OLDEST AND YOUNGEST TBNers?

[Hamor]

I'm 38 and feel like time is flying by.

47 with back issue , sure makes you feel your not up to speed anymore . I keep telling the old lady when I want to pick up something for the tractor " How it's going to make things easier on my body if I get it " oh, the kicker is I tell her she can sell it all after they ly me down, and for the most part it works.:thumbsup:

 

[OldMcDonald]

I thought there would have been more older people. 69 for another three months, obviously still split firewood by hand, and referring to MoKelly's remark about his wife being younger. We should all remember Groucho Marx (at least I think it was him) who said you are only as old as the woman you feel.

 

[chim]

Sometimes I act 14, and sometimes I feel 82... does that count?

I know I'm younger than most of you guys but I remember when I was always guaranteed to be the youngest guy every job site. Ran my first multi million dollar project when I was 21, and I always had to here crap from older guys who worked for me, or subs. Somewhere over the past 5 years or so I'm not the youngest guy on a site anymore.

At 64 I can relate to both of those quotes.

The key to how old I feel on Wednesday often depends upon what I've done on Monday or Tuesday. I've only worked for two companies since starting in construction back in '68 and a bud at the first place said we were all so young that an old (probably 40-ish at the time) worker with another contractor on site told him our outfit looked like a Junior Achievement experiment. Four years later I started with my current employer and nobody there was over 30 - including the owner. In the years since then it seemed like the amount of credibility I gained was proportional to the hair I lost.

 

[mark02tj]

I'll go with 48.

You mean XLVIII.

Well, in Binary, I'm 110011 so that will really skew the average!:laughing:

But in Hexadecimal I'm only 33!! I kinda like that better! :thumbsup:

 

[paulharvey]

Four years later I started with my current employer and nobody there was over 30 - including the owner. In the years since then it seemed like the amount of credibility I gained was proportional to the hair I lost.

That's it, I know when I stopped being the youngest guy; when my wife started making fun of my gray hair and growing forehead.

 

[RaydaKub]

Well, in Binary, I'm 110011 so that will really skew the average!:laughing: But in Hexadecimal I'm only 33!! I kinda like that better! :thumbsup:

Hexadecimal only works until you hit ABCDEF. Then you have to explain it and that takes the fun out.

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[crowbar032]

hey! what's a youngster like you doing with such nice toys?! :muttering: *jealous*

Well, the MF150 and TO35 were inherited with the 80 acre plantation when Mom and Dad retired (they had real jobs but not college jobs like me). I bought the 953 Cat and JD5065E with funds made from my real job (accounting/financial analyst....ie not farming). With no wife/girlfriend/significant other and no kids, I can get away with spending more on toys.

I joke with my Dad that it takes one generation to buy the land, one generation to buy the equipment, the third generation might make a little money.


I'm impressed that there are so many "old" guys here that know how to work computers. My Dad will soon be 74 and my Mom just turned 70, and I'd bet they couldn't work a computer to save their life. No offense, but how did you guys learn since I assume you didn't grow up with them?

 

[adirondackmtnman]

I joke with my Dad that it takes one generation to buy the land, one generation to buy the equipment, the third generation might make a little money.

Around here, we say that the first generation builds the company and has no money, the second generation reaps the rewards and it's the third generation's responsibility to bankrupt the company. Most of the time I feel like the first generation...

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[Bird]

I'm impressed that there are so many "old" guys here that know how to work computers. My Dad will soon be 74 and my Mom just turned 70, and I'd bet they couldn't work a computer to save their life. No offense, but how did you guys learn since I assume you didn't grow up with them?

Well, I'm 74, and I don't know about the others, but I was 35 when I was promoted to the rank of Captain and made commander of the communications division. Dallas was one of the first to have their own in-house designed and built computer aided dispatch system, so I had to learn a little bit about computers. Then we became close friends with a couple across the alley from us. He was a bank vice president and their computer expert. She was also a computer expert working for EDS. And I now have a son-in-law whose education and work experience is computers.

Now I still don't know much about computers, but I've been using them more than half my life. And my 70 year old wife never touches the computer.

 

[oldballs]

At 81, I know about as much about computers as anything else. To me, "binary" has something to do with "two". Since the 60's I was exposed to the IBM 360 and various "upgrades" until I retired at 74 years old. I hated "upgrades". Luck and genes seem to be the answer to old age, along with some good sense. And with the new tractors and their toys I hope to get into the 90s without too much hassle. My nine grandsons probably won't know what the sledge hammer, pick axe and shovels are for, so maybe they will be new TBN members when I do pass on.