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People don't use the tractor hard enough, let it work with high load for a couple of hours, and hard means it pulls with all it has of engine power.

That is the front brakes on low speed tractors, and is an important safety system.

Do you have front brakes on the 12 speed? That can be a very handy thing to have.

How cold is it in your area?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UiZ5rSDrLuz5U97NLwafpnc2li5N_lNp/view?usp=drivesdk Service manual

And as mentioned, replace all fuel hoses even if they look to be in good shape. It has a licensed Bosch feeder pump so parts should be easy to get. The injection pump is not engine lubricated so it must be serviced, it requires ordinary engine oil, some have one oil fill for the pump and one for...

A Zetor engine in good condition should start very easily, it might have a cold start button on the injection pump but that is only needed in very low temperature, have a tractor with this engine here and i have started it in -20 Celsius with absolutely no preheat, just on pure compression, mine...

How hot is the rest of the rear housing and gear box?

Millions of diesel engines are used in this way, no big problem. You have to start and light work for a few minutes and don't wear your engine. I have a diesel van, I don't have any heating seremoni every time I start for a 5 min drive in the winter, are the windows clear from ice I drive a...

Do you only use it for this purpose or do you use it for more heavy and longer use?

Should be no problem to remove the oil filter and run it for a few seconds on the starter, just the compression doesn't put any load on the bearings, probably a nice oil film there anyways.

Remove the oil filter to confirm that the pump is pumping oil at all? Can the pump have been sitting so long that it needs to be primed with oil?

No parts number on them?

Does it have discs likee this? https://tracteurbits.com/en/brakes/5372-brake-repair-kit-dry-brakes.html

Do you have a picture of the rear end? The normal agricultural 133 should have very much in common with the 135 but has a slightly smaller displacement 144 vs 152.on the 135.

You probably have a MF2135, the industrial twin of the 135.

Is there no symbol on the instrument?

I do believe it's the safety switch that prevents starting when the hi lo is not in neutral, the gauge is probably a speedometer.

Milk is a thing, here in Scandinavia milk is a common thing to drink, I often drink a liter or more a day and I was very unhappy when I traveled for the first time to Wien, found no fresh, normal milk, just some plastic bottles with highly processed milk. It was available in the hotel but I...

Yes, that's one method, here you can buy the animal before slaughter and then pay for the slaughter and processing of the meat but it should be much easier, but it's not difficult to understand the reason for the regulations but I as an individual should be able to take the risk, no problem if I...

Yes, but the food culture in those regions are very different, we have an extremely rigorous set of rules, almost impossible to sell food without sending it through the industrial production lines, if you want to slaughter and sell meat you must have an approved small scale slaughter house, you...

But a lot of the electronics are not very advanced, and might be easy replaced with a Arduino or similar micro controler, I have seen hobbyist make a Arduino based ECU to use a VW car engine as a stationary engine, it was quite doable and now the code and wiring is probably public domain if...

As a citizen of Norway I am a part of the EU inner market, free flow of goods and services, I can just show up and seek work in most of Europe without any difficulties or paperwork, no borders or anything, that was the reason for all the cheap workers from East Europe, and a lot of them moved...

Same here, I own a small farm it's just an expensive hobby, I have some income on it but that's not farming, last year I had 600$ of profit on selling grass and renting out fields to my neighbour. Most of the profit comes from sale of hunting rights, renting out land to industrial use and I have...

That's the way it is, shareholder value is the only thing that matters, I see a change in parts sale, even simple parts are priced so high that nobody will buy them, I got a quote on a new rubber flooring in my cheap van, 1700$ for a small piece of low quality plastic. When the equipment gets...

Well, that's a real issue, when people can't sell their time we will have a very different society, how you can solve that is open for a lot of discussions. Fact is that for most of the western world the birth rate is so low that we might run out of people, the same in Russia, china and several...

Is it a problem or is it a sign of a society that has given people more choices? We have always innovated to get rid of work, to do more productive and important jobs, to be lazy is a good thing for development. I do believe farming will be highly automated, it's probably the only way forward.

The electronics are not that advanced, I'm quite sure somebody will design replacements, electronics are not magical, and many younger people have both mechanical and electrical skills.

The problem is quite easy, there are not easy to get workers into farming, it's not a very profitable business so doing more with fewer people is the only way. Here in Europe we had a long period with East European workers that worked for low pay and in many cases were farmworkers, but skilled...

Fendt tractors are in the market that wants maximum productivity, the more automation and systems the better.

Don't think Fendt is interested in the small tractor segment, here Fendt has a 78 hp tractor but the price is a tad under 100000$ if I remember correctly, not particularly cheap...

European vans haven't had a frame for many decades, it makes no sense for this type of vehicle. Do believe the last MB van with a frame was the Vario

Most Fendt tractors are tailor made to the customers, here in Europe most all tractors are built specifically for the use and wishes of the buyer. The same with cars, most dealers only have a few demo cars, you order the car as you want it. They might have a few "std" cars premade for order...

But remember that this is a clutch, not a PTO disconnect.

Do you press the clutch pedal down? It might have a pto hand clutch that just disconnects the PTO clutch.

Does not use much, have had the heat on in -10c for over 10 hours and it didn't matter much.

But EVs don't use much energy when not moving so if it's a traffic jam an EV will not spend its battery.

Video from the 2022 rally

It was today, Rally Hadeland

Old Volvo off the track

Local rally, with cars from the seventies to brand new.

Those heaters work well but it must be mounted correctly, warm water rises so it must be mounted so the water goes into the engine block, if it's not properly mounted much or all heat goes into the radiator and the heater has no effect.

Strainer in the tank is missing or full of dirt?

There are sealant you can put on the tire to help against leaks along the rim, might be cheaper and easier to do.

Well, better quality is not always up to the workers, a Chinese factory might be newer, have much better quality control and so on. And if your quality is so tied up to the day to day performance of humans then you have a problem. The only way to really improve assembly is to get rid of as...

All work knives have some off the same patent, but Mora knives have the best button attachment.

Just wondering about this.

Haven't had cash in well over ten years, do not miss it at all.

Yes, the discussion is ended, the world has made its choice. ;)

Proof. ;)

Well, my digital does and I can see if it's between numbers. F is a scale that only makes sense if you are force-fed it from childhood. A 0 point of that has no real connection with any form of logic.

And except for the readout it was calculated in metric, don't think Werner von Braun converted to the US measuring system.

Landscapes

A rainy evening at the lake

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Today, a bit more green. https://maps.app.goo.gl/UAomehta38au5dZ5A

Repairing a old door on the barn, planned to make a new one but it was to "nice" to replace, history in every plank and shoddy repair.

Farms

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Snow

Road and tunnel

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On my way home from the farm

Always something to do with an old barn..

Rock falls from the top, bounces of the cliff wall and lands 2-300 meters from my house.

Found the tree

Falling rock meets tree.....

More nature

Sheep grassing around the barn

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My river

https://electronicsarea.com/why-is-there-a-diode-connected-in-parallel-to-a-relay-coil/

Oh, this church was not built for the common man, this was a part of the elite and a part of the governance of the region, American religion is of and by the people, not so much in Europe, the church for the common man is sadly gone, it was a wooden stave church maybe like this:

More 8 - 900 years old churches from where I usually lives

Here are the fjord, from here you can sail everywhere, this ca 7km drive from my farm.

Many people today has a idea that everything was better in the past, most of them wouldn't lasted a day if they did manual labor. Has a lot of tools and work methods that is a witness of how hard life was, most people didn't have any money, all they had was labour. Have old papers where people...

First written documents mention this and my neighbour farms are from 1309 and then it has probably been a farm for many hundreds of years, the church here have been in use for 800 years.

Inside nature...

Not nature but a stone fens with a waterind dich beneath it, how old I don't know but it has been a farm here for over a thousand years.

Some rocks on the field

This farm I owned has a summer farm in the area where the waterfalls are, we had three 3 summer farms, producing white and brown cheese for sale.

In the early spring this are is a small but wide waterfall

Here you can see a little ice that hasn't melted

Don't have a proper camera with me so is not the best

Yes, now in the spring it's many small waterfalls, in the summertime only a few larger is visible. In the winter the waterfalls become a ice fall all the way down.

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Spring it's on its way

Spring is on its way

Farms, bloodline and history is a fun part of owning property, I my self own a old farm and it's interesting to find its history.

Centennial farm, what does it mean besides a sign?

But most of Russia are in Asia. For those who are interested https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/European-Russia-map.htm

Russia is a part of Europe, has been for centuries and I did believe that was obvious.

Oh, Europe are bigger than the US main land, most Americans only counts western part of Europe. In terms of size the two are almost even, with Europe only slightly bigger than the US (10.2 million sq km vs 9.8 million sq km) 280 miles? Really? I drive longer than that to vist my...

Top ten car manufacturers in 2021

Top ten in 2021

No, it has not been any problems, as far as I know. But it's not a big surprise that heat pumps don't work well at very low temperatures and that will make range shorter. But again, Norway is not that cold but here I live -20 celsius and below is common tempratur in periods and those EVs seems...

Yes, it's slow, have a VW transporter with 78hp and if I load it up to max with trailer it passes 5000kg, can't imagine how slow it would be. Here in Europe it was a common with small engines, it was a very big step in price to go up, and if we talk 240D era just to have a diesel with automatic...

Of new cars it's Tesla and VW ID4

Here all the three German premium brands are very popular first time cars, and of course Volvo and VW.

Here Mercedes Benz was the default taxi, usually 200D or 240D, did easily one million km and above. And after a million km still had a good second hand value. Not so much today but G-wagens are still very popular and hold ist value, even G from the eighties, MB 240GD is not a particularly fast...

Mercedes Benz 240D, much better quality than most.

More exiting pictures

Must admit Madrid looks a bit nicer :)

To Sweden..... For shopping.....

On a small tractor the ground clearance of the winch is important, does the Igland has a hinged blade?

Hmm, priced up a small van here, a few hundred dollars, strange.

Extreme difference, if I want to buy me a new ICE van, the difference between gas and diesel is not large.

When battery cost drops it will be very cheap to power things, ICE with the complex engine, transmissions axles etc will be to costly to produce if it not 100 % needed.

Ore some believe the future is not big tractors but swarms of very light and autonomous units do the farmework.

Don't think anybody is believing that a tractor running 24/7 is a suitable candidate to run on batteries, but a lot of tractors are used in the farmyard etc where they run a few hours a day and plenty time to charge.

Small gas engines needs turbo and intercooler to have any guts on low rpm.

Had old gasoline tractors, it is a nightmare and all of them had a unlimited thirst for fuel, have a MF135 diesel and a full tank seems last forever, no gas trakctor starts easier than a AD3-152 diesel.

A gasoline engine that pulls and behaves as a diesel is not an simple construction, tryed a 1.3 130hp and that behaved as a diesel, a very impressive engine. https://www.motorreviewer.com/engine.php?engine_id=198

Airbrakes for trailers was very common in East Europe, they used large four wheel trailers and sometime pulled two of them. Today airbrakes are the standard for trailers witch are approved for speeds over 40km/h and below you can use hydraulic brakes activated by the hydraulic system on the...

Well, very few that has the gold to sell as much as possible have any interest in repairs, checked the price for a new casing for a Lenovo laptop, 1500 dollars, of course is such prising making sure nobody have a chance to fix things, checked a new part on a fridge door, 700$. A few companies do...

On new equipment you pay with money, on old well used you pay with time. Pay with money on old is usually not a good idea.

I have own enough old tractors to see how badly those fix it my self guys did repairs, it's quit simple, it's the right way or no way.

When it's not to cold I use a heat pump, very cheap solution, it's a air to air and doble as an AC in the summer. And of course two wood stoves when it's cold. The price is very hard to figure out as the price of electricity goes up and down from day to day, had had negative price from time to...

Does it mention that you must redo the bolts after a while ? It's very uncommon on old tractors and probably very unlikely on a old Japanese tractor taking the very conservative approach the Japanese have taken new ideas.

Why not? Pickups are cheap, part supply is excellent and it's easy to get people to service them. It's not so long ago that all army's used light and unarmed vehicles. And there are realistic no alternative, buy military vehicles in mass is difficult, Ukraine probably gets donation of a lot of...

Are you sure on that? Not very common on old tractors, if it's required in the manual to retorque the bolts they are regular bolts.

So, what is the reaction from the police if caught with this type of loads on public roads?

Submersible pumps are usually soft start to reduse the twisting force on the plastic hose. If it's not you should be able to buy one from an electrician.

I do believe modern switching power supply are quite tolerant and can handle a lot of not so perfekt input, cheap square wave inverters should be much worse than a generator any way you look at it.

Well, how had it held up if you added a zero to those 1100 hours?

Clear water

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Adjusting the satellite dish is quit a expedition, its no longer in use. it was my neighbour that really wanted more channels

More morning sun, its 09.00

Morning sun Morning sun

The owner of the plant has used millions, and will probably spend huge amount of money in the future. Because much of the incoming water runs for many miles in tunnels its much colder than before, today the water was 9 Celsius and that is believed to reduce the fishes abilities to reproduce...

Unfortunately this lake is part of a very large hydroelectric plant witch has had a very devastating effect on the fish, and hard fishing on the salmon out in the fjords and sea does not help either. I own a part of this lake and some of the rivers, if we had more fish this would have been a...

My old boat with my 1967 Johnson 5hp

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Sun on the mountain

Out this evening to spy on the fish with sonar

Nets to catch falling rocks

Old road

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From a boat trip i had yesterday

Well, here roads are not straight or flatt, it really takes time to drive.

Historical Norway have always used water to power things, and when electricity became a thing we did use the same source to produce that, the first hydroelectric that was officially recognised was in 1882, we have potential to build a lot more but even hydroelectric have a environmental impact...

To drive from the south to the Russian border takes a few days so it's not that small, and it's not a big issue to take a EV on a long trip, charging stations are plentiful, a EV works quit nice for most people, fewer and fewer have a ICE as a backup.

If it has to be a tractor this is a much better solution

Some late evening pics, no bailing to see

Just a pic of a field close to my home

Probably front engine mounts, this engine is used all over for all kinds of application and it's the oil pan that carries the load from back to front if I remember correctly, nor the engine it self.

Well, it's a political choice, allowing everything to go down the drain or make systems that ensures local production.

Yes, cheap production was China's advantage, cost to produce is rising and the last year's have shown that it's a challenge to ship things around the world, hopefully we in the west will understand that just being a customer is not a good strategy for the common man or our nations, we need...

You have a point there, Hungary is not the best political environment, it will be interesting to see how they handle the Ukrainian war, before the war they was very pro Putin, a lot of the more fare right political movement got in to hot water when Putin fired up the Russian war machine.

Not, I'm not arguing against that China doesn't produce quality, it's more of a wish to support western industry. When I bought my van I dropped those that produces in Turkey, no need to support that regime when I could support workers in France.

Is the quality low or are the parts Chinese? This is the green Bosch and not the blue pro line, one fine thing is that there are parts support from Bosch, I do like to repair if possible.

Bought this today, made in Hungary feels so much better than made in China. How many of you feels the same when it comes to buying stuff?

Well, it have happened to all smaller manufacturers, they can't compete on technology and quality, excavators are mass-produced on a almost car like fashion, here in Europe we had a ton of smaller manufacturers, with a exception on wheeled excavators few survived the mostly Japanese attack on...

Yes, would disassemble the toplink, did it on mine with the same symtom, but ended up removin the bolt on so I could move the draft control a few centimetres more, suspect I'm missing a roller inside the hydraulic cover.

You are using the position control?

Those old MFs are not airtight so I wouldn't worry about it.

Any slack in the toplink?

Manufacturers love things like CE approvals, know of several cases of people bought larger JD tractors in the US and ended up with a tractor without licensplates and approved only for privat hobby use, same happened with a contractor that bought a Cat D8 that for some reason had ended up in...

Does it have a CE approval mark on it?

Factory option

This snatch block is a real time saver, here using to lift the log over rocks, self realeasing makes a bit difference.

In the landscape around me a winch is almost a must, have been using winches like this when the tractor is on the road and the tree is in such steep terrain that it takes off down the valley side when cutting, a bit different work technic but more fun and more exercise ;)

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Have to use the winch to hold the the tree so it doesn't go in to the water.

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Our and cleaning up

Looks like it is, oil filler cap would be my guess.

Is this a UK made 87mm standard engine?

Where goes that pipe? To the air filter?

Pictures?

I know but it's quit common on to have a third free return to handle things like hydraulic motors and other equipment that have to have no return pressure, I'm quite sure you can buy this kit and at least there must be a plug for this.

Does it not have a free return on the rear with a quick coupler on it?

How does it behave if you lift something and not connect it to the top link?

Do you have the draft lever all the way back when using the position control? Any damage or endplay in the top link?

How advanced injection system is it on this engine?

Heavy weight is a friend and a enemy, today heavy agricultural equipment packs the soil and damages growth and drainage. Not easy to solve as farming today is cost and volum focused. There are projects that focuses on light equipment in combination whit automation, swarms of machines that...

If you are in to farming then this type of wheels is way to rigid and stiff, radial tires with low pressure gets much better grip in soil. Most of the smaller tractors are very price sensetive in combination whit very conservative buyers makes new technology hard to sell.

On my small van the first oil hange was at 50000km, then every 40000km, it's a small diesel engine, today's engines are incredibly much better made, had a few Nissan 720 and D21 gas and it was something all the time, they had pointers, bad carburetors etc so the world moves forward and nostalgia...

Nissan have had moments but the ordinary models have not been to good, in the nineties they had the Primera with a excellent chassis, that was replaced with a new that was a simpel and bad design, it was not conservative but with a very ordinary chassi. The Micra was a hit until they tryed to...

Renault saved Nissan from bankruptcy and stirred up the totally inefficient corporate culture of Nissan, this was such a insult that they probably framed CEO Goshen a few years ago. But the ridiculous Japanese conservatism may destroy the brand, they where EV pioneers but let the lead they had...

Possible to bleed the injectors?

Well, to be honest is sold in modest number, today Valtra has this strange construction. Wrong link

Well, the current design of tractors don't really reflect that it's made for heavy lifting at the front. Then all tractors would have been articulated as it should have been for front loader work.

This old simple designs that went for decades unchanged is easy to keep alive my MF135 is basically still in production, if you read this forum it's obvious that most Japanese manufacturers don't really care much for long time parts support, and short model life and constant redesign does not...

This is the same as everything else done by media to get attention and clicks, not sure if this is the media that are dumb our the collective IQ going down, it's all over the western world.

Well, the price war makes it impossible to make it a better loader tractor, a hydrostatic motor in each front wheel would make it much easier to make a strong enough front axel, hydraulic stability control of the pivoting would greatly improve stability and so on. They could made them...

On of the fine things with modern engineering is the fact that you can shave of all unnecessary materials, fine if you make aircrafts and things where this is very beneficial, on tractors not so much.

The early 1900 design of tractors are bad, it's just strange that the world does not going forward, Class xerion is a interesting design and when we get rid of mechanical power train we might get more modern designs.

Backhoes are as also a bad design, it does not do anything real good, it's a very bad excavator and a bad wheeloader baked in to one machine. The picture is a better backhoe

But it should not lift more than it can handle, maybe he adjusted pressure valve on the loader. Or it took off an had a lucky run down a hill with a stylish jump at the end ;)