The working smarter post below got me thinking

I remember when my brother & I were young. Dad would say get the loader and move that feed bunk. My brother & I would say getting the loader was too much work so we just pick up the feed bunk and run to the new location with it. Now we get the loader. If a piece of iron needed bending, we would bend it by hand or worst case we would put it in a vise and hammer it without heating it. Now we use heat and/or the press. We would talk Dad into buying us a pair of #14 scoop shovels so we could empty the grain bin faster. Now we use gravity bins. We would grab the bottom of a pile of boards, iron, or almost anything so we could move it in one load by hand. Now we put most things on a pallet so we can use the fork lift. I dug a well water pump pit for Dad by hand when I was in high school. I just dug one with a 3 foot auger on a Bobcat. If I do have anything heavy, that can not be moved any other way but by hand, I make sure I have friends with high school boys that have to prove how strong they are. Kind of fun to watch them, as I have forgotten how easy it was for me to do things back then, that they do with little effort now.

Yes indeed, the things we take for granted....thanks for sharing.

Yabbut,ya need twicet as many cause they gotta keep one hand free for the D#$@ smart phone

I have two brothers, when we were all living on the farm, we did things however they could be accomplished the quickest, not necessarily the easiest. As you say, we could pick and carry things before we could go grab a tractor that might not start anyways.

I too find something to do any lifting of any sort over 5#. Just working smarter not harder. I even found that if I go fishing, I stay out shorter periods and the periods are farther apart....casting is work, hooking up the boat and all that goes with that and launching and all. If I want to catch a fish, i go to my pond and sit in a chair on the dock.

Depends on how far I have to walk to get the loader. I never did like spending an hour trying to get out of two minutes work.

(quoted from post at 07:11:32 05/03/22) Yabbut,ya need twicet as many cause they gotta keep one hand free for the D#$@ smart phone

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Your comment about the smart phone reminded me of a few years ago when we were shipping out our calves, oldest son was moving them up to the crowding tub when a steer let fly and made contact with him pretty close to his belt line.

Instantly you could see the look of concern on his face, we had no idea if the steer hit bone or the family jewels but all was well a second later when he pulled his phone out of his front pocket, held it up in the air and said; "it's okay it didn't break".

With age comes wisdom.

Vito

There is a whole lot of wisdom in your statement. It's a wonder we survive to reach the point where we are so knowledgeable!!!!!

And a sore back.... lol