AC6060 grading the driveway

Oldest brother Jim and his grandson Owen scrapping the driveway to the farm. Nice day today to fill in the massive amount of pot holes from all the rain. Dads 6060 that he purchased new in 1981.

I hope the picture is just a photo shoot to get a pic with the grandson, and not an in action photo. I have never understood why anyone would ever let a child ride on a tractor with an Implement mounted while working. Just one mistake and the consequences can be devastating!
I’m not picking on anyone but tractors can be deadly in seconds.

Yes sir Gary I couldn't agree more.  I'm sure he's not doing 80 mph down the freeway with it, just taking it easy with the grandkids.  I do it all the time.  Have a lot of memories from my childhood on a tractor.

I had a LOT of seat time on a WD45 toolbox. Im positive that is why I have one today.

Edited by JayIN - 07 Jan 2019 at 9:47am

Michael Crowe wrote: I hope the picture is just a photo shoot to get a pic with the grandson, and not an in action photo. I have never understood why anyone would ever let a child ride on a tractor with an Implement mounted while working. Just one mistake and the consequences can be devastating! I’m not picking on anyone but tractors can be deadly in seconds.

Edited by Unit3 - 07 Jan 2019 at 2:00pm

Your grandson will remember you and that moment forever.

He's as safe on that tractor as he is in his own mother's arms.

Nice looking 6060. 

Great  picture.  

I have done the same thing as most older guys on here, with that said please read what's in this link below and then tell Michael he is wrong! If this link is not enough look in your operator's manual you will find the same thing that he posted about! Then ask yourself what will 12 people say in a court room to the family about is a good idea.

Posting an innocent safe picture IMO has now made me feel I shouldn’t have posted it, but for my brothers grandson and his grand dad to enjoy privately. I’d rather live my life having safe fun and not in a glass house. This is not a pto implement of which none of us would never put a child on a tractor using one. We are all aware of the dangers of farming, I’m also aware that every time I strap my grandchildren in their car seat that there is the possibility of someone texting, talking on their cell phone, drunk,or just not paying attention to driving coming towards me. So should I just stay home and be a hermit? Life is full of risks, its how big of risk one takes that gets them in trouble.

Thank you for posting a great picture of your family and the family AC 6060 out working! I sure hope this will not discourage you from posting more pictures  with children riding or driving tractors while pulling an implement. Nice looking 6060 and even better picture of the youngster!

I went and looked at tractor for sale once.  Priced way low.  The old fella selling said he wanted "to get out of it because of bad memories".  Grandson fell off and was rolled over.  The old guy was badly depressed and said his daughter seldom comes around the farm anymore because of it and he feels like he lost a daughter as well.  Said he's wished a thousand times it could of been him instead.  I think if that happened to my grandson and I told my daughter that I did it a 100 times when I was a kid, she'd spit in my face.

Guys, my apologies to all who were offended; that was certainly not my intent but clearly it happened.

Nice tractor. I love the 6000 series. Also I see nothing wrong with the kid riding while grading the driveway. If you were doing some type of production work with PTO operates equipment I might think differently. Depending on the child’s age I feel there is different levels of exposure. I have let my kids ride while working the tractor. I go slower and make sure they are holding on. They have to learn somehow. They can’t watch from the porch and then one day you turn then loose to learn on their own . That would be a good way to get them hurt. My youngest is 11 and now I’m the one riding on the fender. Of course I wait until we are out in the open and make him go at a reduced speed. But I feel much safer knowing that he is getting instructional time now . Post like this is why I hesitate to put pictures on here. I posted a picture once of my wife’s 4h group and I pulled them in a parade. I had sides on the trailer and made everyone sit down while moving. We stopped and parked and I got off and took a picture. People were standing on the trailer. And someone on here called me out and said I needed to make everyone sit down. Of course I pointed out the fact the I was parked and there wasn’t even anyone on the tractor in the picture.

Going to need it to move snow this weekend!