Originally Posted by logger
Unloading 94lb bags of cement from a box car in the middle of a Southern Oregon summer heat wave. - - - -
That stuff can become brutal - best if it is done by young bucks who need the work and have strength and stamina to spare. One of my summer laborer jobs in the oil refinery was in a unit where they used clay for some refining process, and it arrived in 95 pound bags - a boxcar full - every day. Scoot up the ramp, grab a bag, hustle down the ramp and 10 yards to the conveyor, smash the edge of the bag on the requisite spike and dump the clay into the spinning worm. Toss the empty bag into a dumpster. Repeat for 8 hours. All four of us looked like the dough boy after each shift.. Helps develop perspective.


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