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Tyler Juranek tylerpolkaman at gmail.com
Sun Jan 18 20:10:02 PST 2015


Hi Spencer,
 Did you ever get to keep that tractor that you used to sit on?
 I take it that it didn't run at any time you were around it?
 Take Care,
Tyler Juranek
 IA

On 1/18/15, Spencer Yost <yostsw at atis.net> wrote:
> I love to hear your stories, Farmer. Keep them coming!
>
> As many of you have heard, I never grew up on a farm. All of the farms in my
> family were always once removed. You know the 2nd cousin three times removed
> kind of thing.  My great uncles farm had a great swimming hole.  It was
> awesome till the bulls came to drink. O-:=
>
> One memory stands out from a neighbors farm.  There was an old derelict
> tractor in the weeds. I used to get on that thing and plow millions of
> imaginary acres.  If I had to guess, I believe the tractor was probably a
> Fordson or maybe a McCormick Deering.
>
> One day when I was cleaning brambles off of that tractor so I could begin my
> plowing, and I hit my head really hard on something. I was covered in blood
> by the time I reached the house. My grandmother fainted and my mother
> screeched. I ended up with stitches and no worse for the wear.
>
> Fortunately when I was a teenager, I got to work on many farms. Mostly doing
> hay.  Some with old stuff, some with newer iron(which back then were those
> blue Fords mostly).  I still love old tractors, even though I associate them
> with blood sweat and tears(well, grandmas fainting anyways).
>
> Every once in a while, while mowing with my old Ford 861 I can't help but
> taunt the old iron gods:  they got me once but they haven't won yet. (-:
>
> Spencer
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