How old is too old to shovel snow?

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"How old is too old to shovel snow? Here's what heart experts say."

It's gets hard, I think. I bought a battery snow blower a few years ago because my lower back likes to moan, creak, and scream. That works okay. So now I use my shoulder muscles more pushing. There have been times when it was deep, wet, with a layer of slush at the bottom. Back in the day, when we were kids, that was one way kids made money. In the last 15 years, I've had two people come to my door asking if I would like my walks shoveled. So I have to call someone who does it professionally, and then they might be able to make room in their schedule because they generally do snow removal for businesses, and it is expensive. Anyway, I'm 66, and I still snow blow my walk, my driveway, and my neighbor's walk, because they work for a living and they shovel. My new neighbor has a small electric snowblower. I still shovel two parts. The short walk from my driveway to my front door, and the very bottom of the driveway, where the snow plow pushes snow. I don't push myself. Although you may say don't worry, I am now a bit worried for you with your WWII Army surplus part in your heart. Part of that is a jest. The concern is not a jest.

Do you get a lot of snow?

I'm curious what other senior aspies deal with snow, if they are so blessed to get snow.

I hope your bride's cancer is ... what's the word I'm looking for... removed... neutralized... ridded... I hope treatment for your bride is 100% successful.

Avoid snow shoveling after 45? Let's assume you live to 90. Most people are not big and strong enough for this task until they are almost 20. That leaves a window of around 25 proper snow shoveling years and 65 years of sitting on the bench watching from the side line. That is a depressing thought. And what should I tell my father when he asks me to help out and join him? "Sorry, pa. I'm too old for this!"

I'd suggest getting a small snow shovel for heavy snow. As well as getting in shape at the beginning of winter.

When you shovel, you use muscles you don't normally use.

The quick insertion of cold air from heavy breathing constricts blood vessels, raising blood pressure.

The thing is, most people find out they have issues with their heart when they have a heart attack

Err on the side of caution.

My country goes into lockdown if there is 2cm of snow

I had an elderly uncle who shoveled his own walk way by feel well into his 80's, and he was legally blind.

So I'd say if you are physically able to do it, then do it, I guess.

Any amount of shoveling has gotten me winded over the last few years, which is sort of scary. I have a mini snow blower, a Yard Boy, that can clear dry snow under 15cm but it's tedious. The snow has to be fairly deep though before it can't be driven over with in a modern automobile with modern tires. I can often just do that until the snow melts. South of the Mason Dixon line it usually does within a week.

I'm 51, does that mean I'm too old to shovel snow? But my mom is in her 70s and she still shovels snow. And I need to have the snow shoveled off my doorsteps. Guess I'll just stay in my apartment until sometime in April.

During the covid lockdown I realized I had to get used to not being able to go out for long periods of time, even if I wanted to. I had to learn to live more isolated from the rest of society. I'm not entirely unhappy about it. Until someone says, "Go touch grass".

We don't do all that much shoveling of snow where I live. It doesn't snow much and when it does, it is mostly gone in a few days anyhow.

I'll never forget the coldest day of my life, though. Our cattle wandered off during a blizzard. School was cancelled the next day, so I spent the entire day on horseback looking for the cattle. Sitting there on the horse not getting much movement gets really cold.

My father found the cattle two days later. They had wondered off into a pasture about four miles away.

I'd have rather been shoveling snow.

You can get a teenager to do it and pay them for doing so.

When your fingernails are too brittle to keep a long pinkie?
When your cardiologist will no longer prescribe antiepileptics?

Expecting more snow.
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Snow was nothing for than sky dandruff.
Snow is expecting to come tomorrow. Up to 10cm. That's about 4 inches. I want a robot to clear my walks. Granted if that was a thing, I could not afford one. I wonder if it is a thing? RESEARCH TIME! TO DUCKDUCKGO I GO!