total newb! help me id our tractor

[BristolFashion]

Hi all. I've recently begun to help at a local market garden here in Bristol. I'm pitching in with very simple tasks like hand tool maintenance etc. Last week, the growers asked me if I could help with their tractor and I thought that might be possible so long as I read the manual, metaphorically and literally, first.
Step one: what make and model?!

 

[Manney]

Massey Ferguson 135 would be my guess.

 

[glasshouse]

Massey ferguson 135

 

[le bon paysan]

Probably a Massey Ferguson 135, but could be a 130

 

[BristolFashion]

Cheers folks! I'm off to find that manual...

 

[glasshouse]

Cheers folks! I'm off to find that manual...

Dont bother with a manual, shove it in gear and go.
What could go wrong?

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Dont bother with a manual, shove it in gear and go.
What could go wrong?

make sure the brakes are locked together first, or a lot could go wrong.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Dont bother with a manual, shove it in gear and go.
What could go wrong?

That's not really the sort of best comment to make to a person with precisely zero machinery experience given the accident statistics in agriculture...

 

[BristolFashion]

Thanks for your concern, Ollie
I realise straight away that this is all a closed book to me, however I can reassure you folks that I'll be approaching with due caution. My actions will be strictly limited to helping with simple tasks when asked and under supervision. Let's hope my full-time colleagues have been on all the right courses!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Ideally someone who actually knows how to operate it should give you an induction before you use it. Simple things like switch off the PTO (and let the rotors stop) before doing anything with the blades on the topper. If lifting the topper up axle stand before you get underneath it. PTO guard procedures etc.

 

[betweenthelines]

Ideally someone who actually knows how to operate it should give you an induction before you use it. Simple things like switch off the PTO (and let the rotors stop) before doing anything with the blades on the topper. If lifting the topper up axle stand before you get underneath it. PTO guard procedures etc.

That's actually a basic H&S requirement-no one should operate a piece of equipment until they have been trained how to.

Probably the most ignored as well.

 

[AlCapone]

That tractor should not be used
It has a home made safety frame

 

[Blue.]

135 front half but looks like an industrial back end,the stud pattern are 165’s.

 

[agrimax]

That's not a 135. It's a 152.

 

[bravheart]

That tractor should not be used
It has a home made safety frame

^^^^^^^^^^^ this.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Looks to me like a MKIII MF 152 but I'm far from an expert. Where's @multi power

 

[agrimax]

It is. The steering wheel, gear lever and back end are as on MF 152...

 

[ollandroverman]

Certainly looks like an MF 152 back end, but all the ones I can find pics of have square front axle, yet this one has a lighter duty swept back front axle.

 

[agrimax]

Hold on..... Never noticed the radius arms that are only linked to the swept axle...
That would make it a 145. A rarety too.

 

[BristolFashion]

Thanks ever so, everybody... never knew there was so much variety - even amongst what seems to be a popular model. I'll go up the shed this week and get some better pictures.