jumpinfarmer

Not only did we ride in cars without seatbelts or airbags, we stood up in the front seat and layed down in the back deck of the car obstructing our parents vision. I remember standing on the front seat of a 73 Buick Electra many times. If you sat down and were straped in you couldn't see where you were going. I should never have lived. Our water came from a well with a cow pasture on one side and corn on the other. Who knows what was in it besides water. We had mini bikes, go carts, and dirt bikes and never wore a helmet. We played with tools and knifes and BB guns and rarely got hurt. When a kid who didn't know better came to play the favorite trick to play was to get him to pee on an electric fence. I'll probably burn in hell for that some day.

Especily in the northern states it's very common for dairy cows to come from Canada. Thats why there markets took such a hit when our border was closed to there cows in May. The Canadian case also happend in Alberta where the Washington cow is said to have come from.

All three are great in my book.

I'm wondering about a Heatwave main. Would it make a beginer canopy? Wher could I find out about recomended wing loadings. There web site doesn't show anything.

Mark Mueller. He's from IA and was on the cover of the Farm Journal last Dec. in free fall. I saved it and ran accrosed it when I cleaned my desk this week. Just wondering if anyone knows him or jumps with him.

Great article. We need more PR like that.

Lucky for me grandma don't hear very well. She's the only one that I've never told I think she'll flip out. As far as she knows I've never been in a plane.

I made it . Farm operators 28 per 100,000. I used that figure to try to convince the folks that I was safer at the DZ than on a tractor at home. It didn't work but they have excepted it. I personaly have known a lot of people who have been killed or baddly injured on the farm.

This morning I had to visit the lumber yard for what else lumber. Wile loading the truck the guy helping me saw my USPA sticker on the rear window. He excitedly asked if I was a skydiver. When I answered yes he got more excited and started asking questions. I answered in a kind of mater of fact way I didn't want to act like I knew it all. He went on to say that he was planing to jump this comming summer and couldn't wait. Apparently he knows a jumper because he was asking about the beer laws and other lesser known facts of the sport. When I was loaded and he signed my recipt I wished him a Merry Christmas and to that he replied "same to you and blue skies" with a thums up as I drove away.

What amazes me is how little the American public know about cattle and cattle raising. Seems like they'd want to know about their food. The only ones (besides country folk) that tend to know are the hard-core Vegitarians, then they only know what their propaganda tells them. Worthless, absolutely worthless. Isn't that true. The US consumer is so removed from there food sorce that it's not funny. Most adults think that food comes from a factory or store like everything else. I get sick of answering dumb questions about our farm sometimes. The dumbest ones normaly come from the most educated people I know. I think it's safe to say that most farmers, myself included take great pride in what we do. It's kind of insulting that more people don't take more interest in where there food comes from. People only need to do a couple of things to live, eating is one of them.

My aunt lives in Buffalo. two years ago they had over 80" of snow during three days just before Christmas. After that they never had anymore all season. Last year my cousin who lives in Boonville (yes it is a real place) just east of Lake Ontario had over 110" on the ground at once. He has a dairy farm and had to get in the barn from a hay mow door that was normaly 10' above the ground one morning.

Now that we have it I don't think it's fair to keep Canadian beef out of the US anymore.

Thats a problem, but it's happened before. When Canada had the one cow mad cow outbreak this spring Japan banned US beef because they didn't think we could segregate US and Canadian beef. Since then all US beef going to Japan had to come from Japaniese approved slauter houses and packing plants.

I honestly don't know. It could be sloppy handling during butchering. I wouldn't say that doesn't happen here, but in theory the sick animal should never make it to slauter without being checked.

I hate wrapping to. It's the worst part of the season for me.

It could only be lake effect. Those of you that live near the great lakes know what I'm talking about. We get hammered when the wind is in the wrong direction. Last Christmas we had 18" and I had to plow all day that sucked. I like snow and like to brag about how much we get but I start to get sick of it by about February.

If you BASE off the CN tower is it a building jump or an antenna jump. Also it would be cool if the freedom tower was desined with a jump platform. It's far feched but they could have a one day event like Bridge Day in The Big Apple.

It's a verry slim chance that you would ever get the human form of BSE. The BSE is in the brain and spine of the animal and that doesn't go toward the food industry. It is true that the only thing that gets tossed out when a cow is butchered is the moo. However alot of the parts wind up in pet food or other types or stock feed or fertilizer. The suspect animal was a holistein cow that was lame and could not get up. This type of animal would be routinely checked at slauter because of it's condition. Also a downer type of cow like this apparently was would not go for human consumtion because of regluations. It would be used only for pet food or other industrial uses, so it would be verry unlikely for it to be in the food supply. Since the outbreaks in Europe in the 1990s the USDA has stepped up inspections at stockyards and livestock buying stations, looking for suspect animals. A form of BSE has been in sheep all over the world for centuries, it's called scrapie. I only hope that this doesn't bring on the devestation that it did in Europe. A case in Canada this May has brought there cattle industry to it's knees. Hopfully that wont happen here it could bring the economic recovery we've been seeing to a sudden halt.

Good way to get parental approval, get them hooked. Wish I'd started earlier to.

car truck, pick up, 6, 10 wheelers, Fire engines pumpers, rescue,quint snowmobile 4 wheeler 3 wheeler cat d6 dozer, Poclain excavator payloaders, backhoes of all kinds just about every farm tractor ever builtno mater what it's pulling combines, my preferance is for Gleaners I've never had a motercycle. It's something that I always wanted but now that I'm jumping it's not in the buget.

You are a sick evil person, and will burn in hell. It was funny as hell though, wish I could have played that trick on some assholes I know.

Sorta sounds like my life. I don't want to be a DZO either, but I'm glad someone wants the job.

I think it's neet how after a while you get to know most of the jumpers around because there are so few. Thats part of what makes it a great sport.

With all the talk here about shrinking numbers of jumpers, jumpers having no money, and the bad economy how can a DZO buy a new plane. Or is it that skydivers are like farmers. They like to complain about how broke they are, but really have money to spend when they want to.

I'm suprised to. It's only been about nine mounths since I started and before that I thought skydiving was a lot more popular than it is. It's a great sport more people should give it a try.