MF 148??

Hey folks,
Is this model available in the States? Advertised as 48 HP. Trying to figure out if it's the perkins motor or multipower (or could it be either one)?
Looking for another International in case my ebay twinkle doesn't work out, but like the looks of this one and it's 15 miles away. Just don't want a money pit before I go look. 1974 with 7900 hours. It is a produce growing area so shouldn't have been hard hours.

Whatcha think?

Dave

I'm an IH guy,not MF.....I never heard of the 148 in the US,so I'm thinking its a European model.Its hard for me to "wrap my brain around" farming in Europe.Please send some pictures of your Eurpean countryside(your place too)Thanks,Steve

If I can figure out how to post pics from google earth, it will be interesting for you. In this area, farm HQ's are in town and fields are scattered outside. Those fields are from 1 - 15 or so acres with 2.5 - 5 being common. I don't have crops so I have about 9 acres of fruit orchard scattered over about 12 pieces from 1/4 to 1 acre. I'll try the picture thing this weekend.

Dave

Try it like this...
Town and surrounding fields

http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=K%C3%BCtzberg,+Poppenhausen&sll=51.151786,10.415039&sspn=20.308254,39.418945&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=K%C3%BCtzberg+Poppenhausen,+Schweinfurt,+Bayern&ll=50.08416,10.114546&spn=0.02024,0.05476&t=h&z=15

My place (point of the little A flag is the corner of our back yard. Behind the clearing belongs to someone else. Our place is as wide as the clearing and goes forward to the street. Most everything you see in this link is/was farm places. Livestock was/is kept under roof. Within a hundred meter circle of our place is a hog farmer with between 100 and 200 hogs, a guy that milks about 40 cows along with raising about 100 rabbits, chickens, and ducks. Another raises about 50 feeder calves a year. All crop farm as well. Equipment mostly kept on the home place.

Dave

http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=obbacher+str+8+K%C3%BCtzberg,+Poppenhausen&sll=50.081572,10.113698&sspn=0.00253,0.006845&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Obbacher+Stra%C3%9Fe+8,+K%C3%BCtzberg+97490+Poppenhausen,+Schweinfurt,+Bayern&ll=50.081479,10.113258&spn=0.00253,0.006845&t=h&z=18

148's were not made in N. America but are pretty much a 135 with a 7 inch spacer added to allow for a larger cab. They were made in the UK and France. Actually it's listed as 49 HP at 2250 RPM and 38.5 PTO HP at 1400 RPM. I'd guess the PTO HP at 1725 to be around 42 like a 245. Dave

Here we had the MF 135, 150 and 165. It looks like a 135, which was a 45 HP / 33 HP at the drawbar tractor. We had one with the Perkins diesel. The Multi-power is a torque amplifier option for the transmission. So it could be both Perkins and multi-power.
We worked the snot out of ours for years with no problems. I especially liked the Perkins because it started very easy regardless of the temp. If the battery had enough juice to turn it once it would start.
What the heck is the thing mounted in the middle of the right side?

(quoted from post at 08:06:01 08/06/10) What the heck is the thing mounted in the middle of the right side?

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I don't know. Being in a produce area, it's probably related. You see some pretty wierd stuff around there. My favorite is what looks like big wings on a tractor with folks laying in them picking cucumbers.....

Dave