re: Busting concrete with a jackhammer. What a job.

As you age it’s very important to strength train. You should lift weights a few times a week.

4' wide concrete apron around the pool took 2 solid days of driving the hammer around.... most was 5" thick. Only the 20'x30' pad from the porch was reinforced with mesh.

LONG days and sore from head to toe, but good honest work (at 58 no less)

Do the plaque check thing on the ticket. About $150 out of pocket and it shows any and all blockages from what I’m told.

Getting old sucks but beats the alternative. I’m still benching 250 for 8 reps on my last set but when I was a young bull that number was 380.

My elbows and shoulders can’t handle the weight like they used to.

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Wait until tomorrow or the next day. Let us know how sore you are.

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I’ll probably feel like I went water skiing. I remember those days. And it something I want to do again. Although with one hand barely functional I might not be able to hold the rope.

I still have a Cypress Gardens Lil’ Monster wooden slalom ski. It was Christmas present when I was 14.

I tried it that day on the way to the hunting camp. I skied from 70 mile canal down the Intracoastal into the Copasaw all the way past Bluebird Canal. I was blue by that time from the cold but I had ball on my new ski. What a Christmas.

Last time was in my 20s. Did both and electric and a compressor package driven.

Hardest part was getting the break started and then you just broke off pieces on the edge.

Being 48 I would imagine it will kill me if I did it again

But will likely find out this fall. House we bought has a few sections of side walk I need to replace……

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Use a sledge hammer. Be a man

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Use your bare fists. Pussy.

I used a jackhammer in my '20s working construction. In a metal warehouse building during July.

The crusty old superintendent I think realized we would and could not do this all day without us quitting or passing out from the hard physical work in the heat.he put me and my fellow laborer on a work for thirty minutes, break for fifteen minutes when we could go outside and get some air and drench ourselves in some cool water.

For the three or four days we did the jackhammering, he even allowed us to have lunch in the air-conditioned construction office trailer, as we were normally forbidden to even enter the trailer.

If I had to do the same thing today, it would kill me.

Yes I've used a jackhammer and it's work. I was completely worn out and sore from head to toe.

Why wouldn’t you just karate chop it?

means I used to be able to do this everyday with ease but now I can only match what I used to do once before I need rest before doing it again