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marky, you have there what is commonly known as a over head....... just another expence the business will have to absorb.........haha..........much like me, in my business you got one of those nice genuinemf seat covers??

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Business-farming-industry/Farming/Tractors/auction-155307166.htm what about this one nick its just clocked over her first 10000 hours

ha ha!........and its not expensive really BUY IT NICK ha ha!........i think its a 215DT fiat rare beast 2 cylinders of italian diesel burning in all her glory http://www.trademe.co.nz/Business-farming-industry/Farming/Tractors/auction-153830811.htm

hey marky you serious about other work for it?? does it snow there.........get a snow plough? one of the companies here who has a road side mower on a tractor, uses it in the winter to clear large snow dumps off the mountain passes behind where i live, or road sweeper maybe?, guess if you got a spare labour unit in the business.........and once you get over the fact is yours and no one else is allowed to drive it, that spare labour unit.......machine operator/forklift driver.......could keep it busy in utility jobs for the coucil and customers, as well as the important bale compacting ........let you get back to selling fruit to schools ha ha!

there is a 305 on the lot here at the mo the 305/335 is the same thing ain't it..........injector pump wise,

yup ) on the tank, that round thing on the side, is the model plate, you can kinda make out the white 6 it also has top idlers in the track frame, cat D2's didn't have any, they had a C-283 engine in them didn't they.........they really weren't a fan of cold starts, hot starts, any starts ha ha!.......

i hope replying to this brings it up in the forum:O) i think you need to make a tracked one now! like this one http://fiatagri1703.skyrock.com/2.html

the drum is a rim by the looks, off a vehicle, doubt that machine had cable op blade, or infact anything mounted on it, the drum might have run something belt drive or something crazy, easiest way to tell that it hasn't had much 'heavy/industrial type' work is the front idler is spocket, they don't handle weight, they crack ..........but ok under ag work situations.....thats why i think the undercarriage might be good for a restore ).......done more pulling then pushing wonder why it stopped here, those BTD6 were built using the same design as the american TD6. but the americans found out they were too light in the diffs, in hard work, so they built the later american versions heavier (in the 61 and 62 series), wonder if this suffered diff failure.........still worth something to salvage ) most trans gears etc are getting hard to find now

if i was looking for a restoration, i would offer to buy it and take it away, just for the complete track gear, offer the scrap metal price for the whole thing take it home, i reckon its a ih Btd-6 something, find another, in tired complete shape, and swap the tracks and accross, even just the grouser plates 1953 Heralded the introduction of the first British-built International crawler tractor, the 40 h.p. BTD-6, completed in August. Designed for both agricultural and industrial applications, this unit was to form the basis of the Company's big construction equipment division. Better still sell it to this guy http://www.freewebs.com/internationaldrottclub/index.htm

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congradulations on finding a 481R to take a photo of, they are a rare machines the 211r is a little hunny too, i would love one of those myself great pics

would love to see them marky i think this guy loves this tractor, spent 5 grand US buying it, 20000 fixing it and 500man hours you put that in context with used IH and JD prices in the US, and i don't think he did bad parts are still ok to find just the radial pump on the crankshaft and that that are getting a little expensive

a real conversion i got emailed to me the other day nice bit of kit huh

that fendt is suppose to be 3.7m wide, we sold a 926TMS.........last year?......no....the august before, with the same wheel set up to a local contractor, traded a std 926, with fats on it, it did 307hp at the pto on the dyno, she sounds real nice under load, fendt have really done nice things with these tractors, fixed a lot of there small problems, fendts are complicated under the panels, things like this machine has the hyd banks at the rear of the tractor, the older ones were under the right steps, and plumbed back, .....more bits to go wrong, the front end of that 933 is the linkage front end, with out the linkage, you attach wieghts to the linkage hooks.........i think front suspension is std?! this tractor is going to be a tillage tractor, just a pulling machine...

yup, i think it failed mechanically, its been there a while there was a claas mercator sat near there in a bypass for a couple months last year, made it to the local paper, no one new whos it was, i think the cops wanted to impound it.......ha ha!...... i'd say shes not suppose to be there, the farmer behind where that pic is, is a JD man they are a different beast of a tractor, we had a 2870 with scania engine as a shunter at our fert works where i worked in america, the engine failed, we haulled it out, and tried hard not to put a scania back in, but nothing else was easy (front diff hieght in relation to trans), so a reman scania went back in bit of a weapon, the cabs for the steering selection gave us the biggest grief

thats not a 'normal' belarus according to chris lockwood speaking of him, where is he! thats made in a different factory, it has a large steering linkage rod up the right side of the engine for steering and the cab seems to be more cluttered with buttons and nobs too.......infact it looks a mess i should get my ole man to take a photo of our neighbours fleet..........especially his 611 2wd, rops with forklift

can't believe that thing is still there nick was there 3 weeks ago i don't know whos it is either

nice marky, you got any pics of the austrialian built cultivators??

i know letters in the serial numbers gave the years of manufactuer, wasn't aware of the letters on the badge meaning much.........A afganistan?...........S spain......i know MF have or had factories there i would like to think A is austria that looks landinish alright, and the cab looks like a 600 cab, probably a sekura one?? or something domestic market italian, that works with landini great to see a little italian in every big tractor manufacturer ha ha!

there is not many with loaders on here most fendts are sold into contractor/mower etc or arable situations but we did sell the first 936 in the south island to a dairy farmer to pull a tipping trailer and loader wagon....ha ha!

wow haven't seen top soil that deep for a while

customer of ours has two, a 716 and a 712, great loader tractors the loaders are well built too

ya looks like a valtra based MF........ never seen one in real life before.......ha ha!....they just as 'desireable' as the valtra versions.ha ha!

spent my time on 2388's, 1085deere in holidays, MF 36RS, MF38 a little choppers? does a MF285 and tarrup101 count? or MF165 and tarrup 502 fine chop? ha ha!

ha ha!........no great loss then.......hahahaha