Got the Ford 850 Home Today - Took the Loader Off

Hi guys, just wanted to post a few pictures of the 850 Powermaster that I purchased. The loader was a Sauder D220 with a 40" manure bucket with long tines, and two other buckets that fit on the tines and attach with pins - a 40" and a 60" bucket. It is a trip loader but works excellent. All buckets are in excellent shape. To
take the loader off, you simply unhook a single quick disconnect, lift a single lever, and back off. It sits on the axles and attaches to the back rear housing. I
took it off the tractor as I have a loader already on another tractor. I took the brackets off too.

The tractor works very well. It took a minute to get used to the 5 speed, but I do like it. No slippage in the clutch. Brakes work great. The gearing is great. I
had an 860 a long time ago but sold it and regretted it. That is why I bought this.

The PS works very well and was effortless even with the loader on it. The rear tires are in very good shape - 13.6 x 28, filled, with weights, and the front ones
are two rib with little to no ribs left. The hydraulics work very, very well. They are very strong, responsive, there is no drifting, and no leakage down even with
a very heavy weight on the back. However, one of the PS cylinders weeps just a bit after about an hour of use. I will get a repair kit for it.

The rest-o-ride seat works great too. The gauges all work, but it has a 4 speed tach on it. The sheet metal is almost all straight, and there is no rust on the
tractor. No leaks of any significance that I can find. The pto works fine too. The oil pressure hot at 500 rpm idle is 45 psi, and goes to 60 psi when idled up.
Original 6 volt system.

I do not know the hours but by looking at the pedals it seems to have seen little use.

I will repaint it once I get it cleaned up a bit and post some pics later.

Thanks.
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neat machine. sounds like a diamond in the rough.

home is maple ave Harleysville near the now closed lower salford ele. school.
 
Nice tractor! I bought a little flap from red rock that makes shifting a lot easier. You could easily make one if you saw a pattern. Its bolts on by the up and down and only lets the lever go so far. I love it.
 
Great looking tractor! I'm sure it'll server you well.
I have a question on the fenders.
I'm not nit-picking, its an honest question.
Those look very much like the ones on my 960 rowcrop.
Are they original to an 850/860?
If they are I might be able to use a set like them on mine.
 
Looks like a nice find. Appears to have had a pretty nice life in the past. I've seen a brochure for a loader like that but never seen a real one, very neat.
 
The fenders on the pictured tractor look to be correct for 56 and 57 6/7*0 tractors. They are not correct for 7/9** tractors.

FWIW: There are not too many 57 6/7*0 tractors around with PS.

Dean
 
(quoted from post at 00:16:20 10/10/15) The fenders on the pictured tractor look to be correct for 56 and 57 6/7*0 tractors. They are not correct for 7/9** tractors.

FWIW: There are not too many 57 6/7*0 tractors around with PS.

Dean
Did you mean 6/8*0 tractors Dean?
I thought the 7/9*0 rowcrops took the same fenders.
I've been looking for a while, just looking for options.

I did buy a pair the other day from Tractor Rod.
Now I just have to figure out how to get them home.
They'll need work, but they're better than what I have.
 
Hi Dean. This is serial no. 128098, which makes it out to be a very late 1957 model. The spinning gear logo after the Powermaster logo supposedly makes it very late in the production.

Do you know anything about the rear rims? Are they original?
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"Did you mean 6/8*0 tractors Dean?" Yes.

The 7/9*0 tractors use different fenders. Good ones are hard to find.

Dean
 
great looking tractor, I'd like to own that one.
very interesting loader.
I don't like loaders on old Fords, but if I owned it, I might have to buy a beater Ford just to put in on for the 'what is that?' factor.
That loader is in much too good of shape to ruin, but that under tractor framing looks like just the ticket for a snowplow setup.

I wish I could find one of those loaders around the corner from me.
That Ford I posted about recently that I put a rear loader and half-tracks on...........
I bet I could squeeze that style loader on there too....without the giant bucket of course.
 
Yes, the rims are early Ford specific power adjust rims.

The weights are homemade devices.

Dean
 
You got a good one there, the clutch pedal on my 850 is worn smooth, yours does not appear to have high hours on it. Fits the description of an estate or one owner tractor used seasonally. That large rectangular front bucket would make a heck of a wood box/carry all on the back. Maybe it could be modified to to both, but having never seen one of these loaders on a ford tractor before, unlike the more common ones of the period, it could have a little collector value to someone, maybe best left as is. Nice to see yours, great you posted some photos.
 
The / to separate 7 and 9 hundred series, the * because it
didn't matter which middle number it had. 4, 5, 6 etc.

The T on the dogleg actually says model across the top and
then the model number vertically under it.

Model
8
5
0
 
That looks like a great, low houred machine.
With PS to boot.
What I like about the 800s over the 801s is the lesser fuel consumption but still plenty of HP.
Agree with others that the loader ought to be saved by someone. Just not on MY tractor.
Thanks for the photos.
 
Agreed. Like SG, not on my tractor, but that is one interesting loader. Too cool to cut up. Keep all the parts together for a collector sometime.

Doug in east TN
 

Looks like a very solid straight honest 850. Let me suggest that before painting you take the rear cover off and renew the hydraulics.
 

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