The Worst Jobs In History - 2x05 - Rural

The Worst Jobs In History - Season 2 Episode 5 - Rural

[@guitargeorge1874]

For a man who fears heights, I give Tony a great deal of credit for putting his fears and life on the line for giving us the entertainment and education on the work of a steeple Jack. Thanks again, Tony!

[@RICDirector]

Tony, you are SO MUCH braver than I . I loathe heights, and you simply could not pay me enough to go up there. And yet...you did. KUDOS!

[@JACKO1997]

Tony Robinson deserves a medal. Absoulte legendary love your work!!.

[@ChiHatcher]

Thank you so kindly for sharing this series. I really enjoyed them.

[@Ponylover115]

I absolutely luv Tony/this show! He is my favorite actor and historian! Every time I watch his shows I always learn something new and facinating! Like me Tony is passionate about history! I would love to meet him one day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MusicalMissCapri]

Same here. :)

[@nunyanunya4147]

wait this guy is famous?

[@guitargeorge1874]

I too like Tony. He puts a good sense of humor in educating us. I stumbled upon one of his other "worst jobs" episodes and have been addicted ever since.

[@jehansanzterre3956]

For anyone who also wondered what a reddleman/ruddleman did,he daubed the sheep with reddle,the local term for red ochre.My grandparents worked in threshing teams during the 1910's in N.Dakota,so this episode provides amazing insight into their lives at that time.These shows are such wonderful lessons on our privileged lives and all the toil,hardship,misery and sweat out forerunners did to earn daily bread and brass.(Have to wonder who decided to suck out sheep testicles orally?)Cheers!

[@jelkel25]

My dad and granddad used to do the harvest as kids, they loved it, they got to spend all day in the day light. When they got older they had to go down the coal mines and saw daylight one week in three.

[@miekadegerness67]

Thankyou kindly for sharing this Tony . Always love to learn new things and how things were done before my time

[@franmike152]

I remember helping my uncle and his family with the threshing when i was a kid back in the 50s. The machine they used was not unlike the one Tony was on. We never thought of the job as dangerous, just dirty. That stuff really does get in your hair, down your back, etc. Was a hard job but just part of farming.

[@bilindalaw-morley161]

@7:20..for once Tony left me wondering so I detoured to Google. Reddle was a dialect name for red ochre, the reddle man dug/quarried it, and took it around the countryside in both powder n liquid form to sell to farmers so they could mark their sheep. Marking them, I think, would have been necessary because many times a flock would be grazed with others as they grazed loose along the grass verges of roads or on the village green

[@lauraalittle]

These videos ARE wonderful. One thing I've noticed: Tony consistently chooses as his worst-of-the-worst jobs those that involve heights. If Tony is afraid of heights, he is certainly a brave soul. Personally, I'll take steeple jack ahead of sin eater any day. :-)

[@Nmethyltransferase]

Anthropologist: "So, what's like being a Medieval English shepherd?" Medieval English Shepherd: "Honestly? It sucks balls!"

[@franmike152]

ROFLMAO

[@jeannegerh]

These videos are the BEST!

[@maxdecphoenix]

That scythe work was difficult to watch. It's a scythe, not a slasher. You don't hack with it, it glides over the soil. It takes practice, and the most common mistake is taking too large a bite. Only the first third of the blade, the toe, is supposed to lead into the cut, and the swing produces a slicing action, not the hacking swing that tries to just push the blade through the vegetation. Suffice to say, he is most definitely not doing it right. However, scythes were custom fit to the user. The expensive blades would have been passed down, but generally men would have a tailor made snath (shaft and handles) for their body. One profession was that of the snath fitter. A professional who scythemen and farmers would go to who would fabricate custom made snaths for the individual and set the blade to accommodate any non standard mowing postures. As I understand it, the last surviving snath fitter in England died in 1962. It really isn't as laborious as people make it out, most of the confusion and frustration with the scythe comes from it falling out of practice, and very few people remain to instruct. It's about impossible to translate the correct motion from words on a page, but if you had grandpa to watch and teach you it'd be quite simple. Like riding a bike. I purchased a scythe two years ago and enjoy using it, but it does take quite a bit of effort to set up correctly and master. Society didn't give up scything because no one wanted to do it, they mechanized it because no one wanted to pay labor costs. Regardless everything in that segment was wrong, too late in the season, too late in the day, wrong technique, and probably a dull scythe to boot. But that's the narrative of the series, make the past look miserable. Wouldn't do to show a skilled person with proper kit effortlessly reaping the sedge.

[@chlorophyllheart]

Course not, people nowadays have to know that it wasn't a simple job you could just wake up one morning and do well. Hopefully instigating appreciation for their situation now. The more info the better, but it is a show; just giving a dramatized taste of past experiences for light info and entertainment in a short time frame. Thanks for the extra info though, now I know there was such a thing as scythe fitters!

[@hitokage4]

It's quite fun to use a proper scythe though if you get good at it, same with a hand sickle. I'd love to have a scythe for yard work but man a nice one is *really* expensive now a days!

[@brianfuller7691]

❤OS maps and mad respect to surveyors and survey teams. So many practical uses for both urine and poop. In rural communities, the respect given to skilled craftsmen as opposed to a general labourer was noteworthy. Both however were part of communities and the economy.

[@DisnowLute]

The threshing machine is reminding me of Dad's Army when Jones fell into the hopper

[@patriciatreslove146]

Good on you Sir Tony

[@miniveedub]

Patricia Treslove I

[@user-xn2hf9re8r]

He is a gem. Felt sick from the start of the steeplejack section.

[@Rickzenbackzer]

6:35 I find that bit so funny for some reason haha

[@ANTINUTZI]

Heath Ledger did a film called *THE ORDER,* which dealt with "sin eating". Absolutely fantastic film. Miss You, Mate.

[@ChainSmashers]

+Thomas Cervasio From threshing to sin eating. *Shudder* I'm feeling horrified.

[@MusicalMissCapri]

Ugh. But then, I'm rather phobic about going near dead bodies, so the idea of sin eating really creeps me out. Glad they don't believe in that any more. Eww, gross.

[@azbrowne]

It's true! Sheep do have different kinds of bleats depending on what country they're in.

[@user-xn2hf9re8r]

Love Tony he always makes me smile

[@TheTheoldgit]

Tony . You are a hero! thank you SonicGamesReviews you are also a Hero!

[@hint0122]

true, but think of doing it in the middle or winter or while it is raining.

[@RichardGMoss]

19:49, seems an exaggeration to say that the bags weighed 16 stone

[@godzilloid]

People today have no idea how easy we really have it.

[@Tippet76]

What's so bad about the survey one? You walk around for a job. Yes if you think of it as "Oh I'm on my feet all day and I have to go back and remeasure this is boring." Than yeah it's going to suck but if you just are thinking to yourself that you get to look at new countryside every day and you get paid for it than it's not bad at all. They probably didn't even take measurements in the rain because of visibility issues too.

[@NachaBeez]

Tippet76, did you actually listen to the video? Some surveyors were attacked by suspicious locals

[@Tippet76]

@@NachaBeez Not sure if I listened to the video 7 years ago.

[@The_Daily_Tomato]

Worst job in the 21 century? Assistant brick smasher. Vacume cleaning hard weat mud for 8-12 hours with only 20 min break. So happy i got fired from that one :D

[@billijomaynard9081]

in medieval times it would have been, their way of thinking was much different than ours, A Sin Eater would have been treated like someone with plague. Easy job by our standards, yes if you fancy spending every waking moment by yourself, finding a spouse willing to be with you would have been very hard. The Roman Catholic Church would have seen a sin eater as the lowest of the low and people would have been terrified of you.

[@MusicalMissCapri]

The job itself would've been lonely, but worse, gross.

[@jaspersmommy1347]

If you can find it, watch the Night Gallery episode with Richard Thomas called "the Sin Eater" it may change your mind.

[@MsDjessa]

That wool in the coffin thing went against the belief that god is all knowing. Especially as someone who just didn't go to church cuz they didn't want to could fool god with a piece of wool. :'D And the job on sin eater tells the country folk did not believe in a fair and just god. Nor a too logical one either.

[@MsDjessa]

***** I kinda implied what you just asked.

[@MusicalMissCapri]

Actually no. The people had cockeyed beliefs about God, they didn't believe in an unreasonable god. Their beliefs about God were unreasonable.

[@The.Pickle]

45:40 The Cock and ball, excellent lol

[@lordgonzogriffith]

ive seen them castrate sheep that way in brazil in 2008.

[@maarukka58]

White led was what Elisabeth I wore on her face. 0-0

[@SouthwesternEagle]

That could be why she was so temperamental.

[@comicgenius21]

fuck sake, lads grow up, I live on a farm, I clean out stables, when we are building sheds, we are hosted up into the air with little (or sometimes) no harness or safety gear, and we also have to wash out and clean the Slatted house (house for cattle with holes so the shit and piss can seep down into a trap)

[@desertdaisymarie6951]

comicgenius21 well good for you.. I’m scared of heights and have trouble standing on a chair..

[@ixthedemon6925]

9:10... Tony is adorable... Give him that at least... But tall men are almost ALWAYS worth the climb! I am 4'11" and married a man a foot and a half my height. Id climb him anyday... The man in this clip, looks quite like my husband. HUZZAH! to the casting director! Cheers!

[@ixthedemon6925]

*Sorry... I got a bit over excited. I am 4'11" and my husband is TALLER THAN ME by a foot and a half... Anyway... I never have to get my knees dirty... ...unlike me mind!

[@Nino8015]

whats the music at 31:49?

[@edbadyt]

Sin eater? Eating bread is a worst job? I'd swap it for mine any day!

[@MusicalMissCapri]

Not just eating bread. Eating it - off a corpse. Completely different and gross aspect there.

[@djensen1957]

Neat!

[@wo2847]

21:57 why did he have to eat it off that dude's crotch

[@Dumbchannel2]

They should have done colonial times

[@petercushingsexcrementnigh7250]

Roach I think they were only doing British history.

[@NachaBeez]

Peter Cushing's Excrement Nightmare soooo the British colonies

[@The_Daily_Tomato]

@er10b Well atleast you can breath and you don't need to take a 2 hour shower after that :)

[@salemgirl123]

..i remenber castrating lambs with my uncle when i was younger...

[@Taxandrya]

lol 39:28

[@willyD200]

Not sure why anyone would consider these being, "The worst Jobs in History . " Out of doors, clean fresh air, physical work to keep one in shape, but not over taxing ,back breaking work. These tasks are all interesting and allow plenty of time for one to think and contemplate life while surrounded by the wonders of nature. Would you rather shovel dung or be down in dark,black coal pit for 12 hours a day ? If you have never preformed any of these tasks or simply experienced basic physical work this show would lead one to believe everything in the past was nothing but drudgery...very misleading. I'd much rather have one of these options for work than today's menial rat race jobs. If your decrepit and physically useless as host Tony is , every job appears difficult . Society presents these as " worst" tasks , but I'll take the young teen out in the field pitching hay over the one standing on the corner glued to his/her , " smart" phone looking for the app. that explains how to cross the street. It's Ironic how easily we've come to accept a dumb down zombie culture as normal and healthy while nothing could be farther from the truth.

[@charliestoke1668]

Ok boomer

[@willyD200]

How clever , and what era would that be ?

[@undeadOtter]

So...... You just copy videos in full from "Timeline" then? Hmm... Wonder if they know you are doing this