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It seems to me from pictures from tractor rides, parades" antique tractor shows that Fords from the 50"s and 60"s ( Naa, 100"s series and 1000"s series ) are not well represented. Is that because they are still in the field or about gone? Is it just me?
 
i would say its because they are still in the fields, or at least for me and other ford farmers i know they still are everyday workers
 
I redid several in the 1000 series. I sold some and put the others to use. Not suited for parade status any longer.

Mark
 
my "62 2000 has been shredding pastures since 6AM...got too hot about 4 and i put it under a tree and came inside...don"t have time for parades.
 
Still in the fields. Or maybe more accurately, in the food plots.
People have been snatching them up for the last decade or so
because they fit that bill really well at a fraction of the cost of a
compact tractor.
Parts are available and relatively cheap, as are 3pt implements.
 
I have 4 Fords, a 1939(trailor queen), a 1941(currently, mower tractor), 2 1953 jubilee's, one is a "loader tractor' ( gets a lot of work, the best wheelbarow ever)and the other 53 is under rebuilding and paint. When done will be the mower and snow-plow tractor. In my stable only one gets time off, the rest work for a living. joe
My 39
 

Very few of the ones that you see at shows are still working because they are obsolete. In order to be still working for most casual small farm, hobby people, they need to have three point and smaller is more attractive. So the Fords are still working. The ones you seeing dropped way off in popularity once the more modern ones came out, so they dropped way off in value. Ten years ago you could buy your average JD, AC, Farmal, etc for 1/3 what you would pay for a 100 or x01 Ford.
 
By the late 1950's/ early 1960's more and more farmers wanted tractors with more horsepower than Ford was offering. Most people are of the opinion that Ford did not get things squared away till the 7000 and 8600 came out. It gave Ford's competition plenty of time to build some high quality tractors which were well received by farmers.
 
I would say the main reason is that there are thousands of them around. So just about everyone has seen them. So they are not that collectible. They are still a good work tractor for many people that do not need a large tractor. They also are relatively simple to work on so people like them for the ease of repairs.

It is not just the Fords from that era. It is the MF 35 and MF 135 too. There are just a lot of them out there.
 
The 'Scantic Valley Antique Engine Club' show in Somers, Conn this weekend had more Fords than any other brand.. of course it was Ford's turn to be featured tractor.
There are probably several times as many 'hundreds' still in the field as there are restored as show queens... and I will bet a very small amount junked over the last 50 years. Shows seem to be cookie cutter red and green machines... even tho the people that bring them might have a fleet of other brands at home. This show's promoters were constantly thanking me for bringing a fergie TO30 in work clothes, and want all my other fergies and masseys at the next show.... that'll be a couple tanks of gas... but shows aren't real world tractor populations, there are millions of Fords all over the place... hidden in plain sight???
Oh, btw... to be honest... Ford is far from my favorite brand... just credit where credit's due...
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Tony, I had planned to come down with my trailer queen 901 because of the Ford feature, but I was leaned on to attend town meeting instead.
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I don't believe I have been to Somers since a motorcycle enduro in 1975.
 
I have 1950, 1951 and 1952 Ford 8Ns, and they"re all still working -- belly mower, brush-hog and general pulling stuff around. Used one just yesterday to pull a couple of small trees to the brush pile. They all need restoring, but they"re too busy at the moment for new paint.
 
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