How can you handle the large bonsai?

[bonhe]

I really love using Hoyer lift for large bonsai! Save my energy and my back. I don't need a help from other people either!!

This is one of large pomegranate in my garden!
Bonhe

 

[NewWorldBonsai]

I go to the fitness club and lift real heavy weights to be able to handle my large trees without help. No kidding.

I figure, we should train our bodies as much as our bonsai. Heavy lifting is really good for men! It increases bone density, keeps testosterone levels high, strengthens your internal organs and the ladies- I mean bonsai like it too.

The trick is doing it regularly and knowing what your body can and cannot handle. Your body begins to stop working when you begin to stop working.

 

[Vance Wood]

I figure, we should train our bodies as much as our bonsai. Heavy lifting is really good for men! It increases bone density, keeps testosterone levels high, strengthens your internal organs and the ladies- I mean bonsai like it too.

The trick is doing it regularly and knowing what your body can and cannot handle. Your body begins to stop working when you begin to stop working.

Spoken by someone who may have never had a worked related injury that takes six months to get over, someone who is on the good side of fifty, and someone who by the end of the day is not too tired to think about going to the gym and busting their butt for another two hours just to come up with carpal tunnel syndrome, torn rotator cuff, and a hernia. These are the kinds of things your body likes to do to you the older you get.

 

[Poink88]

Spoken by someone who may have never had a worked related injury that takes six months to get over, someone who is on the good side of fifty, and someone who by the end of the day is not too tired to think about going to the gym and busting their butt for another two hours just to come up with carpal tunnel syndrome, torn rotator cuff, and a hernia. These are the kinds of things your body likes to do to you the older you get.

LOL so true...seems like we are all superman in our teens...then deteriorate from there. Maybe the water we drink is tainted with Kryptonite!!!

Nowadays, I consider it a great morning whenever I wake up w/o any back pain.

 

[Vance Wood]

I used to think that I was going to be able to go bear hunting with a stick till I was in my eighties, LOL, at 67 I can hardly drag my fattening ass up the stairs, my back hurts, my knees hurt, I can't hold on to anything anymore, I can't see, can't hear, can't pee, can't poop, can't sleep at night, can't stay awake all day, can't eat what I want to, can't chase girls, can't do anything if I catch one, and I can't remember shit. I can't feel my hands, my left shoulder hurts, my right shoulder doesn't work, both legs constantly itch (agent orange), my tongue's asleep and my teeth itch. Most of the time I feel like a combination of a piano player in a marching band and a one legged man in a butt kicking contest------on a good day.

Other than that I'm doing great.

 

[october]

I used to think that I was going to be able to go bear hunting with a stick till I was in my eighties, LOL, at 67 I can hardly drag my fattening ass up the stairs, my back hurts, my knees hurt, I can't hold on to anything anymore, I can't see, can't hear, can't pee, can't poop, can't sleep at night, can't stay awake all day, can't eat what I want to, can't chase girls, can't do anything if I catch one, and I can't remember shit. I can't feel my hands, my left shoulder hurts, my right shoulder doesn't work, both legs constantly itch (agent orange), my tongue's asleep and my teeth itch. Most of the time I feel like a combination of a piano player in a marching band and a one legged man in a butt kicking contest------on a good day.

Other than that I'm doing great.

This maybe so.. but you have some magnificent bonsai though.

Rob

 

[nathanbs]

I used to think that I was going to be able to go bear hunting with a stick till I was in my eighties, LOL, at 67 I can hardly drag my fattening ass up the stairs, my back hurts, my knees hurt, I can't hold on to anything anymore, I can't see, can't hear, can't pee, can't poop, can't sleep at night, can't stay awake all day, can't eat what I want to, can't chase girls, can't do anything if I catch one, and I can't remember shit. I can't feel my hands, my left shoulder hurts, my right shoulder doesn't work, both legs constantly itch (agent orange), my tongue's asleep and my teeth itch. Most of the time I feel like a combination of a piano player in a marching band and a one legged man in a butt kicking contest------on a good day.

Other than that I'm doing great.

Wow that explains your ornery posts sometimes

 

[Walter Pall]

My wife keeps saying: "if you cannot carry it alone it is not a bonsai"

 

[Dan W.]

My wife keeps saying: "if you cannot carry it alone it is not a bonsai"

Is that with... .or without the pot?

The problem with saying that, is that it just challenges us to carry heavier trees on our own.

On a serious note though, I have a couple of these lifts around and this post just inspired me to put one to good use! I must have missed your updates to this thread.

 

[Poink88]

I used to think that I was going to be able to go bear hunting with a stick till I was in my eighties, LOL, at 67 I can hardly drag my fattening ass up the stairs, my back hurts, my knees hurt, I can't hold on to anything anymore, I can't see, can't hear, can't pee, can't poop, can't sleep at night, can't stay awake all day, can't eat what I want to, can't chase girls, can't do anything if I catch one, and I can't remember shit. I can't feel my hands, my left shoulder hurts, my right shoulder doesn't work, both legs constantly itch (agent orange), my tongue's asleep and my teeth itch. Most of the time I feel like a combination of a piano player in a marching band and a one legged man in a butt kicking contest------on a good day.

Other than that I'm doing great.

Wow, so much to look forward to!!! LOL

All the more reason I should do bonsai as fast as possible.

 

[daygan]

My wife keeps saying: "if you cannot carry it alone it is not a bonsai"

aha! so now we know who the motivation is behind the visits to the fitness club

 

[KennedyMarx]

Spoken by someone who may have never had a worked related injury that takes six months to get over, someone who is on the good side of fifty, and someone who by the end of the day is not too tired to think about going to the gym and busting their butt for another two hours just to come up with carpal tunnel syndrome, torn rotator cuff, and a hernia. These are the kinds of things your body likes to do to you the older you get.

If you go to the gym a few times a week you're going to be more resilient and more resistant to injury. Keeping in shape as you age is going to prevent a lot of those old age problems and it doesn't take a lot of work, just keeping at it. I think if one can spend hours on bonsai surely one could spend almost as much on maintaining their body. It's the only one we get.

 

[Vance Wood]

If you go to the gym a few times a week you're going to be more resilient and more resistant to injury. Keeping in shape as you age is going to prevent a lot of those old age problems and it doesn't take a lot of work, just keeping at it. I think if one can spend hours on bonsai surely one could spend almost as much on maintaining their body. It's the only one we get.

I appreciate the sentiment and the good will so I will not argue with you, but your advise is only subjective and you have no idea what I do, how long I have done it, and the impact it has had on my body.

 

[Vance Wood]

aha! so now we know who the motivation is behind the visits to the fitness club

Walter: Would it be out of line to suggest that your wife is wrong. I have seen Kimura work on trees that were in pots that he actually had to climb into the trees to work on. This particular tree had to be moved with a crane.

 

[Walter Pall]

Vance,

how can you ever suggest that a person of female gender is wrong. The PC police will get you soon.

Well, in reality she has not much of a word in the garden. On the other side I have no word in the house.

 

[Si Nguyen]

Confucius say: " Wife all way wight, even wen wong".

 

[Shima]

The key is to keep the correct body form when lifting, so that injury is avoided.

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This is absolutly critical. Since the hernia I've been doing strength training and now have no problem lifting that @#$%^ing pine on a rock or any other large bonsai. Thanks to "the Slow Burn Fitness Revolution" I'm only in the fitness center 20 minutes 3 days per week. It really works, with vast clinical trails to back it up. At 73, taking no meds, nothing hurting and everything working, I have no complaints.

 

[Walter Pall]

Confucius say: " Wife all way wight, even wen wong".

This made our weekend. I showed this to my wife. She thinks Confucius was a very wise man.

 

[Walter Pall]

If you have very large trees you need good friends. If you have no friends you need muscles.

 

[Vance Wood]

Vance,

how can you ever suggest that a person of female gender is wrong. The PC police will get you soon.

Well, in reality she has not much of a word in the garden. On the other side I have no word in the house.

You know me, I always look best with one or both feet stuck in my mouth, it enhances my smile and improves my breath.