Posted by JD Seller on April 22, 2013 at 19:57:41 from (208.126.196.144):
I have known several old fellows that just never got comfortable with tractors. They preferred to work with horses.
One of them was a good friend with my maternal Grand Father. His brother told the tail on him driving a tractor through a fence while yelling "WHOA". They where cultivating with two tractors in a field that had just a few end rows because of a steep sloop the field had on the end. So you had to turn in just the four end rows. They where using old Farmall F-20s with four row front mounted cultivators. So you had to keep moving to be able to steer them. So he came to the end and some how he got messed up. He ran through the fence because he "missed" completing the turn. His brother said he kind of panicked and was pushing the brakes but not the clutch. All the while yelling WHOA. They teased him for years about that. He had several other close calls on tractors but I thought this one was funny.
Another pair of bachelor brothers that never liked tractors much. They used horses for everything but the heavy tillage work. Plus they would feed in the winter with a tractor to save harnessing a team. They had a Ford 9N tractor. They made a carry all platform on the back of it. They would haul 10-12 small square bales of hay out to their beef cows every day with it. Now these men where in their late 70s in the 1950s. Well one of them was walking along the track to the pasture to open the gate. His feet slipped out from under him and he slide into the wheel tracks in the lane. The other brother ran over him with both wheels, front and back. The funny part is that the brother driving got so excited about it he slammed the tractor into reverse and backed back over the fallen brother. LAMO Again with both front and rear tires. These two where big German men. Both where over six foot tall and where still pretty strong guys. Luckily the mud and the light tractor kept the fallen brother from getting hurt but you should have heard the cussing he would give the other one about it. LOL Both where hard of hearing too. You could hear them a mile away "talking" to each other. They quit using the tractor to feed with after that. They would hitch a team and haul the hay out with the horses. The older brother was the one that was driving the tractor. The younger one told my Grand Dad that the older one never drove the tractor after that day.
So a couple of old time stories about fellows long gone by now. I miss the true "characters" we used to have around on the farms. Hard working but simple men that made a living with just plain hard work.
So do any of you have any tails of men that just did not make the change over to tractors well???
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