Posted by Bobl1958 on February 24, 2019 at 16:01:51 from (174.234.15.163):
In Reply to: How old were you? posted by Lazy WP on February 24, 2019 at 13:12:59:
I was 6 when I was driving a Ford pulling a hay rack that my Dad and Uncle were loading small bales of prairie hay on that had been dropped on the ground by the square baler. I did a lot of driving after that, mainly with my Dad riding on the fender or sitting in the truck. When I was 10, I got to disc wheat stubble by myself with a JD 5020 and 20' disc. I can remember like it was yesterday. I was thinking all day that when I had Grandkids I could tell them I was in the field by myself at 10 years old. I drove a 2 ton loaded with wheat to the elevator when I was 13. Like a lot of other kids, we farmed about 1500 acres and I was considered slave labor..lol! My Dad would have been hauled to jail today..lol!
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Pat Browning. The setting is rural Wisconsin, halfway between East Troy and Elkhorn, on Hodunk Road, our nation was at war, and I was 6, 7 and 8 years old. George was our "threshing neighbor." He was the one with the threshing machine, a JI Case on steel wheels, and he pulled it to our farm with a JI Case standard tractor also on steel. In those days, steel wheeled implements were common. The roads were general gravel, so the lugs cutting into them wasn't a problem. George would set up the thresher, s
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