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by jiggawatts 599 days ago
There's illustrations inside the pyramids that are thousands of years old showing people watering their fields using a bucket on a long swinging arm. It needs just a couple of long poles, a bucket, and a rope.

I saw this still in use today when I went to Egypt. That blew my mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadoof