Post #718098 by pjc5150 on Sat, May 24, 2014 10:54 AM

well, in all fairness, the sort of on-going back thing from which I suffer has it's roots not in tiki, but in surfing.

in 89 I was surfing at spanish house on solid head-high offshore day, the sandbars were kinda weird & shallow that day, and I got pitched on the inside & went over the falls and kinda got pile-driven into the sandbar. When this happened I herniated a disc in my lower back. It has haunted me ever since. Usually a few times a year, usually during the most inopportune times, it will rear it's ugly head and make life miserable for a few days... Sometimes it's way worse than others. I had to quit muay thai over the whole back thing. Had to go to physical therapy, etc...

But yeah, the other half of what's happening here is obviously due to the fact that I constantly have large pieces in process and, and when you're moving a lot of big logs around all the time, it kinda kicks your ass. And then there's the tool injuries.... yikes... if I had a dollar for every angle grinder burn, chisel slice, chainsaw gash, etc. that I've endured in the last few years, I'd be on a boat in belize doin' body shots off bikini models. lol...

anyhoo... I use a rockwell jawhorse and and an old black & decker workmate that my grandfather gave me.