Posted by ericlb on March 24, 2013 at 06:50:57 from (12.189.32.37):
In Reply to: What would you do? posted by Dan T in MO on March 23, 2013 at 23:07:53:
well its up to you as it sits you have a 400 dollar tractor, if you fix it, and id like to see a pic of it, as there has to be a reason for the toe out, and it may cost only time to fix, a running and driving N thats ugly brings around 1200, if you look on the photo adds, a nice looking fully operating N with no issues goes for around 3000, a little more if a implement or 2 is thrown into the deal, while today real farmers dont want or have a need for a N size tractor, there really not the people who buy them, since the folowing for the ford N is so strong that the aftermarket reproduces virtually every single part of it, these are grabbed by basically 2 kinds of people, city folks who either grew up on a farm with one and now want another to play with and do some lite chores with and new estate owners who want a small tractor to maintain the place,once they reel over at the price of a new kubota in the hp range of a N they will buy a N at 1/10th of the price, while the new kubots will do things the N wont, like run a tiller or front end loader in dirt, for the money the N is still a good deal for mowing, blading roads, clearing snow, posthole drilling ect in other words 90% of the things a small estate owner would need to do, the reason you dont see a huge amount of them at tractor shows is because somewhere around 80% of the ones that still survive today are still working tractors, and the owners really arnt the same people you find at shows, that is they didnt grow up farming or have the desire to get a nice big tractor like a farmall or john deere ect and make it as good as or better than new, then show it and drive it in parades, tractor rides ect,the N cant keep up with the bigger tractors road gears,speed wise and are usually not onthe runs,the 9n and 2n can hit about 7mph, and nobody wants to go that slow, the 8n can sort of keep up at 12or so mph but is hard pressed, when the big tractors are just loafing
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