How men are made

[bgk]

Took my nephew for a few laps on my knee on the b2400 and then my Polaris 850 xp. Next is my 6 month old niece. You should've seen this kid on my knee at 20 months reaching for the wheel while underway. He almost enjoyed the ATV ride as much. Little shaver wanted to engage the PTO AND steer lol! ( no the tractor wasn't running with him sitting on it alone h

 

[bgk]

Hunter and his dad admiring the little kubota (not running) the kid loved the few trips up and down the drive in turtle.

 

[bgk]

Best part is my niece is 6 months old (and my younger sister has number 2 on the way). This little orange tractor will be breaking way for many young people and then my own soon. Raise em up right!

 

[mpham]

Very nice pictures! I started my nephew out early also. Will try to post a pic later.

 

[captmikem]

My thoughts exactly.

My kids are a bit fuzzier....

 

[sagor]

My thoughts exactly.

My kids are a bit fuzzier....

Dang, I bet they work for "kibble"....
How did that little fellow ever start that fire?

 

[Bulldog777]

Cool. Reminds me of driving our 8N Ford when I was little. I had to stand up and put my weight on the clutch to stop the tractor. .....man, I'm getting old.

 

[bucktail]

I could handle the clutch on our H when I started driving, but our 4030 gave me trouble. I didn't weight enough to push the clutch in, so I had to wedge my butt up against the seat.

 

[Creature Meadow]

Ella and I my 2 year old were riding Saturday and she ask me to stop. She wanted to drive and told me to sit on the front......I was rolling, took out of gear and jumped on hood she thought it was funny.

 

[Daren Todd]

I could handle the clutch on our H when I started driving, but our 4030 gave me trouble. I didn't weight enough to push the clutch in, so I had to wedge my butt up against the seat.

That sounds like my twin brother and I when we ran off through the woods with dad's old 3/4 ton Chevy plow truck. We were 8yo at the time I would wedge against the seat to run the clutch, ease off of it, then you would see my head pop up above the steering wheel, could just barely reach the gas pedal with my toe Brother was sitting in the middle shifting Good thing it was a granny three speed, and we could only use low and reverse. Hadn't figured out how to shift to a higher gear yet Butt's were a little warm after grandpa got a hold of us. Was really warm when dad got home from work and grandpa told him what we did Then they had the nerve to laugh about us running off with the truck a week later

We were roll starting the old McCormick by 10 and driving the Ford between fields with the sickle bar mower at 12 while dad followed in the truck

 

[bucktail]

I started running the H at 7 just for picking rock. Then baling with the 4030 at 8. My dad was riding the rack, so I was supervised. My dad got kicked in the face by a horse and lost his eyesight when I was 10, and I got 14 acres to sharecrop when I was in 5th grade.

 

[Flienlow]

Grandad started me off on his craftsman riding mower and then soon after that BX7100. I can still hear the old man hollerin' at me not to ride the clutch and to lower the bucket.

 

[D2Cat]

My dad had me on an 8N Ford when I was 6 years old. I think he must have been somewhat ridiculous, especially by today's standards.

Was in the town of Fountain, Co. Went through town, a RR track on each side, got out of town on the East side was a wide creek with wooden bridge with those planks running the length of the bridge, went about 4 more miles and pulled into the driveway to where we lived. I remember pushing on the brakes too hard and the tractor skidded to a stop. I quickly got off and found a rag to cover up the marks in the gravel.

I've actually driven this road a couple of times when I was visiting in Colorado just to be sure I wasn't hallucinating!

 

[dandeman]

I think I was 7 or 8 years old when I was offered the opportunity to get on a tractor and "operate it".. And what an awesome rig!

A local well driller that we knew had his shop just down the road from the house where I grew up. He had a Ford 8N with an Everett Trencher for digging pipe lines.

http://www.ntractorclub.com/manuals/implements/backhoes-diggers/EverettTrencherBrochure.pdf

He was a crusty guy in his speech and mannerisms. He was installing the water lines in a new subdivision just behind our house and I would go down to watch them work.

With a grin, he called me over and said "git up on the tractor and steer it to keep the pointer on the string line!" (a rod pointer on the front of the tractor to a string line set up for where the pipe line was to be laid in the roadbed). "And don't touch anything else!"

The thing I remember most was the speed reduction transmission... with the engine running fairly fast to power the trencher.. main transmission in gear, the tractor would just bump forward in very small increments of less than an inch to feed the trencher forward.

He had a couple of Bucyrus Erie punch drill rigs explained in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyu_wvyqHSM

Loved these hearing these rigs run when they were tweaked right.. Could hear them a long way off.