Lord Ferguson Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 The MF R4500.... ta daaaaaa... Strange looking beasty... for the New Zealand market.... from the date code it's a 1964/65 model... er..... I think... It's got the MF135 engine in it... so I guess it's a high version of the MF35x of sorts... \ Any of you boys down the other end of the world care to shed any light on it for us please... Anyway... enjoy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Landini Marky http://www.konedata.net/Traktorit/Landini3000.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi6920 Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 At a guess marky id say it was used in eraly days of kiwifruit, or squash, Pudd ol fruit will know for sure, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Oh she has long legs on her doesn't she ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi6920 Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Oh she has long legs on her doesn't she ;) Ahh so thats what a MOA ( dead native bird in nz) looks like i think they are just as commen as each other Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pudding Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allis8550 Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Nice one Marky, where do you keep turning these old brochures up from? Certainly looks like a Landini round the bonnet, but you were right , I've never seen one like it before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ferguson Posted April 3, 2008 Author Share Posted April 3, 2008 Thanks lads... I have to say I had never heard of it before.... Puddy... I bought it from a fella in NZ... but thats not to say it's an NZ publication I guess... It was being sold amoungst a load of NZ stuff I believe (100 series red-giants release stuff) Allis... - glad it's of interest... this is what I love about the Massey Brochure collecting hobby... every now an again you turn up some gold you'd never even heard of I guess... thinking about it... it's very similar to the Landini crawlers of the time as well \ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 I would of thought that yoak was for inter row hoeing work in market gardens growing cabbages and the like. I know there is an IH one on a market garden in the north island that looks to be of that age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pudding Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi6920 Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 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! Pud, Lightland is Fendpower Hes not likely to be up hawkesbay area I have seen a JD900hc, Brownrig ag have a couple in one of there sheds, from there start days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Yer was pudding,up Auckland way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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