Posted by the tractor vet on September 14, 2021 at 00:01:30 from (108.220.145.239):
In Reply to: 18 y o otr drivers posted by Hoofer B on September 13, 2021 at 17:57:32:
I was 17 when i parked my donkey in the big seat of a B 61 mack with a five and four with a 50 ton Rodgers lowboy hooked to it and hauling heavy equipment up to the fifty ton that the trailer could carry . BUT i had a bunch of driving experience from the time i was 13 driving the farm trucks and tractors from the age of 7 . I spent two years riding in that old mack as a flagman . NO not everybody could do it . some of us have the nack like we were born with it . I was running dozers and pans on construction jobs at 16 and had mastered the art of running old cable back hoes and got lots of experience in the art of digging basements , installing sewer lines and water lines with the 15 and 22 B after school as i dug every basement on the one new street we put in . Makes it easy when you helped install the main sewer line and water line . Myself and one other KID as he worked ad grademan in the hole with me in the shovel , just the two of us 32 basements for new homes , took Jim and i two days per , they were building just about as fast as we could dig them . Old 4 inch slip seal pipe and 3/4 copper water use a step ditch water line layed about four feet on the ledge and the sewer was between 7-8 feet down . And i hauled the equipment in . Started my working career on a low boy and ended it on a lowboy . Yep i could still do it BUT i have no desire to go back out on the road with the nut cases that roam the hyways today. So yes some young bucks that have there heads screwed down tight can do a fine job , BUT they are 1 in a million today.
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