Hey Fordians... can anyone identify the year and model?

[CalG]

Here's the link for the auction. Current bid is $900. It closes on Saturday night. It's tempting but I don't need another project. If I just needed a pulling tractor I'd be truly interested.

https://www.777auctions.net/auctions/11748/lot/6608-Ford-Diesel-Tractor

$900 is only mad money. The "getting it home" will double that.

Heck! It's got more money than that in the tires !

If you might need to pull something.. What a rig!

Check out the hydro pump, Sufficient capacity can accomplish much!

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

A shot of the rear... I wonder how difficult it would be to add a PTO and 3-point...

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You just slide a pto in and bolt the arms on. Find a donor would be best. I'd buy it cheap. Probably why it looks so good, it's been useless it's whole life. You make sure to tell everybody at auction it has no pto and lift. Then throw your hand up. I bought a crane like that. Asked if it had a title. No, I said oh no, it don't have a title. Everybody moved on. Got that F800 with a crane and 32k miles for 500 bucks. I don't care about a title. Built many buildings with it. Also bought a 30,000 Pettibone at the same auction. Asked if it would run. No. Oh, this thing don't even run. Got it for 900. Came back a couple days later in my service truck and fired it off. Called a logger with a low boy. Loaded it with a big trac hoe that had the keys in it. Had to help it because was muddy at the site. Had to push the trailer and truck because it wouldn't pull it in the slickness. I towed the F800 home with a tow bar behind my 75 high boy. I just watched while I was there with big crane to see what time the cops changed shifts. 6:00 - 6:30 pm was my time for action. So I showed up at 2:00 pm and welded brackets on and hooked tow bar up. When I saw them cops come by at six, I cranked up and headed out. Had to pull it in low range. About a 30 mile back road trip, but I made it. Had to be careful because I was across the border of Louisiana. They don't play down there.

 

[RickB]

It is a Ford 4000 Industrial tractor if the paint scheme is correct. Could also be an 18xx with the xx being dependent on the transmission and PTO. The most common was a 4 speed that would make it an 1841. Ford or a dealer may have installed an optional Sherman combination transmission providing 12 F 3R speeds. Adding PTO to a 4 speed isn't terrible, adding it to a 5 or 10 speed would be problematic. The "lower lift links" observed are backhoe mounts. One doesn't simply bolt on the 3 point linkage, there's no rock shaft, pump or hitch valve on the tractor.

TractorData.com Ford 1841 industrial tractor information

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TractorData.com Ford 4000 HD industrial tractor information

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[John0829]

Being an industrial as Rick said MANY parts are not there you would need to "make" it a farm tractor with lift and PTO. The best way would be to find a parts tractor so you could take two to make one. For the cost of that you could find a good farm tractor ready to go to work.

 

[ultrarunner]

I wish you wouldn't have posted as the action is not far from me :-(

Often, I will come across something interesting and read it is 1,000 or more miles away...

Some of the current bids are very low.

Dad's friend a rancher in Nevada was always hauling something home from auction when I was a child... and many time dirt cheap...

Dad would say he had 10's of thousands of acres to put stuff... just what would you do with a half track or amphibious DUCK in the city???

 

[Branson Bob]

I wish you wouldn't have posted as the action is not far from me :-(

Often, I will come across something interesting and read it is 1,000 or more miles away...

Some of the current bids are very low.

Dad's friend a rancher in Nevada was always hauling something home from auction when I was a child... and many time dirt cheap...

Dad would say he had 10's of thousands of acres to put stuff... just what would you do with a half track or amphibious DUCK in the city???

LOL, it looks like you have more than enough iron in your diet.

 

[ultrarunner]

Yep... at least a lifetime the way it's going...

I did subscribe against better judgement.

 

[Branson Bob]

BTW guys, the tractor in question went for $1400 plus 15% buyers premium and 8% sales tax... $1722 out the door plus the cost of transporting it.

The tractor not having a PTO or 3-point and me not having an equipment trailer made it pointless for me to bid. But I love the look of the tractor and it would make for a beautiful restoration.

 

[LD1]

What the heck, must have been a hack pulling tractor??

Lift arms, but no upper link lift?

If you get lucky think $2500 plus time . IF at all.

The lift on my 1950 Fordson is a bolt on, but there are a lot of parts associated.

Actually those are NOT lift arms.

They are lower hooks that a 4-point backhoe would sit in.

 

[Branson Bob]

Actually those are lift arms.

They are lower hooks that a 4-point backhoe would sit in.

They look fixed though, like they would support but not actually lift?