[SEL] 8N Fords

[Paul Waugh]

I was going to stay out of this, for I am no expert.  I owned a 1948 8N, 
front distributor.  I had it for 16 years, and after original overhaul never 
did more to it. I lived in TN and had a good hill or two. In my part of TN, 
a lot of people backed up the hills when the had a load.  Greatest little 
tractor I ever owned for bush hogging, plowing (2-14) mowing , raking and so 
on.  My son just bought a jubilee, with a loader, so far so good. It moves 
500 lb bales on rear with no problem.  Now the beginning question, will it 
pull a 750-1000 lb load around?? ... Let's put it this way, would you put 
that kind of load behind a 20 hp lawn tractor??  If so go for it.

Paul Waugh - IN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Epps" <garyepps at fidnet.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] 8N Fords


>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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>> From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com on behalf of Michael Tucker
>> Sent: Tue 7/8/2008 2:44 PM
>> To: The SEL email discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [SEL] 8N Fords
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>> Versailles, Kentucky, USA
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