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hahahaha she learned how to drive much earlier than speak perfectly ("i turning") soo adorable
The “I turning” was insanely cute. It made me rewatch the video a few times 😂🥹
If that ain’t life on the farm, I don’t know what is.😊
"I tuw-nin!" 🥹🥹
The “I’m focused” tongue stickin’ out.
Those are the turns that are "perfect." The other ones are just ok.
She can drive better than me already
Amazing skills. How does she reach the pedals though? 😅
Doesn't need to. The truck is idling in gear, so it's just creeping along.
This is how they would harvest potatoes with my Dad driving at 8 years old too.
Idaho!
Ah, thanks!
The bond between these two will be unbreakable. Cute!!!
So cute! Love it! Good team work! ❤️
People don't believe me when I tell them I learned to drive at five years old. Basically the same situation as in the video. I could barely see over the dash, but I kept it straight!
We were driving on our own when we could see over the dash and push pedals at the same time.
Before that, you needed a spotter.
Yep, that's how farm kids do!
I taught my daughter how to drive while raking hay. She just sit on my lap and I’d tell her to keep it between the lines. She was 6. She’s nine now and has some understanding that car means freedom I said before she gets a car she has to learn how to drive completely and that means sitting her butt in the tractor and working. Now she’s not so gung ho to learn how to drive lol
Yep. Learned to drive the tractor first, then the farm truck, then the combine, then the cattle truck, LoL.
I believe you because I did too.
Yes!! I've been driving since I was about 5 or 6. My grandpa would put me up on his lap on our long driveway and let me steer. When I got a bit older, he'd let me full-on drive his truck up and down the driveway and would let me help steer on back country roads. They were great memories. 😊
I don't get it. How does she reach the gas pedal?
I remember when my Pawpaw and Meemaw would put me on the tractor with them and taught me how to drive a stick-shift. Blessed little lessons, these. Such an amazing helper!
“i turning” 😂
"Away from the cow..." lol
People: "Blah blahblah blah?"
Her: "Please. I've been driving since I was 2."
People: "Don't lie..."
Her: Pulls up 20 year old reddit clip.
At 2 she’d have the field plowed before breakfast! And was great full!
My boyfriend grew up on a farm and he confirmed this is 100% accurate. If you're old enough to walk, you're old enough to work.
Yep. Been there. Hauling hay. Plop the kid in the seat, put the truck in granny-low, and let it idle around the field while the kid steers. Just the right speed for 3-4 people to stack bales on the trailer.
Surely turns kids into responsible and confident adults versus what we see in society today
Someone's got mad skills already
She's a very cool and confident kid.
"Go right...away from the cow" - love that
Reminds me of teaching my kids to drive, but they were a lot older!
Back when I was in kindergarten, I visited the neighbour while he was doing some fencing. He got tired of getting in and out of the truck so he asked me to step it ahead (he sat on the tailgate). I would have to shimmy off the seat, push the clutch in and put it in first and let it go, shimmy back up on the seat and steer to the next fence post. Thankfully, the truck had enough torque that I didn’t need to use the gas. I couldn’t reach it and see over the dash. About the same age as when dad would get me to steer the tractor while he scraped out the manure spreader. What a great time…what a life. This girl will never forget.
100% accurate. My uncle let my daughter drive his tractor that was worth more than my house when she was little. 😂
I like the verbal acknowledgement of command/request followed by the intense focus to complete the task.
So this is how you get those " ten years of work experience" by the time you're out of collage.
Or more. I started answering phones for my father’s office at age 2. Initially, I’d only pick up the phone and say the company name before handing it over, but I was up to full-scale reception well before I was 10.
I did this during hay season 1972 1 ton truck in granny low steering between the rows while everyone else was throwing hay, jumping on the clutch with all my weight when the said stop. Great memories!
Oops. I just posted almost the same thing before I saw your post. Hello fellow ranch kid.
I love sharing those memories with fellow farm kids!
Texas Hill Country. 90+ degrees. And a long sleeve shirt with the cuffs & collar buttoned up tight to keep the hay out. Good times.
Florida panhandle similar heat and shirt don't forget the jeans you already wore holes in the knees.
I was using my dad's legs until I was tall enough to operate on my own. Allora there was also a small man (around 5" or so) that had to use a pillow to be able to see above the dash - he was a professional truck driver. He was very surprised once to see somebody in a truck being even smaller than him.
This is adorable. I love dad smiling in the back
Good job Dad!
That baby can't see shit
That’s a lot of trust in a child who still does not know his left from right lol
Farm children are growing up way too fast
Wait...is this real? She is driving?
She's steering. She is not controlling throttle or brakes. The vehicle is in idle just rolling along. They're in a field where there is nothing to hit and dad can walk faster then they are moving. When they're done putting out feed, dad will move up front and stop the truck.
That's awesome!
We took a trip back to New Mexico when I was 7 or 8, leaned to drive on a busted old 4x4 just like this… only we had the green light to run stuff over 😂
Thanks Jeff, still remember those times over 3 decades later.
Dad is winning in life 👏🏻👏🏻
He just started cheesin at the end there such a proud dad
I love that very first turn! Dad says "left", kid says okay,
..and kid turns right.
She’s so stinking cute!!! I turnin! 🥰
I wanna know how the gas pedal is engaged? And how they’re stopping it? It’s staying at a slow constant speed. And there ain’t NO way her little feet can reach let alone push the pedals.
Sure is a smart little girl and a hard worker. Just look how proud she is of herself!!! And how much she’s lovloving it too!!!
What's that statistic about accidental deaths being hella high on farms.
Get her a Brodie Knob ASAP! 😊
Amazing skills.
Damn, she will be one hell of a driver
You know that kid is cracking open a beer after a hard days work
I like when he says "straighten up" she looks at the wheel I'm guessing at the emblem to see when it's straight 🤷♂️ smart girl if so!
i am just curious how is that kids gonna stop the truck in case there is an obstruction since she can’t reach the brake .
Omg this is so cute, imagine the stories she can tell. Yeah I have ~10yr driving experience when she applies for her license at 16
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Well that’s cute! Heehee, Long legs!
Lovely driver 👌🏼 😍, should they give him lesson driver 😀 😉
Cows! Immediately thought of the flying cow in Twister.
Oh man. The cuteness is extremely intense!! Wonderful!!
This is how amazing drivers get made.
That's epic
Fkn onion-cutting ninjas again. 🥹🫡🤙🏽
I love this💕💕💕💕
This kid is going to terrorize everyone when she's 12
“I TURNING!” This is so funny and cute
I like this one where she doesn’t accelerate into the sheep.
Cute 😍 How is she reaching the peddles?? She looks so tiny! 🤗
Shes not it's idling forward
That old thing that most families have forgotten. Teaching the young useful skills. The new gens are so weak they don’t even want to learn to drive cars.
This seems stupid and dangerous to me, and I married into a farm family.
Married into and grew up in are completely different
I showed it to my husband. He said that would never have happened in their wheat fields.
Soft family
I’d rather be part of a soft family with healthy kids than a family with a kid who was badly injured due to parental carelessness.
How to win the internets and become a celebrity!
Wish more kids learned this skill early! She's adorable and very focused, lol! My mom and dad had me driving a car by myself at 9 when we got a loaner Toyota that, with the addition of some pillows, I could fit in and drive, ha! I think all kids should know how to drive at an early age; look at all the kids stepping in to drive the bus when their school bus drivers have heart attacks!
One of the towns we lived in growing up was in a ranching/farming community and when I was a freshman, plenty of 14 year olds drove themselves to school in their own pick ups. I think you could get some sort of agricultural exemption that allowed some sort of solo driving permit at 14 'cos most farm kids, like this little girl, were already well versed in driving heavy machinery.
Why the sunglasses
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How isn't it right? Pretty normal for farmers, as far as I know
He's smiling now but I bet it shrinks when she's 12, stealing the car to go hang out with her friends.
I get your joke, but a girl who’s raised like that won’t disrespect her dad later.