Re: OT....How young is to young to be on a tractor?

Posted by mark ct on January 01, 2003 at 18:00:13 from (12.90.164.24):

In Reply to: OT....How young is to young to be on a tractor? posted by John (SC) on January 01, 2003 at 06:49:50:

i remember i was about 10 when my father first let me drive our ford NAA while we were moving some sand with the loader, i had driven the tractor before that with him riding on the tractor but that was the first time i drove it alone. he was still within a close distance and keeping a close eye on me tho. it was in a flat are where there wasnt too many real dangers or anything like that.i had driven our lawn tractor since i was like 6 but again i was only to mow the flat parts of the lawn and only when he was outside with me.like i said i was operating our NAA at 10 but i wasnt by no means doing very hazardous stuff around our place, i wasnt allowed to brushog till i was more like 14 and i never operated our tractor on steep hills or on the road alone till i was 14 or so. i am now 19 and i got my own tractor, a ford 8000, as well as a baler and other assorted stuff. i know many people who are my age now and can barely drive a car never mind a tractor. heck i know people twice my age that couldnt operate a tractor any better than i could when i was 10. its not the age it is the way the child has been raised and taught and also the conditions that they will be operating the tractor around, my father would have never let me go out and bale hay on alone in a field with steep hills etc etc when i was 10

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