8N Ford Goes 96.3 MPH

1206SWMO · Dec 26, 2015

I checked back a few days and I don't think this has been on here..

Bruce (VA) · Dec 26, 2015

" 8N Ford Goes 96.3 MPH"

Not w/ me on it!

My rebuilt 8N w/ a Sherman in hi & 4th gear goes about 25 mph. W/ no suspension at all, that scared the crap out of me on a paved driveway!
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John in Mich · Dec 26, 2015

I've been driving my 8N with the Sherman conbo in high range since I was 10. Still do. It is just the wind in your face that makes it seem fast. LOL ps be sure to have good brakes.

Bruce (VA) · Dec 26, 2015

I hit a bump at 25mph & thought I was going over the dash.

old · Dec 26, 2015

Looks like some one who has to much $$ and not enough between there ears to not know a tractor should not go that fast

47fivewindow · Dec 26, 2015

Musta had a string tied to the governor.

steve19438 · Dec 26, 2015

without people like him to push the envelope we would living in caves.

Ultradog MN · Dec 26, 2015

I used to drive my stock 2N in 3rd OD fairly often. Thursday night at the Legion Club for cheap tacos and beers.
If you reach up with your toe and bump the throttle butterfly you can get another 4-5 mph out of one.
I didn't spend an extra $50 grand to go another 65 mph with one though.
Nor would I.

kylemorley · Dec 26, 2015

Nice! Though if he had the Rollie Free spirit he'd ditch his leathers and helmet and see if he couldn't break 100!

John in Mich · Dec 26, 2015

We lived on a gravel road then and I do now. They were never/are very smooth. Do that with a one row Wood Bros. corn picker and two grain wagons or with just two grain wagons with about 3 tons of grain (mid-late 1950s). Been there, done that.

stevob671 · Dec 26, 2015

Looks like a good setup for orchard use!

hd6gtom · Dec 26, 2015

Most do, down hill with a load of hay behind because the darn Brakes never work.

Royse · Dec 26, 2015

I live on a gravel road here in Michigan, same as John.
I'm not sure the one he lives on (or the connecting road)
should even qualify as gravel. Definitely not a road!
If it hadn't been for the VW Bugs parked in the potholes
I would have had to lock the truck in four wheel drive! LOL

Just ribbing ya John. Merry Christmas and happy new year!

NoNewParts · Dec 27, 2015

no traffic and no deer.......piece a cake.
probably about the same as a 60's small uni-body muscle car with a big block, 4-speed, and manual drum brakes.(no idea which way it will dart on a shift, and praying trying to slow it at the strip turn-off...lol)

The need for speed.....can't explain it if you don't have it.
Tires growing at speed on a bike, til your contact patch is about as wide as your finger......ahhh...heaven

TheOldHokie · Dec 27, 2015

(quoted from post at 09:12:37 12/27/15)

The need for speed.....can't explain it if you don't have it.
Tires growing at speed on a bike, til your contact patch is about as wide as your finger......ahhh...heaven

I thought the explanation was pretty obvious and it always made my contact patch get larger ;-)

TOH

Sycamorecreek · Dec 28, 2015

There is not much of this tractor that is an 8N.

howdy1960 · Dec 28, 2015

And those that don't have 'the need for speed' will never understand those of us that do have it...

8N Ford Goes 96.3 MPH

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