MF135

[Hawkes]

Still working hard. And goes all day on 5 gallons!!

 

[Mursal]

They were nearly to good .................

 

[Dry Rot]

Fantastic wee tractors. Their only draw back is when you need to use a heavy implement -- then they go up on their hind legs!

I've a picture of one somewhere that I saw turning hay in Caithness. All the tin work had rusted away or dropped off but it was still doing a day's work!

 

[RobFZS]

takes abuse and comes back for more, everyday of the year

 

[smcapstick]

They are fantastic machines. Got a lot more work in them than many give them credit for. Still make them in one shape or another all over the world - says it all, really

 

[Dave6170]

Fantastic wee tractors. Their only draw back is when you need to use a heavy implement -- then they go up on their hind legs!

I've a picture of one somewhere that I saw turning hay in Caithness. All the tin work had rusted away or dropped off but it was still doing a day's work!

That sounds about right. Salty air goes for them. I bet it there's still a lot of them doing a honest days work.

 

[multi power]

out of intrest was any other tractor ever built in anywhere near the numbers as 135s were, apart from the grey fergie

 

[7610 super q]

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takes abuse and comes back for more, everyday of the year

Half tractor,half string.

 

[Mursal]

The scraper probably cost more than the tractor when it was new?
Nothing wrong with string, but we prefer to call it baler twine, more professional ...............

 

[DrWazzock]

We still use one identical to the OP model on a daily basis. Our cab is a bit rustier as it used to be on the fertiliser spreader. But mechanically its still good. Been driving it for 36 years from new, on and off. Still used for mowing on Claas Wm165 mower. Also drives the haybob, IH small baler, circular saw bench, lambing transport box, beet drill, beet hoe, 3 ton trailers etc. A very good tractor for its size. Its had a couple of starter motors, but original dynamo still good. Fuel pump resealed, water pump and radiator but nothing else.

 

[jakeboy]

I can remember having a new 135 delivered to the farm where I worked in 1969 wow a bloody foot throttle!! Tool boxes in the wings and all the dials on dash!! No cab mind you!! But that didn't matter I thought I had gone to heaven for sure,I polished that bloody thing regularly!!It was such a nice tractor and still is in my opinion,as they say proof is in the pudding..

 

[Hawkes]

"Fantastic wee tractors. Their only draw back is when you need to use a heavy implement -- then they go up on their hind legs!"

Ours certainly does with a set of discs on
I still enjoy a spell on it for a change from all the modern stuff, I have had it 20 years I would think, one starter motor, one water pump and last month the alternator. I was thinking of complaining to MF. Nothing to beat it for small jobs, why run around with 150hp on a link box?

 

[Kevtherev]

Marvellous little things.
Excellent on steep land with twins on

 

[Kevtherev]

There is a ship full of them off a Greek Island

 

[smcapstick]

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There is a ship full of them off a Greek Island

The poor little buggers

 

[Kevtherev]

The poor little buggers

Recovery operation mr capstick?

 

[spanners]

out of intrest was any other tractor ever built in anywhere near the numbers as 135s were, apart from the grey fergie

Belarus

 

[multi power]

Recovery operation mr capstick?

Sounds a good plan. Shall I bring a couple of good chains?

 

[smcapstick]

Recovery operation mr capstick?

Sounds a good plan. Shall I bring a couple of good chains?

I'm in. I'll bring the Little 4610 That Could to haul them out

 

[spanners]

I find them noisy,uncomfotable, horrible,ugly too. I would tip them all in the sea