Detours in my life

We take Detours in our lives just so we can understand. What our parents did when they grew up as a farmers son. We start to like what we find. We start to want to live like it and think like it. WE see on this site of what the really farmers do. We look at that great machines that today world offers. We see the big risk of what they put up with. Only to understand that if our parents followed there parents we to would be out here doing the same. My grandpa did 300 acres with a Farmall F-14. They had navel oranges, corn, hay,and much more. I only wounder what would he had done if he sat in one of these newer tractors. Hey Thank you for all you post threw the year. I can see threw my dads eyes he wished he could had kept farming but Riverside ca. kept takeing the land for growing the town. I would like like to say to every body out here if my dad would had farmed I would be doing it right now. Hey keep up the good work. If it was not for you are stores would be empty I know this. Brent
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I too like looking through dad's eyes. He farmed 259 acres with a 8n and 350 IH. After two years of total crop failure in the mid 60's he went to work in the factory. I don't farm but love being around it. I still have dad's 350 and my brother has the 8N. What is the Mustang in your pictures? Year? model? Engine?
 
Thanks for your post, you make some very good points! In our home we often refer to the same thing as "hinge points"... these hinge points can have some dramatic changes in direction into following generations even and may not be considered a big deal at the time. My memory is a bit sketchy here but when they traced the turn of events that triggered the second world war they claim it was from a limousine driver making a wrong turn and apparently the avalanche of events followed. We probably all have many "what ifs" in our family history.... . In all due respect farmers have to be experts in so many areas...big risk takers etc. City folk often have little respect for "the farmer" which seems thankless considering how much they invest of everything including "a life long hands on education". We all need food on the table - Hats off to all the farmers!!
Hey Brent, please post us some more pictures of that Allis-Chalmers, Thanks - Eric
 
(quoted from post at 11:15:22 12/01/15) I too like looking through dad's eyes. He farmed 259 acres with a 8n and 350 IH. After two years of total crop failure in the mid 60's he went to work in the factory. I don't farm but love being around it. I still have dad's 350 and my brother has the 8N. What is the Mustang in your pictures? Year? model? Engine?

Looks like a '67 or '68 as it has the "turn signal" type hood.
 
I would agree with that, I have a 67 coupe with a
signal hood. With "stang" in your hand must be u
own one as well ????
I also have a 66 fastback.
 

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