35 years ago I bought a house and met the neighbor and his wife. I remember then he had an old tractor he pulled trees out of the woods for and cut and split them by hand. He allowed me to hunt his 135 acres and I always made sure I stopped back in and told him what I had seen. He always complained about the guy he bought the tractor from never told him of a cracked block (behind the oil filter housing). He'd head into the woods with a gallon jug of water. Any way he died in 2002 and his widow in 2013 (at 97). Kept the place plowed in the winter and shoveled the roof when bad for her. Then the family offered the place for me and somehow I found a bank that convinced me I could afford it. Opened up the barn and there is the 8N. Figured it was long gone. Pumped up the tires and drained the gas and hooked up a new 6v battery and guess what. I chocked it enuf to make the gas roll out the carb and she started and purred like it ran the day before. Cracked block dosent leak enuf to worry about. Sometimes you get lucky.