Truck Week EP24 - Ford Golden Jubilee Tractor
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Ford celebrated fifty years with this Diamond Jubilee edition NAA tractor. American farmers celebrated more horsepower, a new 4-speed transmission, better hydraulics and lots more to keep the crops growing. With all of that, why is this man NOT smiling?
Congratulations on your beating back that nasty illness, Keep on healing my brother!!!!
That was a rerun episode! He’s still probably recovering!
Ah, there’s the rest of the Ford/Ferguson story. Thank you sir. Keep feeling better ~ Chuck
The man is a living in cyclopedia!
I really like Steve, I do! But I'd compare him more to the internet than the encyclopedia. Steve's not always correct in his descriptions of information, (Even with his sharpie notes written on the sheet metal and magazine references). Where as on the interweb, we've all have be taught, never believe everything that you hear or see on there! Steve's definitely more internet.
Get well my friend. You're the best entertainment we have!
Being that complacency is the American disease, many refuse to stay interested beyond the program and do their own investigation for ownership of their own truth and come away with the fact.
"That resembles my life " was an amazing punn/zinger Steve!!!
6:28 gotta appreciate the dry humor! Love this channel!
Absolutely loving the truck series! especially the foray into tractors!
Much love from Australia Steve
If I still had a farm, 😢 I’d buy that tractor!!!
Glad to see you back in action Mr. M!!!
I've always like those little Ford tractors. Even after 60 plus years they are still plowing up the landscape.
I have a fever and the only prescription is more tractors (and more cowbells!)
Im not very knowledgeable about these tractors. But the few Ive watch run amazed me. They were 60 plus years old and still ran smoothly. It just seems to me that given the simple quality way they are built and the low rpm range they could quite possibly outlast everyone commenting here. Simple and brilliant. Love them. Be safe everyone!
"And that resembles my life right now"
Steve you CMTFU!!😂
Yes old tractors have style like old cars and trucks 😊😊
Love my '49 and '50 8Ns! I wonder if I could swap a flattie into them?! Keep up the great work Steve. This MA native loves your tours of my old backyard. Thanks!
The 2N was a 3-speed but the 8N had 4 forward gears. The OHV 4-cylinder in the NAA was essentially a shortened six from the 215/223 family.
As an operator of an 8N my whole life, starting in 1965, I've always thought an inline 6 would have been a whale of an improvement over the model A engine. For me, mowing with a 6 foot hammer knife "flail" mower, plowing gardens or disking them I was always trying to get the engine to accept a higher gear to speed up the whole process and lower the engine speed. To this day I believe doing that is a mental state, just a part of trying to be more efficient about things. Tilling with a double bottom 16" Dearborn was supposed to be done in 2nd gear, but you had to run the engine full blast to make any kind of speed. 2nd was the workhorse gear, but it was pitifully slow. Sometimes, when everything was perfect i.e. Engine was in a great state of tune, The plow was adjusted perfectly, The soil was at the right moisture, Plow depth not too deep, Of course the type of soil being more sandy than clay, And maybe a very high barometer, I could pull the plow in 3rd gear and lower the engine speed. I always thought that's where the Inline 6 would have been a better choice. But as in all things, if I had started with a 6 I'd have wanted an 8. You know what I mean. Thanks Steve. ben/ michigan
@@benjamincresswell3713 The stroke on the NAA engine is the same as the 215/223 six cylinder but the bore is smaller. Of course, it's only 4 cylinders.
LOL..doing burnouts in the cornfield with that V-8 conversion!!
I need that hydraulic pump. Great to see you going again*****
Grab the whole thing and get a new head....
When I was in a tech college in the mid 80's. I was in an automotive class. Me and another student rebuilt an early 50's John Deer tractor engine about this size.
That would have been a Poppin Johnny
Glad to see that you are doing better now, be well 🙏🏻
Glad you’re back and beating the odds. Wow.
Enjoying the continuous education. Cheers
Thanks for the jubilee video. I got my start driving tractors on one like it my father bought used for $500 in about 1970. I remember being very exited when it showed up as I was about 8 years old, and was only dreaming of driving the big green stuff on the farm. It was maybe couple years later I got to start off on it.
I drove it usually pulling a New Holland side delivery hay rake. Sometimes with a small cultivator on the 3 point.
It was also the go to power unit for grain augers off the PTO.
I should have bid on it at dad's sale but needed other implements. The front badge was always very cool on the hood!
Keep liking folks!
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I like some folks, but not all of them! That's a joke. Get it?
@@blowupbob1 I'm with you there, buddy.
@@blowupbob1 Mr. B. Here ! 👍👍👍👍. ( that’s the keep liking ) Support Steve !
It nearly sounds like "doing the junk yard plaugh" Steve buddy. As your are talking about another tractor today.😊
😂 truck yeah keep em coming Steve 🤓❤️
Barking dog scared the hell out of me!
What can really make an antique tractor valuable is low production numbers or a lower survival rate. For example, the Waterloo Boys were made for a few years and there were quite a few made but by the time WW2 started they were twenty plus years old and ended up in the scrap drives. These can hit $100,000 at auction now. On the other hand some tractors may have had a low production version like High crop or fuel type that makes them valuable. These little Fords are common. They have a good useful value to them but to truly restore one costs way more than what you could get back out of it. Back tires alone would be about $1600 to $1800. Same gos for a John Deere model A or a Farmall M. Restoration is a labor of love. Harry Ferguson built tractors on his own for a while. The TO 20 and TO 30. They had overhead valve engines but the styling was almost identical to the 8N Ford. Harry Ferguson ended up merging with Massey Harris creating the company we now know as Massey Ferguson. They have since been bought out by Agco. Agco has large list of companies under their belt. Allis Chalmers, Gleaner, White, Oliver, Minneapolis Moline, and New Idea to name a few.
Being an airplane nut, I’ve known about the Funk Airplanes for a long time. Had no idea they made flathead V8 conversions for tractors though. Bet they are something to see and hear!
Lighter is better as far as soil compaction but as farming got more competitive tractors got bigger with dual and dual quad driving wheels that lowered the compaction but allowed the farmer to pull more and bigger equipment to lessen the field time for plowing and planting. No more three and four bottom plows but 12 and fourten bottom plows to get the job done. Back in my younger days I worked for a brief time at DMI where we built the world's largest plow, a 21 bottom plow that they used to demonstrate pulled by a Steiger Panther tractor.
Glad to see you’re on the mend sir. Hope you’re back on here and everywhere soon. All the best.m
Steve never letsusdown. Goodvideo onthe ford golden jubilee
Wow 😲 nice 👍 video. I grew up around one of those tractors.
Dave from Toledo Ohio.
Brings back memories. My grandad had one of these. This is the tractor I learned to drive on pulling a hay trailer.
We had Masey Fergusson here in 🇦🇺with the Flat Head ford V8 . They were painted a boney colour 👍🏻🇦🇺.
"you got crunch... wasn't good" lol
Steve, you know too much about not only cars and trucks, but apparently, Tractors :P Keep getting better my man!
Good stuff! Glad you're feeling better
I picked up one of those "Ford at Fifty" books off ebay because of Steve referencing it on a video. It didn't cost much, well worth the read.
Rock on Steve!!!!
We had one growing up. I would pretend to be flying a P-40 Warhawk. It was a great tractor.
I don't remember the owner but there's an 8n with a flathead Lincoln v-12 out there somewhere. Overkill to the max!! I love it!!!
Very interesting, thanks Steve!😀
Awesome tractor content Steve!👍
Thank you Steve
I've been running my 52 8n with a 6 ft rear finish mower. Have a 54 naa/jubilee with combo hi/lo transmission. And recently bought a 601.
1953 Golden Jubilee. What a machine! I’ve spent many hours in the seat of Granddad’s (and then Dad’s, and now my…) 1953 Ford Tractor. She needs a good restoration…
Hoping that you’re doing better Steve!🙏
Thank you Steve professor get back soon
Always good content Steve. Fast on the mend please. Need 40 more years of junkyard crawl
A little bit of work and that'll fire right up!
Afternoon buddy keep them coming:-)
Great tractor and only if we could train our dog to drive our tractors we could save a little money 😅 lol. Love your videos.
Cool tractor, Steve!
You do a great job researching these videos
Thanks for sharing this
Glad to see you healing and out educating the masses again! We have a golden jubilee in the family that I really hope to restore someday so this video was a treat. Best wishes Steve!
tractors raring up and over backwards when a sudden load came onto the drawbar was a mainly Fordson problem, since most tractors have the drawbar actually mounted well forwards of the rear axle, so when a sudden load comes onto the drawbar, it snaps the front end down, while Fordson tractors had the drawbar mounted after the rear axle, which didn't stop them from going up and over.
There are so many potential projects there... damn. Sadly, wrecking yards are going the way of the dinosaur up here in New Brunswick.
Thank you Steve👍
1st 1987 Buick Estate junker klunker road trip view
😅"Cylinder head out for service!"😂😂 Hopefully someone used it to get their own tractor up & running again!👍🏻👌🏻🚜
There is one of those with a flat head v8 next to where I work for free and has been sitting for years
Wow, I didn't know there was agriculture in Commiechusetts...😏
Spring starters on tractors were/are a neat idea... Ferguson actually made a 4wd Formula 1 race car...
And lets not forget the four wheel drive Jensen Interceptor FF where FF also stands to credit Ferguson! Thanks for watching and writing, -Steve Magnante
@@SteveMagnante Absolutely, I remember the Jensen! Great to hear from you. Keep on getting better my friend!
The Jubilee was the first tractor available with live PTO.That particular one didn't come with it.They had a hand clutch on the left hand side of the driver.
My dad had a Ford Jubilee so I spent a good portion of my youth driving it.
It’s awesome and amazing to see you back so happy to see you recovered and back in your element
We're all pulling for you Steve. Hope to see you back in the Junkyard soon
Glad to see your back at it even if its at the desk . I do enjoy your histiry lessons.
Used several Ford tractors over the years. They were excellent machines.
My brother had a ford 861 golden jubilee. He bought it from my uncle who had it for 50 years. It was repainted at some point to look like a 4000, but it was a 53 861 with the golden jubilee grill and hood .. he also had a 50 Ferguson. .. he’s still got his 47 John Deere b which will be mine someday
That's so cool. I don't know much about tractors but I came across one at an estate sale no long ago. Interesting machine.
So good to see you back in action Steve M.
Happy you are recovering, been through all your videos over the last few months!
I love old tractors! Farmall red for me! I've heard those Funk conversions run and they sound awesome!
My stepdad had a few Ford tractors including an 8N and a jubilee ? Also a Ford 2000 model not year so this is kinda cool seeing these again
Yes im in coffeyville, Kansas where the Funk Brother's lived & started it all they were into Aircraft to small Meuseum here with lots there stuff.Good video Steve !! Relax & Get Well
Just letting you know, the Ford 8n is a 4 speed. Not entirely sure what year that started, but my '48 is a 4spd.
My 2n sounds just like a Model A. Are you finished with rehab now Steve? 🙏
It was Hydraulic Gauge, Steve
A lot of wrong information here. First off, the 8N came with 4 speed transmissions, not 3 speed. The 3 speed was on the 9Ns and 2Ns. Second, the Funk conversions were started on the 9Ns as the Funk brothers were working with Ford in the late 30s. The "Fergusons System" badges were only on the 9Ns and 2Ns, not the 8Ns as by the time the 8N came out, the handshake agreement between Henry and Harry was broken.
another great episode of truck month. you're doing great steve. why wheelie bars on tractor like on funny cars.🤔
Glad youre feeling better. I had the ferguson to 20 which was very similar to the ford. I liked the massey Ferguson tractors better but were probably not as good as ford.
Ford pushed the fuel use per hour, which was pretty good with the small , lightweight tractor.
Looking at acres per hour, or fuel use per acre, the Farmall Super H with a similar horsepower rating, and the similarly rated deere, the ford tractor embarrassed itself.
With the introduction of the hundred series Farmall with live hydraulics, live pto, and fast hitch in 54, the last advantage the ford had was that it required less storage space.
Are these re-runs or… is HE back ..? 👏🏽
Mr. B. Here ! 👀😎👍✏️📓🎓🍎 good day Mags !
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where did a person go back then to purchase a Ford tractor? A Ford car dealer? Where there separate Ford tractor dealerships?
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Good info.. however; that dog is disturbing 😢.
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The old 8N where dangerous you had to know whatv you are doing PTO would stay running and push you off hills
So Henry did what the opposition had done years before and had an OHV engine
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Late 8Ns were 4 speeds
I wonder if there's a kit to swap in a Hellcat?
Is this a re-upload? Cuz I feel like I've seen this video before? Maybe it's just the tractor I've seen?
This is a re-upload because Steve has been in the hospital for a while so he has been unable to post new videos for months
It needs a belly deck then it could replace someone's lawn tractor!
Funk Brothers is still in business they make transmission shafts and gears for John Deere and Co. Probably for other OEMs as well.
Great stuff as always!