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<blockquote data-quote="flowerpot" data-source="post: 7505214" data-attributes="member: 142783"><p>OH is 70 this year. He does most of the work! I had to laugh last summer when son, 39, was driving the JCB and OH and I were stacking small bales of hay. Shouldn't it be the other way round? That is the general picture, although son does all the cattle paperwork and OH does the arable side and does all the spraying. Son likes to do the work where he is on the tractor.</p><p></p><p>Remember that the pension age is going to be 68 in future. From what I have learned is that going into my 60s I felt just the same as ever, then getting to 65 and things started to hurt a bit - getting tired easily and painful knees - and I think by 70 I won't want to do a great deal. I said a couple of years ago that I didn't want to be driving a silage trailer from 9.00 am to 9.00 pm (What are you complaining about it is only a few days in the year!). Luckily that co-insisted with a student wanting some work. I made him get off the tractor for a lunch break while I went on the trailers and came back with the next load to find the student on the clamp in the JCB - some rest.</p><p></p><p>I remember running up the road a year or two back when some cattle got out and wondered how much longer I would be able to do that.</p><p></p><p>I have another friend who is in his earl 70s but he does what he wants to do - ploughing, field work mainly and leaves the spraying to someone younger and the physical hard work, he still likes to be in charge though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flowerpot, post: 7505214, member: 142783"] OH is 70 this year. He does most of the work! I had to laugh last summer when son, 39, was driving the JCB and OH and I were stacking small bales of hay. Shouldn't it be the other way round? That is the general picture, although son does all the cattle paperwork and OH does the arable side and does all the spraying. Son likes to do the work where he is on the tractor. Remember that the pension age is going to be 68 in future. From what I have learned is that going into my 60s I felt just the same as ever, then getting to 65 and things started to hurt a bit - getting tired easily and painful knees - and I think by 70 I won't want to do a great deal. I said a couple of years ago that I didn't want to be driving a silage trailer from 9.00 am to 9.00 pm (What are you complaining about it is only a few days in the year!). Luckily that co-insisted with a student wanting some work. I made him get off the tractor for a lunch break while I went on the trailers and came back with the next load to find the student on the clamp in the JCB - some rest. I remember running up the road a year or two back when some cattle got out and wondered how much longer I would be able to do that. I have another friend who is in his earl 70s but he does what he wants to do - ploughing, field work mainly and leaves the spraying to someone younger and the physical hard work, he still likes to be in charge though. [/QUOTE]
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