Clever Design Eases Back-Breaking Labour
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (340116)
Rockingham, Australia
May 11, 2017 8:27pm CST
I have been trying to rationalise my photos. That's the trouble with digital cameras. I take umpteen photos of the one item/scene but rarely delete any of them. So while trying to delete some I came across this one of my nephew loading hay bales into a shed.
This was once back-breaking work as hay bales are heavy. I wrecked my back years ago lifting a bale. This invention lifts a number at a time, can lift them high in the air and place them nice and neat in a shed. It is just as easy for the machine to remove them later.
Some clever person has designed this. If I had a hat, I'd lift it in admiration of the guy.
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@moffittjc (121589)
• Gainesville, Florida
13 May 17
We often complain about machines taking over our lives and taking over all our jobs, but let's face it...machines make our lives so much easier! I'm all for any machine that make life better and easier for us humans!
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@moffittjc (121589)
• Gainesville, Florida
13 May 17
@JudyEv Our brains are hard-wired that way, to mostly remember the good times and barely remember the bad times. If it wasn't the case, women would never have more than one baby, because all they would remember is how painful the first delivery was!
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@JudyEv (340116)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 May 17
@moffittjc Does it work that way with man flu? 
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@sissy15 (12290)
• United States
13 May 17
I love people who invent things that make our lives easier but would like to clobber some people with their inventions, for instance, the person who thought that putting tile floors down and putting tile in showers...do they not realize how difficult those things are to keep clean? Anyway, yes I imagine this does help a lot. Heavey lifting has taken out many a back.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
13 May 17
When I was younger I could toss a bale of hay with no effort at all. I couldn't do it today!
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
15 May 17
@JudyEv I lift on my granddaughter every day, several times a day, and my back nags me for it. I can't recall when I started to lose my upper body strength.
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@JudyEv (340116)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 May 17
@ElusiveButterfly I do hope you'll be as careful as possible. Lifting little children can be really hard on the back.
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
13 May 17
I have lifted a lot of hay bales over the years and could have used this machine. Its hard work that takes lots of time, so really appreciate help from equipment.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
13 May 17
Yes, that is a great device and has saved many backs along the way.
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@noni1959 (10095)
• United States
13 May 17
In the winter when it snows or the grass isn't long enough yet we feed hay. Most the time we get the huge round or square that weigh close to a ton and use our tractor to move them but occasionally we run out and go buy the 100 lb bales and those are back breaking.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
14 May 17
Oh gosh I still remember the one time I loaded Hays that was awful hard work and so itchy after from the hay
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@JudyEv (340116)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 May 17
Hay can be very itchy. It seems to get everywhere - in your boots, down the back of your neck - terrible stuff.
@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
12 May 17
There are so many things that take the place of Hard menial labor that we all had to do back in the day. Things like this that you're talking about here though, do make things a lot easier than what they used to be. Now the nice thing is if done right help preserve people in so many ways
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@JudyEv (340116)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 May 17
There have been many inventions, some quite minor, that save people a lot of effort.
@allknowing (136479)
• India
13 May 17
India had this rare experience of lifting a woman using a crane. This woman weighed 500 kgs. and had to be treated in a hospital here.
Eman Ahmed was transported by a fully-equipped truck, which was followed by an ambulance and a police escort, to Saifee Hospital where a special room has been built for her. | 500-kg Egyptian woman in Mumbai for treatment, lifted by crane
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@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
12 May 17
Really we should appreciate him for having invented this device or method. Even in the house construction also many remarkable changes have taken place which are really awesome.
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@JudyEv (340116)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 May 17
That's very true. Some of these inventions do save people a lot of effort.
@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
12 May 17
I've seen those machines before. Had no idea what they did!
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