Perform gentle stretching to the forearm musculature. These stretches should be performed in a PAIN-FREE manner. You should feel a slight stretch or pull along the muscles, but elbow pain should not be present. Hold stretch for 10 seconds and repeat 10 times.
When Robert McCormick, the father of Cyrus, drew his crude reaper out to a field of wheat in the early harvest of 1831, to make a trial of the invention on which he had spent fifteen years, Cyrus, you may be sure, was more than an onlooker. He had doubtless had a considerable [149] part in the making of this machine.
Cyrus McCormick. Cyrus McCormick built and sold some of the earliest practical mechanical reaping machines that lessened the back-breaking burden of early 19th century farm workers. He may not have invented the first such device, but he clearly was the first to locate the real market for it: the large farms emerging across the American Midwest. Share ASME.