I bought an old Ford Tractor! Let's cold start it and plow some snow! - Vice Grip Garage EP58 

"I'm glad I did that visual inspection" lol It says storage, winter blend" Lot easier than running that snowblower" " Got the delay pop on the hood!" "That's The problem it says Ford on it" lmfao! You are the best RU-vidr!

I'd definitely like to see more of this.

I, too, have stopped midway through a self inflicted disaster to remind myself that "this is fun".

1950 it'll be an 8n. The 9n came first, then the 2n then the 8n. Go figure. I got a 8n in the back yard I'm working on, sure do love them.

The eccentric way he speaks of himself in the third-person puts a smile on my face.

The tyre chains are good. They are holding the tyres together. its a lovely old tractor. LOL

That seems like a pretty solid old tractor. My dad does all his snow clearing with a 60s vintage Massey Ferguson 35, it’s got a 6’ blade mounted on the front and a 6’ blower on the back. I love old tractors

City folk like me born and raised love love videos like these made by guys like you. Growing up we joke about you but actually we are jealous. God Bless and keep showing us your daily life.

Your dry humour is king!!! That's the key to all this! And i love it! You apparently learned a lot from your dad. I don't know much about that situation... But i have watched your video's everyday. And kinda feel like your quoting him in your own ways. But i could be wrong. "I dont know". ✌,If he still is around, maybe add him to a few vids. I bet he would be a blast! Man he broke the mold with you! I hope you know that!!!!. He must, or had to be a fighter! Cause you never give up! When life hands you lemons, you just add way to much gas!!!!!!! 😆 maybe I've had too many cold snacks!!!! " I dont know" 😆

Please do more of the tractor fixing and plowing. That was one of my favs so far. Thanks again for the excellent content. So funny.. the ford battery lol

Really enjoy the old tractor videos! I’m in the middle of resurrecting a 1952 Ford 8N that sat under a cedar tree for 15 years! Look forward to seeing more on the old Ford,

"The bad news is it makes no sense financially." Lmao. I've only watched a few of your other videos and to be honest I like them.

More tractor stuff! I love tractors. I dig the other stuff too, but I’m really looking forward to seeing more on this tractor!

18:50 Almost managed to go the whole vidya without a Ford joke, you Chevy guys just can't help yourself! 😂

"giver her the onions". geezus. I busted a gut at that. Thank you for contributing to my fun fun Friday in Texas.

I had a 51 model, when it would start to run like your did it was almost always the carb was gunked up and starving it for fuel. The carb is super easy to work on.

I had an old 9n very similar to this one for several years. Probably the best running and easiest starting engine I have ever had! Just don't get the ignition wet when you are plowing snow.

Hell yeah a VGG video, perfect Valentines day gift just what I wanted

Holy Cow you needed a tractor! Can’t wait to see this one. Hell no, excellent choice, can’t go wrong with the old Ford N series. Happy Valentines Day friend. ❤️

Great episode. Look for a relief valve on that external hydraulic pump. You can adjust to eliminate the engine stall at end of stroke or heavy lifts. Have a great day and keep the videos coming.

"She's got Walmart fittings, I'm gonna leave that, that's fine"..........CLASSIC!!!!

And a lil bit of batree juice on the old coveralls is just weight reduction lol!

I’m a life long mechanic and tinkerer also. 3 weeks after my wedding 22+ years ago I was changing a batree in a Deere tractor and pulled that same 1/2 wrench out of my pocket and temporarily induction welded it between my new wedding ring, the wrench, positive post, and the batree box. Still have a free scar tattoo on that ring finger today so don’t even need to wear a rubber one like all u guys. Keep up the great old school content, love it VGG!I

Love the tractor! Have had many N series. Loved them all. 8n started production in 1948 (hence the 8 in the name) and the 8n had the small bolt pattern on the rear wheels. That's probably a mid 40s 2N. The 9n started in 1939, and the 2N started in 1942. The 8N ran from 1948 to 1952. So with a 2N or 9N rear and front wheels, and an 8N engine block, I'm guessing someone swapped engines? I see it has the Sherman over/under drive, which is pretty uncommon, so no matter which it originally was, I'd say a guy got a darn good tractor! My guess is a 2n swapped with a 8N engine. Keep up the great videos. By far the best channel on youtube right now!

Sweet ! I grew up running that Ford tractor. It was so nice with the PTO.

A fellar never gets tired of batrys flying through the air! 😂

"There's your problem...Says Ford on it" lol Thanks for the upload!

My favorite tractor of my childhood. Born in 1951. This one is newer but great memories.

I have a 8N that was my Grandfathers. He farmed with it here in the Willamette Valley from the mid 1950's on. I want to add the front bucket conversion so I was interested in seeing how that one was added on. Also on the tag end of the straps, I roll them and use one or two small bungees with the ball on one end to secure the roll to the straps

Love this channel! TY to you and your family for always making us smile. Respect from Wisconsin and much love to the VGG family.

15:05 of course she shut down on you. You poured Bud light in there; she's a Coors light girl. Once you move to Not Minnesota, you can do whatever you want. Until then, up here, we got rules, bro.

I had a '53 Golden Jubilee...worked that think from dusk til dawn for years. The carb is fickle and needs adjustment throughout the day as she gets hot. Dad would always get on me about "monkey-ing with the carb", but you could make small adjustments and keep the power up all day.

My dad showed me a way to take up the strap slack. Leave a 4 inch or so hole in the center, and wrap it up in a circle. Leave a foot or two before you get to the rachet, and run the remaining slack through the center. Since it will be doubled over on itself, you flip it around the coil, and pull tight, it will keep it from unravelling. There's some videos on youtube of this method, it's a game changer!

“A little barley....”. that was a blue BL can so we all know you were just adding water... 😂😂😂

Yesssss finally guy was needing something to watch before the ol valentines day dance

No idea if you still have this old boy but if you do, please bring it back sometime!!

Love your vid of the Ford 9N, actually all your vids that I have seen are great! I used to have a Ford NAA tractor. It was the love child of the 8N and 9N. As soon as I used it for plowing the garden, all of a 30' run, I hit a submerged fence post and broke the ring and pinion. It took me most of the summer working weekends on it to get it fixed. As far as I know it is still running and was a fine tractor. Two things to mention. 1) be careful if you use the PTO with a device that has kinetic energy built up from running as when you go to stop you won't be able too because the kinetic energy from your device will back feed into the PTO and keep you moving. Get a free running clutch for your PTO. 2) My NAA it had a positive ground for the electrical. It looks as though yours have been changed. Also try running the choke closed a hair and you won't have the stalling problem. Have Fun...

"I'll just ignore it until it starts a fire" lol

Hell yeah, would love to see you fixing on this tractor for us. This puppy will lift engines, rear ends, transmissions out, move un needed stumps, pull cars out of the garage when they wont run etc etc. Heck, is the best hoist you ever had that is go anywhere, kinda like. Great 20 beer project from a Canadian perspective. Just saying!

I own one of those stubborn barely 20 hp tractors.. It was my dads.. Been using it to move bees, rocks, and it is still a stubborn tractor in a montana winter i hope i find more vids on this stubborn tractor

Had a 2n/9n with the original 6V system, generator and all. Never failed to start. Always sounded like it wasn't gonna start but then just fire off. As long as the governor is working properly, those beasts would go through just about anything........ The torque would easily rotate that 4500lb beast on them rear wheels......plenty times I had to change my shorts.......Thanks for the great memories.

im wearing my VGG new Tee shirt, I loaded my groceries in the SUV with a " yeah " get in there .

I like how angry she got after starting once you played with the loader hydraulics. A bonus with the blade and bucket you don't need a factory parking break, just drop them down, turn into the uphill if you're on the steep never hurts either.

Man's just made watching someone plow a driveway the highlight of our day

I got a 1952 8N tractor that I keep outside, and tarp over to keep rain and snow off it. When I crank it up in the dead of winter in Michigan, it starts like it has electronic ignition, but it doesn't. I does have a 12 volt system though. I have the exact 6 foot slider type snow plow that you pull behind. I bought it new, and the salesman said it's made in Italy. I wax the blade to get the snow to not stick to it. I don't have a front bucket though. If the snow gets too high, I abandon the tractor, and get out the Sears Craftsman snow thrower. Now that maching can handle a 24 inch depth of snow whereas the Ford tractor cannot with just a pull behind blade. But we also have the capability to rotate the blade 180 degrees, and push snow out of the way by just driving bachwards.

Yes definitely do more videos on the old girl. Thank you for sharing.

Deffinately more follow up videos on your tractor realy did enjoy this one.

Now that you have a Ford Tractor, I suppose you ought to get yourself a 67 Galaxie with a 428 so you and the little lady can go to town in style. It's a pretty sleek rig.

We have a 49 8N down at the cabin, try running with the loader in the air to keep the weight on the rear tires when using the scraper, the front mount distributor coils (bread load pan style) break down when hot, we modified one to accept a wire and got a normal style automotive coil and mounted it to the tin work, also spend the $$ on the petronix electronic ignition. We also did the jackson power steering a few years back and its a whole new machine.....

I like watching another guy struggle. It makes me feel better about my struggles. Keep em coming. Love ya bro.

His shop neighbors be like, “oh look, Derek has a tractor now... DANG IT! “

Nice to see a fellow hoser dry humping the hood / gas tank combo to get the beast cleaned out...a treat that gets repeated too often ! Loosen the radiator lower bolts and you can crash it into the fan and lift the hood off w/o removing the steering wheel ! Only better fun is changing the spider spark opener, setting gap and condenser hold down nut with the radiator and fan in the way......

Love watching your videos. You prob know this by now, A 50 is a 8n. 39-41 is a 9n. 42-47 is a 2n. 48-52 is a 8n

Hardly any cheech and didn't even need Cosby in a can! Just loyal. 👌Mint!

You had me in stitches when you were performing your 120 point safety inspection! 🤣. Love your channel 👍

I had a 1941 Ford 9N tractor in CT for 20 years; some days it would work fine, and other days, it would just SHUT DOWN after 2 hours on a fella !! Tried to restart it, and it would NOT have it !! Funny, unpredictable, quirky... I miss that old girl...

You're my favorite RU-vidr! I have a 41 9N, it was awesome seeing this pop up on my screen this morning. Cleaning that carburetor will probably make it run much more better, you have the symptoms mine did with a gunked up carb. Guitar strings work great for cleaning the passages in the carb. Judging by the tubular style radius arms I would say your tractor started its life as a 2N probably '44-46 and then got a 8N engine implant. Thanks for all the entertainment and knowledge!

Good to see a guy's projects go like mine whenever I get to spinning the old wrenchalator on my junk in all my free times.

I fold the excess straps into an 18-24" length, starting from the loose end to the strap. Then, after lifting the ratchet handle, I insert the lower side loop through the handle and then through the upper side loop, pull tight, and then push the ratchet handle down to lock.

Thank you for your your funny take on things that you obviously know. We’ve all started out like that and it was all trial and error.

Love those little tractors they have just st the right amount of power to get what you need done. A guy just might enjoy watching videos on something like this.

I love all those technical terms, a guy can learn alot by watching these videos. Thank you. Great video.

I used to have a Ferguson TO-20, virtually the same tractor, except for the continental motor and positive British electrics. My fuel tank was full of crap too. Had it hot tanked after a couple dozen cans of brake clean lol! Cleaned and rebuilt the carb and replaced points and plugs with wires. Then she ran great, all 23hp!

63 was a vintage year for those sparkalaters....fine taste and aroma. That tractor looks like the one Bill Elliot won the last race at the Richmond fairgrounds.

We had one of those when I was growing up Had to wrench on it. All the time never could understand. That 6 volt positive ground thing

Love the old tractor. Reminds me of the one I drove at a golf course years ago. I would like to see you fix it up.

A friend of mine overhauled an 8 N years ago. We put it on a dyno and it pulled a whopping 16 H.P. at the PTO! Enough to pull the mower he had on it.

If you lose traction on any of the old fords just raise the rear hydraulics up a touch. Doesn’t take much, but puts more weight on the rear tires instead of your plow or whatever you’re running sitting straight on the ground taking weight off the tires. I have a ‘58 801 power master that’s been in my family since it was new! Have to do that frequently when brush hogging with her.

Know who invented the phrase, “if it ain’t one thing it’s another”? Every guy with an old Ford tractor! If you love fixin stuff you’re gonna love that machine!!!!

you've got to do a 302 swap in that thing!

Put er in the danger zone! Ole peg would be proud lol.

Now, that's a tractor! Don't know why I never saw that video until now, but I've piloted many a Ford tractor. Several with blades in back. Never one with a front loader. We always had skid steers for that. Wish I'd seen this sooner.

I’d pay good money for an auto unload feature as smooth as that one!

9:36 this adjustment adds horsepower and aesthetic appeal.😁👍🏻 it’s difficult to keep the women off with a sweet ride like that, I know.

I can listen to your one-liners all day! Got a new rim I didn't notice, that's nice. The wiring is, you know, it's completely trashed. There's zip ties everywhere and nothing is the right gauge and there's Walmart fittings. So...I'm gonna leave that - cuz that's fine. So, you know it's gonna do wheelies...I like that.

My Folks had an old Ford Ferguson Tractor just like that one in 1946 perfect for their Truck Farm operation......My Dad and I worked on that engine for lots of years before he Retired. the 4 cylinder engine was a simple engine very easy to maintain we probably exchanged every accessory from Carb to starter and "Generator" and never overhauled the engine just changed plugs and Oil every couple of months when it got dirty....I'd like to see you go thru that engine and really get it running good and reliable it shouldn't take long.

When you added the beer, I laughed out loud. Love the old tractor. First carb I ever rebuilt was one of these old updrafts.

Yes! More tractor repair work, that'd be great fun! Great video.

I have always been a firm believer in using correct terminology. Gald to see someone has got it right.

Never a bad decision to buy an old tractor! NEVER! I got a '61 Oliver 550, which is basically Oliver's rendition of the Ford N series. It even has a freeman loader on mine too. At least that looks like a Freeman loader there. I use the hell out of it for plowing snow down here in WI. I also plow my mini hobby farm plots with it and move firewood and pull trailers around and pull stuck vehicles out and all kinds of stuff. It's a great thing to have! Enjoy.

I'm a simple man. I see Derek and bad decisions I click like

2:23 as a swiss guy... I felt that. A little too much actually. Everything is so damn expensive!

For the straps, you fold them up about 8 inches at a time (or whatever length you feel like that will get the job done) and tuck it into the ratchet handle so the last click holds it. If you made it too long or it's not holding tight, you can simply knot the ends together by putting the loop through the middle of the other loop and pull tight. If you do it right, you can even release the ratchet and keep the extra folded up for next time.

That tractor is like the one my grandfather had on the farm when I was a kid. He had it hooked up to propane rank mounted to the front that he refilled using an adapter to the tank he used to heat the house. He would let me ride over the engine with my legs hanging over the sides like riding a horse while he brush hogged…Lots of memories for me and eventually switched it back to running gas after he passed away. Thanks for the video Derek!

*spits coffee* OMG A LITTLE BARLEY 😂🤣😂🤣😂

Well would ya lookit that? Uploaded just in time for a guy's lunch break!

I'm getting addicted to your videos! I've got a Ford 8N with a six volt system and Walmart wiring. I've got to do some McGyvor (?) fixing on it so I can use it again. It's been 90+ degrees working in the sun and I get burned out at times. I have to put a starter drive on it and hope to convert it to 12 volts with alternator set up. Keep making videos! Lots of us love to watch you and your family turn swine into gold!

For Straps, Roll your straps up leaving about a foot from the ratchet with a hole in the middle about as wide as the strap, then fold that foot left over and poke it through the roll. The loop that's now poking out gets pulled over the roll and pulled tight. Bam Happy strappy

It's Friday, payday, a three day weekend, and VGG uploads. Makes a guy real happy.

Would love to see more on this. Hope you can get it running strong! Love your videos, I laugh every time.

I spent a non-rcoverable part of my youth driving a 9-N in MN winters (60 years ago).....just had a chill!

Roll the excess strap in a coil leaving a big enough hole in the centre at the size of the width of the strap, leave about a foot unrolled between your ratchet and the coil...then feed the left over strap through the hole in the middle and loop it over the coil, done! The coil will hang near your ratchet, do it a couple of times to work out the left over length to get it neat and tight. That’s how we do it in Oz, 🍻

Feller buys himself a tractor, makes this feller click like immediately.

This would definitely make a for a great “must watch tractor series”. I will def. tune in to this tractor series if you decide to give it a go.

Do a carb rebuild and tank flush on the Ole tractor that sounds fun.

I have a 46 2n, I restored .owned since 1964 . still in service . 100gal pto spray tank on it now. took loader off. I take old Nelly to tractor shows often .got all books for it. will send copies of books if you need . John . >-W-> Arrow W ranch HangTown ca.

"I suppose I should at least check on [the oil] a bit... [wiggles fingers in front the dipstick]... Yep thats good." I can't stop laughing. This guy kills me.

Great stuff, as always. The Ford 9N has always been my favorite tractor. A guy definitely wants to see more fixin' on 'er.

I mowed a patch of grass on the farm with my great uncle's 1938 ford 9n tractor today, and I kid you not, this thing runs like a champ and starts right up the second you push the button, only has to pump one piston to get her going when she's warm, but she can be cold blooded if not started in a few days. As always, Great video!

One man comedy show and he's not acting - It beats me where he stores all this stuff, perhaps there's a scrap yard close to home. Here in England you would be pulled over in a second for driving some of those wrecks on the public highway, especially without insurance, brakes and most other safety features. Still, it all makes for good watching.