What is my Ford 7000 worth?

[Flat 10]

Did I mention free loader (or I can take it off)

I had a 5000, same age, same type of loader sold for £5000. I had to take the loader off that.

I think it looks the business with the loader on. Prices have fallen. I will bid you £4000?

 

[jakeboy]

Your best bet with the 7000 is enter it at cheffins vintage auction end of April, seen plenty of em sale there top money, biggest marketplace in UK, forget ebay to many timewasters and crooks looking to come and Rob it later.

 

[GTB]

Did I mention free loader (or I can take it off)

I had a 5000, same age, same type of loader sold for £5000. I had to take the loader off that.

Jeez, that's one hell of a loader!

 

[Pan mixer]

Jeez, that's one hell of a loader!

Those loaders were made when men were men and didn't just want to fiddle with a fancy joystick - the original Farmhand F12

 

[Nearly]

Like driving down a tunnel.
Nice tractor but I'm out.

 

[Flat 10]

Those loaders were made when men were men and didn't just want to fiddle with a fancy joystick - the original Farmhand F12

I hope it has a massive concrete block on the back? Should really have water filled tyres but is missing rear wheel weights. Some also had roofs that were lifted at the front and some Perspex wedged in the front to give a panoramic view!

 

[Nearly]

I hope it has a massive concrete block on the back? Should really have water filled tyres but is missing rear wheel weights. Some also had roofs that were lifted at the front and some Perspex wedged in the front to give a panoramic view!

But that would spoil the aerodynamics?

 

[Flat 10]

But that would spoil the aerodynamics?

Considered the height of luxury compared to the poor sods that had a F11 where the frame of loader replaced the cab of the tractor! Round here everyone had to have a Farmhand and a Flat 10 bale grab!

 

[Nearly]

In their time they had good reach. I'm just glad we never had one. I wouldn't have left any sheds standing.

 

[Flat 10]

I know someone who had a pre bubble cab 6600 with a county torque converter.
Saves wearing your left leg out.

 

[Pan mixer]

I hope it has a massive concrete block on the back? Should really have water filled tyres but is missing rear wheel weights. Some also had roofs that were lifted at the front and some Perspex wedged in the front to give a panoramic view!

Yes a one tonne block on the back which makes sure that if you hit anything going backwards it stays hit.

I have only recently put the proper Ford roof back on, it had a sheet of stockboard that hinged up at the front and folded in half for that all round vision, plus the doors have been in the shed for 15 years.
Also the front glass is out (but whole) so that the reflections when grain pushing don't blind you.
It would put the 12 layer on a stack with a flat 8 or 10 but not enough forward reach for the 13th.
It can also lift a 30cwt pallet of fert off a lorry which was one of the huge benefits of these good old loaders

 

[Flat 10]

I think I want it. All this rose tinted spectacleness. I think some people had a gadget that made them lift another 3 layers but I'm not sure how it worked exactly. It had twin rams I think.

 

[Lincsman]

I have a Ford 7000 in ex-farm but not hedgerow condition, it is complete except an indicator rusted off and a side light stalk broken off, no dual power, L reg.

Well it was about £2300 new, so what depreciation would it have?

 

[Penmoel]

Well it was about £2300 new, so what depreciation would it have?

I think our 5000 was £2,600 in '73, depreciation would still be about the same mind

 

[Mursal]

Did anyone ever find out who designed the loader, ex military I'd say?

 

[Flat 10]

Farmhand. I believe they are from the states....

 

[blackbob]

Predecessor of the telehandler, and the masted forklift before that..
The crowd rams weren't really big enough were they, you could lift more than you could crowd
Had its own oil tank, with a big pump on the pto
The one in the background here is a 5000, taken in 1981

 

[7610 super q]

Ditch the loader,put doors&windows back in,and it might be worth 7k to a collector.Nothing puts me of buying a tractor more than seeing a loader hung on the front of it.These tractors are getting rare now,so don't give it away.

 

[Mursal]

Predecessor of the telehandler, and the masted forklift before that..
The crowd rams weren't really big enough were they, you could lift more than you could crowd
Had its own oil tank, with a big pump on the pto
The one in the background here is a 5000, taken in 1981
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Your picture reminds me, we had a lime contractor using a Roadless, not all that long ago. Well it doesn't seem long .......

Yes, I think the tractor would be worth more without the loader, don't even mention it at the viewings. Bit of dirty paint on the casings where the plates came off, jobs a good one ..........

But, what would you do with it?

 

[Pan mixer]

Your picture reminds me, we had a lime contractor using a Roadless, not all that long ago. Well it doesn't seem long .......

Yes, I think the tractor would be worth more without the loader, don't even mention it at the viewings. Bit of dirty paint on the casings where the plates came off, jobs a good one ..........

But, what would you do with it?

Altogether I have had three of those loaders, I sold the first away to scrap, the second I 'gave' to someone - he never paid for it but not worth pursuing, the third is still attached to said 7000, this F12C was stronger in the crowd rams than the A or B.