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Re: O/T Years of Experience
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Posted by kyhayman on October 22, 2006 at 17:01:18 from (68.171.76.92):
In Reply to: O/T Years of Experience posted by jeremy in NE on October 22, 2006 at 16:02:47:
It sure wouldnt pass muster with the safety police but I grew up on old iron, literally. My mom and dad always worked full time public work (dad was superintendent of schools, mom an English teacher). When I was a toddler I rode on my dads lap when he was mowing hay went to sleep listening to a 4000 Ford gas engine and the rythmic clickety clack of a JD 5 sickle mower. I remember watching him repair and sharpen sickles on the carport of our house in town. When I was 3, I greased the bed of his pickup truck trying to help, lol. Then for Christmas that year I got two heifer calves. I was born in 1967 so guess that makes it better than 35 years. I started farming with dad in 1982 as an FFA project and bought my own place in 1987.
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