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<blockquote data-quote="Hooper" data-source="post: 4373161" data-attributes="member: 46111"><p>Growing up on a farm and doing custom harvesting of wheat and stripping cotton, and having a commercial trucking company our whole family of the men, were professional of either auto body work, welding, fabricating metal, carpentry, wheel and tire repairs, engine rebuilding, processing meat, milking cows, we never used a mechanic or a veterinary, I am surprised we didn't make our own fuel. Grandpa was a bootlegger back in depression day. I can oversee and trouble shoot about any pre 1979 pickup, Ford or Chevy, or 379 Model Peterbilts, not engine work so much, but about any other issue, I can change rods and main bearings, do overheads, in B model catterpillars, a lot of the other stuff you begin to run into needing specialized tools, for pump work and things.</p><p></p><p>I am not bragging, it is just part of living in poverty for generations. You learn to make it, fix it, or do without.</p><p></p><p>It is a good thing, if people have not experienced it they seem helpless to me.</p><p></p><p>I detect quite a few gentlemen on this forum to be cut from a similar cloth. That is why I hang out here, mostly.</p><p>People of this nature are way more interesting to me.</p><p></p><p>Times are much better now a day and it is really causing our country problems. Most of, but not all, of todays' younger generations are spoiled from living in this land of plenty. A big part of our social problems are coming from spoiled people. They fall for about anything, making it easy for the propaganda regime to influence them.</p><p></p><p>I apologize for the rant, but I have a respect for people who learn a platform and become familiar with it.</p><p>Any time you can go against the grain of major corporations and learn the function of a platform better than the one who made it, it is a brick in the wall of Freedom in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>Hope this came out like I was trying to explain it, as you might be able to tell, public education was secondary growing up at our house. So communication skills of English may be a little weak. </p><p></p><p>Now a day my Mechanic skills are fading too. Age and Mobility problems seem to make a man become a professional bullspitter and observationist, of life situations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hooper, post: 4373161, member: 46111"] Growing up on a farm and doing custom harvesting of wheat and stripping cotton, and having a commercial trucking company our whole family of the men, were professional of either auto body work, welding, fabricating metal, carpentry, wheel and tire repairs, engine rebuilding, processing meat, milking cows, we never used a mechanic or a veterinary, I am surprised we didn't make our own fuel. Grandpa was a bootlegger back in depression day. I can oversee and trouble shoot about any pre 1979 pickup, Ford or Chevy, or 379 Model Peterbilts, not engine work so much, but about any other issue, I can change rods and main bearings, do overheads, in B model catterpillars, a lot of the other stuff you begin to run into needing specialized tools, for pump work and things. I am not bragging, it is just part of living in poverty for generations. You learn to make it, fix it, or do without. It is a good thing, if people have not experienced it they seem helpless to me. I detect quite a few gentlemen on this forum to be cut from a similar cloth. That is why I hang out here, mostly. People of this nature are way more interesting to me. Times are much better now a day and it is really causing our country problems. Most of, but not all, of todays' younger generations are spoiled from living in this land of plenty. A big part of our social problems are coming from spoiled people. They fall for about anything, making it easy for the propaganda regime to influence them. I apologize for the rant, but I have a respect for people who learn a platform and become familiar with it. Any time you can go against the grain of major corporations and learn the function of a platform better than the one who made it, it is a brick in the wall of Freedom in my opinion. Hope this came out like I was trying to explain it, as you might be able to tell, public education was secondary growing up at our house. So communication skills of English may be a little weak. Now a day my Mechanic skills are fading too. Age and Mobility problems seem to make a man become a professional bullspitter and observationist, of life situations. [/QUOTE]
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