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Random childhood memory

paulsamwel

paulsamwel

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More like an adolescent memory.Growing up on the family dairy farm in the 1970's I was a 14 year old kid obsessed with farm equipment to the point that I would inquire about their sales brochures from farm magazines like Hoard's Dairyman.Had a pretty impressive stack of sales brochures in short order.One day my dad asked me if I knew why farm equipment salesman were always calling him..said yep dad I know why.Got a pretty good grin out of him.I am 62 now and still farm part time but thinking of hanging it up.For some reason starting to recollect these old stories from the past.As someone once said about Lawrence Welk,I think it was him...thanks for the memories.Lol
 
My parents never farmed, but I worked for a bunch of dairy farm neighbors. I also read everything farming I could get ahold of. I learned a lot from all the reading I did. My favorites were really old magazines on Farming. I remember taking an old magazine on a flight i was on. The guy next to me looked at the cover and kinda laughed. I smirked and said I was getting caught up on my mail.
 
Little brother and I used to cut the tractors and equip out of the farm mag adds. We wood drive them up and down the hardwood floors upstairs on our farms. One round would move you over about 4 inches.
 
We are the same age, I also read all the adds in all the farm papers. We got the Hoards dairy man, farm journal, successful farming, and others. Loved the tractor adds.
 
Read those same magazines in the same years. One time we received a brochure from Melroe for Bobcat and it had a lapel pin of the cat head. SCORE! That went on my Drink Milk hat.
I liked working for the bachelor neighbor. He was a good guy but sold milk to Kraft and always had a bowl of Kraft caramels. We sold to Mid-Am after the creamery buy out. We just got cheese.
 
I'm glad you got a grin and not the rod.

I cut an ad out of a magazine and sent away for the complete brochure for an AC garden tractor. This showed every conceivable attachment you could fit on one. I don't remember if it was for a B1, B10, Big Ten, or newer, but it was along those lines. I picked and teased that this could be a fleet sized just right for me. Didn't work. But then baby brother came along, and a nice used B210 showed up.
 
Bob Hope used that tune as an end to his shows.
Funny how now a person remembers things from 60-60 years ago right to a T, but can't remember what they did three days ago
 

I didn't grow up on a farm either but there were a number of dairy farms nearby. I collected brochures from the equipment displays at the county fair. It was from these brochures that I learned that my beloved red and gray and changed to blue and buff. My world crumbled.
 
When I was in about 7th or 8th grade, a school friend and I would write to all the car companies and farm equipment companies, and even some others and just ask for pictures and information about their products. We got all kinds of neat brochures and flyers. I kept most of mine until just a couple years ago, when I sold them to a guy who deals in that stuff. Made some pretty good money!
 
City boy......cowboys and indians. Pretty much the main pastime. One Christmas I got a pair of six shooters with belt and holsters with the bullets that came out and came apart. Round caps were supplied with the pair and you would disassemble the cartridge, knock out the old cap, insert a new one, reassemble the cartridge, load 6 of them and you were ready to go.....Just like in the westerns, when you shot your 6 you were vulnerable.....I'd go and hide to reload.

On another occasion we decided to practice roping. Had a 1/4 Manilla Rope for the lasso. So it was my turn to ride by and I got lassoed around the neck and dealt with a bad rope burn for quite awhile and crashed my bike and skint up crashing......that sport didn't last but a couple of days.
 
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