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ha ha!.........who said gutless

they need to spend a bit of quality time on a MF165 with a 203.........or a japanese tractor

the 212 was not gutless for her size ha ha!

next 165 will get a 236 rebuild kit, told that makes em snort

i like dem cause day ain't got yellow wheels

my new hero you are

you have a model farm with a fiat 980DT and ford 6600

all you need it a 180-90 and a 110-90 in the shed

wonder if the steering wheels are to scale.........ha ha!.....

looks like the steering wheel came from a TK bedford in those machines, could be the russian non powersteer option you reckon?

oooo nice

is that the SDF based tractor (probably just put Marky off it)

or is it a CARRARO based one

we have a 3645 4wd/cab on the yard here, its a std tractor, and i have driven it, reckon the stalk picked that baby up from the carraro factory

nice pictures )

pics were worth the hassle ) its a FIAT! ;O)

ha ha!........your right marky.......i did have hair like that in the 70's, wouldn't be much thou, i was born in 1979

naa...for some reason they were cabbed......guess they figured it out by then

the 595mk1 and mk2 were cabbed, and the 575? and 590

seems there was a long wheel base 590 offered too, seen one of them somewhere too

i know of a couple 595's round here, one of my customers has a 1080 4wd ROPS, i know of another one in the area too.......and a 1155 4wd, with cab

dads 1100 was a ROPS

this is a pic of his tractor, me on the set  (3 years old)

I Think i have the 3645 brochure in my collection here, that machine has a door on the right too, thats a little wierd i thought

there are a lot of 1135 and 1150 round here, most are retired, my father owned a 1100 when i was in nappies

its weird how stuff was imported into the southern hemisphere

both countries had very different ideas, yet most major manufacturers tried to keep stuff standard..... New Zealand relaxed importing restrictions changed things

eg, there is 2 JD 3130's the aussie version, and the rest of the world version........differences are in the rear axles

but all the MF stuff came the same as what you got in the UK

135/148/165/168/175/178/185/188/1080/1100/etc.....but all in ROPS spec, NZ cabs were fitted if required

the 168/178/188 am told all came with the big hyd pump, and aux cooling circuit and filter,

like the fords, of the time, apparently we didn't need factory cabs

none in NZ that i know of marky

for some reason we never got many MF of that age, at that size, we got the english influence, the 2640, 2680, and 2720, 1100, 1135, 1150, 1155 1200, 1805, 1505

but the aussies got the american influenced ones eg this is a 3645

the rops/canopy FIATs were nice to drive, good sized platforms and good access, spent many hours on smaller ones when i was a kid, typical Cabless tractor they were loud, but nice for climbing on and off all day

more.......these will test ricky

some more conversion ideas

one i found on a dealers lot when touring aussie a couple years back

the 165 with NH286 baler, these make a good pair, especially with MP, you can stoke it along, am told the 8spd is not so good at this

this is what it looked like before the restore

spreading hay!

this is a 1972 MF165, with the 212 and multipower

brought for $3000, restored to this state for about $7000NZD from memory

sold it 6 years after restore, for about $8000, brought a 8spd (bit safer on hills with employees) haven't got any pics of that yet, its a wetbrake apparently

anyway, this is a good little tractor, earning its keep like it did, with a 70 inch howard rotovator

we restored these sorts of tractors to put back into fulltime employment, this 165 spent many summers on a NH286, great baling tractor, man enought to do the job, gutless enough not to break the baler

never noticed a battery box lid on all the 165's i have driven, is this std or a french thing?

looks like that one has the 19 inch front rims,

and the guy driving it is smiling.........haha, must be driving to the shed where he parks his IH574........hahahaha

kidding marky, great tractors, nice brochure, wonder how many 165's still have those indicators on stalks on the front after all these years

datman, you could have got one made up out  of spare bits ha ha!........D may stand for 'staff social fund'........ha ha!......either way its a nice machine, ...........surely D is not for development

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you guys need to learn a little italian 

damn it now you know all my secrets

and the best fergie of em all

whats wrong with the ole 7635? you done the shuttle schncro yet?..........how many hours did ya do?

my dad had a L75 for a few years, he didn't like (he should have brought a payloader), but i did

his one was one of the first, before they went to the heavier front axles in the low hp 35 series tractors, his spent its whole life on a loader, punished, had a couple clutches, front axle, and 2 sets of shuttle syncros......

it pulled well, was great on the hills, good platform (we had rops) for stock work, strong honest PTO hp, did 5000 od hours on it before trading on a MTX125........

is the new TLA got the hyd shuttle 24x24? and declutch button on the main stick?

i really like that platform of tractor, they seem to work ok,,,......wouldn't mind a JX1100U myself

well........two weeks ago i went to the dump to work on a kumatsu WF450 rubbish compact, fix some air lines to get the brakes to built pressure and release, did that, advised them strongly to bolt the skid plate up on the under carrage that was hanging down, cause it was pushing dirt into the chassis of the machine, around the air tank and suction lines to the transmission from the oil tank

guess what

they didn't fix the plate like they were told (i just make hydraulic hoses for a living), the driver (little simple) pulled the skidplate off (about 12mm thick, 1mx1m in size), buried it on the tip face, and then drove over a old bed with springs in it, pushed it up into the driveshaft to the rear axle out of the transmission and wrapped it round ripping the suction hose off and breaking the bleed valve off the bottom of the air tank, the machine stoped due to lack of air pressure to hold the brakes off

spend 4 hours today cutting wire out with the mechanic, still haven't got to the suction hose, plugged the bottom of the tank and got the brakes to release

not my fault, just a ass of a job.....and they new better.........we have to cut the wire out by hand, because we are not allow to start a fire on the landfill for obvious reasons......

o well......gotta keep fixing it, ./.....when its going its a fun machine, run over fridges etc with ease, they also own a TANA as the main machine, but that is out of action due to another serious issue

o well ........thats what i did today

the droop nose is not standard, defiinitly a conversion, isn't that how the idea come about for MF to offer it in the 3000 series?........people were converting them