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Posted by Amos on November 17, 2003 at 05:07:59 from (64.187.44.79):
In Reply to: Re: First drove what tractor? posted by Larry NE IL on November 16, 2003 at 18:15:24:
I was 5 years old and going into grade 1 at school when I first drove a tracter. It was a AC WD45 with a New Holland 56 hay rake behind it. My dad road on the fender as we raked 3 rounds one sunny afternoon. When we finished we were at the far end of the farm, after disconnecting the rake drive my dad put the tracter in 3rd (I couldn't reach the peddles) and I pulled the hand clutch back. He told me I did that a little too fast! The WD45 got traded for a 180, that tracter traded for a 6060 which I still have and it stills does most of the hay raking with the same rake and all of the square baling. This was my most memorable day in my life for a long time.
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