My younger brother heard that 20 years ago when he started - he now farms a couple thousand acres with modern (not new) equipment. He sure as **** didn't inherit anything and my older brothers made sure there was no equipment was handed down to anyone but them. His starting point was an old F150 and an IH 1066. For the first 8 years he worked in town and farmed at night and put in 100 hour work weeks while sharing a trailer house with 3 of his buddies. He still has the 1066, but it only runs a grain arguer now.
He hit hard patch two years ago when his son was injured in football and he needed help with his hay business. I took a week's vacation and figured out real quick how he has what he has. During daylight the baler and swather never stopped. When it got too dewy at night the field equipment stopped and the trucks hauling hay hit the fields and the roads. First day I vowed to keep up with him - my third day without sleeping in my bed and only changing clothes once I had to take a break. Slept 8 hours and came back and he asked me WTH I went. Next three days where like the first three days only he never took a break like I took to go home. I was never so happy to go back to my office. And his son was working similar hours when he wasn't in school or football. Made me kind of ashamed at what I had considered a long week at work.
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