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Either buy a good post hole digger that has some bite not a cheapie, or put some weight on your disk, or put weight on your blade. Whatever it is you are doing, down pressure likely is not the answer.

--->Paul

Sorry but we have to disagree on this. Dad had bought a Belarus (new) back in 1980. It was a OK tractor. Had its +'s and -'s but once you get use to down pressure on a 3 point it is hard to go back.
Now if it had only down pressure like the riged home made kind that may be differant. You have to have float also for down pressure to be any good. Just like a dozer blade. Power up; power down; and float.

You can get down pressure by rigging a hydrolic ram or buying an auger with the brackets in place for a ram.

IH utilities (which are now the Mahindras if you want to buy new...I wouldn't) are great little tractors. Plenty of power, especially the diesels, easy to handle and tougher than nails. Parts are every where, what I can't find at IH Case or Mahindra parts departments, NAPA carries.

I just got a set of belts for a Super A from NAPA, IH Case was out of them. Go figure.

My B 414 has live PTO, three point hitch with draft control and hydrolics added at the factory.
Handles a 6' rotary cutter, 6' blade, round bales, dragging stuff, and sips diesel at about a half gallon an hour. Not to shabby.

no down pressure though, but why do you need it? I cant think of much off hand that NEEDS down pressure. You can put more weight on if things strt to lift up, ie box blade.

As far as a nice little Ford 'N sized tractor, I have a nice 424 IH diesel tractor. Very similar in size to the Fords, it's got nearly 40 HP, live PTO and hydraulics, and power steering. It also has differential lock. They were produced in the 1965 to 1967 era. All in all a very usefull little tractor, if you can find one. Most parts are readily available from CNH.

Mahindra bought out the design from Harvester years ago, and apparently still makes a very similar tractor, supposedly something like 80% of the parts are still the same. I bought some PTO control lever parts from CNH earlier this year, and they were stamped "Made in India"! I don't know, however, what current Mahindra model number is.