Excellent Original Condition!

Someone on [b:0ef468e1b5]Craigslist[/b:0ef468e1b5] is dreaming/confused!
The weights would be nice though!

Well it is the very rare 1966 881!

Mark

Seems like the asking prices here in Michigan have not come down like guys in other parts of the country are seeing. Must be the blue paint is 1966 vintage lol.

Yeah! Not that I'm really interested, but perhaps the transmission was changed under the upgrade to blue transmission deal in 1966. :lol:

Title of the ad says 871, but the text down below says that it is an 801 with the 881 Select O Matic transmission. Nothing like consistency.

Here's another dreamer, Royse.

Dean
48/49 8N

Interesting. He must have edited it. It originally had 1948 in the heading.

Premise: Well knowing that I am in a small minority, I like SOS Fords.

A few years ago, before I decided to de-Ford, I might have investigated that one.

Not at $4,500, but maybe $3,000 or so.

Of course, lots of questions would need to be answered, but 881s are not common.

PS, weights, PA rims that at least look OK in the photos, "rebuilt" engine (what does that mean?) and a back blade that can be sold for $150+. Of course, it would be worth more to me if it did not have the trip bucket loader which is of minimal value and needs to be removed.

Still trying to motivate myself to work on my 64, 4000, SOS retirement project....

SDT

OK, so some person doesn't know exactly what something is or even the value for that matter.

I knew a woman who was an aerospace engineer. Was part of the design team that worked on the A10. Bet she knows way more about designing an airplane than most of us. Guys out there with an MBA, law degree or can append DR behind their names that know how to run multi billion dollar a year companies, defend you in a tort action or install a pacemaker, or for us old guys do a hip replacement.

So what if cleaning up dad's estate they don't what's it's called? Or the exact model. What really matters is price. IS it good or bad?

Rick

Well said, Rick.

As one with an engineering degree, as well as an MBA, and a JD, and well as a couple of other degrees, I can relate.

FWIW, I'm also a lifetime mechanic and have done most of my own mechanical work for 50 years. I'm also a long time Ford tractor aficionado and know 8Ns and *0* tractors inside and out. Only retirement and old age has caused me to go orange.

Who knows who is posting an ad and what that person has accomplished in their lifetime.

BTW: Thank you for your service.

Dean

So what if cleaning up dad's estate they don't what's it's called? Or the exact model. What really matters is price. IS it good or bad?

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Well he calls it two different things, a 871 and an 881, so who knows if it is really either? How can you decide if it is a good price or not if you can't be sure exactly what it is? It has the S-O-S shifter and it does look like an 871 to me as I see no handle on the left side for the dual speed PTO, but the picture's not clear enough to say for sure.

(quoted from post at 10:41:20 05/19/19) Premise: Well knowing that I am in a small minority, I like SOS Fords.

A few years ago, before I decided to de-Ford, I might have investigated that one.

Not at $4,500, but maybe $3,000 or so.

Of course, lots of questions would need to be answered, but 881s are not common.

PS, weights, PA rims that at least look OK in the photos, "rebuilt" engine (what does that mean?) and a back blade that can be sold for $150+. Of course, it would be worth more to me if it did not have the trip bucket loader which is of minimal value and needs to be removed.

Still trying to motivate myself to work on my 64, 4000, SOS retirement project....

SDT

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Hard to tell if the two speed pto lever is there or not but it doesn't appear to have the lever for ground speed pto.
I thought power steering was standard on 881's, the one listed has some type of aftermarket power steering.

Here's a photo of my 62 881 the day we pulled it out of the barn it had been setting in for over 20 years
two speed lever is hard to see but the ground speed lever on the side on the trans above the foot board is clearly visible.

Power steering wasn t standard on 881s. I d say you see most of them with it because if a guy spent the money on a 81 transmission he spent it on the power steering too. I started working on this gold 881 a couple weeks ago and it doesn t have power steering and has gold on all the steering parts

Mine's a 62 with the original over running clutch trans but I did find one piece of gold on it.

Since the comment on gold painted tractors, I had to purchase a new axle housing on my 960, I believe 1965 , and it was painted gold and appeared not to have been taken off of any tractor but was a new factory part. A complete repaint job has since happened

Funny how the gold parts were mixed in over the years. This one has gold on everything. Transmission is gold under the blue with red underneath the gold. Has been stamped on both sides so it was rebuilt. Guessing it was swapped while the tractor was still gold and trans was painted to match the rest. Picked it up for $400 a year or so ago from the field where it had sat for 25 years the owner said. So far I ve got it running and trans seems to work in all the gears.

Rick, I completely agree that we all have different skill sets.
Not knowing something is simply being ignorant of that subject.
Ignorance of a subject is nothing to be ashamed of, as long as
one is willing to learn it or leave it to those that do and let it go.

But it doesn't take a rocket scientist or any special skill set to tell
that this tractor is not in "excellent original condition". A simple
Google search to see what similar tractors were priced at would
have shown them the original colors. Or at least a close facsimile.

In this area, that tractor would be lucky to bring $2500.
The trip bucket loader with no down pressure is a detractor.
The all blue paint job would be too, for anyone who was looking to
put it back to anything close to "original condition". Getting all the
incorrect colored paint off is a major pain. BTDT many times.
And usually it was applied so poorly that you can't just paint over it.

The backblade is quite obviously bent. Not that being bent makes
it unusable, but it tells me it has been abused and if that abuse
happened while hooked to this tractor, it would be another detractor.

I won't pick it apart any further. I don't know the seller and I wish
them well with their sale. I just didn't find it attractive to me.

Have you seen the prices on Ebay for a selecto speed shifter? OMG! $425.00! One guy wants a 100.00 just for the shifter shaft cover. Given those prices... four thousand seems reasonable. Uggh.