What can you drive?

J_Dee

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The only things I've ever driven in my 40+ years are automobiles (though never a stick shift), bicycles, go-karts, riding lawnmowers, and, very, very rarely, a boat or a tractor.

A close relative's a licensed pilot, but I don't think he's flown in at least twenty years.

Anyway, what can you drive/pilot?
 

Ryan Lemonds Hair

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Car(auto or stick)
motorcycle
mule (animal type)
tractor
PXG 9 degree driver
 

Canned Heat

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Car (stick/auto)
Motorcycle
moped
Go cart
Side by Side
4 or 3 wheelers
Bicycle
Tricycle
Big Wheels
Boat/Pontoon
Riding Lawnmower
 

80 Proof

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Anything except a helicopter.

I've not actually landed a plane, though I have flown some on nice days. I've driven or operated pretty much everything else at some point.
 
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Bicycles (does that even count as driving)
Go Carts
Cars
Trucks (pickup, flatbed, and box)
Boats (simple motorboat or rowboat not sail)
Semis (bobtail not hooked to a trailer)
Forklifts of all kinds
Scissor lifts
Stock Pickers
Snorkel lifts
Service Trucks (for water, lavatory, and galley)
Aircraft tow vehicle (Tug)

The last one was probably the coolest one to drive. That beast was built like a tank with 2 fire truck engines in it. You could drive it normal like a car, like a crab (both sets of wheels turn together so the vehicle moves to the side while facing straight) and the last mode had the sets of wheels turn in opposite directions to make tight turns.

About the only common civilian vehicles I can't drive (yet) that I can think of are:

Motorcycles
Semi with a trailer
Farm vehicles
 

BC_Wader

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Cars and trucks (stick or auto)
Boats
Go carts
Tugs
De-Ice trucks
Large scissor lifts for aircraft (commanders, main deck loaders)

Fwiw, I think nobody should be able to have a drivers license unless they can drive a manual. You just never know when you may have to drive one.
 
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Car
Truck
Bike
Lawn mower (non-zero turn kind)
Bumper car but not well
Golf cart

Off the top of my head that's the only type of vehicles I have driven
 

LineSkiCat14

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Pretty decent with boats and jetskis. Navigating in water definitely takes practice and feel. Would love to try sailing. I can't think of anything more white and waspy.
 

812scottj

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I drive slow on the driveway…yeah…definitely slow on the driveway. Don’t squeeze, pull, and hurt my neck
 

The-Hack

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“Broke my Teeth” learning to drive tractors from age 8 to 12, the biggest a 1963 John Deere 4020, after rebuild and bore 105 horses.

Really, the only thing I have never driven is an airplane, and could have said the same at 16 years old.
 
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awf

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I have driven tractor trailers hauling heavy equipment, operated the heavy equipment, tractor, tri-axle dump truck (4x4, 16 gear), boat......although I haven't had the boat out since last Oct......won a nail driving contest at a contractors expo one time.......never even thought about trying to operate anything that goes in the air.....I can drive a golf ball a mile....but......I never know which way it is going........
 
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I've hauled 70 tons of coal in tractor-trailers, 15 speeds, 13 speeds, don't matter. Never driven a boat or flew a plane. I bracket raced for years, go karts, tractors, wouldn't care to try anything. However, I don't mind saying, a zero turn mower, which I'm considering buying, would make me a little nervous.
 

BlueVelvetFog

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“Broke my Teeth” learning to drive tractors from age 8 to 12, the biggest a 1963 John Deere 4020, after rebuild and bore 105 horses.

Really, the only thing I have never driven is an airplane, and could have said the same at 16 years old.
There are craft you don’t need a license to fly
 

michaeluk26

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If it's got wheels or runs on water I can drive it. I've prob wrecked them all too though.
 

ThwKentuckyKid

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Car, bike, boat, lawnmower, order picker, high lift, fork lift, scissor lift, Epstein didn't kill himself, cherry picker, Zamboni, golf cart, go cart, tractor, my wife insane, four wheeler.
 
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car (stick/auto) school bus, forklift, tractor, surfboard, skateboard, all manner of water craft. I got to "dual pilot" a helicopter once, in the service (trying to hover is the hardest thing I've ever attempted, it's ridiculously difficult)
 
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