Attention: TDR Forum Junkies I know it comes a NO surprise that a couple of members and I have fantastic conversations about who is the GREATEST of all and the BIGGEST of all. I think that the time has come to put this website aside, it really doesn't have anything of interest to me any longer with my 3rd gen being the best of the best. On TDR it seems to be what's new to be the most important and I WON'T buy a 4th Gen and waste my money, the HAVC problem on the 3rd gens HAS BEEN BEATEN TO DEATH in the magazine along with the famed 3 issues of HOW TO MAKE AN ELECTRICAL SWITCH WORK AN ACCESSORY. I don't even receive the magazine any longer its sent to my Brothers house and I look at it via the website even he (a guy that can't work a wrench) said that its not what it use to be, more of a club to talk about the problems with the Country. So with that said and taking a look at and talking to a Man that I admire Greatly Mr. Greg Harman who I sent this Email to (yes we talk quite a bit and call ever so often) I will take leave when my subscription runs out and WON'T LET THE WIFE RENEW IT THIS TIME. Until then, like I said I sent this Email to Greg and with his permission he said I should post this because there are a few that enjoy this sort of BARBARIC BEHAVIOUR. You mite have to read around and figure out some of the names in it Greg knows who they are and how they relate to our family.
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Brother BIG!
Sounds like a FINE WEEKEND!
No problem with the TDR Post!
I'll bet Gary and more than a few others will be glad to hear of your accomplishments!
OUTSTANDING Job on that walk behind plow!
Yer Pard!
Greg
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 5:56 PM, GAIL WRIGHT <wrght_gl@yahoo.com> wrote:
Been a great day!!!! Yesterday was a SUPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY for me Penny knows that im not into the B day thing and this way she got me!!! Im part of a club kind of thing that likes the old farm equipment so when I got the things from my Gramps barn the crew were all interested in seeing and using it. I set this weekend up to get some things working and guys wanted to help out, we used our sickle mowers to harvest some pasture grass that really wasn't tall enough but it was fun to work the mowers and let the animals get there reward by eating fresh cut grass. Then we used the manure spreader to get rid of the mountain of manure that I had accumulated over the winter. The spreader worked GREAT as is from Gramps barn. It was a real tear jerker for me when FIL/MIL drove up with my Aunt and Uncle from Nebraska my Aunt Fern got out of the car and waved at me while I was on the spreader I stopped and walked over to the fence and she had a big tear in her eye. I asked what was wrong? she said you looked just like Dad's Brother Uncle Gail (I was named after him) He was a giant of a man 6ft 11inchs tall he weighed close to 400lbs and it wasn't fat, when he died they had to make a special casket for him and it took 8 men to carry him to the grave site. When I was born we have a picture of me sitting on the heal of his hand and his fingers were holding my head I was no small guy my self but he and I were pretty much best buddies. Gramps and he were the first of the Wrights to head west from Ohio and when Gramps bought 11 sections of land his Brother Gail went to be the Blacksmith in the town. My Dad learned most of what he knew about metal from working with him as a young man.
We were working the animals to get a couple of stumps out of the field the first 1 was no match or Nathan's team what a great looking set of animals 17 hands high Percheron Mules. When Nate brought them from the Barn the group were in amazement of the size of these rascals. I had to build a special evener for them the one that I use for my Boys wasn't WIDE enough and not strong enough to withstand what these BIG BOYS could dish out. I hooked them to a stump that the Boss, Caroline, Penny and I had cut the tree down the previous day. Nate handed me the keys to the team, I said there yours to drive he looked kind of confused so it was a GREAT time for he and I to share this moment. He took control, I told him to sound firm of voice that's how they know its WORK TIME. He did snapped their butt with the reins and away they went stump and all, PRETTY IMPRESSIVE!!!! WASNT EVEN CLOSE TO WHAT WE HAD JUST WITTNESED. The next one was a little more of a task they had a go at it and it moved but not a lot. So Penny and Vickey said don't hurt them, we have an older guy that KNOWS MULES he started laughing and said just give BIG a minute to get them mules on the same page it wont take long, we took another go at it and same thing. I went and talked to the mules they looked confused as to what was going on??? The old timer yelled GET-EM RIGHT BIG!!! This was all going on, on the front pasture the cars and trucks had stopped to see the site. With all the farm equipment and then Nates mules it was a pretty big group of folks watching from the hwy. Nate gave me a hand at the wheel and backed off, a snap of the leads and A LOUD YELL!!! they pulled that stump like nobody's business (got lucky I guess, or he had loosened it up enough) Pulled the stumps off to the side and continued playing farmer BIG for the rest of the day.
I have a walk behind plow that I have always wished that I could use but with my leg I always seem to fall. We have an old Blackman that is the YODA of walk behind plows, he makes joke of the Master always getting the sit-down plow and he and his Dad got the one that you had to actually work to use. He makes it look so easy he and his mule are a program of HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE. He don't walk in the plowed row he uses his right hand and walks to the side of the row. I was trying to figure it out and at lunch he asked about me working with the walk behind plow. I told him of my problem he said that we can adjust the plow and get you up and working. We hooked up Jacob to the rig I have its a single animal plow and harness, He had me try and I again busted my Butt, he asked if we had a torch Jason went and got mine. He heated a mount and bent it a bit and said give that a try, same thing eating dirt with manure was getting a little much. Made an adjustment to the way the harness mount and said give that a try! BINGO!!!!! I was off and plowing like everybody else. I worked that plow till my hand had blisters and they popped and started bleeding. Penny said don't you think that its time to give it a break look at your hand or at least get some gloves. Like Gramps said Gloves cost money skin grows FREE, I thought that plow YODA would never quit laughing he said his Dad said the same thing and that he could sand fence posts without sandpaper cause his hands were so callused up. He is quite a man I couldn't thank him enough for his help, I can remember My Gramps plowing like I can now!!!
Had dinner with everyone and a fire with a sing around, one of the best B Day's I have had. Boss asked if I was getting back at him from when we worked together? I had to laugh I did the work and He sat and wrote down the numbers of the product that I loaded most of the time. He and Caroline have had a great time working in the sun and getting dirty, even thou they were the BIG BOSS'S at work they are just like us normal folks well ALMOST.
Pard I would like to post this on TDR, there are some guys on site that kind of like this sort of stuff and are pretty decent human beings if its ok with you. A few of them have PM me about how you are doing? Its getting hard to be NORMAL on that site, if you cant spell good or you don't kiss their butt and tell them they are great your a moron, ITS NOT CHANGED MUCH.
Pard take care and watch out for them fires.
Got to go put some Neosporin on my blistered they haven't felt this good in a long while
Penny, BIG and Crew
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FROM Greg Harman TO You
Re: Hope you had a GREAT Day!
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FromGreg Harman
ToGAIL WRIGHT
Brother BIG!
Sounds like a FINE WEEKEND!
No problem with the TDR Post!
I'll bet Gary and more than a few others will be glad to hear of your accomplishments!
OUTSTANDING Job on that walk behind plow!
Yer Pard!
Greg
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 5:56 PM, GAIL WRIGHT <wrght_gl@yahoo.com> wrote:
Been a great day!!!! Yesterday was a SUPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY for me Penny knows that im not into the B day thing and this way she got me!!! Im part of a club kind of thing that likes the old farm equipment so when I got the things from my Gramps barn the crew were all interested in seeing and using it. I set this weekend up to get some things working and guys wanted to help out, we used our sickle mowers to harvest some pasture grass that really wasn't tall enough but it was fun to work the mowers and let the animals get there reward by eating fresh cut grass. Then we used the manure spreader to get rid of the mountain of manure that I had accumulated over the winter. The spreader worked GREAT as is from Gramps barn. It was a real tear jerker for me when FIL/MIL drove up with my Aunt and Uncle from Nebraska my Aunt Fern got out of the car and waved at me while I was on the spreader I stopped and walked over to the fence and she had a big tear in her eye. I asked what was wrong? she said you looked just like Dad's Brother Uncle Gail (I was named after him) He was a giant of a man 6ft 11inchs tall he weighed close to 400lbs and it wasn't fat, when he died they had to make a special casket for him and it took 8 men to carry him to the grave site. When I was born we have a picture of me sitting on the heal of his hand and his fingers were holding my head I was no small guy my self but he and I were pretty much best buddies. Gramps and he were the first of the Wrights to head west from Ohio and when Gramps bought 11 sections of land his Brother Gail went to be the Blacksmith in the town. My Dad learned most of what he knew about metal from working with him as a young man.
We were working the animals to get a couple of stumps out of the field the first 1 was no match or Nathan's team what a great looking set of animals 17 hands high Percheron Mules. When Nate brought them from the Barn the group were in amazement of the size of these rascals. I had to build a special evener for them the one that I use for my Boys wasn't WIDE enough and not strong enough to withstand what these BIG BOYS could dish out. I hooked them to a stump that the Boss, Caroline, Penny and I had cut the tree down the previous day. Nate handed me the keys to the team, I said there yours to drive he looked kind of confused so it was a GREAT time for he and I to share this moment. He took control, I told him to sound firm of voice that's how they know its WORK TIME. He did snapped their butt with the reins and away they went stump and all, PRETTY IMPRESSIVE!!!! WASNT EVEN CLOSE TO WHAT WE HAD JUST WITTNESED. The next one was a little more of a task they had a go at it and it moved but not a lot. So Penny and Vickey said don't hurt them, we have an older guy that KNOWS MULES he started laughing and said just give BIG a minute to get them mules on the same page it wont take long, we took another go at it and same thing. I went and talked to the mules they looked confused as to what was going on??? The old timer yelled GET-EM RIGHT BIG!!! This was all going on, on the front pasture the cars and trucks had stopped to see the site. With all the farm equipment and then Nates mules it was a pretty big group of folks watching from the hwy. Nate gave me a hand at the wheel and backed off, a snap of the leads and A LOUD YELL!!! they pulled that stump like nobody's business (got lucky I guess, or he had loosened it up enough) Pulled the stumps off to the side and continued playing farmer BIG for the rest of the day.
I have a walk behind plow that I have always wished that I could use but with my leg I always seem to fall. We have an old Blackman that is the YODA of walk behind plows, he makes joke of the Master always getting the sit-down plow and he and his Dad got the one that you had to actually work to use. He makes it look so easy he and his mule are a program of HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE. He don't walk in the plowed row he uses his right hand and walks to the side of the row. I was trying to figure it out and at lunch he asked about me working with the walk behind plow. I told him of my problem he said that we can adjust the plow and get you up and working. We hooked up Jacob to the rig I have its a single animal plow and harness, He had me try and I again busted my Butt, he asked if we had a torch Jason went and got mine. He heated a mount and bent it a bit and said give that a try, same thing eating dirt with manure was getting a little much. Made an adjustment to the way the harness mount and said give that a try! BINGO!!!!! I was off and plowing like everybody else. I worked that plow till my hand had blisters and they popped and started bleeding. Penny said don't you think that its time to give it a break look at your hand or at least get some gloves. Like Gramps said Gloves cost money skin grows FREE, I thought that plow YODA would never quit laughing he said his Dad said the same thing and that he could sand fence posts without sandpaper cause his hands were so callused up. He is quite a man I couldn't thank him enough for his help, I can remember My Gramps plowing like I can now!!!
Had dinner with everyone and a fire with a sing around, one of the best B Day's I have had. Boss asked if I was getting back at him from when we worked together? I had to laugh I did the work and He sat and wrote down the numbers of the product that I loaded most of the time. He and Caroline have had a great time working in the sun and getting dirty, even thou they were the BIG BOSS'S at work they are just like us normal folks well ALMOST.
Pard I would like to post this on TDR, there are some guys on site that kind of like this sort of stuff and are pretty decent human beings if its ok with you. A few of them have PM me about how you are doing? Its getting hard to be NORMAL on that site, if you cant spell good or you don't kiss their butt and tell them they are great your a moron, ITS NOT CHANGED MUCH.
Pard take care and watch out for them fires.
Got to go put some Neosporin on my blistered they haven't felt this good in a long while
Penny, BIG and Crew
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. Would love to have packing skills and pack into big back country. We feed a few hoss's but those low land Southern cayuse couldn't cut it above 5k feet I'm guessing, I'd spend more time letting them breath than it'd take to trot to the top. I do vicariously enjoy "the life" through your stories and pictures. 
) organic style of living, not in the same sense that most would think but a less PROCESSED look at what we shove down our necks. At my surprise Birthday Party the other day one of the wives asked about the birthday cake? it had happy birthday GAIL on the BIG 60 of life. She asked WHO'S GAIL??? Penny said BIG is what you call him :-laf She said HE'S 60 years old!!!!!! Penny said yep he's a 1953 model year why? She was floored that I was 60 and then to find out that Penny is 55 years old she wanted to know what we eat,drink and use to get to this way of living. She thought that we were LOTS YOUNGER than we are. 
