[AT] Can you name the first three tractors you drove?

[Gene Waugh]

Like my brother Paul, we didn't live right on a farm---Mom and Dad got 
away just as quick as they could!!

Still, what with the folks overseas and my living wiht my grandparents 
off and on, I did drive---and do a little field work.

This involved a 1937 unstyled JD G, 1953 M and later on a Ford---Paul, 
it wasn't a Jubilee, was it?  I think it was a year or two newer than 
that. I did some rotary hoeing, but most of my jobs, due to my 
'part-time' status (and degree of experience, of course!!!) were running 
grain, hay etc from the field to the barn. 

In any case,the HIGHLIGHT of my youth, the day I "Became a Man", was 
when I was around 10 or 11 and got that G started all by myself!!!!!  I 
still remember scooting underneath it, mounted cultivators and all, to 
get the far side compression petcock!!

And Paul, were you around in NC when Mr. Atkins got, if I member right, 
a JD M?  This was a treat when in the tobacco field, as opposed to 
having the danged mules around.  Another highlight was learning how 
those big tomato (also known as tobacco) horn worms bubbled on the 
exhaust manifold!!!  Ah, young boies!!!

Gene Waugh
Elgin, IL
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