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onefarmer 03-09-2013 09:54:48 184.20.108.101 Report to Moderator	My first memories of any tractor is riding on our JD620 with my dad. In those days he was thin enough and the seat wide enough we both fit on the seat. I wouldn't trade it for anything. The memory or the tractor. [Reply]   [No Email]
Spook 03-09-2013 14:26:13 99.29.145.250 Report to Moderator	Re: WHY ----????? in reply to onefarmer, 03-09-2013 09:54:48   That seems to happen all to often. We had one guy here who had a kid fall off, ran him over with a 15ft batwing mower. I can understand taking the kids for a ride, but running a big mower like that? [Reply]  [No Email]
Royse 03-09-2013 14:46:00 69.36.49.151 Report to Moderator	Re: WHY ----????? in reply to Spook, 03-09-2013 14:26:13   Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see I think you nailed it here Spook. How can we teach them and get them interested if they're never allowed on one. On the other hand, we're supposed to be the ones that know the dangers. There's always danger, they're machines without feelings, but limiting those dangers to something reasonable is what we need to be doing. My grandkids ride with me on some tractors, not the ones with loaders or no safe place to ride or any tractor doing real work, My nieces and nephews are old enough to drive them around the drive way themselves now. They all know they can't ride if a PTO is running, it's just a "law" around here. I feel for that family and can only imagine the beating that poor man is giving himself. Hind sight being what it is. [Reply]  [No Email]
onefarmer 03-09-2013 18:17:00 184.20.108.101 Report to Moderator	Re: WHY ----????? in reply to Royse, 03-09-2013 14:46:00   I do think it falls under a category that Americans are more and more lacking...COMMON SENSE. You should know your kid and if he/she knows how to hang on, how old they are, their maturity level, and the proper amount of danger to put them in according to the previous conditions. I was apparently very mature and responsible kid. Drove solo my first vehicle (64 f250) while being pulled by my dad, who was driving the JD620 pulling a drag, with the 64f250 chained behind. He said just steer it, keep the chain fairly tight and remember the brake. We went two miles and made it just fine. I was 4years old. [Reply]  [No Email]
Dalet 03-09-2013 18:38:49 184.94.141.146 Report to Moderator	Re: WHY ----????? in reply to onefarmer, 03-09-2013 18:17:00   Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see And you could see out the windshield and use the brakes on a '64? I need bigger boots! I would believe 8 or 9, but I know, the older we are the bigger our stories! :wink: [Reply]  [No Email]
onefarmer 03-09-2013 18:50:55 184.20.108.101 Report to Moderator	Re: WHY ----????? in reply to Dalet, 03-09-2013 18:38:49   I was 4, I know this because at 5 we was living at the place we transported this rig from. I did have to stretch a bit for the brake though. By 8 I was working fields with a Massey Harris 44 and a Kewanee 12ft disk or 12 JD drag. I still have the JD620, MH44 and the disk. [Reply]  [No Email]