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

[Herbert Metz]

I started driving our 1938 nfe CC Case when I was 9 or 10, sledding corn
(in our area, row crop was planted in the furrows (of listed ridges) that
went east and west (offered better wind protection).   The next year I got
to list/plow the wheat ground after harvest (listed the sandy soil and
plowed the heavy black soil)  .A couple years later I worked for neighbors,
when Dad could get by without me, operating JD A and B, Farmall H and M, AC
unstyled WC, and Ford N series (one had a Sherman step-up).  Then Dad
bought a Super M with wfe, a real workhorse.  My last two summers on the
farm I worked for two uncles operating Farmall M, W-6, 22-36, Case L (or
LA, it was orange)and IHC. self-propelled combine.  Herb 

> [Original Message]
> From: Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Date: 12/14/2009 8:57:24 AM
> Subject: [AT] Can you name the first three tractors you drove?
>
> I first drove the Ford 9N when I was about 7 with my father standing
> nearby pulling fence post. I had "steered" while sitting in his lap
> but that was the first time I "drove" it. I would back up to the post
> and he would hook the chain. Then I raised the hydraulic lever to pull
> the post and after he unhooked the post I drove to the next post and
> backed up to it. The 9N was traded for a new Jubilee Ford.
> -
> The next tractor I drove was the McCormick 10-20. I didn't drive it
> very much because I could not really handle it safely. To me it seemed
> like a behemoth... I really want one now even though they look pretty
> small now. :-) It was traded for a pretty decent 1939 Chrysler 4 door
> in 1951.
> -
> The third was the Ferguson TO-20 he bought new in 1949. It was sold in
> nicely restored condition about 1970 after my father finally gave in
> to my mother's constant nagging and complaining about us having too
> many tractors... :-(
> Maybe that is why I want so many now. :-)
> Naw... I just love old iron.  :-)
> -
> Can you name the first three you ever drove?
>
>
> -- 
> Have you hugged your horses today?
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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