I was on the 8N at 7. I wasn't tall enough to push in the clutch so I had to jump down off the seat and stand on the clutch to push it in or let it out. It had a loader on it. It was the tractor I learned to drive on so I never knew that folks think the steering is hard on those with a loader. It was just barnyard chores at that point anyway - watering trees and such.
At about 9 I was discing the wheat stubble all morning during harvest (with the 856) and then running the H with the Grain-o-Vator cart on it when we started cutting each day. Notched pulley and wind up rope start 8 horse Briggs on the auger. The best part was how fast that H went on the return trip to the field. It felt like that old thing might just take off.
When I turned 10 I started running the grain truck back and forth to fields and the bins. 1964 Ford - loved that truck. By the time I was 14 I had already been running wheat to town for a year. I had to get special permission to leave driver's education early each day so I could run the truck to the elevator with the first loads of the day. My friends thought I was cool. I just thought I was hot and sweaty. I sure hated that the old truck only had an am radio. All of the "cool" stations were fm.
I look at 9 year olds today and cringe. I wouldn't set any of them off down the road with a cart of wheat to wind the rope on the auger engine by themselves. Maybe we were just good at it because of the expectations. Grandpa expected me to remember how to work everything the right way and do it safely. I had city cousins he never did let drive his pickup even as adults. I guess the farm educates kids. City kids just get taught.
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