I liked what you have stated. I remember a lot of older farmers saying they would have been good "situation" tractors if the average farmer could have afforded it for that. A big dislike I've heard locally that they were best suited for the implements offered with them (Dearborn). Very few around here could afford to replace their line of implements at the same time they replaced their tractor. If a guy increased his dairy herd (a few years after acquiring his N) and then correspondingly replaced their spreader most found their N could not handle much past what was offered by Dearborn. Now the farmer in the just mentioned example has to change his tractor and maybe have to trade the N getting nothing close to what he has in it at trade in time. At that time tractor working weight was kind of a new concept to most farmers. Some bad experiences were had by the N being handled by its load (pushed down a hill for example) than the other way around. A row crop tractor was less sensitive to these issues. If a guy wanted to go to a 3 bottom row crop from a 2 bottom, he could at least use the existing implements till he could afford or desired to change them. The people I know that dislike the N series personally have the reason the N was overstated (unintentionally most times) for what it could do for most farmers. Nothing irritates a farmer more than to buy something that does not meet reasonable expectations. Had the N's been introduced a couple decades later I think the farmers general increased mechanical knowledge would have headed off a lot of misunderstanding.
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