If you enjoy replacing axle seals on a fairly regular basis, you can keep brakes on an N series or 600 series. Then again, that left turning brake soon gets glazed from constant use.
I think some of you fellers just enjoy working on old tractors and never had your a$$ glued to the seat of one day in and day out trying to make a living on a hard scrabble farm.
Working on a tractor wasn"t fun and games in preparation of mowing the lawn or an upcoming parade. The farm tractor was a daily working tool and after you had fixed something 3 times, you usually said to hell with it after that. Being so lightweight and impossible to keep brakes are the very reason we never had a Ford tractor on our place years ago. Run an old Ford down in a ditch mowing or on a steep bank and see how long your automotive brake shoes last. Those axle seals will invariably leak and then your brakes are shot. I was raised here in eastern Kentucky which has always been small tobacco farm country. I have seen and been around hundreds and hundreds of smaller farm tractors in the 25-60 horse class of every color and description. Most all of them had reliable engines.......precious few had decent brakes.
The vast majority of folks in attendance here, don"t "farm" with these old machines nowadays...they play with them. Nothing wrong with that, but there"s a world of difference in a toy or amusement, than a daily worker. I have one old tractor left on the place.....a "52 Super A, and it does nothing but cultivate the garden. It does a fine job for that.....beyond that, it"s useless as teats on a boar hog. Brakes need fixing too.
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