Tractors and kids

[ScottAR]

Work? What work? I was playing! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif While I was operating the machine, I was the coolest person I knew at that moment.

 

[dmccarty]

Cowboydoc,

How did the PTO "take" the doll? Did you just throw the doll
at the shaft? A toy is a good idea. I'm thinking a stuffed
animal might be good, though a bit messy.... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Which is
a good lesson I suppose.

Thanks,
Dan

 

[cowboydoc]

Dan,

I tied it on a string and sat with them up in the cab. I let the doll down the pto collar where I knew it would grab it and make a mess. It did and they got the point. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

[dmccarty]

Cowboydoc,

Ahhh, said the blind man. Great idea. All do it.

Thanks,
Dan

 

[Taylortractornut]

WHarv I just read your story and it reminded me of what still sticks in my head and what got me to be an operator. Dad worked on roads away from home when i was younger coming home once or twice a week and sometimes mom would take us out to the jobs if the company had dads mobile office there. ONe morning early mom got me and brother up and took us to tuscaloosa Alabama to see dad. When we got there Mom said look for a track hoe i think i was 4or5 and i knew what a dozer and scraper and hoe was. THen mom pulled up in front of a massive 235 Cat hoe and handed me up to dad. I remeber clearly there was a creek next to a right of way. Dad put my hands on the controls and let me try it i remeber dipping out a wad of willow trees and mud and dumping them in the back or a 621 B scraper that my older brother ran. From then on i knew what i wanted to be and enjoy every second of it. I even went to college to be a machinist and all and my first job as acnc operatorprogrammer i coukld see a backhoe laying pipe outside after being trapped in a glass room and being miserable at it i quit and got a job moving dirt and been happy since.