Most physical demanding job?

Biggins · 19-09-2009 01:37PM #1

I was having a debate with a friend over what was the most physical (5 day a week, hour by hour) tiring job around today.
I suggested maybe a builders labourer or someone working on trawlers.
Can anyone else suggest others?

Neo# · 19-09-2009 01:38PM

Boxer:D

Carsinian Thau · 19-09-2009 01:39PM

Intern Doctor.

Schism · 19-09-2009 01:39PM

I was going to say those guys working on trawlers too except that's not a 5 day a week job.

Good one, hard to say isn't it.

m3llowship · 19-09-2009 01:39PM

The crowd on the deadliest catch show, they must have it worst.

4 hours sleep every day, and working in brutal freezing conditions.

But then again they can work for one month of the year and live well.

Cianos · 19-09-2009 01:40PM

Builders do physically demanding jobs? I thought the job just involved everyone standing around looking at a hole.

kwalshe · 19-09-2009 01:40PM

i work calibrating and servicing industrial weighing scales, there can be days when i can lift over 5 tonnes over the course of a working day

soundsham · 19-09-2009 01:41PM

depends who walks past

rickshaw driver in texas

Schism · 19-09-2009 01:42PM

Cianos wrote: »

Builders do physically demanding jobs? I thought the job just involved everyone standing around looking at a hole.

Builders labourers do work pretty damn hard, generally speaking. Gonna throw farming in there, I know lots of people won't agree but there is still a good few hard working farmers out there.

El Weirdo · 19-09-2009 01:44PM

[obligatory AH Mary Harney joke]

Mary Harney's arse wiper

[/obligatory AH Mary Harney joke]

El Guapo! · 19-09-2009 01:45PM

Carrying Mary Harneys lunch-box?? :eek:

trad · 19-09-2009 01:46PM

Possibly a bicycle courier. 8 hours a day in the saddle.

Cianos · 19-09-2009 01:48PM

Schism wrote: »

Builders labourers do work pretty damn hard, generally speaking. Gonna throw farming in there, I know lots of people won't agree but there is still a good few hard working farmers out there.

ah I know, was only takin the piss. Just have driven by road workers a few times and see one guy down a hole with a pick-axe and 5 lads standing around the hole looking at him.

Stercus Accidit · 19-09-2009 01:48PM

Dean09 wrote: »

Carrying Mary Harneys lunch-box?? :eek:

You mean pushing the lunch-barrow?

Don't forget the other guy operating the shovel.

kwalshe · 19-09-2009 01:50PM

trad wrote: »

Possibly a bicycle courier. 8 hours a day in the saddle.

how do you get in to a saddle?

anonymous_joe · 19-09-2009 01:51PM

Wow, I like some fresh humour.

Presumably a builder or medical intern doing 20 hour shifts or whatever it is.

My name is URL · 19-09-2009 01:51PM

Bridge Crewmembers have it tough

Biggins · 19-09-2009 01:52PM

Coal man?

Sulmac · 19-09-2009 01:55PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spaw8bCZMHc

Also, no one has said prostitute yet? Is AH maturing? :pac:

El Guapo! · 19-09-2009 01:56PM

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060901-sewer-video.html

This one has to be up there as one of the worst jobs! :eek:

soundsham · 19-09-2009 01:57PM

bigamist

dan719 · 19-09-2009 02:00PM

[QUOTE=Biggins;62178484someone working on trawlers.
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I win. What do I get eh? Seriously though, it all depends on what type of gear a crew is using. Towing(dropping a net and dragging it along the seabed) is far less physically demanding then hauling pots or static gear (gillnets). On the big trawlers which shows such as Trawlermen focus most work is done mechanically and main work of deckhand is gutting fish. Potfishing involves much more physical work and as tragic circumstances during the week showed, possibly more dangerous.

mikemac · 19-09-2009 02:01PM

I'd put farming as tougher then construction work.
Working on a building site isn't a 7 day a week job and doesn't involve working in the middle of the night like lambing season.

Probably working a trawler is tougher, I don't know a whole lot about it. Respect for the guys on the Deadliest Catch though! :cool:

chopperbyrne · 19-09-2009 02:04PM

It's clearly being a taxi driver. Do you not know how hard they have it? :rolleyes:

Biggins · 19-09-2009 02:05PM

mikemac wrote: »

I'd put farming as tougher then construction work.
Working on a building site isn't a 7 day a week job and doesn't involve working in the middle of the night like lambing season...

Himmm, very true!

Ruu_Old · 19-09-2009 02:07PM

Ice Road Truckers. :eek:

fastrac · 19-09-2009 02:07PM

All the U.S shows like Deadliest Catch,Ax Men,Ice Road Truckers show how tough it is over there.Employers seem to have very little worries about safety.If a truck crashes in -40 on the ice road they seem to be more worried about the environment than the driver.Life is cheap out there.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 19-09-2009 02:14PM

Errrmmmm your all forgetting - MODERATOR'S - you ungrateful bastards :mad:

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nacho libre · 19-09-2009 02:17PM

the people in the amazon that work 16 hour days for the illegal loggers.

rainbowdrop · 19-09-2009 02:17PM

Barman in The Steering Wheel pub, Limerick.......:pac:

play4fun1 · 19-09-2009 02:19PM

What about medical and military personal in some of the worlds hotspots ? Most of plantation workers in south America , mine workers araund the globe .

Most physical demanding job?

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