[Nouveau Redneck]

It's been a while since I've been around here but I have come across what seems to be a good deal on a Ford 801. I did a search on here and didn't really come up with anything specific. Maybe I was searching wrong, I don't know.

801 is the name for the entire series. The individual models were called the 811, 821, 831, 841, 851, 861, 871 or 881 depending on what transmission, hydraulics and pto options that they had.

 

[Nouveau Redneck]

The 861 is probably one of the most desirable of the 801 series because it has the 5 speed and the live pto. I think $1000.00 is a great deal.

 

[Nouveau Redneck]

Everything that I can find says that the transition from the 800 series to the 801 series came late in the year in 1957, so a late 1957 model would be an 8x1. That serial number seems correct too. Jim Smith's "Identifying old Ford Tractors" web page shows the serial numbers for the 1957 800 series being 116368 and up (all 6 digits), while the 801 series from the same year started over at 10001 and went up to 11996 (only 5 digits like yours). The 5 digit serial numbers on the 800 series starting with 115xx were from 1955, not 1957.

I think that you would be safe in assuming that you should order parts specifically for the 801 series, and not the 800 series.