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Mine has got to be the drum sander. Rented it for 24 hours and did about 7 hrs of heavy sanding. What a miserable, miserable job! Every muscle aches. Fine dust still in my lungs, even with wearing a mask. Red eyes. Blisters. Fine dust every-single-where in the house. Can hardly hold a spoon to feed myself! :lol: My blonde hair turned a pasty, monotone shade of wood, along with all my clothes. Surprised the bathtub didn't clog after rinsing all that off. If anyone does this daily for a living, I don't know how they are still alive. Who knows of a worse machine to run than this?
 
You need to ventilate the house with a couple of those big
airhandlers. The big blowers that are inside your home furnace. I
modified four of them and they work great. Guy next door does HVAC and
when he replaces a furnace I went over and stripped out the blower.
JUST hook up with a HVAC installer guy to hook up one.
 
oh, yes, I would imagine a jackhammer would be a tough one. I would think your whole body would be buzzing for hours afterward. Under the sink sounds like a knuckle buster.
 
16 years old, and a garden hoe with 20 acres of corn sprouting in the soy beans.
no, no its 16 years old and the bale elevator with my 20 year old cousin unloading the wagon onto it, with me in the mow alone.
No, No it is greasing the McCormick SP 125 Combine. That is it!!! Jim
 
Gas powered cut off saw cutting concrete or asphalt. Your
entire body feels terrible from the dust your hair feels like it
could break off if you touch it your skin is so dry you can
almost feel it cracking and after much of a cut you figure you
will never stand up straight again
 
(quoted from post at 17:19:16 10/13/18) Mine has got to be the drum sander. Rented it for 24 hours and did about 7 hrs of heavy sanding. What a miserable, miserable job! Every muscle aches. Fine dust still in my lungs, even with wearing a mask. Red eyes. Blisters. Fine dust every-single-where in the house. Can hardly hold a spoon to feed myself! :lol: My blonde hair turned a pasty, monotone shade of wood, along with all my clothes. Surprised the bathtub didn't clog after rinsing all that off. If anyone does this daily for a living, I don't know how they are still alive. Who knows of a worse machine to run than this?
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ou should see 6 of those machines going to town in a 48 lane bowling center. The sanding itself isn't terrible, but......cleaning 48 bowling machines and related equipment, plus, basically the whole bowling center after that job, was a chore I am glad I never have to do again.
 
90lb jackhammer with a 6" spade breaking up
waxy cresote that had settled out of crude
oil inside old storage tanks. 90 degree at
0700, 110 degrees by 1200, 120 by 1345. 16
yrs old. Had to wear long sleeves and smear
vasoline on face. Stayed sunburnt all
summer and never went out in the sun. OSHA
was a small town in Wisconsin... Halfway
through summer the safety man finally
declared that we couldn't work in the tanks
when temp. got to 120deg. Quitting time was
1545, the Mexican foreman hated that he
couldn't force us to stay in after 1345. I
survived, didn't show up for "voluntary
condioning" for football, coach was mad at
me until I showed up for physical exam and
he saw the muscles I had developed.
 
A wrench. On second thought, the wrench isn't so bad, it's the conditions I'm often called upon to operate under while using it. It can be 30 degrees outside, and the wrench is so cold you can't hold it, or 100 degrees and so hot you can't hold on to it. It can be needed on a fastener down in a hole where you're standing on your head, above your head, in a tight spot, while lying on your back with hydraulic oil dripping on you, or any combination of thereof, and then some.

Regardless of how bad it is, it's all part of a job that I love (and sometimes love to hate.....LOL)
 
[b:fbedc4b601]A 2-stroke weed eater![/b:fbedc4b601] Wears out your arm getting it started. If you have Carpal Tunnel, your hand will go numb in 20-30 minutes so you can no longer operate the throttle. After 45 minutes, shoulder and back pain become intolerable. And as if to add insult to injury, lets not forget that you are now covered head-to-toe in weed guts!

Roundup now does most of my edging chores.
 
#2 shovel and a mountain of spilled hot asphalt, its hot but you really don't notice it because its 100 degrees outside.
 
So do you feel like the toothbrush?
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I have tried a number that others have
mentioned and are on my list. 90 pound Jack
hammer, concrete saw, pick and shovet in
hardpan. Pneumatic drill to make door/window openings in concrete when you couldn't saw them.
 
As I read through the comments I see many things I have done plenty of times, job was a job I guess some I dis liked more than others,, used to hate digging post holes,, now I dig them by hand for the work out lol helps a lot since I built my own digging bar, and Yes here we have to bar the hole much of the time. But for me my all time disliked job was running a packer/roller on road work. To me its the most brain dead Boring job I could ever do hated it 100%. the asphalt comment,, I do have say shoveling it is no fun at all, but I did lots of it and I always liked it somewhat after about two days of doing it as I got back into my grove and it really irritated my co workers that I could shove as much and as fast as I could with out stopping,, Hot hard and it feels like never ending work but man I loved how it got me in shape in a hurry after driving truck and equipment so much would soften me more than I liked. The best part of it was watching the guys 10-20 years younger than me or more who had zero stamina for labor work,, cant say how many times I would hear them complain about me making them look bad doing it lol Good Times,, I guess I better add scraping paint and painting to my list of jobs I do not care much for but that like many other jobs I have has to be done and I have a whole lot of barns and building to keep in shape,, I have tried to hire some help for it but I have yet to see anyone other than my Wife who will show up for a second day of it.
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Sandblasting & Painting 8 axle flatbed semi trailers from Michigan...scooting on my back ...making sure to get all the axles ans cross channels..outside in 10-20 degree weather..That was my winter work....either do it or get laid off. Or painting rail cars and tankers inside and out crawling under and all around them with a Tyvek suit,full face respirator,spray sock on my head,gloves?..in 95 degree building. Each rail car would take about 25 gallons inside or out......Boy I don't miss those days.....lol
 
Rented a walk behind trencher to run some power. Didn?t
want the mess of the backhoe.

I don?t know if it was the unit I rented or what but, man, that
thing was worthless and I was beat up at the end of the day.
Ran the next sections of power using my good trenching
shovel and a mattock. It was faster, neater and less pain
inducing on my arms and back.

Maybe it was the machine. But never again with that.
 
I second the jack hammer. My hands are almost worn out today from using one. That thing should have never been invented for MAN to use
 
This would be a job, maybe not so much the machine since they were pretty much frozen up when I worked on
them. I had a summer job back in the 60's with a pipeline supply company. They rented a lot of equipment
and that included big tar kettles that melted the tar for pipeline wrapping machines. Maybe some of the
YT'ers remember those, everything is factory coated now. Anyways, if the tar kettles were heated too hot,
the liquid tar inside solidified into what I think was some form of "coke" (not the stuff people crave
nowadays). Once it cooled and if they decided to keep the unit, what was left inside had to be pounded and
chipped out by hand with bars, chisels, or whatever else was available. That dust is probably still in my
lungs. These were big units that you could crawl into from the top and have a picnic if you wanted.
 
Circa 1965 working for an automatic sprinkler co. Had to drill holes in a concrete ceiling for inserts for pipe hangers. Standing on a 16 foot step ladder
using an old aluminum case Black and Decker hammer drill. no slip clutch. If the drill hit re-bar or hung up it would throw you off the ladder. I did this
every day for about 3 weeks scared to death. Still wonder how I survived. Ellis
 
Neighbor used a Davis Cleaner to remove chicken manure
from his cagehouses
It was shaped like a low slung mower conditioner, going
backwards with a cassette-type compartment to collect
manure underneath the cages. The operator sat where the hitch would
be with primitive skidsteer controls. You had to drive perfectly
straight keeping your shoulders only inches from the wire
cages on either side. I never ran it but the operators would
get pretty torn up by the cage wire. There was no turning
around so a 300ft trek forwards meant a 300ft trek backwards.
To top it off you had the flies, mites, and enough ammonia
smell to knock your hat off
 
NCWayne, I think the worst jobs I ever did involved wrenches!

One in particular stands out, just out of high school, probably weighed all of 100 lbs.

Had to replace the rear spring U bolts on a loaded garbage truck. Too big to get in the shop, so I was out in the gravel and ruts in the driveway. This was a free come back, first done by the boss son, he left everything loose. He was nowhere to be found, a good thing!

Nothing to work with but a bottle jack, some home made stands, a comealong, and a cheater bar.

Did it all by myself, 100*+ temperature, wet garbage and maggots dripping out the bottom of the truck...

Oh, the good ol' days!
 
What is the 1345 and 0700 and 1545 ?are you trying to show us how smart you are by using Army time or is that the tonnage that you handled. Some of us are not very smart and never learned Army time. But if you served and that is the only way you can tell time ,I still thank you for your service.
 
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