8n tractor

You just haven't been around here. I just got off my 8n after dressing 20 loads of gravel on our 1 1/2 miles of road. It's a point of pride with me to keep the road looking it's best. At 24 degrees this morning it started right up, and ran all day without a hiccup. All I use it for is road work, box blade, grading blade.

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i'd pass too, and I have one running with good tires all the way around that i'd take 2k for

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Tried ta tell ya LOL.

I love my little 9, Bill, but we bought a couple more... now I have a Ford 800, and a Case 1030. No reason to have 3 tractors, so selling one. Now, you be good

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I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.

If you have more money in your tractor than your land you are a fool. Nothing wrong with an 8N, and there is little they can't do on a small farm. If you have hundreds of acres than you need a bigger tractor on the other hand if you have 30 or so the 8N will suit you fine. My 8N put up over 2,000 square bales last year and plowed my acre garden. I would have prefered to do that work in a modern tractor costing 10 times more, but I decided to pocket the difference and in so doing I don't need that city job to pay for my tractor.

You don't need a modern tractor costing 10X more. You just have to look around a bit for a better deal. I have $2500.00 in my David Brown 990 and that's 100X the tractor a 8n is. I have maybe $1200.00 in my Case 811b that I bought for $800.00. You have to learn whats' what and look around a little.

I have an 8n that I bought for $2500 with a lot of equipment and new tires on it. So far, I've got about $7000 in it with repairs. Get a bank loan and buy a Kubota.

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Heck Nettie, I got 3 and theres only one of me lol

We have one from the 1950's. It is in great shape. Paid 3200 for it with all the impliments back in the '90's. It still runs great. They are a cool tractor, but I like the new ones best especially with HST.

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Nothing wrong with a David Brown besides parts availability, but I will keep my 8N. 100x is a severe overstatement. An 8n is one of the least expensive tractors to keep going, parts are easy to find and low cost. They are also very fuel efficient. If it can do the job why would I need more tractor?

Whats a tractor worth to me that don't run? Less than nothing.

I suppose if you aren't really farming an 8n might work for you. But try running a round baler with one, or a haybine or doing any real work with a front loader. Sorry, but as friendly as the little 9n/2n/8ns are, they don't compare with something weighing 2-3 times as much with 3 times the hp and modern hydraulics, just as my 990 doesn't compare with todays tractors.

Im still considering one. My main uses for it would be scrapping the driveway, running a bushhog, and pushing snow (dc area rare i get alot but 2' happens). Id love a front loader but that rules out the 8n class of tractors and about tripples the cost!

For my uses im thinking one might make sense

I would buy it for $500, haul it home, then go to TSC and get a new muffler for it.............throw away the muffler that is clogged with a mouse nest and seed stash that is making the back pressure and preventing it from running......

If by chance it will run but needs an overhaul, you can get your money back by selling the fenders, sheet metal, and tires.......

geo

Has CIH stopped supporting their older tractors? A Case 1295 is a DB 990 with square tin and a very few hydraulic changes. Still A+I dealers will have aftermarket parts

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I own a 9N, bought it a few years ago for $1,300. One bad sparkplug wire, other than that it's never let me down...paid for itself many times over....Topside

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They were never designed to run a round baler, a haybine or anything like that. So that's actually not a fair statement, even if it is true.

But if the Amish can run all that behind a team. I would imagine with a few adaptations, an 8N would do just fine.

Y'all keep hatin', just more left out there for those of that like 'em. !!!

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It's not really a hate thing. You can over work an 8n pulling a gas powered baler, and bale 6 acres for a $100+ in gasoline. I'll do the same thing with a small diesel (or my big JD turbo diesel) for $10 in coloured diesel.

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last year I bought a Farmall H for $1800,it has a loader a 9spd and an aftermarket 3 point (saginaw),it does everything I need it to from cleaning the barn to light tillling,it will pull a 2 bottom,the things I like about old Farmall's and Ford tractors is there is new and used parts for them available anywhere,so thats a big plus if they do break.

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My original statement stands true, if you are working a smaller amount of land an 8N is a fine choice. If you have hundreds of acres you need a bigger rig I am not arguing that. There are plenty of people out there that have smaller places of around 30 acres which is the perfect match for an 8N. I don't feed round bales it doesn't make ecenomical sense for me to buy the equipment needed to make them. I am already set up for square bales and don't have 100's of cattle. I am not a "real" commercial farmer and don't want to be. I have nothing wrong with the big farms but no need to knock a good choice for a small farm.