pudding Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 quick question, were was the MF 451 built my friend in america is looking at buying one, and wants too know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allis8550 Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Can't find much about this one in my limited resources, but it would appear the MF 451 is built in Brazil and is powered by a 53hp Perkins 903.27 engine. Marky's probably got all the brochures on this one ,so you'll have to wait for him to reply with all the details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ferguson Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Well... I do have the brochure on the 451... But I'm not too hot on where things are built.. I reckon she looks like a Brazillian built tractor as stated by Allis above... Although... that range also looks a bit 'Uzel' to me... Turkey perhaps ??? Have a look at the brochure below... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MJB1 Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 shame massey have'nt got a grip on a global model numbering system, would be a lot easier to trace the tractors origins maybe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james f Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 shame massey have'nt got a grip on a global model numbering system, would be a lot easier to trace the tractors origins maybe Maybe that's exactly what they want to avoid! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pudding Posted March 11, 2008 Author Share Posted March 11, 2008 cheers marky, you are a legend, now go bale some rubbish friend already has a MF1020 HST on his 30 acres, needs a tractor that can pull, ha ha!..........more toys more toys i have a tractor on my 1/4 acre section by my reckoning he should have 120 tractors on his 30 acres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ferguson Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 cheers marky, you are a legend, now go bale some rubbish friend already has a MF1020 HST on his 30 acres, needs a tractor that can pull, ha ha!..........more toys more toys i have a tractor on my 1/4 acre section by my reckoning he should have 120 tractors on his 30 acres My pleasure Mr Puddy Well I have a few square meteres of 'land'... and I'll have two tractors soon... around 150hp in total... soon :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pudding Posted March 11, 2008 Author Share Posted March 11, 2008 yup.........my one 50hp tractor on my 1/4acre gives me 200hp per acre love maths thats a lot of horse.......going to need more grass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB1 Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 yup.........my one 50hp tractor on my 1/4acre gives me 200hp per acre love maths thats a lot of horse.......going to need more grass :D just how cool does that sound Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellarian Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 And I quoteth.... As a bricks and mortar example of the portability of engine manufacturing, Perkins Engines has dedicated a new production facility in Curitiba, Brazil. The official opening of Curitiba marks the first Perkins-owned engine production facility outside of the U.K., but definitely not the last. In fact, 2003 has seen a marked change in production strategy for the Peterborough, U.K.-headquartered engine manufacturer. The Curitiba plant was purchased in February to build its 1100 series diesels. This was followed in September by the announcement of a production facility for its 400 series diesels in Griffin, Ga. "Curitiba is a model for what we can do in other parts of the world," said Mike Baunton, president of Perkins Engines. "As the markets go global and our customers go global, we have to follow them. We are actively looking at other markets for operations similar to Curitiba and Griffin." With the two new operations, Perkins now is able to dual source both its 400 and 1100 series diesels, the heart of its line, from multiple locations. The 400 series diesels are built in Peterborough, next year in Griffin and in Japan by Shibaura Machinery Co. The 1100 series diesels are now being built in Peterborough and Curitiba. The plant was officially dedicated on October 10th by Baunton and Roberto Requiao, governor of Parana, the state in which Curitiba is located, in a ceremony attended by more than 100 customers and suppliers The 33,000 sq.ft. Perkins Motores do Brasil Ltda. facility is producing 4 and 6 L 1100 series diesels with an initial volume of 5000 engines, ramping up to an expected 20,000 units. Employment is currently 55 people. The plant will be an integrated part of Perkins' manufacturing strategy in addition to supplying Brazil. Primary applications for the engines are construction and agricultural equipment, as well as gen-sets. Like the Griffin facility, Curitiba is built around a simple, flexible manufacturing process that fin& 'all components arriving at the facility fully machined for assembly, test and painting, said Jose Neto, general manager of the facility. The Brazilian operation currently includes a single U-shaped assembly line, feeding four production test cells and one durability test cell. The plant also includes a full painting operation. A training facility is located adjacent to the main plant. There is room for expansion both with the currant facility as well as on the site in which the plant is located. Local content of the Curitiba-built diesels is currently about 20 percent, a number that should be at 60 percent within two years, Nero said. Some industry observers will remember the Curitiba plant, which Perkins bought from DaimlerChrysler in February 2003, as a Detroit Diesel facility that built the VM diesels used in Brazilian-built Dodge Dakota pickup trucks. "We have always been interested in coming to Brazil in one way or another," Baunton said. "The opportunity came along to purchase this facility, which was doing similar work for DaimlerChrysler, and allowed us to hit the ground running and begin production almost immediately." The first Curitiba-built engine came off the line in July, a Perkins 1004.42 diesel that was destined to power a Caterpillar model 416D backhoe loader built in Piracicaba, Brazil. The Cat plant in Piracicaba is expected to be a major consumer of the Curitiba-built diesels. The facility manufactures track-type tractors, motor graders, wheel-type loaders and scrapers and bas recently expanded into smaller horsepower equipment such as backhoe loaders. Another of the key customers, according to Howard Beeken, director of sales & marketing for Perkins' Sao Paulo regiorM office, in Brazil is AGCO, which has production facilities in Canoas for Massey Ferguson branded tractors as well as a combine harvester plant in Santa Rosa. AGCO's purchase of the Maxion agricultural equipment business in 1996 and its decision to close its Banner Lane facility in 2002, relocating production to Brazil and France provided the "critical mass" Baunton said to open production in Brazil. Further, JCB has a backhoe loader plant in Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Beeken said, them are a number of engine generator set manufacturers such as EG. Wilson, Stemac, SDMO and Leon Heimer with operations in Brazil using the Perkins diesels and new entrants such as Atlas Copco starting production. According to Richard Case, managing director industrial power systems, one of the keys to the Curitiba facility, is flexibility. "There simply is a greater velocity of" new product introductions in both engines and equipment. We now have the capacity and ability to build whatever is required to meet the demands of the specific markets we serve. "Not everyone wants the latest generation engine," Case said. "Not every market and every region has the same emissions standards to meet, so we can build the engine suitable for the market and the application." The Curitiba area is becoming an engine manufacturing hub for the Mercosur markets. Besides the Perkins plant, Tecunseh opened a new plant in October to produce air-cooled gasoline engines and transmissions for the lawn and garden market. On the automotive side, Renault and the TriTech build automotive engines in Curitiba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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