good news / bad news

Old Roy · Mar 20, 2011

good ?
Bought $5.00 worth of gas and it gave me a half tank.

Bad news is it was my cub cadet 782

It would take less than 45 min at full throttle to use it up. tractor runs maybe 8 MPH -- I couldn't drive it to the closest service station 8 mile away.

bison · Mar 21, 2011

Talking about poor milage

Fawteen · Mar 21, 2011

Smarts, doesn't it?

Grandson wants to use my 4 wheeler to entertain himself at the local gravel pit. I said "Sure, but you're buying your own gas." (He's 13)

He was all excited until he did the math and realized a 5 gallon can of gas was going to ruin a $20 bill and that he'd have to work 3 hours to earn that much money.

Earl Gray · Mar 21, 2011

If your going to turn a 13 year old with a 4-wheeler in a gravel pit your going to be buying a lot more than gas, A FUNERAL! Did you ever read your owners manual, and then read the obituaries? The manufacturers warn us about it and the obituaries show the results!

Anonymous-0 · Mar 21, 2011

(quoted from post at 05:22:18 03/21/11) If your going to turn a 13 year old with a 4-wheeler in a gravel pit your going to be buying a lot more than gas, A FUNERAL! !

I'd say that was his business if you was to ask me..But you didn't ask my opinion just like he didn't ask yours.

Dave

Fawteen · Mar 21, 2011

Yup, and if you listen to every Safety Nazi you'd never get out of bed.

He's not your average 13 year old that thinks he's bullet proof, he'll be wearing a helmet, and I'll be there to act as a governor on the Stupid Throttle.

I appreciate your concern, but you can't live life in a bubble.

Adirondack case guy · Mar 21, 2011

I was cut loose in a 20 acer field at age 9 on a CASE L pulling a 16' harrow. I'm still alive.

mkirsch · Mar 21, 2011

You know, I'm really starting to think this "Safety Nazi" attitude is why we're seeing so much more stupidity in everyday life.

Back in the day, the truly stupid people didn't live long enough to procreate. They'd wrap themselves up in a piece of machinery, run themselves over, land on their heads from great heights, or drop something heavy on themselves.

All this Safety Naziing doesn't seem to be doing much to help keep the costs of health care down... God finds a way to get you in the end.

LAA · Mar 21, 2011

There are a whole lot of people whose fear of injury over rules their common sense and they don't let their kids live and learn. I feel sorry for those kids.

Mike (WA) · Mar 21, 2011

And I heard the other day that the medicos now think that raising children in a constant haze of cleaners and disinfectants, with never a chance to get dirty or hug a goat, has led to an alarming increase in allergy related ailments like asthma. The kids don't build up any resistance.

big fred · Mar 21, 2011

And they don't get to appreciate the gastronomic delights inherent in a truly well prepared mud pie.

Fawteen · Mar 21, 2011

I've been saying that for years. I rarely ever get anything worse than a case of the sniffles.

I buy fruit (like apples and grapes and plums) from the grocery store and eat a couple on the way home before they're washed. I do chores, collect eggs, vet sheep and if I don't happen to think of it, eat without washing my hands. If you listen to the Antibacterial Nazis, I should be dead.

My wife spent several years as a housecleaner and B&B maid. The owners [i:654c4848f0]insisted[/i:654c4848f0] she use antibacterial cleaners for EVERYTHING, and now the skin on her hands is so thin and delicate she has to wear cotton gloves at all times, and glove up with rubber gloves if she's going to touch anything stronger than tap water.

My grandkids are ALWAYS sick with something, and two have asthma and severe allergies.

Hospitals are having serious problems with antibiotic-resistant infections to the point that people are dying from something as simple as a skin wound.

Nice going...

Fawteen · Mar 21, 2011

Or cow pie...

Sam#3 · Mar 21, 2011

What fun was playing with a softball that hadn't been 'flavored' with cow pie?

Mike M · Mar 21, 2011

I agree to some extent about the "safety nazi"

I also somewhat think that sending only the best,and healthy off to fight the real Nazi left only the sickly back at home to procreate,thus they had sicker,and sicker kids. Couple that with modern medicine then you eliminate natures way of letting only the fit survive. I hope I don't sound like a whacko nut job,but just think about it for awhile.

Fawteen · Mar 21, 2011

"Third base" "8^)

Growing up on the farm we had 120 acres, 80 on the South side of the road and 40 on the North. The 40 belonged to my Grandfather on my Dad's side and had a pretty nice house on it. We rented it to a couple of different families. The second family eventually bought it and an acre that it sat on, and share-cropped with Dad.

Dad had 6 boys. Marv had 8 kids, 6 girls and 2 boys. (And a couple of more after I left home, I hear....) ANY-way, we had us a built in Slow Pitch Softball Team. We'd chose up sides, Marv would pitch, and we customized the rules to make up for a lack of outfielders.

The field was whichever field had been mowed or harvested most recently. Stepping in a little of Ma Nature's Fertilizer on the base path was a given.

jackinok · Mar 21, 2011

I feel your pain,I went to the lake this weekend ,took exactly $42.00 to fill up two six gallon tanks,and that not counting the oil.Time to break out the old oars.I told my brother we could drift fish across the lake and motor back to save gas!

Sam#3 · Mar 21, 2011

In addition to the after school and weekend "Let's chase some flies" at home the fellow next to our school-ground 'loaned' the school enough flat land to set up our field complete with a chicken wire backstop.
We played ball before school, during recess and lunch. The cows were allowed to graze the field and act naturaly the rest of the time.
Kids nowdays just don't know fun.

Brad Buchnan · Mar 21, 2011

Ahh I was playing in a gravel pit when I was 14. My play involved loading a small dump truck with a backhoe and trucking the gravel about a mile away to backfill a drainage system.

The only time I had trouble is when I backed the dumptruck too far and put the duals in the ditch.
I then got to operate the shovel.

Brad

Anonymous-0 · Mar 21, 2011

Talk about a hi-jacked thread this one went from mower fuel mileage to safety nazi to cow pies and on from there. Where is NCWayne when we need him.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 21, 2011

(quoted from post at 12:45:05 03/21/11) Talk about a hi-jacked thread this one went from mower fuel mileage to safety nazi to cow pies and on from there. Where is NCWayne when we need him.

OK, let's bring it back in line........ I get to go fill my quad with gas for about $10 a gallon and 5 gallons of diesel for a buck or so less...........

Dave

Spook · Mar 21, 2011

I used to work with a plumber that would go from turd burgling a toilet to eating pizza with us, without washing up. We used to say that flies wouldn't touch him. I think he took a bath once a week, whether he need it or not. He might die from a heart attack, but I doubt that any germ is gonna do it.

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