Selectamatic
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- Location
- North Wales
Playing all the right notes, but not in the right order...
12 year old tractor driver
- Thread starter holywell farmer
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Playing all the right notes, but not in the right order...
we did bit we live an a very different world today
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Biggest difference will be that most of us were doing it as work, as I understand it this lad was out after midnight with a couple of other youngsters.
I was regularly driving on lanes at that age from one farm to another but there was a caravan park in between. Unlike most caravaners at least I could back on a lane when I met another vehicle ?
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
just in training at 12 year old, when he is 15 it will be a Scania v8 chipped to 780 bhp on fridge work to the UK,
start em young keep em keen
start em young keep em keen
- Location
- Co antrim
My first time drivin on road was when i was 6 when the farm worker didnt turn in on the drink. It was in a mf3080 and dump trailer and the digger man had to reverse it cause i didnt know how. If i had a son no way would i be lettin him drive on road until legal but havin said that i loved it and thought i was the man lol
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
There certainly are. A few years ago their was a campaign to suspend drink driving laws in rural areas so that "lonely" rural locals could still get to the pub for a bit of company!
Personally, I'd rather a 12 year old does a little bit of roadwork on a tractor (crossing between fields, not hauling grain a few miles) than be a member of a knife gang, run drugs, commit acts of vandalism like some other kids that age do.
Speedstar
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- Location
- Scottish Borders
Wait till a Irish lad turns up in a artic and he is under 16, open your eyes
icanshootwell
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- Location
- Ross-on-wye
Yes, i think he will have detention for a week and have to nose the wall as well.
- Location
- Co antrim
Thats why us boys across the irish sea are the best drivers cause learn young lol
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
Makes you wonder, what it will be like to live in the world of tomorrow.... will anyone be allowed to drive in future...?
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
No, dad would not let any of us drive until 16, including in fields, he knew of accidents involving young drivers, including a death and one who lost a limb and was quite strict about it.
Y Fan Wen
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- Location
- N W Snowdonia
There was a notorious character near here who was banned for drunk driving and had points on his license before he even had a provisional license.
He was also banned from the local pub, not only for underage drinking, but also for molesting the barmaids.
Reckon he must have been an early developer.
It is progress, less people get killed today than in the past
it’s all well and good those of us that survived dangerous childhoods saying it’s ok but that’s only because those that did not are not here to point out the opposite !
kids should be allowed nowhere near tractors and farm machinery - mine certainly are not
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
I do not disagree Clive, I merely wonder about the things we still considered normal these days that future generations will either frown upon or loose out on... A legally enforced 35hour maximum working week? End to meat production? End to private transport vehicles? End to single use plastic? End to all use of artificial fertilisers and ag chemicals? Compulsory tree planting? End to inheritance tax relief? End to shotgun and firearms ownership and all forms of hunting? Introduction of carbon taxation on just about everything? Global conflict? A lot has changed in the last 40 years, much will change over the next 40 years.
Did he ever drive a tractor yet.
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
No rules on age over here that i am aware of regulating a minimum age on farm machines. It’s not always a good idea to let kids drive things or be around an active farm. Don’t see how it’s the responsibility of the government to interfere with a parents decision though.
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
I have often thought that if cars had only just been invented, the State would never allow ordinary people to use them.
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
In our society our government try to protect the stupid from themselves...
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
Ain't that the truth.... what government would introduce a device that kills or seriously injures 26,000 people a year!! Legal ownership of handguns was banned in the UK in 1997 despite them being involved in only a handful of incidents a year.
davidroberts30
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
It's not the gun that kills people....