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Fordfarmer · May 13, 2013

A month late, but I got started plowing today. Only field of mine that I thought was dry enough, but that could change quickly with the 80 degree weather they say is coming. A couple neighbors started Saturday, but the one field looked too wet to me - long, shiny ribbons of sod as it rolled over.

JayinNY · May 13, 2013

Nice pic, but lets see the Ford tractor pulling the plow! Lol. You might know I'm a ford man!

Fordfarmer · May 13, 2013

Here it is... just not plowing when this was taken. Kinda hard for me to snap a picture while I'm driving.

4020deereboy · May 13, 2013

That's a nice tractor

paul · May 13, 2013

Nice.

Don't do spring plowing any more around here, just too short of a spring.

I had the wife chisel plowing - Glencoe soil saver actually - the corn stalks the cows were on today. Was nice and dry, finally got that field tiled a year ago, so could work it a little deeper in spring. That 40 hasn't seen heavy tillage in 5-6 years.

Paul

JayinNY · May 14, 2013

Yes really nice!

onefarmer · May 14, 2013

Had to go check and see if my plow was still out there by the barn. One in the pic looks just like it!

Bill from Scotland · May 15, 2013

I like big tractors like yours. Have you had it for long and what do you think of it? Biggest Ford I have is a 8100 4x4.

Fordfarmer · May 15, 2013

I'm the 3rd owner. It's an '89 that I bought in '01. It was a bit tired when I bought it, but it's bigger than I need (had been looking for a 9700, TW20 or TW25), so I got by with it until it burned a piston 2 1/2 years ago. Runs great after a complete o/h, and is easy on fuel for the size. It will chop enough corn to fill an 18x60 tower silo on one tank full. Easily the quietest cab of any tractor I've driven, and comfortable. Only way I'd get rid of it is if I could replace it with a pre-emissions 70 series Genesis.
What exactly is an 8100? Makes me think of an all-purpose 8000, circa '68-'72, but I think you're talking about something newer than that, being a 4x4. A Euorpean market model?

Bill from Scotland · May 15, 2013

Yes definately European, they were built as a bit of a stop gap biggish tractor at the time. Ford were looking for a six cylinder 100hp + tractor toward the end of the 70/80s,they already had a suitable rear end and an engine from their truck division so off they went as a two wheel drive 100hp+ 6cylinder tractor. It was a bit heavy at the front so a front axle was brought in from Schindler and they then went to County tractors and asked they to assemble everything which they did. Mine is a 4x4.
This might interest you, a father and his son"s having fun one sunday morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOKFc71h6YU&feature=em-share_video_user

Bill

Fordfarmer · May 15, 2013

At first I was thinking that was a 8700, but you said the engine was from the truck division (one of the Dorset series?) and I see the rear end has flange hubs. So I guess it would be like an early version of the 8210 - a 6-cylinder with a 7700/7710 transmission and rear end? But the 8210 had a derated 401.

Bill from Scotland · May 16, 2013

Yes previous to the 8200 and it did use a different engine which some people wernt very fond of. Im guessing that Ford of yours must be almost unstoppable for a traditional type tractor. Think I need to get one when I collect together some money, Im guess I would need around $15000-20000 to buy on in Scotland.Suppose I could sell the 8100 but I kinda like it as well.
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