I must confess

larry@stinescorner

Well-known Member
when I posted should I sell the 8n ,I was thinking how much I have neglected it,When Royce on the site here said why didnt I hook the wagon up to it and take pictures of it,I did not reply,But,,, the truth is I had not started it for so long I thought the battery might be dead,also I know it needed gas and I was too lazy to get it. So this time I put gas in it,checked everyuthing out,and fired it up.Just to please Royce I took a bunch of pictures too.I can not sell it,it does have many memorys,and it fired right up despite my neglect of it! I know its a lot of pictures,but that is what Royce asked for!
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Hope ya don"t sell it, I feel you would be selling your memorys also. But whatever you do it is YOUR tractor not ours.
 
My bad, Didn't read your post close enought, Miss the part where you said You can't sell it. Glad to see ya going to keep it.
 
It is a good looking old tractor and the simplicity is hard to beat. It sure goes well with the surrounding scenery. Very Beautiful!
 
Larry I am not a big fan of 8N Fords to use for serious work. There are much better tractors for hard work for not much more money. It is just like I would not want to have to drive a Model "T" to work everyday either.

With that being said. As far as collecting I would not mind a Ford 8N in the shed. They at least had a foot clutch, wide front end, and three point hitch. Those are the reasons hundreds of thousands of them where sold. Them and the Little Fergusons put tractors on the small farms just like the Model "T" put a car in the drive of the average working man.

So you have a nice little tractor that is in good shape. It is not worth that much money really with what things cost today. I bet that your fellow workers have much more wrapped up in a motorcycle or fishing boat.

So keep it and just think of ways to use it more often.

Here is an idea for you. Put the cross draw bar in the hitch with the top link braces like in the picture. Then run two 2 x 8 oak boards over the draw bar and then under the rear axle housing. Let them stick back 4 foot or so behind the braw bar. Then nail some inch planks across the 2 x 8s. Make them the width of the tractor. Now you have a simple little carry all.

My Grand Dad had one like that for his TO-30. He had a large garden like you do. He cultivated it with the TO-30. So the tire spacing was correct to drive down the rows. So with his carry all on he could go right down the rows in his garden and haul the bounty he raised right out of the garden with it.

I think you would get a lot of use out of a carry all like that and then just leave it on the 8N. So when you needed it you where ready to go. Would not need the trailer for the smaller stuff then.

Enjoy the little tractor!!! I bet that you can remember those little tractors being on a lot of the farms when you where a kid. I do.
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You have nice pictures and I enjoy what I see. I have dial up, the bad part when you post several pictures, I skip the whole post. Sorry!
 
Larry, beautiful pictures as you always post!
I really love the views around your place.
I can't tell you what to do with the tractor, but I remember quite a
few pictures of your daughter on it when she was just a little tyke.
Maybe I'm a sentimental fool, but the memories of dad teaching me
to drive on this old tractor out here will keep it here forever.
Thanks for the pictures, I really do enjoy them! :)
 
Glad you decided to keep your tractor.

Very nice little tractor; just right for "touring" around the farm.

Thanks for sharing your photos with us.
 
Larry" thanks for the reply on where you are at.

Where in Pa. is it? I have driven all over that state in the past several years.
 
Forty years ago I moved west to the prairie from the home farm's hills. Much easier to farm the flat stuff unless it is a wet year and it isn't tiled. Concerns about erosion are few vs the constant vigilance required in the hills. But the flat stuff will never have the character or views worth dying for.
 
I wished I had clicked on here earlier. I remember a friend from years ago had a very good way to keep his 8N and Farmall H exercised years ago. His dad flat out did not have any substantial mowing or other heavy load chores for the those tractors to do. They did milk cows and had two shorter upright silos to fill. His dad happened to be at an auction when a small fan 540 rpm silo blower (NH 25) came up for bid and bought it. Unless they were really pressed for time the old tractors split duty on that blower and were fairly productive for what they were.
 

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