Old Farmer's Wisdom

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* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.

* Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.

* Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

* Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.

* Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.

* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.

* Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.

* It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

* You cannot unsay a cruel word.

* Every path has a few puddles.

* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

* The best sermons are lived, not preached.

* Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.

* Don't judge folks by their relatives.

* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

* Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.

* Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.

* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.

* Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

* The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.

* Always drink upstream from the herd.

* Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

* Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.

* If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.

inflames

Some great wisdom in there!

lindsmuse

Brilliant! ?

singemonkey

Love this one:

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance

Bob-Dubery

singemonkey wrote Love this one:

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance

That was good. The one about plowing around a stump is dodgy - you might end up with no field and a load of stumps.

---mario---

X-rated Bob wrote
singemonkey wrote Love this one:

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance
That was good. The one about plowing around a stump is dodgy - you might end up with no field and a load of stumps.

And you plough the same spot twice... now that aint economic is it??
So, here's what we used to do with stumps:
Attach ripper to tractor, rip around stump, attach 30/50ton link chain to stump (insert: if no applicable attaching point is present, start digging for some roots you poor sob), attach other end of chain to tractor (note: avoid some parts for following steps may cause damage), have about 10 meters slack, rev tractor's engine, watch everybody who may have been present hide in a ditch, drop clutch, come to sudden slight halt, detach chain from stump and tractor, remove stump from field, go to physiotherapist for neck injury.

See. not that diffcult and you gain about a square foot a planting space and straight lines >☹ , a farmer's pride...

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"today's oak is yesterday's nut that held it's ground" now stop using the word "crazy" in a derogative manner please ?