It's important to remember survivorship bias with the old stuff too. You only remember the cream of the crop best saws, those are the ones that survived, and not all the garbage. Same with cars and music. Bet you don't remember 1/100th of the music from the good ole days of music(whenever that was for you), because none of the bad stuff survived.
MS and heat is no joke. I don't handle heat either, although for other reasons. Just bought a cooling vest, circulates ice water through tubes. Doesn't seem to make being out in the heat any more comfortable, but I can handle it longer without puking, and when I come back in from the heat I'm not as drained as I would be without the vest, and recover faster. Definitely worth looking into.
Well, the saws that I learned on and made money with were older than I was at the time I started and they were soundly stomping everything I was putting them up against. Every customer I worked for wanted me to try their dainty new saws that they were so proud of, and it just left me wondering what happened to the market. That was back during a time when it was really hard, and what seemed like impossible to get a good new model saw at the time because plastic saws were completely flooding the market….or that’s really how it seemed for hundreds of miles in all directions. But I’ll say again, I like old saws and new ones so long as they’re made to last and can get the job done. Heavy saws used to never be that big of an issue to me because I was an avid weightlifter for most of my teenage and adult years, so moving heavy stuff around all the time actually gave me a feeling of accomplishment. Unfortunately now I can only do that after the summer has gone by and we reach colder weather.
Multiple Sclerosis is really cruel in a lot of ways. Because neurological flare ups are so unpredictable and they make you pretty much useless while it’s happening, and there’s no definite timeframe when you know it will let up, and not many people understand, quite often i’ve been accused of it all being in my head.
Well, it is, but not in the way they are insinuating. Yes it’s in the head because it’s a type of brain and spinal damage! Lol!
I’m sorry about the condition that makes you heat sensitive. Make no mistake, the last person on earth who would think that is just an excuse is me. Everyone who is heat sensitive at least once thinks about that one day in the future that Mother Nature might finally come for us. We can do everything possible to prevent heat damage. Hydration, sun screen, cold packs, wetting our clothes down, wearing sombreros…but in the end the sun just flat out wins if we’re in it long enough.
Hang in there. October can’t come fast enough!
