You really have to take the hops by the hand, it won’t find it´s way to the top on it´s own. On wires and earlier on strings. Not too much has changed here in the last 70 years. The picture was taken in 1949 in Hüll, near Wolnzach. At that time, the seasonal workers still came from the surrounding area, not from Poland or Romania, as they do today. Often the family members did all the work alone anyway, helping together. Farmhands and maids to help had not yet disappeared from the farms everywhere. Otherwise, then as now: bucking, crouching, perching, only manual labor.