I hate to see this...

[old and tired]

I sometimes Thank god I don’t live in California

I ALWAYS Thank God that I don't live in California...

 

[lilranch2001]

I ALWAYS Thank God that I don't live in California...

It’s a beautiful state, but the laws and the lawmakers are quite nuts!

 

[Eagle1]

Just remember that living any place does not mean you have to stay (excepting confinement) for now.
I moved from CA to NC and once the Charlotte area got stupid moved to MO. You are only as stuck as you let yourself believe.

 

[lilranch2001]

Just remember that living any place does not mean you have to stay (excepting confinement) for now.
I moved from CA to NC and once the Charlotte area got stupid moved to MO. You are only as stuck as you let yourself believe.

I have visited most of the states in the union, and I’m always happy to return to Indiana

 

[tjandrews]

My earliest memory of driving a tractor was picking rocks with my Dad. I have no idea how old I was, but it was definitely less than 10. I was on his old 1930's Case CC tractor, in low gear, driving from rock to rock, pulling the flat wagon behind it, while he walked. Dad had me drive because I wasn't strong enough to pick up some of the rocks, and he didn't want to have to get on and off the tractor. That CC had a hand clutch, and I didn't have strength enough to lock it in, so I'd push it with my left arm shaking to make the tractor go while steering with my right hand. I would not have been able to do the job with a foot clutch, because I wouldn't have been able to reach the pedal.
Yeah, I survived, and no one got hurt, but we were lucky. Because I was too small to operate the controls properly, I had no business being in that tractor seat.

 

[tjandrews]

Just remember that living any place does not mean you have to stay (excepting confinement) for now.
I moved from CA to NC and once the Charlotte area got stupid moved to MO. You are only as stuck as you let yourself believe.

I was drafted in the early 70's, spent two years in the DC area, and as soon as I could came back home to New York.
Lots of residents have fled from NY, for what they claim are good reasons, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Third generation to live on this farm, and it was paid for before I was born. I've traveled here and there in the Northeast, and have never seen any place that is more beautiful than the views from my fields. Is it perfect? No. But, I know how to deal with the things in NY that I don't like, and I'm entirely too old to learn how to deal with new problems of living somewhere else.

 

[Eagle1]

I was drafted in the early 70's, spent two years in the DC area, and as soon as I could came back home to New York.
Lots of residents have fled from NY, for what they claim are good reasons, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Third generation to live on this farm, and it was paid for before I was born. I've traveled here and there in the Northeast, and have never seen any place that is more beautiful than the views from my fields. Is it perfect? No. But, I know how to deal with the things in NY that I don't like, and I'm entirely too old to learn how to deal with new problems of living somewhere else.

No argument that most of NY State is beautiful, however having to work in Manhattan and Brooklyn for more than 2 years will keep me far far away from the city or anything that place can affect.....

 

[plowhog]

never seen any place that is more beautiful than the views from my fields.

I drove across NY one day on a sunny spring/summer day. I thought the area around Binghampton, NY was absolutely beautiful.

Lots of beauty in NY .... but high rise buildings maybe not so.

 

[lilranch2001]

I have never ventured north, or east of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and as pretty as I’m sure the countryside is I’m not so sure I would enjoy much of the population……

 

[tjandrews]

I drove across NY one day on a sunny spring/summer day. I thought the area around Binghampton, NY was absolutely beautiful.

Lots of beauty in NY .... but high rise buildings maybe not so.

The Clintons vacationed near here twice while Bill was in office. The first time, he made a speech at a fund raiser, calling the area "spectacularly beautiful."
It's the only thing I've ever heard him say that I agree with...

 

[kioti28527]

Saw this on my FB feed today. Sure, start them out young, but don't turn a 5 year old loose on a zero turn mower. I'm surprised he weighs enough to activate the seat cut off switch, unless dad bypassed that. These are not toys. Once he's a little older, a little more mature, and can actually reach all the controls, get him some hearing protection and get him mowing.

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Nope,unless he was on a totally flat piece with no ponds,roads or low obstructions and even then with at least 10hrs of being with him and teaching him but still this isnt 1970 kids growing up on a farm with no choice,quick story:a friend that owns a lawn care company had a neighbor 70years old that admired his zero's and asked if he bought one would he show him how to use it,he did,next day the guy that taught him found him under his deck basically broke him backwards dead like a kid with a xmas gocart under a truck bumper

 

[lilranch2001]

I’m pretty sure most of the Nancy’s haven’t considered the fact that the photo was a “photo op”. Nothing more nothing less.
A proud parent and a proud mower owner, taking a picture that amused them……

 

[lilranch2001]

I’m pretty sure most of the Nancy’s haven’t considered the fact that the photo was a “photo op”. Nothing more nothing less.
A proud parent and a proud mower owner, taking a picture that amused them……

Or is the more appropriate term…. Karen’s, I can never keep track.

 

[Oaktree]

I have visited most of the states in the union, and I’m always happy to return to Indiana

Substitute New Hampshire and I could say the same thing. Did a lot of business travel in the 70s & 80s, and discovered a lot of places that did absolutely nothing for me.

I drove across NY one day on a sunny spring/summer day. I thought the area around Binghampton, NY was absolutely beautiful.

Rt. 17 from Binghamton to the Pa. line is a very pretty drive. Even though it takes a bit longer than taking the thruway, it's worth it when we do a road trip.

 

[LHF2019]

I remember driving the Case when I was young, I had to slide off of the seat to reach the peddles.

That’s funny. Until you mentioned this I had forgot that it took me and my cousin to push in the clutch on the JD2950 to get it to stop. Not sure what we were doing. Baling hay hauling forage wagons hauling hay wagons we probably were not chopping cause that was the 4040 job.