"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

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We (my Dad and me and my 2 younger brothers) were quite specialized with our usual driving tasks, Harry. My Dad did almost all of the plowing, probably because his sons were in school during prime plowing times. He also did all the hay mowing, all the corn picking, all the combining and most of the chopping hay into a feed wagon in the summer, chopping haylage and silage to put in silos, and quite a bit of the manure spreading. I did almost all the hay raking, a fair amount of disking and dragging, and lots of transporting wagons of "product" (baled hay and straw, wheat, oats, corn, silage, haylage) to appropriate mows, granaries, cribs, silos. My next brother (a year younger than me) did almost all of the cultivating corn, some disking and dragging, a fair amount of manure spreading, especially in the summer, and lots of transport driving. My youngest brother (2.5 years younger than me) was the driver for the baler, he did a lot of cornstalk chopping, and he did a fair amount of transport driving when my other brother and me were emptying wagons into storage facilities.

- GT
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You guys are the real deal!
I was a lawn farmer. We ended up with two J.D. 1050s with 8’ PTO mower decks. We were the only factory size lawn game in town. One + 2 guys on trimmers in each end of the valley working toward the center. It was a natural extension of winter services.
It’s hard to explain to someone how hours on a tractor can be enjoyable!
In ‘16 I was shopping for a Mustang GT350, ended up looking at comparable priced tractors🤦and ended up with a hopped up Ford hatchback.
My wife asked the obvious..what!? Honey! There are parades with floats to pull, hiking trails that need raked…ah, riding in the woods, stuff like that. Blank stare…
I‘ve never been to a steam show (probably a good thing) but have been to the county fair in Wooster, OH. Tractor heaven!!
It gets in your blood.
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Pulling a 917 flail for brush.
P.S. I never used brake steer either
 
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We are a tractor family for sure. Everyone has 1 (or more!) A good majority of my grandparents, uncles, cousins, great-uncles were/are dairy farmers.

Here is mine I got in about 8 years ago to brushhog around the property, and to pull the sap wagon during maple syrup season. I have a video here too of it pulling the wag through the springtime mud.
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AMAZING!!
Messing around with my computer this A.M, I was preparing to toss out my scratchy, old scanner, and thought I'd give it one more try!! I must have shaken out some dust or dirt, because it worked!!! Who knows how long it will function, but the pics look pretty good!!Scanners Back.jpg
(Except for the scratches of course!!)
Halleluliah!! 😄
 
waynorth said:
AMAZING!!
Messing around with my computer this A.M, I was preparing to toss out my scratchy, old scanner, and thought I'd give it one more try!! I must have shaken out some dust or dirt, because it worked!!! Who knows how long it will function, but the pics look pretty good!!View attachment 2048422
(Except for the scratches of course!!)
Halleluliah!! 😄
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That’s great, Charlie! Maybe it just needed a break. Hope it stays fixed for you.
 
waynorth said:
I don't know GT!! Everything I've learned is from kicking vending machines!!! 😲
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Ah…vending machines. Reminds me of a job I had with a couple of buddies the summer before my senior year of high school. We were ushers at the first multiplex movie theater in Omaha. One of our responsibilities was to keep the vending machines stocked. It also included the ones in the men’s and women’s bathrooms. One day before we opened our manager told us to fill up the condom and tampon machines in the respective restrooms. Well, my buddy John thought it would be hilarious to put a couple of Snickers bars in the tampon dispenser. We both forgot about it until later that evening a woman walked up to the ticket counter and screamed she wanted to speak with the manager. I then noticed she was holding a Snickers Bar in her hand. Needless to say our manager was not amused. What can I say, some people have no sense of humor. Our manager demanded to know which one of us put them there. Luckily I was going to be starting another job in a few days that paid twice what I was making so I took the blame and was immediately fired. Looking back on it I wish that I’d figured out how to put a box of Twizlers in the condom machine. 😜
 
Had lunch at a local Sports bar today. I had my Livri with me. I'm not a golfer, but I snapped a picture of this sign on the wall. Gave me chuckle.
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