[AT] A CHALLENGE - - Can you name the first three tractors you drove?
Chuck Bealke
bealke at airmail.net
Tue Dec 15 22:23:48 PST 2009
Ah, you never forget the fun stuff. At about seven years old on
visits to my grandfather's farm I was absolutely smitten
with anything tractor, but was only allowed to briefly steer a
Ford 2N. The 2N steering wheel seemed kinda wide back then.
When we moved to the same farm (age 12) I learned to operate
in succession a Farmall Super H (mostly disking or hauling
hay bales), a Farmall A with an exhaust-lift cultivator, a Ford 8N
and a crank start AC WC with hand brakes (pulling a rope trip
plow daily 'til dark.) I bought my OWN first tractor two or three years
later - a stout Massey Harris 44-6 - for $600, the exact wages of
two summers of pitching bales, mowing with an armstrong lift AC-B
and other worthy endeavors.
Chuck Bealke
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