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Tractor Love Diminishes with TIME

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GRANT from Gurl

09-15-2007 22:58:55




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Hey Guys You Really seem to Love your Tractors a lot! BUT how much time do you spend on them actually dragging machinery around the paddock. I learned to drive a fordson when I was heavy enough to depress the clutch pedel BUT after spending my entire 18 birthday on a JD 4020 and Most of my early years constantly sitting on 935 Versatile. Even with the Tape, Radio, AC, Fridge and a Television on the dash. Forever Plowing up Seven square miles of black soil. Wheat farm wears real thin very fast. GRANT B but don't let me takeaway you fun.

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Howard H.

09-17-2007 12:38:33




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 Re: Tractor Love Diminishes with TIME in reply to GRANT from Gurley, 09-15-2007 22:58:55  

I used to farm for a living. Dust in the face, grease under the fingernails - didn't seem too glamorous then - now I just have an office job - and really enjoy getting out to the farm to mess with my old iron.

I was trying to load up a Case 500 this weekend - it was hotter than heck, it had about 2000 pounds of extra weights on it, sweat burning my eyes, rear tire was locked up, snapped a 1/2 inch winch cable, and after 4 hours, I was exhausted, I finally had it up on the trailer. But, IT SURE IS A FUN HOBBY!!

My point is - a lot of folks work as hard at their hobbies as their real job... Reminds me of that old saying - "the only difference between work and play is your attitude about it"!


Howard

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jubilee johnny

09-16-2007 17:51:16




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 Re: Tractor Love Diminishes with TIME in reply to GRANT from Gurley, 09-15-2007 22:58:55  
Hmm.. Some of my best memories are when I was wheat farming. I drove a 51 chev grain truck full of wheat when I couldn't see over the steering wheel. I guess I was about 12. Like many other's I did "summerfallow" on a tractor without a cab and the wind blowing the dust right at you. The bathtub (we didn't have a shower) was muddy every night, but I loved it. It didn't work out for me to be a wheat farmer, so I became a dentist. But there is not a day that goes by that I don't stop and revist those days in my head. I'm restoring a john deere #25 combine right now as part of my way to keep it alive. When I wanted to buy my grandfather's wheat farm 3 or 4 years ago in north east colorado I couldn't pull it off as it was auctioned and brought the highest price of any wheat ground to date in that county. I guess humans always want what they don't have...

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Steven f/AZ

09-16-2007 14:13:28




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 Re: Tractor Love Diminishes with TIME in reply to GRANT from Gurley, 09-15-2007 22:58:55  
I spend my work days locked in a building, spending those few break times day dreaming about April when I get two weeks off to go back to the farm and sit in the 8630 every day for 16 hours or so and enjoy the country scenery.

I love my job, but part of that love comes from the ability to keep going back to the farm that I also love.

Any job will be miserable if you let it get to you that way. I'm just thankful that I haven't had to be a part of the cubicle farm yet. third party image

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Tradititonal Farmer

09-16-2007 12:56:55




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 Re: Tractor Love Diminishes with TIME in reply to GRANT from Gurley, 09-15-2007 22:58:55  
Can't say I'd like that type farming but do enjoy farming cattle,goats,vegetables and raised about anything you can imagine over the last 50 years.Spent 20 years working full time off the farm and farming part time was happy to get back to farming full time.Enjoy farming every day whether its tractor drving,fencing,working stock,repairing equipment/tractors or whatever.Drive to town and look at some of the DULL jobs you could be stuck in.

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Lanse

09-16-2007 14:47:17




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 Re: Tractor Love Diminishes with TIME in reply to Tradititonal Farmer, 09-16-2007 12:56:55  
Gee, you sure are traditional :)



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Jim Johnson

09-16-2007 11:40:12




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 Re: Tractor Love Diminishes with TIME in reply to GRANT from Gurley, 09-15-2007 22:58:55  
It might be all those extra added conveniences that do this to you. I still like watching and enjoying what is going on around me whether I'm baling hay or working ground. Mainly just realizing how good things are.

Look up young man not down, think about how much someone else would like your job and not their's. And then enjoy life. This could all be over sooner that you think.

Jim



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Allan In NE

09-16-2007 11:49:31




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 Re: Tractor Love Diminishes with TIME in reply to Jim Johnson, 09-16-2007 11:40:12  
Yep,

Anything will turn into a job if you think of it that way.

How would ya like to be somebody else's hired man? That will turn ya off in a heartbeat. Been there done that and it's no fun. :>(

Allan



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mjbrown

09-16-2007 08:22:00




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 Re: Tractor Love Diminishes with TIME in reply to GRANT from Gurley, 09-15-2007 22:58:55  
Every job becomes a chore after you do it long enough with the possible exception of flying fighters. A cubicle dweller would love to drive the Versitile for a few weeks and you might enjoy his job for awile and each think the other must be nuts.



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rrlund

09-16-2007 08:19:48




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 Re: Tractor Love Diminishes with TIME in reply to GRANT from Gurley, 09-15-2007 22:58:55  
The older I get,the more I wonder when I'm going to say enough is enough. I used to be in to farm toy collecting in a big way. I can tell you exactly when that quit being fun. There was a series of tractors that came out with one new one every year. About the fifth in the series was priced at $120 instead of the $60 that the rest had been. Every dealer at the toy show that day said it was because they only made half as many that year. I came home so pi$$ed off,I was ready to put all of them on a wagon in the front yard and sell the whole bunch. It's never been the same for me since. As for tractors and farming,the boys have quit farming and I'm doing it alone. Takes me a good two and a half weeks to put up 150 acres of hay alone. The only way I can get through it anymore is to go to that little cabin in the Ozarks or Apalachians in my mind. Don't know how many more years it's gonna be before my body follows.

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Pitalplace

09-16-2007 07:39:07




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 Re: Tractor Love Diminishes with TIME in reply to GRANT from Gurley, 09-15-2007 22:58:55  
Been there do that, and it still a better job than the one I have now.



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Dannie

09-16-2007 05:06:27




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 Re: Tractor Love Diminishes with TIME in reply to GRANT from Gurley, 09-15-2007 22:58:55  
Love the old tractors hate the work.



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