even ran wi-fi out there and had ac and heat put in.
Then I started buying the tools of my dreams as well as rare parts I wanted for project cars as they became available. Even bought stuff like a MIG welder,a plasma cutter,and a body/chassis rotisserie so I could spin the cars around and be able to cut and weld on them while sitting or standing.
Not to mention more project cars.
Hell,I would buy more project cars just to have an excuse to make another road trip. Went over 2,000 miles to buy the all-original running and driving 38 humpback.
Drove to North Dakota to buy the 38 IHC pu I was driving until the radiator exploded. Wanna have some fun,try to find a good used radiator for a 38 IHC pu. Or even anybody that re-manufactures them. I hated taking that one off the road. It was my semi-daily driver I used to haul trash to the dump,and i just liked driving it.
HEY! It gave me something to do. Truth to tell,I liked working on them more than I liked driving them. Hell,I just liked working.
My back would get better and I would work on them,and then it would get bad again,and I would just dream about being able to work on them again.
Then I came down with 3 different types of cancer. In remission now thanks to some experimental pills my cancer doc gave me,but all this has taken a toll on my energy as well as my flexibility. Not to mention that I seem to keep getting older instead of younger.
@sneakypete Same kinda thing... Only for me it is fighting to get my body back after the atrophy of sitting in a wheelchair for seven years. A miracle right from Yah put me back on my feet - But that don't make me go yet.
I ran out of fun tickets building this place... Went a little over on the house - didn't see replacing the plate and rim joist almost all the way around... Didn't see that coming, as well as digging out the crawlspace and replacing about half the floor. But one way or another, I ate up the money that would have got the shop up and dried in.
Too bad, that. Because if I had those four walls and a little hydraulics and pneumatics, I could easy make the shop do what I can't. Had visions of a bridge crane and hydraulic lifts in the benches... Sounds a whole lot like your story.
Hindsight 20/20 and all that.
I keep fighting to get it back, and then breaking something, having to sit forever to heal and then getting back up right where I was when I started.
Bought that property up in the holler, and got it started, then tore out my knee and got up too fast and tore it out again... Then lockdowns, and smoke all last summer... Heck I am probably a year off from even getting back up there again. If I don't get a move on, winter's gonna get here and leave me sitting again for 6 months.
And oddly enough, I too have noticed I am getting older rather than younger (must be something we're eating), and every time I get around to getting back up, with all the work and pain of it, every time it is getting harder to do.
Folks say I am stubborn. Well maybe so... I will keep trying to get up till I die.
Funny thing, it works out the easiest thing for me to get into is my Dodge Caravan. I can just poke my upper half all the way in and turn a little bit and I am half in the seat already.
Second best is my lifted square body. I know it sounds weird, but so long as I can hike my leg up to catch the front lower corner of the door jamb, I have an 'oh Jesus!' handle that turned out to be in just the right place... So I grab that and heave myself in... And because of the angle, I really don't have to bend much till my butt is already on the seat.
But getting into a car is flat not going to happen. And a regular sized pickup is an act of congress.