My quad thread got me thinking

[Sheepwheat]

How many would go back?

I would in a heartbeat. I was born way too late.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

?????

It's called humour.

Pumping water from the old red steel hand pump in the kitchen out of the cistern
Carrying 5 gal pails up the crick bank to water pigs in winter , not much bigger than pails
Trapping ,skinning and stretching huge piles of beaver, muskrat , coyotes and the odd mink
Marvelling at the big check from dominion Soudak in the spring , and buying my first motorbike with proceeds
Too many kids have never had that opportunity and sense of acclomplishment . Still remember how happy I was at about 9 or 10 when I could set the springs on a large beaver connibear by myself
Getting my first wood burning kit for Xmas ,at about 6, what could possibly go wrong?

[Horse]

How many would go back?

I think I would if I was young again I realy enjoyed the old days but didnt know any better I used to hate getting out the wood pile,because it was never enough to satisfy the parents, now I get out a wood pile just for the exercise and nostalgia I love wood heat but nice to have the gas for when you dont feel like building a fire.
Going out to the barn on a cold night to milk it just felt so good when you entered ,and a team to haul the manure out,we used a moose hide so when you got out to field you hooked onto other end and rolled it that way you didnt have to fork it off.
Lots of fond memories, what will the now gen have to rember ? going out to heated shop to warm tractor or pickup with heated seats,steering wheel,power everything, nice but not much for memories.

[foragefarmer]

Way to go. We were all enjoying a really good thread, nothing political, nothing contentious. Then you went and brought up climate change.
Now alarms will go off in chucks basement, And he will spring into action Posting a red and pink map disproving Your earliest spring ever claim , and the entire thread will degenerate from there.

?????

[blackpowder]

How many would go back?

[Blaithin]

Way to go. We were all enjoying a really good friend, nothing political, nothing contentious. Then you went and brought up climate change.
Now alarm will go off in chucks basement, And he will spring into action Posting a red and pink map disprooving Your earliest spring ever claim , and the entire thread will degenerate from there.

I call BS on that anyway. 97 didn’t even have a winter, it couldn’t have an early spring.

[Happytrails]

1950 model here. 8 years in a one room school. First 3 years rode my pony. First tractor Massey 44 Special with a Farmhand Hi Lift loader. First drove a '51 International L120. No synchro. If you didn't double clutch you didn't shift. I feel it has been a charmed era that my generation has lived through. Lots of opportunities and no wars, invasions, persecutions, expulsions, etc. for the last 75 years. I feel that is a luxury that hasn't been experienced by many though history. So if there are some bumps in the road going ahead they can't be any worse than what many of our ancestors experienced. It is really great to see how the posters on Agriville represent the full range of ages involved in agriculture. I think there is lots we can learn from each other.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

We got one of the first Degelman rockpickers 1968, on a JD 2010, the earliest spring ever here, March 18 I stayed home from school to use that fantastic invention on dry enough fields, in a snowmobile suit, and enjoyed it.

Way to go. We were all enjoying a really good thread, nothing political, nothing contentious. Then you went and brought up climate change.
Now alarms will go off in chucks basement, And he will spring into action Posting a red and pink map disproving Your earliest spring ever claim , and the entire thread will degenerate from there.

[fjlip]

My Dad did the bale stooker dusty itchy job, I got to run the 730 JD, at 15 baling around wet sloughs, stressed about getting stuck plugging old IHC # 45. It missed so many ties, I wrote "butter fingers" on the twine box!