My New Tractor

[Thomas]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

 

[cowboydoc]

Harv,
I'll have to get you some pictures of my daughter. Every morning at 6am we go out to feed cows. I load the truck with hay and put it in low gear and she steers it down the field for me. When we get to the end I jump out and get in and stop it. She's only 5. She has her own little four wheeler that she goes and checks cows for me on too.
Richard

 

[Harv]

Richard -

Holy Cow!!!

My daughter is now 8, and we're just starting to let her cross the street by herself if there is a responsible adult (oxymoron?) watching out for her. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Things are sure different in the country, eh?

Come to think of it, when we're up at the property, which is way out in the boonies, none of us are comfortable crossing that road. Our fenceline borders the only straight stretch of the only main road in the area. People seem to like to really let 'er rip along there. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

 

[cowboydoc]

Harv,
We've practiced some failsafes just in case Dad doesn't get to her in time or I get hurt. She knows how to turn it off and I have a cell that we carry and she knows 911. Every now and then I see if she's awake and tell her to turn it off!, turn it off!! she does. I'm less worried about her driving than my wife and she doesn't argue all the time! I have to drive a ways to work but I wouldn't trade the country life for anything.
Richard

 

[RobS]

<font color=blue>we've got a bumper crop of fine young folks coming up this millenium. </font color=blue>

I've got to agree on the new crop of tractor nuts. I'm envious though as my teenage years were spent on a Snapper riding mower trying to keep up with 6 1/2 acres. I'd have loved a 'real' tractor back then.

Good to hear the new generation still gets its hands dirty!

Rob