Posted by NY 986 on February 21, 2016 at 09:43:22 from (97.33.68.62):
I have been reading some of the posts over on the N board and it makes me remember back a bunch of years ago as a partsman. Random thoughts. It seemed like the vast majority of the people who came in to buy parts had a strong preference for the side mount distributor 8N's. I don't recall much discussion as to the ground speeds of each N series and their effectiveness for a job such as mowing or back blading. I can remember around 25 years ago that the Rochester paper for Saturday would have 6-8 listings for Fords with half being 8N's and maybe one NAA or 100 series tractors. I know 500 dollars could mean a lot back then to quite a few people but I remember guys coming in to get filters, spark plugs, and so forth telling me about how they out muscled a few other guys on an 8N by offering a few hundred dollars more than the asking price to get it. Funny thing was that most times there was a 100 series tractor available for the same money on the same weekend but the "cute" 8N was the one they felt they had to have, what they told the wife that they were getting, or wanted to please the father or father-in-law. I kind of wished that I had the forethought to have gone out to Yoder and Frey's and buy several at a time to sell here. I had access to sale information from out there and it seemed that good side distributor 8N's sold for 1500-1700 dollars on average with guys here fighting for the "privilege" of paying 3500 dollars for an 8N that was anything but a cream puff and may have included a set of poor condition chains or poor condition rotary cutter. It would have been my luck that the minute I did this that the market would have shifted away from those tractors. Compacts were out with good offerings by Ford and Deere plus Rochester still had many good paying jobs to afford those compacts. Just some musings on a quiet Sunday afternoon.
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