Remember the first time you asked...
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Topic: Remember the first time you asked...
Posted By: GBACBFan
Subject: Remember the first time you asked...
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 8:30pm
"Dad, when do I get to drive???"
 Circa early 1940's ------------- "The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." - Mark Twain |
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Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 8:36pm
| that is a neat pic |
Posted By: Rick of HopeIN
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 8:36pm
 wrong color but I can remember the feeling...------------- 1951 B, 1937 WC, 1957 D14, -- Thanks and God Bless |
Posted By: Andrew(southernIL)
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 8:36pm
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Answer was always when your legs get long enough to push in the clutch pedal.
------------- If fishing is a sport your looking at an athlete |
Posted By: DREAM
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 8:45pm
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Andrew, I was told that. I demonstrated that I had no problem pushing the clutch pedal, but I was standing with my left foot on the clutch, my right foot on the left final, and had a death grip on the steering column.LOL! That quickly changed to "when you can sit on the seat and push the clutch pedal and the brakes at the same time". Didn't take too long. I was discing when I was 8, I think. Took a couple of years to graduate to cultivating, and had to get held back from bush-hogging after I ran through the pasture fence. I do remember a lot of seat time on a C before I could actually drive it myself. Got to do a little steering though. |
Posted By: Roddo
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 8:48pm
| I used to run the WD45 bringing wagons of ear corn up to the elevator to put in the corn crib. Probably wansnt more than 7 or 8. I couldnt reach the foot clutch, but I could put it in gear with the hand clutch released, then just yank on the hand clutch and use it to get going! |
Posted By: Jeff(WC)(MI)
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 8:49pm
| i remember asking that...first tractor i ever drove was dads old Gibson...still has it |
Posted By: Rick of HopeIN
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 9:10pm
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my first solo was a 6 HP David Bradley rider, hand clutch just shove it and go. About 3 mph, now I have one in the garage to play with again.
------------- 1951 B, 1937 WC, 1957 D14, -- Thanks and God Bless |
Posted By: morton(pa)
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 9:14pm
| Yup, the answer I got was the same one Andrew got. Of course the first time I did drive it was a very spontaneous situation that the tractor had to be moved. I was a little nervous! |
Posted By: DanNESD
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 9:52pm
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My dad let me try runnig the square baler with the WD45 when I was about 5 or 6. Left most of the windrow on the ground. No power steering. |
Posted By: HaroldOmaha
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 10:15pm
| The first time I got to bale with the Ferguson Baler I worried so much about keeping the pickup on the winrow that I never noticed the knotters broke and I had half a mile of hay waffers. |
Posted By: Osage_Orange
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2010 at 10:32pm
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I started out pulling the wagon while the men loaded square bales on it. I got lots of "atta boys" from them until one day I turned on the side of a hill and upset a wagon (almost full) of hay..................after that I was on parole for while............they put me on the wagon stacking the bales neat like. As Shameless says........."whew" ------------- Why is there never time to do it right the first time, but always time to go back and fix it? |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 6:59am
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I remember sitting on the tool box of Dad's 45 and reaching out to touch the tire when going down the road. Dad would scold me if he caught me doing that. I was no more than 4 cause that was at the old place (as we called it). I first drove solo on his WD when I was 8 or 9 pulling a 5 section drag. Wasn't until I was 13, that was a big year, that I graduated from discing and chisel plowing to cultivating and combining. When I first ran the E combine at 13 it was on an oat field and it looked so pretty a woman pulled up to take photos that she said she would enter at the county fair. Never got her name but when the fair arrived there was a nice big picture of me in that E on a 30 acre field of oats. She got a blue ribbon. Should have written her name down. It would be the only photo of me as a youngster driving anything in the field. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: TedBuiskerN.IL.
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 7:31am
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My first solo experience was age 5 on a new WD following Dad and Grandpa up the edge of the corn field as they cut corn by hand to feed the milk cows and open up the corn fields. just pulled the hand clutch back a bit to move the tractor forward as they went around the field.
At seven, started raking hay and driving on the baler and hay fork and discing corn stalks. The hay fork was backing the tractor up to pull a fork full of hay up into the mow. I was big and strong for my age though. At eight, got to plow with the WD and three bottom Case plow with rope trip lift. That was fun. Started cultivating about nine, hated that. ------------- Most problems can be solved with the proper application of high explosives. |
Posted By: Jamie (KY)
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 7:43am
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At age 10, I wanted to drive the neighbors Massey 255. Dad wouldn't let me do it on my own and it's a good thing he didn't! I let off the clutch, front wheels shot up in the air, and I was headed for the light pole that held our transformer. I wasn't heavy enough to push the clutch back down, especially while riding a wheelie! Dad saved the day by getting it under control. A few weeks later, I got to drive the other neighbors Ford 600. The pedals on it fit me a lot better. No where near as hard to push down. Moved the tobacco wagons up as the guys loaded. I was "king of the world!" ------------- Just when I thought I was finishing my "honey-do-list", she turned the page!!! |
Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 7:50am
| Those are really great photos -- interesting stories too. Kids don't seem to start as early today as they used to --- many things are different today. |
Posted By: Jeff(WC)(MI)
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 8:11am
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Jim Lindemood wrote:Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 8:38am
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I was driving the WD45D around 4 years old while my dad loaded little round bales on the rack...then graduated to hauling manure with a ground drive JD spreader when 6. I still couldn't shift gears, so did everything in 3rd and route was always a circle. I could stop and start the tractor with the hand clutch and it didn't creep a bit when in gear. Next was hauling the wagon to dad when he motioned to me when combining...once my older sister wanted to help....we figured out how to get it into 4th gear, dad was not happy when he saw us bouncing across the field in road gear LOL! ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: CJohnS MI
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 8:48am
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Ah, the manure wagon. Ol Lady Graves farm hand was named Jack Stone. I say his name, because I will never forget that vile, toothless old man. On a day when we had birthed three calves, he "allowed" me to drive the Oliver and manure wagon out to the field and spread it. I had rehearsed for this day for months, and it went flawless, I got to the field, lined her up, engaged the ground drive - and I was off. Moments later, the thing was flinging dung and afterbirth all over me... I bet that S O B is STILL laughing at me... |
Posted By: bigfish_Oh
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 9:12am
not with the '45 !!!! ------------- 1941 WC sat for 29 years,started & dynoed 27 h.p. 1957 WD45 Grandpa bought new,factory p.s.,added wfe 1951 WD, factory p.s. 1960 D14 HnMk IV BkHoe 4 sale 2014 HD Tri Glide 2009 GMC CC SLT Dually |
Posted By: Kip-Utah
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 9:31am
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Love those photos! My first time was on my Uncle Clair's TO20 Fergie going forward & backward running the Jackson Fork (hay fork) at about age eight. That next summer Grandpa let me drive the Fergie 35 Diesel pulling two hay racks while he and my uncles loaded baled hay from the field. I managed to drop a wheel on the second wagon off the end of a small culvert spilling the load, Duke the dog, and my Uncle Dean! ------------- HANSEN'S OLD ORANGE IRON. Showing, Pulling, & Going!! |
Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 10:13am
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Pop told me to drive a B into the fair at Harford County. Had a sickle bar mower on it. There was a truck behind me wanting to pass so not knowing safety too well I just turned the tractor down the enbankment. Remember the mower bar was hanging down hill. How I never rolled that tractor I cannot imagine. When I got to the lot, parked the tractor and got off I realized what I had done and stood there and shook.
Somebody up there adored me.
Good Luck!
Bill Long
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Posted By: Austin(WI)
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 1:50pm
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actually tractors are getting easier for my generation probably...all the computer technology, it's like playing a video game. ------------- "Better By Design" |
Posted By: Mike(SEIN)
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 2:43pm
| I was 7 or 8 I'd ride with Dad on the tool box of the WD, Dad would get off to open the gate (we had 2 water foutains on a platform) that we filled at least once a day took back to the hog lot. my dad didn't let me drive the tractor.He got off, opened the gate , got back on dorve through the gate ,got off ,closed gate got back on ,all the time trying to beat the hogs through the gate. one time the hogs got close he slamed on the brakes and I landed in front of the drive tire. after that He'd leave it in gear and I would use the hand clutch to pull it through the gate. |
Posted By: Reindeer
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 5:27pm
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We had a Case VA that we used to pull a New Holland square baler, which had it's own Wisconsin 2 cylinder on it. I was about 6 when one of my friends phoned and asked if I could come over to play, but We needed to get some hay up, so instead, out to the field, following the windrow. Dad was stooking bales behind, and all went well. Then on another occasion,l I stalled the Case going up a steep incline. Of course I pushed in the clutch, as that was the "brakes" to me, and the whole outfit started to descend. Dad got to me quick enough not to cause any real damage.
When things go wrong, they go wrong quick! ------------- |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 5:30pm
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Must have been 9 or so and for threshing got to drive a B JD. for picking up shocks and bundles, Hand clutch so could use as brake and clutch . Took another year to reach the clutch on WC
The picture on the WC , well was thinking of when I got to drive that for threshing and pulling the hay wagons up to the barn (loose hay) . Dang, then Uncle bought the bailer so just got to stack bales on the wagon , until threshing time rolled around. ------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |