On Mon, 3 May 2021 18:30:16 +0100, williamwright
wrote:

On 03/05/2021 14:34, Andrew wrote:

I use a manual emission-free chain saw. Good exercise.


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I'd worked myself nearly to death by the time I was 62. I don't want to
finish the job on anything so futile as doing the work of a machine.

But you still need to exercise and you either do that futiley g by
walking nowhere and back (as we often to for the dog), doing similar
in a gym [1] or allow some jobs to keep you fit.

I manually split (with a manual hydraulic splitter, rather than a
powered one) a few one tonne bags worth of ash, mostly for that
reason.

If you are doing something *just* to keep fit, that's the only
incentive. If you have a stack of timber that *needs* splitting then
you plod on though it till it's done. You are retired so there is no
rush.

In the old days even just 'living' needed quite a bit of manual
effort, manual jobs, few home appliances, not everone could afford
mechanised transport so would walk or cycle and you even had to get up
and press a button to turn over the channel on your TV. ;-)

Now you don't even have to press a button on a remote to turn your
lights on or order some shopping to be delivered straight to your
freezer the next day.

I've seen suggestion of making jobs like vacuuming into more of an
exercise than it is by maybe stretching rather than stepping or by
leaving the bag of shopping on the floor and lifting each thing into
the cupboards, one_at_a_time.

Cheers, T i m

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits