Earliest or Fondest memory of a tractor

[indypower]

In the 1960's, my Dad plowed gardens in the spring on Saturdays with a Ford 8N. When he came home for lunch, he would have me sit on his lap and let me steer the tractor out of the driveway. I was 6 and could not reach the clutch or brake pedals. Steering it down the driveway was fun!!

 

[Stevie-Ray]

My uncle in the Upper Peninsula used to let me and my cousin drive his tractor to plow his garden which amounted to about 1 acre. The tractor was a dead ringer for the one in Green Acres. Lot's of fun for a kid about 10 years old.

 

[hunting404]

My fathers first tracto was a Farmall Cub with mid mount cutter bar. Not much power but enough to cut the fields. He then got two fords, an 8n and a 9n. I was old enough to drive tractors when he got them. It sure was a bear stearing the 9n with a bucket. Spent many hours dirving them around the fields. Picking rocks out of the garden and building up the rock walls and hauling firewood. Those wer the good old days.

 

[harleyron74]

My Grandfather had A 1952 Ford 8-N that I learned to drive when I was around 8 or 9 . He had A New Holland bailer with it's own Wisconsin engine on it and I spent many A hot afternoon bailing hay with that rig. He died in 1966 (With his boots on! He was on his way out to service machinery for the spring plowing when A stroke took him. No chance of him surviving as the nearest phone was 2 miles away. All my aunt could do was watch her father die.) That 8-N was sold at auction in the fall when I was 14 years old and at 58 I still miss it and him.

Good Luck!
H.R.

 

[Roger2561]

My first recollection of dad's first tractor was a Farmall Cub. Nothing huge but it had a side mount sickle bar mower and a set of plows to break up the ground for growing our produce. It was the tractor that I first learned to drive. I think I was about 12/13 years old when I first learned how to drive it. I used to rake the fields for dad with it. Roger