Teaching Wife to Operate Tractor

   / Teaching Wife to Operate Tractor #51  
Farm Girl for me, literally driving tractors before she was old enough to touch the pedals etc. etc. Ran over her brother who was putting it in gear for her when she was 6 or so (ouch, dang near killed him)

That said, still lots I show the wife, mostly explaining the benefit or operation of a particular piece, or sometimes a better way of doing things.

When she has to learn something from scratch though, I usually get someone I trust to get her up to basic operating speed for me. I teach motorcycle riding at times, but when the wife wanted to learn, I put her out with a buddy of mine to go through and get comfortable, just saves some arguments. Now that she rides, I give pointers along the way and that works fairly well.

Good luck, it should work out just fine.
 
   / Teaching Wife to Operate Tractor #52  
Operating the tractor is just like any of the other jobs we do together. I do the heavy work and she does the finesse work. We have 10-12 acres of tree seedlings that she mows so that I do not cut them down. While I hall the big logs she could not handle.

I have been her "mule" for over 36 wonderful years :)
 
 
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