NAA????

[oldtanker]

Ok I've got my eye on an NAA. Reason I'm looking at it is because I can really use another tractor that sized here on the farm. Plus the added advantage is that all of my implements that work on my 8N should work well on it. It would make life way better here.

Like right now I've got my 8N with the plow on it setting on 8 acres I'm plowing. Got about 1/2 done and got rained out. Didn't want to drive the tractor all the way home at a wet 45 F. Supposed to be warm and sunny in the morning. Will be too wet to plow but my lawn needs mowed too. If I had another tractor of that size I could just hook the mower up and go. But now I gotta go and pick up a grain drill in the morning, then come home and go get the 8N, come home, drop the plow and put the RM 60 deck on and mow, then drop the mower and put the plow back on.

Looking at the tractor.....12 volt conversion, has what looks like a hydraulic pump mounted on the side of the engine and looks like it drives off the fly wheel but I'm thinking it has to be off a gear on the back of the cam. Car tires on the front, bald, rears are OK about 70%. Has the cyclone jar pre cleaner on it missing the jar. Sheet tin and fenders look pretty good but could use a coat of paint. Normal amount of grim on the engine for an old work tractor. Says Golden Jub on the nose badge but havn't gotten the #s to check if it really is.

So whats the good, the bad and the uguly on the NAA???

Rick

 

[old]

Well the golden Jubilee is a 1953 tractor where as the NAA is a 1954 tractor sort of the same but still not 100% the same. I do not know of many real problems with them other then the same ones of the 8N and that nut of the end of the rear axles. They are a tad bit bigger then the 8N as 31HP. Now as far as having another tractor on the place I could not do with out at least 5 or 6 of them. Shoot when it come to haying time I have to have many. One for cutting the hay. One for raking the hay. 2 for the balers and then one to move the big bales. Plus I try to keep another one set up as a back up for cutting hay and a sickle mower hooked to it so how do you even make it with out at least 3 plus??

 

[Jubilee85 (VA)]

As a Jubi owner.....
has more HP than 9-2-8 N's

3 point works all the time, PTO need not be spinning - driven off engine as you have seen

Little bigger, heavier , little taller too.

OHV engine, little easier to get to plugs and compression checks

3 DIFFERNET oil compartments - hydro - diffy and tranny all different plugs and compartments.

about 77,000 of them made vs well over 750,000 9-2-8's

many well tell you to hold off and get an 800 or better series....

I love my jubi, works very well for me.

check compression amoung many other things before you buy....

my opinion - anything around 1500-1800 is a "good" deal - cheaper the better. Higher, better have had a rebuild in its recent history.

good luck

 

[souNdguy]

if you like a naa, get a 640

better hyds.. better axle seals.. newer.. more loader options.

soundguy

 

[bama7x57]

Bushhogged with my Jubilee for about 6 hours today. By that I mean clearing brush. If it will push it over, I cut it with a bushhog.
As was stated already, a little bigger, wider, ect. No real faults to point out.
I've had mine about 13 years and really have only had to change the alternator a few times (kept outside), points and coils.
For tinkering on I like my 8N better, being a flat head it is more open in the engine compartment.
Alot of the ignition parts are the same as late 8Ns. Points, coil,condensor, ect.

 

[oldtanker]

Old, got a 1206 and M IH plus the 8N.....Could use a few more.....after all you can never have enough! If I think the price is too high on the Jub then I will go and look at a IH 460D row crop.

Jubilee, thanks for that info.

Sound, got a loader on the 1206 and a tractor backhoe loader, JCB 3CIII so I'n not looking for something that small for a loader. Just really don't see the need for one. Besides I think I can get the Jub cheap enough......round these parts a 640 is a 4K tractor unless it's about ready for the scrap yard. Funny but a 640 here runs about the same price as at 2000. Just looked at one of those but with poor tires and getting close to a rebuild I'm not paying 4K. I can get that 460D for 2500 or less. Supposed to run good and only needs a battery. :roll: The biggest draw to a NAA/Jub is the compatability with the cultivator and 2 bottom plow. I just don't care for the idea of every time I get another tractor I have to get Implements to use with it. The 1206 runs the Snow Blower, haybine and round baler, The M runs the square baler, manure spreader, 6' hog and pulls hay wagons. Because I'm only doing 10 acers or so of tillage each year the N pulls the plow, sub solier and cultivator, mows, back blades, finish mows, 5"hog, post auger, 2 row planter, sprayer and pulls small trailers. Both the 1206 and TLB move round bales.

Bama, thanks!

Rick

 

[old]

I would watch out on that 460D from what I have been told they had there problems but hey they all do in some way. I sold a Jubilee for a friend a few years back that had a broken rear axle and I got $1500 for it. As for how many tractor you have you better hurry up if you want to catch up to me. LOL I have some where around 30 of them but not all of them run and then there are a few that I have not started in a few years either because I just do not need them

 

[Ultradog MN]

NAA is kinda like a 6000.
If you could buy it right and run it for a few years it would be worth doing. It's better than another N.
But know that like a 6000 it's lind of an orphan.

 

[oldtanker]

(quoted from post at 19:09:00 05/14/11) I would watch out on that 460D from what I have been told they had there problems but hey they all do in some way. I sold a Jubilee for a friend a few years back that had a broken rear axle and I got $1500 for it. As for how many tractor you have you better hurry up if you want to catch up to me. LOL I have some where around 30 of them but not all of them run and then there are a few that I have not started in a few years either because I just do not need them

LOL well just send them poor unused orphans up here to me.....I'll see that they are well taken care of.

Rick

 

[old]

Well I have 4 Farmall Hs I have been trying to sell for years now and yet they sit here. I also have an M plus a couple others I would like to sell but hey I figure if I have them sooner or later some one will want them so they are sort of $$ in the bank

 

[oldtanker]

LOL old yer right! And those H's and M can stay right there. Don't really care much for them. For the HP they are way to big and clumsy. I really hate my M but it's paid for which is about the only good thing I have to say about it.

Rick

 

[old]

Let me guess on something. If you removed the K in your name and replaced it with an H then the rest of your real name would be ard Right??? Guess how I know that. Oh if your guess that NEVER call me Rick I hate that name LOL long story but lets just say O worked for a guy that went by that name and he was the north end of a south bond mule

 

[old]

Also have a 300U here but boy did they screw up when they built them things. It is a bear to steer since it doesn't have power steering on it. I use it to plow up my food plots it has a 2 bottom disk plow fast hitch type that I also wish I could sell

 

[souNdguy]

as long as you don't need external hyds on that naa.. should be ok then.. otherwise you have to find the near non existant top cover spool or diverter valves.. or do the hack n slah mod on your top cover and some plumbing and use an external control valve..


soundguy

 

[oldtanker]

Old nope I'm easy to get along with.

I've run a few tractors in my day and just don't care for the H's and M's. Only have run wide front models and really don't like the steering and the hydraulics with the belly pump leave a lot to be desired. First IH tractor that I ran that was nice to run was a 560. It's kinda like the JD R, nice live Hydraulics and PTO, plenty of pulling power but the 2 men and a small boy power steering wasn't the best.

Don't know much about the 300U. Been told by a big time IH guy that for a utility it wasn't much of a tractor. His one small tractor is a Ford 3000. He gets a little mad at me sometimes cause I keep asking him where the nearest IH dealer is.....

Sound about the only thing I can think of that I may want a remote for on that size tractor would be to convert my rear blade to hydraulic angle. Don't really use it that much.

Rick