coachgeo
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L225 w/woods Few Mowers & Back Blade, D722 in Motorcycle (Triumph Tiger), LMTV
Tractor Porn
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CaveCreekRay
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L3800 HST, KingKutter box scraper, KingKutter 66" rake, County Pride Subsoiler
AWESOME!!!! I love the log cutter/splitter!!! The Unimogs rock! (I grew up in Germany in the 60's and those were everywhere -especially in the vineyards!)
The giant tractors remind me of my high school days in Chicago. We kept a plane up on Clarence Aavangs farm. My parents had just spent the most on a house they ever had ($149k). Clarence went out and bought one of these center-articulated monster JD tractors with huge 6' duallies on each corner. He paid about the the same for that as my parents did for the house!!!
The coolest part was his 15 year-old daughter. She'd eat dinner early and drive the pick-up (no license... underage) out to wherever her dad was in the new monster tractor. He'd stop and help her up on the ladder where she'd pop in a country tape and plow for an hour or two so Clarence could go home and eat dinner. She barely weighed 100lbs! 'Course it was totally cushy with power everything and A/C in an enclosed cab. Often, in the fall, she'd be switching on the lights for night operations as the sun set early.
And we wonder why city kids grow up the way they do! You give a kid the responsibility of routine farm operations and it matures them really fast. Can you imagine the average 15 year-old driving what is today a $250,000 piece of heavy equipment?
A buddy I flew with at SWA had a grandfather who ran a huge underground mining operation. He started driving equipment as soon as his feet could touch the pedals and by the time he was 13, he was running dump trucks, graders, excavators, backhoes, trenchers, you name it. No wonder he ended up a high-speed heavy equipment operator (pilot).
The giant tractors remind me of my high school days in Chicago. We kept a plane up on Clarence Aavangs farm. My parents had just spent the most on a house they ever had ($149k). Clarence went out and bought one of these center-articulated monster JD tractors with huge 6' duallies on each corner. He paid about the the same for that as my parents did for the house!!!
The coolest part was his 15 year-old daughter. She'd eat dinner early and drive the pick-up (no license... underage) out to wherever her dad was in the new monster tractor. He'd stop and help her up on the ladder where she'd pop in a country tape and plow for an hour or two so Clarence could go home and eat dinner. She barely weighed 100lbs! 'Course it was totally cushy with power everything and A/C in an enclosed cab. Often, in the fall, she'd be switching on the lights for night operations as the sun set early.
And we wonder why city kids grow up the way they do! You give a kid the responsibility of routine farm operations and it matures them really fast. Can you imagine the average 15 year-old driving what is today a $250,000 piece of heavy equipment?
A buddy I flew with at SWA had a grandfather who ran a huge underground mining operation. He started driving equipment as soon as his feet could touch the pedals and by the time he was 13, he was running dump trucks, graders, excavators, backhoes, trenchers, you name it. No wonder he ended up a high-speed heavy equipment operator (pilot).