The amount of manual labor here was surprising.

Couldn't they automate the stuffing bit given they have them setup for individual automated pitting?

Goddamn it I love watching "How it's made" ...Stoner city.

>> ^blahpook:

The amount of manual labor here was surprising.


Yet refreshing.

>> ^brycewi19:

>> ^blahpook:
The amount of manual labor here was surprising.

Yet refreshing.


To each his own, but ... why?

I grew up on a large family farm for wheat and corn in Kansas. My father talks about how from the time he was born till the time I was born, the farm operations went from being handled by about 10-15 full-time family member workers plus maybe 60+ seasonal harvest workers to having roughly 4 full-time workers and an additional 8 or so harvest part-timers. 75 plus down to 12.

First they got tractors for tilling. Then planter attachments for the tractors. Then the first harvester machines, etc. etc. on down to today, where we've got 2 massive combines running during harvest, 1 or 2 tractors with grain hoppers (serve other purposes outside of harvest season), 4-6 semi trucks with grain hopper trailers, and a central location with a set of large grain storage bins.

With the machines, we get higher yields per acre and less loss due to human error mistakes. We harvest over twice as much land in significantly less time. In the past 60 years, grain prices have crept up at a rate way lower than inflation, while prices for labor-intensive crops like fruit actually outpace inflation.

I am most definitely a biased source, but from my perspective more mechanization equals more food to go around, and lower food prices for everyone. I'd say that is pretty refreshing too!

No offense meant, just a different perspective.

Olive it!

Love me some olives. My friend reckons keeping the pit in the olives gives a better flavour, but I've personally never noticed this, all I notice is my teeth being shattered

Guys, I'm off to the stuffing department.

>> ^MilkmanDan:

>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^blahpook:
The amount of manual labor here was surprising.

Yet refreshing.

To each his own, but ... why?
I grew up on a large family farm for wheat and corn in Kansas. My father talks about how from the time he was born till the time I was born, the farm operations went from being handled by about 10-15 full-time family member workers plus maybe 60+ seasonal harvest workers to having roughly 4 full-time workers and an additional 8 or so harvest part-timers. 75 plus down to 12.
First they got tractors for tilling. Then planter attachments for the tractors. Then the first harvester machines, etc. etc. on down to today, where we've got 2 massive combines running during harvest, 1 or 2 tractors with grain hoppers (serve other purposes outside of harvest season), 4-6 semi trucks with grain hopper trailers, and a central location with a set of large grain storage bins.
With the machines, we get higher yields per acre and less loss due to human error mistakes. We harvest over twice as much land in significantly less time. In the past 60 years, grain prices have crept up at a rate way lower than inflation, while prices for labor-intensive crops like fruit actually outpace inflation.
I am most definitely a biased source, but from my perspective more mechanization equals more food to go around, and lower food prices for everyone. I'd say that is pretty refreshing too!
No offense meant, just a different perspective.


I see both sides of the argument. I fully understand the advantages of automation, but how do you feel about there being fewer jobs for people?

Serious question, I'm not trolling. There are again arguments each way. The jobs are seasonal and I'm guessing the people helping with harvests aren't paid very well, so it's not about high quality work. But in a country where there is a lot of unemployment do you think it would be worth cutting back on the automation to help out or would this just price you out the market?

Personally I don't know, but I'm interested in your opinion.

♫ We olive on a yellow submarine... ♫

WINNER!

>> ^kymbos:

Olive it!

Why the hell is there a female voice-over???????
I watched this episode voiced by a guy and it was so much better! (felt less naggy)

If you are going to redo voice-overs then at least do it w/ a British accent, otherwise there's no point. That's like making the same item in blue and pink colors.

>> ^mxxcon:

Why the hell is there a female voice-over???????
I watched this episode voiced by a guy and it was so much better! (felt less naggy)
If you are going to redo voice-overs then at least do it w/ a British accent, otherwise there's no point. That's like making the same item in blue and pink colors.


Blah blah fucking blah finger diarrhea. Go jerk off or something when you feel tension.

Problem 1: I still don't know how they get that perfectly cut and folded pimento in, nor what the hell a pimento is anyway. Waste of my 5:35.

Problem 2: This whole show is just, "There's a machine that does this, there's a machine that does that, it does xxx per minute. Humans still do this job." There's no narrative. This one about saxaphones from Sesame Street has a much better narration. It gets you interested. I still remember it from when I was a kid.

Funny that the "how they stuff olives" bit was the most uninteresting.

this thread sure is stuffed

I have new appreciation for the stuffed olive

I think the best olive joke is what I just made the title hahahahahahahha

@robbersdog49: Automation frees up money and labor to be focused elsewhere. The olive-stuffing jobs won't be lost in a vacuum--the money saved by eliminating them will go to something that's harder to automate. Other jobs will be created. That's how we make progress!

Jobs that are easy to automate are probably not very fulfilling jobs, either.

Are people not understanding that this video depicts what goes on in a small olive factory ? To mass produce olives we get in most grocery store jars, the entire process is mechanized, the pimento/filling is injected during the seed extraction.

We're getting it. But in the video details you say, I always wondered how they got that little red thing in there. And now after the video, we're all still wondering too. Lunchbag letdown.

But now with your stupid awesome title, I have to upvote this.

[Edit: You've also got "pimento" in the tags, but it's nowhere to be found in the video.]>> ^BoneRemake:

Are people not understanding that this video depicts what goes on in a small olive factory ? To mass produce olives we get in most grocery store jars, the entire process is mechanized, the pimento/filling is injected during the seed extraction.

damn i guess he learned not to fuck with the sift about olives