People make the mistake of pulling sideways instead of up on brush. An old landscaper trick is to get a car or truck tire rim, place it next to the base of the bush and put the chain over the rim to pull up. Otherwise you are pulling against the ground with no leverage.
Yep, if you need a 3/8" chain, you need a bigger tractor.
I have pulled a lot of things with a K5 4x4 Blazer or Dodge W250 that I could not budge with the 8N.
On the other hand, you will never damage a 3/8" chain with anything less than a semi tractor. Glad you are getting some good use out of the little tractor, and enjoying it. That is what they were built for.
Grandad took 80 acres out of sagebrush and converted it into an irrigated dairy farm in the late 40s he had one 8N with a loader and back blade permanently attached to clean cow pens. He had two more 8Ns which were used for plowing, discing, planting, corrugating, mowing, raking, baling, and hauling hay. The 8N does not have enough power to run a baler off the PTO, but a two cylinder Wisconsin on the baler covers the power issue, at least on the little balers we were using up through the early '80s..
those three little Fords served Grandad well as his only farm tractors up through the mid '80s when he gave up farming at age 80 plus.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
A nylon recovery strap will move more stuff than a chain ever thought about. A chain doesn't have any "bounce" to it.
Mike
Great idea for yanking stuck trucks out of a mudhole. not so great for pulling stumps with a tractor. An elastic strap is a great way to catch a stump in the back of your head.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
A nylon recovery strap will move more stuff than a chain ever thought about. A chain doesn't have any "bounce" to it.
Mike
I broke a 3" wide nylon tow strap pulling a bush smaller than this one. That's why I bought such a heavy chain,....makes me nervous when things start breaking during stuff like this.
My Dad was a heavy equipment operator. A 1" diameter steel cable let go and gave his lower leg a very nasty compound fracture back when I was about 14.
Yep, if you need a 3/8" chain, you need a bigger tractor.
I have pulled a lot of things with a K5 4x4 Blazer or Dodge W250 that I could not budge with the 8N.
On the other hand, you will never damage a 3/8" chain with anything less than a semi tractor. Glad you are getting some good use out of the little tractor, and enjoying it. That is what they were built for.
Grandad took 80 acres out of sagebrush and converted it into an irrigated dairy farm in the late 40s he had one 8N with a loader and back blade permanently attached to clean cow pens. He had two more 8Ns which were used for plowing, discing, planting, corrugating, mowing, raking, baling, and hauling hay. The 8N does not have enough power to run a baler off the PTO, but a two cylinder Wisconsin on the baler covers the power issue, at least on the little balers we were using up through the early '80s..
those three little Fords served Grandad well as his only farm tractors up through the mid '80s when he gave up farming at age 80 plus.
I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop ever since I bought it. But it's been running like a champ. It's got some little things to be done to it. The valve cover gaskets are dribbling oil. I suspect it's got those old cork gaskets. I'm going to replace them with some rubber gaskets. It wouldn't be much of a job but you have to take the manifold off to get to them.
Everything is real tight on it. The clutch will cause the tires to dig a hole in the ground and the brakes will lock the wheels up in gravel,....front end is tight and straight,..hardly any play in the steering.
That big ugly ass bush has been pulled and drug back to the brush pile. I'll take the chain saw back there later and cut it up into fire pit size pieces.
There's going to be a lot of clean up fires this fall.
The 8N does not have enough power to run a baler off the PTO,
What kind of baler?
Here's a guy running a little square baler off of an old Massie Harris 33 that he's powered with a 13 HP lawnmower motor with a centrifugal clutch. It starts at the 2:40 mark.
It depends on the load Jim. I broke a high strength 1/2 in two places once. Yup, two at once, it surprised me. I was pulling a mulberry tree by the roots with a Cat 944A loader.
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