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Marty Johns

02-25-2007 18:46:13

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Do'nt yo wish the youngsters of today could relate to what we did back then! but then again our fathers thought the same thing, can we ever get the youngins to change/ doubt it!!

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Marty Johns

02-26-2007 22:27:21

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Re: do'nt you wush! in reply to Marty Johns, 02-25-2007 18:46:13

Turned out to be a decent thread and I would like to give my accolades to wegmen in MN, david goode, and josh in sd, as they are showing aspirering ways into remembering and learning from our fore fathers and GeneMO you are right! there are;nt many but these 3 show that there is sill a few!

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J.J. from Afton

02-27-2007 06:34:46

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Re: do'nt you wush! in reply to Marty Johns, 02-26-2007 22:27:21

I am part of the younger generation and am a big fan of "the good old days". My dad has a small farm and the newer of the two tractors we have is a 1960 340 Utility. Mine is the older, it being a 1934 F-12. I am a big fan of older farm equipment as well as almost anything else to do with history. I am starting to collect all the old "dinasor" Farmall F series, mainly cause i like em as they are skeleton tracotrs of the past. They maybe 70 years, but they are still running strong.

My first summer job was working at the county fairgrounds where they have two old IH and an old case. There were only three of us working there because no other high schoolers were willing to do the physical labor required for the job. Personally i would rather be working outside on physical labor in the hot sun than sitting in some office or cubicle doing paperwork or crunching numbers all day on a computer.

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wegman in Mn

02-26-2007 07:10:29

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Re: do'nt you wush! in reply to Marty Johns, 02-25-2007 18:46:13

I don't think we are a dying breed! I have started collecting farmalls about 4yrs ago and already have 1 farmall H, 1 farmall super M, 1 international 686, and I wish I had a 1206! or a 966. I dont't think we are dying breed because I probably have 70 more years to live (I am younger than jason in sd)

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David Goode

02-26-2007 16:17:38

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Re: do'nt you wush! in reply to wegman in Mn, 02-26-2007 07:10:29

I Agree with You. I'm in my teens and allready have a good collection of Tractors. Most of them aren't IH Farmall But I want that to change in the upcoming years!

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Ron in Nebr

02-26-2007 01:07:01

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Re: do'nt you wush! in reply to Marty Johns, 02-25-2007 18:46:13

I think that feeling is about as old as the human race. Just natural for the newer generations to be interested in newer things, and the majority of them will regard the "old ways" with about the same enthusiasm that they regard history class in school. Luckily there's a few like Josh and myself(OK, I'm pushing 40 but for as long as I can remember I've been interested in ANYTHING regarding past local history). Some people care about the past, others could care less. Differences in the way our brains are wired I guess.

As an interesting and kinda related side note, I recently read a bunch of old Reader's Digest magazines from the 50's that my grandma had saved. Know what? Even then a common topic that was written about was how they were "worried" about how the current "young generation" wasn't gonna amount to a hill of beans.

Apparantly their fears were unfounded...at least until the next generation came along! Of course, they also predicted we'd all have flying cars and robots doing our housework by now too!

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Josh in SD

02-25-2007 21:30:21

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Re: do'nt you wush! in reply to Marty Johns, 02-25-2007 18:46:13

Hey Marty...I'm 18 turning 19 here in about a month living in eastern South Dakota. For as long as I can remember I've been around farm equipment and old machinery. For many years the newest tractor we had was a late 70's 686, and we still use it all the time. I agree that many younger people like myself do not understand or realize what life could have been like back then..but there are some of us, though few and far between, that do inquire to our much older relatives what life was like. My great-grandpa's each gave me whatever I wanted for old machinery I could find...not knowing what I would ever do with anything like that and half destroyed from sitting in the groves for well over 50 years I thought at least they knew their equipment would stay in the family and maybe the history would someday interest me. Well that someday came a lot sooner than I ever expected..around age 15 probably. To me, and probably to a few other youngins, hearing about how grain binders and old check corn planters work and how much time it took to do it all began to get very interesting. I found it interesting just the other day when my great-grandpa told me him and his parents never had cars for a long time and if he ever wanted to go somewhere it was time to hop on the horse. I've still got all the stuff they've given me...a couple binders, a couple plows, an old horse mower..very interesting.....

However I do agree, those like me are few but we are trying at least...just keep telling us what it was like and we'll keep trying to listen and keep those old farm shows and threshing bees going...

Josh in SD

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georgeky

02-25-2007 21:14:51

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Re: do'nt you wush! in reply to Marty Johns, 02-25-2007 18:46:13

Yes I do Marty. I cant hardly get my kids to do nothing and there nearly all grown. When I was a kid we(my dad and younger brother) worked the farm almost 7 days a week and I loved it. I remember shoveleing manure for hours so I could drive the tractor for 20 minutes to go and spread it.They think every thing should be given to them because kids they knew at school didn't have to work to get what they wanted, and they acted like they shouldn't have to either. I tried to give my boy's a old Farmall to fix up to pull or work or take to shows or whatever. I was told that they didn't want them. They said dad that is your thing and not ours, I wondered what is their thing. We are a dieing breed I think, but I dont know anything if you dont believe me just ask them.

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Rich Griffin

02-26-2007 06:30:14

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Re: do'nt you wush! in reply to georgeky, 02-25-2007 21:14:51

You might not know anything now ,but give your kids a few years and you will be the smartest man that they have ev er known. I felt the same way with my parents. Now at 66 and they are both gone and missed,there are a lot of things that I need to know but can not ask them.

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georgeky

02-26-2007 15:54:10

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Re: do'nt you wush! in reply to Rich Griffin, 02-26-2007 06:30:14

Rich maybe my problem is that when I was a kid I did not run around with many my own age. I grew up with a lot of old men that I thought new everything, I watched and listened and tried to learn from them. Most of these old men were related to me one way or another. They all farmed and traded around working together on several farms. The sad thing is almost every one of them are gone. I really miss them, I attended several barn raisings when I was a kid if a neighbors barn burned or was hit by a tornado all the locals would jump in and help that guy rebuild. I have not even heard of a barn raising around here in nearly 30 years.

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GeneMO

02-26-2007 07:41:57

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Re: do'nt you wush! in reply to Rich Griffin, 02-26-2007 06:30:14

We had a man in our area, Hubert, who could fix or make anything. He dozed for a living with an old D-6. Best terrace man alive. Anyway, I came across a little D-2 that I restored and use for odds and ends. One morning I was having trouble with the pony motor and mentioned to my dad I would have to give Hubert a call to see what was wrong with it. A few hours later we found out Hubert had died through the night. It just hit me how all of his knowledge was gone. I am 52 and it felt like all the "old timers" are gone and I am fast becomming the new genaration of "old timers" I dont feel I am competent to replace them. But again this happens with each generation, and has forever.

Gene

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