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

[Bob McNitt]

As much as my dad liked farming, he also was smart enough to foresee the 
challenges that lie ahead for farmers, so he sold the farm, lock, stock 
& barrel just about the time I was just old enough to start pitching in 
(for real) on all the various tractor & power jobs. But I did get to 
drive an old Fordson, then later the little JD H, but he never let me 
run the JD A, probably because I was too small to reach the pedals.
Bob in CNY

On 12/14/2009 3:44 PM, Gene Waugh wrote:
> 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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