Re: country/farm living is the best!

Posted by Doug in IL on March 07, 2007 at 05:35:13 from (67.142.130.13):

In Reply to: Re: country/farm living is the best! posted by Brad in WI on March 07, 2007 at 02:30:07:

As far as hard work goes, a farmer doesn't have an exclusive on that. I've been around farmers all my life and farmed myself for over 30 years. I've done, and seen other farmers do, very hard work. I also spent 30 years around the factory. I've seen people throw D8 and D9 track shoes all day long. Sometimes in 120 degree heat. Guys loading rough stock for 3408 and 3412 engine liners from tubs to conveyors for 8 to 12 hours per day. I have seen guys straddling a narrow conveyor belt breaking the risers off hot, newly cast parts with a sledge hammer, for their entire shift. Then, when I sometimes go to the local coffee shops, I hear these farmers sitting around talking about how tough they have it and how those factory worker's all have it made. I just smile. I know that most of them wouldn't last a week on the jobs I just mentioned! Let's face it. Unless a farmer has much livestock, farming is basically a 3 or 4 months out of the year job. A lot of the bigger grain farmers really are on the corn, soybean, Florida rotation. If they have a lot of livestock, then it's a much differnt story.

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