Do Clothes Make The (Tractor) Man?

AndyM · Jun 27, 2005

My dress usually depends on the task at hand...
Normally, if I'm doing medium to heavy duty yard work, I'll have on blue jeans, a t shirt, steel-toe boots, and a baseball cap.

It takes 3 hours to cut my grass and I get home from work after 6:00 pm... Sometimes I don't have the couple of minutes needed to change my clothes. If I'm only mowing, and I'm trying to get it done before it rains, you might see me wearing Dockers, polo shirt, etc. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Indydirtfarmer · Jun 27, 2005

Not to hi-jack the thread, but this story just has to be told....

When I was a younger man, I raced dirt bikes. I rode enduros mostly. One of my favorites was run near Roselawn Indiana, on the grounds of a nudist colony.

The first year I rode the "Summer Bummer Enduro", I heard it was a nudist colony, but I was a naive farm boy who just didn't comprehend what I was about to see.

I was ripping through the sand and pine trees, having the tiome of my life. I rounded a curve in the trail. There she was.... A 300 lb. (+) woman, dressed in Converse tennis shoes, a straw hat, and a pair of Oakly sun glasses.......

I spent the next 2 or 3 minutes crashing into every tree in the woods. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

I've raised 2 kids, have 4 grandkids, been married 29 years, and spent 4 years in the army. I've never seen ANYTHING that shook my up so much before or since......

Farwell · Jun 28, 2005

Dave,
Is the Hangtown Studio still in Placerville? When I was a kid (1961) I worked for Fred Nunn in his Carmichael, CA studio. I think he still owned the Hangtown Studio then. He was a retired Highway Patrolman.
Farwell

Egon · Jun 28, 2005

Bird:

My father also only had long sleeved shirts and wore long johns year round. Lighter weight in summer and heavier in winter.

Egon /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

johan3400 · Jun 28, 2005

some things just burn into you memory. Might cause a person to give up dirt bikes!

slowrev · Jun 28, 2005

Any chiggers Ralph ?

Ben

Nasty135 · Jun 28, 2005

( I spent the next 2 or 3 minutes crashing into every tree in the woods.
) 

Probably trying to get a concusion to erase the mental image... And to think I'm reading this post at my lunch time /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif somebody please close this thread /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

getut · Jun 28, 2005

I've never been much for safety so unless there is risk of thorns in my feet like when bush hogging, for nearly everything else I just wear sandals, old sports shorts, and my worn out logo tee-shirts or tank tops... I don't wear completely white tee shirts unless it is under something else. I typically have mud dripping off of me and my wife frequently makes me hose off in the back yard and almost pull a RalphVA high tailing it to the house.

Notice the sandals... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

riptides · Jun 28, 2005

I try and wear as much black apparel as I can.

Hides dried blood.
Hides grease.
Attracts heat.
Avoids the wrath of the women.

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

PineRidge · Jun 28, 2005

Well I was following this thread while eating a handful of chocolate chip cookies until I got to Ralph's post about the skid marks. Then all of a sudden those chocolate chip cookies that my wife made just didn't taste the same. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Euck! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif