I enjoyed this! As I was growing up we had a 9N Ford and a Regular. I always loved the Regular. I remember one time we had a good wheat crop. We bought an old allis chalmers pto combine. The ford didn't have enough weight/traction to pull it up tiny hills, so I got to use the regular. I loved it!
What a task to crank start that old regular for a kid of about ten! I also learned (the hard way) that you could re-start it on tractor fuel (distillate) if you did it within a couple of minutes of shutting it off. But if you tried later, it was gonna be awful! You'd finally have to drain the carburetor, open the gasoline starting tank valve, and then be prepared to crank for a heck of a long time because the plugs would be wet with tractor fuel/distillate.
One time my older brother stuck a pitchfork into one of the holes on the side of the drawbar. As he was driving, the pitchfork tine caught onto the rear tire. Before he could stop, the pitchfork sliced the tire for about a two foot length. Dad hunted long and hard for 36" tires (because everything then was 38") and finally found a used pair of 13+ inch tires. I thought they"d be great because of the greater speed -- wrong! The regular no longer had enough power to pull in second for heavy work and the increase in ground travel in third was just slightly faster than a three legged turtle could crawl. Thanks for the memories.
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