I'm enjoying your videos. I only found your channel because I'm trying to buy a similar workmaster as yours. Your so in depth and on topic that I can't help but subscribe. Even if I don't get this 601 I'm looking forward to watching you work on your new tractor. I'm starting off like you, hardly any experience but a lot of enthusiasm. Thanks for sharing.
I have a 1962 641 Workmaster gas. I bought it at the neighbors estate auction in 1976 . I am the second owner. It had been used hard. I have rebuilt the engine and done a lot of other repairs. Great little tractor. Lots of asscessories avaialble to dress it up. Brake pedals being uneven is normal. I will be watching. Have fun.
I'm 85 and have an 860 Ford along with a few more old ones. My wife and raise goats-usually have around 50-60 at one time. You can't beat the old ones. Hope your granddad is doing well.
That's fantastic! We've discussed getting one goat to eat some of the kudzu but can't imagine 60! And I agree, they just don't make them like they used to, (as cliche as it is to say) I'm a computer engineer, but I'd still prefer having to fix something mechanical rather than a sensor going out like the new ones these days. He's doing well, he's been enjoying these videos and it gives him something to do. Wishing you and your wife health and happiness this holiday season!
I guess you would raise one side of the plow, to help not wedge the plow into the ground, causing unnessasary resistance to the forward movement of the tractor.
I would say the first thing to do is probably give it a bath with a pressure washer and have the starter rebuilt or replaced my grandpa also had one like this except his was a super major Diesel looking forward to new videos on this tractor
We have a 1960 601/641 gas that has been a great tractor. Needs some engine work at the moment. Anyways, I don't know diesels but if it isn't already convert it to 12 volt. It was the best modification made to ours. Good Luck! Oh yeah, the proof-meters have a tendency to break and it takes a few years (or more in my case) to get around to fixing them so at the end of the day so to speak they will generally show fewer than actual hours.
That's awesome, honestly I was looking for a ford tractor 601/801 type to purchase and totally forgot my grandparents had this one. You can imagine how excited I was when I found out it was a ford 601. Luckily it is 12V with a negative ground, I was told the diesels were 12V from the factory. And that's good to know! The next video just covers some cleaning and other maintenance stuff to get it running, but I hope to do the fun stuff like the gauges soon.
Looking forward to watching you restore it! I have my grandpa’s 39 9n that I been working on.
I'm enjoying your videos. I only found your channel because I'm trying to buy a similar workmaster as yours. Your so in depth and on topic that I can't help but subscribe. Even if I don't get this 601 I'm looking forward to watching you work on your new tractor. I'm starting off like you, hardly any experience but a lot of enthusiasm. Thanks for sharing.
Ford has made many generations of great tractors, we still have a 1953 Ford 8N Jubilee that is in use several times a month on our ranch in Montana.
I have a 1962 641 Workmaster gas. I bought it at the neighbors estate auction in 1976 . I am the second owner. It had been used hard. I have rebuilt the engine and done a lot of other repairs. Great little tractor. Lots of asscessories avaialble to dress it up. Brake pedals being uneven is normal. I will be watching. Have fun.
I'm 85 and have an 860 Ford along with a few more old ones. My wife and raise goats-usually have around 50-60 at one time. You can't beat the old ones. Hope your granddad is doing well.
That's fantastic! We've discussed getting one goat to eat some of the kudzu but can't imagine 60!
And I agree, they just don't make them like they used to, (as cliche as it is to say) I'm a computer engineer, but I'd still prefer having to fix something mechanical rather than a sensor going out like the new ones these days.
He's doing well, he's been enjoying these videos and it gives him something to do. Wishing you and your wife health and happiness this holiday season!
@@LandonsLaboratory Thank you. The same to you and your family.
I guess you would raise one side of the plow, to help not wedge the plow into the ground, causing unnessasary resistance to the forward movement of the tractor.
For the leaky fuel shutoff valve - sometimes they are good but just have a rust fragment jamming them open.
I would say the first thing to do is probably give it a bath with a pressure washer and have the starter rebuilt or replaced my grandpa also had one like this except his was a super major Diesel looking forward to new videos on this tractor
We have a 1960 601/641 gas that has been a great tractor. Needs some engine work at the moment. Anyways, I don't know diesels but if it isn't already convert it to 12 volt. It was the best modification made to ours. Good Luck! Oh yeah, the proof-meters have a tendency to break and it takes a few years (or more in my case) to get around to fixing them so at the end of the day so to speak they will generally show fewer than actual hours.
That's awesome, honestly I was looking for a ford tractor 601/801 type to purchase and totally forgot my grandparents had this one. You can imagine how excited I was when I found out it was a ford 601.
Luckily it is 12V with a negative ground, I was told the diesels were 12V from the factory.
And that's good to know! The next video just covers some cleaning and other maintenance stuff to get it running, but I hope to do the fun stuff like the gauges soon.
Farmall is international harvester
Thanks for the info! Can you tell most of my research was on Ford? Haha
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Sounds delicious!