What was the First Tractor you ever drove?

[sweettractors]

Were you still a child as I was (10) or were you an adult? My first was experience was with a "VAC" Case Tractor vintage 1950 with narrow front and eagle claw 3 point hitch. Ken Sweet

 

[RickB]

I solo'ed on a 1949 Cockshutt 30 at age 5.

 

[RobertN]

A Massey equivalent of a D2 Cat, then later a Ford 8N, the my old Kubota B8200. A bunch since then...

 

[Sutol]

I was about eight when I helped my dad pull out a hedge with a 1948 Fordson Major, after a little instruction I drove the tractor

 

[brin]

I was about 11 yrs. old on the farm in the Miss. delta and the first tractor I drove was either an 8 or 9 N and the clutch almost got me ..I let my foot slip off and the front end rared way up and fortunately I remembered my instructions and slammed my foot back down on the clutch and the front end settled back down...that same summer my best friend was killed when his grandfathers tractor which he was driving turned over on him as he was going up a hill...It is still fresh in my memory...

 

[DennisArrow]

At my uncle Bud's and aunt Melva's place in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. They were leasing an old Indian School and raising cattle. My brother, cousin, and I were bored, had the itchies bad from going through the weedy sunflowers to swim in the pond, had been bucked off of the horse twice that day, so figured we could get the tractor started.

Brother 12, cousin 8, and me 9.......old Ford "n" type.....We got it started ok, and I was the dumb one elected to drive it........"push that in to make it go and stop"...the clutch.........They set the trottle, I let the clutch out and off I went down the 1/4 mile drive.......REALLY FAST>>>>>>>9 year old panic attack>>>>>>at the paved road jumped the ditch and went through the barbed wire fence line across the road........After pulling out a bunch of posts and fencing it stalled out.......whoooooaaaaaa.....deeep trouble......

How did we survive those good times......God bless.....Dennis

 

[k0ua]

Farmall Super A, I am not totally sure of the year of the tractor, maybe a 49 to 53 or so. I am also not sure of my age, but between 8 and 10 I think. Pretty cool if unusual old tractor.

James K0UA

 

[sweettractors]

Myself and my cousins of about the same age would have to get out of the tractor seat and stand on the clutch or brake. Ken Sweet

 

[Carl_NH]

First tractor was a 1958-60 John Deere 420 drove solo about 8 and by 10 was doing plowing, planting, manure spreading etc.. We moved up to a JD 1020 in 1969 a nice upgrade with a FEL (no more hand loading manure!)..

Carl

 

[grnspot110]

Either a JD 51-"G" or a 53-"60", don't remember which!

I grew up on this one, a 58 720D ES, the 51- "G" was traded in on it when I was 9. ~~ grnspot