Stan learned to drive on this tractor

This is an IH Farmall Cub, the same model tractor that Al and Ruby Korkowski used on their Brandon, Minnesota farm. The first Cub was built in 1947, the year Stan was born. Here they are again, now both 63, at the Minnesota State Fair Machinery Hill display area this week.
When Stan was four years old, Al Korkowski showed him how to depress the clutch, pop out the ignition button, pull on the starter and then slowly release the clutch. The tractor stayed in low gear as Al walked behind it, tossing hay bales onto the rack (below). When it was time to stop, Al yelled "Whoa!" and Stan killed the engine by pushing in the ignition button.  The tractor stopped immediately.

When it was time to go again, Stan would restart the engine, and so on. Al kept it simple, safe.
The Farmall Cub was a simple, basic tractor and very popular. There are still many around today, according to the website dedicated to its fans.
Stan remembers it as being a lot bigger, but all the buttons and levers are exactly as they were.
Across the road from the Korkowskis, the Vickermans and their son, Archie, had a yellow Allis Chalmers. Nice, but certainly no match for a powerful Farmall Cub, Al and Stan smugly agreed. When they parted at the end of the haying season, Al paid Stan $1 as hired man wages, leaving him stunned and immensely proud.