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John WV 
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 Posted: 17 May 2011 at 1:13pm |
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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
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LloydCentWi
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Posted: 17 May 2011 at 1:20pm |
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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.
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KGood
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Posted: 17 May 2011 at 1:57pm |
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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.
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jraymer2244
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Posted: 17 May 2011 at 2:14pm |
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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jburleson
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Posted: 17 May 2011 at 2:23pm |
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Ford 600 mowing hay Dad drove the wc
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Justin Widlund (IA)
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Posted: 17 May 2011 at 3:55pm |
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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mdm1
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Posted: 17 May 2011 at 4:04pm |
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A Ford Jubilee along time ago!
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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!
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B26240
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Posted: 17 May 2011 at 6:53pm |
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B Jack Deer
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AC8030
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Posted: 17 May 2011 at 7:21pm |
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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.
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Blake_AllisMan
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Posted: 18 May 2011 at 11:39am |
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I believe the first tractor i drove alone was dad's 200. Blake
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1941 C
1952 IB
1947 C
1955 WD45 SFW
1956 WD45 Diesel
1977 5020 4WD Serial Number 1
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NickT(Ky)
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Posted: 18 May 2011 at 12:55pm |
150 massey baling straw with Dad on the wagon.
8 yrs. old.
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tcorbett
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Posted: 18 May 2011 at 4:54pm |
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In 1971 I was driving a 1952 WD harrowing hay fields (8 Years old). Thank goodness for the hand clutch!
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Malcolm/NC
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Posted: 18 May 2011 at 5:15pm |
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The one I first remember was my dad's D10. I started out driving the D10 and my uncle's B while trucking tobacco (pulling trailer in field) around 6 years old. One day I was allowed to take it to the barn to unload, but in a lower gear instructed by my dad. But being a kid I found a faster gear, and that was the end of the barn trip for quit a while for me.
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Dave in il
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Posted: 18 May 2011 at 5:42pm |
It was a 53 WD45, Dad was walking, spraying a hedge row with the hand boom and I would pull the tractor and spayer ahead to catch up to him using the hand clutch. I think I was 8. I still have it today.
I eventually learned to rake & haul hay and then to mow hay with that tractor.
Then I remember chopping stalks with the D17 diesel with a 2 row Bradey stalk chopper.
But when I was 10 I got to run the big tractor, our 65 190XT working ground and hauling grain to the elevator.
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tmiller
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Posted: 18 May 2011 at 6:07pm |
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1952 Ford 8N with a mower, was maybe 10? maybe younger
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jhill52
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Posted: 18 May 2011 at 6:15pm |
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My uncles 1951 8N IUt was 1964 I was 12. Just drove around in an oat stubble field. The next year I got to drive his JD 60 on the baler. He still has the 8N
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Breeze
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Posted: 18 May 2011 at 7:01pm |
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super A pullin tobacco sleds, a good while ago.
Edited by Breeze - 18 May 2011 at 7:11pm
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Jerry (Ohio)
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Posted: 18 May 2011 at 7:25pm |
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Farmall F-14 Was around 7 yrs old
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Lonn
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Posted: 18 May 2011 at 9:32pm |
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WD pulling a 5 section Linsey spring tooth drag. Maybe 9 years old.
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Harvey/pa
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Posted: 18 May 2011 at 9:37pm |
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1949 Farmall H raking hay, I was maybe 12 yrs old on my Uncle's farm...Harvey
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Okiejohn
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Posted: 18 May 2011 at 11:24pm |
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'47 Ford 8N with a 3-speed Sherman auxillary transmission. Dad put me on the seat in front of him, cause my feet couldn't reach any of the pedals. I'd steer and do the throttle, and he'd do the rest. Lord only knows what the first job I did by myself with it was, probably pulling a harrow or something. All I know is that by the time i was 7, I was sure wanting him to get a bigger tractor that I could run, we had a Case LA, but Mom said I couldn't touch it without him, and it sure took a LONG time to get much plowed with 2-14's on a good sized field. I was almost wishing I'd never seen that little tractor. It's still in the family, BTW. I know where one of Dad's WD's is, too, don't I, Jim?
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GADinMD
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Posted: 22 May 2011 at 1:51am |
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Farmall BN, picking up bales for our neighbor when I was 11. Second was better, a brand new CA for our local AC dealer, Conrad Engelke in Stamford, NY, about a year later. First he let me "hostle" tractors around the dealership. Then he let me deliver his new tractors within about 10 miles of the shop, and I was in Hog Heaven. Especially with a new WD-45!
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AllisChalmers37
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Posted: 22 May 2011 at 1:56am |
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I think my first one was a 1964 IH 424 diesel. That was a good tractor but it would burn through brakes.
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1937 WC, 1950 CA, 1959 D14, 1967 190XT, 2006 Ram 3500
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Richard S
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Posted: 22 May 2011 at 3:35am |
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Mccormick Deering 10-20 on steel wheels pulliing a 7 foot tandem disk, age about 9 years.
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KD in SE Ks
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Posted: 03 Aug 2011 at 4:11pm |
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WD 45 pulling a four wheel wagon while my dad and uncle was loading little bales that they baled with the Roto Baler. I don't think I was 10 yet.
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dave63
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Posted: 03 Aug 2011 at 5:59pm |
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I seam to recall a cub cadet, Dad is a dealer so there was a lot of trade in to play with as i grew up. I think the first farm tractor was a 300 Case. We had alot of cardboard and we took the pickup assembly off of a rotobaler and built a platform on it. it rolled lots of cardboard bails for recycling in the 70's. That was my job when i was little. I'm not sure how i kept my arms out of the bailer.
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mnhorseman
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Posted: 03 Aug 2011 at 9:13pm |
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1965 a brand new x t 190 rakeing hay have pictures ( smiles the good old days
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DOlson
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Posted: 03 Aug 2011 at 9:14pm |
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WD 45 raking hay I was 9
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WD45
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Posted: 03 Aug 2011 at 9:29pm |
My first tractor to drive was our Allis WF pulling a 17 tooth cultivator at either 6 or 7 .
Dad put the tractor in gear and jumped off leaving me to drive by myself.
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jccleav
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Posted: 03 Aug 2011 at 9:52pm |
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It would have to be a John Deere 3020 running a brush cutter on Great Grandpa's Farm. The next would be a David Brown doing the doing the same.
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