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    Posted: 20 Feb 2011 at 7:17pm
Visiting my folks - looking at old snapshots and came across this picture of our Model G taken in 1960.  That's me perched on the rear furrowing bar and hanging on like grim death - age 4 1/2.  Brother Mark on the front - age 3.  Dad's driving and cultivating the garden.
 
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Wow, good thing your brother did not fall off.
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Scott, now that is a cool picture. Really be neat to seen your faces from the front. Looks like a clean garden too. Tracy Martin
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Yes, upon reflection, I am often startled at the things we did back then.
 
...and that was with adult supervision!  Imagine how Mark & I behaved when we went over the hill and were out of sight of Mom & Dad!
 
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Wow, good thing your brother did not fall off.
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At first I was thinking that it would have been neater to have seen mom's face when she saw this hazardous operation...  and then I realized that she must have been the one taking the picture.
 
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Originally posted by Tracy Martin TN Tracy Martin TN wrote:

Scott, now that is a cool picture. Really be neat to seen your faces from the front. Looks like a clean garden too. Tracy Martin
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I love pictures like this.Different times,we were tougher back then.
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Great picture! I spent countless hours riding on the gas tank of the CA and fender of the WD45. I fell of a few tractors, fell and got thrown off horses many times, flipped the CA a couple times and stood the 190 on it's nose at the end of the field once. I got smarter with every incident too. Life was different then. 
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I agree life was different then, I did all the stuff, flipped everything, broke all the rules, and for the most part lived without a scratch, but that experience has tempered me, I would not do anything close to that with my kids, no way.  Don't get me wrong, I let them fail, and fall, but with a bit more restraint on how "dangerous" the situation gets.  I often wonder how scared my dad really was, when he saw what we were doing as kids, now that I have the perspective of being a dad too?  He is/was a good dad, and I know he watched over us from a distance, but it seemed I did far more dagerous stuff than I let my kids do.  Maybe that makes me overbearing, since I turned our seemingly OK!
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When I was a kid we all road on the gas tanks and fenders, I fell off the step of a 4020 that was backing up; the front tire (10.00" x 15") ran over my right foot and broke it in 38 places, man was it hard to do my cores in a cast, tried taping a boot soul on one of the casts, I still to this day give a older brother heck for driving like a mad man. lol
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Edited by Don(MO) - 21 Feb 2011 at 7:09am
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Originally posted by 49WF 49WF wrote:

Wow, good thing your brother did not fall off.
 
Upon further reflection I am wondering why you are concerned about the welfare of my brother but are completely ambivalent about my fate?  Ha!
 
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