[ppaul]

He's endangering other people, Dan, by allowing a 13 year old to operate a backhoe.

The words of someone who did not grow up on a farm. Or someone who did not grow up during the 1930's, 40's, 50's, or 60's. We're safer now, right?

[sinkspur]

We're safer now, right?

Let your clumsy oaf kid plow the back forty then. If he flips the combine, he kills nobody but himself, and some corn.

[Modernman]

The words of someone who did not grow up on a farm. Or someone who did not grow up during the 1930's, 40's, 50's, or 60's. We're safer now, right?

There are other employees on the construction site, as well as pedestrians and motorists passing by. That quite different from the typical family farm.