I must have been about 7 when I was with dad hauling gravel one day. He backed the backhoe up to the bank, set the stabilizers down, told me I know what the levers do, dig him some gravel loose. Set the throttle and jumped in the dump truck. I was loading trucks by 10.
Between 5th and 6th grade I started driving to the barn on Saturday mornings for milking (about 1 1/4 mile) and the tractor with the rock picker. That winter we drug the Farmall B and Allis C out for my cousin and I to rake hay with. I hated working the same section of field with her, I"d make nice square ends on the windrows, she always had big loops and hooks on her ends. I don"t know how she could manage, after 2 rounds, to have a 3-rake-width bow at the end of the field.
I bet you can guess which of us drives a pair of old 1/4-million mile trucks, and which of us just blew up her 140,000-mile Chevy PTCruiser.
When I was living in Ohio (2002) someone northwest of the city let his 13 year old granddaughter drive the pick-up out into the pasture to give the cows some hay. Old busy-body next door called 911 on him, CPS, state and local police, and fire dep"t showed up to haul him off in cuffs and take her to her parents.
Today I find myself telling the boss" kid stuff my dad told me back when. Don"t walk under the loader bucket. Stay off the sidehills. Makes me think of how easy it is to mess something up. And it"s stuff I"ve never really thought about it, just always kinda came natural.
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