Vintage work crew photos

**Toolmaker51** · Oct 18, 2020, 06:11 PM

Responding to USS Michigan post 1935 on; no not THAT far back. I've rowed, but never uphill.
They scuttled her yes, but NAVY smart enough to remove turrets and barrels from the larger armament along with who-knows other materiel.
Certainly no one disdains artificial reefs, the inhabitants and visitors opportunity.
And foreign autos, could have made many, except a 1900's NAVY vessel is a poor supply of plastic......

**TrickieDickie** · Oct 19, 2020, 07:31 PM

The most important job which was the lowest paid and worst job on the Titanic was men shoveling coal to fire the boilers.

**Jon** · Oct 21, 2020, 11:09 AM

Unloading bananas. New Orleans, LA. Circa 1903.

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**IntheGroove** · Oct 21, 2020, 11:57 AM

Ships and trains but no crates and cranes...

**Ralphxyz** · Oct 21, 2020, 12:15 PM

I wonder if loading bananas is still done by hand? I know the reason they were not done with crates and cranes was because the bruised so easily.

Ralph

**IAMSatisfied** · Oct 22, 2020, 06:55 AM

Originally Posted by Ralphxyz

I wonder if loading bananas is still done by hand? I know the reason they were not done with crates and cranes was because the bruised so easily.

Ralph

They use trolleys on the plantations to get them to the washing & packing house where they get boxed & palletized.

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**12bolts** · Oct 26, 2020, 12:36 AM

Bananas are still cut and loaded by hand onto trailers out in the plantations here in NQ. They are then off loaded onto hooks that carry them through a wash down before being sorted and graded. Also all done by hand. They do mark easily. You would never see them stacked as they are shown to the left of that rail car.

**marksbug** · Oct 21, 2020, 01:24 PM

I still load bananas by hand hear. one at a time...peal, eat, peal eat.peal eat.then repeat.no time for monkeying around with cranes.

**neilbourjaily** · Oct 21, 2020, 08:12 PM

Shipping bananas by the bunch has gone the way of shipping swinging beef (those are bunches being offloaded from the boat, composed of hands, which are what you see on the shelf). Everything is boxed now. Unitization makes for a more buildable pallet when it comes to getting the grub to the grocery stores from the warehouses. Grocers and shippers continue to negotiate their way to standardized containers.