[SEL] 8N Fords

[Gary Epps]

I haven't owned an 8n but I did have a Jubilee and it was worthless here in
the Ozarks.  It had nice small hydraulic loader on the front and would carry
anything down hill that the brakes would stop, but I couldn't bring anything
up hill.  It would just set there and spin the rear wheels.  Around here if
you want to carry anything up hill in the front loader a 4 wd is required.
I had the tires loaded with anti-freeze and carried a 50 gal drum filled
with water on the 3 pt hitch carry all.  It still wouldn't carry a bucket
load of dirt up hill.  For me it wasn't a question of getting stuck when it
was wet, but getting stuck at the bottom of the hill when it was dry.

Gary

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Kangas, James G. <james.kangas at timken.com>
wrote:

> Loading the rear tires does help. Up here in Northern New England the
> Tractor shops used a Sodium Chloride solution in the tires, it was heavier
> than just water and didn't freeze in the winter. I also remember see some of
> the old 8n and 9n's with a 55 gal barrel chained up on the three point with
> rocks in it.
>
>     Jim Kangas
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> On Jul 8, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Chuck Balyeat wrote:
> > Do those things have enough tractive weight to pull a 2 wheeled
> > round bale
> > buggy around without getting stuck when it rains a little ? ( 750
> > and 1000
> > pounders )
> > ANybody doing it right now ?
>
> Chuck,
>
> I grew up with one of those damned things around our little ranch.
> The place was pretty deep in sand so it was tougher to pull stuff when
> it was dry than when it was wet.  You've hit upon one of the problems
> with those tractors (the other being it's a Ford) in that they are
> pretty light in the rear end.  Yes, it will probably do a good job for
> pulling around rolls of hay but I would suggest filling the rear tires
> with water to help weight the rear end down for better pulling
> traction.  They're a good size for doing light work, do a pretty good
> job working a small (as in 5') brush hog mower and they will do an OK
> job working a blade if you are working with dirt that isn't too
> compacted (the lack of weight in the rear end problem again).  One of
> the really annoying things on these tractors is that in the original
> configuration the exhaust goes to the rear of the tractor so you're in
> jeopardy of choking on fumes when you're hooking up equipment (mom and
> dad were more in favor of killing a few of my brain cells rather than
> spending the money to port the exhaust up).
>
> See ya',
> Mike
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