[AT] My MF135 at work

Sun Sep 18 08:03:09 PDT 2016

No offense intended but I believe you need to re-think your
winch mount.  As long as you pull straight away from it you'll
probably be ok but if the winch cable goes up or down hill more
than a few degrees it's not going to hold.

You could have a heavy duty grill bumper built and incorporate the
winch mount into it.  Go online and look at images of MF tractors.
You'll see the old traditional grill bumpers.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Scott Williams
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2016 1:56 AM
To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
Subject: Re: [AT] My MF135 at work

I'll have to make some sort of grille guard up myself, I think, because of
my front-mounted winch.  It's bolted onto the weight mount, and both those
parts would get in the way of that style of axle-mounted bumper.  I don't
ever want to be without that winch.  After it got me out of the deep mud
that first time, it has saved me twice more, once high-centered on a rock,
and once stuck on top of some heavy brush with the front axle stuck against
a tree, with the tires just spinning away when I tried to back up.

I have several welders, but I've only ever used the little one, and that one
not much.  Just today I was thinking about how I need to do some welding,
and what I'd need to get it done, like my welding helmet - ah, my welding
helmet, now where might that be - and all I could think of was where it was
in the other house last time I saw it.  Got a lot of unpacking to do before
I'll know where anything is when I need it.

What are these radiators made of (assuming it is original from 1972)?
Copper?  Are replacements aluminum?

Scott in Penfield NY

-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Cecil Bearden
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 10:33 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] My MF135 at work

All States Ag Parts has a bumper to mount on the axle of the 35 and 135
tractors to push the brush away from the radiator.
https://www.tractorpartsasap.com/Bumper-Red-p/104060.htm      If you
have a welder or access to one,  Weld a frame  to the bumper and then
cover it with some heavy expanded metal.   I used to check out he steel
scrap yards in OKC every week, and accumulated a lot of this stuff.  I would
think there are places like that in NY.  If you don't know how to
weld, you really need to learn if you want to play with these toys.
After a few years you will be able to repair anything with scrap.

I also looked at their listings on hydraulic parts and found a strainer like
I was talking about earlier.
https://www.tractorpartsasap.com/massey-ferguson-135-hydraulics-s/41451.htm

Cecil in OKla

On 9/17/2016 8:29 PM, Scott Williams wrote:
> I do keep an eye on the grill area, I know all the flyaway organic
> fluff can clog the intake, and I do keep an eye on the temp gauge.
> Today I overdid it, and something punched a hole through the grill and
into the radiator.
> Now I'll have to get that fixed or replace it.  I'm not just mowing
> the lawn here, though, so I'm not too surprised or upset.  This is
> rougher going than the video I posted, because I'm getting into more
> of the bushes and fallen trees (hence the punched radiator.)
>
> I'm getting to a point where I need to go in with my chainsaws and
> take out some of the smaller trees to open up the area around the
> pond, so I can get the tractor in between the bigger trees to do some
clearing.
>
> Scott in Penfield NY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Bo Hinch
> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 10:51 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] My MF135 at work
>
> Be sure and keep your radiator / grill clean . It is this kind of a
> job where you can ruin an engine pretty quick if not paying attention
> to you temp. gauge . Looks to me like you are doing one hell-of-a good job
.
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 2:38 PM, <vschwartz1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Scott;
>> I have seen some tough mowing in my time but I have never done any
>> mowing that would even remotely compare to what you have accomplished
>> here. All I can say is that you and your little 135 done good. I was
>> going to tell you to watch your engine temperature gauge but I do not
>> think that it's necessary now.
>> I once pulled 6/16 inch bottoms plowing in a field in the Missouri
>> River bottoms. A field that had weeds so tall I could not see over
>> them standing on the Fender of an 856 International. We had to stop
>> at the end of each row to clean the bugs off the radiator. I thought
>> that was tough but it don't compare to what you just did.
>> Thank you for the video, I would have had trouble believing it.
>> Gil
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> From: "Scott Williams" <swillia5 at rochester.rr.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 1:47:34 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] My MF135 at work
>>
>> Here's a picture from last week looking towards the area where the
>> video was taken, no more tall grass and brush.
>>
>> Scott in Penfield NY
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Scott
>> Williams
>> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 2:29 PM
>> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> Subject: [AT] My MF135 at work
>>
>> A few weeks ago, I was so happy to finally have my tractor un-stuck
>> and clearing brush, so I took some video. You REALLY couldn't walk
>> through some of this terrain without a machete. Also, the "grass" was
>> so tall, that I would lose my sense of direction when I got into it,
>> and began to feel claustrophobic. Only the sound of the road let me
>> know
> which way was out.
>> I have literally gone in circles out there before, trying to find a
>> "shortcut" to my stuck tractor.
>>
>>
>>
>> Let me apologize for the shaky camera work in this video. I have ET
>> (Essential Tremor) so my camera work is less than stellar. I could
>> probably have edited out half of it, but I don't have time or
>> patience for editing video these days, so I posted it as-is. The
>> going got sort of rough here and there, causing me to lose focus on
>> the camera (and annoyingly letting my finger drop into the frame here
>> and there.) After viewing it, I realized that the camera was looking
>> where I was looking - and that's not always where a viewer would want me
to look.
>> I look down to see if I'm about to run over a rock, not up to see
>> where I'm going. So, when I watched the video, I kept "wishing" I'd
>> raise the camera to look at the path ahead. If you watch, you'll wish
>> that too, LOL. Also, when I took the video, I thought I had a piece
>> of wood stuck in the flail making a lot of noise.
>> Later inspection showed that a cotter pin had come out, and allowed
>> the flail knives to move out too far, hitting the housing (and making
>> NOISE.) I have since replaced all the cotters and knife holders with
>> bolts - when I did it I found that about half were missing the cotters.
> ROUGH MOWING!
>>
>>
>> Anyway, here's the link to the video. https://youtu.be/zzrjLiJ1aQU
>>
>>
>>
>> Scott in Penfield NY
>>
>>
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