do a little research,plenty of them pulled 3-12". could i do it? no way.fords sold for a lot of reasons,and they were PERFECTLY suited for what they were intended for,which was farming forty to 160 acres. they dont pull a brushhog too good,they dont run a front loader too good,but niether does most other tractors of that day, simply because they werent designed to. comparing a ford 9n to a tractor twice its size and hp,is sort of cheating. put a 9n beside a ,"b" or "c" allis,maybe a "h" international etc and you have a better comparison.they were simply 23 hp FARMING tractors,NOT utility tractors.and they filled that roll very well,and continue to do so. they are the proto type of a whole generation of tractors,that every one to this day tries to copy.NO other brand of tractor ,hitch system,etc has been so copied. fast hitch,snap hitch,nearly all the others are long gone,and a thriving buisness is ongoing converting these hitches to the hitch that the lowly 9n made popular. in terms of its success the other companies could only dream. were their hitches bad? no, in no way, but look at which has become the standard. would be hard to dismiss the 9n out of hand as a crackpot scheme...and truthfully by and large,they did and continue to do what their ads said. slow ,weak,lightweight,all these things are true, but by those standards in that day and time,they were a great machine. and in their proper role of a small FARM tractor ,they still are great little tractors to this day. very few made the impact on the industry as a whole as did the lowly 9n. comparing one to a modern 25 hp tractor is not really fair, but look close at nearly any modern tractor ,and youll see the 9n there. modified ,up dated ,reworked to fill more varied tasks but its there.most others are and in reality always were less suited to the roles that the 9n slipped into easily. to me the 9n is sort of like the mauser rifle of the tractor world,,,
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