9n Plowing

You'll probably get better traction if you do "water your tires". I'm NOT A FAN of Calcium Chloride (CaCl). It is cheap and adds weight and acts as anti-freeze and leaks eat metal rims. Sometimes you can get used automobile anti-freeze for "free" but leaky auto anti-freeze is poision to dogs that like the sweet taste.

What I like to recommend is RV holding tank anti-freeze as it is NOT poision. And NO, you don't have to protect your tirewater to -30F, probably 0F or +10F or +15F is good enuff. It'll keep it from freezing solid, just turn it into around slushie..... ...Dell

We bolted weights on the rear tires. Kept the air in the tires (at least made sure that there was no water in the air) and filled the tires with that stuff in those tall cylinders (forgit the color of the cyl's. now). It was cheap.

We never had to check the tire pressure when the seasons changed. Hot - too much press. Cold - Too little pressure. Thought that we had to add more!!!!! !

My dad made a device that bolted on the rear wheels of the old 9N. For plowin' and push'n snow they ( the brackets) were bolted on. There was a piece of 2 " iron pipe that stuck out far enough for the BARBELL WEIGHTS to slide on. Then a simple ketter key slipped thru the hole that was drilled thru the end of the pipe, after the weights were in place. CIRCA: 1942.....

Well we used the same principle when ferring airplanes from Grumman. They were jist shells, painted with zinc someth'n.

Well after the empty shell landed, the ground crews had to put the "BARBELLS" on the nose-wheel.
Well, one day the "new guy" took off the barbells and the "bird" decided to rest on its tail.

With the weights totaling, 100's of pounds, that was all it took to plow and push snow wit.

Hope this old man's (dutchman, at that)advice helps the young'ns.

Back to whitewash'n.

PS. Careful not to drop 100 lb. weights on non-protected bare feet. DIDN't HEAR IT FROM ME>