This would be Wildfire if he were a kid today
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He's just starting out.Naaah
Not enough mods, custom logos, stainless steel and definitely not enough tools laying around.
Does not have the money to build his shop yet.
Give him time!
Ray
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Reminds me when I was a kid in high school in Chicago. We kept our plane at Clarence Aavang's farm up north of Crystal Lake. Clarence had just bought a new JD articulated (like an earth-mover) monster tractor. I think it weighed in at nearly 40,000 lbs and the tires were six foot tall. It was the biggest thing I had ever seen. The engine was six or eight feet long. It had weights bolted to more weights.
Clarence would run the tractor in the fields until dinner when his skinny 15 year-old daughter would drive out in his pick-up. He would help her up that tall first step on the ladder and she would pull out the country tape and stick in John Mellencamp. She'd run that $70,000 machine well into darkness at which time her dad would come back and take over.
And we wonder why city kids have all kinds of maturity problems? Clarence's 85 lb daughter had control of not only his best piece of equipment he owned but the most expensive note he owed. Its no wonder most farm kids are way more mature than their city counterparts. They have been entrusted with tremendous responsibility at an early age, something our modern American Intelligentsia says is impossible.
I remember watching Clarence's daughter race down his driveway on her bicycle and I wonder if the Women's Lib movement actually started years earlier on the farms of America but those bra-burning city-slicker ladies were completely unaware of farm life. I nearly marred one of those women and when I told her the story of Clarence's daughter, she could hardly believe it.
I guess I am just an old fart...
Ray
Clarence would run the tractor in the fields until dinner when his skinny 15 year-old daughter would drive out in his pick-up. He would help her up that tall first step on the ladder and she would pull out the country tape and stick in John Mellencamp. She'd run that $70,000 machine well into darkness at which time her dad would come back and take over.
And we wonder why city kids have all kinds of maturity problems? Clarence's 85 lb daughter had control of not only his best piece of equipment he owned but the most expensive note he owed. Its no wonder most farm kids are way more mature than their city counterparts. They have been entrusted with tremendous responsibility at an early age, something our modern American Intelligentsia says is impossible.
I remember watching Clarence's daughter race down his driveway on her bicycle and I wonder if the Women's Lib movement actually started years earlier on the farms of America but those bra-burning city-slicker ladies were completely unaware of farm life. I nearly marred one of those women and when I told her the story of Clarence's daughter, she could hardly believe it.
I guess I am just an old fart...
Ray