We are all getting older david and I know plenty of desk jockies who have health problems as they age.
There are plenty of older people who believe continuing physical work is keeping them fit and young at heart. This includes my local stock transport operator. The main business is run by a son in his 50,s but the father who is in his early 80's still does regular runs in the truck to the markets etc. This is a 400 km. round trip and with loading time is a good 8 hour day.
While the son is on holidays, the old man does the lot.
I had an accident in my early thirties and was told it would be best if I never worked again. I burst two discs in my back and had a third protruding. While I was offered the disability pension I continued to work and plan to continue until my mid sixties. I believe the work has kept me mobile and led to much more interesting life than I would have had on the pension.
@dom, yes I could sell up and retire, but I actually enjoy working. Its not just work, its a healthy lifestyle.
Your local stock transporter drives trucks. Until COVID I drove taxis. Neither require knees.
I would be interested in your miracle cure for worn out knees, though. Or a back held together with scar tissue where there used to be muscle.
Once again, YOUR particular circumstances aren't necessarily applicable to others.
NZ seems to be a traditional source of sheep shearers and they have no trans-tasman travel restrictions to my knowledge
Yes, there are restrictions. A NZ shearer is able to travel to Australia without any restrictions however when returning to NZ he/she would be required to quarantine in a managed facility at their own expense (currently $NZ 3100) for at least 14 days and must test negative before going into the community.
NZ seems to be a traditional source of sheep shearers and they have no trans-tasman travel restrictions to my knowledge
Yes, there are restrictions. A NZ shearer is able to travel to Australia without any restrictions however when returning to NZ he/she would be required to quarantine in a managed facility at their own expense (currently $NZ 3100) for at least 14 days and must test negative before going into the community.
But if they're earning $3000 per week they can easily afford the quarantine. After all, it's only a week's wages and an extra 2 weeks until they see their family. Surely that isn't a sacrifice.
NZ seems to be a traditional source of sheep shearers and they have no trans-tasman travel restrictions to my knowledge
Yes, there are restrictions. A NZ shearer is able to travel to Australia without any restrictions however when returning to NZ he/she would be required to quarantine in a managed facility at their own expense (currently $NZ 3100) for at least 14 days and must test negative before going into the community.
Maybe upon a successful season that quarantine fee would picked up by a grateful farmer that has been enriched by their labours , tax deductable of course
Need not be flat rate but fee contibution based upon number of sheep shorn.
As an added incentive to ongoing enthusiasm and a token expression of thoughtful humanity, an expert shearer may also accumulate credits for a return air ticket
We are all getting older david and I know plenty of desk jockies who have health problems as they age.
There are plenty of older people who believe continuing physical work is keeping them fit and young at heart. This includes my local stock transport operator. The main business is run by a son in his 50,s but the father who is in his early 80's still does regular runs in the truck to the markets etc. This is a 400 km. round trip and with loading time is a good 8 hour day.
While the son is on holidays, the old man does the lot.
I had an accident in my early thirties and was told it would be best if I never worked again. I burst two discs in my back and had a third protruding. While I was offered the disability pension I continued to work and plan to continue until my mid sixties. I believe the work has kept me mobile and led to much more interesting life than I would have had on the pension.
@dom, yes I could sell up and retire, but I actually enjoy working. Its not just work, its a healthy lifestyle.
Your local stock transporter drives trucks. Until COVID I drove taxis. Neither require knees.
I would be interested in your miracle cure for worn out knees, though. Or a back held together with scar tissue where there used to be muscle.
Once again, YOUR particular circumstances aren't necessarily applicable to others.
You obviously dont know much about stock transport david. The driving is the easy bit, although changing truck gears constantly up and down hills with heavy truck clutches is not quite the same as your taxi driving.
The hard work comes from adjusting and operating heavy loading ramps, getting in the pen with the sheep or cattle and directing them up loading races, giving them a push if needed, all the while waiting for the obligatory kick back. Dodging the wild, charging stock that are in a hurry to get going. Man handling various gates and fold down decks. Climbing on all fours between decks to shut gates, climbing up the outside rails of the stock crate to check that stock are travelling OK etc. And thats just loading. Once at the market its time to do it all again, but in opposite configuration.
As for how to work with a back held together with scar tissue, I could tell you ( from 30 years experience ) , but I suspect you dont really want to know the truth. Your hearts just not in it david.
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