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Faunsdale, AL | Holding down the clutch on a JD 2010 was a workout for me. We were picking up “chunks” on some recently cleared ground. I couldn’t hold it long, so if there were a lot of chunks to pick up in a spot, someone would have to come shift it into neutral for me!
Before that all my “driving” had been hanging onto the steering wheel in the pickup while my father dropped bales off as it rolled across the pasture with the choke? pulled out…..(maybe it had a hand throttle?) Would have been a mid 1960’s GMC 3/4 ton with a 4 speed trans. Later I learned to drive that stick shift before it was junked. Next challenge was the 3 speed shifter on the steering column of a F100! It was usually quite easy to push start the old GMC if you hadn’t left it in an impossible place. Toward the last, we most often started it that way. | |
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84 years driving the 1941 Ford 9N
