WayneIA

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I don't need it but, The local school district has a ""add says"" ( "Ford Tractor W/3PT Blade- Golden Jubilee Model 1953"). with sealed bids. It has a front mounted, hydraulic lift blade, pushed from the center bottom of the transmission. A Sherman 3 speed over under transmission, a LPTO. and a remote hydraulic valve. Paint and tin are good and original, I think! It has lawn and garden tires on the rear, and they are at least 25 years old but hold air, and the engine is stuck. Is and has been inside most of it's life. What do ye'all think? Just curious!!
 
Most of the time, you'll find out it's a later model than a Jubilee. Which isn't bad.
I don't know if they get prices they want, but seems like a minimum amount of work to get
the Sherman out and sell it. Depending on how much you want to get paid for
your work, the parts should be worth $1000. If you expect to sell it again,
you couldn't get much over $2500 with new tires and running engine. It's a toss-up.
 
Engine being locked up hurts it badly and who knows why it is locked up. Could be from sitting a long time or it could be something real bad like it was run with out oil etc. Then you have that other stuff and you would have to pretty much get hands on to know if what they say is there or if some one who doesn't know tractor has written up the ad. Having live PTO well ya it can be had but not common and an add on thing as if a front lift. Me I would say not more then $1000 and that is if it has every thing the say it has and that is pushing it
 
cdmn, if it has live pto AND a sherman transmission then it would have to be an NAA as later ones had the 2 stage clutch for live pto so a sherman couldnt be installed in them. I know what you mean tho, i see so many 600 and 800 series listed as a "jubilee" pretty much anything with the same style hood people call a jubilee
 
NAA and the Jubilee are so close to the same tractor that other then an emblem and year they are the same. NO NAA ever had a 2 stage clutch. That did not come out till the 600 series which looks a lot like the Jubilee and NAA but was not the same and the 2 stage clutch was on with a 5 speed and no way you can install a Sherman into a 5 speed tractor
 
With the front blade,sherman, LPTO, Hyd valve (All condition under known) you are already over $1000. To be safe I would go all that much higher. Seem that even good running tractors aren't bringing much these days.

Kirk
 
id let it be, i got into a deal like that a couple of years ago, a new property owner approached me and said an old ford tractor came on the place, and he wanted it gone so he could park his new kubota in the shed the ford was in, i asked him if it ran no it didnt but the po told him it just had a small knock in it when it ran, so i asked him about tins and tires, the tins were beat and the tires were good, so i told him id be a buyer at 350 bucks, as its condition was unknown and the tins were beat up, he let me have it, well it wasn't a ford, it was a Ferguson to 20, still not in it too bad, so i dragged it on the trailer and took it to the farm, well, it must have had some knock! i knew something was up when the oil pan had 2 bolts holding it to the engine... dropped the pan, it had been run probably out of oil until it had locked up all the main bearing caps were missing and the rods were solid on the crank, i got another guy to buy it for a hundred bucks for the tires on it making sure he knew the tires what was what he was buying if there was 1 more usable piece on that thing he was getting that free, you just never know what a stuck motor will be unless you find the guy who drove it last, if it ran then its probably light stuck, if it stopped on him and was pushed in or to the side,its serious and expensive to fix
 
should add i also have a jubilee that i have probably 6 to 7 grand in, its all new, and works nearly every day onthe place here, but a jubilee or naa, if its real nice can be bought for 3500 all day long, have to add in about a grand for the hard to find options
 
(quoted from post at 21:43:22 01/16/16) cdmn, if it has live pto AND a sherman transmission then it would have to be an NAA as later ones had the 2 stage clutch for live pto so a sherman couldnt be installed in them. I know what you mean tho, i see so many 600 and 800 series listed as a "jubilee" pretty much anything with the same style hood people call a jubilee

Not entirely accurate! all the *4* Fords and some early *000 Fords (e.g. 640, 641, 21201, 41201) could have been set up like this.
 
I think it's worth pursuing.
Front blade us great for snow, plus the back blade.
If you parted it out the LPTO and Sherman would sell quickly.
You might get some tin, etc too.
It oughta be worth a grand anyway.
 
if my local tractor jockey called me with that description,
I'd offer $1000 without seeing it.
Like said, a lot of cyclops Fords get called 'Jubilees'.
No risk here however, as if they are wrong and it's a 600 or 800...it's worth more.

After a look, if it is exactly as described, I might creep up close to $1500 if need be. No more than that with turf tires. useless, and very hard to sell em after putting on ags.

Stuck engine wouldn't concern me at all. It's just an engine, fix it or swap it out.
 

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