pudding

there is a german dealer making 'david browns' out of chinese fiats, they are using 12x4 trannys and 20x8 bit like the belarus tractors you see rebuilt with perkins motors in them

ha ha!.......nice collection.........does he have wife and kids......ha ha! if so wow, this guy should right a book, having cake and eating it too

wow, you know what that needs!? a MF148 in front,.............now ya farming!

ya chinese sourced components, built up in aussie, they been doing it for a couple years was just the 80hp model, looks like they got bigger ones now

and you thought i was meaning detriot! i think this tractor is a holder A10 or A12........sach power! http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=NG31k47SqFo&feature=related other is a later model one http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=FLqK1vry_kk&feature=related

hey marky where did MF get the crawlers?.....landini did have industrial crawlers i think, but didn't think MF used them.........are they hanomag also?....few MF400 came to NZ, don't think they liked being here thou!

lightland, you not thinking of a farmall 140 or something, there was one sitting down here in timaru for a while, offically the bigger ones in that series never came to NZ........the 140 followed the farmall super A from about 1959 on wards, at that time, nz was getting its bigger tractors in that range from IH austrailias manufacturing facility...... offically i think there were a few 140's imported, they had the offset seat, and there was also the kumatsu built?! IH274 which has the square IH bonnet like a 483.....the 274 was a offset 284 from memory, someone told me they had mazda engines if you are floating round the gisborne/wairoa/hawkesbay areas keep ya eyes pealed for JD 900HC's, there are a few up there there are a few high clear MF65's still alive too. my father had one when i was a little fellow, she could move on the road!

i guess its the next logical progression wonder how it folds the claas liner 3000 all jokes aside about some of there quirks, they really reduced the chopping time for or local contractors, made them slow down in the field, helps keep the harvesters opperate at there optimum capacity. they are not cheap, but they don't take long to pay for themselves there are a few more refinements on the new claas 850's etc that have made a big difference round here, one contractor here operates in a very dry climate, has a stone guard?....and varie length crop cutter? and speedster have helped his operation, and i think the first two are reducing wear on high wear parts......i think he also has a liner3000 with machines getting bigger in size to find capacity, this rake will fit in well, its also interesting to see manufactures building small self propelled harvesters better, they are also gaining in capacity

is that a hanomag dozer?

hey nick, the UH rep from CHCH called in to work with one a month ago, i was busy apparently its sharp not worried thou, we sold about 6 of those real ones in the last couple years, and i had a lot to do with a pottinger 4 rotor probably find the toy is a false representation, its more reliable ...............hahaha, naa they ain't too bad

nice pics, any pictures of the old timer tractors (MF and Carraro?) also, love the picture of the sea!

nick, you is in a JXU i promise it was the shuttle/dash/familiar fiat bonnet and exhaust that gave it away..........not the pic of it on the silage stack!!

what ye be smoorking marky thats a red landini for kiwifruit??!! ha ha!.........you want low tractors for that.....we had the a odd lowered tractor floating round our kiwifruit block when i was a kid.........ususally just normal tractors on wee wheels and steped axles as for the NZ market.........you serious, never seen one here if i did, i would own it by now looks like MF went to great efforts to convert the catalogue to inches, and mph.........and english language, and the fact they emphasis PTO hp............i say south africa or america or something am told those landinis were great ole buses, looks good on paper

need to tell my friends to lock up there daughters, and tell me misses to stay inside also ha ha!.......you coming down here to do what......?? holiday?......see how the other side live ha ha! ya can't get into the port, but with me ya can get to the forklift maintenance yard......port is considered internationally waters (although its not like going through customs, just the guards in the watch house don't like everyone wandering in and out) ha ha!......my misses didn't believe me that my truck leaves the country on a regular basis........ ya know what a agtruck is nick?.... the hundy tonner is like riding a boat, you float side to side, turn the wheel miles before you want to turn ha ha! the hundy tonner actually rides like a quadtrac pulling a chiselplow in the field, smoooth as, they work that hard that crack testing of rear axles and container pins are done on a regular basis........big pieces of steel break too!

and lucky last, ole faithfull C23, she is a OMEGA 54D, with M11 cummins, and 6spd powershift, she is a container handler, will lift 50tonnes, weights just under hundy tonnes, the port has a few, i actually never counted, this is one of the older ones, i get to make hoses for them when they break, ......can be interesting, they hold nearly 800litres hyd oil great machines, they work hard, the M11 is reliable in these machines (down tuned), love working on them, if anyone dissagrees, go repair a hose on a BOBCAT skidsteer, ha ha!

to be honest, std ford tractors bore the cr@p out of me, but conversions over the years facinate the pants off me.........one day i will have one.........ya never know it may be this shunter tractor above! next..........is the IH434 in forklifts clothing, called a loadmaster shes a absalute hunny........would look good in my shed with the SAMECAR, and a ford 4000 shunter ha ha! what ya reckon

sorry guys there are other huge cool things there, boats, containers, forklifts.......new loaders, cars, liberr cranes, BUT pudding always misses the big cool stuff and only takes pics of the 'other stuff' heres a ford conversion

cool......OC-3's are the nice pocket sized machine, collectors dream did those Maliam tractors in the classic tractor 12months ago have loaders on them?.....i can't remember, and dunno what i did with that issue~!

a fiat machine, thats all i know

this would be a bit of you http://www.trademe.co.nz/Business-farming-industry/Farming/Tractors/auction-147691857.htm friend has a HD5, and T20, our store man apparently has 4 Td-6s if ya fishing round, there was a special TD9 crane built for the US marine engineers for use in the pacific therater, in WWII....for building airstrips etc, apparently there is a 6 made it to NZ out of the pacific islands after the war, there is one about 25km from me, its yellow, the crane turrent sits over the bonnet, a foot infront of the controls, and they sit on street tracks, its spoken for , not for sale, apparently its very low hours, and has the serial numbers to vertifie its history i also know of a ex army T-20 or is it T6 in north canterbury and oliver OC-3's round your parts?

the blades and loaders on these ole ducks interest me nick , cause ya find way back when, these things were imported new to NZ and aussie they were brought in 'bare' as ag tractors to get round import duties and 'equiped' in NZ as aussie with domestic supplied equipment, hench tracweld was formed, etc..... i wonder if this is why we also got BTD-6's were similar to the very first TD-6 built, but later the US versions got heavier axles etc, and a diff engine i think (starting a BTD-6 was like trying to get a englishman out of a pub) i have a friend in paeroa who has a TD9 to sell its a 48 models, 4pot, with a Bycrus aries blade, common to domestic market america at the time.... we also had a 977L........when i worked in america, it was converted from pony start........these machines have been stuck thousands of times, ha ha!.......street tracks really do suck........ha ha!.......but were fantastic for pushing trees, burning rubbish etc i will have a look for the 5000 on trademe, the loader on the italian crawler thing looks like a very italian concept, but there are a few SAME krypton emerging in nz with sigma blades and i think a Loader, good luck to find where they were sold too

haha, they ain't unimogs, they are small domestic market italian farm trucks, the name escapes meee........i guess they are the logical progression from the SAMECAR the sandpit will never be the same again!!!! nick, TD8? T8?..........not TD6? and T6?? ya seen any name plates on the loader frames? DROTT or BUYCRUS ARIES? ya need to stitch on two more arms and a 3rd leg nick, if you want to own a dozer convered to traxcavator!........they a bit different to the legendary CAT977!........i used to drive a K model, street tracks sucked...........but man..........what a animal....

the orange one is a fiat 455ci? the green is a agrifull........fiat clone the loaders, dunno what the fiat one is, the agrifull one i think is a SIGMA 4 loader i imagine it would be a work out pulling clutches, hitting brakes, changing gears and pulling levers ha ha!.....but hey, beats the hell out of a shovel

yup! they pushed 5020 production to germany the 5010 was a agritalia/carraro ( ithink) tractor........yet they say made in USA on the id tags..........even the 5000 series was a italian child that factory still builts the 5000 series speciality tractors