Okay, be honest...

Bret4207 · Aug 30, 2010

I'm out haying today and found myself doing the same thing I a;ways do- I sing to myself as I'm going along on my old 800 Ford. Went through Andy Williams, Marty Robbins, Ernest Tubb, The Statler Brothers, Faron Young, Pasty Cline, The Drifters, Deano, Johnny Rivers....the list goes on.

So tell the truth, how many of you old timers on old tractors with no cabs and CD player sing or hum or whistle your day away in the field?

Keith Molden · Aug 30, 2010

I have for years. Wouldn't if I had a cab--the sound would be just too umbearable to my ears LOL. Keith

Spook · Aug 30, 2010

I sing when I am doing chores around the place. Really don't have any neighbor's to bother. I started doing it to condition the local predators that this was a human space, hoping to keep them from preying on my chickens. So far it works. Shooting at the local fox didn't seem to hurt either. Don't know if I got em, but he hasn't been seen since. One neighbor did hear me, asked me if I was drunk....I wish!!!

ChrisinMO · Aug 30, 2010

I don't so much sing to myself as I get a song stuck in my head and it stays there most of the day until something happens to dislodge it.

Christopher

Mike (WA) · Aug 30, 2010

Remember one year I taught myself "The Auctioneer's Song" over the course of the summer on the tractor. Always wanted to be an auctioneer, guess being able to do it in the song (while haying) is about a close as I'll get. If I can't be an auctioneer, being a lawyer is a distant second. . .

Dad used to get hung up on one or two lines of songs while milking, usually modified to suit him, were sung them over and over (at full voice). "And the billows. . . of black, greasy hair. . .were like those of my pretty quadroon."

Hey, that's cool- "quadroon" is so archaic, the poof monster doesn't recognize it.

Rob in Ore · Aug 30, 2010

Yep. Sometimes singing, sometimes calling cadence.
"I don"t know but I been told
Eskimo (*****) is mighty cold."
On a good day I get the neighbor"s dogs barking.

DBAF · Aug 30, 2010

Sometimes

Toby Oats · Aug 30, 2010

man, dont feel bad, weather im working ground or mowing lawn, youll hear me sing to myself and i hope i aint an old timer yet.

kyhayman · Aug 30, 2010

Even on my cab tractor I'll admit to singing. Not a radio in sight on anything here, cant stand the things.

dbernie · Aug 30, 2010

I'll sing to pass the time, or when I was able to do chores , but it sure would be painful for anyone to hear.
If I want the radio on in the car with the wife, I just start singin'.
Don't take long at all...

Old Roy · Aug 30, 2010

Yup me too.
used to sing on stage a little. mostly the same people you talk about cept for maybe a couple Elvis, Jim Reeves,Beryle Ives, and Hank Sr.

I almost believe people liked me on stage, maybe it was because I stopped singing that they applauded.

I still harass my neighbors when I mow my yard.

Bkpigs · Aug 30, 2010

I am no old timer, although some people think I act like one. But, I do sing while I am working sometimes. The in-laws think I am odd because a decent number of times I will turn the radio off and roll the windows down (or push them out if in a tractor) (not much of a fan of the A/C).

Ron in Nebr · Aug 30, 2010

Don't sing as much these days with cabs and radios, but growing up in the hayfield on tractors without cabs I sang all the time. Used to do it riding horseback too if I was by myself.

A friend told me a funny story once about some neighbors who had a kid about 10 years old visiting them from town one weekend. It was one of those cold winter days when sound travels a long ways...anyhow, it seem's they'd given this kid a job pitching a little hay someplace, and from a quarter mile away, they could hear him singing at the top of his lungs as he worked, his own version of the "Green Acres" theme song...."Green Acres is the place for meeee, big t*tties are what I want to seeee"

PJH · Aug 31, 2010

When I was a kid, I absolutely hated "The Old Rugged Cross".

It seemed like it had 100 verses, and was always sung at the pace of a funeral dirge, and four times every Sunday.

Now I find that I sing it all day long on the mow tractor.

If there was ever a song that told it all. . .

Paul

Anonymous-0 · Aug 31, 2010

I got some hearing protectors with the built in radio. They're limited to 82 decibels and really help to take the boredom out of a lot of jobs. Dave

52 M37 · Aug 31, 2010

Always used to sing when I was out on the tractor all day. Wear Headphones now but still end up singing along with the music! Sure does help pass the time.

John M · Aug 31, 2010

I use to do do that, now I sing to the songs on my ipod!

Burnie · Aug 31, 2010

Always been a tractor singer cab or no cab. Started aged 10 when I used to bale hay for Dad. Always operate cab tractors with a stack of CDs. A few years ago, I was deep ripping in the wee hours of the morning and bunged on a bit of Billy Joel. It was cold so had a wool cap and pullover on, with the lights of town in the distance, singing 'Downeaster Alexia' at the top of my voice. Could almost imagine being on a fishing boat.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 31, 2010

We didn't get our first cab tractor until 2006 (MF1135) when after two overhauls and one rebuilt rear end the MF285 decided to retire. It had a radio. I thought it was great until I got done disking and couldn't hear anything. Haven't used it since.

Sam#3 · Aug 31, 2010

While we're being honest.
I was an only child until I was ten and lived in a rather isolated location so I made up my own social world. I had my own group of friends, all imaginary. I learned to talk to myself (and answer) and still do to this day. Once in a while I get caught and have to explain I'm not communicating with outer space.
It does come in handy sometimes. I have council of several other opinions before making a decision, like what to sing next.

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