Everyone wants to find Dad's or grandpa's tractor. The lucky ones actually do. My Dad farmed with a '52(side distributor) 8N ford. He bought it from my mothers father(grandpa). Dad sold the tractor in 68 or 69 when we moved from Kansas to Colorado. I heard it was later sold to a Mexican tractor jockey. So finding that one is probably impossible,it's probably in Mexico,if it survives at all.So I just have to try to find a side distributor 8N and 'pretend' that it's Dad's/grandpa's.8Ns are expensive these days,most are abused and worn out. So I am going to find a (cheap) non-runner and overhaul and 'restore' myself.I've always wanted an 8N,I think they are neat,handy little tractors.I've been buying some 8N implements for a while in anticipation of actually finding a tractor of my own...
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Blue Jay
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Did not have to search for mine, 1946 2N Dad bought the year I was born, been in the family the whole time. It will go to my Great Grand Son when I am no longer here.
Tubacase47
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I have Granddad's C Case and Dad's DC. The C is 88 this year and the DC is 69.
Dad traded his CC Case in on a new WD Allis. About 7 or 8 years later was at the John Deere dealer walking around out in the yard and there set this CC Case. Heard dad tell the dealer that he use to own that tractor years ago. I was to young then to be thinking about the past.
IMHO, 8N's and the whole old tractor market is about half or less of what is used to be. I would take my time and look around for a nice restored one. I'd about bet you can buy one for a lot less than you can restore one. Parts have gone up, while prices have come down. Folks now want power steering, live pto, good hydraulics, and loaders. They'd sooner buy a newer utility tractor on plastic, than use an old one.
Irv
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IMHO, 8N's and the whole old tractor market is about half or less of what is used to be. I would take my time and look around for a nice restored one. I'd about bet you can buy one for a lot less than you can restore one. Parts have gone up, while prices have come down. Folks now want power steering, live pto, good hydraulics, and loaders. They'd sooner buy a newer utility tractor on plastic, than use an old one.
Irv
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Josh-nhihguy
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That's a great story. My grandpa tells me things like that once in a while. To him it's second nature but to me it's solid gold that most people don't remember.
Gotta agree, the whole antique tractor market has gone soft. You claim expensive? When I first retired from the US Army in 96 in my current area a ratty 8N that would run on rotten rubber was a 3,000 buck tractor. Now a decent one is less than 2K. That ratty one might bring 800. My son in law won a Farmall H last year in a raffle. Nice tractor. He'd make more pulling the new rear tires off and selling them than he would selling the whole tractor. Few years ago that was a 2500-3K tractor.
So as other said, I'd shop around. Do be ready to drive a couple hundred miles for the right deal.
Rick
So as other said, I'd shop around. Do be ready to drive a couple hundred miles for the right deal.
Rick
I can't speak about your area but around here 8N's have been off their peak price-wise for over 15 years. Dad's side of the family all the tractors are here other than one we were not sorry to see go. Mom's father's tractors probably are all lost. He sold out in the mid-1960's. I only remember riding his fairly new at the time 3010 diesel once while really young so I did not appreciate it.
when dad got out of the army 1966 he bought an M, sometime in the 70s he sold it to his brother that needed another on terms that he would get first chance to buy it back, well that did not happen. It was sold to a guy my uncle worked with in the early 80s. Sometime in the late ninety's a friend of mine move out in my area and he told my dad who his grandpa was, and dad ask if they still had the M, and that's how we got the M back.
caterpillar guy
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Dad still has the only 2 tractors grandpa owned. a53 IH H and a D-4 Cat.
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