Re: Re: Re: Re: smta

Posted by Hugh MacKay on April 01, 2002 at 04:28:17 from (209.226.247.41):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: smta posted by Dick Davis on April 01, 2002 at 02:08:37:

Dick: That is very true, we are just as young as we feel, but doesn't it make you feel a lot younger with all these guys in their teens,twenties,thirties and forties trying to keep this old iron alive, that in a lot cases only guys our age and older got to operate when it was new. Remember back in late forties and fifties when a new letter series, or super, or number series of late fifties came to your neighborhood. Every kid and teenager was there. That is where most of us learned to drive. My dad milked 30-40 cows, during fifties he bought new, Farmalls H, 300 and 130, and had time to teach 5 sons as well as most of the kids from 5-6 neighbor families, who were not farmers how to drive. I remember one kid in particular, ( a neighbor) dad had him raking hay at eight years of age with 130. My dad was not a 500 bale a day guy, average was more like 2000 per day. That kid was with me on farm until mid twenties. He then went long haul trucking, has trucked in every province in Canada and every mainland state in the union, including Alaska. He is now 45 and has yet to have an accident. Farms of America were the driving schools of America. Because of liability and time constraints brought on by the publics appetite for cheap food, farmers can no longer afford to do this. It is a shame, kids not learning controlled driving at 10. Hugh

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