Recent content by Captain Sensible

You're going to like this, but perhaps not too much. According to Darren Tebbitt .. who wrote that MF Paint Colour article in Classic Tractor May 2015 and who knows ;) , you need the following:- MF 65 Mk 1 - MF 'Dark' Red MF 65 Mk 2 - MF 'Super' Red MF 135 - MF Super Red Having said all...

That's exactly what my DB Selectamatic tractors do ......... Surprised me as well when I first noticed it.

Fitted on to the lower links. Need to convert the trailer drawbar to mate with it. Because the (trailer's) vertical drawbar load is a applied closer to (almost underneath) the rear axle axle centreline, it reduces or even eliminates the removal of weight from the tractor's front axle. So no...

Hi, The thing you need to bear in mind that over the last 46 years there's a possibility that a certain amount of 'cross-fertilisation' may have taken place (and you know where that leads!). Bits may have been fitted from other tractors. Even if not:- (1) It is almost certain that your...

Forgot to say, it would have set your Dad back around £120 0s 0d back in around 1962. Reckon it might be worth perhaps £300 - 500 now, but if the muck fork & bucket are in good nick, you could be looking a £150 - 200 each for them. Not the most ergonomic loader on God's earth, but robust & a...

Here you go. All MF loaders of that time were finished in grey paint ... Even the later MF 35 'box-section' loader was initially painted grey following it's Autumn 1964 launch. They subsequently moved to 'red' a few years later. Interestingly, MF 735 loaders were still listed for in the...

Don't want to disappoint you, but I'm afraid that definitely IS a Massey Ferguson loader ....... a 735 loader in fact. Built specifically to fit the MF 35 & 65 tractors, but could also be fitted to the TE-20. I've got a brochure for it here in front of me dating from 1962.

See my earlier post

Remember seeing the same thing done with a long length of lorry (leaf) spring mounted ~30-40 degrees up from the horizontal, directly forward from the front bottom edge of the header (where the divider normally fits. Logic says it shouldn't work (pushing the crop down rather than trying to...

The combine in your picture was sold as the Claas Protector in the UK market ... from ~1970 - ~76 when it was renamed as the Senator 60 & stayed on the market alongside the Dominators for some while (may have the dates slightly wrong). Perkins 4.236 engine of ~70 hp ...... 8'6'' or more usually...

Quite so .... As has been said, trailer was made by Harford Engineering of Norwich. Really prolific manufacturer of (mostly 3-ton) tipping trailers in the 1960s & early-1970s, but failed to move with the times. Also made excavator buckets & had a plant hire business. Quite a big concern at...

In my experience the 'Rubik's-Cube' gearshift arrangement was re-worked to 'H-pattern' on 7610 models, but not on 6610s ....... At least that's what happened here in Norfolk .... A number of 6610 Rubik's still out there & occasionally come up for sale.

Engine-mounted axial-piston pump. If they once draw air in, the hydraulics won't work properly until the air is bled from the pump casing. Large Allen screw on the pump body. Slacken-it while the engine is running at tick-over. Once the air is out you should be OK. Expect to get sprayed...

Fair question and one which perhaps the UK ag. industry (which I'm very much a part of) would perhaps prefer not to answer? But if it was a road-going vehicle of the same weight in any other industry, I think we both know where a young, inexperienced driver would be expected to start ... with...

Three things to try:- 1) Blocked 'pencil' filter in the fuel tank outlet (on top of the fuel tap) 2) Blocked breather in the fuel tank cap. Known MF 100 series fuel tanks to 'implode' quite spectacularly on occasions 3) Blocked filter / strainer inside the inlet union of the CAV injection...