SPN Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Our local Ford / New Holland Dealer hosted the Ford 100 Gathering for the South East Ireland Ford 6 Cylinder Club today. 115 tractors in total, ranging from a 1920 Fordson to a 2017 New Holland T7. I reckon the 6X 2000 and 3000 on the left of this picture would have been among the first Ford tractors sold at this dealership Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 Some golden oldies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 A Fritz cabbed 4600 for Justin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justy 46 Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Great stuff SPN . I was planning on going ,but I was feeling alittle under the weather . Brother went alright with a few of his buddy's & said it was a good turnout . Did the little 4600 go on the dyno & knock it's full 62HP??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 I was delighted to see this little lady. It is one of the County 774s used by ESB Networks in the 1980s for a major electricity grid upgrade. I wondered if any of them had been saved for preservation. Great to see that at least one of them has been saved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 Now for some oddballs. Ford 7400 on a local plate from around 1980. Don't know if was imported new or as a young second hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 County 654 Super 4, Muir Hill 141 and a late model Power Plus 7600 with Schindler 4wd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 7000 and 7700. Three 7810s, a 6610-FOUR E and a 6600 8600, 8700 (behind the 8600), 7400 and TW10 Reverse: TW15, 8600, 8700 (behind the 8600), 7400, TW10, 8100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 And now for the stars, the TWs, 30s and 70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mb86 Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Excellent stan. Thanks for taking the time to post your photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Axe Man Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Thanks for sharing your photo's Stan, it adds up to quite a few horses in them sheds That 774 looks mint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_emmons Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 great photo's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Very fine array of tractors. Great turn out and top photos Stan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justy 46 Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 That 7400 is a rare one . As rare as the are ..I don't think they were offered with the Q cab back then .Any that had a cab were usually a Friz .. What do you reccon Stan ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted December 31, 2017 Author Share Posted December 31, 2017 37 minutes ago, justy 46 said: That 7400 is a rare one . As rare as the are ..I don't think they were offered with the Q cab back then .Any that had a cab were usually a Friz .. What do you reccon Stan ?? Way back in the auld Gods' time, I remember an ad in the Farmers Journal, every week, for the 7400. They were imported by a dealer up in County Louth, if memory serves. Could it have been Armstrongs? Like you, my recollection is that they had Fritz cabs, but when I saw that one yesterday I began to wonder if I misremembered and if they had actually had Q cabs. Have you any old Farmers Journals from the late 70s, early 80s knocking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted December 31, 2017 Author Share Posted December 31, 2017 7 hours ago, walterderwent said: Very fine array of tractors. Great turn out and top photos Stan. Praise from the master himself. I'll take that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justy 46 Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 2 hours ago, SPN said: Way back in the auld Gods' time, I remember an ad in the Farmers Journal, every week, for the 7400. They were imported by a dealer up in County Louth, if memory serves. Could it have been Armstrongs? Like you, my recollection is that they had Fritz cabs, but when I saw that one yesterday I began to wonder if I misremembered and if they had actually had Q cabs. Have you any old Farmers Journals from the late 70s, early 80s knocking about? No then . I remember a contractor local around the Coachford area . Dennehys who are now County Wide Drain services ..(.no longer agri contracting ) having a 7400 Fritz on a NH chopper ,backed up by a fleet of 7600s carting back in the late 80's before they flogged all the silage gear & went Tank & drain cleaning with a small fleet of MB Trac 1100s & a Gen 1 7610 AP cab on Hi Spec tankers ..Don't know were they sourced that 7400 ..!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb86 Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 Did the cab look to be original and no chance t'was was a transplant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted January 1, 2018 Author Share Posted January 1, 2018 20 minutes ago, mb86 said: Did the cab look to be original and no chance t'was was a transplant? I can't see any giveaways for it being a transplant. But doing a transplant is not a straightforward job. I remember a friend of mine looked at upgrading a FIECO cabbed 7600 to a Q cab and it ended up being too much trouble. He upgraded to a Fritz cab instead. I recall it was the clutch and brake pedals that were the biggest headache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb86 Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 That suprises me, I'd have thought it would be almost a straight swap providing you had all the linkages etc with the q cab. There is a pic in a ford book I have with a 6cyl major conversion with q cab and 7a bonnet and nosecone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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