My back always kills me when CRH'ing but if I'm doing it in the car then not so much. Sometimes I have to sit on the couch & do it....but yes when I'm doing it at the table I have to take breaks.
I sit on the floor in front of the couch on a pillow with the coffee table pulled up to my chest. The coins are right at chin level, no straining to see and no hunching.
I work out 4 days a week just dropped 30 pounds so doubt that gonna help,much.get to the gym and do some lat pulldowns :-)
Just like at work you need to make sure you are ergonomically aligned for any task. I never get aches from CRHing, Muay Thai takes care of that.
I sit on the floor in front of the couch on a pillow with the coffee table pulled up to my chest. The coins are right at chin level, no straining to see and no hunching.
...without destroying your neck and back hunched over going through coins......ouch it killing me!
.......oh just found me my first war nickel! That helps ease the pain ! Weeeeeeeeee
I'm sure that is what's helping ease the pain... I bet you are just saying that and you rode down the road in your car with a pinwheel yelling "WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"
What I do when I'm searching halves, I sit at my dining room table (nice straight chairs) and when I do nickels or dimes or cents, I lay in the floor and do them one roll at a time dumping them onto a white piece of scrap paper. I search them one at a time, then re-roll. Takes a while, but it's still fun. My skin is severely allergic to nickel, but if I don't do that, my fingers break out.
You need to wear latex or nitrile gloves. Unless your allergic to those too. Luckily I am not and I have an in limited free supply as i use a crap ton of them at work.
Amateurs...
Couch, good lighting, one box of halves in my lap, 10 others on the floor, coinlok on the floor next to me, pile of silver getting bigger, history channel on the tele...heaven.
You forgot about the beer and the huge Tony Montana-sized mountain of coke near by.It gives you energy!!!! Lol.