Miscellaneous Saxophones are not the only old things that I have

[Hoosierken]

Plowing out with a 1946 Ford.

 

[jonf]

Is it close up with a wide angle lens? Otherwise the front wheels look very toe-out.

 

[Hoosierken]

Is it close up with a wide angle lens? Otherwise the front wheels look very toe-out.

It is pretty loose

 

[turf3]

Yeah, I wouldn't want to take that down the road at 50 MPH but it's probably fine for farm duty. Is it an 8N, 9N, or what? I have a friend that has five (!) mid 50s Fordson Dextas with the three cylinder Perkins diesel, he loves them.

 

[Hoosierken]

Yeah, I wouldn't want to take that down the road at 50 MPH but it's probably fine for farm duty. Is it an 8N, 9N, or what? I have a friend that has five (!) mid 50s Fordson Dextas with the three cylinder Perkins diesel, he loves them.

It is a 1946 2n. The only way this tractor is going 50mph is on a trailer. My son and I also have an 8N, and a 611 with a Wain Roy backhoe. I have another this is apart at the moment.
What it looked like when I got it.

The 1950 8N before

and after

1960 Ford 611 Backhoe removing the swimming pool

 

[Targa]

Yeah, I wouldn't want to take that down the road at 50 MPH but it's probably fine for farm duty.

Brother in law has an old tractor and a good few years back showed me how to drive it.
When we went back in my sister looked at him and asked 'what's the matter'.
He replied 'You're brother's mad, tractors aren't supposed to go that fast'.

 

[Ghr9204]

In the early 1970's whilst working on a poultry (chicken) farm (mainly egg layers but also had meat birds), as a high school student I got to drive the tractor with front lift bucket much like in the above photo for various tasks. It had a clutch pedal, but no gas pedal. Instead, it had a hand lever to the right or left of the steering wheel as the throttle.

It could do 25 - 30 MPH, but with all the dirt roads on the farm, one did 5 - 10 MPH, maybe 15 MPH if lucky. Go too fast and the bucket and tractorwould start oscillating / bouncing up and down, unsafe by any means.