My New Tractor

[cowboydoc]

Harv,
I'll have to get you some pictures of my daughter. Every morning at 6am we go out to feed cows. I load the truck with hay and put it in low gear and she steers it down the field for me. When we get to the end I jump out and get in and stop it. She's only 5. She has her own little four wheeler that she goes and checks cows for me on too.
Richard

 

[Harv]

Richard -

Holy Cow!!!

My daughter is now 8, and we're just starting to let her cross the street by herself if there is a responsible adult (oxymoron?) watching out for her. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Things are sure different in the country, eh?

Come to think of it, when we're up at the property, which is way out in the boonies, none of us are comfortable crossing that road. Our fenceline borders the only straight stretch of the only main road in the area. People seem to like to really let 'er rip along there. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

 

[cowboydoc]

Harv,
We've practiced some failsafes just in case Dad doesn't get to her in time or I get hurt. She knows how to turn it off and I have a cell that we carry and she knows 911. Every now and then I see if she's awake and tell her to turn it off!, turn it off!! she does. I'm less worried about her driving than my wife and she doesn't argue all the time! I have to drive a ways to work but I wouldn't trade the country life for anything.
Richard

 

[RobS]

<font color=blue>we've got a bumper crop of fine young folks coming up this millenium. </font color=blue>

I've got to agree on the new crop of tractor nuts. I'm envious though as my teenage years were spent on a Snapper riding mower trying to keep up with 6 1/2 acres. I'd have loved a 'real' tractor back then.

Good to hear the new generation still gets its hands dirty!

Rob