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Most physically demanding job you've had?

Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:24 pm
Posted by ChunkyLover54
Member since Apr 2015
6528 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:24 pm
Garbage man. Did it fur a summer to spite someone and it seemed like fun to hang off the truck. Incredibly demanding with all the repetition. After about 2 weeks it takes a toll.
This post was edited on 4/14/16 at 12:29 pm
Posted by nolanola
Member since Nov 2010
7580 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:25 pm to
Male Hooker
Posted by GEAUXT
Member since Nov 2007
29206 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:25 pm to
fluffer
Posted by BamaChemE
Midland, TX
Member since Feb 2012
7135 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:25 pm to
Ditch digger
Posted by windshieldman
Member since Nov 2012
12818 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:25 pm to
Honestly, working at Lowes in lumber dept when I was younger was pretty damn demanding. Constantly working, non stop, and lifting heavy arse shite all day.
Posted by McCaigBro69
TigerDroppings Premium Member
Member since Oct 2014
45084 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:25 pm to
I worked for the house builder that built my parents house when I was in college.

He had like 25 houses being built at the time and owned a shite ton of lots.

I was basically one of those individuals that come across the border and work long hours, doing strenuous work for cheap pay.

Pretty much worked from 8-8 every day.

Learned some cool shite though that I won't ever need to call someone to fix something stupid in my house
Posted by ugasickem
Allatoona
Member since Nov 2010
10747 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:26 pm to
AV tech. Hanging smartboards in classrooms. Boards are heavy.
Posted by Hoyt
Alabama: The Beautiful
Member since Aug 2011
5394 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:27 pm to
I was a "beach chair boy" for 3 summers
Posted by Kujo
225-911-5736
Member since Dec 2015
6015 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:27 pm to
Roofer one summer, and tire shop another
Posted by ksayetiger
Centenary Gents
Member since Jul 2007
68260 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:27 pm to
When I read thread title, I was going to come joke about being a garbage man.

Props to you
Posted by JumpingTheShark
America
Member since Nov 2012
22885 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:27 pm to
It sounds pussy, but working at a nursery (gardening) one summer in Shreveport. It was 2005 and it was hot as frick, and one thing that this nursery had was huge limestone benches, big potted trees, and massive bags of mulch and dirt. Moving all of that shite for customer was fricking hard. We put a piece of a limestone bench on a wagon to move it to a customers car and the fricking tires immediately deflated. I still maintain that limestone is the heaviest shite I have ever carried.

Also I have heard building a french drain sucks dong.
Posted by LSU_Saints_Hornets
Uptown NO,LA
Member since Jan 2013
9739 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:27 pm to
Shrimp Boat Capt
Posted by ugasickem
Allatoona
Member since Nov 2010
10747 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:27 pm to
windshield, Yeah that was tough too. I did that as well but at Home Depot
Posted by Rebel
Graceland
Member since Jan 2005
131181 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:29 pm to
Square bailing hay.
Posted by GeorgeReymond
Buckhead
Member since Jan 2013
10155 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:29 pm to
Working for my dad at our farm. He had us driving $400,000 equipment in 3rd grade.

If I had a dollar for every levee gate I put in...
This post was edited on 4/14/16 at 12:31 pm
Posted by AUbagman
LA
Member since Jun 2014
10561 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:29 pm to
I worked for my uncle as a concrete crew "leader" for road resurfacing projects - which meant (for my uncle anyway) that I set elevations for forms + calculate concrete needed + ordering concrete + talking to state inspectors all on top of working alongside the crew during pours/finishing. So in short, I was a concrete laborer that just happened to be smart enough to handle the shite my uncle didn't want to do.
Posted by DieselTiger1
9 Dragon
Member since Oct 2008
13672 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:29 pm to
in high school I worked in a brick yard during the summers. I would stack all the brick that would arrive in train cars in a pile because they came lose on the trek to louisiana. The train cars were 120-130 degrees and there were tens of thousands of bricks in each one.

When there were no bricks to stack I would make sand bags in the sun with a big funnel type machine that would rain sand down on you constantly. I prayed for days when I just had to sweep/clean around the yard or when it would rain.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
123879 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:29 pm to
Busting refractory in a cat cracker.


Handing a 60 lb jackhammer in about 40" of total space, under fresh air and lamplight. If something went wrong you had to crawl through about 50 feet of tiny spaces full of jagged metal bits in the dark, with ladders a few inches wide.

This post was edited on 4/14/16 at 12:30 pm
Posted by BehindU
Lake Charles
Member since Mar 2014
564 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:30 pm to
No doubt the most demanding job! Was in management for large company and once or twice a year for morale reasons I would go hop on the back for about 30 mins. One drop of that juice and there is no getting that smell off.

Posted by LSUballs
RayVegas LA
Member since Feb 2008
37715 posts
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:31 pm to
Tearing buildup out of a lime kiln with a pry bar and a rivet buster. It's now done by robot.
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