Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 02, 2022

Would a ’53 Chevy work for you?

Never been on a farm myself in order to try.

Dang! I am relating to more and more of these Pluggers panels every year! What is with that!?

Eh, me not able to affords one.

My grandfathers International Harvester Farmall Model Super C. Late 60s

We always left it parked on a hill, ’cause the battery was always dead.

For me it was a garden tractor …. around 1969 :-)

For me, it was a ’37 Pontiac w/ three on the floor. LONG shifter shaft! This was circa 1955.

yes!

my folks let me drive the car home after church and to & from Confirmation class on Weds.

I’m proud that I learned to drive a tractor and did it after I was a teenager !! ! ! !

Your a Plugger if you learned to drive before you could reach the peddles and stay on the truck seat and didn’t have to use the steering wheel for leverage when pushing on the peddles.

I learned to drive a tractor and a paving roller before I learned to drive a car. Does that count?

Been a long time since a majority of us grew up in rural areas. To steal Chappelle’s line, I was farm adjacent…

Made me think of Alan Jackson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQe3DKDQRRs

Farmall F20 for me. Pulling a hay rake.

1951 Oliver 66 and 77 row crop tractors, also a little crawler made by Cletrac for Oliver, all on 100 acres. Started driving them as soon as my legs were long enough to push the clutch in. PTO sickle mower, hay rake, hay wagon, spreader, and pulling alder wood logs out of the woods to cut up for firewood. Good times.

I wish

1947 chevy truck for me. As the brake cylinders leaked, dad just pinched off the brake line, leaving only the right rear working.. and that with about 5 pumps on the brake pedal. And, once it got up to temperature, best you not stall cause unless you gave it a push start, you sat there till it cooled.

Yes, in 1964.

I actually started “driving” with mini-bikes, dirt bikes and lawn tractors but drove tractors before truck, truck before cars, and all long before I had a license. Still can’t drive an automatic trans or a car with any comfort or desire.

You’re a real plugger if it stopped being fun when you started getting paid to do it. :)

1941 Chevy pickup truck on a rocky farm pasture.

or a 1960 Rambler Classic?

Yep I started at 8 in my Dad’s lap with ’50 Mercury

orange Allis Chalmers wd 5 years old – pull back the clutch handle to go – push it forward to disengage and eventually stop. couldn’t reach the pedals and was always in 1st gear. but also drove the 1947 green ford pickup when I couldn’t reach the pedals so just turned the key on and pressed the start button to lurch forward and turned the key off to stop when I needed to go anywhere except the road. I wasn’t allowed on the road till I was 8. When I first started I was too little to drag the hay bales so I drove the tractor and my uncle stacked the hay bales on the wagon. That was pretty big stuff cause my cousins didn’t do it till they were 9 years old. them were definitely the “good old days” lol

International Harvester H & a B-414. And a Ford 8-N, you ain’t a farm boy if there ain’t Ford 8-N in your youth somewhere! Yep, I said ain’t…

Would a ’25 Model A on a logging road do?

The first powered vehicle I drove was a Ford 9N tractor, but I learned on a 58 Chevy 1/2 Pickup.

1948 Ford 8-N, followed by a ’47 Willys Jeep, (which I was driving up and down the county road by myself when I was 12). I bought both of them from my folks just a few years ago when I was in my 50’s, no way were those getting out of the family.

(sigh) I don’t suppose a second-hand riding lawnmower counts? I did spend some time on grandpa’s farm, but I didn’t learn to drive the tractor.

Allis Chalmers w/frt loader — skidding & loading pulpwood in the Black Hills in the late 50s.

I drove 6 different tractors.

My farm cousins tried to teach me to drive a tractor when I was about 16. The effort was hilarious, but unsuccessful.

My husband is a ‘plugger’ !

a ’41 Farmall would.