BE CAREFUL!! Many years ago, I did commercial "yard work" primarily final grading and sowing grass. I had a Goosen Straw chopper/blower bolted to back corner of truck bed...IDEALLY a three person job to blow straw. Needed a truck driver...a person on back of truck...and me on the ground dragging the hose around. It "could work" with two people, and I would stop to move truck.
I asked my young teenage dtr. to "help Daddy" by chunking the bales into the blower. As a lot of kids are, she was a bit whiny about it. To make helping me more "attractive" I said I would pay her.
"How much?"
"50 cents per bale..." was what popped outta my mouth w/o thinking.
"How many bales?"
"I don't know...maybe 15 or 20 bales for this job.." I was anxious to get it done...late in afternoon and rain coming!!
"Er...how many can you do per hour...??"
Folks...I knew right then that I was in trouble cause that machine could/would chop/blow as many as 50 bales in an hour if yard was big, etc.
Do the math...I got snookered into paying my kid the equivalent of $25 / hour to "help Daddy" put out a dozen bales of straw.
Moral of this story: BE CAREFUL cause the lil darlings are a whole lot smarter than you think.
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