mf135 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Last sunday was one of those rare days off and I went along to a local vintage rally at Palgrave near Diss on the Suffolk Norfolk boarder the Ford and Fordson club was there with no less than 65 different tractors on the stand to which I took my latest addition a one owner local 1975 Ford 4000 with Ford 8602 DAB loader this tractor is all original apart from the cab roof. This tractor has been dry stored for the last 19 years even the cab cladding has no marks and the cab glass is all original from new all this tractor has ever done is load sugar beet and cut fire wood. The other tractor is my fathers 1968 Ford 5000 which has been restored from the ground up which he bought last year. Here is the pictures from the day of not just the Fords but other tractors as well although shame the weather didn’t play ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mf135 Posted June 19, 2019 Author Share Posted June 19, 2019 Few more of the 4000 in the yard when it’s not raining! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justy 46 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 That's one clean 4000.. A very nice buy..Im jealous..!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Dan Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 All very excellent photos, thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Axe Man Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Thanks for sharing your photo's Martyn, like Justin said, that's a tidy and very honest 4000 you've found there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awdmac Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Enjoying the photos Martyn, thanks for sharing. Great 4000 you've got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mf135 Posted June 20, 2019 Author Share Posted June 20, 2019 Thanks for the great comments guys you won’t believe that the son of the original owner of the 4000 that I bought it from had a quote for £3,500 to blast and repaint it! It’s taken 44 years to look that and I just think he would have wrecked it thankfully he restored his Ferguson TEF 20 instead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb86 Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 What a fantastic find Martyn. It must be the tidiest origional 1000 series I've seen, a credit to it's previous owner. I have to agree it would have been a crime to re paint it they are only origional once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Why the hell would you want to blast and paint that , it looks not far of new really for its age, few bits of rust i guess ? But hell , must have more money than sense maybe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super6 Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 What an absolute beaut, 4000 that is, with fabulous patina, it took years to look that good. It would be sacrilege to repaint that. Are those Fordson Major wheel weights? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mf135 Posted June 21, 2019 Author Share Posted June 21, 2019 13 hours ago, super6 said: What an absolute beaut, 4000 that is, with fabulous patina, it took tears to look that good. It would be sacrilege to repaint that. Are those Fordson Major wheel weights? Yes you are correct they came off the original owners Fordson E27N although he went for all the deluxe features for this tractor he used the the old major wheel weights and had new backing rings made up to fit the centres again I have left them on as these would have been on from new. Also the Dunlop rear tyres are the originals as well cracked but not bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mf135 Posted June 21, 2019 Author Share Posted June 21, 2019 17 hours ago, Tractorman810 said: Why the hell would you want to blast and paint that , it looks not far of new really for its age, few bits of rust i guess ? But hell , must have more money than sense maybe Thankfully he stopped at hammerite the exhaust at least it protected it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegreen Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 I went to the ploughing day at the other end of the A140 Diss road back in September which was good...…………….mind you I notice there was an 8210 at Palgrave but no sign of one at the ploughing event, or a TW15/ 8630 for that matter...…...kind of spoiled my day a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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