I wonder if it was the fact that the kid was 13...or was it because the parent just hadn't taken the time to properly train the young person? Most kids at 13 are pretty capable and can handle a tractor pretty well if properly trained. Why I even saw a mere woman running a 4020 in the movie "Bridges of Madison County". When I was 13 I was doing just about every farm task there was with a Farmall H (an allegedly horribly dangerous tractor because of it's tricycle design) on a diversified farming operation in the midwest. I had been trained how to do the job...simple as that. Some kids a lot older than I was were doing some pretty dangerous things with tractors, things that I knew better than to try. I guess they hadn't been trained very very well. Some adults were getting injured and killed too because they didn't realize all the hazards of power machinery.
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