Boys and Tractors

Moonlite37 · Nov 7, 2016

My junior high years were in a rural small farm community. Among the boys, the most popular guys who could tell the best stories of near accidents and whose tractor was biggest. One fellow's dad had a W9 and after getting his 300 acre farm reclaimed by plowing down brush and briars traded it for a new 1951 Farmall M with a loader. One fellow had two tractors and even the ones that had a F series on steel were also popular, Some who did not have a tractor would claim one that a relative or neighbor had. 1952 was the greatest year for tractors every company had improvements. Those were the good old days. I still love tractors and have 10. I had a tractor before I had a car at 17, I now have a Lincoln that three years ago was worth a bit over$40,000 but my $215 Farmall gets washed more frequently.

tedregentin · Nov 7, 2016

You can't have too many tractors or trucks. My boys are very good operators of all three tractors that I own. Anytime we have city boys over, I make sure they get to operate the TO20 because it is so easy to learn on. It always brings a smile to their face. I have always felt that I was very fortunate to be raised on a farm. I spent many hours on tractors of different colors.

Rons b · Nov 7, 2016

My boy learned to drive my case 580ck backhoe and a Ford 6000 or 8000 ( I forget long time ago) dump truck at 14. We had to gravel about 2 miles of road to get to our property. we haled the gravel from a large wash that runs through the property.

flying H · Nov 9, 2016

Most country boys grew up playing with tractors. The lucky ones still do! !)

X-Y switch · Nov 9, 2016

Tractors and the old trucks that did not have synchromesh transmissions. My brother and I learned to double clutch shifting those old trucks when we were about twelve. I am amused when some youngster proudly announces that they can drive a "stick". They have no idea how far driving a "stick" has come. Maybe they don't need to know, maybe it is just something we oldsters can savor.

Texasmark1 · Nov 10, 2016

Thanks X-Y for that comment. You just reminded me of something I had forgotten; double clutching. My 2400 isn't synchromesh geared and
under certain conditions I can get a tad of crunching if too slow on the stick. Next time I'm too lazy to cut the throttle B4 shifting I'll just double
clutch her and be on my way.

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