frogpond
Silver Member
We all know how a good day working on the tractor can improve your state of mind. I have found that it can perform physical therapy, too.
On Sunday I was working in our woods, clearing logging slash and brush; and I got off the tractor (a bx25d) to move some stuff so it would be more accessible for the forks. I tripped over a root, and overextended my left hamstring muscle. Really painful! The kind of agony that makes you think you'll never walk again. I lay there, kind of crumpled, sweating and moaning until my wife helped me hobble back to the house. Put ice on it and bound it up with a towel strapped tightly with duct tape. (Red Green, are you listening? )
After a few hours lying on the couch, I got pretty bored. So I got back on the tractor, promised to stay out of the woods, and started in on some road grading with the loader and the backhoe. I found that by keeping the pressure point at the middle of the muscle right on the edge of the seat, I could use the vibration and bouncing as an effective massage! The pain decreased; and I kept it up the next day. And the tractor kept the massage going as long as I wanted--no complaints about getting tired.
Today I'm walking almost normally, with just an ace bandage.
So if you get any complaints about spending too much time on your tractor, just say that you're getting physical therapy!
On Sunday I was working in our woods, clearing logging slash and brush; and I got off the tractor (a bx25d) to move some stuff so it would be more accessible for the forks. I tripped over a root, and overextended my left hamstring muscle. Really painful! The kind of agony that makes you think you'll never walk again. I lay there, kind of crumpled, sweating and moaning until my wife helped me hobble back to the house. Put ice on it and bound it up with a towel strapped tightly with duct tape. (Red Green, are you listening? )
After a few hours lying on the couch, I got pretty bored. So I got back on the tractor, promised to stay out of the woods, and started in on some road grading with the loader and the backhoe. I found that by keeping the pressure point at the middle of the muscle right on the edge of the seat, I could use the vibration and bouncing as an effective massage! The pain decreased; and I kept it up the next day. And the tractor kept the massage going as long as I wanted--no complaints about getting tired.
Today I'm walking almost normally, with just an ace bandage.
So if you get any complaints about spending too much time on your tractor, just say that you're getting physical therapy!
