Getting old when

[PrairieGhost]

I'm not sure when grandpa was born, 1861 I think, but maybe earlier. He worked on the first railroad track to go through North Dakota. He said most of the crew of 50 were du king the law for some reason. Like butcher knife Charley who killed three people in Missouri. The foreman had a rifle and grandpa had a pistol. That was the only two guns in the camp. I was only one year old when he died so I only know what dad passed on to me.

I'm not sure of grandpa age because based on what we thought was his age when he died in 1949 he would have been born in 1861. However I think dad said he was 19 when he went to work for the railroad. The pistol he bought before he headed to North Dakota just came out, and it was the Colt is that Peacemaker (1873) making 1854 his year of birth. There was no town when he settled in North Dakota where Sheyenne is now.

 

[BrokenBackJack]

Pretty neat rig there Davey.
I remember talking with 2 of the folks friends who were well into their 90's at the time. That was back when people stopped over to visit and weren't watching TV so much IF they even had a TV.

 

[Davy Crockett]

They aren't worth much but I wanted it for use around the farm during the summer. When the grandkids get to be our age they will still remember bouncing around the farm in it. Unreal how far along suspension systems have come since those days , The seat is like a spring board so it's no wonder they had a tall roof .

 

[WormWiggler]

 

[lunkerslayer]

Yeah I'm not quite at this level of old yet , but some could relate.

 

[lunkerslayer]

What a dilemma one feels when for so long your memory was like a trap, you could remember all those old movie/shows with ease. Now I can watch a series like game of thrones and it was like watching most of it like it was my first time.
Being able to remember the important things in life is what really matters though, well atleast tell you forget what you were supposed to remember that was important in life.

 

[snow2]

When you hurt your neck sleeping

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reading the obits after the sport page

Lol,haven't read a news paper in many years,

 

[lunkerslayer]

When you hurt yourself stretching, damn pulled a muscle in my thigh because it was cramping up

 

[KDM]

When you reply to an NDA archery thread today and realize you still have your first bow and it's over 30 F'n years old.

 

[lunkerslayer]

When you reply to an NDA archery thread today and realize you still have your first bow and it's over 30 F'n years old.

That's becuase most boomers never throw or replace anything until there is holes or the wheels fall off.

 

[Zogman]

Did you ever get this running Davy???

 

[LBrandt]

When you reply to an NDA archery thread today and realize you still have your first bow and it's over 30 F'n years old.

Hey Now. I also have a Bear Recurve thats 10 years older that my compound. LB

 

[Davy Crockett]

Did you ever get this running Davy???

No , not yet but almost there. The guy I got it from overhauled it in shop class and drove it around for a day and put it in the quonset for I'm guessing 45-40 years . Him and his dad always cranked it over a couple times a year so it wasn't locked up. I took it in on trade and hit the starter and zero compression on all 6. I throw juice down the cylinders and let them soak and I I lift the front end off the ground with my loader and pull it around the yard once in a while a went from no compression to weak compression in 3 or 4 cylinders so theres still hope . If I can get enough compression to get the cylinders to fire and get the pistons warmed up hopefully the rings will unstick.

 

[snow2]

That's becuase most boomers never throw or replace anything until there is holes or the wheels fall off.

Why would ya? Lol

 

[Davy Crockett]

I'm that guy too snow. Still have my old Ted williams flasher and the old lawrance green box.

 

[snow2]

I'm that guy too snow. Still have my old Ted williams flasher and the old lawrance green box.

Same here KDM doesn't have a leg up on us1990's era green box collecting dust but so many memories with it just can't toss it out infact liquidating years of hoarding shit couple full 20yd dumpsters found crap i haven't seen in years figure my day is coming,sell the house and? Not sure where my shoe will drop,

Oh my carp shooting first compound single cam.... 100's of carp,buffalo and suckers... two grass carp over 50lbs...cant toss it either...lol.

 

[LBrandt]

I think all that old junk just brings back too many good memories to shit-can. Don't need the pennys that I could get for it. LB

 

[Davy Crockett]

I think all that old junk just brings back too many good memories to shit-can. Don't need the pennys that I could get for it. LB

Yep, same here LB, Most of it doesn't make sense to younger generations like a picture of my parents eating watermelon on their honeymoon in Brandon Manitoba next to Dads old coup with 3 old used tires on top tied from rear bumper to front bumper with rope. and it reminded me about how hard it was to get enough of anything to keep the farm operational in the 40s because of all the hoarding and rationing. Also have two ration books that he saved. Worthless to most people but priceless to me because the two belong together in grandpas old writing desk. with a note explaining what was going on there.

My wife is good about leaving notes so when someone picks up anything with family history they get the story with it.

 

[jdfisherman]

My lawnmower is older than my oldest son, and he turned 21 this year.

 

[Wall-eyes]

I can honestly say i used up a lot of Guardian Angels from early on through my 20's. Some of the things we did to get things done and of course some of the "stupid" things we done when having fun.
We were brought up to be workaholics which was OK better that than being lazy for sure. Everything was manual when i was growing up. Hauling bales by hand, picking rock by hand, digging post holes and pounding posts by hand, no hoists on the trucks or trailers so had to shovel the grain off by hand, hauling water to the hogs by hand with 2 five gallon buckets across the cattle feed lot full of frozen turds. I think i hated that the worst. Heck we had 4-5 acres to mow in the yard and that was with a push mower. That had to be done after all your other chores were done. By the time you got it mowed you had to start all over again.
Then one wonders why his body is shot! I have to say one thing with all the manual labor, a guy was in shape and rock ass solid!

Come on we took side sickle cutter on ole John Deere b or older the push mower early on was one that went round and round like cutter blade, Suprise we never got hurt or missing toe. Big garden I ran with 420 with corn two row cultivator down row I hated doing no more manual labor then needed. Body is all fucked up now just like all of use.