Hurling propane tank loading technique - GIF

**mr mikey** · Nov 13, 2022, 06:18 AM

The first couple of hundred buckets thrown when the truck is empty is what they will use for salsa

**odd one** · Nov 13, 2022, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by Frank S

A carefully practiced lift toss and release movement of his hands.1 hand is still in the motion of lift while the other briefly halts just as he releases the bucket. The action causes the bucket to begin its rotation while kinetic energy still propels it upward

I think I see it. It is actually the tomatoes hitting the inside of the bucket that is causing it to change directions. Thanks. Wonder how long it took to perfect that toss. ie, how many smashed tomatoes

**mwmkravchenko** · Nov 13, 2022, 02:31 PM

Wouldn't want the arm of the guy on the farm. Ouch! Sore times 6.

**RetiredFAE** · Nov 13, 2022, 02:38 PM

Or, like we used to use on our trailers, there is a wire stretched outboard of the edge of the trailer, and the basket hits it, tomatoes go flying, basket rebounds. Seems like the baskets in this video all seem to change direction at exactly the same place in reference to the top lip of the trailer. I'm betting the trailer has a wire stretched there like we did it.

**Frank S** · Nov 13, 2022, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by mwmkravchenko

Wouldn't want the arm of the guy on the farm. Ouch! Sore times 6.

You get used to it pretty fast. When I was a kid working at the Blacksmith shop, I already had forearms like Popeye. one of our neighbors grew watermelons and cantaloupe. I would finish my morning chores on our farm then be finished with breakfast by 6 AM I didn't have to be at work until around 8 ish. I would often stop by Dizzy Dean's place and chunk watermelons or toss cantaloupes over the sideboards of his 2-ton flatbed every morning so he could haul them to the market. The first couple days I did this I didn't think I would make it through the rest of the day at work my shoulders would ache so much, but after that I hardly noticed.

**mwmkravchenko** · Nov 13, 2022, 08:17 PM

I can relate. I mixed cement in a 1/3 yard mixer for an entire summer. The guys on the wheel barrows were back as soon as possible so it was no rest for the wicked. I still have large forearms !