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Dan in Ohio

Dan in Ohio

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How many of you guys operate your tractors on Sunday as you would any other day? Growing up on the farm in the sixties we rarely ever did nor did any of our neighbors for the same reason. Not only did we refrain from operating the tractors we did not work at all except for daily chores. We did not shoot guns, ride dirt bikes or do anything else that made noise.

Things changed slightly as I got older but it was more society changing not us changing the way we lived.

This past Sunday I went against what my parent taught me and drove 2 of my tractors not because I had to but cause I had nothing better to do. Spent the last two days after work trying to fix the mess I made on Sunday.

While driving in the woods a stick punched out the valve stem on the tear tire. Soon had a flat and a sticky mess all over the ground to work in.

Lesson learned, can see Dad shaking his head in discuss . Oh did I mention it was cold here the last couple of days and the tractor was stranded quite a ways from the barn and my tools.
 
We didn't plan field work on Sunday either. Sometimes when the season was getting short we did, but not often. Now hunting, riding motorcycles, playing basketball or baseball was different thing!
 
I don't work on Sundays. I enjoy my tractors and so I see no problem using them after church (or sometimes before church) on Sunday. What some people call work is different for others. I may work the tractors on some Sundays, but I find it an enjoyable, relaxing time, spent in the beauty of God's world around me. Usually with the family.
 
In this world we live in working a full time job all week, then working for myself requires lots of Sundays throughout the year. I provide for my family and keep the bill collector away. I would love to be able to take Sundays off all the time, just can't, not enough hours in the other six days.

Engine fired by 9am. Never seems to be a problem with the folks that I work for. Times change. :(

Stumpy
 
The only time we worked on Sunday was when the combine was running. All bets were off then. Chores were done of course but we did not feed sileage on Sunday.

I don't really have the same luxury. I find that I am more diversified than we were growing up with less hands to help, so I don't have a choice. There are very few tasks on the farm that I don't enjoy, so it really doesn't bother me. It will make days like Thanksgiving Day a bugger for me. That day sitting around talking to family will bore me.
 
Interesting post, Dan. Parents are long gone, still have the 80 acres in Mich which neighbor farms. However, we still don't hunt on Sundays.
 
Working six days a week I have no choice but to work around the farm on Sundays. I do not find anything on the farm to be work though I enjoy it all. I go to church and then work at home after, I figure that God made the beautiful day I am going to use it. People in my church didn't like when my dad was working in town on Sundays to provide for us but when told that by them watching football on sundays makes other people work they got quiet really quick.
 
I work hard on Sunday sun up to sun down, but on the seventh day of the week I rest from all work just like the good book tells me to.
 
Did not mean to say I do not work on Sunday as I have worked in health care for 38 years (my wife Too) and we work many weekends. I am glad to hear many were raise with similar values.

I will treat my tractors like I do my chain saws and just clean and repair on Sunday and all will be good.
 
My father firmly believed that when the stone was rolled away from the tomb on a Sunday morning that "This marked the beginning of the new Sabbath". Thusly, we were not to do anything but the essentials on the Sabbath. Milk and feed the cows, yes. Paint the barn, no. Period. Well, he managed to get ten acres of the best alfalfa hay I've ever seen laying all baled up on the ground on Saturday night with rain forecast for Monday. My brother and I went out in total disobedience and picked those bales up and mowed them away. On the Sabbath. At 5:30 Monday morning, a soft rain was falling. My mother said to my father; "See". My father didn't say a word. The next winter, a big drought had caused a severe hay shortage in certain parts of the US and hay was in short supply. Cattle were reported dying. My father sold that hay for what would be a good price today. Again, my mother said: "See". My father didn't say a word.
 
In twenty years only worked two times in the field on Sunday. Both were to bale hay before a big rain. But many Sunday afternoons were spent fixing equipment that had broke and was needed the following week.
 
On a dairy farm, we didn"t have any choice cattle needed to be cared for and milked EVERY day. Pigs and chickens had to be cared for, eggs gathered, too. Now my dad didn"t try to work on other projects on Sunday, but sometimes we got caught, had to. If you have hay down that was delayed, ended up ready to bale on Sunday, and it"s going to rain on Monday what do you do?
Dad used to use the parable of the cow in the well to explain his actions. "Which one of you if he had a cow in a well wouldn"t rescue her on the Sabbath?" Well, good hay or whatever was his "cow in the well." He tried to take another day for his "day of rest," that week. I think he had it right.
 
I used to work 365 days a year when I had livestock and I still would if I had to. I get the idea the original meaning of resting on the Sabbath meant resting and worshiping the lord the entire day long. Many people rest on the Sabbath, but one hour in church falls short of the original meaning. That's my little narrow minded view. Hope I didn't overstep the poof rules. JIm
 
I try to not work on sunday also, as I was taught when I was little. But, driving your hobby tractors around isnt work, its relaxtion ! Sometimes, you have a tough choice, like the others have stated, having hay down and rain coming monday is one instance. In those times I do what I have to do, and I remember that " God understands farmers " as Charles Ingalls once said on TV, lol.
 
Grew up on a dairy farm, did our best to only do the needed chores on Sunday. Sometimes did round up the equipment for Monday, but that was it. I know there are some jobs that are needed seven days a week, health care for one. The Pastor does his best work on Sunday too!
 

I don't do real "work" on Sunday, but the way the weather has been for the last five years, if a good stretch includes a Sunday, well I need to still mow the hay. One thing that I have always done though is in the evenings to quit at 9:00 so that I'm not bothering neighbors during their rest time.
 
My dad basically never worked on Sun. He was a firm believer, which was ok with me.As far as feeding the livestock on Sun. , that was expected. But one thing I never figured out was, He would never start a job like threshing, combining , hay making or any harvesting, even planting on a Sat. He waited until Mon. morning!
That was his "Thing".
I had a different view about working on Sun. If the good Lord provided us with a nice crop all season , I felt it was up to me to harvest seven days a week. To me , it was not a good idea to loose some of it by not working on Sun.
When custom harvesting , if the people did not work on Sun. that was ok with me. We would not work at there place on Sun. clint
 
Very interesting and heartfelt responses to this thread.
Times may change but the decalogue is not to be trifled
with. It is the character of God.


Glenn
 
Working during the week doesn't give me much choice. I don't get any cuts from the farm, but Dad can't do it alone. They feed me & my family often when I'm at the farm and to me that's enough. I spend most Sundays at the farm from April through October, and even March and November if needed.

I find most jobs relaxing (as long as all goes as planned) and I'd rather do that than work my normal job if I could make it pay out.... Anyone have $1,000,000 I could have to buy my neighbor's 80 acres?

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
I remember once as a young lad in my teens, some of the older folks in the Church got to railing against working on Sunday. To them, it was sinful to work on the Sabbath. I even had to accept a post-dated check from one of the ladies of the Church when she bought some pumpkins from me. She didn't want to conduct business on Sunday.

One particular Sunday, the rhetoric against Sunday work started to spill into dinner time. The folks decided we should continue the conversation at the McDonalds over in town. I think I'm the only one that saw the irony.

Now the Church I grew up in was Free Will Baptist. Most of the teachings, I tend to agree with. But the local association had some by-laws that left me puzzled-still do. Perhaps the most glaring example-and it fits into this thread-is that playing baseball on Sunday is considered "worldly" and is to be abstained from. Yep, you can play football, hockey, Parcheesi or whatever else you like on Sunday. But you best not play baseball. At a Church picnic, some kids decided to play catch. They had a ball and some mitts, but because they didn't use a bat, no one said a word. That is, until the ball got away from them and knocked over a checkerboard two old codgers were using. Oh, them old men threw such a fit and wanted to have them kids burned at the stake and their parents excommunicated for letting them kids play baseball on Sunday.
 
I will not watch hay rot in the rain on Monday cause I didn't bale it on Sunday. Have to ride the tractor 7 days a week to feed milk cows. Haven't been struck down so far, guess I will keep on doing the good Lords work, of tending livestock and tilling the soil, on any day thar ends with a Y. Bruce
 
I don"t know if its all in your mind or what but it seems like if I work on Sunday i spend the next day fixing and losing everything I gained buy working Sunday I will check cows and do a few a things like that on Sunday but I don"t do any real work if I can help it.
 
Ex-Wife's grandfather would take his fishing poles to Sunday night service and after service drive to a good fishing place, At midnight he would drop his line into the water. He was a church leader and a child molester. Only his granddaughter and the Lord knew of the later.
 
I don't start any new projects on Sunday but I enjoy working, it's my recreation in a way. What I won't do is go to the store or eat out on Sunday. It always amazed me at the number of church goers that will faithfully go to church and listen to the preacher talk about honoring the Sabbath and then meet the preacher down at the local restaurant. Seems a little hypocritical to me.
I seldom go to a church building but I go to Church every day. My church has no man made ceiling and walls that block the view of God's perfect sanctuary.
 
When I was very young I remember no work Sundays, of course we also went to church and Sunday school until confirmed. But when the boys got older it was different my Dad was a logger and sawyer and Saturdays he sawed because we weren"t in school and could help. Then on Sunday we would go for a picnic in the mountains and just happen to stop at the mill on the way and stick all the lumber we sawed Saturday while he filed the saw and did other maintenance on the mill. We had that picnic and fished the mountain streams and enjoyed the rest of the day. GOOD TIMES
 
Sounds like you grew up in Hudsonville Michigan where it's illegal to even mow your lawn on Sunday.
 
(quoted from post at 04:32:25 11/27/13) I don't start any new projects on Sunday but I enjoy working, it's my recreation in a way. What I won't do is go to the store or eat out on Sunday. It always amazed me at the number of church goers that will faithfully go to church and listen to the preacher talk about honoring the Sabbath and then meet the preacher down at the local restaurant. Seems a little hypocritical to me.
I seldom go to a church building but I go to Church every day. My church has no man made ceiling and walls that block the view of God's perfect sanctuary.
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If you were to attend church you might know how directly counter to God's word your words are.
 
My uncle never worked on Sundays.

I seemed to get alot done on that day ? But doubt I'm really any farther ahead.

I also wonder about what they preach of God creating the world in 6 days and resting on the seventh. If He'd of just put in one more day maybe things would be alot better around the world ?
 
I've had this discussion with several in my neighborhood about that. The reason GOD rested on the 7th day is because he got his work DONE!
 
Yep its just as much of a Commandant to WORK the other 6 days as it's to rest on Sundays.If one actually works the other 6 days of a week they're ready for a day of rest.
 
i would prefer not to,but what i prefer and reality almost never come togeather, so most weeks sunday is just another day of chores and fixing something
 
Years ago we never worked on Sundays. Even had one landlord who had it in the lease that no work would be done on Sundays.

But the 1980"s changed all of that for me.

I was working off farm 40 hours a week and still raising the same livestock as previous years.

Spent all day Saturday hauling manure and all day Sunday after early church grinding feed so I could just do the regular chores during the week.

Still had 3 hours of chores every day in the winter.

A guy had to do what had to be done to put food on the table.

I try not to work on Sundays now but some you may have to when it rains all week or something like that.

Gary
 
I have always found Sunday to be a good day to work. As a yuth I felt closer to God while working with my hands then when sitting in a church full of people whose faith was for public display while their normal life was less 'moral' than mine.

Now that I'm older and my beliefs have changed a bit, I stil find 'work' on Sunday to be rewarding. Usually I need Saturday to unwind from my day job, I use Sunday as my 'play' day. I have found that anything i break on Sunday I would have broken any other day of the week, and I'm generally less inclined to break things because I'm more relaxed than on other days.
 
I have always been one who worked a regular job and took care of the "home" work on the weekends. Used to get White-eyed by the good Baptists when spotted without my shirt and clearing brush on Sunday afternoon. But, I'd get more done on my little place in two days than they did in a 5 day week.
 
A friend of mine told me how I wasn’t a good Christian for working on Sunday. He doesn't work on Sunday, but then he’s usually so hung over he couldn't do much of anything on Sunday – much less work. Usually he’ll kneel before the Porcelain Throne when he first gets up – maybe say a few prayers too. Then he’s see if the girl he picked up the night before would make breakfast before her walk of shame home....


Yeah I’m a bad Christian working on Sunday.
 
I work five days a week and every other Saturday so Sunday is my get stuff done day. Now that Im married it is also spend time with the wife day. I make it to church once in a while. Wife goes quite a bit, I tell her to put a good word in for me.
 
Actually Sunday is not a holy day:


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I am not a seventh day adventis However sat is the sabbatis. My son is a doctor my daughter RN in ob and emergency dept of small hospital. Folks BETTER be glad they work on sat or sunday when needed. Raised in conservative church. No sunday work except chores. Older members got very upset when I pointed out maybe we should only burn candels or battery powered lights on sunday. Those power plants do run themselves!!!!!!! There is a fellow on dish and direct name of LES FELDICK bible study. He is not a preacher does not tell you to give your money to God then give his address. He is oklahoma rancher. sure helped me understand the bible!!!
 
rrlund;

You can't mow your grass on Sunday in Hudsonville but you can tune it up or drink beer in the garage if you keep the doors shut. I usually don't make much noise on Sunday. I run beagles three or four times a week so I try to give the neighbors some piece on Sunday. I have mowed or plowed on Sunday and now that deer season is winding down, I plan to run a dog or two this Sunday after church.

Larry
 
Agreed. Saturday is the Sabbath. I am a Seventh Day Adventist. Certain critical services must be continue to operate; medical, etc.

Glenn F.
 
Back when I lived in WI.among the Mennonites, they would do no work on Sunday other than milk and feed the cows. One of our neighbors was likely to be found in the field at 12:01 AM Monday if he had work that needed doing.
 
If there was something to be harvested, we always worked on Sunday until there wasn't anything left to harvest. Our growing season was kind of short so we had to get what we could before heavy rains set in and we lost whatever was out in the field.

One year after we finished harvesting I went over to help my uncle; he ran 3 combines of his own and hired 4 more of the neighbors. Nice dry weather for harvesting. We took off a lot of acres over the weekend and Monday. Tuesday morning in late August we started on the last 100 acre field of oats just before it started to rain.

My cousin & I went on a trip and my Dad & uncle combined the last of those oats with one combine dual drive tires to hold it on the lightly frozen ground - the oats were mostly black, but they finished the field on December 9th.
 
Showcrop if you can't understand where I'm coming from I feel sorry for you. A Church is what you make of it and church buildings are man made.

I went to church most of my life and know that church attendance doesn't equal being a Christian. Deeds not words.
 
(quoted from post at 15:13:58 11/27/13) Showcrop if you can't understand where I'm coming from I feel sorry for you. A Church is what you make of it and church buildings are man made.

I went to church most of my life and know that church attendance doesn't equal being a Christian. Deeds not words.
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I certainly understand where you are coming from, I appreciate God's creation as much as the next guy. One has to believe that God gave us the Bible for something right? It is all there in that book, and you can't understand if all you know about it is popular catch phrases, and the things that "everybody" thinks that they know about it. Ephesians 4:11-13.
 
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