The Worst Jobs In History with Tony Robinson S02E05 Rural

[@taryntd32]

I can't stop watching Tony documentaries.. 💜💜💜

[@terrorfire8505]

These documentaries with Baldrick are really good

[@maggiee639]

Watching tony attempt to wash the sheep made my day

[@mikkelnpetersen]

2:17 That "What are we doing?" is just perfect

[@amydyer9764]

He's one heck of a good sport

[@sanguisdominus]

Even today agriculture is one of the most dangerous and risky professions in the UK, claiming an extraordinary amount of lives.

[@calebgonzales2193]

Tony always makes laugh unexpectedly lol

[@darlenekovach7983]

Tony rides a sheep! Made my day!

[@multipass2567]

I fucking love how scared he is of heights 😂

[@Stannnnnnnnn]

I got nervous just watching Tony climb the spire.

[@MusicalMissCapri]

The thresher did it for me. *Shudder*

[@MusicalMissCapri]

Oh, and the sin eater. Eww, gross!

[@brettknoss486]

Miss Capri Later thresher used a drop scale, instead of keeping the twines.

[@bilindalaw-morley161]

Did Tony come up with a way to be paid (probably a large sum) for doing immersion therapy for his phobia? Well played. It's working, he's a lot calmer when climbing than he was in the beginning.

[@stefanvanveenendaal5741]

Not much has changed for the surveyor's assistant / chainman / poleman, especially where GPS isn't used in smaller survey firms - It's still a lot of walking, holding a pole, doing some digging, doing some more walking, bushwacking, navigating barking dogs, climbing precarious fences. Although it's slightly inaccurate: Surveyors then, doing any kind of triangulation work, would have had access to the Troughton and Simms or Repsold theodolites, usually weighing up to 100kg a piece. And it was the surveyor's assistant who had that job. In fact, before the modern total station, and even in the days of the plane table, a survey crew would consist of a surveyor, a poleman, at least one (often two) chainman. For larger subdivision surveys, there may be an additional observer, while the surveyor and a computer would sit, often for weeks at a time, flipping through logarithmic tables and calculating the positions of boundaries, and computing the setting-out data for placing beacons on those boundaries. It was a monumental undertaking, the glory days of surveying.

[@GasMaskManifesto]

Stefan van Veenendaal I’m a chainman in Georgia (the US state) and all of what you said is true. I’ve had many days where I came home covered in sweat, blood, and dirt.

[@stefanvanveenendaal5741]

GasMaskManifesto I'm right now studying to be a professional surveyor in South Africa and when I started my practical training my boss made me chainman. It's not an easy job, and I appreciate any man who will do it tirelessly and efficiently. But I have also been spoilt to have a boss who has a fantastic relationship with his regular chainman.

[@GasMaskManifesto]

Stefan van Veenendaal good deal! I have some years in the field before I start thinking of school. In the meantime my practical education has been great, and my boss is starting to train me on the total station. I have major respect for anyone who can go out there and get dirty day after day.

[@stefanvanveenendaal5741]

Fantastic, keep at it!

[@maggiee639]

This seems like a very difficult job. I would totally mess up

[@szymongorczynski7621]

Yes... washing steeping in filthy, muddy water. That really works...

[@Invictus13666]

@Celto Loco wrong again.

[@luckylegz222luckylegz9]

thanks that was brill!

[@sophiee.h]

rural special. tony robinson finds the up market rural jobs

[@kcsunshine4008]

I’m a farmer’s daughter and helped my dad castrate piglets back in the 70s..... in Lincolnshire

[@DanielKennedy]

Whats the intro song?😊

[@wtrdawnlord]

How is it nearly every episode has some segment with poor Tony climbing some perilous height? It makes my palms sweat just watching him. Actually now that I consider it, there's nearly a formula to each episode. Perilous height, piss, shit and something smelly enough to induce vomiting.

[@ibraveheart5700]

10:42 That is NOT the right way to use the scythe!

[@HadridarMatramen]

No, I know. It was kinda painful to watch him try to use the scythe, and the other man not correcting him and teaching him how to really do it!!!!!

[@toomaskotkas4467]

There were no nettle harvesters in this episode despite the announcement.

[@caIigula]

There was, a very short mentioning is at 20:18

[@oceanelf2512]

That's because he was referring to an earlier episode.

[@Invictus13666]

@@oceanelf2512 no.

[@maggiee639]

Imagine having 2019 allergies and working on that wheat thresher

[@maggiee639]

@Celto Loco hey we still call it yay fever, good to know where the term comes from!

[@MB5rider81]

42:02 That's it . . That's the one, yeah..

[@KAT-ew9wz]

one of my great grandmothers was killed in a threshing machine. not a nice way to go, especially with the rest of the family there too

[@oceanelf2512]

Sin eater. Gross. And just plain weird.. They sure had some strange superstitions back then. Threshing machine, terrifying.

[@MusicalMissCapri]

Sheep bleating is actually rather ugly sounding. Lambs sound cute, but adult sheep, not so much.

[@crj5106]

Miss Capri our five sheep bleating is more of a "Maaahhhn" so sadly I have a habit of going "Hatten" in reply.

[@AllMnM]

"primitive chemistry" ... its piss isnt it?

[@simonbroberg969]

Nah, it's shite

[@egparis18]

Music too loud.

[@johnbreitley2389]

Is that Tony Robins a famous dancer that makes 15 000 people events where people pay him $10K per ticket to dance with him at his events?

[@scottinWV]

No. Tony Robinson from "Blackadder"

[@cogsinister100]

The loud music all the way through ruins this series.

[@dinothil7211]

sa is going through online schooling