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I think everyone understood what you meant. The funny thing is if the tractor had a/c,cab and a cd player it wouldn't have been half as much fun. I have all that in my truck this was amuch more unusual experience for me because of the "no frills" aspect.
Now, if I was going to do it everyday I am sure that cab and ac would be on my wish list!
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Yeah, I bet in the past blacksmithing would have been a fair part of their work. Speaking of blacksmithing/shoeing that's aprofession that pays real well around here, with the number of horses being high and the number of shoers being low. Must have something to do with the having to wrestle 1200lb + beasts all day and having your back ruined by 30 :0 Guys around here have more work than they can handle.
It is actually due to discussions of local politics/legislation that I begun talking to several of the local dairy farmers. All the farmers I have met are very informed. One would have to be to protect ones interests it seems.
Very complicated issues. People want to keep some open spaces but some farms are really struggling. They don't want the development but then they don't want to pay for the
land to remain open/farmed. If they raise the house per acre zoning then the farmers land is devalued if/when he sells. Issue about water supply if new homes come in.
No easy answers for sure.
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I am one of those first generation guys to leave the farm. I was always good with the machinery, and I went off to engineering school. When my parents were sure that neither my brother or I wanted to make a living farming, they sold the land, but that did not happen until we graduated from college. I could tell that there was some disappointment on the part of my Dad in particular, because his family had farmed that land since before the Civil War, but he knew that times had changed.
A few years after the land was sold, my Dad told me that even he had not really wanted to farm, but did so after returning home from WW2 for a variety of reasons. He liked the farm lifestyle well enough, but after being in France during WW2 and traveling some afterward, he knew that the world was a lot bigger than a few square miles of dirt in Central Missouri. He told me that he was actually glad that I had decided to be an engineer rather than farm, because he thought that it would be easier to make a good living. Farming can be a hard life when you consider tending animals, dealing with fickle weather, and having mother nature set your schedule. My grandparents' farms did not have telephones, electricity or indoor plumbing until the mid 1960s. I imagine that the lifestyle with wood stoves, kerosene lamps and so forth is almost completely gone in most places in the US for regular everyday living. I grew up in a more modern home.
My parents kept about 40 acres of the original farm for a house site. My Dad died quite a few years ago in that home only about a mile from where he had been born nearly eighty years before.
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I didn't think Art was aiming his comment at you, Chief. Everbody probably knew what you meant. Pleasure on the farm is in the accomplishment, even if it's awfully hard work. Who here hasn't worked very hard on something and experienced a great sense of pride and satisfaction when the job was done?
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