8N Competitor from 1948 (OT)

Jim in Western MI · Feb 22, 2018

This showed up in our regions CL today; I've never seen one. Those who know this model..., was it ever used for anything but light cultivation? If it pulled something, I bet it was a real flipping monster with all the weight on the rear axle! Scary looking machine to me...

https://eastnc.craigslist.org/grd/d/1948-allis-chalmers/6505086427.html

Dean · Feb 22, 2018

The AC G was once rather common with small tobacco growers for cultivation but at about 10+ belt HP it was hardly an 8N competitor. More of a competitor for the Farmall cub.

Dean

Ultradog MN · Feb 22, 2018

Those are pretty cool little machines.
Not a real competitor to an N tho.
A neighbor up at my property has one.
He overhauled the engine in it a few years ago. A cute little 4 cyl water cooled engine - Continental iirc. Like about 60? ci 12? hp
He and his son just lifted the engine out and put it back in - by hand.
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HFJ · Feb 22, 2018

:lol: what the bleep is that? i've got an allis, but mine actually looks like a tractor.

Jim in Western MI · Feb 22, 2018

At least the steering box would be easier to work on.....

steve19438 · Feb 22, 2018

have always wanted but alas it is a single purpose machine.

Royse · Feb 22, 2018

Notice the price? $4500. That's what they ask for them
around here too. $3500 for rusty old rattle trap ones.
They're cute and I'd like to buy one, but not at anywhere
near those prices. I hear they make you a good operator
too. Or at least a better trailer loader.

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Hobo,NC · Feb 22, 2018

About 2000 a bud offered me his with plenty of equipment for $1200 I passed. A few years later I think soundguy bragged about his I inquired about the one my bud had he had just sold it to a scraper (tractor salvage yard) I called them they said it will take $5000 to get it :SHOCK:... The guy told me he had been looking for a nice one for quite sometime a nice one was hard to come by...

I have seen engines conversions were they used a 25HP V-twin lawn mower engine the engine looked right at home...

Caryc · Feb 22, 2018

Looks like someone parked it in the wrong neighborhood and it go stripped. :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Paul in MN · Feb 22, 2018

The engine was a Continental N-62. A sweet little water cooled 4 cylinder used in the Allis G and the Massey Pony. The weak spot in this engine was the crankshaft. It had only 2 mains (one at each end) and nothing in the middle. So if you ran it at low RPM and didn't demand much torque, it lasted for many years. But if you worked it hard, the crank would break. I had one of these engines for many years. The spark plug holes in the flat head were almost as big as the pistons (just kidding).

Paul in MN

Kirk-NJ · Feb 23, 2018

They did make plows for those but Mainly cultivation. I'll stick with my farmall cubs for cultivating, A whole lot cheaper and more implement options and parts easy to get.

Kirk

L.Fure · Feb 23, 2018

Here is a promotional film for the G.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dx7jzVKQ2A

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