acken from wisc: The girls are GREAT kids. They are horse nuts too but we make them support their own habit. So they have to work to provide for the horses. Selling sweet corn and shelled corn are some of their off farm money makes. They also have chores that are unpaid too but they have "jobs" that they each do around the farm that earns them money. One of these jobs is greasing the grain leg when we are harvesting. This grand daughter is SHARP I do mean sharp. She watched us checking the bearings on the round balers with a digital thermometer so she came up with the idea to check the grain leg bearings with it too. She caught one bearing last year before it failed. So we where able to repair it at a convenient time rather than right in the middle of harvesting.
She also had us set down and make check lists for all of the common machinery. There are daily ones and seasonal ones. They help all of us make sure we check everything we should. That is how she caught the crack in the tower frame. I was not worried about that main frame as it seemed to be built real heavy. I worried about the stairs. We made them out of some used stairs out of a fire tower. They are real light but are built out of high tensile steel. I worry about them cracking. She was checking on the stairs and saw the crack in the main tower frame.
Right now we have young ladies/girls doing many things that are traditionally male type things. Part of that is just the way times are but it also we have a big gap between male grand kids. The oldest is 29 the next boy is only 10. I have four grand Daughters in there: 27, 16,13,12. The oldest Grand daughter has run tractors since she was 13-14 years old. She takes time off from her day job to run "her" tractor (JD 4960) on the chisel plow in the fall and the finisher in the spring. The 16 year old started running the round baler in corn stalks last fall. The 13 year old will be raking some this fall.
I like them all to do different things around the farm. If they never step one foot back on the farm after their adults it still will pay them dividends. These girls have the inner confidence in themselves to do anything they set their mind too. That is my main goal.
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