50 Years Ago
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Topic: 50 Years Ago
Posted By: Scott(GA)
Subject: 50 Years Ago
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2011 at 7:17pm
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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.
Scott
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Posted By: 49WF
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2011 at 7:32pm
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Wow, good thing your brother did not fall off. ------------- More than I need |
Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2011 at 7:48pm
| 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 |
Posted By: Scott(GA)
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2011 at 8:13pm
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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!
Best regards,
Scott
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49WF wrote:Posted By: Scott(GA)
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2011 at 8:17pm
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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.
Best regards,
Scott
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Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2011 at 11:10pm
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I love pictures like this.Different times,we were tougher back then. ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: Brad MI
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 4:18am
| 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. |
Posted By: Orange Blood
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 6:31am
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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! ------------- Still in use: HD7 WC C CA WD 2-WD45 WD45LP WD45D D14 3-D17 D17LP 2-D19D D19LP 190XTD 190XTLP 720 D21 220 7020 7030 7040 7045 3-7060 Projects: 3-U UC 2-G 2-B 2-C CA 7-WC RC WDLP WF D14 D21 210 7045 N7 |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 7:08am
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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
Don ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Scott(GA)
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 7:35am
Upon further reflection I am wondering why you are concerned about the welfare of my brother but are completely ambivalent about my fate? Ha!
Best regards,
Scott
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