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Re: How long have you been riding tractors?
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Posted by ScottyNY on April 26, 2002 at 18:55:00 from (128.59.6.46):
In Reply to: How long have you been riding tractors? posted by Bill Oakes on April 26, 2002 at 18:32:34:
Can't get to my picture right this minute, but I've got one about like that of my brother in my lap in the seat of the old BN back in 1963. I was six, he was almost two. Another picture taken that same trip to the farm had me flyin' solo on the old Panzer garden tractor, cutting grass with my great-grandfather running for cover. Grandpa didn't let us really drive the tractors until we were ten, a magic age. But he let me "drive" in his lap from the time I was three. Guess that'd put me at 43 years, 36 of 'em real. Just got that old BN back. Probably will spend the next two years restoring it. A labor of love, that'll be. Thanks, Bill, for the prod.
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