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Ultradog MN

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Twin Cities
It still doesn't have enough horsepower sometimes.
6' mower making the first cut through the thick stuff this morning. Had the mower raised to about 8" height and still needed to drop to first gear to get through there.
Between yesterday afternoon and this morning I mowed for most of 8 hours.
I just do this area once a year to keep the forrest held in check.

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I know the feeling! My neighbor brought his Deere 4020 over to pull me out years ago, and I would love to have one once or twice a year.

Jerry
 
The critters will still Thank You!!! Probably not too early to clean up any walking trails :)
 
Same variety of weeds here. I used to cut once per year and had been later in the year. The dust and chaff is miserable on the operator and the radiator grille of an open station tractor. I find it cut's so much easier with less chaff and dust if I get to it in late may, early june, then August. Yes, critters are going to be out there, but knowing when they drop fawns here, easier to see when not so tall. I've had lots more desirable grasses come back, and weeds like goldenrod disappear.Grasses are easier to cut, well as long as you dont let it get too far ahead of you. I was able to cut this in 3rd gear.
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Just be sure to clean the radiator fins out. And don't let anyone who does not know about tall weeds mow for you. How do I know? BIL took my '51 8N with fresh overhaul and new 5' Ford mower into 4' weeds...without permission. I came home from week-end vacation to find my tractor dead in the middle of 10 acres.
 
Nice photo. Great tractor!
I used to mow that area a couple of times a year with my 2N and a 5' King Kutter. Since then I have more property to mow and it seems less time to do it. I'm hoping things settle down a bit here at home in the next couple of years so I can spend more time up there. Here's about a 10 second video. Must be 16 or 17 years ago now.
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Time sure flies doesn't it, what you are cutting in the video is what I am talking about, you could turn it back to that easily. Due to the work schedule, weather, and sometimes repairs, I have fought the clock to get out there to cut as well, but I have a little more advantage with the land being connected to the house in one contiguous parcel. In one field, lots of clover came up, the deer really seem to like this clover, but it seems to die off or go dormant at some point. Same field which was in crops until '10, went back to some heavy duty weeds, crazy looking weeds I never recall seeing around here 40 years ago.

That N sounded like it was running great, easy cutting in that grass too. This 4630 is just a pleasure to own and operate. One of the main reasons I really needed to upgrade was having the fold down ROPS and seat with belt. I typically put it up, tie off my flex pipe underslung exhaust extension to it and strap into the seat to be safe. This model is very stable on hillsides, I feel a lot safer with it on top of all the other features that makes it the pinnacle of the 4000 platform.
 
OH YES! My 1951 8N had over-heated and died. When I got it started again it only had about 10 lbs oil pressure at WOT and zero at idle. The original mechanic could not get to it so I went to another. He dropped the pan and showed me that all bearings were scored. Not 5 hours on the rebuilt engine. My "budget" would not allow another overhaul then.
Mechanic said I might run it on light duty for a while but not to work it too hard. Keep and eye on the oil pressure. I put heavier oil in and ran it that way, also making sure that I did not let it idle.
Well, it not only kept going about 12 years, I used it to level 1400 yards of dirt around our house (new 1985).
Several more years went by and I finally was able to take it to a mechanic and have it rebuilt. It had great oil pressure and it is totally on light duty as long as I can get on it. Hay rides until 3 years ago. Now it takes me on little spins around the neighborhood.
When I walk by it in the barn a little pat on the hood remembering many of our "escapades" together...and we survived!
My oldest son will inherit it. It will sit next to the Jubilee that he has.
 

A HST transmission would have been nice for that job... Loader work and mowing are what won me over other than that I would not want/need HST...
 
"Loader work and mowing are what won me over other than that I would not want/need HST"

Might not be on your needs list Hobo, but the HST is also great for snowblowing and rototilling!
 
(quoted from post at 20:59:43 08/25/19)
I will wait for the snow to melt and flip the sod with my 3000 : ) don't need no tiller...
hat ever tractor you may have, you will always run into something that needs a bigger tractor.....just cast that in stone!
 
(quoted from post at 03:17:14 08/26/19)
(quoted from post at 20:59:43 08/25/19)
I will wait for the snow to melt and flip the sod with my 3000 : ) don't need no tiller...
hat ever tractor you may have, you will always run into something that needs a bigger tractor.....just cast that in stone!

Poor man's solution - stick a little more rubber on it ;-)

TOH

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He needs to drop the front end a bit
more. Ford built Low Center of Gravity
(LCG) tractors which were basically a
3000 with front spindles that are about
4" shorter than standard.
Photo is just one off the net.
It would be fun to make an LCG 8N.
Both the rear tires and front
knees/axles from this tractor would bolt
right onto an 8N.

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I cut one like that for a neighbor several years ago,
had to stop and ask if he had ANY MORE CAR BODIES hid
in it. good luck, jack
 

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