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This guy is a century old

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  • #2
    eeguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,478 ✭✭✭eeguy


    Baron Kurtz wrote: »
    http://www.tuamherald.ie/news/roundup/articles/2016/01/06/4112141-jim-is-tractor-driving-dancing-and-biking-at-100/

    He's so sprightly too. Well done, Jim.

    So he's the b*start backing up traffic with the tractor!


  • #3
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,104 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    He is wonderful in this day and age. Congratulations to him and fair play.

    My Great granny lived to 104. She only stopped at 99 when she wasn't able to look after the chickens anymore. Great woman.


  • #4
    milehip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 735 ✭✭✭milehip


    He was Rte news earlier, fair play is right,gas man.


  • #5
    XR3i
    Site Banned Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭XR3i


    the tractor is nearly as old as himself,

    i'd guess its a massey 240 or a 570/575


  • #6
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    He's way older than I ever hope to be.


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  • #7
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,812 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    XR3i wrote: »
    the tractor is nearly as old as himself,

    i'd guess its a massey 240 or a 570/575

    I'd guess mf 240 too but that's only a spring chicken as far as massey go


  • #8
    questionmark?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭questionmark?


    biko wrote: »
    He's way older than I ever hope to be.

    If you live to that age and have your health and lifestyle it's pretty good way to live. Fair play to him.


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    XR3i wrote: »
    the tractor is nearly as old as himself,

    i'd guess its a massey 240 or a 570/575
    One of the neighbours has a similar one, but a bit older as it has a red number plate (as much rust as paint).


  • #10
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    biko wrote: »
    He's way older than I ever hope to be.

    He's still a good 10,000 years younger than I hope to be.


  • #11
    poa
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 541 ✭✭✭poa


    Max respect to him. My grandmother was born in 1916 and lived to 96; the youngest of 10.
    I am always interested in people that live to a high age, is it genetics, lifestyle, or diet?
    Or maybe a combination of all of them.
    My grandmother always insisted the reason for her good health in old age was due to sleeping in a tilted bed.
    She had stacks of books under the feet end of her bed to make it 6 inches out of level.
    Her reasoning was that it meant it was easier for the blood to flow to back to her head.
    We all used to laugh at her out of level bed but maybe she was right.


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  • #12
    garyskeepers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭garyskeepers


    holy crap thats a grand aul age


  • #13
    The Masculinist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 331 ✭✭The Masculinist


    Hope we all get there! They way modern medicine is going I'd say this will be more and more normal.

    Fair play to him


  • #14
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    America, as we know it, is only 2.4 times older than Jim. Think about that for a second...


  • #15
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Making 30 will be an achievement in my case. I always feel I could go anything when I get loaded and start messing with things.

    Big sense of disappointment then when you wake up in the morning.:D

    Fair play to this auld fella though, he must be a clean living man.


  • #16
    The Masculinist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 331 ✭✭The Masculinist


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Making 30 will be an achievement in my case. I always feel I could go anything when I get loaded and start messing with things.

    Big sense of disappointment then when you wake up in the morning.:D

    Fair play to this auld fella though, he must be a clean living man.

    What age are you, 15? After a few cans of dutch? :):):)


  • #17
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,297 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    A woman near me is 100 today. Three of her son's still live at home with her. They are all pensioners at least ten years, and working away farming. They have a marquee set up and are throwing her a party!


  • #18
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    The Masculinist wrote: »
    What age are you, 15? After a few cans of dutch? :):):)

    Middle class here, we drink Tuborg 4 for 5.

    Wouldn't touch that Dutch stuff. A bit too low rent for me.


  • #19
    The Masculinist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 331 ✭✭The Masculinist


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Middle class here, we drink Tuborg 4 for 5.

    Wouldn't touch that Dutch stuff. A bit too low rent for me.

    Zing!


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