We had "the World's Laziest Man" in our National Guard outfit in the '70's. He and I were both deuce-and-a-half drivers. Summer camp was at Yakima Firing Center, which is a pretty fancy name for a plain ol' desert. Routinely 100° +, and so dusty you couldn't see past your hood.
The trucks had oil bath air cleaners, and we were supposed to change the oil in them daily, plus some other maintenance items. The First Sergeant suspected Mike wasn't doing it, so came and stood beside his rig one morning to watch him pull maintenance. When he took off the air cleaner pan, the oil was so filled with dirt that it just came out as a donut, which had a layer of dry dust on the top and didn't even break when it hit the ground. Sarge said, "Mike, go get So and So, okay?" Mike brought back So and So, and Sarge told him "Congratulations. You're a truck driver now. You'll be in charge of this rig from now on. Mike, go to the headquarters tent and we'll have us a little talk."
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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