2. Shovels, slip scrapers with a horse or mule digging down several feet for the foundation of a basement barn.
3. Then levering in big pieces of rock for the foundation that will hold up a towering rock or stone wall.
4. Hand digging millions of post holes and tamping in hand sawed and wedge splint tree boles for posts.
5. Hand digging and axe chopping a tree stump to clear the land to make a field.
6. Chipping, pit sawing,chisel cutting mortise and tenons in hand hewed logs to build a barn.
7. Raising a big garden, harvesting, cooking, canning, filling crocks with food to last the winter and enough to feed a big family when birth control was not practiced.
8. Hand washing clothes, drying, folding, ironing, starching, mending, constantly.
9. Digging and moving rocks, a never ending job, again hand shoveling and horse/mule pulling.
I missed most of that heavy physical labor. Sampled a bit of it in the 1940-50 small farm experience. Spent most of my career managing a pencil, desk and filing cabinets. Leo
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