Posted by kopeck on November 25, 2009 at 06:18:13 from (66.243.202.35):
In Reply to: Super A vs. 8n posted by randy hall on November 24, 2009 at 07:21:20:
Mark said: (quoted from post at 10:55:47 11/24/09) Hehehe!
This comparison is like between prunes and lemons....forget apples and oranges!
I have a SA and have ran more than a few old 8n"s.
Both are dogs in my estimation. I call my SA a riding rotortiller...it"s not fit for much more than cultivating. The 8N"s are deathtraps...I"ve seen more than one flipped over and had a good friend killed on one. He went through a ditch, the wagon tongue caught the ground and the 8N flipped backwards in an instant...the steering wheel crushed his chest. A heavier tractor would not have flipped quite so easily. I know lots of folks are nuts over these old machines....why, I don"t know. I won"t allow an 8N on my place and if it wasn"t for the garden, the SA would be gone as well. It has nothing to do with brand name.
You fellers can enjoy poking fun at each other, but neither of the tractors mentioned are anything to brag about.
While I know what you are trying to say I think you are selling the SA short, I can't comment on the 8n since I haven't owned one.
The farm I live on right now had 3 primary tractors while it was in operation (stopped in 1999), a BN, A and 200. They made hay, they made silage, they did tillage and twitched firewood. Heck the first tractor, the BN, was the only machine for the first 10 years or so.
Like I said I know what you are getting at, by today's standards they're light duty "Iron Horses" but to say they're good for nothing more then cultivating isn't fair at all.
Now 8n vs. SA, the few antique tractor pulls I've been to the 9/2/8Ns haven't fared well at all. I think they were a tractor built around a hitch, and if you didn't use it you lost a lot of traction.
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