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Jimmy king

02-06-2004 03:28:35




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I remember one of the good butt chewings I got was we were cutting Ochard Grass pulling the binder with the Super A, I was about 11 or 12 and Dad was on the binder I was driving the tractor It started on holding the binder over for full swath and ended with cutting square corners. one of the few times I remember him stopping me and giving me what for.




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DAVEABBN

02-06-2004 20:29:34




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 Re: Binders Hugh MacKay in reply to Jimmy king, 02-06-2004 03:28:35  
We pulled our binder with a Farmall B, I had to ride the binder. I don't remember what age I was, probably 10 or so. I do remember tying a rope to the binder foot lift petal so I could trip it when needed. (wasn't strong enough, had to use foot and rope both).



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Haas

02-06-2004 07:13:16




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 Re: Binders Hugh MacKay in reply to Jimmy king, 02-06-2004 03:28:35  
I was too small to drive the Super A, so I had to ride the binder. Pretty tough job for a 10 year old kid that was small for his age. Never could get satisfaction on where to drop the load of bundles. Even after I was older, don't recall ever driving the tractor for the binder, I always did the riding. Thankfully by the time I was 15 or so we had gone to using a custom combine guy. When I was even younger, maybe 7 or 8 (folks would be horrified today) my sister and I used to sit on top of the thresher while it was running and watch the grain accumulator dump.

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Hugh MacKay

02-06-2004 20:43:15




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 Re: Re: Binders Hugh MacKay in reply to Haas, 02-06-2004 07:13:16  
Paul: Jim is right, our parents would go to jail today and we would have become orphans. Shame how progress has caused kids not to learn anything. I remember the first time I let my little brother drive the Cub home from the field, with me and another brother standing on the drawbar. When he got in the yard he forgot how to stop and went right over the firewood pile. (about 3 to 4 feet deep) He left my brother and I sitting in the middle of the wood pile and he remembered how to stop on the other side. Dad had just taken his boots off on his way going in for lunch. He came running in his sock feet and his first words,"Did you guy learn anything."

I also remember in 1980 letting my 12 year old daughter, start away from the headland with 1066 ROPS cab and duals, pulling a twenty foot tandem disk. At about 80 lbs she didn't look very big in there. She had gone with me before and had driven some before that. When night fall came she had disked 100 acres, and everyone in community that saw her were horrified. But you know something, she was a whole lot safer in that cab and better prepared than the earlier generation had been on the Cub.

She later hit me up one day to give her 25 cents per bale to move round bales from field with skid steer loader. I thought she just meant the 20 acres ajacant to the barn. I was haymaking at another farm. Two days later I learned she talked her mother into letting her brother (3 years younger) run the second skid steer, and they were pulling wagons behind the skid steers. I also now owed them $150. They were catching on fast.

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Jimmy King

02-06-2004 09:04:44




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 Re: Re: Binders Hugh MacKay in reply to Haas, 02-06-2004 07:13:16  
Yes Haas our parents would go to jail and we we would be it a foster home to day. I drove a bundle wagon proably started when I was 9 or 10, If I had to wait at the trasher I was on top of it, the thing was we were responsible for our actions, and if we screwrd up we either got hurt or we got out Butt kicked, but we knew not to do it again instead of blaming some one else.



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Hugh MacKay

02-06-2004 05:17:39




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 Re: Binders Hugh MacKay in reply to Jimmy king, 02-06-2004 03:28:35  
Jim: Those were the days, you on the tractor and dad on the binder. You knew if you didn't do a good job, you would be replaced and relagated to stooking or shocking sheeves which ever it called in your area. Didn't matter what it was called it was never a pleasant job. Of course a relatively new SA at the time, much more attractive.



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Jimmy King

02-06-2004 09:12:18




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 Re: Re: Binders Hugh MacKay in reply to Hugh MacKay, 02-06-2004 05:17:39  
Hugh I don't remember Dad whipping me over once or twice, but those talking to's, pieces of you just fell off as he whittled. I was setting in his brothers office once in Greenville, Tex. while he was chewing out a guy on the phone that was under him, never rasised his voice his I just set there an grined because I could see pieces of that guy falling off, was a family trait.



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