Quote Originally Posted by thvigil11 View Post
Well put my friend. Just make sure you use plenty of soy sauce in that hulk.

Actually, those older Mitsu's are tanks. The mahindra's they sell now aren't bad either. Almost bought a 60's D2300 a few years back, was about to when I saw an add for a 53 TO30 Ferguson at a steal. Its actually a pre-merger, made just a few weeks before Massey got involved. I've been slowly restoring it ever since.
This is an MT250D... so it's a small tank with only 25HP (3 cyl Diesel)
The design of a pin that's inserted into the top of the axle casting did not lend itself well to a front-end loader- the casting broke where the pin when thru. This first happened over 10 years ago, and the housing was not breached- so I welded the pin back into what was now a "groove" in the top of the housing, and that held until late last year when the top of the housing broke in 3 pieces... and it sat for some time while I tried to figure out what to do (including just parting out the tractor).