Part of the issue here is how we live too. When I was a kid in NJ all up and down the street "dads" would be doing tune ups, oil changes and brake jobs on Saturday morning. Then they made it a pain to legally get rid of the oil and added the first round of pollution control stuff. I remember some of the late 70's car where you really could not see the engine for all the vacuum hoses and wiring. Add in IE that people didn't understand and extended tune ups to 45k plus extended oil changes. Now dad could sleep in or spend more time fishing
Now as time went on and I was in the Army on tanks we got in fewer people who knew anything about mechanics. By the time I retired in 96 I don't think one in 50 of the new kids could do more than check their oil.
Last high school attended in rural MN had Ag classes. They were manditory for the guys. We worked on cars and tractors, welded, built bunk feeders......ECT. By 2000 they still had that class but no shop time because of liability issues. It was funny, it was required that everyone build a bunk feeder. They figured that the kids from town had relatives who farmed who would pay for the materials. Then I show up and we didn't farm and knew no one in the area. Dad went into the school and told em that he wasn't paying for materials for something we didn't need and that they had better not flunk me for it. The Ag teacher had to scramble to find a farmer to sponser my project. That school has now dropped the AG program when the teacher retired and the budget was tight a couple of years ago.
Yea there are a few youngsters out there that are doing things but most wanna ride "personal water craft" or snow mobiles or the couch.
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