1965 ford Ind. with backhoe

for sale 1965 ford 2000 ind.backhoe 720 orig.hrs.

to john-bud, no this tractor is not the odd duck, it is a 1965 ford 2000.the first s/n of february 1965 was 65526,the first s/n of march 1965 was 66474,my s/n is between those two numbers,therefore it was built in FEB 1965 .most people don't know that 4 cylinder 2000 and 4000 series tractors were still being built into sept.1965 thanks

Hello McKenz , Congrats to you , I have been telling the know-it-alls here on this board and other for YEARS that Ford built 4 CYLINDER TRACTORS DURING THE 1965 MODEL YEAR and they still say that nothing was built after 1964, and I have this info on Ford paperwork and from Ford Tractor Engineers, Distributors, Salesman and Dealers that I know personally that were there so YES YOU ARE ALSO CORRECT in saying your tractor is a 1965 . I also have three Ford four cylinder tractors serial numbers 64680, 69783, and 70244 and I have had others and sold more too . The highest serial number that I know of is over 81,000 which puts assembly into December 1965 a whole year of 1965 4 cylinder production . Thanks Tony Jacobs

Hello John , Guess he told you , same as I have discussed with you many times . Do you have a piece of paper from Ford with the OFFICAL END OF PRODUCTION ? I know you don't and I have never seen one . Nothing confusing about it 4 cylinder production ended in December 1965 . Thanks Tony

Tony;
Is that 81,000 a miss print and you meant 71,000

The reason I ask is they were building about 1,000 tractors a month in 1965 so serial# 81,000 would be somewhere in the July or Aug 1966 range.

I have always thought production on the 4 cylinder tractors stopped at about 72,000 give or take 100 or so.

Hello John , The highest serial number 1965 4 cylinder tractor I had ever seen was 76,000 a 4030 Light Duty Industrial from Missouri (which sold on Ebay) which made sense as far as production numbers go on a monthly basis . But last year at the Penn. Ford show there was a 1965 2000 High Crop single front wheel tractor there with a serial number of 81,467 the highset I have ever seen which of course does not fit into the number of tractors built on average per month of 1965 . 76,000 serial number is about correct for production ending in Dec. of 1965 , and yes that 81,000# would run to about July of 1966 and of course did not happen or could it have ? 2000 4 cylinder Offset Tractors were built until 1968 as far as I know and there is Ford service bulletins showing that of which I do not have a copy yet, a dealer in Penn. is suppose to get me copies of them . I suppose they could have built some special order high crops with them also but with the 4200 3 cylinder row crops in production why would they ? , and did they even build 6000+ offsets in three years ? I would doubt that also but anything is possible I suppose . Thanks Tony

Hello Again John , I forgot to tell you that the 1965 Light Duty Industrial Tractor that sold on Ebay that I am reffering to also shows up on Ebay on the cover of a CD of Ford Tractor Manuals for sale . It is painted Blue and White with no loader on it just as it was sold on Ebay . I had all that info saved on my Hard Drive but one time my computer crashed and I lost it and could not recover it even to the point of disassembling the hard drive and trying to read each of the magnetic layers seperately with no luck . Thanks Tony

Tony. if that ever happens to you again, there is a company called OnTrack that specializes in retrieving data from failed hard drives. They have done wonders for my customers over the years. My day job is computer support.