Farmer Wannabees

I always get a kick out of phonys and the Hollwood or Yuppie (including many new age so called "Country" performers) crowds who want to pretend to be country folk at various occassions.

For example, one can easily spot the Realtors or Politicians at our local county fair, they are the ones that show up wearing "brand new" denims or have a piece of straw in their mouth. You ever see those pickup truck commercials where someone is ALWAYS throwing a few bales of hay or straw into the back lol. Or the Yuppie who drives into the local Co Op in his brand new Diesel Dually $50, 000 truck to get a bale of straw for his kids dog house and he has towells or blankets in the bed so he dont scratch his shiny new truck. Rememebr when regular folk or middle class or low income persons went on Trail Rides?? When you go to the local State Park horse camp nowadays, they wont let you in the gate UNLESS you have a Diesel Dually all wheel drive truck and about a $30,000 aluminum horse trailer. If a local young redneck showed up in a rusty old Ford and a 2 horse bumper hitch trailer the rich snobs would insist he be thrown out lol. Remember when we as kids got a cane pole, dug our own worms and went fishing?? Nowadays its the Diesel Dually truck pulling a $30,000 Ranger Bass Boat and a tackle box packed with expensive lures ya gotta have to fish.

Oh well, thats progress I reckon, I just never had to pay for those things to have fun or feel good about myself or impress the neighbors I guess. HOWEVER its good for the economy cuz if people were like me the Country would surely go broke.

Ol John T (Old fashioned conservative fuddy duddy)

Three years ago we left the big city, bought nine acres in central IL, and went to work for a smaller company. I grew up spending summers on my grandparents farm in SD and to this day look at those as the fondest memories of my childhood. No slight to you fellas with daughters, but with boys they need to grow up in the country. It just seems right.

By the way, I have a 1979 Chevy truck with a snowplow. That's what I use to haul stuff. Rusty and nasty as all get-out and I love it. Got a couple of horses, a barn, a pasture, and a 1950 WD that is just like my grandpa had. I went deer hunting before church yesterday and left my muzzleloader and 4-wheeler parked in the front yard while we were gone to church. It was right there when we got back. That's what it's all about. My neighbors are nice and suffer my endless questions about how to fix this or plant that or when I ask them what exactly they're doing in the field with that certain piece of equipment. I love it and, more importantly, my family loves it.

Kent

One night a couple of weekends ago, I'm on the Indiana toll road from Illinois on my way home. Were a few cars in front of me, we're booking along, and one by one we all move over and pass a new ???? had a Chevy emblem on the back and remided me of that little Plymouth/Dodge/Chrysler thing that's been around about 5 or so years and looks like a mini panel van from the '50s. I can't think what it's called. Anyway, I was the last one to pass it going up the grade. Get to the top and on the way down it flies past and moves over in front of me, then on the way up the next grade slows down so I have to pass it again. When I did, it puts on it's bright lights. I get to the top, on my way down and again, the thing flies by me and moves over in front of me again. Now I'm wondering what's with this idiot. Same thing, loses momentum on the next grade, I pass, it puts on it's brights. I'm in no mood for games, had enough and now I'm hammering it and sending a thick cloud of diesel smoke into it's heater fresh air intake and watch it disappearing behind me. Every now and then I look in my rear view and watch everytime it starts up a grade, on come the brights. That's when I realized what was going on. WAS a hybrid, had to make a run downhill for the upcoming grade, everytime got into the grade, the gasoline engine would kick in, headlights would suddenly get brighter, not high beams at all. Would like to see it try to pull anything, a garden tractor on a trailer, anything. But, it's our future, I guess.

Mark

Allan in NE

I am so very annoyed by his idiot postings and I would love to ring his neck somedays. Allan, if you see this, just shut up once in awhile. I am sick of your games and mill of the run Hydro IH's. Thats the end of my vent.

Also Loretta Lynn movie where she rides home from the ridge on the fender of an old clutch drive D6.

All in fun

So you want advice on what kind of equipment you should own? My suggestion is the kind that you can afford, have to make, or have to modify to fit your needs. Brand new, or someone's handed down rat, if you're satisfied with the job that it gets done for you and yours, you're way ahead of the game, so God love ya and good luck. Oh ya, one last bit of advice - watch your mouth around Mom. She don't need to learn any of your bad habits. Ha Ha Ha Ha. ...out of the blue she did.

Mark

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i remember that night, i watched it on tv. the moon thang, i believed it then, now i don't,and havn't for sometime

~Will