What was the first tractor you drove alone?
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Topic: What was the first tractor you drove alone?
Posted By: R.W
Subject: What was the first tractor you drove alone?
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:01pm
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Just wondering what was the first tractor you ever drove by your self and what were you doing? Mine was a 7045 bailing hay when I was 7.
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Posted By: allis restorer
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:04pm
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Mine was a Ford 7700 that we still have, and i was also discing. ------------- Go orange or Go home!! |
Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:06pm
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Define alone? First tractor I drove was a B with my uncle sitting next to me. Next time it was a D17 where I drove and he picked up hay. Next time was the B again with a harrow section while he was in the same field discing with the D19. ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: acd21man
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:10pm
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ac 200 when i was like 8 pulling off a international lol....iv put a lot off miles on tractors ------------- 2 wd 45,2 D-17 diesel/gas 3 pt, 220,d21, 4020,2 4430s used daily http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCudh8Xz9_rZHhUC3YNozupw |
Posted By: AaronSEIA
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:12pm
| I'd have to ask my dad. I'm going to guess his 105 White. Spent a lot of time on his 1066 and 806 before he went Orange with the 7060. AaronSEIA |
Posted By: AC190XTrescuer
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:17pm
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first by my self was our new holland tn60a now i hardly run that i use my orange 5040
------------- What you cant get done today you can always do tomarrow, And if there is no tomarrow it was a waste of time today |
Posted By: Rog(NCWI)
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:19pm
| My first tractor was a Model B Allis hauling oat bundles to the threshing machine. Age 8. |
Posted By: mnoonan-NEWI
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:24pm
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1951 or 52 Grandpas brand new wide front CA. I was about 9 and was so excited to drive it. It seemed very big to me. ------------- AC CA, Ferguson TO-20, Ford NAA, M-M BG, AC #3 Mower, SC Plow, PH Digger, AC 720's with Ark 700 loader & Brantly Backhoe, "Mini B" w/flathead Ford V8 |
Posted By: David Gibson (OH)
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:26pm
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First time alone was WD45 me and my cousin drove it around that summer because we weren't old enough to get our drivers license.
------------- David Gibson http://www.darkecountysteam.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.darkecountysteam.com 1956 WD45 |
Posted By: junkman
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:26pm
| For me it would have to be the Yellow AC B. It was a old highway dept. tractor that was a 30s model for it did not have electric start. My sister and I was visiting my brother one day in the hay field when I was probably 9 and she was 11. They left with a load of hay and we got bored so see was able to crank it over for I was not and we took turns driving it around till my brother caught us. |
Posted By: norm[ind]
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:32pm
| mine was 1929 FORDSON with steel wheels harrowing for corn got sand blasted at the same time with dual wheels |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:39pm
| 4020 JD disking. The very first time I drove it I was 4 or 5 years old and my dad got on and put it in gear at low idle and said follow him. I drove about a 1/4 mile following him while he walked. I've often wondered what would have happened if he tripped and fell or somthing. I had no idea how to stop it. I also remember sleeping on the floor while he farmed and I remember him tieing rags on all the knobs that opened the windows because I kept banging my head on them. I also remember when it or the combine was parked at home I'd spend all day in the seat play farming. |
Posted By: GBACBFan
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:44pm
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Grandpa's Farmall H. I remember it like it was yesterday. ------------- "The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." - Mark Twain |
Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:48pm
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Alone as in not having someone sit right next to you. :) ------------- In Search Of: 1958 Allis Chalmers D17 Diesel serial #9643D |
Posted By: gary(nmo)
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:54pm
| My first was a 1948 Allis C. The year was 1955. I still have that same tractor. My dad traded I think a 42 C crank start for the new 48 with starter. I was 8 years old in 1955. Gary |
Posted By: cougar766
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:55pm
| in the barnlot would've been an old Super H, in the field around 7 yrs old would've been my Lady (766D) plowing |
Posted By: Wayne (IN)
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 7:57pm
| AC D-14! |
Posted By: Rfdeere
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:04pm
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9N Ford, didn't take long to figure out they are just not the best tractor. ------------- Randy Freshour,Member Indiana AC Partners, http://www.rumelyallis.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.rumelyallis.com |
Posted By: Dave (Mid-MI)
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:05pm
| Allis WD pulling a 10' JD disk. |
Posted By: Protrucker
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:06pm
| My first was a Case VAC that was my great uncle's and if I remember right (it's been about 40-45 years) we were haying. I was either cutting hay or pulling the hay rake. |
Posted By: AMB(wcIL)
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:12pm
| Mine was the 7045 discing corn stalks, I think i was 12 Andy |
Posted By: jeffnil
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:20pm
| 8030 discing, it was one year old and i was 10 |
Posted By: jhid
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:22pm
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mine was either a cub or a golden jubilee
------------- red and green are nice for christmas, but orange is all year round http://www.canadianantiquetractor.com/tractorforum/ |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:22pm
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First one would have been a B, JD got to drive the tractor because was to small to pitch bundles onto wagon while threshing. Could use the hand clutch and steer up to shock , hold it with hand clutch brake, then drive to the next one. Even got to eat withthe big guys on the threshing crew, none of this small kids table thing. ------------- 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." |
Posted By: Stan R
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:26pm
| CA driving down a row of field tobacco pulling a wagon while my father was loading it. He then jumped on and turned the steering wheel so as to stop driving over the cut tobacco. |
Posted By: firemen
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:27pm
| allis chalmers c tractor now sits in the corner of the old barn waiting to be restored |
Posted By: REEDE
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:31pm
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Mine was a 1958 D-17 of my granddads. |
Posted By: amac
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:34pm
| 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 |
Posted By: LannyMTN
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:34pm
| 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 |
Posted By: mjbower
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:36pm
| wd45 draggin logs from around the lake for dad to cut up and then dragging with my b that i still have |
Posted By: Dennynwil
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:45pm
| 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! |
Posted By: GlenninPA
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:46pm
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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...... ------------- Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. From listening comes wisdom and from speaking comes repentance. Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 8:47pm
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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. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: cbt1124
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 9:01pm
| 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. |
Posted By: wheatbreeder
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 9:01pm
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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 morley ------------- Farm stuff 8050,6690,175,F2,5050,WD |
Posted By: michaelwis
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 9:07pm
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D - 15 SERIES 2 AT 8 YRS OLD ..FROM THE DEALER ------------- WD WD45 DIESEL D 14 D-15 SERIES 2 190XT TERRA TIGER ac allcrop 60 GLEANER F 6060 7040.and attachments for all Proud to be an active farmer |
Posted By: split51
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 9:10pm
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First tractor I drove alone was a AC B-110. The first big tractor I drove was a D17 ------------- 1929 20-35 sn17662 B1 w/snow blade B10 w/sickle mower B110 w/mower deck B110 w/tiller B112 w/grader blade B210 w/plo |
Posted By: Orange Blood
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 9:12pm
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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?! :) ------------- Still in use: HD7 WC C CA WD 2-WD45 WD45LP WD45D D14 3-D17 D17LP 2-D19D D19LP 190XTD 190XTLP 720 D21 220 7020 7030 7040 7045 3-7060 Projects: 3-U UC 2-G 2-B 2-C CA 7-WC RC WDLP WF D14 D21 210 7045 N7 |
Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 9:14pm
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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. ------------- Nothing is impossible if it is properly financed |
Posted By: se iowa picker
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 9:19pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 9:22pm
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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. ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: Rayhowling
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 9:28pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Scott(GA)
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 9:36pm
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Ford 801 Powermaster pulling a wagon in a melon field. Scott
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Posted By: Tedin NE-OH
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 9:39pm
| 1940 AC Model B |
Posted By: injpumpEd
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 9:42pm
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190 diesel series II with stolper cab, I was 7. Almost as tall as I am now! LOL!
------------- 210 "too hot to farm" puller, part of the "insane pumpkin posse". Owner of Guenther Heritage Diesel, specializing in fuel injection systems on heritage era tractors. stock rebuilds to all out pullers! |
Posted By: rnjmyers@bright.net
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 9:51pm
| 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.. |
Posted By: D17 owner
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 9:59pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Hurst
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 10:01pm
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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 Hurst ------------- 1979 Allis Chalmers 7000 5800 Hours |
Posted By: DREAM
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 10:13pm
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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! |
Posted By: MBwcIll
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 10:23pm
| 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. |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 10:28pm
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Farmall M pulling hay wagon age 13 ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: ALLISMAN32
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 10:38pm
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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!' |
Posted By: 427435
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 10:47pm
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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.
------------- Mark B10 Allis, 917 Allis, 7116 Simplicity, 7790 Simplicity Diesel, GTH-L Simplicity Ignorance is curable-----stupidity is not. |
Posted By: Teddy (punchie)
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 10:51pm
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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. |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 16 May 2011 at 11:49pm
| 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! |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 12:02am
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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.
------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: WD45
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 3:57am
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My was dads 1945 WF cultivating with a 1942 Chochutt cultivator 17 tooth on high steel wheels in 1951 when I was 7. Also drove dads Chochutt 70 back then. It was a nice warm tractor to drive with the large fenders. ------------- Fred Dunlop, G,B,CA, WC,WF, 3 WD45`s,gas, diesel and LP,U,D10 series III, D12,D14,D15 SERIES II,D17 Series IV in Gas and Diesel ,D19 GAS and D21,170 185,210 ,220 an I-600 8070 fwd, 716H and 1920H |
Posted By: Burgie
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 5:08am
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1952 WD with a 4 section harrow. ------------- "Burgie" |
Posted By: Redpower1456
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 5:27am
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First tractor I ever drove solo was an Allis Chalmers B fitting ground with an old spike tooth drag harrow. I thought I was king of the world. Second tractor I ever drove alone was an IH 1256 pulling a disc and packer. Quite a leap from the AC B to the IH 1256. |
Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 5:53am
| In June of 1959 we took delivery of a new D17 to help out our 49 WD. In 61 when I was 8 I was allowed some operating time with grandpa or Dad onboard and by 63 I was running the hay crimper solo on the D17. I soloed that first before the WD cause Dad said it was much safer on our hills than the WD nfe. I can still smell the new D17! |
Posted By: David Maddux
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 6:04am
| Dad bought a new Massey Ferguson 65 diesel around 1964. It would have had to been that tractor, sometime around that time. Dave. |
Posted By: Sitesstables
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 6:10am
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Our Ferguson 40.. I always got stock pulling a New Idea manure spreader, the ground driven ones. If you did not get everything just so, youhad more crap flying over you then behind you. My dad had it restored last year. My Grand father had it shipped in from Canada since you could not get them in Northern Indiana at the time.. ------------- 1965 D17 Series IV |
Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 6:20am
I don't remember at what age I was driving without Dad in the seat but it would have been as soon as he thought I was able to safely start and stop the tractor to drive thru gates pulling a wagon or trailer to feed livestock. To work in the field with Dad on a different tractor it would have been an Allis Chalmers C pulling an eight foot disc and I was eight years old. I have no idea where the C ended up but I was pulling the disc in the picture below that dad bought in 1949. I have it almost ready to start pulling it again.
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Posted By: dudley wallace
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 6:47am
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it was a 1953 wd 45 my dad bought it new in the spring of 1954 he worked at a a/c shop in danville indiana we still have it on the farm working and play in parades and plow days for our local tractor club. ------------- a member of hendricks county antique tractor and machinery association club. |
Posted By: ky wonder
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 6:49am
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i remamber well it was a farmall c, that i could not reach the pedals on,
grandad was hauling in tobacco and he put the tractor in low gear at an idle, so all i had to do was steer the tractor between the rows of cut tobacco, while the men walked along beside and handed up the sticks of tobacco, to the guy on the wagon.
when he wanted me to stop, i could not reach the clutch, but i could push in the little main power button that killed the tractor
------------- i like old tractors of all colors |
Posted By: tomNE
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 7:18am
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WD45 Diesel, discing when i was 7! ------------- AC from the start of my families farming career till the end! |
Posted By: nella(Pa)
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 7:39am
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An Oliver HG cletrac in 1950(9 yrs. old) pulling a 2 bottom Oliver sulky plow and my father was driving the WD pulling a Case 2 bottom plow. It took 2 hands to pull the rope and lift the plow at the end of the field and then I would pull a lever to turn the tractor. It wasn't my first day on a tractor, I spent many acres on his lap either steering the tractor or asleep. If only I could relive those day's over and know what I know now!
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Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 7:46am
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Mine was a Ford 8N using for picking up wheat for thrashing. Then a WD, CA for cultivating and then the ultimate, a WD45. LOVE that sound to this day!!
------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 7:47am
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My first would be a 1947 "C".
Age at the time? -? I've slept since then. ------------- |
Posted By: jtheise4
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 7:56am
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My grandpa's D17 on his dairy farm when I was about 10. ------------- 1958 D14 |
Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 8:05am
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MF 180 Diesel. Logged alot of hrs on the flat top fender riding shotgun with dad too ------------- Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity" 1968 D15D,1962 D19D Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 8:08am
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My first time (thinking around 5 years old) was on a WD pulling a wooden road drag up and down our 1/4 mile driveway, before dad made me stop (Mom saw me on the WD) I had the old road so nice you could land a 747 jet plane on it. lol
Don ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: jraymer2244
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 8:13am
| Mine was a CA about 12 years old clipping pastures for friend. |
Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 8:17am
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It was the summer of 71 and I was six going on seven (October birthday). I was on Dad's only tractor at the time, a 1963 D17 Series III (that I bought back last year!) that had a narrow front. I drove the tractor pulling a home-made hay wagon made from model-T frames while Dad picked up and stacked square bales all by himself. It was in the NW bottom of our farm. I had never driven it before that day, even with Dad on the tractor with me. Dad showed me how to use the PD clutch to start and stop it in the low side. I did run into one square bale anyway with the back tire, lol! Memories like this is why I worked so hard to buy that tractor back after having sold it in 1997 for Mom after he passed away. Mike ------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
Posted By: RichinWis
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 8:28am
| I drove my Dads styled WC home from my uncles place where they were using it to build a log cabin. |
Posted By: Gary in da UP
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 8:31am
| The first was "self propelled" by pedal power, a farmall M. The first working tractor would have been an 8N or jubilee, pulling a stone boat. |
Posted By: neilwcmn
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 9:04am
| a wc pulling a 10 ft disc |
Posted By: D17JIM
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 9:20am
| 1950 WD picking up hay. Used same tractor to drag off plowed groung . The first at 6 yrs. old. Then 8 yrs. old on the drag. Still remember it well. The WD and I were the same age. |
Posted By: chllngr528
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 9:29am
| Ford 8N pulling hay wagons Not sure of the age maybe 9 or 10 |
Posted By: Bull
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 9:33am
| WD45 Diesel pulling IH 37 disc and harrow at age 7. This was after countless hours riding on the tool box. |
Posted By: Jeff-in-Kunkletown
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 9:54am
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A JD140 mowing the yard at home. 1st farm tractor, Dad's AC B, first big tractor, neighbors 970 Case bailing hay. ------------- Sucess is how high you bounce after hitting bottom. Gen. George S. Patton |
Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 10:36am
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Man its cool reading all of these storys! ------------- In Search Of: 1958 Allis Chalmers D17 Diesel serial #9643D |
Posted By: Kip-Utah
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 10:41am
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MF 35 Diesel ------------- HANSEN'S OLD ORANGE IRON. Showing, Pulling, & Going!! |
Posted By: Nate (OH)
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 10:43am
| 1948 Farmall M with model 31 trip loader. It was around age 5 or 6 and hauled grain wagons up to the farm from the field. Always stopped before the auger and then dad would come over and do the rest. Then after it was empty he would pull it away and let me at it again. |
Posted By: kev/ont
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 11:29am
| mine would be a 255 leyland, and I thought I had the world by the ass at that point in time. We also had a 272 which I was considered to small to do anything other than move from one side of the yard to the other. By the time I was able to work on my own with that tractor we had a 6080 allis |
Posted By: Andy in Central IA
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 11:35am
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Mine was a 1937 WC when I was 6. ------------- Andy Central IA |
Posted By: bill2260
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 11:45am
| WD45 baling hay when I was nine years old. Dad was waiting on my grand dad to come tot he field and bale hay. The hay was ready and he wasn't there so dad asked me if I wanted to drive. Said yes. Got along fine so long as dad didn't ask to stop on a hill. Couldn't reach the brake pedal. Brings back fond memories. Bill |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 11:51am
| It would have been Dad's 1952 WD that I drove sometime in probably 1967 or 1968. They had just started the AC dealership and I would have been using it to move dirt with a #9 loader. |
Posted By: jraymer2244
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 1:02pm
| My first was a CA clipping pastures for friend. |
Posted By: Embellem
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 1:11pm
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First "driving" (just steering really) on my dad's lap was actually my dad's cousin's Case crawler! Then steering my grandpa's Farmall 450, both probably around 6 years old. They sold the farm before I could ever drive one alone there. So you would actually have to fast-forward to about when I was in my early 30s when I drove my father-in-law's John Deere 420 on his farm as the first I actually drove alone. |
Posted By: John WV
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 1:13pm
| a 51 super a I think I was 8 and that was many moons ago still use it on the farm today , my uncle brought it new |
Posted By: LloydCentWi
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 1:20pm
| I'm not sure exactly how old I was but I'm thinking 6 years at the oldest. I used to watch my dad start his Ford N series tractor. Then later I went out and started it myself. I think it was the type you used the shift lever to push the starter button so it can't start in gear, luckily. My dad got a good chewing out by my mother for that one. I also got a warm behind. |
Posted By: KGood
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 1:57pm
| I'am not sure how old I was but it was the late 70's or early 80's. It was a wd45 diesel with a turbo and I was pulling a gravity wagon following our G combine. |
Posted By: jraymer2244
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 2:14pm
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About 12 years old ran a CA about a week clipping pastures for a friend
at home we had a pair of mules ,old jack and jenny.
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Posted By: jburleson
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 2:23pm
| Ford 600 mowing hay Dad drove the wc |
Posted By: Justin Widlund (IA)
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 3:55pm
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My first one (of the pedal variety) was a 7045. Dad got the real deal and got the pedal tractor at the same time. I rode it so much I wore through the hard rubber wheels.
I learned to drive on a JD 140 garden tractor. I logged a bunch of hours on that one. Boy if that thing could talk! Then I guess I graduated up to the CA with a belly mower.
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Posted By: mdm1
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 4:04pm
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A Ford Jubilee along time ago! ------------- Everything is impossible until someone does it! WD45-trip loader 1947 c w/woods belly mower, 1939 B, #3 sickle mower 1944 B, 2 1948 G's. Misc other equipment that my wife calls JUNK! |
Posted By: B26240
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 6:53pm
| B Jack Deer |
Posted By: AC8030
Date Posted: 17 May 2011 at 7:21pm
| I started out when I was 8 on a D17 raking hay it was so fun and I still do it today but with a series 4 D17 and I still think its fun. |
Posted By: Blake_AllisMan
Date Posted: 18 May 2011 at 11:39am
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I believe the first tractor i drove alone was dad's 200. Blake ------------- 1941 C 1952 IB 1947 C 1955 WD45 SFW 1956 WD45 Diesel 1977 5020 4WD Serial Number 1 |