cuttin edge
Senior Member
I've always had great vision. Once I hit my 40s my close up vision started to go. Last fall my arms got too short and I had to get 150 pairs of drug store glasses. I say 150 cause that's probably how many pairs I've lost. Tuesday night I went out sweeping one of our plowing contracts in an L45g with a kick broom. 15 minutes in, as I was running along the guard rail and I caught the seem just right. The center angle pin broke allowing the broom to angle too far and then break the pin boss for the angle piston. Since it was after midnight, I parked the loader and sent a rough text( because I had lost my glasses) to the boss and went home. Last night, broom fixed, I was about half an hour in and hit something else. No damage this time. This morning I was talking to the wife about it and she said, maybe you need glasses. I thought about it and I do find that I have been misjudging how high to lift my foot these days. I've kicked over the same can of roofing nails in the shed a dozen times this year, note to self, move can of nails. If I did need glasses because my distance vision is no longer as good as I think. Do any of you guys that wear glasses find any difficulty fine grading? I don't even wear sunglasses in the grader as I find they distort my vision.