What's the purpose of the 8n flip up seat?

I feel silly even asking this...I don't post much on forums as an engineering guy usually I can figure most things out pretty quick just by looking at them or Google pretty quick, but apparently I just can't think of the correct search terms to use for this one...

Why do these things have seats that flip up? Clearly it's not for some kind of access under the seat. I thought maybe some kind of weather protection thing, but the pan has holes in it, and if it's sitting outside in the weather it's gonna get wet anyways flipped up or not...

It seems like there's gotta be a simple answer to this, and it's just not coming to me...

Flip the seat up to prevent rain water from collecting in pan and/or seat cushion. Prevents wet pants in certain circumstances.

K5_489 , 1. is to keep rain and snow off of the seat especially with a cushion on it.
2. when standing up on the running boards to stretch your legs ect.

It's a simple way to attach the seat to the spring and still let the spring act like a spring.

When I first got my MF202, it had the stock seat pan on it but it had no cushion on the seat. The first time I drove it out on my field, it liked to have jarred my teeth loose. I quickly bought one of those universal tractor seats and saved my teeth.

Mostly used for flipping and standing on the footboards looking
for obstacles while brushogging and other uses. Also to keep
rain water to pool on seat

Just to make operator more comfortable while working 10 hours
a day in field by giving a chance to move around by standing
like you could do on john Deere or Farmal. No thought when
new about weather, just about streathing your leges and
straightening your knews and hips. No thoughts about weather
as most were never allowed to set out, Too valeable for that.

When I put that new universal tractor seat on my MF202, it made it a whole lot harder to get on and off the thing. I'd hate to have to jump of that tractor in a big hurry. But there really are no dangerous hills on my property.

Do you own or have ever driven a FORD TRACTOR? When the 9N was released in 1939 it did not use a flip-up seat. The flip-up came later with the 8N Model and all models
after. This was one of the 22 new features on the new Ford. As Kirk said, convenience for the operator was the reason. You could stand up on the footboards when you
became tired of sitting and when needed for seeing over implements like combines and pickers.


Tim Daley(MI)

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It seems like there's gotta be a simple answer to this, and it's just not coming to me...

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It keeps bird droppings off the seat of your pants.

TOH

It keeps bird droppings off the seat of your pants.

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This!



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It will keep snow off your seat!

(quoted from post at 21:33:12 01/29/23)
When I put that new universal tractor seat on my MF202, it made it a whole lot harder to get on and off the thing. I'd hate to have to jump of that tractor in a big hurry. But there really are no dangerous hills on my property.

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I have a Wagner loader on mine, thus there's no getting on/off it in a hurry regardless, :lol:. Yeah, I know..loader bad on N series tractors..but it's what I've got, and I can't afford anything better at the moment. It's a bit of an acrobatic feat climbing over the seat to the rear, which can get a bit more interesting depending on what's hanging off the 3 point, though I find the landscape rake frame does provide a handy step of sorts.

Regardless, I live in the Arizona desert outside of Phoenix, with almost dead flat ground over the entire property, save for the one wash cutting through it (ditch for all the eastern folks). I did try to side hill it...once..while attempting to blade out the sides, which I quickly learned was stick a penny in the light socket level of stupid :lol:, and never tried it again.

I just went outside, stood on the floor boards, and flipped the seat up...a HA! Now it makes more sense! I've stood up on it before, and while it was a bit cramped, I didn't find it to be a problem, though for me it's really just been positioning the loader a bit closer while prepping to lift something with it, so I was only standing for about 30 seconds at a time. But I can see where this would be handy for those that are standing for long periods on it.

Thanks all!

I do have some slight hills on my property. Sometimes it gets a little scary trying to go horizontally on a hill rather than go straight up and down. But I've learned how far up I can go on the hill and still be safe. I know to keep the loader bucket close to the ground. Once you get sideways on a small hill, since there is no suspension on a tractor, you really feel it when the tractor starts to lean a little sideways since that seat leans with the tractor. If I could just go straight up and down a hill, I would but there are things in the way at the top that prevent that and trying to turn around on a hill is definitely not a good idea either.

(quoted from post at 10:08:44 01/29/23) I feel silly even asking this...I don't post much on forums as an engineering guy usually I can figure most things out pretty quick just by looking at them or Google pretty quick, but apparently I just can't think of the correct search terms to use for this one...

Why do these things have seats that flip up? Clearly it's not for some kind of access under the seat. I thought maybe some kind of weather protection thing, but the pan has holes in it, and if it's sitting outside in the weather it's gonna get wet anyways flipped up or not...

It seems like there's gotta be a simple answer to this, and it's just not coming to me...

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I like to stand up at times when I am running the brush hog. Just flip the seat back and stand up!

Just don't forget to move the seat back down before sitting again. :wink:

You can set in the spring for short times but it is
uncomfortable. I have done it for short times.

Yes

The birds were really busy last spring

Go out and set on that pan at 6:00 am after the
tractor has set outside overnight. That is why the
seats flip over.

At the time those seats came out the tractor owner though too much about his tractor to ever let then set outAfter the war when you had to go to the goverment and ask permission to buy a tractor And wait possible a year for a tractor to come in and if it was the Ford and a JD came in you either had to take it or be dropped to bottom of waiting list so the buyers took care of their tractors by not letting them set out. That letting them set out did not come till later.