Posted by notjustair on February 24, 2019 at 19:27:51 from (98.188.112.49):
In Reply to: How old were you? posted by Lazy WP on February 24, 2019 at 13:12:59:
I was relegated to the little 8N when I was about 7. I wasn�t heavy enough to get the clutch in so I would have to drive standing up and jump on it. We had a loader on the little thing. That seemed impossible to steer. I did a lot of mowing with it at the home pasture in the days before we knew what an over running clutch was. It scares me to think about it now. To this day I can make the little 8N I have do just about anything.
I didn�t graduate up to the field tractors (IH856) until I was about 9. Disking all of the wheat stubble was my job every morning. When it was dry enough to start cutting my job was the grain cart with the Farmall H. I almost didn�t have enough strength to get the old 8 horse Briggs started on the auger. The knot on the end of the starter rope always clobbered me because I had to stand on a bucket to reach the engine and then jump off to pull the rope and start it. Graduated to driving truck to town when I turned 12.
The tractors we had didn�t have any comforts so you were always alert and aware. I�m not sure I would turn a young me lose with my field tractors now. They are too modern and you can forget about the power you are harnessing. I sure wouldn�t put a kid on my articulated tractor.
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