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Most physically demanding job you've had?
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:24 pm
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 on 4/14/16 at 12:25 pm to ChunkyLover54
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 on 4/14/16 at 12:25 pm to ChunkyLover54
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
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 on 4/14/16 at 12:26 pm to ChunkyLover54
AV tech. Hanging smartboards in classrooms. Boards are heavy.
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:27 pm to ChunkyLover54
I was a "beach chair boy" for 3 summers
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:27 pm to ChunkyLover54
Roofer one summer, and tire shop another
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:27 pm to ChunkyLover54
When I read thread title, I was going to come joke about being a garbage man.
Props to you
Props to you

Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:27 pm to ChunkyLover54
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.
Also I have heard building a french drain sucks dong.
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:27 pm to windshieldman
windshield, Yeah that was tough too. I did that as well but at Home Depot
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:29 pm to ChunkyLover54
Square bailing hay.
Posted on 4/14/16 at 12:29 pm to ChunkyLover54
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...
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 on 4/14/16 at 12:29 pm to ChunkyLover54
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 on 4/14/16 at 12:29 pm to McCaigBro69
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.
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 on 4/14/16 at 12:29 pm to ChunkyLover54
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.
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 on 4/14/16 at 12:30 pm to ChunkyLover54
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 on 4/14/16 at 12:31 pm to ChunkyLover54
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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