Selling My Ford 7000

[Exfarmer]

I think that was a cheaper cab, may be wrong. More like a stockmans version?

 

[7610 super q]

No, it had the same Q cab. I'll dig out the leaflets later......

 

[7610 super q]

Here's the specs. I'll have to get my glasses to find the difference....

 

[MrNoo]

Got a Q cabbed 7600 here, remember it being delivered with clear plastic wrap over the seat, spent many an hour sat on the box on the side of the cab as a youngster with my father driving. Ours has a short air intake snorkle though as opposed to the one in the pictures above. Still have it parked up in one of the sheds, good old bus, had a new half motor (cavitation) and that's about it, still starts, runs and does what it's supposed to do.

 

[JLLM]

Here's the specs. I'll have to get my glasses to find the difference....

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Greens Agri, those were the days.

 

[Lincsman]

Load monitor with assister ram and tyres/wheels, the "e" was more like a 6600.
ps
I've never seen one, were they made for driving forage harvesters, ie more power but no frills?

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I only ever spent one day driving a 7000 in all my life.

I was working during harvest for Mr Roger Bere at Bois Hall, Navestock Side, Essex. I drove a Claas combine and Ford 8100. Then one day he said I was to drive the 7000.

WHAT!!?? I was 17, king of the field and driving the big tractors! I was very dis-chuffed to be told to drive the old 7000, a tractor that was at the back of the barn and I had taken very little notice of.

A short while later he had it out in the sun, dualled up and a set of new trailed Parmiter 10ft discs hitched up. Off I went and within minutes I loved it. Powerful, smooth and with gears like silk, precise steering and the deluxe cab. Still to this day it’s one of the most enjoyable days work I ever did.

That job didn’t last though So I came back home and did a bit of work for my uncle who had a 5000 and a 7000 but by the time I went there the 7000 had been replaced by a 7600. I thought it was a bloody awful tractor. Hot and uncomfortable to drive with the daft spool lever under the seat. The 7000 gears were easy but the 7600 was very uncooperative. I would far sooner drive the 5000.

 

[msheep66]

I only ever spent one day driving a 7000 in all my life.

I was working during harvest for Mr Roger Bere at Bois Hall, Navestock Side, Essex. I drove a Claas combine and Ford 8100. Then one day he said I was to drive the 7000.

WHAT!!?? I was 17, king of the field and driving the big tractors! I was very dis-chuffed to be told to drive the old 7000, a tractor that was at the back of the barn and I had taken very little notice of.

A short while later he had it out in the sun, dualled up and a set of new trailed Parmiter 10ft discs hitched up. Off I went and within minutes I loved it. Powerful, smooth and with gears like silk, precise steering and the deluxe cab. Still to this day it’s one of the most enjoyable days work I ever did.

That job didn’t last though So I came back home and did a bit of work for my uncle who had a 5000 and a 7000 but by the time I went there the 7000 had been replaced by a 7600. I thought it was a bloody awful tractor. Hot and uncomfortable to drive with the daft spool lever under the seat. The 7000 gears were easy but the 7600 was very uncooperative. I would far sooner drive the 5000.

I used to work for your Contractor neighbours Finches driving Ford 7610s. They had 3 0f them that was back in the mid eighties, right up the end of Chase Lane.

 

[multi power]

Bigger leap between 1972- 79 than 79 to the present day then. Found this on another form of social media....I guess from 1979/ 80 ?

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I notice an add for a Kubota 4 cylinder 95 hp from a local dealer for £34,500. So the price has doubled in 40 years. Probably on a par with everything else, cars, fert, etc, etc. It's only farm produce that's remained stuck in the '70's.

On the subject of the Kubota, it's actually cheaper than a zetor !

 

[essexpete]

Load monitor with assister ram and tyres/wheels, the "e" was more like a 6600.
ps
I've never seen one, were they made for driving forage harvesters, ie more power but no frills?

What does the dual sensing mean?

 

[Exfarmer]

What does the dual sensing mean?

May be they are reffering the Load Monitor which came out with these tractors. It was a torque sensing device, aiming to take the place of conventional top link draft sensing.
My experience with it was that it was never sensitive enough to be of any real use

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I used to work for your Contractor neighbours Finches driving Ford 7610s. They had 3 0f them that was back in the mid eighties, right up the end of Chase Lane.

Oh, small world!!

My Dad used to spread lime at Warriors Lodge for Richard Finch. Sold years ago to @Nick family and they are customers of mine still. I must have been doing work there for 30 years.

Until last February we lived in Chase Lane for 13 years half way up in one of the pair of cottages on the left.,

Do you ever get this way ?

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Oops!! Sorry, wrong Nick!

For some reason it won’t let me select the correct one!

@Nick.

 

[Exfarmer]

Think @ mounty wont appreciate you encroaching on his patch

 

[msheep66]

Oh, small world!!

My Dad used to spread lime at Warriors Lodge for Richard Finch. Sold years ago to @Nick family and they are customers of mine still. I must have been doing work there for 30 years.

Until last February we lived in Chase Lane for 13 years half way up in one of the pair of cottages on the left.,

Do you ever get this way ?

I don't come over your way much now as my brother has moved over here from Fen End. Is David Sansome still up Chase Lane?

 

[Cab-over Pete]

He is yes. His son Tim runs the show these days. They grow a fair acreage of grain maize all over the place.

We now live near the junction where Gambles Garage used to be and I have several customers near Fen End.

 

[msheep66]

I thought Eversons had taken over the old Gambles garage.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

They have. I just didn’t know how often you get this way and if you knew!!

 

[msheep66]

It's been a few years since I was around your way. My grandparents had a farm at Balsall Common so I new the area well. I lived at Chadwick End for nearly 20 years.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Where ? And where?