How old is old enough for a child to start operating farm equipment? For sake of argument let's say a skid steer......... and I know "every kid is different". So please don't play that card, just your average kid.
Brute 23":2hhbd2od said:Every kid is different... every parent is different... every situation is different. Its this "we all need to do it the same way" attitude that is destroying our country. I see this all the time in the schools. The exceptional kids suffer because every one is pandering to the average and below average.
My brother and I did things at two completely different paces and we were raised in the same house, same environment, only a couple years apart. Our parents had to use their judgement day in and day out to decide what was acceptable on a individual basis.
Society has parents so scared to do any thing with their kids that we have a bunch of mindless 20 & 30 yr + kids running around who don't know how to do squat. How many headline say "more millennials than ever still living at home in their 30s".... ya because the law doesn't allow them to do any thing until they are in their 20s. At 30, they only have 10 years of real life experience under their belt, at best. It wasn't that long ago people had their own families, and farms, and all kinds of stuff at 30 years old. How could they do it but our kids cant?
I was just watching a video about the history of Texas ranching where one of the men said he would drive a team of horses like 6 miles back and forth a 5 or 8 years old delivering some thing from one place to another. So he could drive a team of horses with a wagon, 6 miles in that rough country, at that age, back then... but a boy now cant drive a skid steer in pasture. :roll:
Accidents happen... the sooner people understand they cant control every... single... thing... every... single... minute...of... every... single... day... we can all get back to being the great people our grandfathers were that built this country.
you really can't look at this any other way!Alan":3ezpxdcn said:Brute 23":3ezpxdcn said:Every kid is different... every parent is different... every situation is different. Its this "we all need to do it the same way" attitude that is destroying our country. I see this all the time in the schools. The exceptional kids suffer because every one is pandering to the average and below average.
My brother and I did things at two completely different paces and we were raised in the same house, same environment, only a couple years apart. Our parents had to use their judgement day in and day out to decide what was acceptable on a individual basis.
Society has parents so scared to do any thing with their kids that we have a bunch of mindless 20 & 30 yr + kids running around who don't know how to do squat. How many headline say "more millennials than ever still living at home in their 30s".... ya because the law doesn't allow them to do any thing until they are in their 20s. At 30, they only have 10 years of real life experience under their belt, at best. It wasn't that long ago people had their own families, and farms, and all kinds of stuff at 30 years old. How could they do it but our kids cant?
I was just watching a video about the history of Texas ranching where one of the men said he would drive a team of horses like 6 miles back and forth a 5 or 8 years old delivering some thing from one place to another. So he could drive a team of horses with a wagon, 6 miles in that rough country, at that age, back then... but a boy now cant drive a skid steer in pasture. :roll:
Accidents happen... the sooner people understand they cant control every... single... thing... every... single... minute...of... every... single... day... we can all get back to being the great people our grandfathers were that built this country.
You broke the table rule.....you threw the "every kid is different" card....double the pot!
Alan":3kxdos9v said:It's a simple question for the individual to answer, but I said "your average kid" in hopes it would help keep this out of the weeds for a little while. As you know many topics on CT get drug into the weeds and off track.
M-5":3ptfo9u7 said:Alan":3ptfo9u7 said:It's a simple question for the individual to answer, but I said "your average kid" in hopes it would help keep this out of the weeds for a little while. As you know many topics on CT get drug into the weeds and off track.
do we use grazon or just plain ole 2 4,d on the weeds. I do have a 4wd tractor and that seems to help with the tracking
greybeard":1xp86kmm said:12 or above, and then only under adult supervision.
Just because 'we' did it or were lucky enough not to kill ourselves or someone else doesn't mean the 'average' kid can or should.
(you did say "average child"---right? )
JW IN VA":60lkji82 said:Average farm kid 12 or so
Average kid-I'd be a little worried at 18