The Worst Jobs In History with Tony Robinson S02E05 Rural

I can't stop watching Tony documentaries.. 💜💜💜

Watching tony attempt to wash the sheep made my day

These documentaries with Baldrick are really good

He's one heck of a good sport

2:17 That "What are we doing?" is just perfect

Tony rides a sheep! Made my day!

Even today agriculture is one of the most dangerous and risky professions in the UK, claiming an extraordinary amount of lives.

Tony always makes laugh unexpectedly lol

I got nervous just watching Tony climb the spire.

I fucking love how scared he is of heights 😂

thanks that was brill!

10:42 That is NOT the right way to use the scythe!

Did Tony come up with a way to be paid (probably a large sum) for doing immersion therapy for his phobia? Well played. It's working, he's a lot calmer when climbing than he was in the beginning.

Not much has changed for the surveyor's assistant / chainman / poleman, especially where GPS isn't used in smaller survey firms - It's still a lot of walking, holding a pole, doing some digging, doing some more walking, bushwacking, navigating barking dogs, climbing precarious fences. Although it's slightly inaccurate: Surveyors then, doing any kind of triangulation work, would have had access to the Troughton and Simms or Repsold theodolites, usually weighing up to 100kg a piece. And it was the surveyor's assistant who had that job. In fact, before the modern total station, and even in the days of the plane table, a survey crew would consist of a surveyor, a poleman, at least one (often two) chainman. For larger subdivision surveys, there may be an additional observer, while the surveyor and a computer would sit, often for weeks at a time, flipping through logarithmic tables and calculating the positions of boundaries, and computing the setting-out data for placing beacons on those boundaries. It was a monumental undertaking, the glory days of surveying.

Yes... washing steeping in filthy, muddy water. That really works...

"primitive chemistry" ... its piss isnt it?

How is it nearly every episode has some segment with poor Tony climbing some perilous height? It makes my palms sweat just watching him. Actually now that I consider it, there's nearly a formula to each episode. Perilous height, piss, shit and something smelly enough to induce vomiting.

rural special. tony robinson finds the up market rural jobs

42:02 That's it . . That's the one, yeah..

one of my great grandmothers was killed in a threshing machine. not a nice way to go, especially with the rest of the family there too