Ladders and Gates

allenlane · Feb 3, 2021

Are we guilty of this ?

https://www.hagerty.com/media/opini...mp;utm_content=21_February_3_Newsletter_NewDD

BarnyardEngineering · Feb 3, 2021

Short answer: YES!

Quick example:

Every one of us over the age of 40 has many stories about riding along with Dad or Grampa on a tractor under sketchy conditions... but they would NEVER allow their child or grandchild to ride along with them even for a slow tool around the farm yard. Not without a full cab tractor with a buddy seat, and the child securely belted in as if he's about to take a pass in a Top Fuel dragster! TOO DANGEROUS!

BarnyardEngineering · Feb 3, 2021

Additionally, how many of us have stories about being sent the field solo at a single-digit age to perform some field work... usually on the OLDER, LESS SAFE tractor rather than the newer modern machine, because if the kid messes up, better he wreck the old junk than the expensive new stuff.

Now I don't think it's even legal for a kid under the age of 16 to operate a tractor...

Patsdeere · Feb 3, 2021

To a certain extent I would say yes. There
are ones that say don't touch this or
that. That thing is a pile of horse dung,
that is too dangerous etc. At many places
I volunteer that have tractors, I am by
far the youngest and if a younger person
comes to volunteer, they get related to
crap work/position because other jobs are
dangerous or they might hurt the
equipment. If nobody new learns the
equipment, guess what, it dies.

showcrop · Feb 3, 2021

I think that it is a pretty lame topic. When most of us were coming of age there weren't anywhere near the alternatives to motor vehicles that there are now. Different strokes for different folks, but there will still be plenty of gear heads around. With the growth in the world's population probably more in another fifty years than there were fifty years ago.

showcrop · Feb 3, 2021

I think that it is a pretty lame topic. When most of us were coming of age there weren't anywhere near the alternatives to motor vehicles that there are now. Different strokes for different folks, but there will still be plenty of gear heads around. With the growth in the world's population probably more in another fifty years than there were fifty years ago.

1948CaseVAI · Feb 3, 2021

(quoted from post at 12:12:25 02/03/21) Additionally, how many of us have stories about being sent the field solo at a single-digit age to perform some field work... usually on the OLDER, LESS SAFE tractor rather than the newer modern machine, because if the kid messes up, better he wreck the old junk than the expensive new stuff.

Now I don't think it's even legal for a kid under the age of 16 to operate a tractor...

Legal where I am if you are the child of the farmer.

BarnyardEngineering · Feb 3, 2021

(quoted from post at 10:31:09 02/03/21)

I think that it is a pretty lame topic. When most of us were coming of age there weren't anywhere near the alternatives to motor vehicles that there are now. Different strokes for different folks, but there will still be plenty of gear heads around. With the growth in the world's population probably more in another fifty years than there were fifty years ago.

Being able to work on old cars or even old tractors is one thing, but there will ALWAYS be a need for farms and farmers.

Shooing them away, sending them inside where its "safe..." Don't you wonder why the average age of farmers these days is something crazy like 60?

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