(this is just a joke - of course farmwork still has physically demanding parts)

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    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.

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      This is also happening less and less as farms consolidate under disadventure 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.

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        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.

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        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.