Posted by Mike (WA) on August 01, 2012 at 17:07:25 from (75.172.124.239):
In Reply to: Your first tractor posted by Kow Farmer on August 01, 2012 at 16:33:36:
Wife and I bought a 55 acre farm in 1972, the year after we got married. Paid $34,500, it had a house, barn and machine shed. I didn't have any machinery, so next summer we went shares with a neighbor. He hired a guy to cut and rake, and he baled.
The cut and rake guy had a Ford 8N and a MF "Dyna-Balance" mower. He left it at our place when he was done, and asked if I wanted to buy it. $900 for the tractor and mower- guy I was in the National Guard with was also a banker, and he loaned me the money on my signature. I had grown up with an 8N, so was comfortable buying it. Then tried some other tractors, and was then comfortable selling the N. As someone on here once said, "N Fords are really handy for going down and getting the mail. If you don't have too much mail."
Looking back, I think the guy owed money on it, and was about to have it repossessed, which is why he left it at my place rather than take it home.
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