Well, it's all relative...a lot of those stories about how hard people worked might be exaggerated just a little bit, but on the other hand there's no doubt a lot of the jobs we now do with machines (like milking cows for instance) are easier...or we just don't need to do the hard jobs the hard way because our lifestyle doesn't demand it. I grew up in the 1940's and 1950's with everyone telling me I didn't have to work nearly as hard as they did when they were growing up. My family men were farmers, threshermen and sawmillers. Later on some younger men than I was "on the jobs" with used to ask me why I worked so hard and I just told them I was "used to it"..and I was, that was what I was used to. Honestly, the hardest work I ever did, physically or mentally, was some task I had to hurry on and it took all my mental ability to figure out how to do the job the best way to get it done as soon as possible. If you're used to it, you can work hard physically and feel okay doing it, the key thing is getting used to it. Being a maintenance man most of my life, I've built a lot of things, installed a lot of things, and fixed a lot of things...and none of the jobs were too hard unless I had to do it in hurry and compromise doing it right in order to get it done in time.
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Today's Featured Article - Stories From Old Farmer - by K. Pratt. Old Farmer, a.k.a. Dale Jensen began posting messages to our discussion forums at the grand age of 75. With extensive knowledge of farming and tractors, he valued the past and the ways that went with it. He shared these values with us until shortly before his passing. I spoke with Dale in his last days and requested his permission to share some of his stories with the readers of our magazine. He agreed, and provided the
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