[tumblindice]

Well said. Farming is some of the hardest, most dangerous work around. First chance my uncle got, he ran off from the farm/ranch, flew B-17s over Germany: Better food, got to sleep in and kept all his fingers.
Buck bales of hay all day on your farm and see how you feel.
People who think they’re going to go back to the land remind me of `Oliver Wendell Douglas’ and the TV show `Green Acres’. Or hippies and their agri-communes where they slowly starved.

[familyop]

"Farming is some of the hardest, most dangerous work around."

I used a Johnny Popper on one job for several seasons (old John Deere...open little cylinder valves and turn the big flywheel by hand to start).

"...and kept all his fingers."

...did custom machining for a few years, including 14-foot-bed engine lathes. Expediting and labor were more dangerous.

"Buck bales of hay all day on your farm and see how you feel."

...ten hours a day, six days a week for a living some seasons...topping logs and firewood during others.

We need the default, IMO.

[xzins]

Gardening is hard work. Hard doesn’t mean impossible, though. It does make you wonder how easily those Americans of the 18th and 19th centuries could have kicked our ass if it ever came to a fight. That hard work would have made them lean and tough.

Real easy.

[GOPJ]

First chance my uncle got, he ran off from the farm/ranch, flew B-17s over Germany: Better food, got to sleep in ...

You get it, tumblindice. Thanks for sharing.