We ran an N7 for years after running an L2 for years before that.
I think ours is a Series II, can't remember exactly.
The Ns were pretty light weight in construction, specifically bearings, and key structural parts. Seemed we were always fixing on the 7. As far as capacity goes, nothing could keep up with it, anytime we were in the field with a neighbor for example......when it was running.
My dad, his brother (uncle), and their dad (grandpa), all owned it on thirds, and so it harvested all of our ground every year. Corn, Beans, and occasionally some sunflowers. It did get a lot of acres, near 3000 every year in some form or fashion, unless one of us planted some wheat, which the CII was kept specifically for that after the L2 was traded.
The later series N7 did fix a lot of the weak points of the early N7 is what I am told, and we did put some of the updates on ours. About the time we quit farming my uncle went straight to the R72, and has had few issues with it, he and my cousin run nearly the same acres, if not more alone, than the three of us did together back in the '80s and '90s.
That being said, if I were lucky enough to move back to the farm, and only hobby farm the 240 acres at the home place, I would put some money in the N7 we still have, switch to a 30" row head, and run it just like the old days. I would probably buy a couple of those $2000.00 N7s I see now and then and park them in the fence row for parts.
Edited by Orange Blood - 13 Jan 2018 at 7:01pm
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