Height | 70 (177 cm) | |
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Length | 115 (292 cm) | |
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Weight (Ballasted) | 4 | |
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Weight (Operating) | 2 | |
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Weight (Shipping) | 2 | |
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"I love my 8N! It does everything I need it to do!"
"This was my father's tractor. We mowed (sickle mower,still have it, still use it, model 14/15), moved to Pennsylvania, farmed with my brother in law and still use it now on our ten acres for mowing,etc. We always kept it inside. IT now needs engine work and a repaint. I don't know if I will tackle it again at 77. I have a 3 speed Sherman on the bench and hope to get that in also. Lots of good memories!"
"Searching online to find how a positive ground tractor could start and run for a short time with a negative ground. Found a good thread and will be setting the cables right. Will be clearing brush soon, my brother had it for a few years cleaning up his place in Washington state"
"I bought this old tractor from an 83 year old animal vet. It had been sitting in a field for four years before I got it. It took me a year and a half to restore it. I wouldn't trade it for a brand new one now."
"The moniker "Legend" is over-applied. But to the 8N, it is a synonym (manner of speakin'...). Does whatever a machine of its scale and technology can be expected to, and does it well. Won't waste "bandwidth"---all the good things that have already been said I believe to be true. Its only limitations are the state of technology at that time. It shall continue for all the same reasons."
"I came to own my farm---90 acres of pastoral bliss in the Finger Lakes region of New York, as well as my Ford 8N, via a series of events, mostly fortunate but more often humbling, that bear telling perhaps in some other venue. About the 8N: it has been a magnificent tutor and has saved my skin on many occasions. However, I have not been able to spare the time to work on it. I'm not a farmer, I am a countrified city boy who would starve to death if I had to depend on my "farm skills" for a living. My family's sustenance comes from my teaching history at the local high school (my wife teaches as well). And so my tractor has had to suffer the indignity of having an owner that worked it to death without the care I know it deserved. My relationship with my tractor is analogous to Willie Nelson's relationship with the woman in the song: "Always On My Mind". "Wouldah, shoudah, couldah!"... And so to the tractor I'd like to own: A dependable, that is, low maintenance workhorse that will dig ditches, cut and bail 2-3,000 bails of hay or straw, help me put up or repair fencing, plow snow, brush hog overgrown weed patches, pull wagon loads of firewood, etc. And look good doing all these things. It has to be big enough to do these things and small and nimble enough to get in the woods as well. I'm open to suggestions.There seem to be many good makes and models that would fit the bill."
"Just to add to anyone else saying good things. 8N for a 20 years plus here and other than missing live PTO and a lower gear...the best tractor still. Of course a little hard to work on distributor behind fan. Still working it and of course the star of any fair pulling haywagon of kids."
"Well I wanted a 8N for a while now. My dad had one when I was a kid. I am a complete Ford-natic. All I've owned for most of my life, so it figured when I got a tractor that was simple and easy to work on, such as the 8N. Sure it has short comings, compared with all the new machines out there. Me I'll mostly just piddle with it and restore it as time and money permit."
"My 8N has been in the family since the 70's. I inherited it when my Dad passed away. I've been using this tractor since I was 12 or 13 (34 years or so). It is a great old tractor once you learn some of it's quirks. It is easy to work on and parts are easy to get and affordable. I use mine for bush hogging, tilling, disking, digging post holes, moving dirt with a bucket attachment, and grading my driveway. I sure do wish it had live PTO but I've learned to live without it. All in all a great tractor."
"Reliable, simply designed and easy to work on. Parts are affordable and readily available. What's not to love about these old tractors?"