Taking stock
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Topic: Taking stock
Posted By: DMiller
Subject: Taking stock
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2018 at 7:14pm
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Well did just that today, sat up and realized the truck driving job was becoming taxing, on spare time, projects time and not getting any easier as time moved on with schedule shifts to really early hours and distances I did not want to go. So I did take stock, handed the truck back off to the owner, said thanks but no thanks. Two Docs aided that call, back/arthritis Doc said would drop me as client should I continue to beat myself so hard. Second Doc in Audiology noted the ringing increases and hearing losses as to connecting with driving the noisy straight stacked old machine, has the Audiometry reports if I wanted to see the chart layout. Could never get the right Sacrum Iliac joint to accept the ride either, seat position was fully adjustable from floor to tight up, cab on the old Pete was confining as well impossible to change where could not recline the seat back at all from straight square up. Managed 8 months of fertilizer grain even lime hauls, hauled feed to a mixing mill, got to see aspects of farming I knew so very little on but the comfort zone would not be found and I said enough. Retired for the second time today. |
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Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2018 at 7:57pm
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Good for you. Now you can get back to your projects. I'm in my second full week of retirement and have made myself useful around the house. Hopefully I won't resort to clipping the grass with a pair of scissors when my projects are complete. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2018 at 7:57pm
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Hopefully you can stay retired and enjoy some of your own projects, oh and mama too. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2018 at 8:28pm
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Congratulations! Sounds like you were pushing yourself a little hard! Enjoy! Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2018 at 10:04pm
| Guys I retired last June 30th and am thinking I need a hired man. Good luck with your retirement. |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2018 at 10:06pm
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Hey DMiller,,,just don't you worry yourself none,,,,,you'll wind up bein so dang busy you're gonna wonder how you ever found time to go to work,,,,,
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Posted By: NDBirdman
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2018 at 10:15pm
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Enjoy your second retirement! It is nice to work at your pace, not the boss'. Well, wife always thinks she's the boss and has a long list...., but I still do it at my pace LOL ------------- 1955 WD45 S#205467, 190XT #6652 DXT |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2018 at 11:14pm
| congrats on the "real" retirement! stay active and you'll be good to go everyday! i'm think'in maybe you should build a ice fishing hut too! |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2018 at 9:20am
| Got up this morning, have not felt so 'Refreshed' for a while!! |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2018 at 1:51pm
| Dmiller enjoy |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2018 at 6:12pm
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This retirement thing - seems I have done that about 5 times now . Here 2 months back guy asked me to fill in for a day or so on dump truck - working in city . Today I hauled 2 loads in 8 hours - 6 miles to dump a load and hauled a 1/2 load of sand back to jobsite . Yesterday sat for 8 hours - never moved the truck - had to walk about 1/2 block to portable outhouse - longest trip that day . Has been like this just about every day 1 or 2 loads out and 1 or 2 back in Could get use to a job like this - next thing to retirement - except have to get up at 5 AM ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2018 at 6:19pm
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Been retired sense late Feb. '01. Dusty ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2018 at 9:27pm
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Congratulations on your retirement, enjoy it. I retired in October '06 and then worked part time at the fire department until August '16. Sure is nice to get up in the morning and only have to do what "the boss" wants done. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2018 at 11:15pm
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I've been disabled from work since 96 and I'm still to young for early retirement. Any kinda retirement is no fun when you have regular bouts of pain. I do alright and I don't have a boss to deal with, just a mother. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |