12-06-2021, 12:50 AM
(11-30-2021, 05:12 PM)grampahol Wrote: I laugh at our trash pickup guys now..almost everything is semi-automated on wheels. I joke with them saying when we were kids we didn't have wheels on trash cans.
I guess the big plastic cans on wheels came around the late 80s, early 90s..sooner in some areas, later in others.
When I was a teenager baling hay was super labor intensive. Each square bale had to be thrown up on a truck. Then a guy on the truck had to stack it. Then it had to be unloaded by hand and stacked in the barn.
It was done in the hottest part of summer and you had to wear long sleeves to keep your arms from getting all scratched up. It was ball busting work and it took a whole crew.
Now one guy with a tractor can bale a field and then take in the huge round rolls without ever even getting out of his seat.
