Manual labour’s just not the job it used to be

[Hjwise]

Speak for yourself Charlie... after mucking out 2000 pigs, changing a set of SP sprayer wheels, shoveling wheat and unblocking a particularly stubborn ditch pipe (tree roots) my shoulder is giving me a bit of jip.

 

[RAF]

What did you do after breakfast

 

[Hilly]

Speak for yourself Charlie... after mucking out 2000 pigs, changing a set of SP sprayer wheels, shoveling wheat and unblocking a particularly stubborn ditch pipe (tree roots) my shoulder is giving me a bit of jip.

Swap you for my neck and leg that a bullock kicked has hard as he could and didn’t see it coming due to sore neck can’t turn ,

 

[Driller]

Try cutting cauli 6 days a week all winter, my dad (67) has since he was 14

 

[Devil's advocate]

Try cutting cauli 6 days a week all winter, my dad (67) has since he was 14

I'm getting there, swedes in my case.

Caulie harder wetter job though, I do that one day a week.

 

[Hjwise]

My comment was a bit tongue in cheek after reading Charlie Flindt’s bit in FW.

 

[The Seeker]

Two days on a jackhammer shifting a concrete slab in the rain ohh f I had only done better in school..... but hey I'm my own boss

 

[2wheels]

Try cutting cauli 6 days a week all winter, my dad (67) has since he was 14

for god's sake give the old sod a day off. seriously, that takes some doing. well done dad.

 

[jondear]

Ask a livestock farmer!

 

[Northern territory]

I am a believer in manual labour keeping you fitter. It gives you pain but might be key to a longer life.

 

[bluebell]

thats one of the biggest reasons many farms packed up keeping any livestock? livestock dosnt matter howmany you have wethever its 10 or 1000 these still alot of hard manual work envolved in keeping them, and thats seven days a week ? and it gets harder in the winter ? and if its a hard cold winter well just keeping them watered is almost a full time job ?

 

[czechmate]

thats one of the biggest reasons many farms packed up keeping any livestock? livestock dosnt matter howmany you have wethever its 10 or 1000 these still alot of hard manual work envolved in keeping them, and thats seven days a week ? and it gets harder in the winter ? and if its a hard cold winter well just keeping them watered is almost a full time job ?

Well I’ve grown veg in the past and am now a cattle farmer. Sorry, but I’m struggling to see cattle farming as manual work, you must be doing something very wrong? My bales are 700kg plus, how would I be doing anything by hand with them?

 

[ARW]

Come fencing full time, the first week is the hardest

 

[czechmate]

I am a believer in manual labour keeping you fitter. It gives you pain but might be key to a longer life.

Stopping seems to be the problem, every ex football player seems to carry a fair bit of weight very soon (May have something to do with drinking?)

 

[Skintagain]

The amount I eat scares me I can never slow down or I will end up a monster.

 

[Al R]

Well I’ve grown veg in the past and am now a cattle farmer. Sorry, but I’m struggling to see cattle farming as manual work, you must be doing something very wrong? My bales are 700kg plus, how would I be doing anything by hand with them?

The last 20 years cattle can be fed and bedded down without having to do as much as cut strings on a bale and everything else done from a cab, even if putting corn on top of silage or in a hopper a lot these days will have an auger bucket instead of putting a few cwt sacks of corn out and with straw choppers there’s now no need to go in with the cattle either and spreading 20-30 bales a day isn’t nice either!

sheep is a lot more Manual labour intensive due to shearing, Dosing, crutching etc..

 

[czechmate]

The last 20 years cattle can be fed and bedded down without having to do as much as cut strings on a bale and everything else done from a cab, even if putting corn on top of silage or in a hopper a lot these days will have an auger bucket instead of putting a few cwt sacks of corn out and with straw choppers there’s now no need to go in with the cattle either and spreading 20-30 bales a day isn’t nice either!

sheep is a lot more Manual labour intensive due to shearing, Dosing, crutching etc..

Sheep certainly more manual work (from what I see over the hedge). I have a friend here had his back broken by a cow (lucky to survive at all) going in and bedding them.

 

[neilo]

I am a believer in manual labour keeping you fitter. It gives you pain but might be key to a longer life.

Do you want to live longer if you’ve become a moaning old bugger with a limp?

Oh, hang on.

 

[Kidds]

Try cutting cauli 6 days a week all winter, my dad (67) has since he was 14

I jacked that in a couple of years ago after 40 years of it. Don't miss it.
Lately I have been doing 12hour + shifts and handballing about 6 tons a day so still fit and strong but struggle to pick stuff up off the floor. I'm not sure I could cut much these days.

 

[Northern territory]

Do you want to live longer if you’ve become a moaning old bugger with a limp?

Oh, hang on.
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Plenty of them about without a limp