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Laughing Gas
Joined: Jul 2003
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From: New England
Didn't think about my snowplowing work...hmm, I've done several 24-hour runs there. My longest was probably in the 1995-6 winter, in my J-20. I recall once I fired it up at ~2am, & parked it at 11pm. 11pm the next day, that is. Then, I slept for 12 hours.
I think I burned a good 100 gallons of gas that day.
I think I burned a good 100 gallons of gas that day.
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Joined: May 2003
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From: WI
I have had several 30 + hour workdays. Mostly a combo of working one job and then having somthing go wrong at the farm.
The longest though was a train derailment up on the north shore. The company I work for during the summer regularly subs for the railroad and we were called in for clean up. I worked 39 hours strait, mostly picking up derailed cars with the crain, a bit of dozer work as well though.
The longest though was a train derailment up on the north shore. The company I work for during the summer regularly subs for the railroad and we were called in for clean up. I worked 39 hours strait, mostly picking up derailed cars with the crain, a bit of dozer work as well though.
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Joined: Jun 2003
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From: SW VA
This past summer I worked for my mom at the National D-Day Memorial Foundation here. I would get up at 0530, get there at 0615 and work until 1930 that night. My jobs were to clean out the "beach" (man made dramatization of the beach on June 6, 1944), de-weed all the landscapings (a good 5 total acres combined), and I would work with gravel, information desk, and run errons for my mom. Not to mention this was in 90+ degree weather. Doesn't sound too bad....unless you are a teenager like me at the time
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From: The Star-Club, Hamburg
On the farm I have put in 30 hours at a stretch during planting and harvesting seasons, but do take breaks for things like refilling or emptying hoppers, fuel, etc. At my warehouse job, I put in 12 hour shifts, and once in awhile a sixteen hour one, but they do tend to frown on those.
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