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<blockquote data-quote="JockCroft" data-source="post: 8201781" data-attributes="member: 166068"><p>Our grandfathers and fathers started at the bottom, no matter big farm or small. While doing tedious repetitive manual jobs there would be older workers, talk would carry a great deal of knowledge as long as they listened. </p><p></p><p>When I stared an Ag course in the late 60's, my father who was 60 then followed each weeks learning. He was quite critical that on both livestock and arable, little had changed, indeed less than from when he was a teenager attending a night class run by the local Schoolmaster. That is when he passed on what he felt had been left out. </p><p></p><p>Despite much insistence on my part he and his mates never passed on the "word" (horsemans). </p><p>I was told more than once, "Let the stock talk to you". How many of us talk to our animals when walking the fields and have a sense of pride when the stand for us or approach us. Or am I just an old "daftie".</p><p></p><p>Father was quite proud of the fact that he had worked through the period from when tractors were virtual unknown to the advent of the combine. In the mid 70's we got a tractor with a fully enclosed cab and a heater, all be it a Zetor. In his words "the greatest advance for farm work in his lifetime" after electric light..</p><p> </p><p>My point-- Our fathers and grandfathers had to almost continually learn new skills. So why can't the next generation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JockCroft, post: 8201781, member: 166068"] Our grandfathers and fathers started at the bottom, no matter big farm or small. While doing tedious repetitive manual jobs there would be older workers, talk would carry a great deal of knowledge as long as they listened. When I stared an Ag course in the late 60's, my father who was 60 then followed each weeks learning. He was quite critical that on both livestock and arable, little had changed, indeed less than from when he was a teenager attending a night class run by the local Schoolmaster. That is when he passed on what he felt had been left out. Despite much insistence on my part he and his mates never passed on the "word" (horsemans). I was told more than once, "Let the stock talk to you". How many of us talk to our animals when walking the fields and have a sense of pride when the stand for us or approach us. Or am I just an old "daftie". Father was quite proud of the fact that he had worked through the period from when tractors were virtual unknown to the advent of the combine. In the mid 70's we got a tractor with a fully enclosed cab and a heater, all be it a Zetor. In his words "the greatest advance for farm work in his lifetime" after electric light.. My point-- Our fathers and grandfathers had to almost continually learn new skills. So why can't the next generation. [/QUOTE]
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