My New Tractor

Thomas · Jan 7, 2001

PLOWER,
I have a feeling you got the tractor fever long before you were 15. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

As the older farmer up the road would say, there seems to be more young seedlings popping up now a days. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Harv, Before you know it your son will be setting in the set....I guess were starting to show our age. /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

M. Sullivan · Jan 7, 2001

Amazing how many youngsters are knowledgable about these things. New neighbors have 3 kids, 11, 14 and 16. All know how to operate all their machinery--even the 11 y/o girl. Some ego shattering experiences already when they show me how to get out of a jamb!

PLOWER · Jan 7, 2001

Harv,
Yeah I dont know why my dad doesnt like tractors.But he does use it every so often,as long as the right impleament is on the 3 point hitch.He doesnt know how to change them.
PLOWER

VinNB · Jan 7, 2001

I'm 16 and at the farm I work at I use an M8200 4wd w/cab and M940 loader. I also use the (I think) T135 Thomas loader. There is the regular, high volume and pallet forks for both machines. I mowed a guy's lawn for two years with a Kubota L3450.

Harv · Jan 7, 2001

VinNB -

I think I'm losing it, here. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

You're 16 and you've been mowing lawns with a 3450 for 2 years?

Let's see ... (excuse me while I do the math) -- you've been driving tractors since before you could walk, right? /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

A while ago I launched a discussion which dealt with the difference between growing up in the city and growing up in the country. Since I'm part of the city-raised crowd, I'm getting a real eye-opener here.

By the time you're my age you're going to have some great stories to tell about the antique tractors you drove as a kid. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Thomas · Jan 7, 2001

Welcome aboard VinNB.
By the sounds you gotten some seat time over the years,and not shy about handling those King Kong Kubotas. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

I guess that guy had pretty good size lawn in which needed a L3450. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

Thats three which have come forward and said there 17 years and younger in the past 24 hours,which means new tractor blood for the future. /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif

Have a pleasant day and stay warm out there.

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

VinNB · Jan 7, 2001

Don't own the tractor./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif The guy that had the lawn did. I didn't mow for him this year so I started when I was 13.

Kubota-monkey · Jan 7, 2001

I started on a 18 Horsepower or so Kubota (cant remember model) when I was 10. I mowed my neighbors lawn and ours. 18 Horsepower Kubotas seem rather enormous at the age of 10!

The Ben from MA /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif

Bird · Jan 7, 2001

Ben & Plower, you're getting off to a good start. I started on a hand cranked gasoline John Deere when I was 11 or 12 (don't remember exactly when Dad bought it). Glad to have you both participating as part of this group.

Bird

VinNB · Jan 8, 2001

Thomas - It was one big lawn. About six hours mowing without trimming and that's before they widened the road./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Then it took about six hours to do everything.