I've got news for you, some men aren't much better. I was a Tracked Vehicle Familiarization instructor in the Army at Fort Sill, OK in 1968. We quickly learned when we had a new class to ask where they were from. Many from larger cities had O driving or motorized equipment experience. Some of these students might start out ok, but would freeze up in the first stressful situation they encountered. We started them out with a lecture in the bleachers, then 10 instructors took them to their M109, a 155mm howitzer that looks like a tank, but only weighs 31 ton and was powered with a 405hp 8V71T Detroit that would allow a 45mph top speed (IIRC). That first day of actual driving with these inexperienced students in a 40 acre sized flat field was an experience that you won't soon forget. Some would freeze up and not steer, not look at their instructor, slow down, or stop once they were moving. If we could get them past the basics the first day, it wasn't so bad, but you learned to never let go of the instructors fuel shut off that was added to each of our tracked vehicles used for this class. There were no women in these classes, but there are a lot of similarities to the driving described in this post.
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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