What Farm jobs are dreaded?

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By Dwain Duxson dwaind@farmtender.com.au

What Farm jobs are dreaded? - We write a bit about how hard Farmers work. These days it's more the long hours rather than the physical work, that's compared to years ago when the jobs were more manual.  

The more physical jobs were the ones most of us dreaded. Carting small Hay Bales is one people most talk about. It was usually done in the peak of Summer, and when the wind was blowing the chaff of the Hay was equally annoying as getting lathered in Oat dust during Harvest. Then there was the stacking, unstacking, and stacking again. No wonder there was always beer involved at the end of the day. 

One I used to hate was toe-nailing Rams. Usually, we had 4-500 to do, and there were about 50 older Rams that would test your metal. They were tough cutting. Anything to do with flyblown Sheep wasn't much fun, and Crutching when the dags were on the skin made for tough going and a hot handpiece. Changing the points on the Combine on a frosty morning usually led to some form of hand or finger damage, and cutting Bathurst Burr in the peak of Summer, wasn't such a hard job but a monotonous one. Some years it was never-ending, but you had to get every last one. I'm sure there were others.

I am not sure whether these and other dreaded jobs were character-building or not. I was fit back then, but I know that now in my early 50's, these jobs would be a hell of a lot harder. There is always a wide range of jobs that need to be done on a Farm, some of them pleasant, many of them not so nice. What Farm jobs did/do you dread?

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