I thought I posted a thread here awhile back with my son driving his first tractor. That one was titled "Proud as a Peacock" so this one gets (2) at the end.
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I couldn't find it in a search but he's hit a new milestone.</p>
His first solo ATV drive.</p><p class="MsoNormal">I pulled the ATV's, go-carts... out of the bunker and brought them home. I was pleasantly surprised that all started in first to third pull on manual start (the batteries were dead).</p><p class="MsoNormal">My son is now of the age where I feel I could trust him to drive his ATV on his own. I bought him his ATV when he was about 2 years old but he's an all-American, true-blue redneck gung-ho, Tarzan, Godzilla kind of boy and has historically been a bit too manical to drive it on his own.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Well, I had an idea on how to maintain the situation. Communications and a chase vehicle. With that, I can talk him through creeks, hills, turns and general control.</p><p class="MsoNormal">So, let's do it with some pics.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Here's a pic of him ready to go. The "chase vehicle" is his sisters ATV that I'm going to ride. I didn't want to use the RTV or something big as some situations may require that I come up and hit the back of his ATV so I wanted to be driving the smallest thing possible for visibility and impact reasons. BTW, that little ATV that's the chase vehicle can and does outrun the RTV...</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p>
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I couldn't find it in a search but he's hit a new milestone.</p>
His first solo ATV drive.</p><p class="MsoNormal">I pulled the ATV's, go-carts... out of the bunker and brought them home. I was pleasantly surprised that all started in first to third pull on manual start (the batteries were dead).</p><p class="MsoNormal">My son is now of the age where I feel I could trust him to drive his ATV on his own. I bought him his ATV when he was about 2 years old but he's an all-American, true-blue redneck gung-ho, Tarzan, Godzilla kind of boy and has historically been a bit too manical to drive it on his own.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Well, I had an idea on how to maintain the situation. Communications and a chase vehicle. With that, I can talk him through creeks, hills, turns and general control.</p><p class="MsoNormal">So, let's do it with some pics.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Here's a pic of him ready to go. The "chase vehicle" is his sisters ATV that I'm going to ride. I didn't want to use the RTV or something big as some situations may require that I come up and hit the back of his ATV so I wanted to be driving the smallest thing possible for visibility and impact reasons. BTW, that little ATV that's the chase vehicle can and does outrun the RTV...</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p>
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