Re: ford 8n

Posted by Galen on June 30, 2005 at 04:48:55 from (216.170.44.1):

In Reply to: ford 8n posted by champion landscaping on June 29, 2005 at 18:56:59:

Well - I own a 1949 8N, Have to say it is just about the most usful thing around here! I've got bigger tractors for stuff the N won't do, but it is a great machine. As far as flipping over - that was one of the plusses about an 8N that no one else had at the time. True draft control (the 9N & 2N didn't have it) that was safer than other tractors that didn't have it (so it had LESS chance to flip ). I use mine for mowing (sickle and hog), tilling (which people say you can't), two row planting (lots of sweet corn for people), blading (dirt, snow, gravel, rock), raking hay (WAY better than dad's old IH "H"), and anything else I can find to do. Neighbor has been baling with his - pulls a NH 273. He's put up thousands of bales this way over 20 some years. She may be old, but still works well. The only thing my BIL's brand new 30 HP Kioti yuppie tractor has over her is live PTO, and live hydraulics. The N even has more drawbar and PTO HP than his $23,000 mistake. You don't need new and fancy. These (and other) old machines have proven themselves many a time - and they have already been working 50 years longer than the new stuff will last.

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