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suitable size mower for 135

  • 28-07-2013 5:08pm
    #1
    stoeger
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    What's a suitable size mower for a mf 135


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  • #2
    Damo810
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 998 ✭✭✭Damo810


    We used a Pz 135 on one for years. A good few put Pz 165's on them too (5'6")


  • #3
    reilig
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    It'll fly a 5ft 6' disc mower too. Much easier than a drum mower to work and will last a lot longer too!


  • #4
    Sam Kade
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    A fingerbar :D


  • #5
    9935452
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    stoeger wrote: »
    What's a suitable size mower for a mf 135

    We have a pz165 which we use on a mf 135 which in my opinion is just right.
    At one stage we used to borrow a 7ft drum mower (pz185 i believe) which was too heavy for the tractor and needed weights to lift it but drove it easy in the field.
    We also borrowed a 8ft kuhn disc non conditioner which was very heavy for the tractor, but she was able to drive it albeit in a low gear.


  • #6
    Rovi
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    I cut many (MANY!) acres with a trailed 2-drum Claas mower behind a 135.
    Depending on the crop, she'd handle it in High 1st or 2nd handily enough.

    When it was available to me, a more powerful tractor would always have been my first choice, but the 135 covered an awful lot of ground in its time too.


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  • #7
    bbam
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    It's kinda forgotten but with time and patience a heck of allot of work can be done with a modestly sized tractor.. Heck, when you think back to the 70's, silage outfits were near all 165's/168's/188's, 995's & 996's. 135's weren't uncommon drawing in silage. I remember maybe late 70's our contractor landed with a new 1200 or 1212 DB 4WD, people thought he was completly overpowered for the job :rolleyes:


  • #8
    Dupont
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    When the first ever 4wd landed around here it was a wet year and contractor was struggling to lift a steep brea. In came the young fella in the 4wd got up half way started to spin and slid back down to the bottom turns out that he didn't know that u had to put in into 4wd


  • #9
    stoeger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭stoeger


    Dupont wrote: »
    When the first ever 4wd landed around here it was a wet year and contractor was struggling to lift a steep brea. In came the young fella in the 4wd got up half way started to spin and slid back down to the bottom turns out that he didn't know that u had to put in into 4wd

    I remember the first 4wd i seen was a layland 472 have to say i was very impressed at the time it was the biggest tractor around our area she pulled a class wagon for a long time .


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