Posted by Hugh MacKay on September 02, 2008 at 17:26:45 from (209.226.247.180):
In Reply to: super a purchase posted by Mark W. on September 02, 2008 at 05:20:50:
Mark: Age six is when I started and it was production agriculture. Bet your dad did too. I was born 1942, the year my dad bought a new W4. In the summer of 1948, my dad plunked me in the W4 seat with hay wagon and loose hayloader in tow. My grandfather had always done this job, however the two hired hands building the loads of hay were complaining about grandpa being too vicious on the clutch. Dad said, "You've got a job as long as those two guys on the load don't complain." Man, that old W4 had long clutch pedal travel for 6 year old legs. It was flat land, thus I didn't need to use brakes along with the clutch.
Later we got a Cub, H and a SA. Those were a picnic to drive compared to the W4. Dad taught his own 5 sons and about 20 other young lads to drive tractors at a very young age. You were not allowed to go joy riding, it had to be something that was productive agriculture. I remember the first time dad let me take the H with spring tooth cultivator to do seed bed prep on about 5 acres, while he milked the cows. It was enough fun I thought I'd just keep doing repeated passes until milking was done. I was about 10 and tractor job seemed much more exciting than any barn jobs. When dad was done milking he came to seed the 5 acres, said, "I thought I best get here before you wore out the land or the spring tooth cultivator."
The year we bought the 130 new, dad taught an 8 year old lad to rake hay. This was quite steady raking as dad was a 2,000 to 3,000 bales a day kind of guy. That young lad stayed with me on the farm, full time after he finished high school. When he was a teenager I'd give him my pickup any time he wanted it, mostly weekends. He never put a scratch on it and he showed every morning for milking. He had an urge to go trucking, and he has, long haul trucking, and still does. He's trucked every province in Canada, all 49 mainland states and a bit of Mexico. He must be pushing 50 and has yet to have a road accident. My point, 20 hp tractors have turned out far more good drivers than all the driving schools, coast to coast. Why, because they start and learn safety at a very young age. DON'T WAIT, give your dad a job.
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