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Posted by NH SIDEHILLER on June 26, 2001 at 20:10:58 from (216.204.2.160):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Farmers or Astronauts? posted by big fred on June 26, 2001 at 10:13:56:
Fred, you've got a winner right there for a wife! I just bought my first "real" tractor, a '52 Case VAC. Already had a 310 Allis Chalmers garden tractor. I love my wife, too, but I think she'd want to talk about it long before I ever got to #10. I grew up on a sidehill NH farm as you might be able to tell from my handle. Still live on the land but you'd be hard pressed to call what we do farming anymore. Just remnants of the old ways. One brother still works the land which mostly means logging and backhoe, dozer and dumptruck work. We still hay and have a few cattle. Also a campground and a sawmill for our own use. I work for an electric utility as a forester. Long way from an astronaut.
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