On the Ford truck I got to take off the starter and exhaust pipes and do a bunch of jackin to get the pan off.

On a 9N you got to take off the hood, gas tank, front end and unbolt the tranny to get the pan off. Breaking it in half they called it because you had two pieces, from the transmission back and the front end. But the oil pan was bullet proof. Probably the only thing that never had to be replaced.

I remember one time I had 39" of snow with a hard crust. The old 9N didn't have chains but it got traction after digging down to the frozen ground. It would slide up on top of the crust on the oil pan like an ice breaker. Then come crashin' down.

I used to pull stumps by hitching them up close with a chain so the pull would be upward like. I would pull and let the tractor rare up till the front wheels were a foot or two off the ground. Then I would stomp the clutch and pop it out when the front wheels were about 6" from the ground. That would loosen the stump and after about 4 of those clutch poppings and a little root chopping, it would come out like a rotten tooth.

Don't know how I even lived to tell about it with no ROPS. It could have went over backwards or a chain could have broke, smacked me in the back of my head and kilt me right then and there. Young and reckless I was.