Actually, when I was younger, I tried (note the word "tried") two different jobs that I started in the AM and quit before noon. One was installing fence. After using a posthole digger a few times, I told the guy I was working with, "that's it, gotta go back to the office!". "Why?" he asked. I said "I quit!". The other was helping a friend do drywall. I could barely lift the sheets of drywall up, let alone, hold and hammer nails in. This was before air-gun/hammers were around. Just a regular hammer and a few nails in my mouth. I spent my entire high school years splitting tree pieces with a sludge hammer and steel wedge and doing fairly hard physical labor on the farm. In the Navy, not as much labor in the rate I chose, but was some. After the Navy, got into warehousing and FINALLY went into Purchasing and Inventory Management where I had my own office/computer/phone. I absolutely loved the office work and it paid fairly good. I have built things, like a book case, small dresser, dog house...….but there are things I love to do much more.
@Nancy Hart I have seen this on the trees farms! It is amazing and also the machines that cut the trees. If you want to know how to sharpen those blades, I can't help you ha ha ha!
@Cody Fousnaugh Well, I thought you were a ranch hand, a real cowboy that branded, castrated, and built fence. Fence building with post hole diggers or manual steel post driver would be a no no for me now with my shoulders, but I built miles of it that way in my time. Now it is all done with machines. Only office job I have ever had was as a social worker and only about an hour a day was in the office for paper work and the rest was out on job sites finding employers to take on released prisoners that wanted to work and start a new beginning. I got the job because I had to help train the prisoners on the job for a couple of weeks. I knew enough to help them get started learning farming, ranching, or construction. The employers didn't want to start from scratch. After two years, the state wanted me to be full time office and let the employers do all the training. They gave the employers a break for doing it. I was unhappy after the first week in the office, attending meetings, endless piles of papers to fill out, and all the work place politics. I was offered a job by a bridge construction company. I was back in the great outdoors and happy! I did some office style work when I was a broadcast engineer at radio stations. Most was hands on maintenance and repairs. Filling out all the logs for the FCC wasn't that fun, but necessary. I have always loved the outdoors and hard work, but now that is limited to daily walks and yard work. I need to find some small logs and get my little saw back to work.
I once had a job working for a tv station and two radio stations filling out FCC reports and ASCAP and BMI reports and some other mickey mouse paper work. That was in addition to my full time job with Texas Electric Service Company, a class A, electrical utility Company.
Thanks, but I'm a bit of a girly girl. I wouldn't do anything to mess up my nails or get a hand splinter.
Sorry, but I was a "weekend cowboy" in professional rodeo. You didn't know that? I worked full-time in the electronics industry. All the guys I knew, that done rodeo as well, had full-time jobs. I never worked a ranch in my life, however, did help my step-dad on a small hog farm. I have never been into "hard outdoor work", but fun outdoor/indoor arena Team Roping was great. I absolutely loved having an office and all of the things that go with it, like computer, etc.. The hardest outdoor work I do these days is helping my wife take care of our powerboat or doing a little maintenance work on our vehicle...….BUT, very little vehicle maintenance work.
This is the best video on how to sharpen a chain. As I mentioned earlier, unless one hits a nail or rock or runs in the dirt, sharpening every gas fill or second battery charge, doesn't take long and is simple. As so many things in life, constant and timely attention saves a lot of time and aggravation.
Finally got around to sharpening the saw Saturday. I bought one of those metal brackets long ago to hold the file, but couldn't find it, so I did the best I could without it. You can sort of feel the difference, I think, when to quit...when it doesn't drag. We'll see.