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Wow does the 8n have power or what!!!!

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rich in n minn.

01-17-2001 07:42:36




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I have to share this with all you great guys on the n board. We have had lots of snow. Last night I took my old gal (8n) out to plow my 1/4 mile driveway with my Dearborn Dozer blade. I have chains on the old gal and I am tooling along down the road in 3rd gear thinking about Snowplow and how he says momentum is his friend. Well I hit a hard packed section of snow and before you can blink an eye, I was pulled right into the downslope of the ditch with my angled blade. The dearborn dozer blade only raises up 6 inches and so I am sitting there thinking about my options, one of which is to take off the blade and get someone to pull me out. The ditch has about 2foot of hard packed snow in it and is 4 feet deep with nice slping sides. Backing out will not work. Driving forward will not work, I will be forever going sideways trying to get out. YUP- the best option is to shovel enough snow to get about 5 foot run and I put her in 2nd gear and head to the bottom of the ditch. That old gal just gave that deep throaty sound and pushed snow for about 100 yards before I found a spot where I could ease her out of the ditch and into my field and go parallel to the road back home. I have the only driveway in Minnesota that has a snow plowed ditch.

I finished plowing the road and when my wife came home I was sitting in my favorite chair reading the n news. All she said was "I see you were playing around with your tractor again."

I love it. It doesn't get any better than this.

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Dean

01-18-2001 12:47:39




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 Re: Wow does the 8n have power or what!!!! in reply to rich in n minn., 01-17-2001 07:42:36  
Ya don't have the right atachment,put your posthole digger on up side down. Then you weld
chopper blades on it and it will lift you right
out of there.



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Snowplow

01-18-2001 06:20:56




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 Re: Wow does the 8n have power or what!!!! in reply to rich in n minn., 01-17-2001 07:42:36  
Yes Rich momentum is your friend, ditches are not!
Sounds like you did good though!. You do need to be careful with the blade angled. If the resistance builds you may slide sideways because the front end is so light. I plow in 2nd gear usually, 1st for the heavy stuff, throttle high, 3rd for clean up. Once I got stuck in a bank and dropped the plow and backed out. I backed in, hooked a chain to the plow, and pulled it out! Fun!

You are correct that these tractor have great power, when they have traction. Traction is the key.

Enjoy!

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MikeC

01-17-2001 19:36:12




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 Re: Wow does the 8n have power or what!!!! in reply to rich in n minn., 01-17-2001 07:42:36  
I did almost the same thing with my 9N in December. I was pulling the snow away from the end of the driveway, and our newly paved roads have a drop off and soft shoulders. Buzzing along in 2nd gear, I hooked the edge with the right front tire, and before I could say Ford Tractor I was in the ditch. The options? Gun it through the 14 inches of snow and hope I had the momentum to get up the hill and around the house, or make a u-turn and head back up the ditch. I opted for the u-turn, and the 9N didn't even so much as spin a tire. 'Course, the neighbors all wanted to know why I had been driving around in the yard...

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Redbelly1

01-17-2001 13:19:40




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 Re: Wow does the 8n have power or what!!!! in reply to rich in n minn., 01-17-2001 07:42:36  
Sounds like my wife. Grin!



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