What do you do for work?

I'm a computer guy and work in information security but like to pretend I'm a farmer in my off time.

I am a GM diesel and automatic transmission specialist at a GM and Chrysler dealer. I have been a Powerstroke specialist until March of this year. I get to do that again since the owner of my dealership just bought a Ford dealership and they have nobody who knows/wants to work on them. I have held ASE Master with L1 and L2 Advanced gasoline and light duty diesel for many years, GM Master Technician, and Ford Gasoline and Diesel Engine Master, Chassis Master.

I wish there was a way we could add these bio's to our profile...

Edited by WF owner - 25 Sep 2016 at 10:40am

Started doing body and paint work right out of high school in '70. Nixon heard I could do bodywork so he kinda forced me to work on deuce and a 1/2's and 5 tons for a couple years in the seventies. LOL  Worked in a bearing factory for several years and raised tobacco and cattle on the side. Have worked at Froedge Machine & Supply Co. for the last 25 years doing fabrication and service work. We have an industrial parts store at the machine shop and I've been working in it the last few years while still raising cattle and I have never really given up body and paint work.  I have always liked AC tractors since I was a kid and I have a few of them I farm with.  Not really planning on retiring but I would like to rearrange my jobs a little though. LOL    

I was raised on the Sharon Springs,NY dairy farm that my Grandparents built starting from the Great Depression. I think Grandpa started with about 10 cows back then. By the time my Dad sold the farm in 1989 our barn held 105 milking cows plus all the youngstock. We were old school still doing baled hay and corn silage. Haymow held about 24,000 bales of hay and we emptied it every winter and refilled it every summer. I always wanted to partner with my Dad when I graduated high school. The auction was 1 month before my high school graduation. I took a job on our neighbors' farm for a few years while I pondered my future. It was also during this same time that I began dating a lovely creature that I now refer to as my wife. She was instrumental in persuading me to go to college, something I had never planned to do. I received an Associates Degree in Animal Sciences from SUNY Cobleskill before transferring to Cornell where I completed my Bachelors Degree, also in Animal Sciences. At that point, I was too sick of school to consider another 4 years of vet school so I took a job at an animal research facility where my girlfriend was already working after having completed her Bachelor degree before me. We were married a year later and started living the American Dream until she developed such severe animal allergies that she was forced to change her career altogether. Since I still liked her(LOL), we followed her family ties at the time to KY where we both then transitioned into medical laboratory science before our children started coming. My wife left the work force with the birth of our first and then we added 2 more. After 7 years, the lab closed leaving me unemployed for a total of 16 months. My wife started substitute teaching for the county school district which she still does now 8 years later. I just past 7 years with my current employer working in 1 of their hospital labs. I like all things AC but LOVE the 3 that my Grandfather bought and we used back on the farm. They are family and here to stay.

Work?

Been a Welder for the past 15 years. Currently am working in a ship yard building US Navy LCS combat ships. Pretty neat making a 450 plus foot ship out of steel. Like tonight I'm welding up a turret for a 57mm gun that can shoot up too 22 nautical miles and still be within a yard if it's target while moving at 40 plus knots.

Would love to have my own little fab shop and weld repair that would pay the bills and support my hobbies but not seeing that day coming anytime soon....

Grew up on a poultry/beef/rowcrop farm. I graduated from Virginia Tech in 2005 with a degree in Agriculture Economics. I started working in parts/equipment sales at a Massey Ferguson/New Idea dealer in September 2005. I also sold Pioneer seed products while at the Massey place. In July 2008 I went to work for a John Deere dealer as an equipment salesperson and stayed there until April 2014 when I left after there was some shake up after an ownership change. I've been working at a Vermeer/McCormick dealership in sales since May of 2014 and I'm loving it. We also sell LS Tractors, Tubeline, McHale and several other brands of ag equipment. I also farm some, but I'm pretty much a true hobby farmer.

Retired 15 yrs, Maintance in plants 36 yrs,Two years in mil ,Two yrs in textile .Two yrs in furniture factory ,One year on road as salesman,One in auto tech school . Some short time jobs and tech schools.Grew up on small farm and was forced out of farming.Have dads 57 D/14 a restored and customized 49 B and a 69 power king and a merry tiller .Did not plant a hill this year.Turned 78 last week

Retired US Navy Chief, now work Public Works for a small town, own some land I mow and plow snow with the CA....

I still live on the farm that I grew up on. My folks farmed and fed livestock, about 1200 lambs, 150 fat cattle and farrowed a few litters of hogs each year. We called the Omaha stockyards are second home as we were their often as we shipped livestock. Years went by I came home from school and dad and I still fed cattle as well as finished feeder pigs for slaughter. We never rented any ground just farmed the ground we owned, we were busy with livestock. Bought a lot of are feed needs. Now my folks are gone. My wife and I are still here And feeding some cattle. We own are home ground And rent out some ground in western neb that we bought from my wife's parents estate. We still use AC tractors that were purchased new when my dad was farming. We use newer AGCO stuff as well as green stuff also. The Allis tractors will stay here as long as I'm around. They are part of the family just like a good dog is.

Parents have a farm in western ma (aka Connecticut river valley). Grew tobacco, dairy, hay, silage etc. but parents sold the dairy cows in mid 70's. College for me in Chemical Engineering with Professional Engineering License, went to work for various consulting engineering firms (Nuclear in US, Petrochemical plants in Asia, Synfuels when it was the in-thing, food industry expansions etc.). Left that industry and started working for a biotech firm outside of Boston. Now doing project work- managed the design and construction of 2 large Research Buildings, various utility plants, clean rooms, drug production expansions, etc. . But I still spend a lot of weekends back at the farm as we cut and sell hay to locals for their horses, goats, sheep, alpacas etc. Farm is considered a non-profit operation!!

Me I am a REAL go get 'er! I get up in the morning take my wife to work and in the afternoon when schools out I go get 'er!!!!

I grew up farming with AC tractors so thats where my fascination with the orange ones came from. However, its a small operation so I went to work for a neighbor for several years on the green stuff and hauling grain for other farmers. Offered a job to go OTR and just lasted a year. Off the road and worked at CEI building feed trucks until I was referred to a plumbing company and the kind of work I really got to enjoy. 20 years of that until 4 weeks ago I took a job with the city as plumbing inspector. All that to feed my passion for playing on whats left of the family farm.

 I grew up on the farm my Dad took over at 19 in 1938, when his Dad died of a heart attack. He farmed  a couple years and then let his younger brother run it while he spent the war in Fort Knox teaching field maint on tanks and half tracks.
 After the war with a wife and one son, he took over the farm, raised 8 kids and kept all of us including Grandma warm in the winter and fed decent most of the time. He sold the horses in 47  when he could buy a post war tractor which was a 47 C. In 51, he traded for the CA I have now.
 A BIG garden always helped put eats in the cellar and we always seemed to have chickens, pigs and a couple cattle along with a handful of milk cows.
 Grandma went to a nursing home when I was still in grade school so Dad took a 3rd shift job running the warehouse ( fork truck driver ) for a paper products company and farmed during the day. That's when he bought a wore out WD and an 8 foot wheel disc so one of us kids could help with the spring work. The CA did everything before that, and everything but the dicing after. The animals thinned down to one hand milked cow and maybe a stray horse or 2.
 60 tillable acres made for lean times off and on through the years but we never went to bed hungry unless we did something bad
 Gradually he hired a neighbor to do more and more of the field work and Dad ended up renting it out to him a couple years before he retired for good in 1979.
 After high school, I took a job in a factory assembling detachable chain and within a couple months was running a press making the chain, 2 months later got offered a job in the tool room and and worked as a tool maker, die repairman, machinist or machine repairman for  the next 35 years except for a few years working for CAT as a line inspector.
 My last job was as a machine tool service tech doing mostly machine work to repair presses, lathes, grinders and mills. I learned scraping and flaking to go along with the machine work on most of the jobs. I never cared much for the "road work" which involved loading up everything we would need to tear a machine down for repair, or put it back together again, but I didn't spend more than a few days a month away from home.
 Friday the 13th of June in 08, at aged 55, I didn't make it to work and haven't been back since.  You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd and a Toyota Corolla will not come out well, when it Tee bones a Cheby Blazers passenger door post.
 A friend and neighbor a bit younger than me, that lived across the road from us way back when, now owns most of the family farm and farms all the ground I worked as a kid. He runs his uncles ground and just bought out the one neighbor that I worked most for as a pup.
 Now, when he needs an operator, I can go spend a couple hours at a time in one of his tractors just to make the day go by and, if something breaks down, which usually happens at the WORST time, I can supervise the repair if need be.
 


Edited by CTuckerNWIL - 30 Aug 2016 at 9:21pm