yes it involved lifting and dragging the equivalent (in some cases) of trunk sections of oak trees.  I realize I was stupid, but the problem is that you are literally sitting around doing nothing (because everythings stops for a couple of weeks - no work, no school, no nothing).  Sitting there and looking at the piles of debris and strewn trees (and no we didn't have a gas powered electric plant either so there was no TV nor video entertainment to keep the mind busy).  So I started to chop away at the trees (that's right!  chop with an axe since we didn't at that time have a gas powered saw).  Rolled the logs away as best I could do, but there would always be some lifting involved...  Fortunately I have managed the herniated disk thing quite well.  So far no need for the dreaded surgery (and I can still lift heavy stuff - correctly and always with a belt or girdle or whatever you call it), and I climb trees and scale steep slopes to clear brush and weeds.

"Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne