Goose
Well-known Member
Today is the 91st birthday of a cousin of mine.
He owns an earthmoving company and on the side owns about 150 old tractors. He's retired and has turned the business over to his two sons, but he still drives around in an old Chevy suburban with company decals on the doors just to see what's going on. (He can certainly afford a better vehicle, but I guess he likes that old Suburban).
I'll give him credit, everything he has and everything he's done, he did on his own. After he graduated from high school, he drove a truck for a year or two and got grafted into the Army during the Korean War. The Army made a heavy equipment operator out of him, and he spent most of his hitch building roads in Korea.
He played it cool, saved his money, and when he got out of the Army he bought an old dozer and road maintainer and hung out his shingle. Me married reasonably well, and the whole thing took off from there.
About his tractors, he told me recently that if he dies before his wife, she'll have a funeral one day and an auction the nest.
He owns an earthmoving company and on the side owns about 150 old tractors. He's retired and has turned the business over to his two sons, but he still drives around in an old Chevy suburban with company decals on the doors just to see what's going on. (He can certainly afford a better vehicle, but I guess he likes that old Suburban).
I'll give him credit, everything he has and everything he's done, he did on his own. After he graduated from high school, he drove a truck for a year or two and got grafted into the Army during the Korean War. The Army made a heavy equipment operator out of him, and he spent most of his hitch building roads in Korea.
He played it cool, saved his money, and when he got out of the Army he bought an old dozer and road maintainer and hung out his shingle. Me married reasonably well, and the whole thing took off from there.
About his tractors, he told me recently that if he dies before his wife, she'll have a funeral one day and an auction the nest.
