3 and 1/2 hours straight

[plumber_greg]

I know how on an internet board you can never tell if someone is being honest or not, but I promise this is ligit.
Heat was bad today so Sara and I quit at 2:30. Got home and my hay was being mowed. Stopped and ask Danny if I could mow while he went to my other place and baled. He said, "Sure, mow all you want." Well, I know everyone will be amazed, but I mowed for 3 and 1/2 HOURS STRAIGHT, WITHOUT A BREAK!!!!!
I know everyone will tell me, "Why did you put yourself thorough something like that?" I just couldn't make myself stop. Kept going and going and going. Don't know what the Guiness Book record is for contunious tractor driving, but I bet I'm close to it, if not on top. Of course, I didn't have it verified before I started so it won't count.
Has anyone else heard of someone riding a stupid, boring, nothing to do but mow, can't even get out while working, tractor for 3 and 1/2 HOURS STRAIGHT WITHOUT A BREAK? Has to be the worst job in the world. gs

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Greg - where have you been??? That is NOT uncommon for many farmers.
Now, if it was ME - I'd be piled up in the woods on the edge of the field - sound asleep!
Kidding aside - these farmers will go thru the night if they are behind schedule. They pack their food and GO GO GO GO

Wahoo!!! I just heard thunder - maybe, just maybe, we'll get some rain - you know what that is - that wet stuff that's sure been rare.

 

[mridgecattleco]

Are ya jokin' ??

 

[slick4591]

I might have gotten close a time or three. :lol2:

 

[mridgecattleco]

What town are ya close to Plumber G?

 

[iowafarmer]

This is a joke right?

 

[JSCATTLE]

This is a joke right?

Gotta be a joke in there some where ....

 

[kenny thomas]

This is a joke right?

Of course it is a joke. No way would he work that long. :lol2:

 

[cowboy43]

mowed 40 acres with 1965 ford 4000 gas 40 hp no power steering with 6 ft mower in 16 hours in one day, i was young then about 40 years old so sore the next morning I couldn't hardly move. now I have 14 ft batwing and can average 5 acres an hour, the man who used to cut my hay was in his late fiftes and would cut from sunup to sundown 7 days a weeks, he is a batchlor and that was what he liked doing.

 

[Brute 23]

Better be careful. There is supposetly some thing that will kill you (deep vein thrombosis) if you don't move for several hours on end. It just killed a kid playing video games the other day. That is why I take a 30min break every hour just to be on the safe side. ;-)

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... -time.html

 

[Ryder]

Why would anyone want to take a break after only three and a half hours? :roll:

Oh. I wasn't thinking. Call of nature no doubt. :?

 

[plumber_greg]

I'm getting the feelin that you guys ain't gonna' help me get my name in the record book. Actually, I've spent my time on tractors, just remember each time why I quit farming in 1980. I remember helping dad plow out some timber sod that had been bulldozed. My tractor was a 9N Ford, pulling 2-14's. Used to get the plow balled up and just keep driving like I didn't see it. Dad would roll me out of bed to help milk, then right after breakfast to the field.
mridge, I'm between Maysville and King City.
Guess if I offer to mow tonight, I won't feel like I'm losing an opportunity to be world famous. We're gonna' put in a 6" sewer main today in what the weatherman is calling the hottest day this year, still will be more fun than sitting on that dam tractor seat. gs

 

[pdfangus]

field work sitting on the tractor was what I used to do for a break from working.

 

[1982vett]

I'm getting the feelin that you guys ain't gonna' help me get my name in the record book. Actually, I've spent my time on tractors, just remember each time why I quit farming in 1980. I remember helping dad plow out some timber sod that had been bulldozed. My tractor was a 9N Ford, pulling 2-14's. Used to get the plow balled up and just keep driving like I didn't see it. Dad would roll me out of bed to help milk, then right after breakfast to the field.
mridge, I'm between Maysville and King City.
Guess if I offer to mow tonight, I won't feel like I'm losing an opportunity to be world famous. We're gonna' put in a 6" sewer main today in what the weatherman is calling the hottest day this year, still will be more fun than sitting on that dam tractor seat. gs

NOT

But I do understand which pays better....

 

[ALACOWMAN]

i get to break pretty often when cutting hay... break this, break that etc :cowboy:

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

i get to break pretty often when cutting hay... break this, break that etc :cowboy:

Now that one I understand!!!!

 

[VanC]

field work sitting on the tractor was what I used to do for a break from working.

Me, too, and that was on an old Farmall 400. No cab, metal seat, no power steering. Loved it.

 

[crimsoncrazy]

There's nothing like cutting wheat from 11 am to 3am.