Re: O/TMaking money growing up

Posted by oldcraneguy on February 04, 2007 at 05:50:26 from (70.156.226.228):

In Reply to: O/TMaking money growing up posted by 37 chief on February 03, 2007 at 22:26:55:

Back in the late 50s I worked for my dad on wknds and sometimes after school, paid 50 cents an hour. On the wknds I would go with him to work and get in a full day while during the week I would run the crane that was in the adopted yard next door(vacant corner lot next door that we used for years as our equiptment and precast yard) stripping and loading T-pile and slabs for seawalls that he built. I was the envy of all the kids cause I could run a crane (sorta) and when dad would come with the lowboy instead of his workers me and a buddy would hook and unhook the pieces it was great fun cause when you were loading piling you put a hook in the eye on each end of the pile and then stand on the pile, hold onto the cable and get a ride to the truck, we would take turns hanging on the hooks going back to the stack doing our famous Tarzan yell. When his workers came to get pile&slabs I would run the crane and they would walk back and forth.
Two weeks every summer we would go back to Indiana and stay at my grandpa's farm, he was always doing hay it seemed, He taught me to drive tractor on an old Co-op, dunno what model and I would pull hay wagons from the field to the barnyard (beware the ruts by the gate, no way an 8 year old can get 2 bales back on the very top of the load)Grandpa only paid in Dentyne dollars which amounted to a half a dozen sticks of gum during the day and one more after supper. But I was lucky, both my dad,grandpa,and uncle were constantly explaining things to me every waking moment and taught me stuff that has served me well all my life...

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