BX - Buyer's Remorse? Loader remorse, anyway.

[dragoneggs]

I think one of the best things you can do is teach your son (or daughter) at a very young age to use tools so they learn how things work, how to fix it, and how to handle them safely. I guarantee you that the person that teaches your child first how to do it won't spend the time nor the care as much as you will! I was on my dad's cabin roof at 7years old pounding nails and laying composite roofing. I helped pour concrete, and even work with an old 1960 Craftsman radial arm saw. It is a dinosaur today but I can't get rid of it because of the memories and time my dad put in to my 'real' education. Safe??? maybe not so much but kids today are for the most part, helpless unless it involves a computer or cell phone. Sorry for the rant. :2cents:

 

[dragoneggs]

That is nuthin'. I was driving a whole fleet of JDs before I was 1 year old.

Yeah and when I was about 6, I was blowing them up with firecrackers in the sand box. Oops, I shouldn't have said that but I did employ my matchbox cars in a military role. It never bothered me that my army men were the same size as the vehicles. :confused3:

 

[ultrarunner]

I think one of the best things you can do is teach your son (or daughter) at a very young age to use tools so they learn how things work, how to fix it, and how to handle them safely. I guarantee you that the person that teaches your child first how to do it won't spend the time nor the care as much as you will! I was on my dad's cabin roof at 7years old pounding nails and laying composite roofing. I helped pour concrete, and even work with an old 1960 Craftsman radial arm saw. It is a dinosaur today but I can't get rid of it because of the memories and time my dad put in to my 'real' education. Safe??? maybe not so much but kids today are for the most part, helpless unless it involves a computer or cell phone. Sorry for the rant. :2cents:

Exactly... how else can kids expand the abilities and confidence.

I re-did the walls of my utility trailer a few years ago and as I had just finished removing all the old boards I was asked if I could watch my then 7 year old niece... she was dropped off and we spent the afternoon finishing the job... she was in charge of drilling the holes to match the existing...

She was so excited when her parents came to pick her up and to this day it's the trailer we fixed together...

 

[TomSeller]

Yeah and when I was about 6, I was blowing them up with firecrackers in the sand box. Oops, I shouldn't have said that but I did employ my matchbox cars in a military role. It never bothered me that my army men were the same size as the vehicles. :confused3:

Dang, I forgot about Matchbox. The delivery trucks were cool to drive. Rumor has it that I made a pretty good diesel sound.

 

[Deerherd]

Well, call me a lunatic too then. I was doing primary tillage at 6 with our "big" tractor (a Case 730). My dad would sit along side me for 3 full rounds and offer coaching during those rounds. Then he would get off and let me finish the field while he went back and started planting. Other than turning too close to a fence one time and hooking the barbed wire, no incidents.

My son wasn't ready for even a riding lawn mower at 6 so I waited to teach him. I'm not a farmer so never did get much bigger than that.

OK, you're a lunatic too. So you are telling us you ran a turning plow and disc on a 730 at 6 years old by yourself? Really? What made you ready at 6 to run farm equipment but you don't feel your son was ready for a lawnmower at the same age?

Over 17,000 children are injured every year from accidents on lawn mowers.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/23/children-injured-lawnmowers/2104303/

Yesterday a young girl was killed and another was seriously injured in a tractor accident.

Girl dies in Cork farm accident - RTÉ News

I was going to post links to other tragic tractor incidents with children but figure you have to cull the herd somehow. What would be the point? The good news with mower accidents is most survive, living with the disfigurement notwithstanding.

Another bright spot is there are attorneys who specialize in lawnmower accidents, so you should be well sued.

This thread is chock-filled with great ideas plus kids these days are way too soft. The good news is we will toughen up 17,000 more this year!

 

[Cherokee140]

OK, you're a lunatic too. So you are telling us you ran a turning plow and disc on a 730 at 6 years old by yourself? Really? What made you ready at 6 to run farm equipment but you don't feel your son was ready for a lawnmower at the same age?

Over 17,000 children are injured every year from accidents on lawn mowers.

Children hurt by lawn mowers: Predictable, preventable

Yesterday a young girl was killed and another was seriously injured in a tractor accident.

Girl dies in Cork farm accident - RTÉ News

I was going to post links to other tragic tractor incidents with children but figure you have to cull the herd somehow. What would be the point? The good news with mower accidents is most survive, living with the disfigurement notwithstanding.

Another bright spot is there are attorneys who specialize in lawnmower accidents, so you should be well sued.

This thread is chock-filled with great ideas plus kids these days are way too soft. The good news is we will toughen up 17,000 more this year!

Just keep swinging and missing.

 

[Scooby074]

 

[Cherokee140]

I think one of the best things you can do is teach your son (or daughter) at a very young age to use tools so they learn how things work, how to fix it, and how to handle them safely. I guarantee you that the person that teaches your child first how to do it won't spend the time nor the care as much as you will! I was on my dad's cabin roof at 7years old pounding nails and laying composite roofing. I helped pour concrete, and even work with an old 1960 Craftsman radial arm saw. It is a dinosaur today but I can't get rid of it because of the memories and time my dad put in to my 'real' education. Safe??? maybe not so much but kids today are for the most part, helpless unless it involves a computer or cell phone. Sorry for the rant. :2cents:

Yup I agree 100% with this, he was also running a grinder, and a wire wheel stripping rust off of a VW we worked on together. We both had eyes on and gloves as well as a mask. He was so cute, and so in tune to what he was doing. And the sky is falling group is right about one thing, I bet they are/were more careful then I am.....a little like teaching a woman how to shoot, they tend to listen more then men do as they know it all, are inflexible, hard headed......

He was driving a truck pulling a load of hay as soon as he could reach the peddles....IIRC around 12-13, he was/is small for his age.

And is still pulling a straight A average in school and is currently ranked #1 in his high school.....amazing some have no doubt figured having him paint his own room would have ruined his brain, but he picked the color, he should paint the thing....right?

Oh and introduced to the stove at 6 I would guess. From time to time he still cooks us a good dinner, but it is much less now...he is just never home anymore...so much going on

 

[Cherokee140]

Is that a video out of Texas?

 

[wawajake]

So I guess in the end this thread was started by Jay to boast about his L tractor, and insult anyone else that has the temerity to defend their BX by explaining what jobs they were capable of doing quite easily.
Oh well some people feel the way to make themselves bigger is to tear others down. Others don't feel they need to be bigger, they just work hard with what they have and save a few dollars while they do it.