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Today I had to do one of my least favorite things to do as a farmer. I had to drive a huge of machinery across a highway and down two miles of another popular stretch of road. This sucks big time as the driver of the machinery. Todays bigger machinery can easily take up a whole two lane highway, meaning that if I meet any traffic, I have to get over and preserve any good name the farming community has. Most cars see a tractor on the road and panic, getting over as soon as they can. I can't take the risk of driving by a car that is stopped and doing any body damage or personal damage. If I see a car heading my direction, I get over as soon as I can and let them decide when they can go around. Then after everyone has gone by, I look behind and then let the cars stuck behind me around. Today a 10 minute car drive took me an hour in an articulated 4 wheel drive tractor with a 12 foot wide disk with the wings folded up. By the time I got where I was going, I think something had burnt up on the clutch and may find out tomorrow when I get back in the daylight and have dad give the thing a look over.

The tractor I just mentioned is also not doing me much good. Its an older tractor that has a cab, but the air conditioning doesn't work at all. This means I have to drive all day long with both doors open. This does let some fresh air in the cab, but it also lets all the dust and noise in from outside. I have to cover my "fancy" phone so it doesn't have a layer of dust on it. I can't hear it when it rings anyways with that much noise around. Texting or navigating is no easy matter either.

Speaking of which, my brother may be an asshat. I'm not sure what exactly my dad asked him to do, but I was not impressed with the results. I imagined that he asked him to escort me and the tractor to the field I was going to by driving my pickup truck slightly ahead of me with the blinkers on. Instead he went out of sight as soon as I crossed 32, I seen him next when he was heading the other direction and then he just went down the road and then he showed up again behind me. I would like to ruin some favor he might ask me for in the future, but I like to think of myself as a good person and will just be a do as asked.

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