Historically, the farmer’s job has always been exhausting, and a strong physique and a good resistance to fatigue have always been necessary, as well as a good ability to get into the swing of nature: in fact, it’s mother nature who decides when it’s time to get up in the morning and to go to sleep at night, and it’s again mother nature’s decision the right period to make certain works in the fields.
These characteristics remained more or less unvaried, even if the invention of methods reached some compromises with nature, like greenhouses and irrigation systems, that allow little changes in nature’s rhythms. As for the methods, though, things changed a lot: humans used their intellect to make fatigue at least a bit more sustainable, bringing technology in the fields.
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Rural technology is obviously applied to the tools used in the fields: at the beginning it was the sole force of men to charge, uncharged and take various kinds of weights from one place to another, then this kind of tasks has been assigned to animals, and, at last, technological progress brought it to the machines. Rural machines are always more evolved, just like any other technological mean: more and more modern and reliable, they can be now used for a large range of works.
For example, rural towages are very common in the fields and totally substitute the old wooden carts: modern towages have a great charging capability, moreover they help discharging with rear and lateral hydraulic turnovers, and there are various kinds of tyres, for any kind of way they’ll have to ride.
Even the jobs in the woods, just as those in the fields, are ancient and tiring, and they have been reached by modern machines as well, that help reducing physical efforts and make it possible to be more rapid in the execution of the job. For example, forestal loaders make easier and more rapid some jobs that, if executed with the sole human force, can be long, tiring and dangerous; just think of charging and taking away big and heavy trunks, that now are lightly lifted and displaced by nippers that confidently grab whole trunks of felled trees, and not only those: depending on the kind of nippers you’ll choose, it will be more suitable to grab trunks, cereals, muck or any kind of heavy and voluminous charge. The characteristics of the various nippers are especially thought for various kind of charge, to be able to grab it and hold it steady and secure.
If we remains in the woods, we’ll find another fatigue job: the woodcutter. This job, hard and dangerous, nowadays can be made by machines that cut the wood, precisely and safely, and with an enviable easiness; hatchets can be left on a side, and the hydraulic woodcutter will make the job with precision and in a reliable way.
