I've never figured out why Ford figgured it was such a "hot" idea to run a tractor exhaust out along the ground like they did. Somewhere, some time, there's just HAD to have been a hayfield fire.........
I got into a fix one time like that. Using our other 8n....was raking hay and the chain popped off the roller bar rake. I was looking straight ahead and the hay got balled up in the rake. Got so much hay packed up in between the tractor and the rake could not get the two apart. Had to run to the barn to get a hammer to knock the drawpin out. I am surprised the hay didn't catch on fire considering the exhaust was dumping right into it.
