Colin King
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This is our latest project. It's a 1950 8N that I acquired in 2012 right before our son was born. It belonged to my neighbor, who passed away shortly after he sold it to me. It was purchased new by his Mom with money she made growing pickles for the local pickle buyers. It was the only tractor they had on their 80 acre farm, which was across the road from my family's farm.
It last ran in the early 1990s.
I've had very little time to recreationally work on tractors since. This is my first project since the 2015 rebuild of my diesel. This winter has been mild enough that my 7 year old son and I have been able to do quite a bit of work on this one. About 3 weeks ago, we got it running again! It sounds great, and has excellent oil pressure at 25psi. I'm currently working on the breaks, but we're currently waiting out the cold weather that has settled over Minnesota recently.
Colin, MN
It last ran in the early 1990s.
I've had very little time to recreationally work on tractors since. This is my first project since the 2015 rebuild of my diesel. This winter has been mild enough that my 7 year old son and I have been able to do quite a bit of work on this one. About 3 weeks ago, we got it running again! It sounds great, and has excellent oil pressure at 25psi. I'm currently working on the breaks, but we're currently waiting out the cold weather that has settled over Minnesota recently.
Colin, MN