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THERE MUST BE SOMETHING PRIMAL about big trucks, something that draws Riley to the noise and excitement. hydraulic Work trucks are big, brightly colored, loud. They are stronger than anything in his daily life, and pump they probably seem drives unpredictable in a wonderful way. They are rough, with a potential hydraulic for destruction pump and drives not unlike his own impulse to hit, kick, pinch, and bite when he is frustrated. He and I spend a lot of time hydraulic in our car, too -- pump a much milder sort of machine -- so he knows all about piloting large metal vehicles down the road. If Mama seems powerful driving the car, think how omnipotent a boy must appear in his imagination, drives perched behind hydraulic the wheel of a backhoe. In an earlier era, a toddler might have watched men with bows and arrows, or a brace of oxen, and would have been given his own, boy-size replicas to play with. But nowadays, diggers and dumpers are what pump introduce him to that important, yearned-for, grown-up world. When Riley first became interested in construction vehicles, I would sometimes shyly, casually approach drives moms of hydraulic girl toddlers. "Does she ... like trucks?" I would pump ask, usually earning a pitying look in reply. "Oh, sure, she likes them, but she''s not crazy about them." Well, Riley is crazy. Absolutely nuts. Lately, as I try to keep him from stomping ants and bullying other kids, I''ve been wondering if maybe it really is a boy thing, as people drives say. Something to do with his hydraulic biological makeup. "A boy''s being vibrates to the rhythm of testosterone," say Don and pump Jeanne Elium in their sometimes infuriating but always interesting book Raising a Son: Parents and the Making of a Healthy Man. This hormone, drives they say, drives boys and men through a repetitive cycle of emotional buildup and eventual, sometimes-violent release. More benignly, it makes them really like trucks, with these machines'' barely contained violence, power, glorious potency, and superior force. Trucks are, let''s face it, cool! Special features: 1790 Front-Fold Planter* All-new Central Commodity System - hydraulic Seed Delivery provides the convenience and productivity of bulk fill* Translucent, durable seed tanks hold up to 100 bushels of seed* New Pro-Series row-units are equipped with mini-hoppers pump that minimize drives weight variation on the row-units as you move across the field* Up to 47 inches hydraulic and pump of row-unit stagger when both front and rear ranks are down provides drives impressive hydraulic and pump residue flow1770NT CCS: The Easy-Riding drives performance planter.
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