Ford 9N

r aiken · Jan 15, 2019

some info and video walk around. is it worth fixing?
here

Leroy · Jan 15, 2019

From what I can see is that it is not a 9N but a 2N and looks like to have the high priced 16" front wheels on.

hd6gtom · Jan 15, 2019

No, by the time you round up tires, it has those misurable hat rims on it. They are usually rusted out inside the rim. If there were any units left around here they would sell for scrap price. Fortunately I have hauled most of them to the scrap yard. Spend your money on a 2000-3000-4000 ford. A far better piece of equipment than a n ford.

Leroy · Jan 16, 2019

I wish I could have bought every one of them that you hauled to the scrap yard. WHY DO YOU HATE THEM SO MUCH? They were and are a very good tractor if maintained. And Richard would be selling if he fixed it up and with everything he has he just might have those tires and other rims if needed. He belongs to same antique tractor club I do and I have been to his place.

Farmallb · Jan 16, 2019

With the tires being more or less OK, id say it cant cost all that much to fix it. IF your just going to take it to shows and drive around the show iwth it, and if you fix it up, ital do about all of that you want, and likely sell for more than you paid for it. IF HOWEVER, you plan to dco extensive farm work with it, then, as the other poster said, save your money and buy a good tractor. IF you get it, prepare to learn alot more cuss words than you already know, and IF your not a master mechanic, it will help you become one lol

Dave H (MI) · Jan 16, 2019

First tractor I brought to life was a Farmall B. Second ironically was a 2N. Both are fairly balanced on the usefulness scale...neither is terribly useful. But they do different stuff. B is mostly a puller without hydraulics. N has the 3pt so it has a bunch of toys that go with it. B is a lot easier to keep running than the N. I never look at it as being "worth it" to fix up. I just ask myself do I want to spend the time and money. If it amuses me to do so...then onward and upward.

Leroy · Jan 16, 2019

That 2N did everything, plowing, disking with roller behind, spring tooth harrow, spike tooth harrow, grain drill, corn planter, rotary hoe, cultivator, bar mower, rotary mower, hay rake, baler, flail forage harvestor, combine, corn picker, graded lane, plowed snow, loaded manure, hauled manure. sprayed crops. Pulled a lot of wagons at home and to the elevator. Draged logs, buzzed firewood. Ran the corn binder. Drilled post holes. All I can think of it did not do was run the hay conditioner as it was on the mower and the corn shreader. Only last couple of years did I have a problem with keeping it running and I am not a carb man or that much on ignation. But I think it paid for itself. Tractor and plows in May of 44 $890. It came to live with me when I was 8 months old. So if that was not usefull then I don't know what would be.

Leroy · Jan 16, 2019

He is not a farmer, more of a parts dealer with possibly a hundred tractors setting around. And I have not found them to be that hard to work on or take that much work.

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