All of this tractor stuff is new to me. I spent my youth around them,..but they were just "tractors",...didn't mean anything.
But reading up on them over the past month or two has given me a new appreciation for those old tractors that were made back about the time I was born.
The Ford 8n is pretty much the classic tractor from that period. But if you look into it a bit, those big Farmall row crop tractors of the mid 50's were the "hogs" of their era.
A man would get on one o'them long, tall Farmalls from that period, hook a big ass 3 or 4 bottom plow to it, pull the throttle down and turn soil to the horizon.
I don't know why I think so all of a sudden, but it's satisfying to watch one of those big, archaic tractors work.
