When i was 13 my parents built a new home and i was there the day they started to dig the basement with a Bucyers Eire 22B I found a good spot to watch from while the started the sewer line and water line . The shovel operator was digging away and as the ditch got deeper the two other guys got down in the ditch and started digging with shovles looking for the sewer line and water line , one of them yelled at the shovel operator to get the probe out of the one truck and as he was getting down out of the shovel he yelled at me to get the probe Thinking i had no idea what he was talking about . Well i was about five feet from the truck and i got up and looked over the side and saw the Tee handled probe and pull iot out then walked over to the ditch and handed it down to the one guy . From that moment on i became the Go For over the next day and half . when they were done and loading up the one guy told me that if i had nothing to do that i could come out to the shop when they were there . Well that Guy ended up being my boss and his boss the owner of the company came in one day and i was watching the men work on a D7 Cat and i was getting tools or what ever they needed He sota of came unglude with me being there when Jon told him to pipe down the kid is learning something and is stayen out of trouble . The owner walked over to the time card rack pulled out a time card asked me my name and wrote it down and said HERE GO PUNCH IN , if your going to hang around here your going to work Back then this man owned not one but three large construction companys and two strip mines He paid vary well and my first Christmas there he came in the shop just before Christmas and started handing out plain white envelopes to everybody and i was the last one to get one as he went out the door sayen MARRY MHRISTMAS AND GOT IN HIS RED CADDY CONVERTABLE and backed away from the shop and dropped it in drive and floored it and out the lot he went hammer down. When i opened the envelope there was a brand new crisp 100 dollar bill in it . At 13 years old i was rollen in the money . As time went on you got a birthday gift (money) a bonus around the end of Aug. a turkey for thanks giving and with each year you were there that Christmas envelope got thicker and not by a little bit HE paid me a mans wage and i worked like the men . When i started driving and playing with cars he let me have one of the smaller bays in the Huge shop for working on my car. I had everything there to work with . He also owned one of THE NICEST farms anywhere around he ran a dairy herd on the main farm and beef at #2 farm when haying season came in the local kids would darn near get in fist fights to be the first there to help with hay as he paid 2.00 bucks and hour and his wife would put on a spread the likens you have never seen . There would be between 28-30 kids between both farms . He had more tractors then i can remember he ran two old Deerborn balers with V4 wisc. engines and there was three kids on the wagon in the field and at the barns there were no less them five in the mow and two unloading just as fast as they could get the bales on the elevator two to three tractors moving wagons between the field and the barns . And the best part of working for him was the fact when payday came you did not have to go to the bank to cash your check , it did not matter if you worked at the farm or you worked out on the job he would bring everybody pay in a white envelope with you deduction on a slip along with you weeks time and pay scale in CASH . It did not matter if we were doing a small job with five -ten guys or if there was 300 . When we were building part of I 75 he would go to the bank at 6 AM friday morning and get everybodys pay and jump in his Red Caddy eldordo convertable and it was hammer down from one end of the state to the other to be there at 4 PM . He had to have the best and money was no object . He bought the vary first 806 that was ever see and paid cash for it on the spot He bought me my own company truck as soon as i had a driver license and equiped that truck with every tool that was in the Mac tool catologe along with all the pullers and track pin press from OTC , John and i built the bed to go on the 1963 Ford F350 4x4 added i the PTO drive welder and a big PTO driven air compressor that would run a 100 lb jack hammer plus fuel and oil tanks. The truck came in Red and we had to paint the top half white (company colors) . Thinking back on that truck and compairing it to todays trucks , all i can say was she was one rough riding SOB. 352 V8 with a 4 speed , no P/S No P/W, NO A/C , no P/B but i did have a Am radio. and a company radio. Yea we had company radios and they were on repeters for when we were over a 100 miles from base. HE ran two of the companys from my town with the other on the wetern side of the state. Never had to go to any of the strip mines but they were about 70-100 miles south. During the summer i would work on the away jobs and when school started i would work around the area in the afternoons , I might be runnig a pan moving dirt or on a Dozed or i might be on the 15B or the 22B digging a basement for a new home . Set in on one new street and started digging basements and dug 21 down one side walked across the street and dug 19 up that side a day and a half each, kept me out of troubel.
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