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Originally Posted by Katsunami
You seemed to ninja-quote before I posted the addition in the edit.
Stuff like that, indeed.
I visit, dad walks around like a cripple.
"What happened? What's wrong?"
- "Nothing."
After badgering him, he confesses he's moved a 30 kg bag of bird sand/seed into his aviary. Again. (He's been breeding birds for 50 years, one of the things he still cares about, and stuff like sand and seed is delivered at home by a specialized bird store.) The aviary is in the back of the garden, about 50m away from the house.
Just get yourself a trolley, put the sack on it or better, shove the trolley under it, and wheel it into the aviary. Suggesting it just begets anger.
WHY does he think it's a good idea, lifting a 30 kg sack on his shoulders at 78, carrying it 50 meters if he*knows* it'll make you walk like a cripple for five days? Why not use the solution of getting a €25 trolley which will last the rest of his life and ease that task considerably?
I don't understand. Is using a trolley at his age some sort of a loss of manliness to him or something? I can only tell you that if *I* had to move a sack like that every 10-14 days for that distance, *I* would be using a trolley even though I'm just in my mid-thirties and can lift 30 kgs with ease.
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Did you say a 20 year old battery? That is just stupid to think it would work.
Can you send him somewhere for a few days and just replace the stuff?
Or I may have an idea for you. Can you just borrow something old and return with something similar and new?
I'm 50 and I would use a trolley.
Oh and what I did to my arm was run over a door frame with it. That elbow has been finicky since I was two. It is slightly dislocated at the moment.