TO 35 question

Friend bought a T035 serial# 160858. It looks like it is a industrial version. Yellow everywhere, in places a quick paint job would not have reached.
It has Massey Ferguson on the hood, and the loader, with a front mounted hydraulic pump. It is the deluxe version,with live pto.
How can a industrial version be identified to separate it from a regular tractor?
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Well, Richard L is getting to be the authority on 195..... 5 or 6? or 57? TO35's... this one 'seems' to be a 55... MHF tag... HF era number... looks like really old- but most likely not original MF decals.
A couple years later, the serial tag would have spelled out - industrial, gasoline- live pto etc. Does this have an M-H-F hood ornament? Like my 58 MHF 202.... weren't the usual ones..

Nowdays, long after any paper trail hit the dumpster, restorers want all the exact details... that... like WW2 military vehicles... were slapped together to get out the door and into the field... battle or corn... no one then ever thought we'd be the least bit interested in this stuff...
but that one is a nice one. I like the air filter. Might have worked in a sand pit... or like my Cockshutt 540, scooped grain out of dusty boxcars.....
 
Well, no hood ornament, and the rocker
assembly was siezed solid, but the rest of
the motor seems ok. Scrapped a little paint
off one hidden spot and no beige or grey or
anything underneath, just some primer....
I agree the decals were added later.
 
The center door in the hood should open by pushing down on two release buttons, is this correct? On the sides of the hood are there 3 holes on both sides back towards where the hood and dash come together, maybe 3 to 8 inches forward? According to the serial number that is a 1955 as has been mentioned. I have not personally seen anything about a industrial unit in 1955 but I do not know why there couldn't have been.
 
The non-stock color leads me to think it may have been a special order, municipal use, highway dept., etc.

Possibly the company that built the loader may have ordered them primer only, they finished it out and painted it.
 
Yes. According to the tag in the last pic, it is an early Davis loader, and this was the best way to power one. A rear pto pump limits the usefulness of the arsend. One of my 50's has Lord loader powered from a pto pump... till I can get to improving it. Internal hydraulics to power one off the side of the seat didn't come out till??? Early 70's??? 80's?
I guess - like on your new 50? or is it a 65? with no crank hole, to get to the front pulley, the chin would have to come off, then the grill has less support, so the grill might should come off... then the air filter is not supported too good... and the radiator has no protection no mo ....a real can of worms on those models.... but can be done....
 
Looks like my TO 35. Same loader. Mine has front pump. Getting ready to do major work on it. Its been green, red and final paint before I got it, was heavy brush with large brissel brush gray. Mine is early 1955.
 

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