not feeling it tonight

Brian806 · May 8, 2015

Got field work to do thought I wanted to run late tonight but after 12 hours of bs at my day job I ran two hours and decided tomorrow is another day!

Dick2 · May 8, 2015

That's the way to do it. When you get over-tired the chance of an accident goes up.

Tom in TN · May 8, 2015

Brian,

I work the farm in the morning (small cow/calf operation), and do the home stuff also. Then I drive nearly an hour to a four hour part time job with nearly an hour to get back home. I'm usually so bummed out by the time I get home, I just pack it in for the day.

I don't think my lack of stamina has anything to do with my being nearly 71 years old. Hmmmm.

Tom in TN

gtractorfan · May 8, 2015

I'm 70, back when I was a teenager I decided I was going to drive the old Farmall H all night discing ground. Dad phoo-phooed the idea but didn't argue and went to bed. When I was older with a son of my own I thought there was no way I could go to sleep with him out there all night. It sure felt good to see the sky brighten the next morning. Sure couldn't do that now, nor want to.

North Vale - PA · May 8, 2015

maybe he could hear the tractor engine and the discs hitting rocks and knew all was well.

North Vale - PA · May 8, 2015

I always quit around 10 pm. We have neighbors and I don't want to irritate them

peachhead · May 8, 2015

There are a lot of irritating sounds but for some reason a tractor engine is not one of them, not to me anyway.

fixerupper · May 8, 2015

That is a good way to think. Safety is a big factor but also you might not see something broken because you arent 'all there' and not realize your machinery was doing a poor job till the next morning.

VicS · May 8, 2015

I have a friend who, back when 4020's were new would go out with a 21 ft. field cultivator and do his entire farm 1200 acres before he came to the house. He slept with his head on one fender and his feet on the other one.His wife carried food and diesel. Took him about a week.Oh the 4020 had a M&W turbo.

sideconsole4020guy · May 8, 2015

I get the same way. After long days of keeping every one else's machinery going (I am a John Deere planter and sprayer technician) I some times come home and only do the chores and call it a day. There is other days when I come home just full of energy and stay out till midnight.

ShadetreeRet · May 9, 2015

When I was still living at home, a boy I went to school with bought a farm near us. We both worked at the same place, also. I would wake up at one or two in the morning and hear his big John Deere pop, pop, popping about a quarter mile away. That morning, I would stop to pick him up to ride to work, and he would come out of his house with his shoes untied and carrying a bowl of corn flakes to eat on the way to work!

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