just curious

[blitz]

Do youinz always get on your tractor from the same side? and get off the same way? or do you mix it up and just get on whichever is closest?

 

[Dunk]

(quoted from post at 22:00:24 04/21/10) Do youinz always get on your tractor from the same side? and get off the same way? or do you mix it up and just get on whichever is closest?

ME!!??

8N

I normally always use the left running board, there are occasions I use the right but few and far between.

I don't think I could deal with one of them peg 9Ns

 

[Dell (WA)]

Blitz.......guys with jungle-gym frontend loaders climb up the back.

Being "horsey" trained, I usually mount my 8N left side and swing my right leg over......Dell

 

[Ed S.]

Left side, just like I do on my horse.

:lol:

es

 

[Anonymous-0]

It doesn't really matter to me, but if I'm in the front or back I will go to the left of the 8N.

 

[Billybuck]

Running, I mount from left side, dismount doesn't matter. Not running, don't care. I think I'm right- legged too.

 

[old]

Depends on which tractor. LOL But most of them I get on and off the left side. The right side of most have the brake pedals in the way and that in turn makes it hard to get off. Plus on my Ford 841 the hyd tank and contols for the loader sits there so you would need to be extra thin to get off that side

 

[R Geiger]

I always get on from the left side. That is where the fuel shut off valve is!

 

[Tom N MS]

Me too. I agree about the fuel shutoff being the main reason but just comes natural to get on and off on the left side.

 

[James Hill]

whiskey for my me, beer for the horses, and castrol for my N, left side.....

 

[Bob Harvey]

OOPS and pardon me you leftist bstds ;~) The only operating rig I got, I get up on the RIGHT (correct) side...that's where I put the step I fabricated. Fuel shutoff has the handle pointed to the same (right )side, just have to reach over, push the choke rod down a smidge and 'voila'!! It was like that when I got it in 1971, don't take much to violent change. b

 

[R Geiger]

Getting up on the left means i am going to the right and right is correct!

 

[TennesseeMan]

Left side, cuz that"s the side of the fuel turn on thingy!! I also sleep on the left side of the bed and every once in a while I go to the right side.

 

[heybusdriver]

I mount my tractor always on the left side, mount a horse on the left side. Drive a horse or a team of horses from the right, drive a boat from the right side, I think I read somewhere , the tradition of driving a boat and driving a horse or a team of horses from the right came from England.

Stan
1949 8N146710
1949 8N179555
1949 8N197904
1950 8N254079
1951 8N362039

Many spare parts off a 1950 8N
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[Arlie]

OK Guys this sucks, I never thought what side I mounted my tractor. NOW this will stick in my head and every time I approach the tractor I will be going through the mechanics of right, left, left, right..... the fuel is on the left but I can reach it from the seat..... left, right.....
Thanks Curious...

 

[Anonymous-0]

sold my 8n week ago but still catch myself swinging my right leg up and over, wife thinks Im trying to dance.

 

[blitz]

Thanks guys!!...I guess the "lefts" have it!! I too, mount from the left as the gas shut-off is there.. and Dunk, the 9N peg is a bi*ch when your boots are wet or muddy ....I've got the black and blue marks to prove it!!

 

[oldtanker]

right side on the 8N because my left knee is bad. I can pivot on the right side on my right leg, can't pivot with my left at all. Left side on the IH 1206 cause that's where the steps are. Back end on the IH M. My garden tractors get ounted from the left, I can plop my butt in the seat and swing my righ leg up and over the hood.

Rick

 

[souNdguy]

usually left side..

soundguy

 

[Caryc]

I have a Davis FEL. So at least I don't have to crawl over from the back. But the hydralic controls are on the left so it's a tight squeeze to get on from that side. The Davis loader was designed for us lefties. :lol:

I've had that tractor for about ten years now and still when I get off to pick up something like a rock and throw it in the bucket I will absent mindedly walk to that left side to get on. Maybe in another ten years or so.....

 

[MSgt Mike]

If my horses ever saw me mounting from the right side, they'd all start laughing! Left side only!

 

[souNdguy]

for my smaller tractors tractors.. it really doesn't matter.. event he ones with the loaders. heck.. the 1-arm loader mast is on the left side and I still get on that way.. for the larger and taller tractors.. having a step down on the left is why I get on that way..

soundguy

 

[Caryc]

(quoted from post at 10:55:17 04/22/10) If my horses ever saw me mounting from the right side, they'd all start laughing! Left side only!

Yeah, and I'll bet that horses were laughing when they saw the newest fad. a thing called a self propelled tractor? I hear that little passing fancy put a lot of horses out of work. :wink:

I still have a lot of respect for horses. Had three of the hay burners here until some idiot on a dirt bike ran into one and slit his stomach open. Had to shoot the horse and got rid of the other two.

Needless to say, I have no tolerance for dirt bikers. They still think this property out here with dirt roads is one big moto cross track.

 

[Jim in Ma.]

Right side - did anyone ever try to get on a Farmall Cub from the left??

 

[old9n]

Left side on N and JD.
Just feels odd getting on the Right side. :arrow:

 

[NoNewParts]

grew up with horses, so always from the left.
tractors, motorcycles, lawn tractors

With horses, it's funny how deep the habit gets
After reading this post, I caught myself yesterday...
saw a piece of glass while running a disc, to the right of the tractor
got off from the left walked around the tractor and picked it up,
walked back around the tractor and got back on from the left

 

[Caryc]

(quoted from post at 05:16:30 04/23/10) grew up with horses, so always from the left.
tractors, motorcycles, lawn tractors

With horses, it's funny how deep the habit gets
After reading this post, I caught myself yesterday...
saw a piece of glass while running a disc, to the right of the tractor
got off from the left walked around the tractor and picked it up,
walked back around the tractor and got back on from the left

OK, this is screaming for the question.....why the left side on a horse??????

I heard that Indians started it by training their horses to be mounted only from the left to prevent horse thieves from a fast get away.

Then there is another issue of cavalry horses and mounting with a saber on your side.

Or the issue of mounting or dismounting a horse and your holstered weapon being available within reach at that time.

I'm sure there are other contributing factors as well. Anyone have their version of the truth?

I don't really think the horse gives a crap as long as you do whatever you do around him in a set routine.

 

[Jerry Kirkpatrick]

My 8N: Get on left side; get off left side. Don't have a horse, but the time I tried riding one: Get on left side; get off over it's head! :lol:

 

[Caryc]

(quoted from post at 11:19:41 04/23/10)
My 8N: Get on left side; get off left side. Don't have a horse, but the time I tried riding one: Get on left side; get off over it's head! :lol:

It's much easier to do a somersault off the back end. :wink: Horses have pretty hard heads.

 

[8N457568Guy]

Soldiers generally fought with the sword in the right hand so the scabbard goes on the left. Mount from left to keep it clear. Probably goes back to the Romans. I remember something about the plains indians mounting from either side.

 

[Caryc]

(quoted from post at 03:45:18 04/22/10) sold my 8n week ago but still catch myself swinging my right leg up and over, wife thinks Im trying to dance.

Maybe.....I mean with your user name......it would benefit you to keep that right leg moving. :wink:

 

[NoNewParts]

OK, this is screaming for the question.....why the left side on a horse??????

Tradition, way we were taught.
Also, horses are creatures of habit, like dogs.
If they are always mounted from the left, and
someone tries from the right, they get skittish
(bite-kick ya, dance away)
Probably the main reason, is on all the saddles I've used
the cinch strap knot is on the left.
Habit makes you check the knot and cinch strap every time you mount up.

I'm right-handed, curious to see the answers of the lefties.
Example- if I vault a fence, I plant my hands and throw my legs over to the right, just like mounting a horse.

 

[KenInGA]

(quoted from post at 22:00:24 04/21/10) Do youinz always get on your tractor from the same side? and get off the same way? or do you mix it up and just get on whichever is closest?

Seeing as these tractors were REAL close to the time of the horse's prevalence, I always mount from the left. Seems like they were made that way. You have to deal with the throttle, gearshift, hydraulic control lever, and other fun things when you mount from the right.

 

[Dan in CO]

Only the drivers side!

 

[blitz]

oops!! dbl post

 

[blitz]

here's what I found:


The ancient Greek general Xenophon (c.430-c.355 B.C.), in his treatise The Art of Horsemanship, gives a step-by-step description--literally--of mounting a horse. Since the stirrup hadn't been invented yet (and wouldn't be until around 400 A.D.), this involved grasping the horse's mane in two places--up by the ears with the left hand and at the base of the neck with the right. The rider would then jump up while swinging his right leg over the horse's back (horses tended to be shorter in ancient times).

 

[Dunk]

The horse only gives a sh!t about what you teach him.

It would be quite awkward to put the saddle, bridle and all on from the left, which is the way they are all made, and then go around and get on from the right.

BUT, if you teach the horse, and you get on both sides equal, the horse will be better off, more balanced, and so will you.

I have seen in the cowboy movies, that most Indians mounted running from the rear.

 

[blitz]

"the fuel is on the left but I can reach it from the seat"

you must have some looooong arms!!!

 

[Caryc]

(quoted from post at 03:42:34 04/24/10) "the fuel is on the left but I can reach it from the seat"

you must have some looooong arms!!!

Tried that myself. I can reach it but I wouldn't want to be sticking my hand in there and feeling around to turn it off with a hot engine.

I'm either getting on or off the tractor anyway so I'll stick to reaching in on the left side. I do mine by feel anyway since my FEL frame is in the way there, I can't actually see it unless I bend down and look up. But at least I don't have a hot engine to feel around.