Are you over the hill

My hip will never make it

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I dont think so, until I try to work with my construction crews. They tell me, with respect, get out of the way grandpa. They can work circles around me. That is when I know Im not 20 any more and on my way on the down side of the hill.

I am over the hill and down the road. Loaded a couple of steers out yesterday slogging through the mud in the lot sucked the wind right out of me. With the snow and mud we couldn't get the stock trailer backed into the loading gates and had to drag out some extension gates.

Getting to the top of the hill is tough, once I got there, I'm flying down real fast.

I keep trying but the hill seems steeper every day.

Just over 50, but have both feet in the grave as I am a grave digger. Had my 15 year old son dig with me on the last one. So far I can out dig him. No backhoe either.

After I am on my feet, outside for 4 hrs or so, my back is stiff and will complain a bit when I sit down. Mentally, it has always been an up hill battle.

I crested the hill at 50. Three operations since with man made joints keep me going. The fun part is never knowing what is going to hurt today. So far my knees work fine, but when I try to get down on my knees the left one hurts like he!!

This how I get a trailer around in the mud or mud and snow . Cockeyed global warming hit and we got about 5 inches of snow the middle of October and then hit 25 below zero still had straw in the field then it warmed up a bit and what a mess. Load of straw crossed the scale at 22900 pounds . I just cut a hole in the top of my round bale spinner and welded a 2 5/16 ball in the hole :

At almost 68 I can still get to the top of the hill but need a nap for the remainder of the day to recover.

Went over the hill and found this!


Then had to get her back over hill. Thought I was in good shape till I started climbing mountains!

Nice, that's what we needed, not sure the trucker would want to unhook. I move my round bale trailer, its a tag, with a receiver hitch on the gas 4020, it has chains. I bought some high moisture bales at the auction and the front end got a little light. I had to hunt up and install the front weights for the old girl, another day I felt over the hill. They sure look better with the front weights.

At 78 that is the way I am feeling.

The shirt says it all. OK, this was 7 years ago and I was only 69.

Yea, I am over the hill. But I had help getting there.

I like the weights too they really help with a big load or heavy implement on

SV
Hope you have good brakes so when you get over the hill, you can stop on the way down. lol

I have been climbing Superstition Mountain every year for 8 years now, did it twice this year. It's about a 7 mile hike and over 3,000 feet of elevation gain, but I'm only 70! There is a guy that's 90 that does it twice a week, he passed us on the way up last Friday!

Be careful with that 3 point gooseneck ball set up. My cousin's husband lost his life driving a tractor and gooseneck trailer loaded with hay, very similar to what you got photographed in the picture. Only difference was, maybe a slight difference in trailer or tractor size, and he was hauling big round bales.

Is what happened was, he was hauling hay home from 3 to 4 miles away. Not far, and on a good wide road. Road had a slight curve in it. Nothing sharp. Just a gradual curve in the road. He was just about through and around the curve, probably about to the point where things were going to start straightening out, trailer upset the tractor. Basically just put it on its side on the far bank of the road ditch. The guy happened to be between the fender and the steering wheel at impact with the ditch. Impact caved the fender in, pinning him between it and the steering wheel area. He was found dead at the scene.

Near as anyone could figure, tractor upset because of the weight being up to high on the 3 point (gooseneck ball being above the axle height of tractor). Momentum of trailer weight going around the curve simply put the tractor on its side. Occupants of a car that had just met him prior to him reaching the curve, said he didn't seem to be going all that
fast. Road was one of those wide county roads that you don't have to slow down/get over to meet somebody on. So, it'd be a fare assumption that he didn't increase speed for the curve. But apperantly, he was going fast enough for bad things to happen.

It just turned out to be a real bad deal. Had around 100 head of stock cows. This happened in the fall, and hadn't started feeding hay yet. Kids were little. Relatives lived far enough away that they couldn't take over his operation. All his cattle and hay had to be sold. It just wasn't good AT ALL, all the way around.

I guy can make something work, sure enough. But keep safety in mind. And be careful.

The disney movie (the straight story) about an old gent and his lawn mower, the old gent is asked what's the worst thing about getting old?
The old guy said ... Remembering when you were young.

Yeppers...
It's all downhill from here. LOL

It could get bad in a real hurry for sure .

The John Deeres have good brakes

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