A story for Youngfellow

tedregentin · Jan 19, 2019

I read your post below and the replies. Might I share a story with you. A few years ago, my son, then fifteen called me at work and told me something had happened to the clutch in my loader tractor while he was using it. He said it needed to be torn down. (He never did tell me exactly what happened). I told him that we would tear it down when I got home. By the time I got home, he had the loader off and the tractor in the shop and split. I ordered a clutch, he replaced it and we use the tractor to this day. Today at eighteen, he works as a line tech in a good sized automotive repair shop. The point of my story is this: look at your tractor as a learning experience. If you never get it running, you still have learned a lot. Pay no attention to the negative comments you have gotten. Enjoy what you do and do what you enjoy.
Ted Regentin

steve_in_mo · Jan 19, 2019

I second that.

4520BW · Jan 19, 2019

When I was in the 5th grade I needed more .22 shells and dad said if I tore the floor of the hay wagon before he got home from work he would get me a box. Not only did I get the floor off I pulled the nails and burnt the old lumber. He bought me a brick shells for doing it. ( I did have a little help, a salesman for the Indiana prairie farmer magazine stop by and stayed and helped for an hour or more!)

fixerupper · Jan 19, 2019

Well said.

jeffcat · Jan 19, 2019

Now that is q great story. The sales guy most likely had nothing better to do and had fun helping you.

RBnWA · Jan 19, 2019

X2 Very well said. RB

modirt · Jan 20, 2019

X10

If a kid has an interest in farming at all, I can't think of a better learning experience than rehabbing an old tractor. Those are still simple enough to understand the inner workings of them, and easy enough to work on, yet still work on the same general principles of modern tractors. Once they understand the principles of how things work, they can use that to solve bigger problems. Engines, fuel system, cooling system, clutches, transmissions, maybe hydraulics, etc. People who know how all this stuff works are miles ahead of those who don't. Not to mention the other skills associated with it. Problem solving, people skills, economics of it all.

Far worse things a kid that age could be doing than spending time fixing up his tractor.

sms · Jan 20, 2019

As in everything there are good and bad people out there. I have met a lot of nice, down to earth people in the antique tractor/engine hobby. Some years back I went to a show a couple hours away from home, got talking to a local guy with a bunch of JD tractors, all in their work clothes, driven to the show. As we were talking the tractor games started, he said "You want to participate jump on a tractor". I declined, I was with my girl and chose to spent time with her. I was impressed by his offer.

A story for Youngfellow

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