The model year concept isn't as strong in tractors as it is in cars. There often isn't any year designation and changes aren't always done on a model year calender. Farmers in the 40's and 50's often had cyclic incomes, meaning they lived on less until the crops came in, often the charge accounts with the merchants were settled when the crop came in. They'd put enough aside to cover their spring crop costs and enough to live. With leftover cash in hand cars, tractors and other equipment would be bought. When your grandpa was sold the tractor I bet the dealer sold him a new 8N Ford if you still had the receipt it would say New 8N Ford serial number XXXXXXXXXX with no mention of a model year. He might of very well ordered the tractor in the fall after he got his crops in and taken delivery whenever it came in. Or a dealer might of ordered it to replace inventory that was sold just before or after fall harvest and your Grandpa bought it off the lot in anticipation for spring planting. If you look at serial number breakouts different companies used different methods meaning some used model year some calender year and sometimes they changed. The models on the N series comes from the last digit of the year they were introduced, the 9N in 1939, the 2N in 1942 and the 8N in 1948 however the serial number break out for the 8N shows almost 40,000 tractors made in 1947, a little more than 100,000 for 1948- they were probably using calender year, same on the Farmall 560s they were introduced for 1959 but they show about 6,800made in 1958. But look at John Deere new generation tractors introduced in the fall of 1960 but the serial number charts don't show any 1960 tractors the beginning serial number is assigned as a 1961, they were using a model year system.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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