It sure has changed a lot in the last 30 years around here. I've watched a ton of places close down. The list is just about endless. Let me try a few. Motor Wheel, Federal Mogual, Lear, Hitachi Magnetics, Oldsmobile main plant, Oldsmobile plant two, Oldsmobile plant three, Oldsmobile plant five, Fisher Body, Melling Forging, Total Petroleum, Midland Ross, Motorcraft Battery factory, Simplicty, Electrolux (2700 jobs),etc. All the old timers around here worked at all those places and all these small towns had people making a living and most of those places had good wages, great health care plans and a defined pension plan. Not some slap in the face 401k plan. Now all the kids work for about half what their dads did and have really crappy health insurance and the infamous 401k that the pretty much have to fund themselves for 50 years so they can retire for a few years when they're 70 years old.
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Today's Featured Article - A Belt Pulley? Really Doing Something? - by Chris Pratt. Belt Pulleys! Most of us conjure up a picture of a massive thresher with a wide belt lazily arching to a tractor 35 feet away throwing a cloud of dust, straw and grain, and while nostalgic, not too practical a method of using our tractors. While this may have been the bread and butter of the belt work in the past (since this is what made the money on many farms), the smaller tasks may have been and still can be its real claim to fame. The thresher would bring in the harvest (and income) once a y
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