Posted by modirt on February 25, 2019 at 05:48:56 from (199.187.163.74):
In Reply to: How old were you? posted by Lazy WP on February 24, 2019 at 13:12:59:
Alone....about 5 or 6......JD 620 with hand clutch.....dad would get off to open hog lot gates and I was to drive through so he didn't have to get on and off and could keep the hogs from getting out. I wasn't big enough to be the one to open the gates as they were home made wooden gates and were not in hinges.
By age 8 or so, I was raking hay by myself.
About the same time, I started driving the pickup.....a '52 Ford 3/4 ton......he would load it with hay for the cows.....get it in the pasture, tell me what direction he wanted me to go and I'd take off driving and he would get on the back to kick the bales off.
First thing I ever remember driving with help was a brand new 57' Chevy with my grandfather. I was only 3 and was standing on his lap steering......pinballed my way up the lane, hitting both ditches at least 3 times before we got to the top of the driveway. Same car he died in a few years later when a drunk hit him head on coming home from town one night.
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