Texas 8N up for grabs on Hemming's Auction

Crazy Horse · Dec 2, 2022

This one just listed and the Hemmings auctions last two weeks. No reserve, with auctions one never knows I guess, it might being a good price. Anybody here live near Temple, Texas? A few implements thrown in for good measure and the rest looks decent ......
8N at auction .....

Dean · Dec 2, 2022

Could be a good deal but who knows what will happen before auction ends?

I have an identical disc (with scrapers) in new condition (almost 0 hours).

DoubleR · Dec 2, 2022

Every time I see a good deal on a on line auction the bidding goes crazy towards the end of the auction as everyone else is thinking like me that they may be able to get a deal. Most of the time it turns out to be not so much of a good deal in the end has been my experience.

Tony in SD · Dec 2, 2022

Looks like this one could be a good one to restore. However the description is indeed very colorful. For being described as ENTIRELY ORIGINAL, the first things that jump out as not original are the blue paint, alternator and the steering wheel. Another common error in describing N series Fords is the serial number is incorrect. If I was closer, Id seriously bid on it.

Fritz Maurer · Dec 2, 2022

Other than the valves and guides and blue oval, thats where the similarities end between that engine and a flathead v-8.

Dean · Dec 2, 2022

Same bore, stroke, pistons, rings, rods, etc....

rustred · Dec 2, 2022

i see it is not entirely original as the city boy is describing it. the blue paint jumped right out at me. alternator, air cleaner jar, and that timing window cover .didnt think they came with that grill guard eithe.r

Traditional Farmer · Dec 2, 2022

$600 disk,$100 tractor

Crazy Horse · Dec 2, 2022

Interesting comment TF ...... can you honestly say though that if you owned that tractor you would sell it to someone for $100?

Traditional Farmer · Dec 2, 2022

Of course not because I know P.T. Barnum was right.

Bonnan · Dec 2, 2022

What is the big deal; nothing special as they are a dime a dozen around Ohio/Pennsylvania.
Am I missing something CH?

Crazy Horse · Dec 2, 2022

No big deal at all. It's just a post on a discussion forum Bonnan ..... nothing more, nothing less. So to answer your question ..... no, you're not missing anything at all. If I were you though, I'd buy up a few of those 8N's you refer to in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

rustred · Dec 2, 2022

tend to agree, but maybe 200.00. all them tractors were good for is going to get the cows from pasture. our neighbor had one he used for picking rocks with the flatrack. eventually the tractor would not pull the wagon just spun out. two horses would have done better. and very expensive to do them engines. so the ones that know them tractors are correct and first timers need to learn.

Dean · Dec 2, 2022

The grill is correct for the hundred/01 series.

It's a good one. If closer, I would consider bidding just for the grill.

Dean · Dec 2, 2022

I use my VERY low time 52, 8N as my quad.

Carryall with chain saws, gas cans, hand tools, etc., never comes off.

Sold my Kubota RTV-X1100C with about 12 hours after 4 years because I liked the 8N much better for such work. Did make $2,000 on the RTV.

8N with Sherman combination goes almost as fast as did RTV, faster when RTV cold.

rustred · Dec 2, 2022

nice, they are better than a quad, and i like to enjoy the scenery and the ride at the same time.

jm. · Dec 2, 2022

four years and made 2000 dollars not a bad deal..

Geo-TH,In · Dec 2, 2022

The friendly post? LOL.
Please read the mymlast post on the bottom

r.w.b. · Dec 3, 2022

the ford car city farmers got ford car n pickup in garage so they buy n series to go in the barn. id rather own my vac case but to each his or her own

showcrop · Dec 3, 2022

(quoted from post at 10:37:20 12/02/22) tend to agree, but maybe 200.00. all them tractors were good for is going to get the cows from pasture. our neighbor had one he used for picking rocks with the flatrack. eventually the tractor would not pull the wagon just spun out. two horses would have done better. and very expensive to do them engines. so the ones that know them tractors are correct and first timers need to learn.

For a big portion of our nation's history 8Ns did a very big part of the total farm work being done.

treeman53 · Dec 3, 2022

I live in Pennsylvania, 16 miles from the Ohio line. Apparently, I need to look harder. From what I've seen, it would cost me somewhere between 6 and 9k to get a half dozen running 8N tractors, and that is if I found good deals....

Leroy · Dec 3, 2022

Hope you are not including western Ohio because that is not true here.

Leroy · Dec 3, 2022

I do agree that tractor is miss represented but could steel be made into a good worker.. The front end center is dammaged as that bent wishbone shows, Somebody hit a hole or something to bend that wishbone like it is. steering wheel looks like the one on my 41 9N. Dad bought a Ford 2N new in may of 44, just the older version of the 8N. I still have that tractor. It has done every job on the farm since new from tillage, planting, harvesting and cleaning stables to hauling grain to elevator.It has pulled a combine, corn picker forage harvestor all with the PTO. Dads only tractor untill I got big enough to drive it then he bought a 38 A john Deere as a healp mate and that Ford still did a lot of heavy tillagr including plowing and working ground. We pulled a 4 roe cron plabter with it. Pulled a baler for years but baler was engine powered. So they did do way more work than some seem to think they were worth just for driving around. I now own also a 41 9N tractor but it is needing the rebuilt engine installed that I can no longer do. Biggest tractor I ever owned was a Ford 5000 and these big ones you now want you could not give me to use. Newest and biggest tractor in JD line I would have ever considered having would have been a 730 gas, no diesel for me.

Leroy · Dec 3, 2022

If they were only good for that then how did we get b y farming with them for years doing every job on farm including the heavy tillage?

caterpillar guy · Dec 3, 2022

N series ford were so light they will not pull much if it is not pretty flat. Neighbor had one and they were pretty useless for much. Traded for a massey 135 then he got another massey. The older one was a 35 deluxe with the herring bone looking grill the newer one had the screen grill.

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