His son as dry as the dad? This guys only got one gear upstairs

A blade on the 3pt would be nice too. Sometimes you need a straight blade and it would add weight.

@Alexander Lapp At some point, there has to be enough power to actually move deep snow. FWA would rob that poor little engine that is pushing more than 6 inches and would just be impossible. The tracks MORE than give it enough tractive effort. We had a 52 8N that with a 7ft rear blade was about all it could do to horse it in 8" of snow and it was like a 14" moldboard. This tractor has a Sherman auxiliary transmission which should give it a lower ratio and I bet it was in Lo 1st to handle this.

Unfortunately Steve died a few years ago.

Even without a heater, it keeps you out of the wind.

@@alexanderlapp5048 So True.

Or actually plw snow cause it's underpowered for that v blade. 😅😂😂😂

Iv got an 8n Ford it’s a lot more powerful than u think

I would think that modifying the doors wood be easy. Maybe make new doors as the original doors are rare,

You get in from the back

@@desertmulehunter They have more power than you would think and those tracks will make a big difference. Its for snow not hard packed dirt.

Jody Reeder there is a curtain on this one, it’s just rolled up at the top

@@makeupyourmindinator Okay, sounds great.

There is one on Craigslist Southeast Missouri now.

I bet several people got a laugh about that. I did. probably didn't figure the tractor would go that fast even.

@jerry irvin I work for Steve son, and he now has all the tractors. He has a 52 8N with a hundred horsepower Flathead Mercury V8. I know he said he clocked at once going through town and it was running something like 35 mph. The only problem with them is that the radiators are too small and they like to overheat. Then he's got a funk conversion inline 6.

Go ing pretty fast guy ????

I would contact the tractor club

The door was not cut, the cab sits just behind the door.

That can would be quite nice in rain or really cold weather as opposed to sitting on an open tractor. I know cabs from the 70s and later with heat would be way nicer. I have spent all day on a tractor in the winter in and had ice frozen to my moustache and beard.

I've worked on this tractor, and if I remember right the doors are plywood, but don't quote me on that lol

WOW That will be Awsome

Would love to see that become a reality. Best of luck!

I would like to see that. Did you finish it yet?

Yeah I too make a distinction between using them for quick small jobs vs serious heavy duty work. By the time you start on the other lane, the first lane will have filled right back up with snow 🤣

@@ToreDL87 Absolutly, they are nice for a quick small job and will fit in tight spaces easily.

Ford made good small tractors. They eventually made big ones too but we're a bit slower to do so.

You win the internet

Sounds like you ought to pull them out of the weeds, clean them up and sell them.

Want to sell one of the cabs?

Those are Bombardier tracks, the side bands are rubber. The Arps tracks were all metal.

@@justinstearns9723 I've had others tell me that and is believable. What confuses me, my dad worked at Arps for 30+ years. In the 50's he built half track parts and would bring home rubber plugs, embedded with fabric about 1/2" long that fit perfectly into my cork gun. He always talked about half track belting. Not that this is terribly important , but those plugs were pretty valuable to a young lad with a cork gun and often wondered what part of the manufacturing process of building half tracks they came from. I'm sure they were hole stampings, but off of what part? And he had a ton of them. Arps built other machines, in fact in the 70's I got a job there as a print boy and later a draftsman. At that time, they also build loaders, backhoes and trenchers, but they didn't use any rubber belting. So, I always assumed these plugs came from the manufacture of some belting that acted as the catalyst that held the tracks together. Again, not that important; just curious. Thanks for setting me straight!