Answer:
What can be forever wound up but never annoyed?
Not a burden for its weight and daily carried out, He who takes it wishes it had never come about
What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
Only two backbones and thousands of ribs.
The root tops the trunk on this backward thing, that grows in the winter and dies in the spring.
People take me on walks and I run and have fun. What am I?