I started droving my father's F-12 when I was about 8--stretching to reach the clutch, with my fanny almost on the left brake drum cover. Nothing was going to stop me, and nobody tried to(tell that to OHSA today). We had 30 cows and a Dual Manual Manure Extractor (two scoop shovels). Usually, the hired man did most of the mucking out, which in the winter took from 9 a.m. to probably 4 p.m. I didn't care much for the shoveling, but I was desperate to drive the tractor to the field, so I always managed to be around to help out the hired man with at least part of the load. He probably didn't want to go out in a windy field in January, so there were no protests when I started for the field. On one of these joyous excursions, there was snow on the ground. I ALWAYS drove flat out (four mph) and usually pulled the governor rod to get just a few more rpms. Sometimes, there would be a tiled drain in the field that would break and start a washout. This usually left a good sized hole in the ground. Well, you guessed it. I'm barreling through the snow and couldn't see the camouflaged hole. Wham! The front end went down, the bolster snapped off and the tractor lunged ahead a few feet until it stalled after digging a trench in the ground. Long walk to the barn, long face. I looked at my father and said, "I broke the front wheels off." He never said a word, and to this day, I do not know what he thought. The next day when I got home from school, there was a new bolster on the tractor.
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