... lol, yeah, we kinda just slapped it together outta spare parts .. .. it's a Massey Ferguson 40e .. originally an industrial unit, meant to load in a paved parking lot .. 2 wheel drive .. so I had to get the rear dump bucket from a friend to serve as a counterweight ..
.. it's 42 hp, but some of that is taken up by the pump running straight off the crank to power the FEL, but still plenty left for what I need .. our best guess is that it was used on a timber landing to load cut logs onto trucks ..
.. the 3pt system was cobbled to hold more weight, so they must have had the same issue as me with loss of traction at the rear .. just ordered a muffler, cause with straight pipe it's a tad loud .. .. in the Spring it will get a new paint job ... flat black ..