Re: The Future of Equip. Operators?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Stranded</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Not suprising just sad that children are exploited that badly and we encourage it. </div></div>
Well sadly I couldn't load the video so I am taking a stab in the dark a bit here. Judging by some of my peers statements it is basically a kid running a piece of equipment excavator/backhoe etc.
Are you saying instilling work ethic in a child is exploitation? Help me out here cause I am a bit unclear on your comment. So how long should he sit in front of a TV before he is properly raised and is ready for the real world. How is that brand of child rearing working out for us here in the USofA?
You would have had my parents locked up I bet. So learning a skill is child exploitation? When I was a kid at 7 I was pouring lead joints in cast iron pipe, how's that for child endangerment? Do you think I wanted to do that? Your damn right I did. I am one of the few men my age that still knows the art of pouring lead joints in cast iron. Still have Daddy's old tools, joint runner and some oakum. I know, I know, bad for the environment, not withstanding the fact that water never touched the lead, as anyone who has an uneducated opinion would never know. Also one of the best most secure ways to join cast iron pipe.
Sweating copper by the time I was ten. Running a Rigid 1500 sewer machine by 12, as well by this time my muscles had filled in nicely and also digging water/sewer line ditches with a shovel. Could handle a Milwaukee Hole Hog running a 3-5/8" selfeed bit by the age of 15.
Built barns, throwed hay, fed and watered 100 laying hens every day, learned to be a farmer, plumber and a poet by the ripe old age of 17.
There were plenty of times as a kid I didn't want to be working, sure. But kids aren't suposed to get to do what they want. If I could have one more day to spend with my late father and I had to spend that day digging ditches with him in VA clay I'd take it. One of the last things he said to me on his death bed...."Proud of you son."
Yeah, I am glad I was exploited as a child.
You would think it would be obvious to people what is wrong with our kids today. I guess it's not.