How manny people driven a tractor?

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i think that was simliar one i have driven in my animal sic class. Just had those to bars behind it i think.

I was alittle scared applenty i almsot ran over one of my classmates? I didn't see them. So here my question

Have you even try to drive one if you have was it hard or scared?

This is just infomation on how the class teachs what.

"This is a two-year program designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed for employment in the area of animal sales, veterinary assistance, grooming, and animal care. Students learn about the health, nutrition, breeding and handling of large and small animals. Successful completion of this two year program will fulfill the biological science requirement for graduation."

Answer 1

I was comfortably driving tractors at the age of 12, and considered well skilled at 15.

Beside just driving the tractor I operated it on plow, cultivator, hay mower, combine and of course wagon. If there was anything I found frightening about driving the tractor it was driving on a steep incline, where I had to be careful of tipping it over.

But when I first drove it, my father had a remote control set to shut the motor off if I appeared to be in difficulty. He used that only once, when I got out of his sight.

Answer 2

Stay with it, you'lll be fine. keep the tractor in the lower gears. it won't jerk hard when you take off and it'll be easier to get used to handling. Then once you're confortable you can move into the higher gears. don't let the machine intimidate you.

Answer 3

me

Answer 4

If you complete your studies, your going to do very well indeed. We need more like you!

A word of advice though, Listen to the older farmers and heed their advice. Nobody likes some college

ed-u-mi-cated young buck tell them what they've been doing wrong for the last 40 years. It just pisses them off! Cows don't read books ya darned fool!

Tractor driving. I've been in the drivers seat since I was 6. Very scary at first. I think I was more scared of my dads boot if I screwed up more than I was of the tractor though :) But I eventually got the hang of it. The first thing that you should learn is how to stop. I almost flipped a Massey Haris 44 in a ditch once. That was close! A next door neighbor was killed when a farmall flipped over on top of him while skidding logs. Very sad. Mark was a good friend.

The newer tractors are very easy to drive. Power steering, power brakes, all the good stuff.

The larger tractors are becoming offices on wheels.  

Enclosed cabs, air conditioning, heat, air ride suspension seats, Stereo, the list goes on and on.  

Enjoy! And welcome to the wonderful world of agriculture!

Answer 5

Yes, I have, I used to be scared on one of our tractors, because I wasn't tall enough and I let the clutch out too fast and almost hit the fuel barrel and the other side of the shed.  Now that I am taller (14 yrs. old) It doesn't bother me anymore.  The thing with when you almost hit someone was like when I almost hit the barrel, people were around and it got you nervous, I like it when no one is watching me and I can get used to it myself.  That tractor is painted wrong!!!!!!!!!!   It is a John Deere and someone painted it Alice-Chalmers color :  (

My avatar name is jdmann4020 which stands for John Deere man and the 4020 part is a very nice tractor from the 1960's and early 70's, real nice tractor.

I am quite used to it now because my dad has me move round bales, and rake hay in the summer and then little other jobs here and there, I practically have to beg him for jobs.  I don't know if you are able to drive a car yet but, driving a tractor will get you to be a very much better car driver.  Good luck!

Answer 6

keep it in low gear 1st or 2nd until you get used to it), it will be slow and you'll be fine. it makes you nervous because it is so loud probably

Answer 7

I have never driven a tractor but I have ridden on one.

Answer 8

it takes some getting used to.

Answer 9

I learned to drive a tractor when I was 6 or 7.  I was short and could not reach the clutch on a small IH tractor so I was allowed to rake hay with a John Deere 630 tractor as I could stand on the platform and push/pull the clutch handle with my hand.  As I grew, within the next several years, continuing to rake hay yet moved up to the IH 706 and a IH 1066, mowing hay, chopping silage, plowing with a moldboard plow.  Having several brothers, it was sometimes a challenge to see who was going to drive the tractor or milk the cows.