Normal Operating Temp for a 3525?

[xlr82v2]

1st gear is pretty slow, so I don't think you'll have any problem tilling. The power steering is great and the wheel is super easy to turn. Not sure how it compares to the 3325 without power steering, but I'm glad I got the 3525. If you plan on adding a FEL, you should just go with the 3525. I was originally going to go with the 3325 until the dealer said it probably wouldn't handle a FEL.

So far I'm loving the 3525. It has handled everything I've thrown at it so far. I've bush hogged about 8 acres or so, cut a 6ft wide drainage ditch, spread and leveled three 13 ton piles of top soil, cut a narrow ditch with my mid buster, resurfaced part of my gravel driveway, etc.

Etch,

Thanks for the reply, I think I'm sold on the 3525, as I forgot yesterday when I posted that it also had the Live PTO... That's the deal sealer for me. Anything that that will remind me of this 8N has got to go!! So, no transmission driven PTO for me... It has to be Live.

 

[xlr82v2]

As I think about it, once I get this tractor, I'm probably going to think that I've died and gone to Heaven... I won't know what to do... but I'm sure I'll figure it out ;-)

Power steering!!!
LIVE HYDRAULICS!!! LIVE HYDRAULICS!!! LIVE HYDRAULICS!!!
LIVE PTO!!!
Front end Loader!

Have you ever been bush hogging with an 8N (or any Ford N for that matter) and have the 'hog run up on a hump on a hillside, and just kill the tractor dead before you even have time to react? That's the makings of a bad day! You're stuck there until you can get a jack and either jack up a rear wheel or jack up the 'hog and let the pressure off the gears... or maybe you can get lucky and hammer it out of gear (I hope I don't break anything...) And, you can't slow down to try to see and avoid... every gear is too dang fast, and if you throttle back, then you don't have enough power to get through what you're cutting down. Well, there's no shortage of hillsides or humps here where I'm at...

You happy 8N owners will know what I'm talking about.



I can't wait to get this tractor!