What's the longest day of physical work you've ever done?

[dug777]

I did 13 hours on the farm the other day, i've done 15 before at harvest time tho...

You sleep well

 

[Sheepathon]

Once I showered for eight hours straight.

 

[pyonir]

Since I've never worked in IT, most i've done is 17.5

Edit: oh, i see you meant like labor work...not like employment work.

Probably 8 hours then.

 

[brandonbull]

I was in the Navy and I worked 26 hours straight repairing electricial equipment. Oil leak into generator and switchboard.

 

[mugs]

Probably 12 hours of physical labor, 16 hours of non-physical work. School work - 40 hours straight (on a single group project... I don't remember why we waited until the last minute ).

 

[EightySix Four]

Me and my buddy did 18 hours one night on a construction project... Won't ever do that again.

 

[Armitage]

I worked a temp service job one summer that was 12 hours days 7 days a week - sometimes only 8 or 10 hours on Sundays. Killer OT!

I remember a few days working hay for 14+ hours. Loading trucks in the morning till the dew was off the fields, bailing all day, stacking into the barns into the night.

 

[RCN]

13 hours was pretty standard for me when I did physical labor. Longest was 36 hours doing water damage restoration after a flood.

 

[TallBill]

I dunno, probably 5 straight days of 16 hours of unpacking a cargo container, taking inventory, and repacking.

 

[amdskip]

Probably 12.5 at walmart, yes it sucked.

 

[Shaotai]

Back when Nimda hit our company, we worked 14hrs+ days for almost 3 weeks... Almost killed me...
Because of that, it created the group that I now work in, Virus Management/IT Security!

 

[Kerouactivist]

Originally posted by: dug777
I did 13 hours on the farm the other day, i've done 15 before at harvest time tho...

You sleep well

I once dug sewer/water lines the morning (90 degree extremly humid conditions) I got home from college on no sleep at about 5am... the work was like 6am to 6pm........best sleep I've ever had when I finished up though....

 

[blakeatwork]

17 in a construction job, but it wasn't constant... we'd have 5-10 minute breaks waiting for concrete trucks to show up..

spent the night in emerg when I lost feeling in my shoulder... fun...

 

[bradruth]

10 hours straight or so working at my old summer job tarring & sanding streets in 90 degree heat.

15.5 hours straight for the PD.

 

[murphy55d]

4am til 6:30pm is my longest day at work. Wal-mart distribution center... i work in the freezer no less.

 

[intogamer]

Prolly like 24hrs there... non physical work... just neffing all day
naw what I mean?

haha j/k

I think I've had a few normal days with a 24hr time span

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: dug777
I did 13 hours on the farm the other day, i've done 15 before at harvest time tho...

You sleep well

Yes, you do.

 

[I Saw OJ]

I did a 15 hour shift at a grocery store where I used to work. Thanksgiving is a M Fer

 

[PHiuR]

12 hours of shooting sports with a camera + telephoto lens without a tripod/monopod.

 

[Vegitto]

14 hours. A deadline is a real bad motherfuc[/i]ker.

 

[xSauronx]

about 19 hours or so. my dads drycleaning plant flooded and we worked from 5am to midnight the day after to get everything running so we could open up the next morning. 19 hours, the first half of which was cleaning the water and mud out of the place

then i did 18 hours once trying to repair a large dryer we had. 6 am to midnight on that one as well.

 

[troytime]

34 hours at MTX Audio (had to redo 4 sites 2 days before CES)

drank a case a mt dew, ate 2 boxes of twinkies

spent a lot of that time playing ping pong with my boss

 

[Sentinel]

14 hours laying a concrete road at a golf course.

 

[vi edit]

Of actual true physically demanding work? Probably 12-14 hours helping labor for my father when he was putting in a foundation for his house.

Of non-physical, but still mentally demanding work, I was on the clock for 40+ straight hours after a server crash.

 

[Gillbot]

22 hours doing electrical repairs and testing during an outage at my old plant.