OT Retirement

[TampaBaySkers]

Thanks for bumping it

 

[TFrazier]

Thanks for bumping it

 

[HuskerDrew]

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This is actually me...kid hit me, twice, for checking this site during class.

I could say some things about that video and I’d be banned for life

 

[RedBaloneyPony]

I could say some things about that video and I’d be banned for life

Incredible restraint shown by that teacher, I would’ve went full stone cold on that kid, metal folding chair across the teeth.

 

[countrybob]

If rural america wants to live they can’t sell. The parents either need money to make retirement better or even feasible and the kids often want to leave or have already left and don’t need a multi million dollar farm.

A few decades of that and it’s pretty easy to see why rural America is a shell of itself. I suppose a good backup option is to sell cheaper to a kid at ISU that will farm the land than some corporation, but like you said that’s probably a level of charitable that even most rural residents won’t take to keep

Not always.

Isn't there more money in just renting/leasing out your land instead of farming it yourself?

I totally get your point and you are right. I sort of count the start of "good times" being the late 1950's.


I had a friend who bought and restored an old 442, it was unreal, the engine was the size of a house! Ha

I have a 1974 Hurst/Olds with a W30, basically 455 with HEI. I put high compression pistons in out of a 1968. Good times lucky to have survived drinking and driving.

 

[Husker.Wed.]

I know NOTHING about cars but why is that? Is there more "stuff" under the hood today?

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1. Since old cars were longer and wider, the engine compartments were bigger and it was easier to reach around the engine to work on it.

2. Old cars had longitudinal-mounted engines. Meaning four cylinders were on the drivers side and four cylinders were on the passenger side. Changing spark plugs or doing cylinder head work was easy to get to. The engine shaft that drives all the belts exits the engine toward the front of the car, so everything driven by a belt: alternator, power steering pump, water pump, A/C compressor are in the front of the car and easy to get to.

Most engines now are transverse-mounted meaning three cylinders point to the front of the car and three point to the back of the car hidden under the dashboard. Changing spark plugs or doing cylinder work on the side of the engine that points back is a bear because you can't see what is back there, you have to feel around for everything you want to work on since you can't see it. The shaft coming out of the engine points sideways toward the passenger side of the car. Everything driven by a belt are a couple inches from the right fender. Hence I had to drop the engine down below the fender to access the water pump bolts.

3. More complicated engine design makes accessing components more difficult, Example: old days the carburetor was mounted on top the engine. Now fixing fuel injectors requires taking the throttle body off.

4. Engines now are sometimes harder to get to due to plastic panels at various places to help aerodynamics. For instance something as simple as reaching an oil drain plug requires removing a plastic panel underneath the vehicle.