After working horses and mules this was something to get used to. It was somewhat different from todays tractors, as there was a large fuel tank for kerosene or number-one fuel oil and a small tank for gasoline. It was started with the gasoline, after it warmed up a bit, then switched over to the other fuel.

A Good Ride.
Of course all the children wanted to ride the tractor when started. One of our first experiences was when plowing ground we would take turns driving the tractor. While others plowed with the team, my cousin was driving the tractor, when he came to the end of the field which had a large ditch at the end. As the tractor got near the ditch he said whoa, whoa and the tractor went on, however he got it stopped just as the front wheels went over the edge of the ditch. We all had a good laugh about that and it was told over and over many times.

Dont Stop
Later we were working in a very long field near Harrods Fork Creek (about one half mile long) I remember plowing this field with a pair of mules, a long days work was eight rounds around the outer edge of the field. The field had soft spots in it, which was easy to get a tractor stuck if stopped in one of them. One of the girls was disking with the tractor and as she was going through a soft spot her father yelled DON'T STOP she could not hear him, over the noise of the tractor so she stopped and said, WHAT DID YOU SAY? It took a couple of hours work to get the tractor out.

Rough Ride.
There were large limestone rocks in some of the fields, when the tractor would run over one of the large rocks, it would get stuck because the steel cleats could not get good traction, so it would jump up and down on the rock which made for a very rough ride. Some problems that one did not have with horses and mules.I guess that was progress!