Posted by fixerupper on July 29, 2015 at 18:32:05 from (100.42.82.100):
In Reply to: Break time posted by 37Chief on July 29, 2015 at 11:15:01:
In my younger days If I was in the field I would take lunch along and the tractor didn't shut down till supper, then it was fired up again for a few more hours. Now I get so stiff and sore and buggered up after sitting a few hours I have to get out to walk around every couple hours or sooner and the tractor doesn't run longer than ten or twelve hours a day.
In the winter, again when I was younger, when I spent most of my time in the shop I'd break mid-morn and mid-afternoon and then get a few more hours in after supper. The body doesn't want me to do that anymore.
The farmers I used to work with a lot and still do somewhat, would maybe have breakfast before they hit the field, they would run till mid-afternoon before they had a sandwich and then get back at it till ten at night or so. After another sandwich and thermos of coffee they would continue on till the wee hours. They were doing that when they turned 60 years old! I could never do that even when I was younger.
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