What welding projects are you working on? Are you proud of something you built?
How about posting some pics so other welders can get some ideas?
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I truly enjoy everyone of your posts, the work is outstanding and the scenery makes me envious. Until I seen the square bales, when I was really hard up as a kid for money I used to put up hay for a friend of the family for 9 dollars a day.
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I, too, made summer money bucking hay.
When I gave that up to make money turning wrenches, installing stereos, and welding stuff, I decided if I needed to buck hay to eat, I'd just eat hay...

$0.06/bale in 100* heat in the blazing sun is hard work for the money...

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1962 worked behind a custom baler 0.10 a bale on the counter, 600-800 bales a day. Good money for a 17yr old,considering a bank clerk made $40.00/wk and small town maintenance man was paid $120 every 2 weeks.
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Nice, wish I had a loader for projects like that.
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The GOOD money back in the day where I was from was "De-Tassling" corn for a couple weeks. $300.00 bucks for two weeks of work was big money for a kid in 1974. It was also coed, a combined ag education/hickey physiology science.
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The summer of '74, I turned 6. The summer of 76 was more interesting.

I was making money mostly raising Jersey calves to sell. $750 was a nice summer for a year's worth of working about an hour a day. I'd also sell the occasional lawn mower or chainsaw I'd fixed at the same auction. Also made a few bucks milking for the neighbors so they could take trips, even checking fences on their horses. I had a varmint gun for coyotes and snakes, and would hunt while riding if the opportunity presented itself.

There's no substitute for the lessons of growing up "country".

I didn't get in to bucking hay until my growth spurt at puberty. It didn't take me long to get out of it, as I knew easier ways to make money.

It was a few more years before I went to hickey school...

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We stacked a thousand bales in that barn....

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Beer Brigade?
As usual great scenery back ground. :D
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Here's our Ford 7000 for you guys across the pond.
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We been beating that poor old dodge for 6000 miles.
Only thing shes needed is a waterpump
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