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What was the first tractor you drove alone?

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A Ferguson 20 or 30 my dad borrowed from the neighbor across the road.  He was picking up boxes of peaches in the orchard and I drove it up the row.  We owned a '39 B but I couldn't reach the clutch when I was 6.
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VAC case...what a piece....even back then! no 4th gear, no brakes, no power steering, no...well i'm sure there was other things too!
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Farmall H mowing hay with a New Idea #30 mower. Dad was always around when I moved hay wagon picking up small square bales off the field.
Ac D-19, a Number of WD's, One WD45, Two 444 balers, Ac plows and etc.
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Minneapolis Moline R in about 1950-51 when I was 7 or 8.  Used it to pull a skid with 2 wood water-barrels (used for watering young chickens) from the field to where they could be re-filled and back.  The MM had hand clutches that a young boy could handle.
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A brand new 6080 pulling two empty gravity wagons from the tool shed to the field for dad. I would have been 7 or so at the time. The instructions were simple,"if you get into trouble push down on this pedal and shove the black knob on the dash in!'

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Farmall M pulling hay wagon age 13
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Probably a WD. But, I most remember trying to plow with the IHC M and not being able to trip the plow a the right moment at the ends.  And, not being big enough (probably was 9 years old) to hold the steering wheel when the front end fell into ruts and the spinner knob wacking my arm.  Years later was I ever glad to see that tractor go for a D19.
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My grandad's 1950 C. I have it in the shop at home for some extensive "rehab" right now.
I didn't do it! It was a short, fat, tall, skinny guy that looked like me!
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First tractor I drove alone was a D17 series 4 diesel.  The first tractor I was allowed to drive alone was a Ford 6610 II.  That was about 2 years later... lol

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AC 190 and the pin fell out of the clutch petal when I was going to stop for dad to open the gate. The 190 opened it really nice.
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It was a 1936 WC on steel and I was 7 or 8 yrs. old.  I drove the tractor while my older brother operated the grain binder cutting oats oats. I can still remember how I struggled to reach the clutch to stop the WC..
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190 diesel series II with stolper cab, I was 7. Almost as tall as I am now! LOL!
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1940 AC Model B
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Ford 801 Powermaster pulling a wagon in a melon field.
 
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First tractor I drove was a Allis B, then Dad bought a new CA in 1956 which I still have. My 5 year old grandson loves to drive it and tells me to stand on the drawbar and he wants to do all the steering. Dad did buy a new Massey Harris 44 Diesel in 1947 which was a big tractor in them days. I drove the B to haul sheaves to the threshing machine, and pull the grain binder.
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D-17 SerIII driving (steering)while my father threw hay off the wagon for the cows.He could have thrown the hay off while sitting still,but he wanted to me to feel like I was helping.Just after my 4th birthday.Remember like it was yesterday.My older brother was so mad my dad let me drive(he thought that SerIII was his).My brother was 7 at the time.
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My first was grandpas D17 while pulling a harrow. I still have the tractor and one of these days will get around to restoring it.
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When I was 5 I steered the WD while my Dad loaded small round bales on to a trailer.
To stop I could push the hand clutch. Later did field work with the same WD.
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Mine was the 720 garden tractor, pulling the pipe trailer, and mowing the yard.  Those were the days, no responsibility, just get up and do some chores, wish that were the case today?!  :)
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 First tractor I drove alone was a AC B-110. The first big tractor I drove was a D17
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my was a farmall super a in 1966 dad bought a d12 s111 janzen farm equipment in harrow  that set the world on fire from then on it was orange 
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The first tractor I drove alone was a Farmall M narrow front end. It was the fastest road tractor we had, We would haul hay way wagons and also self unloading wagons with silage on them.
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I was probably 9 or 10 when I first took the neighbors 60JD with Charr-Lynn power steering out back with the Krause disc to knock down some corn stalks. I spent a lot of time on that tractor in the next 6 years.
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Dad's Ford 8N
 
I spent much time "driving" at about 3 or 4 years of age, but when I was 9, I convinced my 12 year old brother to let me drive it around the field pulling the spring tooth Case harrow. Dad did not find out until I was about 14 years old......
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1950 WD, Steering it down between the rows of round bales, while dad and grandpa loaded.  Dad used to say they had me doing that before I could walk.  I hope he was stretching the truth some! 
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wd45 draggin logs from around the lake for dad to cut up and then dragging with my b that i still have
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WD at age 7, pulling a heavy drag with a section harrow behind it. Got the narrow front, and left rear tire in the dead furrow, with the front tires turned hard right, and was stuck. Wasn't strong enough to straighten the wheels, so I just sat there and cried till my mom came and rescued me. Happened 53 years ago, almost to the day.   Lanny   Mid TN
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Plowing cornstalks with a ford jubilee and a 2 bottom plow. At that moment in my life that was the best tractor ever made. haha
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Mine was a 1958 D-17 of my granddads.

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