good story about a farmer

the power went off in nj on monday night last week, By saturday you could not get gas, we had some and my truck had 3/4 of a tank, I wanted to go to pa,I called and they said it was no problem getting gas up there, So off we go with 4 5 gallon cans, On the way my mother in law said they are running out of gas for their generator and my brother in law cant find any , My other neighbor with 4 small children was running out too, Got to pa checked everything out,and was telling my farmer neighbor about the gas situation, he says ,I have plenty of cans! He had some under his workbench,some out in a shed some here and there,9 metal 5 gal safety cans! Along with my 4 ,filled them at the truck stop and took some to my mil, neighbor with small children,and some for us,a lot of cans in the back of the truck, ,,,, but had to do it,...but it got us through,there was no gas to be had here for quite a while,My farmer friend and neighbor helped ou again

Larry,
That is great to hear. It is always great to have wonderful neighbor's like that, who are always willing to help someone when they are in extreme need. Hope all is well with you and your family and relatives and neighbors also. Nice to read your postings again.
Kow Farmer (Kurt)

If you ever need help ASK a farmer. Most of the time you don't have to even ask. I saw my 63 C60 truck leaving the farm today, so guessing someone needed it. I will let you know if it doesn't come back.

Always good to have helpful neighbors. During WW2, farmars always had gas for farming, to help the war effort. When gas was rationed it may not have been right, but Dad helped his friends with a few gallons of gas, when they needed it. Stan

It's good to hear you survived all those cans. I never liked handling gas in cans. Even in my youth when we carried gas to the field for the bean thresher/tractor in cans, I didn't like it. I'd be so nervous driving on the road with all those cans I'd probably CAUSE an accident!

I've been following along your posts, I can recall quite a few years back going to the library for internet access too.

I thought you were near North Brunswick, but someone mentioned Somerville, I used to live close by in Basking Ridge and liked to shop the Bridgewater Common mall, have a cold one at Fridays in Somerville, watch the game sometimes, over by the circle where 206 heads south to Princeton and or that well known publisher McGraw-Hill.

Its hard to imagine those areas so adversely effected, must have been wind damage. I can understand the situation at the shore, having lived in Manasquan, my old house is probably now gone at 127 1st St.

What you mention with the farmers and being helpful is something that still happens around here, and was something that stood out prominently to me just a few years ago while working with my long time farmer/friend because even if they're not all that fond of each other, they always help each other, find a way, could be as simple as pulling out a stuck tractor or doing a harvest like when the large dairy lost a combine to fire during harvest. Its always been like that, sometimes its a rental, his equipment is closer to the fields, hiring out a truck, it is something to admire in the times we live now. As a young kid I can recall my father firing up the D7 caterpillar to pull out a stuck tractor during spring planting/tillage, same farmer came over when he buried the 4000 ford on the first pass of cutting in one of our hay fields, father had to be at work, not only did he cut, he raked and baled, small field but nonetheless, and the fine details of $ worked out later, work was done first. You hit the nail on the head all right by bringing that up.

Hope you and yours get back to some "normalcy" soon, take care now !!!

That's the way it should work.

A number of years ago, my wife ran out of gas by an acreage owned by a doctor she once worked for. No one was home, but his pickup was sitting there with the keys in it, so my wife borrowed it long enough to go get some gas, then parked it back like it was.

Next time she saw him, she said, "Thanks for letting me use your pickup".

He just grinned, shrugged, and said, "That's why I leave the keys in it".

(quoted from post at 00:17:23 11/10/12) Always good to have helpful neighbors. During WW2, farmars always had gas for farming, to help the war effort. When gas was rationed it may not have been right, but Dad helped his friends with a few gallons of gas, when they needed it. Stan

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Chief, the nation had all the gass they needed in WWII. Thats why the farmers never ran out. What we didn't have was rubber. Thats why so many of the war years tractors has steel wheels. They rationed gas and made the speed limit something like 30 or 35 MPH to get people to use the train or some other form of transportation to conserve rubber.

Rick