(this is just a joke - of course farmwork still has physically demanding parts)
I needed more physical fitness working at Tesla glueing cars together than I did on any of the farm jobs I’ve worked. But to be fair, the only farm work I haven’t done is harvesting things like strawberries and some other thing from a shrub (idk what it is), which are normally done by hand around here.
I know its a joke, but man I just bailed hay yesterday and I’m really feeling it. My nephew had his first time bailing, fella looks like a bit of a twig, and I could tell he was struggling with it. As is usual, I had to pickup the slack, just as my family did when I was new to bailing as a kid. Bet he can’t wait until the next field is ready next week.
You’re trying to spell check a farmer. We simply do not care.
Not caring about spelling is nothing to be proud of. Literacy is important. A farmer who is literate is even more than a farmer who isn’t.
A farmer who is literate is even more what?
As I said, is more.
Being a language pedant is nothing to be proud of. The actual linguists don’t that that position, you’re just performing for Internet points
Professor of applied linguistics here, can confirm, language is fluid, don’t be a goober
It’s ironic that the people who are the loudest about the literacy crisis seem to have such a narrow understanding of “literacy”.
Without fail.
I definitely do not care about internet points. Quite an assumption. On the contrary, I care for his benefit. Is it so odd that someone can give constructive criticism?
Hey, I’m just giving you constructive criticism. Broaden your understanding of language before criticizing the language of others.
I get that language is fluid. Sorry if I implied rigid use of language, but that’s not the same thing as saying “bail” has a definition that “bale” does not have.
But you’re right, if a word is used with typos over and over, it can become a new word with new meaning. All I’m saying is that it is not what they meant to say.
Is it true that farming isn’t physically demanding anymore? I figured it’s easier now physically, but you’ll still develop strength from the things that can’t be done with machinery.
Afaik it’s mostly medium-large fruits that still get harvested by hand. I knew a Norwegian guy who developed the ideal bodybuilder physique just from picking apples for a few seasons.
I don’t know much about this, but I’ve seen a bunch of videos of apple harvesting machines doing their thing. Just search for “apple harvester” and you’ll see a zillion videos
Maybe someone’s finally solved it over the past few years, but he was telling me that automating apple harvests was still a massive challenge about 5 years ago - there are/were machines to pick up fallen apples and robots for picking them individually, but you can’t easily shake all the apples off a mature tree for collection and a human can pick them from the branch far more quickly than a robot. From what I can see online there’s one that does it for young trees, but most of them are still glorified cherry-pickers.
Also those machines are expensive, and use fuel. The break even point if switching to a machine could be many years.
My impression is that it is definitely not as demanding as when you were plowing feilds with a team of oxen… but it is still physicall demanding. Sure, machinaty automates a lot, but that just means you are more productive and end up doing more of the labor the machine doesn’t automate. Also from what I’ve heard, a lot of the work of modern farming is fixing and maintaining the machines that do the heavy lifting - which is also fairly taxing physical labor.
Depends on the farm. In NA, if you’re running a farm > 5000ac, you’re probably making enough money and are busy enough managing the finances and schedules to get new equipment often enough that you don’t have to fix much, or you can afford a mechanic. Things still need to be greased, and I’d challenge most of the desk jockeys here to slide under a seeder and grease and inspect 80-100 shanks every morning for 3 weeks and not complain about it. That’s the job of the guy behind the wheel, usually, because they’re the one to fix it in the field if it wasn’t installed right. And while you’re out there, shit breaks. You can shut everything down and wait for a mechanic, or you can get your ass under there and unplug the opener or replace the boots/hose.
Small farms, which today is a farm under 5k and is by far the larger amount of farms, you get to do all that yourself, and your equipment might be 30 or 40 years old, so you’re fixing it a lot. You still have to be able to lift a 100lb part into your machine or implement rather than fuck around going to get another tractor to lift it in, or it just isn’t going to fit where you need to lift. So you better have some upper body strength or some young prick to do it for you.
Yah, when everything is working and the GPS is engaged, all you have to do is watch for things wrong and eat the lunch you packed yourself to last all day in the first hour.
Nobody here has a clue how farming actually works.
I work at a farm currently, today I spend a few hours picking rocks off a field after new soil had been spread there.
While most of the farming itself is done by machines, there’s a lot of maintenance stuff that needs to be done by hand.
Oh thanks for your insight. I feel the work “rocks” is doing some heavy lifting. I imagine they can be pretty large?
Something you can fairly easily lift with both hands. For larger ones we use a tractor and bucket, but for smaller ones it’s just more efficient to throw them in the bucket by hand.
AND you need to be a hacker!
Corporate farms, typically not. Independent smaller farmers it is.
Depending on the type of farming, the thing that can’t be done by machinery can get ridiculously small. To my knowledge, to grow cereal for example, intensive and repetitive efforts are not needed if you have access to machines. You still have to be physically capable but i wouldnt say it’s physically demanding.
Your fake farmer toughness wouldn’t last a day working in an artificially-lit, soul sucking office cubicle for someone else’s profit!
Ha! Gotcha farmers!
Now if you’ll excuse me I need to cry.
The difference between physical damage and psychic damage.
When the boss uses vicious mockery.
You can totally physically damage your body while working in office
Work in nuclear power! Experience both!
I worked in an office environment that regularly interacted with field workers. They would often give us grief about how easy our jobs are (being in an air conditioned office, on chairs, etc). Two of them got injured and in order to keep them earning a paycheck, and keep their sick hours, they came to help us in the office. They were supposed to be on restrictive duty for months I believe. Within two weeks they begged to go back into the field doing anything except helping us. Haven’t heard any grief from them since. Haha.
This sounds like “would you want some torture for your sick period?”
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Hey if it makes you feel any better, most farms are corporate owned and so they get to work in hot, back breaking fields for someone else’s profit instead!
Most farms should be corporate owned in the US if for no other reason than to be a liability shield. The question is who owns the corporation and whether the workers are being adequately compensated.
Who owns farms: overwhelmingly it’s inherited wealth in trust to avoid paying taxes and run by incorporated entities.
Are the workers being adequately compensated… The answer changes depending on what color your skin is and where you were born.
I wish we had a “bring your kid to work” day so I can show my child how it feels to be in four back-to-back 1-hour meetings with the most brain dead takes and people going, “Let’s table that” and “I hear what you’re saying and we’re saying the same thing” And then everyone gets drunk at Chilis before another round of four back-to-back one hour meetings.
That’s real endurance.
let’s take this offline can we have a sidebar 💀
They’ll never even make it to the office, because of all the terrifying minorities in the city who have the audacity to exist.
Fun fact: you can have a soul sucking office job AND do farm work! Just get a horse or two!
bonus points if you have to deal with deeply toxic office politics
lol
Ha ha ha, farming was hard work, like we have no idea, back in the pioneer days. Now? You can’t compete without the industrial operations, unless you have a niche.
These pioneers, they were harder than any of these gym freaks, they weren’t swollen, they were scrawny, wiry, and stronger. Muscle mass doesn’t mean strength necessarily.
industrial operations
True for the corn and soybeans that cover vast swaths of this country, but a lot of fruits and vegetables are still very labor intensive. That labor is usually done by underpaid immigrants, who are definitely not swole, but are definitely in better shape then any of us.
Wouldn’t the pioneers drive boulders?
Is this some kind of joke? My aunt Lisa has worked on a farm for 40 years doing back breaking work and has multiple ruptured disks and numbness in her feet. Carrying firewood and bags of chicken seed all day would send you home to your Gameboy and warm blanket. I bet you wouldn’t even last a day. I bet you wouldn’t even try because you’re probably on the Atkins diet and afraid to eat real food. My aunt Lisa has broken her body farming. She is tough and strong and you will never be like her. I bet you would be too scared to show this meme to her.
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Is this pasta I don’t know? If not, Atkins hasn’t been a thing in ages. Also, working out properly is a superb supplement for workers of physical jobs to protect themselves from accumulating damage.
All pastas start somewhere. Maybe I’m not much of a chef
“Is this some kind of joke?”
Yes, that’s exactly what this is.
My cousin Tammy says that jokes are for jesters
I would counter to say that your aunt is in the minority. If you are talking about hauling individual bags of chicken feed, you are already talking about a much smaller scale than what the meme is poking at. This is more about the industrial scale farms, typically growing corn or soy beans, using combines, harvesters, and other specialized equipment worth millions. This high end equipment has removed all the backbreaking labor you are referencing because that would be time inefficient and cut into profits. When you are plowing, seeding, or harvesting 1000 acres a day there isn’t time to haul anything by hand. If you take time to baby a single plant or animal then you are taking time away from caring for the larger field or heard.
Small family farms, like the one you are implying, have old equipment (due to high costs) that embody the hard farmer life, like the open seat tractor. Big farms who spent 400k on their tractor have enclosed cabs with air conditioning and computer controlled auto steering, like the one pictured in the meme.
The modern farmer is now mostly a land manager. Most of the farms have been bought up by big companies, or have the land leased out to companies that primarily use migrant labour to do all the actual work.
My dad’s side of the family has a couple thousand acres in North West Ohio that I used to go up in the summer to work on in the 90s. It was hard work, I mostly moved bales of hay to feed livestock. However, once my great uncle got too old to actually run the operation he just started leasing out the land and that side of the family basically became landlords.
Now all my cousins have menial jobs in town and are just waiting around to inherit plots of land they can sell as soon as humanly possible.
Your great uncle used to be a farmer. Now he’s a parasite on other farmers as a landlord.
Eh, my great uncle wasn’t much of a parasite. He basically farmed until retirement and started to rent out his land to his neighbors who wanted to expand their operations. He only really charged enough to pay for the taxes and upkeep, but his son in law was the one who put it up for bid because he is a drunk.
Initially the son in law was supposed to take over the farm, but ended up losing his leg to a combine harvester. Word to the wise…don’t operate heavy machinery while severely sauced.
Why wouldn’t they continue to lease out the plot and receive perpetual income?
There’s not really a lot of money in it. The rent basically covers the cost of owning the land, its upkeep, and family expenses. By selling it they’d each get several million dollars.
It’s a mixed bag. So, no, the joke is wrong.
He’s not wrong. Those muscles will atrophy in no time.
Your fake “work from dawn till dusk” work ethic wouldn’t last you 5 minutes in an office.
(this is just a joke too)
fixed itdamn it took me 10 mins to see the difference
Day on a farm:
She looks very happy!
Have you ever driven a tractor? It’s pretty damn awesome.
My wife works at a company that auctions off machinery of all types. The week before an auction, they let anyone who registered come into their lot and try out the equipment. You’re not allowed to move it much, but you can try out basically any other function.
I’ve operated all kinds of machinery I had no right to even try. Stuff that dwarfs me and/or could kill me at a moment’s notice. I didn’t usually try the bigger scarier stuff, but even machines like excavators, tractors, party busses, and super cars were enough to thrill me.
My wife’s work wallpaper is of me in the driver’s seat of a firetruck. I feel bad about that one - I accidentally triggered the siren and couldn’t figure out how to turn it off. By the time I was ready to ask for help the yard crew had left. I really tried to figure it out or recruit help, but I ended up just leaving with it still on.
Some say you still hear that siren if you listen closely
Well, that just makes me feel sorry for whomever ended up buying it.
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Wouldn’t wouldn’t
does that work like a double negation?
It makes this a pure shit “meme”, post.
OP should hang their head in shame.
