What was the first tractor you drove alone?

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..

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.

WD45 Diesel, discing when i was 7!

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!!

My grandpa's D17 on his dairy farm when I was about 10.

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

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

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.

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.

WD45 Diesel pulling IH 37 disc and harrow at age 7. This was after countless hours riding on the tool box.

Man its cool reading all of these storys!

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. 

Mine was a 1937 WC when I was 6.

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.

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.