[AT] More dumb stuff...

[John Wilkens]

Well,  I sure feel much better after reading your comments!   These days I 
go to yard sales I look for cheap hand tools so I end up with 3 or 4 of 
each.  Then when I finally run of 9/16" combination wrenches, etc., I stop 
everything and devote half a day to searching for all my missing tools and 
start over again.  Works OK and I don't get so frustrated!          John W.



At 06:47 AM 08/05/2005, you wrote:
>         I previously mentioned the looking for the end of the air hose I 
> was holding in my hand
>event. Yesterday I did one of those things that is equally embarrassing or 
>at least would
>have been if someone was watching. Even worse I do it about every few 
>weeks. I speak of
>climbing to the seat of an old tractor to use it and once my posterior is 
>firmly planted
>in the seat (some of these tractors are hard to climb on) only then do I 
>realize that I
>have climbed on a tractor that has to be crank started...   :-)   That 
>falls in there
>with driving 20 feet and the tractor dies because some fool forgot to turn 
>the fuel back
>on.   :-)
>         George Willer mentioned dropping stuff... Oh yeah..."CONSTANTLY". 
> If I work on something
>that is a pretty good sign that every tool I have used has hit the ground 
>at least once.
>Valve caps do a decent job of staying in my hand unless I am parked in 
>tall grass. I also
>find that knuckle bleeding is on the increase.
>         I try to work even more carefully these days. I have always used 
> chocks and jack stands
>or cribbing as much as possible but now I try to watch what I do closer 
>than ever.
>         This hay baling stuff may be falling under the "dumb stuff" 
> heading. Yesterday I was
>working alone stacking bales 10 feet high in an old steel grain bin while 
>the temp was 95
>degrees in the shade (maybe 105+ in the bin). I was giving serious 
>consideration that I
>just may be getting too danged old for some of this crap. It may be time 
>for further
>lifestyle adjustments. Being well blessed with poverty I have spent much 
>of my life
>"chopping with the back of the ax". For most of his farming career my 
>father kept hired
>help at least in the summer and sometimes year round. These days on a 
>small farm that
>just isn't an affordable option.
>         I also find that implement tongues weigh more than they used to 
> and stuff I used to just
>lift off and on to hitch now requires a jack. A while back I started 
>buying under car
>type jacks at yard sales for a buck or less apiece and I use them under 
>heavier implement
>tongues like the baler and my grain drill etc.
>
>--
>"farmer", Esquire
>At Hewick Midwest
>       Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
>
>Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
>Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. In America 100
>years
>before the revolution.
>
>
>Francis Robinson
>Central Indiana USA
>robinson at svs.net
>
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