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Mike Henry
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congrats on the retirement. It has to be an awesome feeling to know you have finally seen the light at the end of the work tunnel. Hope you enjoy many fun filled years.
Congratulations:
Kinda starting to look that way myself, BBBBBUUUUTTT the stock market needs to help! Still got the same "paper" money as in 2000 - course I have aged a bit but don't want to wait on Social Security and have the government provide my income and medical expense.
WHOOPS - Hope I didn't offend anyone
Kinda starting to look that way myself, BBBBBUUUUTTT the stock market needs to help! Still got the same "paper" money as in 2000 - course I have aged a bit but don't want to wait on Social Security and have the government provide my income and medical expense.
WHOOPS - Hope I didn't offend anyone
Keith Molden
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Congrats, kinda thinking about doing the same thing myself, just can't make up my mind. If I retire I'll have more time to play with the tractors. If I don't, I'll have more money to play with the tractors. Decisions, decisions LOL. Keith
cadet trooper
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Larry I"m less than two years away from 65 I heard you have to go on medicare which gives more freedom from insurance worrys I think. I kinda want to work for a while longer but you never know when the health thing can go south. So hey enjoy and I hope to do the same thing soon! Good Luck CT
730 virgil
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aug 3 mrs 730 and i will be 62 we are signing up for ss.
should help around here with mrs 730 disability i can't get a job as she needs me at home
should help around here with mrs 730 disability i can't get a job as she needs me at home
Bernie Ste
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Kieth I have found the perfect solution to your problem I am 74 years old. Work some Play some. Very happy. Bernie Steffen
Paul from MI
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Took me three times before I figured out that I could actually retire. Company kept making me offers I couldn't refuse. I worked part time for the last 3-1/2 years and they were some of the best of my 45 year career.
The important thing about retiring is don't actually do it. Keep on working, just not at a job. I am busier now than ever, just don't have much of a schedule. For most of us here just keeping the old iron going is a full time job.
The important thing about retiring is don't actually do it. Keep on working, just not at a job. I am busier now than ever, just don't have much of a schedule. For most of us here just keeping the old iron going is a full time job.
Adirondack case guy
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I'm 2 yrs. behind you on the 23rd. Hopefully I'll win the lottery so I can retire. Congrats. to you. Make the best of every day and enjoy your friends and family. Life is as good as you make it.
Have fun with the toys and send some pics. our way of them. (the tractors and equipment I mean)
Have fun with the toys and send some pics. our way of them. (the tractors and equipment I mean)
Anonymous-0
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I'll be 44 on the 20th. My dad retired from the farm in 1991 but this is the first year he hasn't been out to help with planting. He is 81
Russ from MN
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You will work the rest of your life!
Ande
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As others have said here,congradulations,you have worked a full life,now do some things you couldnt do when you were working.I look forward to those days,but I'm not counting them,got a ways to go.But keep smelling those wildflowers friend,and enjoy those sunsets and sunrises
Anonymous-0
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That is great. I am a few years ahead of you. Enjoy the time, but keep busy. Stan
old
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- Camdenton Missouri
Retiring will do one of 3 things to you. Kill you. Make you work harder then before or make you wish you where still working. Unless you retire with a lot of $$ coming in
Fergienewbee
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I retired at 62 in January. I don't know how I would get all my work done if I had a 40-hour-a-week job. I put more gas in the tractor than my truck and my garden will probably be the best I've ever planted. I'm looking for a part-time job a couple days a week. Congratulations, Larry. Enjoy your life.
Larry in Michigan
Larry in Michigan
Enjoy your retirement. I retired 2 years ago at age 58. I told my wife I was going to work until it was not fun any longer. A new plant manager with an attitude helped me decide. I have been busier after retirement than ever before. I have never thought about getting another job as I don't have the time for it.
One piece of advice I have seen over the years: Never run out of things to do, even the little things. Most that have done that sat down in the rocking chair and gave up. Life was over too soon after that. Ones we all knew would be gone soon after retiring are still kicking because they are so busy they do not have time to die. We need a reason to get up each morning or it's over.
One piece of advice I have seen over the years: Never run out of things to do, even the little things. Most that have done that sat down in the rocking chair and gave up. Life was over too soon after that. Ones we all knew would be gone soon after retiring are still kicking because they are so busy they do not have time to die. We need a reason to get up each morning or it's over.
It may take awhile to get use to of not going to work. I still get up early, but you will be surprised of all the things to do after you retire. I just finished painting the kitchen. I always did it one day, but this time it took 4
partial days. When using semi-gloss paint the old paint needs to be scrubbed, sanded and cleaned again. Used Sears Easy Living semi gloss
and it covered well. Then I started painting my garden tractor. I hope to do the front rims
tomorrow if the storms hold off. The man that replaced me has 48 years and is still working. He can only draw 80% of highest 3 years of wages
and is probably not making more than if he would retire. He probaly has over 4000 hours of sick leave that he has accumlated over the years. I had over 3000 hours. That will added on if he ever retires. Hal
PS: Here's that garden tractor.
partial days. When using semi-gloss paint the old paint needs to be scrubbed, sanded and cleaned again. Used Sears Easy Living semi gloss
and it covered well. Then I started painting my garden tractor. I hope to do the front rims
tomorrow if the storms hold off. The man that replaced me has 48 years and is still working. He can only draw 80% of highest 3 years of wages
and is probably not making more than if he would retire. He probaly has over 4000 hours of sick leave that he has accumlated over the years. I had over 3000 hours. That will added on if he ever retires. Hal
PS: Here's that garden tractor.
Chuck (CA)
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Congratulations, but remember:
Once you retire, there are no days off.
Once you retire, there are no days off.
Anonymous-0
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very nice looking set up on your machine can you tell me if you purchased the plough or did you put it together yourself..can you set the depth of the plough.And will your machine pull the plough fully imbedded in the ground,Do you have any other attachments to assist you in breaking up the garden. We are looking for ideas to plough small /medum gardens ,Thank you
Have a great safe day Barney
Have a great safe day Barney
The Dukester
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I'll have been retired 11 years next month. I've enjoyed retirement greatly. I still do a little work for a neighboring friend, but it's strictly up to me how much. The main thing I enjoy is the freedom from the exasperations of the management errors of my former employer's staff. (The facility no longer exists, by the way). I enjoyed the actual work activity and I was reasonably well paid. Now I have to live on a tight budget and luckily I have no expensive habits except my love of old farm tractors which is a great hobby and pursuit.
old
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- Camdenton Missouri
Is that a factory lift or is that something you built?? I did a lift on a lawn tractor years ago but then the machine died on me so I pulled it back off. I had it set up to lift the old D/B equipment and it worked ok but not something I would want to use all day even if I was in good enough shape to do so
I worked most of my employed years at auto body repairs and painting, but the new paints and their hardeners made me allergic to the paint mist, so i retired at age 72!
Went home Christmas Eve, last day at work. sat around for 3-4 weeks, decided i didn't need the grave, so i started repairing lawn mowers and tractors. Been at it ever since. Folks just can't seem to keep from hurting their mowers and lawn tractors, so they bring them to me and i make them run again! I'm not getting rich, but make enough to have spending money, and cash to buy the gasoline to run my pickemup!
And, i get out to the weekend Bluegrass shows. I take my 5-string banjo and get to pick it with other folks! I'm now several months shy of 86, and am looking forward to more years of fun! And, a beer a day helps, too!
Went home Christmas Eve, last day at work. sat around for 3-4 weeks, decided i didn't need the grave, so i started repairing lawn mowers and tractors. Been at it ever since. Folks just can't seem to keep from hurting their mowers and lawn tractors, so they bring them to me and i make them run again! I'm not getting rich, but make enough to have spending money, and cash to buy the gasoline to run my pickemup!
And, i get out to the weekend Bluegrass shows. I take my 5-string banjo and get to pick it with other folks! I'm now several months shy of 86, and am looking forward to more years of fun! And, a beer a day helps, too!
The cream colored sleeve hitch is factory made and came with the tractor and is connected to the hydraulic lift on the tractor.
I made the blue frame that supports the plow. I had to make a template from the handlebars on the old Viking tractor and the drawbar to get the plow to plow right. It had to float. I had to make a bracket so I could connect the plow frame to the sleeve hitch. I had to use (4) 3/8 capscrews to fasten that bracket to the plow frame. I drilled and tapped this bracket and had to add flatwashers and a lock washer so they were not too long and would hit the face of the sleeve hitch. I have a picture of the frame that shows the hitch bracket and will post it later. I bought the Viking tractor in 1960 for $15.00 and included that plow, disk and cultivator . When I sold the Viking I kept the plow. Hal
I made the blue frame that supports the plow. I had to make a template from the handlebars on the old Viking tractor and the drawbar to get the plow to plow right. It had to float. I had to make a bracket so I could connect the plow frame to the sleeve hitch. I had to use (4) 3/8 capscrews to fasten that bracket to the plow frame. I drilled and tapped this bracket and had to add flatwashers and a lock washer so they were not too long and would hit the face of the sleeve hitch. I have a picture of the frame that shows the hitch bracket and will post it later. I bought the Viking tractor in 1960 for $15.00 and included that plow, disk and cultivator . When I sold the Viking I kept the plow. Hal
Here's that plow frame with the hitch bracket up front. I use one pin to connect that to the sleeve hitch, the depth adjustment bracket is already bolted to the plow frame and the plow connects to that and (2) 3/8-NF cap screws are used to support the rear of the plow. Hal
PS: This was taken after plowing the garden and before I painted the tractor.
PS: This was taken after plowing the garden and before I painted the tractor.
The plow is off an old Viking garden tractor I bought in 1960. The handle you see on the plow frame will tilt the point so the tractor can not pull it. It has plenty of power, but even with chains it can't get enough traction. I had planted rye last Fall and it was very tall by this Spring and I plowed it under. I only made the plow frame as I had to make a template of the handlebars and drawbar on the Viking to get it to plow right. It all has to float. The hardest part was bending each piece of metal so they matched the template that matched the handles on the Viking. I use a Troy Bilt tiller for tilling the plowed ground. I use it for cultivating too. Hal
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