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See that old Farmall in the first pic., our family had something a little like it. It was an Allis Chalmers. Only it's rear wheels were a bit smaller, not much, and they had rounded fenders where us young boy cousins could ride. It had the same small two close together front wheels (very dangerous). The steering wheel rod wasn't exposed like the Farmall, It went down at a fairly steep angle. This was in the late 40,s, early 50's.
Remember those joyous days well. Hay cutting time, about 3 or 4 a summer. All of us cousins, and there were about 8-10 of us, would pitch hay on top of a wagon, ride the wagon to the barn and then unload it with our pitchforks. We would giggle at which one of us could hide ourself with the biggest bunch of hay on our fork. The farm was on a small country road far from any big town which was crisscrossed with dirt roads. All of us cousins were driving pickups on those dirt roads starting when we were 12 (a couple of us before that). After work our uncles would let us go.
We couldn't drive the tractor tough. Then in my early teens we got a new tractor and a hay baler. Square rectangle bales. When we filled the big side of the barn we would stack the bales so we had a hideout in the middle with a tunnel leading to it..
That was a very different era anons.