Just thinking

37chief · Jun 6, 2013

I grew up on a farm here in San Diego county. I helped my Dad alot. Dad raised lima beans, and oat hay. I learned when you got to the end of a row you turned around and headed up another row. I wonder if someone from the younger generation not raised on a farm was put on a tractor doing what ever. If they could go all day going up and down a field until they finished the job. I am sure some could do it, but I think most would fail. Might be wrong, what do you think? like I said just thinking. Stan

RBnSC · Jun 6, 2013

The majority would not know how to work the clutch. Seemed like it took forever to get across those fields back and forth. If you were good and there weren't trees on the end of the field we(me and My brother) could hit the brake and slid it into the next rows without letting off the throttle. Talking about cultivating soybeans with a two row cultivator on a 3010JD.
Ron

Will Herring · Jun 6, 2013

Fortunately somebody showed me when using a field cultivator how to come up to the end of the row and raise it, spin the wheel just right, and then wind up right where you need to be headed the other way, with only one pass needed to clean up the end. If I had to figure it out on my own, it'd have just taken a bit longer.

Like my first time plowing... About the time I had gotten done plowing my first field, I had finally figured out how to do it. Made a bit of a mess starting out though.

showcrop · Jun 6, 2013

They would probably figure it out but I bet that the texting would result in a lot crop cultivated up.

Tony in Mass. · Jun 6, 2013

I guess your point is 'work ethics' or 'stamina'? It seems kids naturally don't WANT to plug away all day, but as humans learn patience and have fewer pipe dreams... 12 or 14 hours doesn't seem so hard to endure.... since most farms aren't 'family' but either hobby or corporate, it seems a mute point nowdays eh????
I am more interested in how well a teenager would handle real stress- invaded like Europe in WW1 and 2, or the 'bloody great a pox eclipse' like the feral kids in Mad Max 2...... how many will want to even survive never mind work in a field till nightfall....

Nebraska Cowman · Jun 6, 2013

I don't know. I was chopping musk thistle today. I used to think that if I set a pace I could keep at for an hour I could last all day. Now after the first hour something goes all to heck.

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