a ford that i can count on...

[Tom Courtright]

this is my buddy running around with the work ford thats never let us down...so far, the ONLY ford that dosnt let us down....lol




yea yea its a crappy vid, from the phone...

[burban2002]

Yup those fords are pretty good tractors.  It looks like an 8n to me but I couldnt see the front too well-it might be a jubilee

[Mitch]

What year is it? Does it have a Cadillac emblem on the headlight like my buddies 1957 ford tractor did? That thing was always breaking. hydraulic components and the bucket kept tearing.

[burban2002]

if its an 8n its a 48-52.  If its a NAA or jubilee they went from 53 until a few years later.  Does it have the cyclops emblem on the front of the hood?

[Tom Courtright]

crap i dont remember..lol we've got 2, one dont run but we havnt tried it, im sitting on a massey ferguson

ah, here she is..

wait, we have 3, one has an excavator, we use used motor oil for the hydro. and it leaks like a sive

[burban2002]

Yup 8n in darn good shape.  Those are cool and so easy to work on but those MF's with the perkins are awesome.  I want a 135 or 150.

[Tom Courtright]

ours aint as pretty...
but same colors still, and really they do start pretty easy, even after they sit for a year.

i just wish they had foot throttles,

[burban2002]

well that and live hydraulics/pto and an 8 speed.  Its amazing though, how many you still see runnin around.  I imagine those suckers have bought the farm for many people.

[Tom Courtright]

the little buggers scoot though. in the vid my buddy is dragging a several hundred pound furrow mat (upside down) on a freshly aerated fairway. and hes not even topped out, thing has more waiting underhood

it does have hydro steering though, kinda surprised kyle, he almost took out the side of the tin garage since he was expecting to fight the wheel

[burban2002]

Yeah that kind of is weird--not factory but it would be nice to have.  Do you bush hog with it?

[CowboyBob]

I've got a 1974 Ford 3000 and it is one tough little tractor.  I drove it for a year with a blown head gasket and didn't even know it there was something wrong with it other than it was hard to start.  Once it got running, it ran fine.  Mine has 4500 hours on it, but my neighbor has one that he has rolled the hour meter over on it at least once.

[Tom Courtright]

we dont bush hog anything, any grass longer than 2" is considered naturalized and we want it like that, lol