bible pounding, dumb, Nascar watching, tractor driving, rural

5axis · 03-09-2005, 07:02 PM

Is it that bad to enjoy a more rural life? Anyone else work, play, or living in the stix? I wish I could spend more time playing with the tractor and things around the pond.

My accountant/ski buddy seems to enjoy the tractor driving part. If I could, I would spend a whole lot more time at the pond! Getting the heck away from all yall.

ubiquity0 · 03-09-2005, 07:10 PM

Nice piece o' dirt!

bryanthompson · bryanthompson's Garage

We used to have a tractor like that. Used it to launch peoples' boats into our lake. Usually those uppity city folk that don't know how to back a trailer down the ramp.

WOODPIE · 03-09-2005, 07:29 PM

Wow, 5, you had me going there, for a second.

I live in the country, but when it is time to play, I go to the big city.

Ed

MotoSook · 03-09-2005, 08:38 PM

Wow..you might could lift a Porsh engin with dat tractor!

I'm with you Dave. As a youth all I wanted was a 9-5 job in a corporation for big bucks and have a fancy car and a fancy house..

geez! What a load of crap...I hate the rat race of my 8-7 job and I could dump the fancy house and less-rural life for a tractor and a house in the woods if I could retire today and live off what assets I have now (big problem there

)...with a large pole building to park the 911's of course

What are you guys clearing for hmmmmm?

Tim Hancock · 05:34 AM

edit (Yes, I was the one being quoted in the title of this post. It was meant to prove a point in a previous post)

I have lived in the city and in the country. I presently work 40 miles away in the craphole city of Toledo but live out in the sticks where I own 9 acres (5 of which is a grass runway). I have a pond, a 1941 Ford 9N (to mow the runway), a 50 x 80 heated pole building and a 40 yr old split level.

You absolutely could not pay me enough to move back to the city. When I get home, the last thing I want to do is head into the city to waste a night partying (I did enough of that while I was younger). I am happiest when I am out in my shop playing with cars or planes or whatever. (Other benefits include: shooting in the backyard, riding dirt bikes in the backyard, fishing in the backyard, flying real and model airplanes in the backyard, swimming in the backyard, kayaking in the back yard, sleeping at night w/out hearing traffic noises, etc etc). I have found that the little "po-dunk" school my kids go to, seems to have fewer problems w/ drugs and whatnot than the urban schools.

Luckily I have a wife who was raised in a rural area, so she likes it where we are.

To each his own, but unless urban sprawl encroaches on us, we will never be doing any house hunting ever again.

gaijindabe · 03-10-2005, 05:32 AM

Age has a bit to do with it. I love the country - up on the mountain. Believe me when you live and work in NYC you really need to get away. However, I still need the city..

Franklin · 03-10-2005, 06:08 AM

I live in the country, about 60 miles se of Denver and love it. 45 acres, 40 +or- alpacas, 3 horses and a bunch of dogs and cats. The only problems are the washboard in the county road and all the damn city people moving out here. Some little b...h in an SUV leaving the Safeway gas station with no lights, Bolting?, flips me off when I stop for her??? maybe I should have let her hit me. But, mostly good people, good air and good times.

Tim Walsh · Tim Walsh's Garage

I grew up out in the stix and learned to drive a tractor before a truck or car. That looks like an international 444. Our neighbor used one of those for a long time on his beef farm before upgrading to a huge john deere.
Here's me on dad's tractor.
http://www.fridayparty.org/users/tpwalsh/corellia/jamies/Davestuff/IM001216.JPG

legion · 03-10-2005, 06:44 AM

Okay, that doesn't look anything like any area of St. Charles to me. Of course, I only go into St. Charles from the east on North Avenue.

bryanthompson · bryanthompson's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by Tim Walsh
I grew up out in the stix and learned to drive a tractor before a truck or car. That looks like an international 444. Our neighbor used one of those for a long time on his beef farm before upgrading to a huge john deere.
Here's me on dad's tractor.
http://www.fridayparty.org/users/tpwalsh/corellia/jamies/Davestuff/IM001216.JPG

umm... why are you dragging a 911 motor?

Edit: fixed sucky grammar... and removed dumb incoherent story. what the hell was I smoking.

ubiquity0 · 03-10-2005, 07:38 AM

The 911 motor is pushing the tractor

vash · vash's Garage

ok, city folk here. what the heck is a "pole building"?

and owning land with a pond is just about my best wet dream. is there bass in that pond pictured above? you gotta have some fish photos right? cough them up.

Tim Hancock · 03-10-2005, 08:37 AM

The word pole denotes a construction technique for these buildings. Basically wood poles (usually treated 8x8's or 6x6's) are put into the ground every 8' or so then 2x4 matl is placed horizontally around the perimeter of the poles. Steel siding then is attached w/ screws to the 2x4's. The roofs are often built with wooden trusses sitting on top of 2x12's attached to the poles at the top. Most new farm or out buildings are constructed using this technique nowdays. These buildings are very versatile and relatively low priced compared with regular stick built structures of comparable size.

Mike Bonkalski · 03-10-2005, 09:45 AM

Legion,

Just keep on heading west on 64 until you get to the other side of Randall Rd. After that, it really starts to look like the country.

KFC911 · 03-10-2005, 09:49 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bryanthompson
umm... why are you dragging a 911 motor? ....

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Well how else was Tim supposed to move his motor to the other side of his 'garage'

? Actually, it's gorgeous out where Tim's folks live...and it's really not too far from civilization (well, what we southerners call Greensboro anyways)...

ps: BTW, Tim actually did have the largest garage of any pics that I've seen...heated in the summer, cooled in the winter...what more could you ask for

legion · 03-10-2005, 09:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mike Bonkalski
Legion,

Just keep on heading west on 64 until you get to the other side of Randall Rd. After that, it really starts to look like the country.

I'll have to check that out when it's warmer and I have the p-car out. My wife's parents live in West Chicago so we're up that way at least once a month. I don't get much past Randall, there's an indoor paintball place a block north of 64 on Randall that I play at occassionally, but I don't usually get much farther west than that.

tabs · 03-10-2005, 10:24 AM

I grew up in the hills too...the Hills of southern CA...little town of Glendora....it was all Orange and Avacado groves nesled in among the foothills...I remember sitting on the patio at night smelling tthe Orange Bloosoms...not anymore....now it's wall to wall tract housing and they grow people instead of Oranges...

legion · 03-10-2005, 10:36 AM

I lived in La Verne, not far from Glendora (I played little league in Glendora). Even by the 80's, when I lived there, it was houses as far as the eye could see.

Tim Walsh · Tim Walsh's Garage

Yep sounds about right keith, except you should see it now, where the porsche was is now a 16x18 pole shed, with a concrete floor, and the upper garage is also concreted. And yes it's dragging a 911 motor, that was my old T motor that got quite toasty and was generally worn out. It's all fixed at this point though.. nice hi compression E motor.

Here's the inside of the old garage, no new pics yet.
http://www.fridayparty.org/users/tpwalsh/corellia/jamies/Davestuff/IM001218.JPG