8n tractor

I have 7 acres with a half acre garden/orchard. I shred and do some discing or chisling with size suited equipment . I Know they are not suited for bigger acreages, altho, my Dad used tio use one to pull a 6' pull behind shredder and shred about 100 acres of pasture. he used what was available.

If I could have gotten a Farmall M with a good after market 3 point, I or a H as second choice, I would have. But when I found one I liked, I had no way to get it home. My 8N was hauled home on the trailer I have.

Id love to have a newer tractor of maybe 30 hp with a frontend loader and live everything, but our budget didnt allow it.

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I paid $400 for my 48 H. It started out as a parts tractor. Guy sold both at a sale. Guess he dedcided to fix up the parts tractor. When I saw it had new bolts on the oil pan and heard it run, I figured he had gone through it. Works PERFECT.

I found 3 different Hs that fit the bill, but they didnt last long enough for me to get there. Sometimes its a problem of sorts working a full time job.

I'll find one one of these days. Dad and Pawpaw both farmed with Farmalls and the first tractor I ever bought was a Farmall 300, so I have a place in my heart for them as well as the N tractors

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" Do or do not, there is no try. " - Yoda

Look, if folks want to use an 8n, fine, go ahead. But for the money they sell for you can get a lot more tractor. I just fixed a guys 2- 9ns for him. Bad coils, $80 something a piece. Lousy 6 volt system didn't help things. He loves the tractors. He grew up with them. He also has said a million times that a 5000 Ford was the best tractor Ford ever made. It's all in what you want to do. I started out with a VAC Case. More tractor than an 8n, but no 3 pt. I plowed, baled, etc for several years till I figured out I was breaking my own back. So now I have a couple 55hp rigs as my big tractors. My neighbor the BTO just laughs at me and my little rigs. He laughs more when I use the horses.

To each their own.

My dad had a 300, and he liked it. Im guessing the looks, and such reminded him of my M he had, and the mopre modern stuff like live hydrols, TA, power steering, ect reminded him of the 806 era tractors of which he died with.

A few years ago I bought a grown up 40 acre farm and had no tractor, and not a lot of money to work with. Everybody kept telling me you could buy a big tractor as cheap as you could a small one. I didnt find that to be the case and I looked long and hard. I also didnt find any $500 8N's that were in decent shape. I settled on a later model 8N that had just been rebuilt and a new clutch and pressure plate in it. I gave around $3000 for it and it came with a 5' bush hog, a single 14' bottom plow, and a finish mower. It was rusty, but I repainted it after I had it awhile so it does look pretty good. Sure, I drooled at the Deere's or even the older Internationals, just couldn't swing it. It took me about a week to mow off about 20 acres of fields, but it did fine. It was late winter when I did it and the fields had a lot of broomsage and dry weeds of all types. About the time I was finishing up, I was getting ready to put the tractor in the old barn and I noticed a small fire. I smoke, but I believe I know better than to flip a cigarette into that dry stuff, but I really don't know how it started.
I'm still on the tractor so I drove down to the small fire that you could have put out with your foot, but I devised this brilliant plan to drive over it with the bush hog and smother it. As I drove over it, it came out from under the bush hog and now there's like 20 little fires scattered everywhere. Now, not believing what I did didn't work...guess what I did nex?. I tried it one more, now I had 40 small fires that ended up burning off all the fields I just mowed, caught the grass that was on the bush hog on fire and melted off the plastic PTO guard, and I thought it was gonna burn my tractor up, plus the barn. Sure made me nervous. The fields sure did turn out nice and green though. So why would anybody listen to me for ANY kind of advice on anything??

that doesn't sound very nice...

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At least I didnt say it LOL

I re-read this and the statement is just silly. You cant honestly compare a N tractor to a 75 hp tractor with live pto and hydraulics.

In older tractors that would be an 8 N to a 706 or a 3020. And you there Bret, are the only one that is making such a comparison.

There are myriads of small tractors today, and while a lot have more HP than a N tractor, they dont have enough in the seat of their britches to use it all. If you cant keep the wheels from spinning, more HP is useless.

And I guess it all depends on what you call " really farming " and what the meaning of " might work for you " is.

You are the one talking them down. No one has tried to tell you you need one. Use what you want and those of us that like N tractors will will use what we want. Its really very simple.

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Sorry, but steering someone into an overpriced for what they are tractor that will end up being a disappointment isn't very nice either. An 8n is a fine 2nd tractor. For the money you'll pay you can get a much more capable rig.

And you seem to be the one with the die hard opinion that an 8n is perfect. For the money you can get a lot more tractor, that's the point. I;m not comparing an 8n to a 75 hp 3020 or 2-70 or 1655 ollie. I'm comparing $1-3K tractors, which is what a running 9n/2n/8n will go for. The OP was wondering about buying a $900.00 tractor. For $900.00 locally you cannot touch a running 8n with 4 tires. $2500.00 is a lower end. But you can get a Farmall H/A/C/300, Case VA/S/D/600, Allis WD/B/C, Ford Dexta/600/800/Major, Nuffield 10/60, DB 880/990, Deere A/B/50/60/1010, 820, Ollie 550 and probably some others I missed for well that $2500.00 or less. There are other options that are a far greater value for the money spent.

OTOH, if he's sold on a friendly little 8n, like I said, have at it. But I've seen way, way too many people go the same route time after time and end up getting a different, larger tractor that will do more.

I have both an H and an 8n. The H is my plow and baling tractor. I use the 8N for bush hogging and discing. For the older folks here, if you're getting on and off the tractor a lot the 8N is much better than climbing Mount H all the time.

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TSC has coils for under $ 30 for 6v or 12v, or you can just go to the auto store and buy a universal one with built in resistor for $ 18.......

HA Brosil. I get my exercise for getting on and off the H by getting on and off my 50 Demonstrator Cub Farmall, and im 65

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Apparently you aren't familiar with the old style square coils on the front mount distributor for the 9n. TSC does not carry them, at least the 2 near me don't. A regular round body coil won't work either. I ended up going to NAPA and paying over $80.00 each, but they were good quality coil, not the low bid stuff from TSC.

no steering from me. like I said, I have a 9n, an 800, and now a case 1030... they each have a job. my 9 wasn't overpriced when I bought it, and I don't think it's overpriced now that I plan to sell it. we've gotten great bargains on all three tractors and all the implements we have.

however, I can disagree without being disagreeable.

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AH, Ive seen you. U cant be disagreeable lol. Me, I got my own personal dislike for them that goes back to before I was even old enough to drive a tractor.

I hold a grudge forever lol

Somebodys gotta buy them. Theyll make their owners better mechanics. I never had one, and im a lousy mechanic, so they got some kind of purpose lol

oh, Bill... I can be very disagreeable if provoked. I'm just not easily provoked. Not over something as mundane as opinions on which tractor is the best
You know what they say 'bout opinions...

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

I wasn't trying to be disagreeable Anette, just honest. People get terribly sensitive when you try to be honest about things, doesn't matter what the subject it seems. You have an 800, you probably didn't pay much more for it than you would for an 8n, if as much. You know which one is more capable. That's the point I was trying to get across.

A 1030?!!! DROOL!!! I love Cases or that era. I have an 811B Caseomatic gasser. Love that tractor, just can't afford to feed it!

we had 2 800 diesels at different times as I grew up and dad bought a 1030 after I joined the navy. Only got to drive that once to disc up 30 acres for oats...man was that a blast.

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