It's been 40 years since I ran a jackhammer

[wwillson]

You guys are all wimps. When I was a teen too young to drive, I broke up concrete patios in a trailer park with a pick axe and a sledgehammer. Then loaded what would fit into a small trailer, pulled it with an old rider mower back into a field and unloaded it by hand, went back for more until job was done. Then started on the next patio. Without any help.

Did I mention how hot it was that summer? And how stupid I was?

You should have grown up on a farm and had two square miles of land that needed to have all the rocks picked up.

My brother always asks me to come back and pick up rocks in the spring. I'm always busy.

 

[RhondaHonda]

You guys are all wimps. When I was a teen too young to drive, I broke up concrete patios in a trailer park with a pick axe and a sledgehammer. Then loaded what would fit into a small trailer, pulled it with an old rider mower back into a field and unloaded it by hand, went back for more until job was done. Then started on the next patio. Without any help.

Did I mention how hot it was that summer? And how stupid I was?

That reminds me, we took the rental trailer to the dump, thinking we’d just back down the hill, open the gate and all the busted concrete would magically slide out! Nope. Hand unloaded a few trailers worth.

 

[4wd]

That reminds me, we took the rental trailer to the dump, thinking we’d just back down the hill, open the gate and all the busted concrete would magically slide out! Nope. Hand unloaded a few trailers worth.

What this reminds me of - is maybe around year 9 of 99 for our freeway project (rip out big for REAL BIG) - somebody realized they could repurpose the broken up concrete

 

[burbguy82]

Kids don't understand what work is now days.

not a clue

 

[Pablo]

I weren’t smart enough or big enough to run the hammer so I was tasked with loading the wheel barrow.

Put yer back into it!