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Piedmont, NC | Its a 74 model rebuilt 5 years ago and new brakes and the front end was redone last year. 4500 hrs. It looks awesome for an older tractor. Anything bad about them? Just wanting it for a boom mower. No cab, I would have to build a small cage. Look tuff, but I'm an IH guy so I don't know anything about them. Looks like a show tractor. |
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Alma NE | Old fords have a habit of having a porus block after some time |
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Mount Vernon, WA | For its era, it was a pretty good machine - very stout for its size. 6 GPM hydraulics is its biggest downfall in my opinion. |
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Beresford SD | Bern , are they the 4 cylinder version of of the 401? |
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Bloomfield, KY. | You sound like you want to buy this tractor, so you probably won't pay too much attention to my opinion.
We had one for 25+ years. Don't take that as a big endorsement of the Ford 7000. We just don't get in any hurry to trade! lol.
Hydraulics, as someone else said, are not much to brag about. It was not a real good handling tractor for a utility tractor. It would want to overheat if the radiator wasn't kept perfectly clean.
Anything painted green from that era was a much better tractor in my experience.
It is your money. Do what you like.
Jack McClaskey |
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| I never ran a 7000 but I've spent a lot of hours on the newer variants including a 7710.
Hydraulics were slow on the 7000. Other than that... it's an 85 hp tractor. Could be had in utility (All Purpose) version or row crop. One is a straddle mount; the other a flat deck. Straddle (AP) is probably more suited to what you want...
As far as overheating goes... I've not seen many Ford's that frequently overheated unless they had a generous twist of the torque screw. It's nothing to get 100-110 horse (PTO) from that engine but it's hard to keep cool... and if you did a survey around here you'd find most of them turned somewhere in that range...
The rest of the chassis of that tractor should be pretty solid. I would either question the hours or the maintenance if all of that work was done to it and it's still only got 4500 hours tho.... really seriously question.
Rod |
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Mount Vernon, WA | Yes |
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northwest tennessee | We used to have one and was the straddle mount. It was a pretty tough tractor but it would like to run a little hot if worked very hard. The worst part of it was the fan would pick up every bit of trash off of the ground and whirl it inside the front wheel then into your eyes. It was the worst I have ever seen for doing that. |
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SW IA | My son has a 72 model that I bought in 74. It has been good to us. Pretty simple. mechanical clutch and brake controls. Hyd has never given any trouble but is slow. Had to put a new turbo on it this year but not bad for 40 yrs and over 10,000 hrs. Basically a 5000 with a turbo. |
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se wi | We ran one for a couple years. Just could not get acustomed to the hyd lever under the seat. Down the road it went. It ran smooth though. |
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| You mean a front/rear hydraulic selection switch to chose between 3pt and bucket hydraulics? Our 3000 had that. If so, for those that're interested, there's an aftermarket replacement valve that selects automagically. No more playing with the button. |
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se wi | No, the hyd lever to run the remotes was situated between the legs underneath the seat. Pretty unhandy. |
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Is a 7000 Ford a good tractor?
