I was driving an 8N raking hay and cultivating at 8. Got in trouble with the cops when I drove the tractor to town to see Grandpa Hunted for meat too with my single .410 and helped milk the cows, fed the sheep when I got home from school.Kids no days have it too soft.
Yep. I was turned loose with a JD730 diesel a week after turning 7. Left unsupervised to rake a 40 acre field of oat straw. A few months earlier I was pulling a four section harrow over plowed ground with a Oliver 770. Dad was plowing in the same field, so I wasn’t unsupervised. I look back and joke about that job. It was a brutal ride on the hills where the clay slabs practically threw me off the tractor.
My siblings and I had livestock chores by the time we were 4. I’ve got a photo of my dad feeding the chickens when he was just 2.