Steve update and some thoughts related to his story.

JD Seller

Well-known Member
Steve has had his left arm cast off now for a few weeks. He just got the cast off his right leg last Monday. They also changed his left leg cast to one that just covers his leg from the knee down. He still is not to walk on it but he can now at least use crutches to move around.

He has been riding the rough terrain scooter around since he got home Monday. He and John are doing all of the planning for the spring crops and chores. I think that the two of them will end up in a farming partnership together. They are that close and usually think much the same.

So Steve is well on his way to a full recovery. He is going to tear down the old up right silo and just use bags from now on. So no more climbing for him. So he was lucky and will live to farm another day.

Now to the other point of this post. I originally posted this just as kind of a daily diary kind of thing. I wanted people to know that there where still places that people help each other out when there are troubles. Here are things I was not even thinking at the time:

1) I was not wanting to get monetary donations started for anyone involved.

2) I was not "bragging" about what we where doing. I have had many emails accusing me of this.

3) I was not wanting some type of glory for just helping out a friend.

4) I found I just love being called a lier. NOT!!! LMAO been around the grand daughters too much.


The response I have gotten from the original post has made me change some things I will post about in the future. I reread my original post and can see where some would think I was bragging about myself/family. So we will keep helping the people just like we always have BUT I will not post much about it anymore. I forgot something my Grand Dad always told me "Do good deeds quietly or they become something else".

So I will still post all kinds of stuff but just not some of the stuff I have in the past. I will try to keep it more farm/tractor related and skip the other stuff. My family and friends will not be talked about very much in future posts.
 
Glad to hear Steve is healing - Praise the Lord!

And, real sorry that you have been hammered for sharing a very personal & traumatic family event. An old friend of my Dad would say that 98% of the people in this world are Good Folks - - BUT, that other 2% is awful active.

Seems we got em even here...

Best Wishes!
John
 
Sorry to see that your mind got changed. I for one found your posts, refreshing, and at times uplifting. My thoughts, prayers, and best wishes, to you and yours. Gary Yeutter.(magpiene)
 
JD Seller,
I know the feeling you are talking about. Seems like others are so jealous of so many others out there trying to do a good deed. I can tell how hurt you are by what others have said other wise you would not be posting this today. I had a similar incident on Facebook back in Dec. We had a class mate lose both her parents within one month's time. So I decided to get a sympathy card started for her and it was sent all over the US for 13 of us classmates to sign. Well it got down to the last two people and the second to the last person blew up at me accusing me of such wrong doing of something going on in her life. Only to find out it wasn't me that did anything wrong. She threatened me to the point that I called the sheriff on her to stop her accusations and threats. That stopped it. Some of us have come to determine that this person really didn't want to be part of the sympathy card at all. She said she would send her own and never did. I was very upset.

By the way be sure and tell Steve to tell the hospital staff he would like to apply for assistance on his hospital expenses. I ran a post on this a month ago and many said they have applied for assistance and their whole bill was paid in full. My wife and I applied several months ago for our expenses. My bill was cut by 60% and my wife's bill was paid in full.

There is no shame in asking but in not asking!

Well I hope the best for all of you that are helping Steve.
 
I have followed this story from the beginning and am happy to hear Steve is doing well.

On the other hand, I am not happy to hear the few malcontents are now
going to have you change the way you post. Your life stories while not always directly related to tractors are definitely directly related to farm life. Those experience will be missed from a learning aspect for people like me - not to mention the added bonus that the stories were also entertaining.

As with the way of the world: It is always seems the few bad apples that ruin it for everyone else.

I will miss your stories.....the personal touch is what made the stories have substance.
 
JD, I've never had a problem with your posts. Now you do post some things that are on the personal side which I wouldn't post about myself. But you seem to be a straight shooter and I've never had reason to doubt your veracity or motivations.
 
Well, JD, I am one of the few that never thought you were bragging, wanting glory for yourself and family, or trying to be a big time hero. I wish I had a few neighbors around here that were like you. I truly respect what you did for Steve and glad to hear he is recovering well. What the world needs is more people like you and your family. Thanks for being a good neighbor.
 
Sorry to hear you got so busted up over this and some other things. FWIW your handle is one of a handful or so that if I notice it I click on the thread to see what you have to say regardless of the subject. Almost always informative and interesting, sometimes inspirational.

Keep up the good work,

Kirk
 
I really appreciate your telling of the story about Steve, even if all we can do is pray for him and you as you help him. People giving money means we want to help but can't because of distance. As far as the people who accused you of bragging, my guess is that they have never helped anyone in their lives and don't know how to do it and are jealous of a good man but have no idea how to become one themselves. There are people accusing Mother Teresa of dumb stuff too. It doesn't matter what they think, only what God thinks. I can sure see how it hurts, though, and you don't deserve it.
 
In a way that's kinda sad. I think people today need to here about people just helping people out. The news very seldom covers anything like that.

I had no idea about people helping people in 1971. I had been raised in NJ up till then. Sure my dad helped people when he could but the same people he helped were no where to be seen when he needed help. My first summer here in MN the guy who would become my sisters father in law told me about plowing and planting bees. A wonderful thing where people just showed up to help out. IN 73 while working for a dairy farmer I got to help out in one. My boss ask if I was willing as I didn't know anything about it or the guys in need. It started out as just helping one guy who was pretty bad off with cancer and about a week before it happened a guy on a bordering farm had a heart attack. So we did a 2 for. I was lucky. Most of the hired help got to pick rock. My boss and I were both on tractors with plows. We had 47 tractors in the field that day. It was a fantastic sight to see. The local chruch ladies did lunch, a local COOP donated the fuel and had a guy out there topping off trators at lunch time. Even the banker showed up and ask if he could do anyting. One old farmer told him he could buy the beer or pick rock. LOL he came back a couple of hours later with a bunch of cold beer in coolers in the back of a pickup! I, for the first time in my life, saw a whole community come together to help people out. I learned a lot that day!

It's sad today to when some people will not een help out thier own family. I always do that. Not bragging, just a statement of fact! That's why most of the time I really enjoy this board. Most of us on that will help people out and never let anyone in out families suffer if we can help it. We may have different political views, like different colors of equipment or come from different countries but at the end of the day most of us will put out family and freinds first!

Rick
 
It is so very true that one bad apple in a crate spoils the whole crate. I would like to imagine that all people are like you, and will treat people as they would want to be treated themselves, however.....as I see things fall apart in this day and age..it appears that people are scared of their own shadows and are so caught up in themselves that they get paranoid about the world around them. They are only out to better themselves and don't care about people around them. My hat is off to you. I know it won't change things in your mind and you will always do the right thing. There is a definite difference between a noble person like yourself and a bad apple type of person. In the end... do what floats your boat and enjoy life with its rewards. I don't really care what the neighbors say, but sometimes wonder why their mindset is so shallow.
There is so much more to living than badmouthing everyone around you to make yourself look good..only in that persons mind. Keep doing what you're doing!!!! You have my vote for neighbor of the year!!
 
Glad to hear the continued improvement.
Anyone who has read your posts for any length of time knows you are passionate person. Anyone who took life by the horns at such a young age(marriage, war, work, etc.) is also a strong, determined person. These are the kind that built this country, as opposed to the bland, dependant masses that populate this country today.
I have similar feelings, but it took me years to mature into them.
We hope for the best for you, your family, and your good neighbors.
 
John, Steve had good insurance and they had a rainy day fund. All the bills are already paid. I wish we all could have been as ready as they where for the troubles life throws at you.
 
Great to hear that he is continuing to make progress and get his life back. I have always enjoyed your posts and have taken them in the way you have intended and never felt like you were uplift yourself in any way. Keep doing what you do and don't let a few jerks bother you.
 
You know what, the heck with the nay sayers, you know what you are doing and why, and that's all that counts.

Thanks for the update, I was really wondering myself, one of my favorite quotes from Charles M. Schulz in one of the old paper back Peanuts books, I treasured as a kid, "You're a good man Charlie Brown ! LOL


Strange things happen when you help others sometimes, I was doing a similar thing to help our long time friend and farmer/neighbor, and often times it was an early run with the tandem sileage body truck, which kept some cash flowing for him, the run did not take long, but I could not get to the other job at the time which was a barn rebuild, with a couple of seemingly decent hired hands at our place. Tough framing job, I started by myself, these 2 guys came on and one of them, started giving me a bunch of crap, even on days I was there at start up, he just could not get past it, mouthed off again and caught me just right, I had him on the ground on flat on his back, with a framing hammer wanting to make contact if you get my drift, it got settled right there, and that was that, some people just don't get it, so darned selfish, burning the candle at both ends aint no easy task sometimes, bitter cold outside too, it meant an awful lot to me not to bail on this farmer, I know he always appreciated what I did and that was better than anything I can think of at the end of the day.

These people are never worth their salt just the same, same fools, while I was laid up, made a mistake and should have leveled up the skirts on the posts, for the trusses to bear on as the building had settled, well we had to block up perlins, pull some perlins and all the extra labor was on us, I had decided to let the idiots/hotshots just run with the job, was tired of fighting with people about stupid common sense things, including with my father, was his place, was just trying to help get it rebuilt and all the while knowing, even these experienced hands, well just the one, was kind of a jerk at times. All of us could have suffered injuries like Steve, from the heights we worked, the job was no fun. I'll never do another one like it as long as I live and we did not need distractions like someones attitude, the guy really gave it to me for not being there on time, as if he signed my check, all the while knowing that I was helping a guy get through a tough time before they probably got up in the morning.
 
JD I never took what you were posting as bragging. But more as having something big happening in your life and needing/wanting to share, like you would to a good friend.

In 2010 just before Memorial Day I was burnt in a barn fire, spent 10 days in Ann Arbor hospital burn unit, and the rest of the year recovering. With no other income and my stay at home wife taking care of me, I would not have made it financially. But I have a BTO in the neighborhood who came over and planned out my fields with me and planted them. He a few months later harvested my wheat and took it in. By fall I was able to do my own harvesting.

Without people like him and you we would be much worse off. Keep on, keeping on and like the updates.
 
Thank you for takeing care your neighbors/fellow man.We all need to be reminded that we all need each other.Ignore the naysayers,they are the ones who refuse to help,the first to cry "fowl"....Please keep on posting the heartwarming stories-we need to hear them.Thank you Ronnie,we need more folks like you!Steve
 
A little faux latin from the resident barrister is in order here:

Illegitimi non carborundum (Don't let the b@st@rds wear your down)
 
You have not bragged at all ever. You and those assisting Steve and his family are what I believe represent the modest unselfish type of humanity that sets an example. Those who would find braggadocio in your posts are those who would likely not be compassionate to their neighbor. They had no compassion for you. Keep on posting as events play out. It is heart warming and courageous. Jim
 
Sometimes we need to hear from the 2% just to appreciate the other 98%. I guess we always thought it was the right thing to do to help a neighbor or someone who had unexpected problems. Minn. has always been known for that trait.
 
JD Seller,

I do not know you personally, as a matter of fact I don't know anyone on these boards personally. As I have no way to determine if any post written here is fact or fiction, I strive to minimize my replies. My deepest hopes are that your posts relate fact. If so, I give you commendation.

One thing I do know is you have a very good grip of the English language and how to convey your thoughts. Your posts flow effortlessly for the reader. I never have to go back and reread.

I will challenge you to keep posting as usual and ignore the detractors. The ones on this board are no different than those who choose to talk behind your back on the street.

As my dad used to say, "Shun those who know not, that they know not."
 
Why use bags? A real pita and wasteful. Cheaper in the long run to put up a concrete bunker silo. I"ve seen guys around here stack concrete barriers to make the walls and save on costs. Don"t know how much waste they get doing it that way.
 
Johndeereman: Bag are not wasteful and they allow you a lot of flexibility on what type and how many tons of a crop to ensilage. We use ten foot bags and they hold over a ton per foot of most feed stuffs. The old plastic is kept clean and recycled. We trim the bag every day or two. There is zero plastic laying around where we use them.
 
I too have enjoyed all of your posts. FFrom farming tractor repair horseshoeing, it reads like a country living book. In fact I think I have encouraged you to write that book. You are correct thou, good deeds shared are always construed by some as pounding your chest. Be assured no matter what you write,someone somewhere will have something negative to say. Keep on posting, they don't have to read them. gobble
 
I cant believe that anyone would be offended by someone that gives a $%&! about his fellow man...
Wish I had a friend and neighbor like you. Just sayin'.
 
Don't blame you JD. Some days just saying good morning gets an attack from some people on here. Usually right out of the blue from somebody who only pops up occasionally for the purpose of ruining somebody else's day. I'm glad spring is coming,as I'm sure you are.
 
JD,

The many others have said it so well, that I'll just go for the short response. I have watched the progress of Steve's situation, and have truely respected what you and your family (plus others) have done to help a family in need. You did not take the easy way out, but got down to doing what was needed. I have been in that situation many times, but on a much smaller scale than what you have done. I know about the accusations and negativity, and agree it hurts. But like you, I have not changed a bit of "what I am".

Hang in there, I wish we were neighbors.

Paul in MN
 
JD, never once considered it bragging. On the contrary and I think it is great that we still have folks reaching out to others. Posting it here gives the rest of us a chance to see neighbors in action which never hits main stream news. Also gives a fella a chance to look around and see if maybe someone in our own neck of the woods needs help. Thanks for posting.
 
Yes, some days it only takes one bad person to spoil a persons nice day. Even on this site. But I kind of try to forget the bad stuff and keep going. Take care!
 
To me it looks like family helping family and thats the way it should be. If more people in this country would do as you have done we would be a lot better off. Too many people are lookin to make a quick buck with there "what do I get out of this" deal, Makes me mad. Help your neighber and family thats what builds strong familys and communities. JD keep up the good work your doing and dont change a thing. Keep us informed on his progress. We are all rooting for him. Bandit
 
Thanks for the update I was wondering how he was.

No matter what you do in life some people just flat out complain. Here on this board or anywhere else. If the whiners would put their energy into anything good instead of coming on here and b!tching about someone else helping, this country would be a lot better off.

KEEP POSTING!!!!!

Rick
 
Thanks for the update, I pray for Steve and Carol and those helping them out every day. Glad to hear he is improving. I never considered your postings as bragging, more as an example of good people helping out anyone they can. I must admit tho, I'm reluctant to talk much about things I do to help people out for the same reason you are upset. Keep doing what you feel you need to do, if you decide to post it on here, the majority of us will be happy to hear about it, If you decide not to, we will understand. I hope I get to meet you and shake your hand someday. God Bless You, Chris
 
JD Seller, Keep us updated on Steve. Don't let someone ruin your day, by complaining about what you are doing. I hope I have a friend like you if something happened to me.stan
 
I have no problem with how you explained the accident and what you did for helping out the family.If we had more real people life would be a lot more enjoyable.Some people are just miserable.

Vito
 
Like I said when I joined this forum a few months back JD your are man with a big heart and there are two few of us left but as it appears a lot us on this forum. I spent over two months of my time last year working on a boat for a cancer victim last year just so he could get back on the water one more time because like me I knew that it was what he enjoyed more than anything and I hardly new the man. I would do it again tomorrow if someone ask me to. If you decide to retire and move south I would be glad to have you as a neighbor.A lot of people only think about only how they will benefit from someones misfortune not how they can help.
 
JD, I hope you will reconsider about limiting what you post here. If I were to make a list of the ten most interesting posts I have read here, seven or eight of them would have been written by you. When skimming the board, if I see your name on a post I click it, even if I'm not particularly interested in the topic.

Disregard the jealous whiners. "Those who can, do. Those who can't, b--ch."

P.S. -- I'd like to hear a follow-up report on the sheriff who decked his deputy.
 
JD, I've been in the same boat, and on both sides of the fence. Any man who has farmed knows that there is that special bond among farmers that is like no other and only found else where in the military. We help each other without question, and always have. You did no more or less than I or any other man in this business would do. My wife would give me the devil for doing it, but it would get done the same way. There's only a few of us left, but we're as strong now as 100 years ago. And we are still together as one. Real farmers neer change. Ya done well, boy.....
 
JD,
I remember your story quite well and I certainly did not think you were bragging or anything like that. I thought, "If ever I need help like that I certainly hope I've got a friend like you!" If nothing else you showed us all what we should do in similar situations. Let me say my thoughts. I'm guessing every complainer has a first time yet to help any one in need. Please don't allow a few malcontents to alter your efforts to do as you deem right! I've used the statement, "Anyone doing good does not have the time to go around bragging about it". I try to follow that statement but I, again, did not ever think you were bragging. Just know this,"The One that does keep track of such things is keeping perfect track!"
 
JD: I've enjoyed your sharing of family and experiences. I hope you don't stop. It reinforces by own beliefs as to how we ought to treat one another. I thinkit is pretty clear that we are to help the sick (injured), widows and orphans, and the poor.
 
any that think you are bragging and blowing your horn ain't country and probably wouldn't help an old lady across the street
 
JD, I always read your posts and sometimes don't agree with you but that I would consider to be natural as most people don't always agree with everything other folks think, that's normal.

That said and out of the way, I think what you have done and are doing is just great! I never took your telling of this story as bragging, just a good guy giving help where and when it was needed.

Carry on and don't change a thing, keep posting as you see fit.
 

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