Just curious.....

twostepn2001 · Jul 17, 2011

Do you remember the very first time you rode on or drove a tractor?
I was looking through some old family pics last night and it brought back a lot of memories and made me curious.
I think I was 5 yr old when I rode with my older brother on a 8N with a blade getting ready to do some irrigation.
When I was 10, my Dad turned me loose on a 560 pulling a Hoeme plowing a playa lake bottom. Of course he wasn't too far away on another tractor cultivating some cotton.

Charlie M · Jul 17, 2011

I was about 6 or 7 and my Dad had me driving our W9 on a baler. It was a small NH baler and he was loading the wagon. I couldn't reach the peddles so he started everything moving and all I did was steer. I didn't steer very straight as we had several rows to go back and pick up when we were done.

Billy Shafer · Jul 17, 2011

My first tractor was an old Farmall. You had to stand on the brakes to get it to stop.

onefarmer · Jul 17, 2011

I got my start working fields when I was about 6. Was on a JD620. I still have it and use it almost daily.

Bspauld · Jul 17, 2011

I was 3 when I drove a 9n from the field to the house,my brother put it in 2nd gear and when I got to the house I didnt have enough weight to push the clutch down,so I drove around the yard untill my mother came out and shut the engine off.When I was 4 they had me pulling the drag

Bill Brackemyer · Jul 17, 2011

Growing up in town I didn't get a real early start on farm equipment. When I was 12, I went to my first antique tractor show with some family. I got to drive my great uncle's 1929 Hart-Parr 28-50 with some assistance of course. We made all the rounds. Went through the parade, put it on the thresher and ran the Baker fan. I never recovered from the "Bite."

BarryfromIA · Jul 17, 2011

I don't remember the first time I drove a tractor, but my first full day may have been when I drove the VAC CASE all day pulling a mounted subsoiler in the hills on a dry spring in the 50's.

Tony in SD · Jul 17, 2011

A few first"s come to mind.

My first tractor was an 8N at 4 or 5 years old. Knew about the clutch but didnt know about the brakes. I was real surprised when i stepped on the clutch while rolling down hill and I didnt stop.

At 6 years old, as I was coming home on the bus, I saw Dad and a hired man stacking hay. When I got home, nobody was home. So I got on the Case VAC and drove to the hay field in the ditch because I knew I couldnt drive on the hiway. I hooked up a dump rake and started following dad on the Farmhand tractor picking up what little hay I could and dumping it in front of the stack. Then dad sent me home on the VAC to refill the water jug. Every thing was OK and working just fine until Mom came home and told me I was too young to drive. And then when she found out dad knew and let me drive both ways, he got his butt chewed.

My brother some where around 8 or 9 and we drove the Super WD-9 as a team. Any one who has ever drove a WD-9 knows it takes a strong man or two strong boys to drive it. It took both of us to pushed the clutch in. Then one of us could hold the clutch in and the other would shift it into gear. It also took both of us to steer it too.

C.R. · Jul 17, 2011

I was 8 Grandpa had some hay bales on the ground so he had me driving the John Deere 70 around as my Uncle tossed hay bales on the wagon and stacked it I rembember how TALL that old beast was and no power steering,so I managed to squish a couple of bales I thought I would get in hot water for flattening those bales,but it was not a big deal,cheaper than hitting something big and solid i guess

greenmech · Jul 17, 2011

I was about 4 and my brother took me om our new Farmall H. I believe it was 1950.

greenmech · Jul 17, 2011

Forgot the picture. Ron Mn.

DCM · Jul 17, 2011

8 yrs old, discing a field near the house on a MH 44.

BCnT · Jul 17, 2011

i think i was 10 or 11 before PawPaw got rid of the mules and bought a used 8N...i rode many a mile on the fender...he didnt let me drive it but got to learn on the '62 2000 he got after Hurricane Carla ate the 8N...got a picture around here somewhere of me disking a melon field getting it ready to plant...i still got the tractor and other than a few normal repairs its still all original...best shredding tractor i ever drove.

JDseller · Jul 17, 2011

I was 5. I would get home from 1st grade and Grandpa would have bales of hay baled. I would drive the tractor as he and my Uncle loaded the bales. John Deere 1937 "B" on steel pulling a trailer made out of an old truck axle. We did not get a wagon running gear until I was in High school. We then loaded behind the baler.

I still have that JD "B". I never show it anymore. The correction police always rip it apart. It has after market power steering, and a home made live hydraulic system that drives off of the belt pulley. Grandpa kept it on steel and he always cultivated with it. He wanted the narrow steel wheels. You run over less corn on the ends. We drove it between farms in the road ditch. It has not had the cultivators off for over forty years. I still run through the garden with it.

bobs old iron · Jul 17, 2011

45, at a tractor show. 50 bought one, 58 now, have 5 for shows/pulls.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 17, 2011

I was in grade three, Drove a b414 IHC with a front end loader. I was scooping up dirt and dumping it on the road going to dads sawmill. He still has the tractor.

RBnSC · Jul 17, 2011

I don't remember how old I was. I only know I had to stand up to be able to mash the clutch. I was helping Dad string bobwire and at the end of the day he let me drive Grandad's 8n 1/2 mile back to the house. Sure made me feel big.
Ron

Will- Tx.-Mn. · Jul 17, 2011

7 years old >Drove a VAC Case with wide front, foot throttle, and Eagle hitch. before going to country school,some days, that was when I had enough courage to ask my dad if I could drive it, while he milked the cows in the morning.. drove it around the yard in a circle..

and later plowed with it, a two bottom mounted plow, while dad plowed in front of me with the DC narrow front pulling a pull type plow, sure was fun!!

that paticular tractor is long gone, but about 10 years ago I bought one like it here on the classifde adds, for $500.00 and had the head re-done for $500.00, and I repainted it sure works good, and I sure like it!!

~Will

D15DAN · Jul 17, 2011

I can vaguely remember when I was 5 or 6 sitting on dad's lap on the D15(not the one I have) He would let me steer it and play with the loader some. The first time I ran a tractor on my own I was 9. A Ford 420 with 4in1 bucket and a MF industrial box blade. He had me fixing the mess the county made of the ditch. I still have that tractor.

504 · Jul 17, 2011

6 when the hired guy put me on the 70JD and said steer, he put it in gear and jumped off(1st gear). He took the 2 ton and met me at the end of the lane about a half mile, jumped on and stopped the thing, it did have a 12ft disc and three section harrow behind it. The next summer I drove the TO20 pulling the seed wagon keeping up with the planter. We never did tell Dad I was driving. Dad hired two high school guys to plant the first two years after our share cropper sold out.

Tony in Mass. · Jul 17, 2011

first time I sit on something pulling a mower or rake, don't know, it was a front hoof assist, took verbal instructions in acadian french, and was so sweaty, they then put me on a red hot Allis C seat to evaportate my diaper before my mom came back... I didn't do it, it wasn't pee... when? Rather not say..... don't think there was people in space at that time... Russian dogs and cats maybe....

JerryS · Jul 17, 2011

I was about 10 when my dad told me to drive his 8N through the lot gate by our dairy barn. Yeah, I knocked down a gate post.

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