Posted by RodInNS on November 06, 2009 at 19:54:19 from (216.118.158.123):
In Reply to: Re: Towing a Tractor posted by 135 Fan on November 06, 2009 at 19:09:12:
This is one time, and mabey the only time I'll agree with B&D... but for what an 'N' will cost you to buy, it's poor value. Mabey for someone that spent half a lifetime on one and is a very experienced operator... they'll get along fine with it and quite safely. What I've seen is something different tho.. you get a lot of people who never owned a tractor, never operated a tractor and can't afford a tractor decide that they want a tractor. Many will end up with an 'N' or one of the other various other orphan bastards that are on the market that dont' have live PTO, don't have live/any/standardized/modern hydraulics, little or no brakes, etc... and off they go. I've seen some of the situations that some friends/neighbours have gotten themselves into with a tractor and absolutley can't figure out how or why they did what they did... but they did. And some are damn lucky to be alive. To be quite blunt, there's an experience factor that ought to go with owning one of those things that MANY such owners simply DO NOT have. They don't know the limits and many aren't even aware that there ~are~ limits... More than a few will get the Darwin award yet.
I've been a fairly firm believer for some time that the smallest tractor that most novice buyers should consider would be a later model 3 cylinder Ford 4000 because it's big enough to take the punishment that many will throw at it, has the weight and brakes to cover for most of the stupid things they'll do and it's quite reliable otherwise. Without starting a brand war... I'm sure there are comparable models in other colors, but I use the 4000 as an example...
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