[AT] Ford 8 N

Larry D. Goss rlgoss at evansville.net
Fri Dec 10 08:19:26 PST 2004


Fun photograph, George.  At first glance, it looks like you're wearing a
seat belt with shoulder harness.

Larry

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Cecil,

This was a little later, but when I saw my first 9N up close at the
county 
fair a photographer came by.  He took this picture and added it to his 
display.  After the fair, he gave it to me.  A copy of it has been added
to 
my owner's manual.

http://members.toast.net/gwill/album/Tractors/Ford/fair_9N.jpg

I think it was about 1945 or 1946.  I was thinking how great this
wonderful 
machine would be as a replacement for the John Deere GP!

George Willer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil E Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
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Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 8:09 AM
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> Like Farmer and his father, my father and I farmed with both
> the Ford 9N and an IHC 10-20 tractor for years. I remember the little
> Ford 9N from the day the local dealer delivered it new in the fall of
> 1939. My father and mother had taken their first trip since the
> beginning of the Great Depression and had gone to the Cattle Congress
> in Waterloo, Iowa. While there, he agreed to let them use our farm for
> a fall plowing demonstration and the tractor was delivered before they
> got home. I think my brothers and I spent at least 10 hours sitting
> in the seat of that new tractor pretending it was running. You know
> how kids are.... Once my father got home, that was the end of that
> stuff. FWIW, the local dealer told us that our Ford 9N was the first
> Ford tractor to be delivered to a farm in Minnesota.
>
> We already had a 10-20 with front rubber and rear steel as
> my father had traded off the Fordson a year or two earlier for the
> 10-20. The 10-20 was a "real" tractor with a lot of lugging power
> and the ability to work all day long at full throttle without any
> complaining or breakdowns. Being as I was the oldest, my father looked
> to me to run one of the tractors. I think he figured the little Ford
> would be easier to handle by my brothers, who were all younger, than
> I so he checked me out on the 10-20 the following spring and from then
> on, that is where I spent my days when there was field work to be
done.
>
> The Ford dealer had his plowing demonstration on our farm. A
> lot of farmers came but my father ended up buying the 9N. It was a
nice
> little tractor and came with a plow and a set of rear mounted
cultivators
> and a sickle bar mower. It was very handy and did most of the light
jobs
> on the farm - mostly dragging, planting, pulling wagons and
cultivating.
> It also pulled the grain binder and did all the mowing and haying
chores.
> But, it could not begin to keep up with the 10-20 when it came to the
> heavy work which was plowing and discing. I ran rings around the Ford
> with this type work by keeping the 10-20 at full throttle all day long
> in 2nd gear and keeping the wheels turning.
>
> The 10-20 was "my tractor" for about 17 years until I left the
> farm to go to work at the Oliver tractor plant in Charles City, Iowa.
It
> amused me to see that none of my brothers wanted to run the 10-20
after
> I left and my father ended up parking it behind the machine shed where
> it sat until the farm was sold many years later. It might still be
there
> for all I know. My brothers wanted something newer so my father bought
> a Super MTA and a Ford 8N. They continued farming with these into the
> 1960s and when my younger brother, Ray, took over the farm, he
continued
> using the Super MTA until he quit farming in the 1970s. It was
interesting
> that even after they got the new tractors, the International did all
the
> heavy work and the little Ford was kept for the light stuff.
>
> Cecil
> -- 
> The nicest thing about telling the truth is you never have to wonder
> what you said.
>
> Cecil E Monson
> Lucille Hand-Monson
> Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole
>
> Allis Chalmers tractors and equipment
>
> Free advice
>
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