Hi folks,
I am new to the group even though I have posted a few things recently. My name is Richard McKenzie and my handle is RichMac. (catchy, uh)
I am really excited about finding this site since my interest in the N series tractors goes way back to my preteen years on my Dad's farm in Southern Illinois. My Dad had a 9N that he used to farm his 200 acres. I spend many wonderful hours plowing, disking and planting corn on the 120 acres that were cleared to farm.
Dad was by trade a carpenter and he used this trade to support his family, but it turned out mainly to support his farm.
As time went by I went to college and eventually got drafted during Vietnam. I did not burn my draft card, I did not go to Canada, but I did talk my draft board into letting me join the Navy. There I was trained as an Engineman. They taught me (made me memorize) all about gasoline, diesel and even turbine engines.
After 40 years of being a University Professor in Physics, I am now retired. We bought 10 acres in Southern Illinois, partly woods and partly cleared. I had talked so much about the old tractors that my wife said --- buy one. So it did. A 1948 8N with disk, plow and bushhog, from my bother-in-law of previous post fame.(He collapsed my floats.)
I am now tasked with trying to remember how Dad and I kept the old tractor we had running and to remember what the Navy taught me 40 years ago.
With your help, maybe it will all come back.
I am new to the group even though I have posted a few things recently. My name is Richard McKenzie and my handle is RichMac. (catchy, uh)
I am really excited about finding this site since my interest in the N series tractors goes way back to my preteen years on my Dad's farm in Southern Illinois. My Dad had a 9N that he used to farm his 200 acres. I spend many wonderful hours plowing, disking and planting corn on the 120 acres that were cleared to farm.
Dad was by trade a carpenter and he used this trade to support his family, but it turned out mainly to support his farm.
As time went by I went to college and eventually got drafted during Vietnam. I did not burn my draft card, I did not go to Canada, but I did talk my draft board into letting me join the Navy. There I was trained as an Engineman. They taught me (made me memorize) all about gasoline, diesel and even turbine engines.
After 40 years of being a University Professor in Physics, I am now retired. We bought 10 acres in Southern Illinois, partly woods and partly cleared. I had talked so much about the old tractors that my wife said --- buy one. So it did. A 1948 8N with disk, plow and bushhog, from my bother-in-law of previous post fame.(He collapsed my floats.)
I am now tasked with trying to remember how Dad and I kept the old tractor we had running and to remember what the Navy taught me 40 years ago.
With your help, maybe it will all come back.
