Posted by Fawteen on February 24, 2013 at 07:56:09 from (72.65.111.223):
In Reply to: Re: JD B posted by Bob Bancroft on February 24, 2013 at 06:06:38:
I know what you're saying, and this is not aimed at you, but it pushes one of my hot buttons.
It was the 60's. Dad worked full time as an industrial electrician in addition to farming.
Older brothers were gone: Two married and on their own, 2 in the Air Force.
Ya did what needed doing. We did a LOT of things that overprotective, lawyer-ridden, nanny-state parents wouldn't dare do today. By 10 years old, I was feeding the beef critters (including climbing up a 40 foot concrete silo and pitching down the silage...no unloaders then), pitching manure with a fork (no loader tractors, and they wouldn'tve fit anyway) and running the spreader by myself (same JD-B), running the disk over fresh plowing (JD-B again) following that with a spring-tooth harrow and cultipacker, stacking hay in the mow (after we moved up to a square baler from an A-C Rotobaler), unloading gravity wagons of ear corn, hauling wheat and oats in the same wagon...you know, all that old-fashioned farm stuff.
You'd probably get arrested for having anyone under 18 doing that today. Can't say I call that an improvement.
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