History's Most Horrible Rural Jobs | Worst Jobs In History | Timeline
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- Опубліковано 24 лют 2018
- This week we take a close look at the worst rural jobs and remember those who risked their necks to maintain the heart of rural life, shifted excrement to produce enduring images of the countryside and saved souls in the villages by eating bread. Tony experiences life as a shepherd boy, nettle harvester, reddle man, thresher, chaff-box boy, sedge cutter, sin eater, pole man, lead-white maker and featherier. Then he tackles the most arduous job of all, that of the steeplejack when he climbs the highest spire in Oxfordshire.
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I never realized how tough a Shepherd's life was. I really dig the shows that Tony Robinson does. Once I've exhausted all of the worst jobs episodes, I then started watching his crime and punishment series. Next was fact or fiction, etc. Tony is a funny guy. Although he may act a bit posh at times, some of the things he does are pretty tough. Especially when dealing with heights seeing as how he has a fear of them. And yet he does it. Thank you Tony for providing us for much needed educational entertainment, sir!
The man is a national treasure, so I wish they'd stop trying to murder him in the worst jobs episodes.
Yeah I'm really enjoying this series
I wouldn't have said that tony ever acts posh mate, what is it he does that you consider to be posh?
do you know if uses a professional camera for the shows?
Posh? What?
Fair play to Tony Robinson. His fear of heights is well recorded, yet he still ascended the church steeple.
My head was spinning just watching him climb... What a true sport Baldrick is.. That took some guts and a pair of balls the size of melons.
That's real bravery right there jes afraid and still goes ahead he got my respect from that alone😋👍
I myself don't have a massive fear of heights. But I'd still be extremely nervous climbing (climbing is the main part of my minor fear). Let alone if I was scared of heights.
Even then, I wouldn't even think about doing it without modern safety equipment, and in weather any worse than overcast.
I’ve personally never had a fear of heights. Although, I reckon that’s because I’ve never feared death and I’ve been exposed to copious amounts of physical pain and injuries.
While I totally understand why the fear of heights is so common, what fascinates me is how people seem to get more scared the higher they go. What people don’t ever consider is that once you reach a particular height then the amount of potential risk peaks. Like as far as potentially getting severely injured or dying there’s no difference between standing on a roof a few stories high and oh idk standing on the edge of a massive cliff side yah know. As height increases so does the amount of fear. But being on the roof of your house isn’t really any less dangerous than scaling a skyscraper. If you fall from either one you’re equally screwed lol
@@kitcatthatsmokescrack7380 the thing is, it tends to get a bit breezier the higher you go. That can greatly increase the chances of coming down the fast way. Hence - more fear. There's also a psychological component to it, but the core of the fear is very real.
You're correct that you'll be just as dead if you "only" fall from a couple stories up, but being fifty or a hundred feet or more up in the gusting wind is sort of a whole different world.
I worked in roofing for a few weeks one summer, and I had to quit because it was giving me terrible nightmares every night. Something nothing else has ever done to me. And I had modern safety equipment! But I just couldn't get used to it.
so nice of all the advertisers to allow you
to show bits of your program in between
How to make a 50 minute video out of 25 minutes of content
I admire Tony for being hands-on the tasks in every episode. He's brave!
mouth off in this case no biting lamb testicles thankfully haha
Yeah you just know the people who puts the plans togheter just know things. Like that the sheep is stronger & will take off...
agricultural work is difficult even in Modern times and mechanisation. BUT, the people must eat. In a pre-mechanised time it was even more difficult. God Bless farmers and ranchers.
The most valuable people on the planet.Yet treated the worst by everyone.
@@paulhunter1525 Not everyone treats farmers and ranchers badly. They are not the most valuable, but they are crucial nonetheless - however that does not ignore the other equally crucial jobs that farmers and ranchers do not do.
The jobs are not for everyone, just as other jobs are not for everyone and by not choosing to do them doesn't make them worse people. Being a nurse is not for everyone, and its not glamorous, but a true nurse's goal is to help other people who are genuinely sick, injured, or dying and that includes farmers and ranchers who can't treat their injuries or illnesses or diseases themselves at home, though many minor ones can indeed be treated at home by most - both rural and city.
@@EmilyGloeggler7984 I get your point and I respect nurses very much - there are a couple in my family. But without farmers and ranchers, nearly all the nurses would starve. We'd never even have gotten to the point where nurses and the colleges where they train could exist without people who provide food for others as well as themselves.
All the jobs done by Baldricks throughout history 😂
😄
I would think emptying of chamber pots be far worst fate
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Haha I know! I watch all of these episodes and still see him as Baldrick. His menial tasks just add to it.
So true! 😂
I will NEVER complain about my work again after watching a few of these shows!
NEVER. I’ll have to pass this off to my son. 🤣 He’ll stop complaining.
Fred Dibnah would be laughing at the last bit. That man was a absolute beast of a human being.. Completely fearless.
Perran Normanshire I can hear his hearty chuckle! Top bloke :)
Tony Robinson is one of the greatest funniest and kindest people on tv. i love this show.
seen lots of these types of series, but all of a sudden i realize what is so good about this series, and that is the fact that boldrick isnt scared of doing the dirty work him self, and he always jumps in with both feed!.
Tony is such an amenable chap, I think he's the best choice for these great programs. AND he's funny too.
Sin Eater?
My God, people were strange back then.
Whew him climbing that tower had my feet sweating and stomach turning
Mike Rowe, eat your heart out. These are amazing documentaries.
Think about all those poor camera men who had to climb that spire before Tony.
SIN-EATER - now that's a great name for a metal band!
There is a movie by that name, starring Heath Ledger.
Lol your right!
Who would eat the Sins of a Sin Eater? Probably fell to poor chap's Son. (Night Gallery episode) in 1973
@@Saucy-ws6jc Oh, No Baldrick's favorite food was turnips
@@paulhunter1525 Well, wouldn't he have time to repent for his sin before he died. Eaten sins included. Of course if he forgot to be forgiven before death then the next sin eater would be pretty full.
Love Tony and these documentaries! Mad respect to our ancestors!
I lived as a Yank in the UK in Hampshire during the 80’s and loved every day. The Brits are a tremendous people! They are inventive, funny, warm, and extremely caring people. I hated having to come back to the States. I especially loved the theater in London. It was marvelous! Thank you for this truly educational and inventive series!I love it!
I thought my paper route at age ten sucked in the rain in the 80's. I'm so soft.
None of these are much worse than that
Lol same!!!
I was 11 years old with a paper route near Detroit , try pulling a wagon with 300 newspapers in 10 degrees and snow.
@@GTVAlfaMan when I was eight I drug a sled of 10 thousand papers across the Alaskan tundra uphill both ways
As a kid I used to complain about shoveling snow in Wisconsin. My father would of course just chuckle at me and tell me I didn't know how easy I had it.
Twas ever thus.
This episode was so amazing to me! showing how far we've come in farming and ranching and how little things have changed at the same time!
My great grandfather was killed when he was pulled into the belt on his steam engine whilst unblocking it. Not a nice death.
Another thumbs up for Sir Tony
19:21 deaths from eating to excess!! Did anyone notice?😂😂😂
Yeah! But didn't say what was eaten?
I saw that straight away and tried to see the name, but he was prussian
Here's the newsarticle OCR:
From the Bury and Norwich Post in 1856, Oct 22nd.
Death from Eating to Excess. On Friday last .in inquest was held upon the body of a Prussian, named Karl Yanke, captain of the ship Hurrah, from Stettin, which had been lying in the harbour for about a tort-night. The deceased had resided during that time at the Mermaid Inn, Nelson-street; and it appears that, although abstemious with regard to drink, he was much less so with regard to solid food. On the evenin in question, he and some others had had a supper of sausa anu oysters, 01 winch he partoi whilst in conversation ho was c ok very heartily ; and observed to smile in a peculiar manner. His appearance cxeitinff alarm. Mr Kendall, surgeon, was sent for, and arrived in about three minutes, but by that time lit' was nuite xtinpt. At flm inquest, on Friday afternoon, the medical evidence shewed that the stomach and bowels were enormously distended by food, so much so that the heart and lungs were displaced and pressed upon ; and that the immediate cause ot uentn was apoplexy. erdict accordingly.
@@emilychb6621 wow I can't believe no one has thanked you yet, but thank you. You saved me quite a search.
Yes. And then I looked guiltily at my massive jar of jelly beans.
I always say I was born in the wrong century. Then I watch programs like this and am content.
Good on you Tony Robinson for giving it a go; says a lot about your character!
43:38 respect to those who build that scaffolding just getting the material up there had to be exhausting
Six pints of beer to work with unguarded dangerous machinery. *OSHA faints*
It would have been small beer = low alcohol. Nevertheless .....
Probably needed it to help get the 'courage' to work the machinery lmao
I am drinking 6 pints of beer just watching all that work...so thirsty! Slurp! 🍺
Very low alcohol percentage though. And they would have been drinking that from childhood as water was not save to drink. So they'd be used to it I guess.
Illiminatie overlord Gurglekoks not strictly true about water mate, in the country they may well have had access to clean water from wells and springs so they would have drunk that. So yeh, bit of an old wives tale that is
Honestly one of the best series I’ve ever seen
How amazing that Tony went all the way up there!! I can only manage my step ladder and a proper ladder i couldn’t do. Tony is very brave 👏🏻👍❤️
Poor Tony you are a real trooper.
I seriously think I have watched every documentary with tony in my t lol there’s a lot of them love the way he host
I'm binging too! So much to learn about. Tony really gets in there and demonstrates. He does it all! Awesome. Thank you!🤗🇬🇧🎄
The best covid medicine there is!
I love this show but the audio channels are always off. Sometimes I can barely hear the host speaking.
Mistake from the producers side.
It was alright when shown on tv,it must have gone wrong when put on UA-cam!
Love your Show Tony, You must have HUGE BALLS!!! I got Vertigo JUST WATCHING YOU!!!! Cheers Mate!!!!
The Newspaper article "DEATH FROM EATING TO EXCESS" I wish to know more please?
The Bury and Norwich Post on Wednesday, October 22, 1856 Page: 3
Don't have access to the image, so here's the somewhat readable OCR text:
Death from Eating to Excess. On Friday last .in inquest was held upon the body of a Prussian, named Karl Yanke, captain of the ship Hurrah, from Stettin, which had been lying in the harbour for about a tort-night. The deceased had resided during that time at the Mermaid Inn, Nelson-street; and it appears that, although abstemious with regard to drink, he was much less so with regard to solid food. On the evenin in question, he and some others had had a supper of sausa anu oysters, 01 winch he partoi whilst in conversation ho was c ok very heartily ; and observed to smile in a peculiar manner. His appearance cxeitinff alarm. Mr Kendall, surgeon, was sent for, and arrived in about three minutes, but by that time lit' was nuite xtinpt. At flm inquest, on Friday afternoon, the medical evidence shewed that the stomach and bowels were enormously distended by food, so much so that the heart and lungs were displaced and pressed upon ; and that the immediate cause ot uentn was apoplexy. erdict accordingly.
@@emilychb6621 The word "somewhat" is doing a lot of the heavy lifting there.
Kidding btw, enjoyed the read.
Mr Creosote. He finally burst after eating a waffer thin mint.
@@emilychb6621 thanks for filling me in but I barely understood any of it hahah... Thanks for the effort thought
I am seeing a pattern here. His pick for worst frequently involves heights. Of course, anyone with a fear of heights would hate these, but some of the others seem worse to me.
Heights and having close contact with foul stinking rotten urine or excrement-related industries.
I always find it fascinating how British last names are based on what your occupation was. "Bob the Thatcher?" "No, I'm talking about Bob the Shoemaker." Goldsmith, Cooper, Shipwright, etc. My great grandmother's maiden name was Porter.
He actually went up that ladder? hes crazy, good work Tony!
The maids who collected chamber pots and washed them out in the sluice room - then cleaned the sluice room, the chamber pots and the bedrooms.
Noblility were a heartless discusting waste of human beings
In tonight's episode, Baldrick becomes Fred Dibnah! And I make a cup of tea ☕️! "It was the workforce who made the history of Britain happen", you're too god damn right it was Tony.
This is seriously one of the best documentary series I’ve ever seen
This gentleman's face and body language matches this programme. His expression and way of explanation after doing the jobs is priceless.
I love this documentary series. Robinson is a great presenter who puts a lot of dedication into these and it's a lot more fun to watch than a dry recitation of historical facts.
When I was a little girl in the country 75 years ago, my uncle still used "raddle" in a box, strapped to the chest of the ram, to see which of the ewes had been covered, and should be pregnant. But it wasn't just red, like Tony's face ,he had two rams and one had red powder, and the other, blue.
they still do it today. best way to See If the Ewes Had their Date.
The sound mixing is a bit off.
TotalNekro I've noticed that on most of his documentaries. You can barely hear anything when the music or background noise is going
Someone didn't move the BGM fader or forgot to couple the voice tracks to the key/detector input on the compressor of the BGM track.
audio can vary so much from setup to setup if you don't really know what you're doing.. but at least the camera work and video editing is ok
The music is way too loud and it doesn't seem appropriate. Its like some drunk walked in in place of the real sound mixer.
Thank you for saying this!! It's awful. I've been skipping around the episodes thinking I need to get to the ear doc.
Unfortunately I can't watch them - way to too much dissonance.
I think it would be neat if they had skeletons belonging to the people who worked these jobs, to show the changes caused by a lifetime doing them. Like how they show the teeth of a sugar addict in the Hidden Dangers of the Home: Tudor episode.
Yes, please do that, Tony Robinson!
That's a great point. Long-term damage to spines and joints etc must have been quite common and terribly painful.
Tony’s an absolute champ. He’s actually sort of inspiring! 👍🏼 Thanks for the superb covid medicine!
Edit: thats a hacky sack not a golf ball! 😂
It never occurred to me to have Baldrick host a historical documentary show, but now I want him to do it for everything!
Hes pretty highly qualified in history as well
In 3rd grade, one of those plants cut me REALLY badly. I was holding a leaf and my bully at the time yanked it away, cutting all the way across my palm, and pretty deeply, too. It hurt like forking shirt.
I just found this series, and love them! Wish they had these when I was in school.
The flies laying maggots in poopy fur is called flystrike here in the US. Happens to chickens and rabbits too, especially the fluffy breeds 😝
And male guinea pigs.
For anyone wondering about the death from excess eating part, I found the newspaper article in the Bury and Norwich Post from October 22nd, 1856, page 3:
Death from Eating to Excess. On Friday last .in inquest was held upon the body of a Prussian, named Karl Yanke, captain of the ship Hurrah, from Stettin, which had been lying in the harbour for about a tort-night. The deceased had resided during that time at the Mermaid Inn, Nelson-street; and it appears that, although abstemious with regard to drink, he was much less so with regard to solid food. On the evenin in question, he and some others had had a supper of sausa anu oysters, 01 winch he partoi whilst in conversation ho was c ok very heartily ; and observed to smile in a peculiar manner. His appearance cxeitinff alarm. Mr Kendall, surgeon, was sent for, and arrived in about three minutes, but by that time lit' was nuite xtinpt. At flm inquest, on Friday afternoon, the medical evidence shewed that the stomach and bowels were enormously distended by food, so much so that the heart and lungs were displaced and pressed upon ; and that the immediate cause ot uentn was apoplexy. erdict accordingly.
(Errors due to OCR, copied as provided by the archive)
Thanks I was curious indeed! 👍🏼
Me too! Thanks for your time.
I figured I had to have been the only one who really wanted to see that 😂 Thanks
Interesting
Courageous Tony to climb that steeple, great man!
Tony is such a trooper
Interesting choice of placement of the bread. I can think of another reason that's called sin eating lol.
Ha! Ha! Ha!
I was wondering if that part was done historically accurately of if this guy was just trying to munch on some cockenloaf.
A good old classic for the last day of weekend.
Another healthy dose to illustrate that we 'do not know we're born'. These docs are very eye-opening.
Been watching these all over again I don’t remember all that horrendous music interrupting speech
4:40 "I had a kebab like that once." LMFAO, omg, too funny.
*Rest in Peace* Fred Dibnah. Amazing British Steeplejack personality.
Here here.
@@swaneknoctic9555 Yeah the world just seems a lot darker without someone as awesome as that man. Even being an Aussie I have nothing but *Respect* for the man.
Can you imagine the pain he goes through to show us how lucky we are.
The worst thing I saw him do was eat a live toad in another documentary - horrible medieval jobs or something. He went running off screen & I think he was about to hurl. There was quite a bit of blood involved...🤮
sheperd used to dunk the sheep in the rivers not because the wanted the sheep clean but to get rid of alot of the lanalin in the wool because it would be much easyier to shear the sheep with shears, we dont do this anymore bacause we have mechanical shears
Great trip log. Hadn't heard of the river before and you sure weathered the portages and challenges with grace. Thanks for sharing.
They used to have stone basins with water that was feed by a river that was called a sheep deep that was made for washing sheep. Some of them are 2000 years old. I can't imagine they don't still have them. Maybe they weren't close to one so they did it in the river.
I thought it was weird that they washed the sheep just to let them trudge through thick mud right after...
hi SHEEP DIP, and certainly in Devon we have them, usually made of big granite slabs.
Yes, this series falls and stands with Tony doing it all himself. Chapeau! Very courageous!
It's somewhat funny when you think about it but I've had no problems jumping from a plane with a chute no matter what height, but seeing Tony climb that steeple had me shaking my head in a big negative.
I never jumped from a plane, but similarly, rapelling down on a rope doesn't bother me. I have confidence in the rope being sound, as I imagine you had confidence in your parachute.
However, climbing up onto a roof, or just standing on the edge, really gives me the heebie-jeebies.
the sheep bathing scene was funny. *_*
At 12 years old I would drink about 4 litres of cider on threshing day. I must have been ratted. At 15 years old we carried 200lb sacks of grain to the farm granary
Many old farmers tell similar stories. Often they say it was no big deal, because "you sweat out all the alcohol."
I'm not entirely sure about that. I always manage to get a pretty good buzz on when drinking while working outside in the yard or garden ;)
I think those sheep were cleaner before having their 'bath'! lol As a side note, there is nothing that would get me to climb that steeple... nope, nope, NOPE!!!
I'd climb it before I suck raw sheep nuts
LMAO! XD
They look cleaner going in, and yes they often get silt on their wool after a swim, but the objective of the cleaning is to dislodge mud clumps or mud deep into the wool near the skin. So you get that all off, and the silt on the outside will just come off naturally with a little time.
The soundmixer of the series should be sentenced to these worst jobs for each episode with barely distinguishable narration.
Really curious to know more about that “DEATH FROM EATING TO EXCESS” story at 29:05 🤔
Tony: *says the word Steeplejack*
me: *flashbacks to Fred Dibnah*
I think I wouldn't mind making golfballs, though I'm concerned that the white paint is also made with lead.
Exactly what I was thinking about the paint. Also, as far as bad jobs go, that one wasn't too bad save for the smelly feathers. But at least they're boiled and clean.
they don't add lead to paint anymore because of the toxicity.
@@xz2022 But they did before Titanium dioxide replaced Lead oxide as the white pigment.
LOL. My Dad was a Desert Rat, and who became the Royal Ordanance Survey, after WW2.
One of my fondest memories of him is being taught to use a staff and chain in 2 foot of snow on a very steep slope. I was his child labour 12yo. About 1972.
After about 4 hours of slogging around in wellies, with 2 pairs of socks and plastic bags filled with hay as insulation....Measure thrice!
I got taken to the local pub and he asked if I could come in!
I got very clucked over by the landlady, The best Devon pastie ever, with gravy and extra buttered mash and apple crumble with homemade Devon cream AND a half pint of mulled cider! and about 2 pints of builders tea FIRST!
Why I smile about this is he was completely bemused ! She is my girl, she never complained. She even wound up the chain right and shook off the snow and put it in the grease bag.
Now see America’s own Mike Rowe actually castrated sheep in that manner one of the best episodes of dirty jobs ever
Amazing series...love all of them...Time Team too. Just found these videos about a month ago and have learned so much-thank you..!!❤️
Okay but what about that "Death by Eating to Excess" obituary?
The Bury and Norwich Post i
Location:
Bury, Suffolk, England
Issue Date:
Wednesday, October 22, 1856
Page:
3
Death from Eating to Excess. On Friday last .in inquest was held upon the body of a Prussian, named Karl Yanke, captain of the ship Hurrah, from Stettin, which had been lying in the harbour for about a tort-night. The deceased had resided during that time at the Mermaid Inn, Nelson-street; and it appears that, although abstemious with regard to drink, he was much less so with regard to solid food. On the evenin in question, he and some others had had a supper of sausa anu oysters, 01 winch he partoi whilst in conversation ho was c ok very heartily ; and observed to smile in a peculiar manner. His appearance cxeitinff alarm. Mr Kendall, surgeon, was sent for, and arrived in about three minutes, but by that time lit' was nuite xtinpt. At flm inquest, on Friday afternoon, the medical evidence shewed that the stomach and bowels were enormously distended by food, so much so that the heart and lungs were displaced and pressed upon ; and that the immediate cause ot uentn was apoplexy. erdict accordingly.
Cheers again to another show narrated by Tony Robinson. But it's more than narration when he's involved. Thanks!
💕 you & your work, Tony. In so many ways, always quality viewing. Thank you.
Tony seems to be like the Duracell rabbit. Never running out of energy! - chapeau - ! though not only to him, but also to his whole team and the people who worked with him. and which for most of the time we do not see or hear them...
Mr Baldrick should know about this jobs, bet Lord Blackadder made him do couple of them.... great show, being watching them during this quarantine time.
Tony you are AMAZING!!
I love Tony! I try to watch all his documentaries, half way through time team only another 16 seasons 😅 favourite history teacher 👍
Thanks for mentioning that, I’ll check it out for sure. Any other advice on what else to look for?
19:15 "Death from eating to excess" that one sounds pretty interesting.
Words fail me: mind boggling, horrific, incredible! The most mind numbing, horribly paid jobs in modern britain are, by comparison, cushy - and I would still think them ghastly if I had to do them.
I absolutely love this series!
I love these documentaries, and I purposely find Tony's, he's so interesting and entertaining to listen to!
Those sheep lived like kings with their own Groom of the Stool.
A really interesting subject. Unfortunately, that sound balance is whacked-out. I can hear the machines and background music far better than the sound of Toni's voice.
I'm binge watching these!!😊
Omg rofl “just cut his balls with a sharp knife, and draw them out with your mouth”. (His face!) “you’re joking” hahaha tears Of laughter are flowing at his face. Ahhhh this is going to be a good episode
Thank you for the video. It has given me creative ideas.
I have the utmost respect for these people💯
I tried telling a cop I was using drugs to ease the pain of cutting reeds.
He didn't buy it. :(
i have a big problem with shows where the music is as loud as the speaker.
sometimes the music drowns out Tony...otherwise it's good!
20:34 - I wonder if she has said those very same words before but for a very different reason?!!
😏
I'd have loved to climb that steeple. The view was amazing!
Person who assists the surveyor is called a chainman/woman (used to be called a chainboy). The chain is dragged along a line not reeled up. They should have set up a baseline and triangulated the points, then tony would not be walking all over the place.
That's how they used to do it though..
Thanks!