I grew up in the '60s and '70s, there were NO 4wd pickups. Everyone had and always had a 2 wheel drive pickup. You learned how to drive in mud and slick areas and NOT get stuck, you KNEW your limitations! One of my uncles had a big barn on the top of a steep hill, if there was a heavy dew you probably wouldn't make it IF you didn't know how to drive. By about '75 or so several farmers started buying 4wd, most just got stuck deeper but as time and experience grew they got better. Dad bought a new F250 4wd in '77 and it was like a spaceship compared to the old two wheel drives. But when you got it stuck, you were STUCK. I wouldn't think of farming today without 4wd though, it works so much better. Back in the old days I learned to drive in snow with a rear wheel drive with studded snow tires. Our house was on a hill with a deadman about half way up. If you didn't want to leave the car parked at the bottom of the hill you learned how to make it up that hill. It may have taken several attempts but you made it happen, it taught you a lot about torque, traction, and control, things that aren't known today with all of the AWD/FWD/4WD's around.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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