VW To Resurrect the IH Scout as an Electric Vehicle.

[5030]

If we want to attack posser 'life style' people, who drive a jeep/scout/bronco, for being fake; we better watch out. Lot of folks have a tractor that aren't row cropping


Live and let live; you want a true rock climber, buy it, you want to run to the grocery store in a JD 8R, run to the store. you want to ride a bike, or drive an EV,; You do you

I'd say 95% of people on here fall into that category.

 

[California]

Ok, 51 years. I shouldn't try to post based on memory alone without researching a little. But haydude missed his opportunity to correct this! Hey bro, you ok?

 

[Oaktree]

On the tech side I think self driving cars would be high on the list...

Not that they work very well even now, but yeah that's something that would have hard to imagine not all that many years ago. Personally, I find them kind of creepy and don't think I'd ever trust one, but maybe someday they'll be mainstream.

Dont disagree that everything you mention existed but the difference is it is no longer fringe but instead codified by law...

Remember 25 years ago many things came under zero tolerance... 3 strikes, etc...

We are far from that now for many things...

My city didn't have thousands of smash and grabs or thousands of auto thefts...

Being caught with personal use Meth or Cocaine or Weed meant a trip downtown.

The most blatant in your face is people shooting up in the doorways and public parks and law enforcement taking no action or the block after block of city streets with homeless camps... shocking is the only word to describe.

In 2000 good family friends moved to New Zealand for employment and only returned to the Bay Area in 2023...

They kept saying it's a third world country seeing the camps and open drug use and yes... their rental car had the window smashed just a mile from the airport...

I have a hard time wrapping my head around that. I'll admit that I don't "get" California attitudes, and you certainly don't paint a very inviting picture of life there.

 

[California]

I'd say 95% of people on here fall into that [non row crop] category.

I bought a tractor (then a second one) to take the place of what Dad had been doing - dragging around hundreds of ft of garden hose, and hiring day labor to work with wheelbarrows.

There's no claim this is my occupation, rather, I'm enjoying being the third generation responsible for this apple orchard. Production is some 70 tons/year, with most but not all of the work done by a contractor along with his larger adjacent orchard. For me its a retirement hobby as it was for two previous generations.

I came to TBN because my US Yanmar was a mysterious orphan when I bought it, used, and already 20 years old. Yanmar had left the US so maintaining it was entirely up to the owner. First time I had been on a tractor since 1960. I learned a lot from other Yanmar owners here. In the 20 years I've now owned this, it has never needed the touch of a pro mechanic.

And I've learned a couple of new things discussed here aside from tractors, example welding.

TBN doesn't need to be limited to only commercial-scale tractor owners!

 

[Hay Dude]

Many of the culture changes you cite were in their early stages at the turn of the century...while today's search engines are much more powerful, they did exist then as did cellphones. I definitely remember people driving, walking, etc. talking (often loudly) on their flip phones back then. Likewise, it was pretty obvious looking at the music charts that hip-hop was what was happening, and rock was fading. Granted, all of these trends have accelerated this century.

Agree 100% that each generation has their own culture, often baffling to their elders. Not sure how old you are, but I know my generation's (boomer-born early 1950s) culture was quite alien to my parents, probably would have been more so to my grandparents if any had still been alive when I was a teen. Always been that way, probably always will.
We boomers swore we'd never turn into our parents, yet here we are.

I’m much younger than you

 

[DarkBlack]

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander touched down on the moon Thursday after a historic, nail-biting descent following a last-minute navigation sensor malfunction, becoming the first U.S.-built spacecraft to stick a moon landing in more than 50 years and the first ever by a private company.

Didn’t exactly “stick the landing “.
Caught a leg and tipped over

The 1st U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in 50 years has ‘tipped over’ - National | Globalnews.ca

Intuitive Machines initially said the Odysseus lander was upright after touchdown Thursday, but then said the craft “caught a foot in the surface and tipped," landing on its side.

globalnews.ca

 

[sd455dan]

What year were the LA riots? They basically let them burn and loot until they got tired, and it was the "roof top koreans" that kept it from being worse.

August of 1965 "Watts"

Watts riots - Wikipedia

 

[Hay Dude]

Ok, 51 years. I shouldn't try to post based on memory alone without researching a little. But haydude missed his opportunity to correct this! Hey bro, you ok?

I’m fine, thanks. Our age differences would make me a “son” to you more than a “bro”.
I really have no desire to correct old, addled brains.

 

[California]

I really have no desire to correct old, addled brains.

From all your posts I thought that was your problem. What is it, then?

 

[paulsharvey]

"TBN doesn't need to be limited to only commercial-scale tractor owners!"

Not saying that, it was a comment about people downing the street jeeps, and grocery getter off road suvs. Basically implying people shouldn't have a 4x4 off road vehicle, if they're just pavement queens; and I was saying 95% of the people on here are about the same, just on the tractor side. IE, don't complain about street jeeps; when you just use a tractor to get the mail and take the trash cans to the street.