What happened to Soundguy?

[5030]

I know what happened to Soundguy.... He went to use the outhouse and fell down the hole....:laughing:

 

[5030]

Yep remember Ken as well. And FarmWithJunk. I have noticed neither has been around. Read many informative posts from both over the years.

Ken (Sweet Tractors) is still in business, advertises tractors on Flea-Bay and in Fastline. Rarely see Neil Messick on here, don't know who posts for them but it's not Neil.

Some old farts still around like me and Mossy.

 

[clemsonfor]

Similar seat hours, then. When I first got the orchard I put in quite a bit of time getting it back in shape. Took out stumps, subdued blackberry jungle that had made whole rows of trees disappear, trenched new septic and plumbing systems. After that, not as many hours per year.

I did the same when I bought my tractor. My fields had not been bush hogged regularly for at least a decade. I spent two seasons bush hogging to tame my fields and cut field edges back and cut over trees that were really at the max size for a light duty bush hog. Now I have them mostly under control, and cut them a few times a year. And I have more grasses than briars now. Not the grasses I'd love to have but grasses none the less.

 

[ruffdog]

There was a time that I learned stuff every day. I'm now realizing that I'm learning very little but forgetting more and more every day. :thumbdown:

 

[MossRoad]

Ken (Sweet Tractors) is still in business, advertises tractors on Flea-Bay and in Fastline. Rarely see Neil Messick on here, don't know who posts for them but it's not Neil.

Some old farts still around like me and Mossy.

18 years went pretty quick.

 

[5030]

18 years went pretty quick.

Yes it did and quite a few Kubota's for me as well. I'm pretty much set on tractors now with 2 M9's. Have to be my favorite Kubota's. I see Bird is still around and I talk to Henro via e-mail once in a while. I have to say I've slowed down quite a bit. I've gotten less physical and more mechanized in my haying. Quit doing small squares a couple years back. Just do large rounds now and with a computer baler it's 'sit in the climate controlled cab and watch the video screen'.

All those years and I still have all my fingers yet. Guess I've been lucky.

 

[5030]

I almost became a statistic last winter. Went through a serious health issue...cancer. Lost some parts, actually quite a few parts but I'm on the mend and farmed this year. Not bad considering I was given a 30% chance of survival. Heck, I'm even heading out to Nebraska for a mule deer hunt next month.

Ever since my brush with death I've changed how I view life in general.

I live by the tape measure rule now....

Take a tape measure and run it out to 100 and lock it. Put your finger on your age. Look up to 100 and realize that most likely you won't make it that far.... Look back to the beginning and come to the quick realization that all that time between the beginning and your age you basically wasted so you better make everyday you have left...COUNT.

How I live now.

I will say I had a lot of fun (and some not so fun) times getting to where I am.

When I was younger, I looked at people who were 70 as ancient. Now that I'm almost 70 (I'm 69 and counting), 70 don't seem old. Amazing isn't it?

 

[MossRoad]

Yes it did and quite a few Kubota's for me as well. I'm pretty much set on tractors now with 2 M9's. Have to be my favorite Kubota's. I see Bird is still around and I talk to Henro via e-mail once in a while. I have to say I've slowed down quite a bit. I've gotten less physical and more mechanized in my haying. Quit doing small squares a couple years back. Just do large rounds now and with a computer baler it's 'sit in the climate controlled cab and watch the video screen'.

All those years and I still have all my fingers yet. Guess I've been lucky.

Funny you mention that. About 2 months+ ago I got my hand slammed in a freight elevator door and it latched shut. To make a long story short, almost amputated my index finger. However, 1 surgery, 3 pins, 7 weeks in a cast, 3 weeks of therapy so far, and I've got about 80% movement back already. Coulda been a lot worse!!!

The top door had a nice angle iron that closes over the bottom door, so my fingers bent a couple 90s that they shouldn't have.
:shocked:

I joined TBN when I was looking for a smaller tractor to replace our huge IH2500b. Got our PowerTrac PT425 in 2001 and still have it. Got rid of the IH after non-use several years. Got rid of a couple Simplicity riders, too.

 

[MossRoad]

I almost became a statistic last winter. Went through a serious health issue...cancer. Lost some parts, actually quite a few parts but I'm on the mend and farmed this year. Not bad considering I was given a 30% chance of survival. Heck, I'm even heading out to Nebraska for a mule deer hunt next month.

Ever since my brush with death I've changed how I view life in general.

I live by the tape measure rule now....

Take a tape measure and run it out to 100 and lock it. Put your finger on your age. Look up to 100 and realize that most likely you won't make it that far.... Look back to the beginning and come to the quick realization that all that time between the beginning and your age you basically wasted so you better make everyday you have left...COUNT.

How I live now.

I will say I had a lot of fun (and some not so fun) times getting to where I am.

When I was younger, I looked at people who were 70 as ancient. Now that I'm almost 70 (I'm 69 and counting), 70 don't seem old. Amazing isn't it?

You still are a statistic. Just on the other side of the graph. Good luck to you! :thumbsup:

Yep. I'm 58. Life for me and my wife gets easier as our kids become self-sufficient. Once you see them being able to take care of themselves, you don't worry so much about what'll happen to them if and when you're gone. Oldest is done. Youngest is getting close. It's a load off your mind once that happens. Then you can start bungee jumping and cliff diving again. :laughing:

 

[5030]

I remember that. I wasn't on here for a few years but came back as I was confined to the house, Could not do much taking chemo but sleep and retch a lot. Nasty stuff but I'm alive and I'm not taking any meds at all now. My once pristine chest and tummy now look like a war zone but in life you have to pay to play. Everything has a price, life included.

In retrospect, if it had happened 10 years earlier, I wouldn't be here. Modern medicine is amazing and I thank the Lord for being alive and having excellent hospitalization.

All in, I'm a million dollar man....