Hoofer B

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One of our newer y t guys just turned 15. What were you doing when you were that age? I was raising pigs and chickens in our back yard and helping all of the area dairy farms. Doing chores, milking, doing fieldwork and working on old trucks and tractors that I would drag home
 
Making the volunteer corn stop growing with a hoe. Feeding pigs, and 20 horses (ours by proxy from my uncle) driving a 46 Chevy Deluxe, building gocarts, hunting. Jim
 
I was mowing yards and any part time construction work I could find when I wasn't helping at Dad's shop. Had a MM ZTU tractor to work on that took most of my free time and spending money. Eventually traded it for an Allis B, and wasn't sorry to see the MM go.
 
I was working part time at a state park resort cleaning shower houses and outhouses along with working for local farmers, mainly during hay and harvest seasons. Along with trying to sneak home old tractors, mowers and equipment. And of course chasing girls!
 
Helping dad milk evenings and weekends, helped feeding hay in winter and put up in summer. Playing with b/s engines and scrapping old farm equipment.
 
I was mowing yards, working at my Dad's service station/garage whenever I could.

I was also getting my first car drivable. It was wrecked, and Dad was going to junk it. No, no, no! I want it! A '63 Biscayne 6, to me it meant freedom!
 
My 15th fall was the last year we picked our corn on the ear. Was well acquainted with a scoop shovel. Turned 16 in the spring and hauled the ear corn 20 miles to an elevator in a 6 cylinder 51 Dodge truck equipped with stock framed sides. Shelled corn and augers were welcomed enthusiastically!
 
Pretty much the same as you. Dad got mad at the milk inspector and I took over the dairy herd nine days before my sixteenth birthday. He said if I didn't want to milk them, he was selling them. I already had six of my own, so I took his on too. I was on about my third tractor by that time. I bought my first one from the elementary school janitor when I was nine.
 
Baling hay, fixing fence, cultivating corn, and milking cows. Not necessarily in that order, but definitely milking cows.
 
I was in high school and had a couple pigs to grow into sows, Driving folks 51GMC pickup. Wanting a tractor a 22 Rifle, and a girlfriend. Helped build brooder houses for chickens. Next year farmhand $3 a day 1953
 
Much like Lumbersawyer I was peeling pulp along with my younger brothers, I was the oldest so I ran the chainsaw as well. In the fall we would skid it out with our 48 8N pulling a trailer or scoot. We had a few cows so when we got done with our own haying i would go work for some nieghbors haying. I also helped the nieghbors fixing tractors. The good old days!
 
Was working at a nursery, wrenching on a Sumbeam Alpine, chasing a young lady that I thought was the cutest thing in the world and flunking high school courses.
 
Doing all of the prep work for corn and beans on our 210 ac,dad planted when he got home and I sprayed after him. When we were done with the cultivating it off to the neighbors to put up hay for a few weeks.In the winter I worked at the filling station starting in the 6th grade. I had a friend who was a younger than me. When Dave got his license he paid me to cultivate their corn, so he could drive the grain truck to the elevator. Someone alway wanted help, and everyone knew me from the gas station, and knew I would show up and do the job.
 
Getting used to girls! I was pretty active in 4H. Won first place at the Illinois state fair with the Saddle Tramps Drill Team. First and only time to ever ride in an indoor arena. My mom towed our horse trailer with two horses to Springfield with our Country Squire station wagon lol. She was terrified she'd get in a situation where she had to back up. Managed to get there and back in D the whole way. Lots of fishing that summer and wishing I was 16 so I could get my license! Those were the days!
 
Worked for area farmers. Had one who I worked pretty steady for and others in between. Anything from chisel plowing with the 125 Versatile to harrowing with the JD 720 diesel. Picked a lot of rock, shoveled a lot of grain from a lot of bins and threw a lot of square bales on the trailer by hand. Ruined more pairs of jeans throwing bales! All to make money for my fun and parts for my '27 Model T with a 394 Olds.
 
1966.

Feeding cows, mowing fields on the farm, and hauling hay.

Working at the football field replacing wooden bleachers and painting classrooms.

First year letter-man (Soph) on varsity football team.

Discovered girls.
 
Feeding 2000 chickens, hauling manure, cultivating corn, working on my 1952 Norton. Trying to find time to hunt a little too.
 

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