I spent quite a few years helping my dad bale with a 50 T International in West Central Indiana. We got to where we had near 100 Herefords, (and some corn and bean acreage to boot), so we did a lot of bales each season. Ours did not have the optional front wheel. I remember that there was so much tongue weight on our JD 50's drawbar that the whole unit would bounce up and down when it sat idling, due to the reciprocating motion of the baler. I also remember that the Cub engine was very hard to start when it was hot, so we got to where we did not stop the engine when we stopped for lunch. (I heard old-timers say the same of Fordson tractors.) There was a very short crank that went on the output shaft of the engine, and I was sure I was going to have a heart attack (in my teens!) from cranking over that engine. (Their later model had a larger C engine with electric start.) It would start great when cold, though. The thing I liked best was that you could easily run up the tractor's ground speed when the windows were light, and slow way down when the hay was heavy, due to the independent Cub engine. This doesn't work with a PTO baler. I'm starting to do some fencing so I can buy a few head of cattle, would like to buy a usable 50T or similar if I can find one.
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Today's Featured Article - The 8N and the Fox - by Zane Sherman. Dec. 13 1998, Renfroe, Alabama. Last niht I dreamed about the day that I plowed the field of about 10 acres over on what Jimmy and Dandy called the Ledbetter field. I was driving the 1948 8N Ford tractor that Jimmy bought in 48 new This was prebably in about 1951 and maybe even befor the house was built. This would have made me to be about16 years old and I drove the tractor for nothing and would have paid to drive it if I had had any money which I didn't, but neit
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