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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (216395)	2/9/2013 1:49:39 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542059

Having done actual serious manual labour in construction, [and other things], it seems that somebody who thinks it "sad" should try doing such work: <The other sad fact is that construction is less labor intensive.> It is much more fun to see a container crane hoist many tons of container onto a ship in minutes than to personally spend all day hefting stuff by hand. It is much more fun to see a concrete handling machine or precast slabs than to manually mix it and pour it and screed it. Working 12 hour non-stop shifts through the night wheeling concrete into place in a continuous slip-form is best done by machinery than me. I am not at all sad to see the manual labour go out of things. Hay storage is now done by machines too - no more working dawn to 9.30pm loading thousands of bales onto trucks and hefting them into barns. Grinding concrete [without much breathing protection and no hearing protection was not so hot either. Bag-washing blow-holes with a sand and cement mix was not so much fun too. Scaffolding was fun though [back in the day when it was done without safety harnesses or anything between me and the ground]. Mqurice