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3 tons wrote:

kcmoedoe wrote:

3 tons wrote:

kcmoedoe wrote:

3 tons wrote:
Per Mex: ..."Celso, the local mechanico shakes his head when i tell him stuff like this..."The Americanos, they must have too much money"...

This, A GREAT Observation...Your point is not lost on me Mex!! I might add that when I occasionally need a casual laborer I can't hardly find a gringo. About 15yrs ago, I hired a young College summer break kid once to help carry 5gal buckets of gravel along side of me for a parameter drain system, and he quit before the lunch break - to top this off, I'd even bought him the lunch of his choosing!! (LOL)...I ended up moving the remaining 17 yards alone...Hopefully, this one experience earned the lazy kid a Phd!!

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3 tons

Perhaps it is because the "Americanos" are smart enough to know the difference between working hard, working smart and doing things that are just plain stupid. Moving 17 yards of gravel in 5 gallon buckets falls into the third category.

So manual labor, at least as a 'beginners job' is just plain stupid??...And the "Mexacanos" take a back seat at figuring this all out??...(thus, it must be their own pre-ordained fault...)...Sounds to me like you might benefit from a bit of real work yourself!!

Best Regards,

3 tons

I don't see the local day labor pool filled with fresh faced "Americano" college grads looking to do manual labor. Americanos either hire someone to do that manual labor of use the proper equipment to make the task efficient. Smart workers figure ways to get things done efficiently and economically. They don't move tons of gravel in 5 gallon buckets.

Yet in all your blissful presumption, you know 'zero' about the actual scope of the job, nor why it necessitated the aforementioned bucket transiting...'Life' must be Sweet, eh!!

3 tons

I blissfully do know how much 17 yards of gravel is, and how many 5 gallon buckets it would take to move it, and approximately how much each of those buckets would weigh. It would take over 600 completely full buckets, each weighing in at nearly 100 lbs, to move 17 yards of common 3/4 minus gravel. Even at an unbelievably fast pace of 1 bucket every 5 minutes (fill, transport, empty, return, repeat no time to spread), it would take over 50 hours of non-stop hauling to move that pile bucket by bucket. So I guess you can say I am calling BS to the whole scenario you laid out.