Like most of you guys: I was driving tractors, trucks whatever at early ages around the farms. Could not wait to get my license at 16. Living in a rural area, you simply needed a car to get anywhere.
That said, I can not really blame younger people who do not want to drive a car either. While there are lots of jobs out there in this economy, many of those jobs do not pay all that well (barely above minimum wage if that). If you eliminate the need for a car then you can save on significant expenses like car purchase, insurance, license fees, car maintenance, gasoline, etc. (all this savings can make you meager earning go much farther).
That said, if you choose this lifestyle then it means you pretty much must live in a well laid out community where most of your everyday essentials are within walking distance of your residence. Ideally has affordable public transportation like subway, electric train, or even buses for the occasional stuff you want outside your normal walking distance cell, and then you use a taxi for those rare special occasions and only when needed. (Going back to the original post that spurred this one: the cheapskate grandson needs to join a gym closer to home, walk or ride a bike to the gym, take public transport to the gym, or take a taxi to the gym. Sponging of others should not be part of the lifestyle).
Unfortunately many of our cities and communities are simply not laid out this way. But more city planners are seeing some errors of their past planning ways and are trying to implement better plans for the future. All will be needed with population growth plus the future will simply not see cheap energy like we experienced.
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Today's Featured Article - Hydraulics - Cylinder Anatomy - by Curtis von Fange. Let’s make one more addition to our series on hydraulics. I’ve noticed a few questions in the comment section that could pertain to hydraulic cylinders so I thought we could take a short look at this real workhorse of the circuit. Cylinders are the reason for the hydraulic circuit. They take the fluid power delivered from the pump and magically change it into mechanical power. There are many types of cylinders that one might run across on a farm scenario. Each one could take a chapter in
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