My husband started driving a tractor and farm truck when he was 6. Yes...six. He started working off of his dad’s farm, for farmers with more land, when he was 12.
He put himself through college, undergrad and grad school largely through what he made working out on farms.
I also grew up on a farm. Helped in many aspects, including livestock. I never got hurt and learned just how much it takes to make a farm operational.
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I started walking behind a plow pulled by a draft horse when I was still in grade school, no more than ten years old. My mother told us how her father who died before I was born was nearly killed once by a bull he owned, this happened before mother’s birth. Her oldest brother, who was born in 1899 got the bull away from his father with a pitchfork before the bull could kill my grandfather. That uncle was fourteen or fifteen when he did that. Under these proposed rules he would not be allowed to operate the pitchfork.