speaking of regulations

I was going to post a video on here but thing it is worth new thread so more people see it.

Martin Ent Inc wrote: As stated YOU DID NOT NEED A LICENSE to drive the backroads. therefore the back roads must not have been considered PUBLIC.
You were lucky to ever see another vehicle.

same as here in CO when you go out east.

If you were 13 years old when this took place, just a little doubtful that you actually knew what the law was regarding a license.

Because if you saw ANY vehicles on those roads besides your own they were public roads, and last I heard, yes, you need a license on a public road, no matter how small the amount of traffic.

Show all this to the kid I saw at Ronald McDonald house who lost both his arms from just below the elbow in a farming machinery accident. He was about 14/15 yrs. old.

I'm sure there are many more like him, since farming is so dangerous. Just because you made it out alive with all your limbs doesn't mean that there aren't hundreds or even thousands of others who didn't.

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Remember that city peoples kids are not adults till about 28.

I used to go to my cousin's farm in Minnesota during the summers when I was a kid and all the kids were driving equipment way before they ever got drivers licenses. That's just the way farming has always been...kids learn how to work early on farms and have more common sense (imo) than kids who just plop down in front of an Xbox. I was driving our pickup at age 12 in Conifer back in the early 70s when we had a horse ranch...never drove on paved streets but all over Shadow Mtn and Conifer Mtn (before all the zombies showed up).

The Viking wrote:

AspenValley wrote:

Martin Ent Inc wrote:

AspenValley wrote:

Martin Ent Inc wrote: I was driving a semi at 13, we didn't need a license on the backroads .

This is why people support the government regulating things. Because dumbasses will let 13 year old kids drive semis if they don't.

Sounds like the only dumbass is the one responding in this manner.

Sorry if you didn't like me telling it the way I see it.

In my opinion, allowing a 13 year old to drive a semi on a public road way is dumb as hell.

YOU are clueless as hell and one of the people who keep helping to destroy this country and it's economy!

My brother and I were driving tractor in the fields at 8 years old. We drove down the roads to get there by 10. I drove trucks by 12. We barely scraped by as it was. There was NO WAY we could have hired anyone to do the farmwork and would have gone under immediately. Clueless people like you don't deserve any votes! You are a puppet of the government! And Pathetic! In South Dakota you get your full drivers license at 14. Why is it dumb as hell?

You are the enemy of the farmers and good hard working families of America! You repeat and defend the government no matter how much it hurts lower and middle class America!

Whatever.

In my mind it's gross negligence to put an 8 year old on a tractor, no matter what your financial situation. Would you send your 8 year old to work in a coal mine? It's no different.

I've lived in the country most of my life, and yes, for about 8 years on a farm and I think it's one of the stupidest practices I've ever seen, and high time it's abolished if people aren't smart enough to stop doing it on their own. Kids can do a lot to help out on a farm that doesn't include putting their life and limbs at risk.

And yes, I've heard it over and over that "it's just the way it's always been" but that doesn't make it any smarter.

2wlady wrote: Show all this to the kid I saw at Ronald McDonald house who lost both his arms from just below the elbow in a farming machinery accident. He was about 14/15 yrs. old.

I'm sure there are many more like him, since farming is so dangerous. Just because you made it out alive with all your limbs doesn't mean that there aren't hundreds or even thousands of others who didn't.

I have a friend back home who did lose an arm in a bailer when he ws about 10 and he still to this day farms with his wife. He loves it. He is what America was founded on. Not whiney politically correct people who bow to the government for guidance! Thse people need to go back to England if they don't want freedoms!

CriticalBill wrote: I used to go to my cousin's farm in Minnesota during the summers when I was a kid and all the kids were driving equipment way before they ever got drivers licenses. That's just the way farming has always been...kids learn how to work early on farms and have more common sense (imo) than kids who just plop down in front of an Xbox. I was driving our pickup at age 12 in Conifer back in the early 70s when we had a horse ranch...never drove on paved streets but all over Shadow Mtn and Conifer Mtn (before all the zombies showed up).

Exactly! And THAT is where the adults with great work today ethics come from!

neptunechimney wrote: Remember that city peoples kids are not adults till about 28.

Is that when they get their trust fund?