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I wonder why ford didn't use the 8n engine on the oold ford balers back in the day. Wonder why they used the Wisconsin. IH used the cub on some of their bakers. Maybe the on engine wouldn't handle it or the Wisconsin engine was cheaper
 
Weight may have played a big part because would have been on drawbar. But the 8N engine was used on pull combines but didn't put a lot of weight on drawbar for where engine was positioned.
 

I'm not sure why but on the combines which was built by the Woods Bros. and sold as Dearborn they used the 8N engine. When Ford bought out Woods Bros. and then did away with the Dearborn brand which was 1955 I think they used Wisconsin engines from there on out. It may also be because they had not manufactured the 8N engine since 1953 with the release of the NAA and it's Red Tiger OHV engine. It probably was more cost effective to use the Wisconsin engine,plus the Red Tiger was probably over kill for the balers and combines,but that's just my guess.
 
Weight (Ford's structural block, water cooling, need for mounting frame for all), complexity (water cooled vs. air cooled). All things considered, probably cost. Also likely to be a timeframe discrepancy, N's were probably out of production before Ford square balers came out.
 
engine would not handle a 8n and a almost new 14t baler in the 1960's even with dumping the bales on the ground, they probably had enough sense, for once,to put the Wisconsen on them.
 
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