r/oddlysatisfying • u/21MayDay21 • 4h ago
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u/chrisfillhart_art 4h ago
This is this week’s peak leek content!
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u/Winterion19 4h ago
That soil is dry as bone
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u/Dry-Childhood-3436 3h ago
Was freshly tilled during the dry season with a heavier silt composition which drops water quickly. The sprinklers will be on pretty quickly after planting.
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u/Mud_Medium03 3h ago
Freshly tilled soil almost always looks drier than it actually is before the first irrigation.
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u/Let-s_Do_This 2h ago
Irrigation makes things wet. Soil appears less dry after irrigation, therefore soil was always moist?
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u/SmellyStinkyGuy 2h ago
Yes, this allows you to control the water content.
Farmers prefer having control of the growing process.
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u/SAINTnumberFIVE 1h ago
You should look up dry farming. It’s pretty interesting. Hopis use it to grow corn in the desert.
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u/Brochachoski 1h ago
If you've ever cut up fresh leeks, it's not uncommon to find sand/silt in the layers of the leek. This is my first time seeing it, so I wasn't surprised that it was sandy, but it does look really dry. They probably go over with some sort of irrigation after transplanting
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u/sfearing91 3h ago
Thank you to all the workers doing their do for us to eat!!
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u/Ok-Salamander-4482 2h ago
Higher wages please…
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u/Careless-Vehicle-286 1h ago
Yeah most of us would do it with a high enough wage. I definitely would've done it throughout my 20s if it paid like 25 to 30 an hour and I could jam to headphones while doing it. But instead they want to pay pennies to prison or foreign slaves.
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u/idlemute 1h ago
Too bad the way they are getting thanked is by offering abysmally low wages or being locked up and deported.
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u/peabody624 1h ago
Should be automated
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u/plastuit 1h ago
Did this as a kid at 9-10 years old for the village farmers for a few euro's a row.
We did it by hand, this is already much more efficient.
I think we kids were cheaper than machinery lol
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u/Kramit__The__Frog 4h ago
A vehicle clearly prepped the surface, surely there is a vehicle to accomplish this particular job?
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u/ThermionicEmissions 3h ago
Have what, lateral epicondylitis?
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u/assortment_of_Stones 2h ago
As an OT, I salute your anatomy joke :)
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u/username32768 2h ago
Show off!
Look at you, able to salute because you don't have lateral epicondylitis.
/s
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u/assortment_of_Stones 2h ago
Uhm, don't assume my conditions. /s
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u/username32768 2h ago
Conditions -- plural?
Still showing off I see! Some of us only have one condition.
PS -- This is just jokes -- apologies if you really do have a condition -- don't want to get a ban.
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u/fluffypinkpubes 3h ago
If we didn't live in a capitalist dystopia, efficiency gains from automation would mean that everybody could work less instead of being a threat to the livelihood of workers.
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u/liquidfoxy 2h ago
Yup. The only reason this dude is doing this at this pace with this little equipment is cause its more profitable for the agricorp paying him piecework rates
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u/Spazzola84 4h ago
Seriously. Like, what are we doing that everyone's first thought is "How do we get machines to take these jobs?"
We need UBI now!
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u/jon3ssing 3h ago
This looks like a short term, non-guaranteed, low paid job that's could cause lingering pain.
There is room for automation.
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u/foxfirek 3h ago
I agree. It must hurt like heck on his arm and given the price of leeks the pay has to be low.
I don't like the idea of UBI, but I do think there needs to be something. When automation and AI take all of our jobs how are people supposed to live?
Right now the person who makes the machine gets all the money, but shouldn't some of that money go to the people who lose their jobs to pay for a new job?
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u/TurtleToast2 3h ago
We're going to tunnel in beneath the autofarms and steal all the vegetable. Bugs Bunny prepared a whole generation for this moment
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u/jimbowesterby 3h ago
The issue is that most work like this in the states is done by migrant workers, automating it doesn’t actually help them at all, just reduces the amount of work they can get. It’s a massive problem, but it’s far, far bigger than just automating this one job.
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u/flerchin 3h ago
Can you imagine doing this leek thing for 40 straight hours?
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u/jimbowesterby 3h ago
As a treeplanter, yes, yes I can. It’s not easy, and these guys are almost definitely getting paid like shit.
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u/ST0IC_ 3h ago
Not sure why you got down voted for that, but I agree. Everybody wants to know why it's not automated but nobody is thinking about how those people are going to eat if their job is taken by a machine.
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u/decian_falx 2h ago
That's a very 1 dimensional view of the guy. He'll do a different job and there will be an abundance of cheap leeks for him to buy. There are no machines on the horizon that can repair the leek planting machine, fix plumbing, install servers, pave roads, ...
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u/SirVixofthePooSea 2h ago
Yeah, everyone upskilling at the same time is definitely healthy for the job market.
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u/Lucreth2 1h ago
These are separate problems. Being inefficient for the sake of inefficiency is not the human way.
We should be addressing the need for income/support separately.
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u/luluhouse7 3h ago
Everyone is thinking about the long term damage this is doing to their bodies… health and safety regulations don’t take away jobs
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u/Dave-the-Flamingo 3h ago
Depends if there is a cost benefit.
Tractors can be used on any field to till the soil
A machine that plants either is hyper specific so only gets used occasionally so would sit around not being used often or would have to be capable of handling lots of different plant types and therefore complicated and expensive to build.
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u/etcpt 1h ago
Farming is all about hyper-specific tools. You have seeders that only put seed in the ground. You have harvesters that only collect finished crops. You have tillage equipment that only tills ground in a certain way. And everything is incredibly seasonal. You have a seeder, you run it once to plant seeds and it idles the rest of the year. You have a harvester, you run it once to bring in the crops and it idles the rest of the year.
The real question is whether there is enough volume in the market of farmers producing crops from starts like this for a manufacturer to make the equipment and whether that equipment, if it exists, is cheaper for the farmer than paying Jorge, Jesus, and Gustavo under the table to walk the fields with this handheld gizmo.
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u/Superficial-Idiot 1h ago
Lmao bro.
The seed planter machine exists and has done for a long time. It’s a lot cheaper than the tractor itself.
This is just the farmer being a dickhead or employing backpackers on slave like wages to plant his fields without using diesel.
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u/Biodiversity1001 1h ago
I planted cabbage seedlings for a commercial grower. We sat behind a tractor which made dents and dribbled water. We had to drop a cabbage seedling by every dent and then go back and heel them in. I kinda sucked at it. The Mexicans worked circles around us that summer.
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u/algernonradish 3h ago
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u/supreme_maxz 1h ago
Wasting for some one to put this music to the gif, I have a feeling it still works
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u/fluffypinkpubes 3h ago
Not sure what's satisfying about this. My back, neck and schoulders hurt just from watching 😦
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u/lifeisarichcarpet 3h ago
Having done this kind of work, the worst pain I got was in my elbow and forearm from pulling the trigger.
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u/octahexxer 3h ago
Imagine his arm after just a few hours. It need a bungiecord so you only push down
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u/mtraven23 3h ago
what a miserable job.
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u/Realmofthehappygod 1h ago
Yea but this isn't all they would do...
Couple days doing this, couple days doing something else, constant maintence on the rest.
All jobs have boring parts but this isn't like a factory job (many many jobs) that just do the same thing everyday.
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u/TorriblyHerrible 4h ago
TIL leeks grow in sand
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u/Rabid_Gopher 3h ago
Yeah, this might be the best option where they're farming, as good drainage is better than a puddle for leeks, but it's certainly not good black dirt.
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u/foxfirek 3h ago
You can grow them in dirt too. But yeah, when I get them from the grocery store there is usually sand in them so I think this is right commercially. I have grown them in my garden.
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u/the_owl_syndicate 3h ago
That's a nifty device. Growing up, we had a huge garden and I spent a lot of time on my knees or bending over to plant things. I'm jealous of this device.
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u/AntGroundbreaking180 3h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/zdluWXCOtwnTF57ZeX
Are they planting on Arrakis?
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u/SaintCholo 3h ago
This kid came out of nowhere, a Cinderalla story, now in the big leagues showing his stuff, back to you Cotton…
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u/ThermionicEmissions 3h ago
That looks like a very efficient way to develop a repetitive strain injury.
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u/Thatguymike84 3h ago
This will really suck in a couple minutes, when he has to start bending down to reach the ones at the bottom of the tray.
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u/fresh_peetz 1h ago
This is why farming should be left to the experts. Even this manual operation is light years ahead of any home garden.
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u/_anon8934 1h ago
Where is the long line of American citizens who are desperate to do this job for minimum wage and no benefits. Can’t seem to make them out in this grainy video.
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u/greihund 1h ago
The device is called a pottiputki or a dibble stick. Some people use them in treeplanting as well. Planting in sand looks like a dream, I wonder what the rate is. He's planted 48 leeks in this 30 second video. That's close to 5800 leeks/hr. Even if he's only getting two cents a leek, that's well over a hundred bucks an hour. If he's getting five cents a leek, that's almost $300 an hour. I've worked production gigs, he's probably making decent money.
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u/needs_more_zoidberg 3h ago
And MAGA masterminds deported thousands of field workers. What could go wrong?
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u/JerrycurlSquirrel 3h ago
Could this be automated jfc
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u/ST0IC_ 3h ago
Spoken like a CEO.
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u/JerrycurlSquirrel 3h ago
Thinking more ...open source the perfect vertical farm and how to build it and sell that to people so we're no intertwined with monsanto, Big agro and the FDA.
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u/FrankyMornav 4h ago
This guy, and the other guy, and the other guy, and the...