(this is just a joke - of course farmwork still has physically demanding parts)
The double “wouldn’t” is purely an embarrassment. Such garbage!
OP should hang their head in shame.
Repeating the last word of the top caption at the start of the bottom caption used to be a common ironic trope at least in certain circles, an attempt to make the meme shittier on purpose. An elegant literary device for a more civilized age…
Granted you paid for that John Deere update.
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.
For everyone who’s a valedictorian, there’s another hundred out there who weigh a hundred and thirty pounds—and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling seventy-five pounds of marijuana across the desert.
~ U.S. Representative Steve King (R-IA) in 2013.
The heros we need
*The heroes we weed.
Now that’s a horror story.
I get it’s a joke, but… The strapping-est kids I knew growing up were farm kids. Throwing hay bales gets you jacked. I have also driven the air-conditioned tractor around all day though too.
Throwing hay bales gets you jacked.
Those round one are over 100 kg. What?
There’s different sized bales. The big round bales you move with a tractor and aren’t getting tossed around, but the smaller rectangular bales get moved by hand a bunch.
Because they’re not all the big round ones
A typical hay bale is rectangular and weighs about as much as a bushel of lemons. You pick it up by the twine and heave-ho until it’s in a big ridiculous pile on the truck.
Bushel of lemons
Heave Ho
Americans will use anything to avoid the metric system…
You pick it up by the twine and apply the ol’ hectoNewton metre.
…we had smaller rectangular bales, fun to stack in the hay barn and climb all over…
This is also happening less and less as farms consolidate under disadventue capitalists. I’m in my late 40s, and the town I went to highschool in was the type to have 2 weeks off at harvest and seeding time because so many kids had to go out and help on the farm.
Last year they did not have any time off for that because only one family was left actually working their farms, the rest are working them for a corp and the corp hires transient labour to do the heavy work.
They “wouldn’t wouldn’t last”? So they WOULD last. Double negative cancels itself.
Is that what you’re saying?
That’s how I took it. I’m curious as to what percentage of folk saw the duplicate “wouldn’t”?
Duplicating the last word of the first line in an image macro is a meme that started spreading in the last few years. It’s barely even noticeable because of how used you get to it.
He’s not wrong. Those muscles will atrophy in no time.
But, to be fair, there is a difference between strength you get in the gym and practical strength. Its a lot of factors and i dont wanna write an essay but it is (kind of) true.
For anyone curious: the difference is, that farmers got more endurance with their strength (they can do physical labour all day long), while the typical gymbro can lift heavier weights, but not all day long
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.
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?
Your fake “work from dawn till dusk” work ethic wouldn’t last you 5 minutes in an office.
(this is just a joke too)
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.
I was told there be goths in IT. Just fat nerds, mostly me.
Be the goth you wish to see in the world
You should have watched the promotional material more closely.
Pale, weird, hidden in the server room, and occasionally some Cradel of Filth, that’s just my office…
Two words: Jeremy Clarkson
only semi related but ive been gifted with soft skin, the kind that old men would handshake and say “you never worked a real day in your life!” i work a blue collar job. some people are just gifted.
I have baby soft skin, as noted by male and female friends alike, despite working tons of physical jobs including driving fence posts for a summer. I’m pretty sure it’s a condition called Ehlers-Danlos, in my case, but I’m not officially diagnosed, just have every symptom. Learned about it through my DNA testing, there was a gene there that was connected to it.
From Bag Balm:
Originally, it was used for only cows’ udders, but farmers’ wives noticed the softness of their husbands’ hands, and started using the product themselves.
Lol or you know how to use lotion?
Older gen hated sunscreen and lotion.
I don’t use lotion and still have very soft skin. I also work in a print shop with plenty of heavy lifting and manual labour.
Landscaper, a d likewise. Blisters beget no callous, only fresh pink skin to blister once more.
Honestly if anyone says y’all “you never worked a real day in your life!”, tell them to shut the fuck up. If they get offended, tell them that they were disrespectful as fuck, they don’t deserve your respect.
i had a mini slut phase recently and everyone who touched my skin said it was really soft, like women who i thought had soft skin told me how soft my skin is. this is what finally pushed me to really look into Ehlers-Danlos and learn that i have it. having very soft skin without really trying is one of the features, but there are a lot more. it sounds to me like you might have it too. worth looking into.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Corporate farms, typically not. Independent smaller farmers it is.
AND you need to be a hacker!
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.
