recouperated for 7 months then went sledding for 1st time xmas....trails not open yet, many trees down, conditions bad, no grooming....couldn't wait after stiiting on couch for whole summer and fall....i was dieing....so i headed to the secret spot and sure enough it had planty snow...was rough and i still have a broken neck but they dont call me IRONDOG fer nuthin'....my doc is THE BEST hands down...if anyone needs his name PM me....he does the bears players and is best in the midwest thats why i picked him.....not cheap so theres that....i am the 2.4 million dollar man now....LMAO...and 3 more cat lives to go....ahaha
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1st run after back surgery
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second link doesn't work for me says, PRIVATE VIDEO??
but the first looks like fun conditions to me
and that sucks on the back neck deal, hope they fixed it for you and things get better
I had my first back surgery at fun age of 13, and didn;t walk for 3 months, bed ridden, and that sucked, and IMO< the surgery done didn;t help me at all, been in pain ever since,
then added a few more back injuries from crashes( MX bike mostly racing)
and there are days now, that are far from fun, don't think I have had a pain free day in almost 40 yrs
never let it stop me from Trying to keep enjoying things though, but have to admit as I have gotten older, its sure getting harder to keep riding things!
but the first looks like fun conditions to me
and that sucks on the back neck deal, hope they fixed it for you and things get better
I had my first back surgery at fun age of 13, and didn;t walk for 3 months, bed ridden, and that sucked, and IMO< the surgery done didn;t help me at all, been in pain ever since,
then added a few more back injuries from crashes( MX bike mostly racing)
and there are days now, that are far from fun, don't think I have had a pain free day in almost 40 yrs
never let it stop me from Trying to keep enjoying things though, but have to admit as I have gotten older, its sure getting harder to keep riding things!
WorkHardPlayHrd
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second link doesn't work for me says, PRIVATE VIDEO??
but the first looks like fun conditions to me
and that sucks on the back neck deal, hope they fixed it for you and things get better
I had my first back surgery at fun age of 13, and didn;t walk for 3 months, bed ridden, and that sucked, and IMO< the surgery done didn;t help me at all, been in pain ever since,
then added a few more back injuries from crashes( MX bike mostly racing)
and there are days now, that are far from fun, don't think I have had a pain free day in almost 40 yrs
never let it stop me from Trying to keep enjoying things though, but have to admit as I have gotten older, its sure getting harder to keep riding things!
Same with my husband. His father didn't believe in putting safety clips in the hitch pins on farm equipment. There weren't any on the farm. My husband was 16 and hit a bump the chopper box came unhitched while empty. The only thing that saved him was the hitch pole on the box came through the open fenders of the tractor and caught in the steering wheel. Then it was into the ditch with the rest of the box flipping over on him. His back wasn't broken yet. Fire department wouldn't let my father-in-law assist in the recovery. He wanted to call the two neighbors who had tractors with buckets in a loaders double chains on both sides to lift the machine at once. Fire department said no. They're waiting on a tow truck. Which after an hour and a half and not showing up. So instead they put a jack on the angled hitchpole and started to lift the Box. They did not put blocks under the corners of it. They were lifting and the box and it slipped when the Jack came off the angled tongue of the box. That is what broke his back. He spent the month at Mayo and it was another six months before he fully walked again. He broke it again a car accident at 21. And the same as you every day he has pain just depends on how bad it is. That's one reason we bought these new sleds because at the rate it was getting if you hit bad trails riding he was in a lot of pain. I mean 2-3 foot moguls from South of Twin Lakes to Calumet bad. We had reservations in Copper Harbor if I could have found somewhere else we would have stopped. I will admit suspension on these new sleds kicks the *** on our old ones and he's actually able to enjoy riding again.
Have not yet been able to drag him to a specialist for it. Stubborn.
There you go. Two broken backs and you're going snowmobiling. Makes complete sense to me.Same with my husband. His father didn't believe in putting safety clips in the hitch pins on farm equipment. There weren't any on the farm. My husband was 16 and hit a bump the chopper box came unhitched while empty. The only thing that saved him was the hitch pole on the box came through the open fenders of the tractor and caught in the steering wheel. Then it was into the ditch with the rest of the box flipping over on him. His back wasn't broken yet. Fire department wouldn't let my father-in-law assist in the recovery. He wanted to call the two neighbors who had tractors with buckets in a loaders double chains on both sides to lift the machine at once. Fire department said no. They're waiting on a tow truck. Which after an hour and a half and not showing up. So instead they put a jack on the angled hitchpole and started to lift the Box. They did not put blocks under the corners of it. They were lifting and the box and it slipped when the Jack came off the angled tongue of the box. That is what broke his back. He spent the month at Mayo and it was another six months before he fully walked again. He broke it again a car accident at 21. And the same as you every day he has pain just depends on how bad it is. That's one reason we bought these new sleds because at the rate it was getting if you hit bad trails riding he was in a lot of pain. I mean 2-3 foot moguls from South of Twin Lakes to Calumet bad. We had reservations in Copper Harbor if I could have found somewhere else we would have stopped. I will admit suspension on these new sleds kicks the *** on our old ones and he's actually able to enjoy riding again.
Have not yet been able to drag him to a specialist for it. Stubborn.
There you go. Two broken backs and you're going snowmobiling. Makes complete sense to me.
As you know...SLEDDING IS A PASSION
video still doesn't work for me, says again,
"this video is private"
and I hear you on riding is a passion, when I was bed ridden all I thought about was getting back out and riding again, something they told me I would never do!
and it did take me a while to walk again and then work my way back up to riding, but I did and went on to racing again,.
I just learned some times, things that cause pain, also bring great joy in the bigger picture, as even way back then, riding still hurt , but I couldn;t ever stay off things long
over the past 30+ yrs it was like this,
ride, till I couldn;t take it any more
stop and or sell things , then a few months go by and miss things and buy more (motorcycles, atv's sleds) and repeat!
its just hard to stay away from something you have a passion for! almost like an addiction I guess to some of us ! pain or no pain, or risks?
only go around once! so enjoy all you can I say!
"this video is private"
and I hear you on riding is a passion, when I was bed ridden all I thought about was getting back out and riding again, something they told me I would never do!
and it did take me a while to walk again and then work my way back up to riding, but I did and went on to racing again,.
I just learned some times, things that cause pain, also bring great joy in the bigger picture, as even way back then, riding still hurt , but I couldn;t ever stay off things long
over the past 30+ yrs it was like this,
ride, till I couldn;t take it any more
stop and or sell things , then a few months go by and miss things and buy more (motorcycles, atv's sleds) and repeat!
its just hard to stay away from something you have a passion for! almost like an addiction I guess to some of us ! pain or no pain, or risks?
only go around once! so enjoy all you can I say!
WorkHardPlayHrd
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I would rather have my addiction to snowmobiling then the addictions to other things.
tracker - good luck to you. Had a back surgery at age 21, partly due to moto-cross, part work. After that I never thought I would ride again. However, the new sleds are just great. What I have done to compensate for rough trails, is go with a longer track to bridge the bumps and stand up! To stand up, my sleds all have risers and I can stand for hours on end. I let my legs take the beating and not my back. I can ride rough trails and while my legs get sore, my back never does.