It seems like there are alot of "firsts" in a person's life that are worth remembering. In keeping with the site, I would love to read about your first trator experience...most of us have probably been driving them most of our lives. I'll start...
I remember getting to pull a hay wagon up to the barn for my dad when I was probably only around 9 or 10. I was driving a 1956 John Deere 50...I couldn't reach the pedals but had no problem due to the hand-clutch. That tractor has always been special to me because we used it alot but never very hard...meaning, I got to put many hours on it while growing-up. Pulling a hayrake, pulling a gravity with ear corn during harvest or fertilizer during planting, hay wagons, a sickle bar mower, an old steel wheeled grain drill, and many other daily chores. My grandfather purchased it new and now my uncle currently has it and has restored it. He still has the mounted culivator, trip bucket FEL, and a 2 bottom plow (although they only tried to plow with it once I believe.) I would really love to own it at some point. Somedays, I wish I could go back and have some of those experiences again...me, dad, and grandpa having great talks while puttin' around a field. Times sure have changed.

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