As I said good for what they were designed for.They WERE NOT DESIGNED to use a rotary mower and that is why people have trouble with them. All the way around it comes down to people trying to use them for something they were not designed for. And I agree there are lots better tractors fore what he wants to do. It just comes down to operator using his brain in correct way. And that would tell him what he should be doing. They were designed to pull a 2 bottom 12" plow in most soils and were prety good at that, also a 2 row cultivator or pull a horse drawn mower or hay rake. Not for loader work or post hole diggers or things you need constant depth control on the 3 point. I have had that position control on 4 other Ford tractors and did not use it much as what was not needed. What I did use it on was the 4-14" semi mount plow behind the Ford 5000. So yes you have to determin if they are correct for what you want to do, not try to do something they were not designed for. And I do know that those mowers take a lot of power, more than most folks think they should. My Ford 4000 that was rated at 52 PTO HP but put out 60 on dyno I did kill many a time from the load of the 5' mower. I also know that in certain light mowing the N series will run a 5' mower but not when you get into heavy stuff. 2 year ago I bought a 5' and had it on my 2N for a bit, kept breaking the bolt to hold PTO shaft on. This past year I bought that overrun clutch but did not put it or the mower on as I bought an old Wheeh Horse with a 4' mower and I was mowing heavier stuff with it than I could ever have mowed with my 2N. So you just have to know what you want to do and what it takes to do it and then how to do it. Too many people feel like the small Fords are no good because they think they should do what a 4020 Deere would do as far as power and the load they think the small Ford should do is equivilent to putting a 10 or 12 bottom plow behind that 4020 so they are trying to overload them that much and when they will not do the work blame the tractor and not the nut trying to do something they were not ment to do. And yes for that mower get something with Live PTO and more power and that scoop also with position control.
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