Back row kids...( Ugly Tractors )

man! they did alot of work...for a trip bucket loader tractor!! i'd take it! them little ford tractors look cute, but they have killed alot of people! everyone should have taken a class before operating them!

Eddie, I think my 45 is in that class.

Here is a pic of our D-19 gas.  It served my uncle well as a loader tractor for probably 20-25 years with very little trouble.  It has since been retired but we still use it around our place some.  Hope to get it restored someday, but its gonna be a lot of work.

It was easy with the Ford N series to hitch a hard pull to the three point links that would rise and raise the pulling point to tip it over backwards. If it had an optional draw bar on the bottom of the axle that and it was used it was harder to tip if over backwards. It was often tempting to run a chain around the axle when pulling a stump and that was deadly. A neighbor rented a Ford, probably later than an 8N with a brush hog and hooked it on a stump. It smashed him against the mower hitch. He didn's survive but the tractor wasn't even scratched.

Using a 3 point hitch on an Allis the same will make it tip the same way. Hitching a chain around the axle will tip the Allis faster than the Ford.

The PTO was very easily solved with the SAME overruning clutch that nearly every other tractor of that era needed on the PTO.

The N series was just way too light for real work.

Gerald J.

Maybe it's just me, but Hager's D19 looks lovely to me, every ding and scrape has a story, the tractors whole life is there, why go and bury it under pounds of filler and two-pack paint.  I don't mean to put anyone down, Eddie's done a stunning job on his tractor, I just prefer the 'lived in' look. If it ain't shiny, you ain't afraid to use it for what it was intended.

 

That B has alot of potential!! Why the rare , {probably dealer special option}calico muffler system looks to be in excellent condition. {Sometimes my own B gets the grey striped version ...}

Eddie, I diddn't notice how much they raised the hood/grille until I saw the "after" pic. You did an excellent job. Lot of daylight between that hood and the head on that flat-6.

Phil, that's about as original as they get. She's beautiful just the way she is.

I helped farm with an 8N when I was growing up here in Massachusetts. Neighbor had a couple of them. We made a lot of hay with them and grew corn for the cows. Made enough hay and silage to feed 50 dairy cows over the winter. All that work got done with those two little machines. I guess "real work" depends on where you are - here on the hill farms of New England would differ from out in the mid-west, I suppose!

yeah...what split51 says....been on soooo many rescue calls that that happened to the persons running them, not counting the ones i heard of around.

Sorry about the cat, guys... I took those pictures maybe half an hour after the tractor was delivered, and the cat was already climbing around on it. I think she's stretching in that picture. She's pretty good company when I'm working on the B.

This is my 55 wd45 i cant be without it long enough to paint it

All my WD45's can't find a paint gun to make them look new and some of them last looked at one back in 1957. Boys that not rust on them, it's called pitiana! lol