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Thought it'd be interesting to see what tractor all you on here first drove. Mine was a Farmall H that my grandpa would send us into the cow pasture and retrieve the green chop feed wagon. We'd use that tractor for all the duties on the farm that called for a handy tractor. He traded in a 10-20 for it after his neighbor just traded it in to IH dealer for a new 400. Still have the H and use on the little transfer auger we still use to empty gravity boxes into the grain truck.
 
The first tractor I drove by myself was a Ford 960. My uncle let me drive it from one side of our farm to the other. I was thrilled.
 
Ferguson 40. I was too small to push in on a clutch, but I could stand up on the clutch on the 40 and let it coast to a stop. Next year I could manage both clutch & brake. Raked a lot of hay on that old 40 with the FEL rattling the entire time.
 
On someone's lap? Don't remember. On my own? '53 Ford NAA/Golden Jubilee, raking hay, the summer I turned 6. That tractor is in my shed right now.
 
1948 Allis Chalmers B hauling feed & water to the chickens in 1949. I was 6 years old, ran over a few feeders and water buckets and one extremely dumb dogs tail. I still have the tractor.
Paul
 
Oliver 1650, Grampa had all Olivers, but always told us stories about how he was the first one in the area to get a John deere B, and how much better that was than the horses.
 
1938 J Deere A at 7 years old, my brother had to push the clutch in and pull it out to stop, I didn't weight enough My G-pa bought it for $750 when it was a couple years old
 
My Grand-dad's Essex TD; bank repo'd the thing and it supposedly went to the far East in a load of scrap iron...........be worth a lot of money today.
 
8N Ford 1950? in 63 that make me 9 or 10. Dad soon traded of for new 430 Case in 64. Had live PTO so run PTO baler. Last time seen it was in 72. Tried to find again but no luck.
 
1934 Case L on steel, I was 10 years old, got 50 cents per hour plus lunch. The tractor is in my collection now. Hard to believe, that was 63 years ago.
 
This one when I was 8 years old. (Thats was in 1977)Looks alot different than it did while I was growing up. This tractor ran often times 20 hours a day.
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Farmall Super C at 8.Cultivating corn with 2 row cultivator.Got on the wrong row.Heard about that one.
 
First tractor; 8N Ford...Dad thought it was the safest thing for me to learn on..pretty hard to roll it over. Second, JD A, followed by JD 70, followed by Farmall Super M.
 
First tractor I drove by myself was an M Farmall in 1958 at age 11 rode a lot before that. Then moved up to a W30 at 13 because I was big for my age and then drove my cousins JD80 and D4 Cat crawler working ground just for fun the same year ate a lot of dust during that spring, Yuck!
 
Allis Chalmers WD pulling drag harrows in the spring and then raking fields of hay while the older people did "bigger" jobs. :)
 
Ford 8N at about 9 or 10- probably to go get the cows in a remote pasture. Drive out there, park to the side, get them rounded up and moving toward the barn, then follow with the tractor. Once they were on the way, they never strayed from the trail. Beat walking.
 
my first one was a farmall C , learned to pull the hay wagon with it, so it freed up a adult for other jobs, i was 9 or10 mid '60;s done remember the exact year, rode on the drawbar of a farmall M for a long time before that ,lol now days anybody letting a kid ride the drawbar of a M would probably get hauled off, grandpa showed us how to stand and where to hold on, me and the cousins never got hurt
 
dc case,single front wheel,got it locked in a left turn,ran over a sign.next was a t-20 mc cormack track-tractor
 
Grandpa's IH-1566. Got to go for rides with dad or grandpa since I was about 3, didnt get turned loose on my own until I was about 11 or 12. It was hard to go from driving the 1566 to the 2 cyls we had at home...I would either stab the left brake on the the JD looking for the clutch, or grab the high/low stick on the IH looking for the hand clutch.
 
Im definatly a youngin, my first was our 2755 (newest tractor we own) out to the pasture to get the silage wagon to the heifers. And ofcourse the lawn mower way before that.
 
195? Farmall Super C

My neighbor owns the tractor now.

We still have the Bush Hog and disk that came with it.

Maybe some day I'll try to buy it back.
 
Ford 8N raking hay. Man did I rake alot of hay with that tractor. Next was a 284 raking hay as well. Then I graduated up to the larger IH's 666, 656 utility, 756, 1086, and finally the 1486. Man it was cool as a high school kids to run our new IH chopper with the electric controls. I was the envy of the farm kids at school. The one thing I hated driving the most was the New Holland self propelled haybine. By the time I got to drive it the AC was out and I think I lost 20lbs one summer driving that sweat box.
 
A Ferguson.. I drove while my brothers pick-up sq. bales of hay ...
I couldn't reach the clutch and brakes .. the same time ... so learn to push clutch in and take it out of gear and then STAND on the brakes.. of course I wasn't aloud to use nothing but 1st gear ...
Mark
 
A VAC that my uncle has He came over when I was 6 or 7 to cut hay It was the 1st, 2nd an I think the third tractor I drove before dad let me drive the MF165
 
1942 JD D. It was before my sixth birthday and the tractor was in first gear at idle, with Dad on a homemade drag watching me like a hawk.
 
Hart Parr/Oliver 70 with a trip loader and Dad on the back. Moved a bunch of bricks left over from my Grandparent's house when my uncle built a new machine shed back in the early 60's. Bricks ended up in Dad and Mom's family room addition. Wish I had that tractor!
 
1939 WC when I was 8-10 years old. Driving for loading AC round bales when I was 10 was first regular driving job.
 
Mine was a 1942 John Deere B that i had just bought back from the son of the guy that my grandfather sold it to 20 years earlier. I was 14 and that was almost 5 years ago.
 
farmall m, with a f11 loader, semi truck tires on the front, set of hyster forks fabed up so we could load the skidway on the sawmill, pain in the but to turn with a load of logs on
 
A 1940 Ford 9N that my dad bought new. I still have the cultivator and tractor jack that he bought for it.
 
An LA Case was the first tractor I was put to work on. I was maybe 8. Dad had a homemade garden tractor that I used to play on around the yard. Dad thought the LA Case was a good one for me because it had a hand clutch, just one brake pedal and I should be safe inside those huge fenders. I was in heaven!!

The LA would pull a 4 bottom plow and he used a 3 behind his M Farmall.
 
An at the time brand new 1962 Allis B-1 garden tractor. First farm tractor was a Farmall Super C not long afterwards.
 
david brown 1200 selectomatic w/ a allied front end loader. i was 6 at that time summer of '75,i drove while dad and brother loaded hay on the wagon.
 
IH W9 - I was around 7 years old at the time. I drove it on a baler while my DAD loaded the wagon. I couldn't reach the pedals so Dad had to start and stop it - all I did was steer.
 
John Deere A. Cannot remember how old I was but I was too little to push the clutch all the way in. I would push on it hard enough for it to get some grip and move ahead when Dad told me while he picked rock. Probably 3-4. Spend ALL the time I could on the tractor with Dad!
 
First tractor was an Allis Chalmers WD45 diesel pulling a hayrack as my dad threw on the little round bales when I was about 4 years old. First solo was on the '46 JD B raking hay with one of those IH 2 wheel side delivery rakes....managed to turn too short (easy to do with those) and pulled the rake up on the rear wheel. Had to walk home and get the loader tractor to lift it off.
 
Brand new John Deere B, I was around 5 or 6 at the time. I have a picture somewhere, will post if I can find it.
 
TO 30 Ferguson and I was about 5. I was in charge of driving it pulling the roller after we planted. Also drove it haying , especially raking and driving while the bigger boys threw the bales on the wagon. That little auger tractor is long gone but I may buy another one someday , just for the childhood memories of it. We have an 8n now and I think that TO 30 was a better tractor.
 
VAC Case in the spring of 1943, it was a brand new " war time " tractor.Started school latter that yr.
 
1952 John Deere B at 5 years old, as one grandpa stood on the drawbar beside me and the other grandpa, my dad, and uncles picked up square bales. Both grandpa's took turns "teaching" me. My uncle still has the tractor. I was scared of the hand clutch, but remember thinking I'd be okay because grandpa was right beside me. I'll never forget that day. :)
 
Dad bought a 49 SC Case for me to learn on in the early 70's when I was 5 yrs. old. I still have it and use it on the farm for light jobs. I got promoted up the 77 Oliver then the 830 Case, 1800 Oliver and on to Dad's 970 Case.
 
Farmall 450D, Dad bought her in the early 70s, needs a little work but runnin strong. I learned in the late 70s. Dad used to plow the driveway in reverse with a 8' plow on the back.
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It was a Ford 2000 with a loader.Grandpa and Dad chasing cows on foot left tractor in pasture.They got a 1/4 mile away and started yelling bring the tractor.My cousin and I had never driven it before took us a hour to get it started.Darn neutral saftey switches heard about that for awhile.I was 9 cousin 10 I think.Fun times :lol:
 
My first time driving all by my self was on an "R" Minnie-hopeless wide front(no fights please thats our pet name for it). we would pull the hay rack with it and a hand clutch was pretty easy for a 4 year old to handle. good old tractor. we still have it and i use it a couple times a year for odd jobs. its got electric start but can usually start it with the crank on the first or second try.
 
A John Deere H when I was 5 years old. Dad was loading up bundles of feed. Still have the H....needs to be restored some day.
 
Super H picking up missed ear corn that the picker didn't get because of downed corn by hurricane. Mom had a fit because I could not reach the clutch.Two days later Dad had a M&W hand clutch on it.
 

Drove, late model Oliver 770 but with supervision. 1st one by my self later model Allis Chalmers WD. Can't count (remember) how many since then. Probably 30ish.
 
My first was a 1945 Allis WC. It belonged to my uncle. I was 9 or 10 years old. This would have been in about 1959. Pulled an old ground driven steel wheeled New Idea spreader with it. I own the tractor now.
 
The first time I drove a tractor I was 8 we were picking up small squair hay bales on my grandpa's farm the tractor was a john deere 70 that thing was HUGE to me I drove around the field as my uncle put the hay on the waggon I ran over a couple of bales making a turn and thought that I would get yelled at but it was ok cant hurt too much in a ten acre hayfeild.I wonder where the old J.D. ended up
 
The first time I drove a tractor I was 8 we were picking up small squair hay bales on my grandpa's farm the tractor was a john deere 70 that thing was HUGE to me I drove around the field as my uncle put the hay on the waggon I ran over a couple of bales making a turn and thought that I would get yelled at but it was ok cant hurt too much in a ten acre hayfeild.I wonder where the old J.D. ended up
 
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