Family of Cubs

I grew up farming, raising beef cattle, pigs and chickens. We leased farms and baled hay on several other farms. My dad was an electrician at a local steel mill working steady night shift and also had an excavating business. When I got married, I was working shift work at a local power generating station as well as excavating. We decided to quit farming and concentrate on our work and excavating.

Many years have passed and my son and I own several Cub Cadets and Cub Lo-boys. I just recently restored my Cub Lo-boy, the one in the back right. The blue Ford 3600 in the background was my dads as well as the left and middle Cub Cadets. The Cub Cadets and the back left Cub Lo-boy belong to my son.

The tractor pictures are of my three granddaughters, my grandson and my son. The picture of the three guys are three generations of JMS. I am John Mark, my son is Joshua Matthew and my grandson is Jackson Mark Shearman. I am retired now and do no farming. My son and I help out a friend who farms big time! Josh operates a John Deere S680 combine picking soybeans and picks corn. He also operates his big John Deere four wheel drive tractors. I use my Ford to plow snow and brush hog a couple local farms. Farming was long hard days, but looking back I wouldn’t change a thing.

John Mark Shearman
Florence, Pennsylvania

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