Ford 640 update

grandpa Love · Oct 22, 2019

My post below was a bit of a trick question......that's our primary work tractor. We bought it almost 4 years ago. We knew nothing about tractors, we just needed one with a bush hog to clear some property. We didn't even notice the weld for several weeks! It runs like a champ and other than stupid stuff like poking a hole in a rear tire and the radiator we haven't had to do anything to it. Starter bendix flew off and is in bell housing,so it got a new starter. Knowing what we know now, we way over paid. $2400 for tractor and a 6 ft brush hog that was way too big for it. We use the tractor at least 2 days a week for work. And it got us started on our tractor addiction! After about a year someone told us the poor old 640 had the wrong hood and grill on it! Who knew? It's been a great tractor ,welded block and all.

Mike M · Oct 22, 2019

Hind site is 2020.
Just keep using it and unless something really expensive breaks I'd not worry about it.

I have never bought a tractor that did not need something fixed ! Even some of the low hour compacts I had and resold I was always tinkering with something on them.

old · Oct 22, 2019

Sort of like a Farmall B I picked up and didn't notice the block was cracked and fixed. I parted it out and made a big profit

aFORDable · Oct 22, 2019

2400 is not too much to pay considering the use you have gotten out of it over the years. The longer you keep it without dumping a lot of $ into it the sweeter the deal was. The 6 ft. hog would be worth a few hundred itself.

fixerupper · Oct 22, 2019

We have all bought tractors we wish we would have walked away from. The last two tractors that left my shop and went into storage are good examples. And here I think I am old enough to know better.

Ozlander · Oct 22, 2019

6 foot brush hog the the right size for a good running 600.
You don't have to take a full cut all the time.

SVcummins · Oct 22, 2019

2400$ Won?t make one payment on a new one that size and even with a Welded hole in the block you still got a better tractor . In 62 years there won?t be a spot or orange spray paint on the ground where that new tractor melted

MARK ROBKE · Oct 22, 2019

That tractor should run a 6' bushhog easily, especially in low gear. Mark.

grayrider · Oct 22, 2019

$2400 for the tractor and bush-hog was a very fair price, it should handle the 6? bush-hog, my old 601 Ford sometimes gets hooked up to a six footer, just can?t let it down all the way if it?s too thick..

grandpa Love · Oct 22, 2019

6 ft wasn't the issue. It was extremely heavy. Old clunker.

Billy NY · Oct 23, 2019

For doing the work you do and that many other people will also do, it's really not a bad investment. In '02 I bought a worn out 850, ran it for 14 years and it worked on good paying jobs at times, it paid for itself in no time and the repairs were minimal fortunately, (was lucky on that). With the prices being down and collector interest waning, still true today, you can acquire a decent one reasonably, add whatever repairs are needed to the cost and still have a tractor that will do quite a bit of work, be it a paying job or not. Most of my equipment has earned the initial acquisition costs back and then some. I too have a 640 that is sitting idle, good runner too, time to get working on it.

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