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Here are plans for ROPS for an 8n, it wouldn't be much different for the 860, http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/aginjury/crops/pdfs/Ford%208N/Ford%208N%20Technical%20Drawings.pdf

Ford 850 Power steering Roll Bar add on how to
Antique Tractors
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If traction was a problem, why not R2 rice and cane tires?

What Size Tractor For Harvesting Firewood
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You can start out with an inexpensive tractor and bush hog, and only six acres won't take too terrible long to mow. An old 8n ford should run 1500 dollars in fair shape, and you should be able to get a five foot bush hog for 300 dollars at a farm auction. I started out with a 1945 A John Deere and a five foot bush hog and progressed from there. I just bought a little 45 pto hp, 62 engine hp tractor, a little ford powermaster 801. It can pull my six foot bush hog with no problems, I gave $1800 for it, it had just been painted, and the engine had just been rebuilt. You can have six acres of yard even if you like and bush hog once a month. Unless you have people close that cut hay, you probably won't be able to get them to come for six acres. I think you can take the 5,000 budget, and get a tractor and bush hog, and maybe a 5 ft disk to help you maintain your property. You can bush hog say 1.5 an hour so tops 4 hrs once a month to keep it mowed, just maintain whatever you get, and look closely at whatever equipment you get, you don't want to have to have the expense and aggravation of it being broken all the time. I do think there are many ways you can accomplish what you want without breaking the bank.

What is needed to bushhog 6 acres
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