What do you do for work?

Grew up around uncles dairy farm and my parents HVAC business. I currently work as a service technician at a CaseIH dealership. And I own over 30 pieces of equipment. Mostly Allis, a few IH, a Versatile 145, 2 IH grain trucks, IH axial flow combine, which is actually a prototype, A Minnesota grain binder, Advance Rumely thresher... Some equipment I own with a couple good friends of mine.

I am currently 23 years old.

Edited by Carl(NWWI) - 29 Aug 2016 at 9:32pm

My story is short.  I am born on a farm in THE Great State of INDIANA!  Due to the usual family stories, everyone wanted the farm after g/pa died.  G/ma had her favorite kid, bad news there.  The farm was to be divided up between the kids.  My g/pa and father had said I was to get most of it, but none of it happened.  After he died, we moved to town.  Now, you'd think our part of the farming was over-with.  Nope, just because she (g/ma) ran us off to town did not mean we were to not miss the work.  So, most my younger years was spent in a car, traveling after work/schools and weekends, to the farm working as our age abilities allowed.  Summers was spent there cultivating, slinging hay and staw, feeding those fartin beasties.  As I got older, I said enough of this baloney and stopped going.  I got a job in town and for the next few years forgot about what once was.  I got the itch to see the world about 23 yrs of age.  You can guess what happened next.  I joined the Air Force and never looked back.  I retired after 20some years.  Nothing to look back at, the feuding wound up as a sale and some one else now owns our family farm, gone, never to be again.  Very sad, my grand father worked his life, every waking minute on that piece of heaven to leave to his family.  After a stint as a truck driver, construction worker, my back took a turn for the worse.  Now I'm semi-retired.  I work when I freaking feel like it.  Which is 6 days a week on this farmstead, I filled it with animals... LOL  I do work for neighbors some during planting but during harvest I end up working alot.  Just got told I have close to 5K acres to chisel plow this fall.  As soon as the beans dry out and we start harvesting, I'm going to be having fun til freeze-up.  It's painful for me, but they tell me go at my rate, work as many hours a day as I can which usually tends to be 6 hours or so, then the bouncing gets my back in a mess.  I'm supposed to have a new tractor this fall with nice air ride, hope so.

I grew up watching my dad go to work every day for a business telecom company.  We were far from rich but he bought our house, kept us fed (with the help of our 50 by 100 garden), and gave us a good life.

Duh ?

Grew up on a dairy farm in South Dakota. Left to go to college, did a stint as draftsman/engineer for a time in SD and MI, wound up out in the great northwest 15 years ago and started collecting Allis stuff and doing custom tractor work to pay for it. I now have a good customer base and spend my time getting paid to play with my tractors...life is good!

I mow pastures for people with my trusty 8N. 

Started life on a small dairy farm. Had polio at 7. Dad sold out when I was 8 and retired. A few cattle, some sheep and 50 acres of peppermint. Left home at 12 in '68 and started farming on my own. Sheared sheep up and down the west coast for a few years. Farmed until 1992 when health forced me out. Worked for the city in water treatment and distribution for 16 years, last 12 as the supervisor until my health went away again. Full retirement at 55. Renter of one of the farms wanted to give it up last year. Son has increased his operation and am helping him as I can, tractor driving and combine. Still building small rental cottages in my spare time for the kids. Working on 3 right now, get them weathered in and do the finish work in the winter. I am 60 now, not a lot of use of left hand and arm, had left ankle fused Feb. last. Gotta keep busy. Taking some trips to see Oregon now, Took I-5 to San Diego, back up the coast in the spring, up I-5 to Canada and back home this summer....James

Here is a change of pace.

I got drafted in 66 and did not have enough sense to get out until 90.

What a deal, right out of the chute Uncle sent me on a one whole year all expense paid vacation to sunny SE Asia. 

Watchmaker, farmer

 I have worked in the aggregate industry my whole life and  now run a custom crushing and recycling company. I quit farming shortly after dad passed away in 1975.  Mom kept the home place when I sold out and actually is responsible for kindling my interest in old A-Cs when in 1999 she asked me to restore the one tractor we didnt sell,  Dad's 1938 model  A which I still have. Try to restore that tractor lead me here and I have been bumming around this place ever since.

I run a company that does Computer Repair and Commercial Construction Drafting.

Grew up working on trucks and equipment in a family owned auto dealer in a small town in west central Wisconsin. I ended up getting a degree in Diesel Heavy Equipment in Kansas and came back to Wisconsin to work for CNH Industrial. Currently I manage all brands (Case, Case IH, and New Holland) training for North America.

Edited by bigredisb - 30 Aug 2016 at 10:56am

I grew up on a crop farm of about 400 acres with a few sheep and horses. spent my days balancing school, athletics, music and farm work. I was riding in the tractor with dad since i can remember. anyway, after i got done with college, i began working as a field man for a large swine company, but i was 2.5 hours from the farm. after three and a half years of that, i moved back home to the farm to try and start farming on my own. i currently work a sales job at a factory, manage 3,300 head of pigs, and work on the farm with my family (which has grown to just shy of 700 acres now). I will be 28 in a week, and i have been married for a whopping 5 weeks :) i'm hoping to have some ground of my own within the next year or so, and maybe a few of my dad's orange tractors!

Edited by jordo2011 - 30 Aug 2016 at 11:10am

I was born in 1993 which makes me 22 years old at the moment. Dad and grandpa used to be partners with 3 other people at the largest farm in the county at the time it was about 2300 acres when I was 6 dad and grandpa got forced out and dad started installing kitchens for Kahles kitchens. He would do roofs siding and remodeling weekends and evenings. As I got older I would help more and more. I'm 2003 dad bought the farm I currently live on at an auction because it went so cheap. In 2005 we planted strawberries and got our first crop in 2006. We also planted pumpkins that year. In 2007 or 2008 one of the neighbors said we could farm his ground for free he had about 60 acres. Dad agreed to it. Then we had to have a bin a combine and a dryer dad said you can't justify all that for 70 acres so we kept picking up more ground. Fast forward to 2016 and we have about 70 acres hay 8 acres strawberries 10 acres pumpkins 900 acres corn 400 acres soybeans. My brother just graduated a year ago and we're both here full time. I keep learning to fix more and more. I keep up with this page mostly just to read and learn

I grew up around my grandparents pullet poultry farm. Also some cows and a little hay. Pawpaw told me to go to school and learn something besides farming so I did. I went to tech school in '99 and got my first machine shop job in 2000. A couple of years later one of the chicken houses burned and my grandparents were told they would have to rebuild the one that burned and upgrade the other two. Pawpaw told them "I'm 71 years old. Kiss my ass" and I thought that was the end of my chicken farming days.

Fast forward 15 years, I quit my last machine shop job after 10 years and I now run a 4 house broiler poultry farm for my in-laws. We house between 75000 and 80000 chickens for 6 weeks at a time. Pawpaw told me to do something besides chicken farming and, as usual, I didn't listen. This is one time I'm glad I didn't.

Here's a little look into our operation

http://allischalmers.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=126961&title=chicken-pictures

Edited by thendrix - 30 Aug 2016 at 2:21pm