Scott NC Posted April 20, 2022 Author Share Posted April 20, 2022 Might be he's applying for the Happy Farmer Tractor driver job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 Runs on kerosene? I'd love to see one of those working. Gatta dress your best for success! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 21, 2022 Author Share Posted April 21, 2022 The trick is getting it started. https://youtu.be/9Qqy8XENxb0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Oooops, over primed it, kept pumping the primer and turning up the throttle MORE! Once it finally hits a diesel tends to run away until it burns out all the excess fuel in it. Lucky he didn't blow it up. If you're cranking a diesel and it's making white smoke close the throttle and till it clears. It'll usually hit just before it's completely clear and you can crack the throttle. We had an old Lister Diesel powered generator on the drill crew that took a "touch" to start. Great generator though. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 I got some old pics of my family. The men dressed in jackets, vests, and button down shirts... standing in the mud next to wood fence tending the cattle in July in Kentucky. I will try and dig some up but i always thought it odd they dressed like that to work the farm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 My Sister has the family albums and there are two pics of my Grandfather John Frost, logging wearing tin pants button down shirt, vest, tie and derby. He was a topper; climbed tall trees and topped them. The Spanish flu took him in late 1918. Dad never met his Father, born Halloween 1919. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 Grandpa Lumir never wore anything but overalls except to church funtions. Maybe he had a close call with a flywheel or corn auger. His brother Rudy on the otherhand looked like he could hop off a tractor and go straight to a wedding or funeral. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Lots of farmers hop/fall off a tractor and go to a funeral. Farming has never been a safe profession/life. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 "fall off a tractor and go to a funeral." Hopefully not while it's in gear when disking. I had a lane drag attack me once while pulling behind a tractor with a chain. Never attempt a sharp turn. Lesson learned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 In the town where I lived in Vermont, I knew a fellow who'd fallen into a running manure spreader when he was a teenager and never stood up straight again. He later was elected as one of the town selectmen, thus becoming the most honest crooked politician I've ever met. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 Some of my family are polititions. Not good. I can't say anymore, I'm staying out of the pokey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 As long as they aren't politicians you're good to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 One's a butcher and I know he puts his thumb on the scale! "Trust in me!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Is it still attached to his hand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 That's how he got rich. Some people probably don't care about apendages when gaining .05 cents a pound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Soooo…he charged an arm and a leg? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 Can't trust a butcher using a digital scale! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 My Maternal Grandfather died when a tractor rolled with him driving. Frosty: died in late 1918 with the child born 10+ months later???? My Grandfather wore bib overalls too, my mother mentioned it to me when I started wearing them---great for blacksmithing as the bib acts as protection and if anything does drop in; they are flow through to the ground. Cooler in summer too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Uh, , , We're an extraordinary family but not that much so. Dad wasn't born when John Frost died and I have a good date on Dad's birthdate. I'll have to call my Sister and see if she has a good date. Spanish flu was still killing people in 1919 so I'm sure I have the time wrong. Our families kept lousy family records, a decade ago I discovered I have about 6 cousins I didn't know about and we all look like Brothers and Sisters. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Could be worse: my wife found out just after our daughter was born that she herself was adopted, and that the woman she’d always thought was her mother’s half-sister was actually her biological mother. That was a fun Thanksgiving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 Our family get togethers we spend time with my sister here in NC and it's nice cause we all get along as opposed to back home. I hope all went well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Everything sorted out in the end. Her adoptive parents are both dead now, she’s always been close with her biological mother (even when she thought she was her aunt), and while things are so-so with her biological father, she is super-close with a sister she never knew she had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 25, 2022 Author Share Posted April 25, 2022 It's nice when things work out well. It took me moving halfway across the country to meet my niece and nephews. Kind of takes the edge off my "dislike" of pine trees, yellowjackets, fire ants, copper head snakes, crazy drivers with no insurance, crows, wood eating bumblebees, weird trees that drop their leaves in spring, and pine pollen that would clog a kenworth radiator. I now have alergies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Lots of "interesting" family tree updates have been coming to light with commercial DNA testing these days. My wife refuses to be tested as the oldest of 12 kids, she doesn't want to know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 25, 2022 Author Share Posted April 25, 2022 Ahhh..... The old skeletons in the closet. I know we have them as there are documented bullet holes in the livining room floor in the old house. No DNA evidence to go with them though. My sisters all into DNA but I don't want to know either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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