Old Beet haulier equipment, MF loading shovel etc

[Flat 10]

When I was a kid our local beet contractor had a MF loading shovel a bit like this?

Anyone else have one or know anything about them? I'm sure his was 2wd. Was in use from mid 80's to early 90's. Do you remember them @MF-ANDY ? He also had a wrap around sugar beet cleaner loader (standen maybe) can't find any pics which was permanently mounted on a Leyland 282. Anyone know anything about these?
During my search I found a standen Tornado on ebay BTW. Was sorely tempted.

 

[MF-ANDY]

Yes buy it. It will keep us busy[emoji23]

 

[Flat 10]

Yes buy it. It will keep us busy

Case 1394 skid unit. 2 rows, what’s not to like?
What about the MF loader? Do you know anything?

 

[MF-ANDY]

Case 1394 skid unit. 2 rows, what’s not to like?
What about the MF loader? Do you know anything?

No.guess it's built around a rear facing tractor skid unit.

 

[MF-ANDY]

Case 1394 skid unit. 2 rows, what’s not to like?
What about the MF loader? Do you know anything?

Yes had a look. Turbo toppers followed by sure bars.

 

[Flat 10]

Didn't the man locally who had 5 solobeets run a couple of those briefly before the 6 row arrived?

 

[essexpete]

I think MF had a link with Hanomag in the 70s. Certainly a 4wd small rear stear MF that I drove moving corn in the early 80s had a Hanomag connection. Short wheel base machine with a 4cyl Perkins. Forward reach /loadover a bit short. Fast little machine.

 

[Flat 10]

I think MF had a link with Hanomag in the 70s. Certainly a 4wd small rear stear MF that I drove moving corn in the early 80s had a Hanomag connection. Short wheel base machine with a 4cyl Perkins. Forward reach /loadover a bit short. Fast little machine.

I've seen several older MF telescopics, I thought they were Manipoos. @ACEngineering know anything about this and the loading shovel?

 

[ACEngineering]

I've seen several older MF telescopics, I thought they were Manipoos. @ACEngineering know anything about this and the loading shovel?

Mf never had dealings with manitou that I know of. Matbro badged a few telehandlers for mf back in the 80s and very early 90s. So might go back further to Bray shovels?

 

[SMID]

Sambron was the Massey partner at one time with handlers ,they had a tendency to self ignight which normally was terminal.

 

[MF-ANDY]

Yes had a look. Turbo toppers followed by sure bars.

Skew

 

[MF-ANDY]

Didn't the man locally who had 5 solobeets run a couple of those briefly before the 6 row arrived?

I believe he did

 

[MF-ANDY]

Think the mf 24 telehandler was built by matbro around a reversed mf skid unit. One of the first nachines with pin and cone headstock? There was one sold locally

 

[powerfarmer]

When I was a kid our local beet contractor had a MF loading shovel a bit like this?

Anyone else have one or know anything about them? I'm sure his was 2wd. Was in use from mid 80's to early 90's. Do you remember them @MF-ANDY ? He also had a wrap around sugar beet cleaner loader (standen maybe) can't find any pics which was permanently mounted on a Leyland 282. Anyone know anything about these?
During my search I found a standen Tornado on ebay BTW. Was sorely tempted.

That's an MF 11 shovel...

 

[Flat 10]

That's an MF 11 shovel...

Tell me more...,,

 

[Flat 10]

Some for sale on the continent and in America. Seems to have a Perkins A4-248 and I think possibly hydrostatic with forward and reverse direction pedals. Possibly based on a MF50 tractor? Thanks for solving what it was @powerfarmer .
No-one ever seen a wrap around cleaner loader?

 

[powerfarmer]

I saw one of those MF loaders in a history of MF industrial and construction machines book, and shortly after I came across one at York auctions.

I think it had the same 2 pedal reversomatic transmission as a 50B.
Massey Ferguson sold a lot of different loading shovels , some in-house designs but also MF badged machines from Matbro, Hanomag, Eicher,Venieri ,Sambron ..

 

[essexpete]

Looks like Powerfarm has the info. MF 11 based on the industrial tractor skid with reversomatic transmission. The machine I drove was the MF 33 and I think that was an outsourced machine to MF.

 

[womble8350]

The loading shovel as ready mentioned is an mf11. A local estate had 3 for loading corn. When they upgraded to telehandlers both a nieghbour and myself bought one each. Could load 30t in 25 min easy enough. Just basically a 50b backwards

 

[DrWazzock]

Dad and sometimes mother used to load the beet with an MF35 loader tractor into a hopper cleaner loader attachment that fitted on the lister bale elevator. I'll always remember the smell of the combination of petrol fumes, diesel fumes, soil and beet,