One thing I dont like about the below the floorboard exhaust on my 8n is that my right foot gets hot at times. It is nice to have that exhaust behind you however. Man is that 8n ever sweet for getting on and off compared to a Farmall H, or basically any other tractor I have operated.
Little old fashion.
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Speaking of the 8N, I recall years ago many of us, (yes me included) got in the habit of coming to a stop to open a gate etc, and stepped down on the clutch and quickly flip the gear shift into neutral and step off the tractor,.."letting the clutch up as you jumped off".
It was "usually" in neutral, but I watched a buddy do that and he hadn't quite got into neutral. His one foot hit the ground as the other let the clutch pedal up,...you got it! Yep, she lurched ahead the big tire caught his heal and pulled him down and ran right up his body and slid off the side of his head. The reason it "slid" off was because the fence post stopped the tractor but the driving wheel kept turning and skidded off his head!!!
Of course like so many, he jumped right up,...and dropped quickly in a painful heap! After some time in hospital he eventually recovered. I don't know about others, but I personally NEVER, EVER was in such a hurry to open a gate etc again!!!
CHEERS!
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PS: ....that was in the mid-1950's,..and the vision comes to me today like it was yesterday!!! If "you" do it, ...PLEASE DON'T!! Good thing the tires weren't loaded!! Saddly, this was just one more of my personally witnessed tragedies which have become hard learned lessons that I NEVER forget!!
It was "usually" in neutral, but I watched a buddy do that and he hadn't quite got into neutral. His one foot hit the ground as the other let the clutch pedal up,...you got it! Yep, she lurched ahead the big tire caught his heal and pulled him down and ran right up his body and slid off the side of his head. The reason it "slid" off was because the fence post stopped the tractor but the driving wheel kept turning and skidded off his head!!!
Of course like so many, he jumped right up,...and dropped quickly in a painful heap! After some time in hospital he eventually recovered. I don't know about others, but I personally NEVER, EVER was in such a hurry to open a gate etc again!!!
CHEERS!
. . tug
PS: ....that was in the mid-1950's,..and the vision comes to me today like it was yesterday!!! If "you" do it, ...PLEASE DON'T!! Good thing the tires weren't loaded!! Saddly, this was just one more of my personally witnessed tragedies which have become hard learned lessons that I NEVER forget!!
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The stack above the hood was about the only thing left on our beast when she went to the big scrap yard in the sky!
I did like seeing that smoke belch when the power came on, though.
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Looks a lot like my dad's 544.... He just did a fresh rebuild on it a few years back. I keep telling him to trade it in for a new 4x4, but he won't do it. I told him I don't want to inherit it (and work on it) when he's gone!
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That's what I thought too.. My dad's is a gas engine though. That's part of the reason why I am not fond of it. He works for the County and is retiring this fall. When I was a kid, I used to have to run that beast and take care of our driveway while he was out plowing snow for the County.
Seems like the colder it was, the more trouble I would have with it. Even with a block heater, and a dipstick heater, you'd have to fart around with the choke the whole time you were using it. Just about the time you got done with the driveway, the hydraulics would be warmed up and working good.
Don't even get me started on how bad the traction is with no ballast on the back.
Seems like the colder it was, the more trouble I would have with it. Even with a block heater, and a dipstick heater, you'd have to fart around with the choke the whole time you were using it. Just about the time you got done with the driveway, the hydraulics would be warmed up and working good.
Don't even get me started on how bad the traction is with no ballast on the back.
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Deepndirt, Here's Pic of one like we had. It's a WD 45. The drum on the side is what we would attach the belt to when we would grind feed. We might be talking about two different things.
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My uncle had and AC with the belt pulley on the side that we used to power a sugar can mill press like the one in the photo below. This was in the early '60s when we would plant about 4-5 acres of cane and make sugar cane syrup in the fall using a serpentine feed cooker pan over a gas-fired burner that my uncle built using several old cookstove burners.
