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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nailsbeats" data-source="post: 6231" data-attributes="member: 784">My Dad and Uncle were Operating Engineers so I ran my first piece of equipment and 8 years old.  It was a Cat 980 front end loader.  My Dad's main job was operating a double drum concrete plant so I would go to work with him and run a spare loader all day. I discovered the skid steer when I was 13 working for a neighbor.  It was an old gas Gehl.  I could do anything with it, thats when I vowed to own one someday. I ran other peoples machines pretty steady until I finally got my own at 24.  Farmers would always bring them jobs we were doing and I would end up running them.  I am now 26 and have about 500 hrs running mine and still run others. About a year ago I was making wood for my old neighbor and got to run that old Gehl again.  Piece of junk still runs like it did 13 years ago.</blockquote>