Re: Passengers on tractors, especially young kids.

Posted by ohfred on August 13, 2008 at 06:38:27 from (216.158.74.142):

In Reply to: Passengers on tractors, especially young kids. posted by BLINDHAWG on August 12, 2008 at 18:00:50:

I guess I got initiated at a very young age, the neighbor kid was cultipacking with a team and saw how interested I was at about 4 or 5 and stopped and told me to get on. I took a seat beside him, not really a seat but, I was on. He mushed the horses and they were not as smooth as a clutch and I did a summer sault right over the back of the cultipacker. Needless to say, I never got back on and I learned respect for machinery right there...but, we were alwways around farm machinery when the adults were running it and seen some of the situations that came up for them and it registered in our young minds and apparently helped build judgement for our futures around equipment for later years.
By the time I was probably ten years old I was driving all kinds of things including trucks on the highway, sickle bar mowers on an F-12, discing etc. By the time I was around 14 I had found the old string on the governor on that old Massey Harris and when hauling hay to the barn from a couple of miles from the barn, I was headed back to the field and when I headed down the long hill, there was old Wendell ahead of me on that pokey old Ford tractor. We (boys) had taken off the muffler on the Massey and she was really roaring as I was standing on both brakes as he was looking out from under the umbrella on the Ford looking for that airplane that must be getting awfully close...as the corn plows on the Massey were digging into the gravel and bouncing. When Wendell saw me behind him he whipped the Ford in the ditch and I whizzed by and when I got to the hay field I took the string off never to do that again. So we were just plain lucky at times to be alive today with all our fingers and toes.
Today when the grandkids come out they always want to ride on the tractor and all I have is small utility tractors, TO-20, TO-30 and MF-35 and they are surrounded by my two arms and I can see that some of them have that mechanical curosity that I had when I was small and they catch on real fast too...but I was turned loose at around 5 or 6 by myself on a Ford but due to the world we live in today, I don't think they will. But, by the time I'm gone, they will at least have a basic knowledge of our favorite machines. ohfred

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