I worked for a fly-by-night contractor for a few months then went to work in a warehouse when I was 20. At the time city life was OK, but I never could see myself being there for very long. Then I went and ran dozer for dad one weekend and my arms burnt, it was the first time since elementary school. Went to driving truck, first three years were good, the last 5 years I was stuck on the east coast. Worst 5 years I could ever imagine. Between those 2 driving jobs I talked to some harvesters, but it was a dry year and they said it wouldn't be worth my drive. I should have treated the second job as a temp and put applications in with harvesters for the next spring. Been 4 years out of trucking, and 3 1/2 back in farming, could make another 15-20,000 a year trucking, but it's not worth the headache of dealing with the general public and dispatchers. And after the severe burn-out of running the east coast for 5 years, I'm finally starting to get to where I like to hop in the old Dodge and go for a ride now and then.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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