What is the most physically demanding local job?

Food service, but it keeps you in shape and you get free food from dope customers. I've heard recycling, like old tire hauling is very demanding and can get very dirty as well.

 

I can think of two more that while I haven't personally done them, i have no desire too. (ok, 3 actually now that i'm sitting here)

shingle delivery. pick up each 50lb bundle of shingles and place them on a conveyor. yeah, not fun. or even worse be the guy catching them on the slick roof and placing them down.

tire recyclers. This place is always looking. "go out until the trailer is full, approximately 1000 tires each day). by hand. They only pay $20/hour. why anyone would do that........

old style garbage pickups. Where you pick the can up and flip it over into the "bay"? that's a lot of weight each and every day. usually pays jack. and it smells bad.

 

moving companies

 

Don't short change the shingle guys. I did some roofing years ago and I'm pretty sure those bundles are 80 pounds. 50 would be a piece of cake!

 

I think of one, ceramic tile. Off a container into NE washington DC somewhere.

Lucky this was before they started shipping Granite Counter tops...

I did not get too many of those seacans thankfully, all of which have to be unloaded heavy little things. Another would be carpeting. You needed to bulk up until carpets were light.

Finally I save the best for last. I had a temp assignment to a failed drug store chain of some kind that was clearing out the space. Everything that needed moving by hand was huge, heavy and BIG. The men I was with were bigger. My first 10 minutes in 3 of them eyeballed me and told the boss send me home he's too little for this work. Boss said let him work and see if he quits or not. (Gulp...)

I lasted three weeks and change on sheer heart and motivation. But it's a little bit of a learning in many ways what work you should be doing according to what you are capable of doing. It wont be the last time I worked with big boys on the job. But that stuff was heavy. *Bangs head. Wages were 3.35 a hour then in them days. half consumed by gasoline. Ha...

 

You're all wrong. (i just read the reply above mine, that's right)

The most physically demanding is a local drywall delivery service. Each sheet of drywall weighs 100lbs and they wrap them 2 at a time. You have to carry them inside of construction sites.

I tried it and got a hernia the first day.

 

Toughest I ever had was hauling feed. Load was 800 80lb sacks of feed and all had to be carried up into loft of barn

 

On the breeding farm horse we had body size sacks that held about 120 pounds of feed each. Those were dispersed to different barns. Once the feed truck filled the silo, it's feed bag time. I think my spine creaked on some of those. Not so much the weight but rather the length and problems with angles.