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Working on the 8n with my son!

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Ringy

03-09-2001 22:31:51




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Tonight I spent 3 wonderful hours with my 5 year old son working on my (our) tractor. We are preparing to paint so we are taking it almost completly apart. He took off the seat all by himself! We talked about tractors and ratchets and why some screwdrivers are sloted and some are phillips. He told me very matter of factly that birch trees were his favorite and he didn't really care for basswood(I don't know where that came from). He also thought we should use finger paint to repaint with. He had a lot of fun and went to bed with grease on his nose. I am on my way to bed as I write this and I know I am the luckiest guy in the world.

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Crutch

03-11-2001 09:39:33




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 Re: Working on the 8n with my son! in reply to Ringy, 03-09-2001 22:31:51  
Same feelings going on here. My 14 year old and I are rebuilding his granddad's '40 9N.....and we've actually 'almost' got it running. Sure the 9N is not a hot rod but we're having a good time and learning a lot also (next we have a '59 F-100....then maybe the hot rod). We also may go take a welding course (wife too).
Thanks for sharing!
Crutch, '40 9N, Atlanta



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pat pbankich@hotmail.com

03-10-2001 09:42:29




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 Re: Working on the 8n with my son! in reply to Ringy, 03-09-2001 22:31:51  
AINT KIDS GREAT!!!!! I THINK THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN HAVING A SON {OR DAUGHTER} WORKING SIDE BY SIDE WITH YOU AND LEARNING TO DO THINGS WITH HIS HANDS I HAVE AN 8 AND 3 YR OLD AND THEY ARE CONSTANTLY EAGER TO LEARN, IN THESE DAYS OF PC.'s EVERYWHERE IT IS GOOD TO HEAR THAT SOME OF THE FUN TRAITS OF GETTING GREASY WILL WEAR OFF ON SOME OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION, IT WAS SO NICE TO HEAR THAT THERE ARE ALOT OF OTHERS THAT SHARE EVERYTHING WITH THEIR KIDS. LIKE SOME OF THE OTHERS SAID,THEY GROW UP SO FAST AND AFTER YA GET ALL THE TOYS YA THINK YA NEED THEY ARE GROWN UP AND GONE THIS IS A GREAT SITE. BTW THIS IS MY FIRST POST KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

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Snowplow

03-10-2001 06:48:10




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 Re: Working on the 8n with my son! in reply to Ringy, 03-09-2001 22:31:51  
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I can'y wait!



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RICKWI

03-10-2001 06:03:32




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 Re: Working on the 8n with my son! in reply to Ringy, 03-09-2001 22:31:51  
Perhaps you are luckiest in that you realize how lucky you are. I missed so much with my kids thinking that "things" were important. We still had som fun times but it could have been so much more. My wife runs a day care and we try to tell these young parents how quickly they will lose these precious entertainers. Some are so wound up in O.T. so they can pay for that snowmobile, ATV, boat, and the big pick-up truck that the little guys just slip away. We have them more hours than the parents, then when vacation time comes, the grandparents get them. It's sad really.

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Ed Gooding (VA)

03-10-2001 02:32:35




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 Re: Working on the 8n with my son! in reply to Ringy, 03-09-2001 22:31:51  
>> I know I am the luckiest guy in the world. <<

You sure are, and it's nice that you recognize it. These types of memories are very special. Now that both my sons are grown and gone, I cherish memories like these even more. My younger son and I used to work on air-cooled VW's like that. We built a dune buggy together and restored a Super Beetle. We'd stay out in the garage working on them until his mother came after us with a stick because he had to go to school and I to work the next day. She REALLY got torqued the day we "borrowed" her toaster oven to heat up a gear enough to get it to slide on the crank....LOL!

Cherish these times. He'll be grown up before you know it.

Regards..... ..... Ed
'52 8N475798

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Old George

03-10-2001 05:55:42




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 Re: Re: Working on the 8n with my son! in reply to Ed Gooding (VA), 03-10-2001 02:32:35  
"mother came after us with a stick"
Wow, did that ring a bell. Sometimes my wife gets fed up with my two boys fighting and makes them go to the shop and work with me, not knowing how much we enjoy it. Them she chases us down for staying out too late. Enjoy 'em before they discover girls or they won't like to get dirty. Thanks for the posts guys!
Alan



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Rod MI

03-09-2001 23:15:29




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 Re: Working on the 8n with my son! in reply to Ringy, 03-09-2001 22:31:51  
Sounds like the kid has a hobby it will benefit both of you when he gets older I like bass wood my self I think you should finger paint it and post a picture on this board



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