Banner Day for Spotting Fords

Had to run to town this afternoon for some seed. On my journey I spotted 3 different Fords that I think are all 3000's within a 5 mile radius. Now you may say so what's the big deal, but this is Green and Yellow country. Pretty rare to see much other than JD's in these parts.
This first one I had seen before, but it's been a while. It's a 3000 gas 8 speed. I looked at it about a year ago and he was asking 5000 then. I was told today it's 4500. It has a brush hog hooked to it, but I'm pretty sure it's not included. This is a very nice looking tractor and last year it ran very nicely. After a year who knows, but since the hog is on the back and it had grass on top of it, I can only assume they have been using it recently. This place is actually a junk yard for tractors etc. Rarely see any blue out there when you drive by. If someone wants to know more about this one, one of the pictures has his sign in the background with the number. I personally have never done business with them and I'm not trying to advertise it for him either. Just passing along what I saw on my journey today.

And the other picture.

And then down the road I spotted this one, and it's for sale too. I gave the guy a call when I got back home for the heck of it. He's asking 3500 for it but was quick to admit he's probably going to have to go down on the price. When you see the pictures, you will understand. It's had a fresh coat of blue paint recently thrown....I mean sprayed on it. Pretty obvious a lot of what the paint hides in the pics. He said it runs good, but is a little hard to start. The brush hog does go with it I was told, not sure if it works or not.....may just be using it for extra weight on the rear! If anyone wants the phone number, just ask....or you might be able to read it on the FS sign. Oh, as you can see it labeled as a 2000 but I think it's a 3000. I tried to read the numbers on it, but the paint is pretty thick and I didn't want to scratch it up! :

Front shot of the same tractor. Nice grille don't you think?

Same tractor, rear shot. Nice fenders! :

Same tractor, view of hood. Notice the extra ventilation. Those nice wrong fenders are in the same shape....as is the brush hog. Did I mention this is a diesel?

Nice view of the custom seat and fenders! :

Period correct dash and instrument cluster. Well, maybe not. :

Dan

Rod

And strange as it may seem, this beast has a very nice set of spin out wheels on it. Go figure.

And finally this one, not a mile from the house. I saw this one a few months ago, they were spreading some form sand for a slab. Next time I went by it was gone. The building has been up for quite some time now but isn't open yet. Today I saw the Ford there again but now it's sporting a new paint job. It was this same color when I saw it before, but it was real thin and looked awfully bad. I'm guessing this is an industrial model by the yellow?

I'm in Lampasas (Central Texas). I thought 956 area code was down in South Texas.