Well I'm on the other side I guess. I'm 20, My dad doesnt really like the mechanical work a whole lot. I took over keeping the cars and trucks in the family up and going when I was around 14. He did when he was growing up, put a motor in a citroen with nothing but cresent wrenches, LOL and later on him and my uncle put a motor and tranny in a 72' vette. He ran a bobcat and smaller tractors at a college, he loved his job. Now he is home-bound due to back problems (some lower vertbrae fused and bolted togather). We've had a smaller tractor for a few years we finally got running over the winter, (AC 5030, factory loader ) When I first got it going, He took it for a ride around the yard and loved it. For some reason he has something against tracked machines, as I'm trying to talk him into a JD 450 track loader, dont want to beat the little allis up trying to push dirt and I'd be buying it anyways. I started putting the ol Fisher plow on the chevy truck when I was around 10 with a bottle jack I bought at napa.
I took over his tools when I was roughly 10 as well, nothing much just a small set from sears - a christmas oresnt from mom years ago. I'm still adding to it and now theres alot of snap on and whatever I can get my hands on. I started working on dirtbikes when I was 12, rebuilt my first engine then, got more and more bikes, a 3 wheeler and a couple 4 wheelers. at 15 I started to build my big chevy mudder truck, Dad's rusted out '85 3/4 4x4, alomost got sold and later on scrapped but it got rescued and its getting close to done now. Got the Allis about that time as well. Done alot of 2 stroke engines and some 4 stroke engines over the years now. Built a 355 Chevy for my '91 3/4 4x4 daily driver and dropped it in this past fall. My boss is a big JD 2 cyl nut, and I guess I'm getting the bug as well, his daughter pulled her car to work on it today and even though the 70 wasnt in the way, I insisted I move it, just so I could drive it around the parking lot..LOL. As for me I rebuild refrigeration compressors (carrier) and thinking about getting into pipe welding.Once in a while I can get dad into the garage for a few beers and to shoot the breeze or what not, but most of the time he trys to leave after me telling him what toy is next on the list (track loader). Oh well he's great to have around and hopefully he'll keep on livin (he's 56) so we can enjoy the good times years to come, even if that means I have 'junk' all over his yard. Well its late and I'll get off my soap box and goto bed. And for the video games, I dont know how some kids could be sitting inside all day when its nice out side. I know I'd rather be out there fooling around in the garage or playin with the tractor.
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