LOL Pete, I grew up in New Shrewsbury NJ 2 blocks from Red bank NJ. Most of the locals commuted to NYC to work via train. When dad retired and we went to move most of my buddies nor I could really have an idea what country living was all about. I had loved equipment form the time I was very small but never dreamed I would ever plow or do other field work. Getting to run a D8K and 5 yrd loader was cool too.
Shortly before I retired from the Army my mom signed the farm over to me. The wife and kids were here already. I came home on a 2 week leave and was mowing lawn.....and enjoying it! Then it hit me that for the first time in my life I was mowing my lawn. A couple of years later I plowed the fields, about 70 acres total. Really enjoyed that too as I was plowing my land. Too bad it was for a renter and not for me. Next week I'm going to plow about 10 acres for my first crop on my land and am I ever excited! Makes it even better with MY tractor and MY plow!!!! 1st real tractor (not a garden tractor) I drove was a NF Farmall Super C. Then a MM U. I follow those up with a couple of Farmall 560D's and an 826. The following year I put over 1K hours on a 7700 JD combine working for a custom crew. Best complement I ever got as a civilian was "for a city boy you aint too bad a combine operator". Kinda sad but when we were 5-8 years old me and my buds could watch construction equipment all day. Of the ones I'm still in contact with I'm the only one who ever got to operate any that I know of....(1st was a JD MC I ran at 17) much less own any! I own a TLB and use to have a small dozer that never got past the project stage.
Makes me sad for all those kids growing up that like tractors and such but will be stuck where they are for life. Makes me grateful that I'm one of the few lucky ones!
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Today's Featured Article - The Day Mom Drove the 8N - by Brian Browning. My Dad was wanting to put in a garden but couldn't operate the 8N and handle the old horse drawn plow he had found and rigged up to use with the tractor. Well, he decided to go get Mom out of the house and have her drive the tractor while he walked behind the plow. You got to understand that while my Mom is a hard worker who will always help whenever she can... she had never operated farm machinery before that day. Dad got her out there, explained how the clutch was the same as in our o
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