- Welcome to FinsandFur.net Forums.
Fins and Fur
Recent posts
#1
The Tailgate / Re: S'posed to get my biggest ...
Last post by Hawks Feather - Today at 12:50:03 PMThanks for the update and I am glad to hear things are still headed in the right direction. It is hard to imagine how many things that you just take for granted that need to be rethought.
I had a friend that had heart surgery (like you) and his biggest complaint was that he was not allowed to fire a rifle or pistol. On the day that he got permission to fire a light recoil rifle we went out to the range and I set up a heavy weight .22LR in a rest with a couple of sand bags so it wouldn't move at all and he shot 'free' recoil and was really happy.
I had a friend that had heart surgery (like you) and his biggest complaint was that he was not allowed to fire a rifle or pistol. On the day that he got permission to fire a light recoil rifle we went out to the range and I set up a heavy weight .22LR in a rest with a couple of sand bags so it wouldn't move at all and he shot 'free' recoil and was really happy.
#2
The Tailgate / Re: S'posed to get my biggest ...
Last post by Okanagan - Today at 12:01:24 PMA progress report and cautions, especially for anyone who has to go through this.
Between 35 and 40 days after the aortic valve surgery, I turned a corner on healing, or at least improving. My chest still hurts most of the time (today makes 46 days since the operation), but it is like a big bruise localized on my chest rather than discomfort and misery all over. The awful fatigue and brain fog is lessening, almost gone for a few hours sometimes. I wake up quite a bit at night but for the second time since surgery, I woke up this morning feeling rested. The weird dreams have dropped off quite a bit.
Any movement or position that uses upper body or chest muscles hurts. It is amazing how many normal motions etc. use upper body and/or chest muscles. A good and safe rule is: if it hurts, DON'T DO IT! Don't risk injuring the incision. Legs muscles and leg strength are fine.
FWIW, my mistakes that could have seriously injured my incision. Things in my house that hurt too much to do: flushing the toilet. The little flipper flush lever takes too much force. Pulling on a pull/push faucet in our bathroom takes too much force. Did not use that sink till day 43 after surgery. Lifting a mug of coffee into our overhead mounted micro-wave. Opening the hatch back on our car. Lifting a bowl of anything from fridge. Groceries. Etc. Etc.
Pulling on store doors to open them caused my biggest risk. About day 28 I tried to open the door to a Wendy's hamburger shop. I pulled on the heavy door, which way exceeded my five pounds of force limit. As I pulled harder, I realized it was too much and stopped pulling a split second too late. A lightening pain shot the full length of my sternum incision. I was afraid that I had split the bone apart where it was trying to heal back together. It hurt extra for the next 20 hours. My temperature went up 1 ½ degree for the next 24 hours (which I think indicates some kind of injury and focused healing going on), and I slept all day the following day.
The incision seems to be OK now, but I simply do not try to open most doors. There are a lot of them. A couple of times I have waited outside till someone else came along or someone saw me and came to open the door. Now If I'm alone I give a gentle tug with both hands, using almost no force, and if it does not swing right open enough to use my foot and leg, I give up.
My first time to drive a car was about day 28 after surgery. A young doc told me on day 21 that I was doing so well they were releasing me to drive then instead of holding me back for the usual 30 days. I looked at him and replied "I would not let me drive."
Between 35 and 40 days after the aortic valve surgery, I turned a corner on healing, or at least improving. My chest still hurts most of the time (today makes 46 days since the operation), but it is like a big bruise localized on my chest rather than discomfort and misery all over. The awful fatigue and brain fog is lessening, almost gone for a few hours sometimes. I wake up quite a bit at night but for the second time since surgery, I woke up this morning feeling rested. The weird dreams have dropped off quite a bit.
Any movement or position that uses upper body or chest muscles hurts. It is amazing how many normal motions etc. use upper body and/or chest muscles. A good and safe rule is: if it hurts, DON'T DO IT! Don't risk injuring the incision. Legs muscles and leg strength are fine.
FWIW, my mistakes that could have seriously injured my incision. Things in my house that hurt too much to do: flushing the toilet. The little flipper flush lever takes too much force. Pulling on a pull/push faucet in our bathroom takes too much force. Did not use that sink till day 43 after surgery. Lifting a mug of coffee into our overhead mounted micro-wave. Opening the hatch back on our car. Lifting a bowl of anything from fridge. Groceries. Etc. Etc.
Pulling on store doors to open them caused my biggest risk. About day 28 I tried to open the door to a Wendy's hamburger shop. I pulled on the heavy door, which way exceeded my five pounds of force limit. As I pulled harder, I realized it was too much and stopped pulling a split second too late. A lightening pain shot the full length of my sternum incision. I was afraid that I had split the bone apart where it was trying to heal back together. It hurt extra for the next 20 hours. My temperature went up 1 ½ degree for the next 24 hours (which I think indicates some kind of injury and focused healing going on), and I slept all day the following day.
The incision seems to be OK now, but I simply do not try to open most doors. There are a lot of them. A couple of times I have waited outside till someone else came along or someone saw me and came to open the door. Now If I'm alone I give a gentle tug with both hands, using almost no force, and if it does not swing right open enough to use my foot and leg, I give up.
My first time to drive a car was about day 28 after surgery. A young doc told me on day 21 that I was doing so well they were releasing me to drive then instead of holding me back for the usual 30 days. I looked at him and replied "I would not let me drive."
#3
The Tailgate / Today in history 5-3
Last post by remrogers - Today at 09:21:04 AM1946
May 3
Japanese war crimes trial begins
In Tokyo, Japan, the International Military Tribunals for the Far East begins hearing the case against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II.
On November 4, 1948, the trial ended with 25 of 28 Japanese defendants being found guilty. Of the three other defendants, two had died during the lengthy trial, and one was declared insane. On November 12, the war crimes tribunal passed death sentences on seven of the men, including General Hideki Tojo, who served as Japanese premier during the war, and other principals, such as Iwane Matsui, who organized the Rape of Nanking, and Heitaro Kimura, who brutalized Allied prisoners of war. Sixteen others were sentenced to life imprisonment, and two were sentenced to lesser terms in prison. On December 23, 1948, Tojo and the six others were executed in Tokyo.
Unlike the Nuremberg trial of Nazi war criminals, where there were four chief prosecutors, to represent Great Britain, France, the United States and the USSR, the Tokyo trial featured only one chief prosecutor–American Joseph B. Keenan, a former assistant to the U.S. attorney general. However, other nations, especially China, contributed to the proceedings, and Australian judge William Flood Webb presided. In addition to the central Tokyo trial, various tribunals sitting outside Japan judged some 5,000 Japanese guilty of war crimes, of whom more than 900 were executed. Some observers thought that Emperor Hirohito should have been tried for his tacit approval of Japanese policy during the war, but he was protected by U.S. authorities who saw him as a symbol of Japanese unity and conservatism, both favorable traits in the postwar U.S. view.
May 3
Japanese war crimes trial begins
In Tokyo, Japan, the International Military Tribunals for the Far East begins hearing the case against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II.
On November 4, 1948, the trial ended with 25 of 28 Japanese defendants being found guilty. Of the three other defendants, two had died during the lengthy trial, and one was declared insane. On November 12, the war crimes tribunal passed death sentences on seven of the men, including General Hideki Tojo, who served as Japanese premier during the war, and other principals, such as Iwane Matsui, who organized the Rape of Nanking, and Heitaro Kimura, who brutalized Allied prisoners of war. Sixteen others were sentenced to life imprisonment, and two were sentenced to lesser terms in prison. On December 23, 1948, Tojo and the six others were executed in Tokyo.
Unlike the Nuremberg trial of Nazi war criminals, where there were four chief prosecutors, to represent Great Britain, France, the United States and the USSR, the Tokyo trial featured only one chief prosecutor–American Joseph B. Keenan, a former assistant to the U.S. attorney general. However, other nations, especially China, contributed to the proceedings, and Australian judge William Flood Webb presided. In addition to the central Tokyo trial, various tribunals sitting outside Japan judged some 5,000 Japanese guilty of war crimes, of whom more than 900 were executed. Some observers thought that Emperor Hirohito should have been tried for his tacit approval of Japanese policy during the war, but he was protected by U.S. authorities who saw him as a symbol of Japanese unity and conservatism, both favorable traits in the postwar U.S. view.
#4
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Oh-Oh!
Last post by Hawks Feather - Yesterday at 01:57:58 PMYou will have the time of your life and give up that life for it.
#6
The Tailgate / Today in history 5-2
Last post by remrogers - Yesterday at 09:52:46 AM1670
April 2
King Charles II grants charter to Hudson's Bay Company
King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company, made up of the group of French explorers who opened the lucrative North American fur trade to London merchants. The charter conferred on them not only a trading monopoly but also effective control over the vast region surrounding North America's Hudson Bay.
Although contested by other English traders and the French in the region, the Hudson's Bay Company was highly successful in exploiting what would become eastern Canada. During the 18th century, the company gained an advantage over the French in the area but was also strongly criticized in Britain for its repeated failures to find a northwest passage out of Hudson Bay.
After France's loss of Canada at the end of the French and Indian Wars, new competition developed with the establishment of the North West Company by Montreal merchants and Scottish traders. As both companies attempted to dominate fur potentials in central and western Canada, violence sometimes erupted, and in 1821 the two companies were amalgamated under the name of the Hudson's Bay Company. The united company ruled a vast territory extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and under the governorship of Sir George Simpson from 1821 to 1856, reached the peak of its fortunes.
After Canada was granted dominion status in 1867, the company lost its monopoly on the fur trade, but it had diversified its business ventures and remained Canada's largest corporation through the 1920s.
April 2
King Charles II grants charter to Hudson's Bay Company
King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company, made up of the group of French explorers who opened the lucrative North American fur trade to London merchants. The charter conferred on them not only a trading monopoly but also effective control over the vast region surrounding North America's Hudson Bay.
Although contested by other English traders and the French in the region, the Hudson's Bay Company was highly successful in exploiting what would become eastern Canada. During the 18th century, the company gained an advantage over the French in the area but was also strongly criticized in Britain for its repeated failures to find a northwest passage out of Hudson Bay.
After France's loss of Canada at the end of the French and Indian Wars, new competition developed with the establishment of the North West Company by Montreal merchants and Scottish traders. As both companies attempted to dominate fur potentials in central and western Canada, violence sometimes erupted, and in 1821 the two companies were amalgamated under the name of the Hudson's Bay Company. The united company ruled a vast territory extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and under the governorship of Sir George Simpson from 1821 to 1856, reached the peak of its fortunes.
After Canada was granted dominion status in 1867, the company lost its monopoly on the fur trade, but it had diversified its business ventures and remained Canada's largest corporation through the 1920s.
#8
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Is it time Jim?
Last post by FinsnFur - Yesterday at 05:31:33 AM
Nice Rig!!It is definitely time as far as I'm concerned
In fact it's past due.I've had the yak out twice but nothing is really GOOD happening right now. Walleyes on the dams but I'm not kayaking those
Our weather has everything whacky right now. 70's one day and then 30'ds the next. Up and down, storms, etc. The river temps just wont stabilize, and therefore it's delaying the bass spawn.
How do ya like the new rig? She's a beaut!
#9
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: New addition
Last post by Hawks Feather - May 01, 2024, 01:14:00 PMTodd,
I have been VERY impressed with Daystate and had I done more research earlier I probably would not have the Benjamin or the FX. The Benjamin is a pretty average (not highest or lowest) quality. The Benjamin that I have has the older barrel which according to everything I have read or heard, is an excellent barrel. It is very accurate. The FX is a real upgrade (workmanship and stock, barrels are about the same) to the Benjamin and almost as good as the Daystate. The nice thing about the FX is that it is a set and has .22, .25, and .30 barrels. It didn't have the .177 or I probably would have never gone looking for a .177 and found the Daystate Red Wolf. You need to look the Red Wolf up. It is an electronic release, no hammer to fall, the Red Wolf trigger (which is really unbelievable) moves and sends the impulse to release the air. The air is constantly monitored so the shot to shot power is very close to the others. I have and sometimes enjoy my pump up and barrel break pellet rifles, but the PCPs are just so easy to operate. That being said unless you are younger than me you probably should have an air tank or electric pump and not try to reach 250 BAR with a hand pump.
I have been VERY impressed with Daystate and had I done more research earlier I probably would not have the Benjamin or the FX. The Benjamin is a pretty average (not highest or lowest) quality. The Benjamin that I have has the older barrel which according to everything I have read or heard, is an excellent barrel. It is very accurate. The FX is a real upgrade (workmanship and stock, barrels are about the same) to the Benjamin and almost as good as the Daystate. The nice thing about the FX is that it is a set and has .22, .25, and .30 barrels. It didn't have the .177 or I probably would have never gone looking for a .177 and found the Daystate Red Wolf. You need to look the Red Wolf up. It is an electronic release, no hammer to fall, the Red Wolf trigger (which is really unbelievable) moves and sends the impulse to release the air. The air is constantly monitored so the shot to shot power is very close to the others. I have and sometimes enjoy my pump up and barrel break pellet rifles, but the PCPs are just so easy to operate. That being said unless you are younger than me you probably should have an air tank or electric pump and not try to reach 250 BAR with a hand pump.
#10
The Tailgate / Today in history 5-1
Last post by remrogers - May 01, 2024, 10:59:44 AM1926
May 1
Ford factory workers get 40-hour week
On May 1, 1926, Ford Motor Company becomes one of the first companies in America to adopt a five-day, 40-hour week for workers in its automotive factories. The policy would be extended to Ford's office workers the following August.
Henry Ford's Detroit-based automobile company had broken ground in its labor policies before. In early 1914, against a backdrop of widespread unemployment and increasing labor unrest, Ford announced that it would pay its male factory workers a minimum wage of $5 per eight-hour day, upped from a previous rate of $2.34 for nine hours (the policy was adopted for female workers in 1916). The news shocked many in the industry—at the time, $5 per day was nearly double what the average auto worker made—but turned out to be a stroke of brilliance, immediately boosting productivity along the assembly line and building a sense of company loyalty and pride among Ford's workers.
The decision to reduce the workweek from six to five days had originally been made in 1922. According to an article published in The New York Times that March, Edsel Ford, Henry's son and the company's president, explained that "Every man needs more than one day a week for rest and recreation....The Ford Company always has sought to promote [an] ideal home life for its employees. We believe that in order to live properly every man should have more time to spend with his family."
Henry Ford said of the decision: "It is high time to rid ourselves of the notion that leisure for workmen is either 'lost time' or a class privilege." At Ford's own admission, however, the five-day workweek was also instituted in order to increase productivity: Though workers' time on the job had decreased, they were expected to expend more effort while they were there. Manufacturers all over the country, and the world, soon followed Ford's lead, and the Monday-to-Friday workweek became standard practice.
May 1
Ford factory workers get 40-hour week
On May 1, 1926, Ford Motor Company becomes one of the first companies in America to adopt a five-day, 40-hour week for workers in its automotive factories. The policy would be extended to Ford's office workers the following August.
Henry Ford's Detroit-based automobile company had broken ground in its labor policies before. In early 1914, against a backdrop of widespread unemployment and increasing labor unrest, Ford announced that it would pay its male factory workers a minimum wage of $5 per eight-hour day, upped from a previous rate of $2.34 for nine hours (the policy was adopted for female workers in 1916). The news shocked many in the industry—at the time, $5 per day was nearly double what the average auto worker made—but turned out to be a stroke of brilliance, immediately boosting productivity along the assembly line and building a sense of company loyalty and pride among Ford's workers.
The decision to reduce the workweek from six to five days had originally been made in 1922. According to an article published in The New York Times that March, Edsel Ford, Henry's son and the company's president, explained that "Every man needs more than one day a week for rest and recreation....The Ford Company always has sought to promote [an] ideal home life for its employees. We believe that in order to live properly every man should have more time to spend with his family."
Henry Ford said of the decision: "It is high time to rid ourselves of the notion that leisure for workmen is either 'lost time' or a class privilege." At Ford's own admission, however, the five-day workweek was also instituted in order to increase productivity: Though workers' time on the job had decreased, they were expected to expend more effort while they were there. Manufacturers all over the country, and the world, soon followed Ford's lead, and the Monday-to-Friday workweek became standard practice.