The thing was that Ford sold the N series in terms of productivity as well as power and that created confusion as farmers then were not sophisticated in terms of talking about PTO horsepower versus drawbar horsepower and related topics. Also, there was a lot of talking through hats as to what tractor could do what. Plowing was still the big chore on a lot of farms and then N series could perform neck and neck with a tractor several horsepower or more larger. I think one of the Ford books you could buy at TSC had a piece on how the N could match a Farmall M in terms of acres plowed per hour which was due to the light weight and weight transfer of the Ford. Where things got screwy if the salesman and farmer were less than sharp were figuring the belt/ PTO/ associated needs for the farmer. If a farmer had a 1 row PTO driven forage harvester he needed to have more horsepower than a N or if he had to cultivate a crop standing in excess of 3 feet he needed a row crop tractor. Reasons like the forage harvester or cultivating were why you did not see very many N series where I live back in the day. Now if Ford had developed a 35 plus Belt horsepower N then who knows.
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