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1) See that the diesel starts good with no white or blue smoke while running and minimal black smoke. 2) See that the power steering works. Also the multipower if present. Check the three point lift and load controls. 3) I like the MF-135 better and its more likely to have power steering. You want the deluxe model, not the special. The loader that was on my MF-135 was a bit big and without tire chains it wouldn't move in snow. It wasn't a great snow mover, probably because the loader too too much weight off the rear tires. It was a MF-236 loader. It works fine on my JD-4020 which is probably just about big enough to crunch the MF loader. 4) what plow each will pull depends so much on soil that where one farmer pulls 4 bottoms in sand the same tractor may only pull on bottom in North Texas black gumbo. I pulled 2 16s in central Iowa black dirt plowing alfalfa with my MF-135 at 4 to 5 mph. It had liquid in the tires, but when one of them broke I left them dry. The new tires pulled better dry than the weighted tires did. Must have had to do with the sharp corners on the bars and the full depth of the bars. It snowed the day before my JD 4020 was delivered. I struggled with the MF-135 and loader all afternoon to clear a path. The 4020 walked over the piles as if they weren't there. Didn't need a path cleared. When I've attacked snow with the 4020 it move it immensly better than the 135. The 4020 won't go through a 7' tall garage door but it pulled 4 x 18 bottoms though I had a hard time keeping the front wheels near the ground, so I took off a bottom and shifted up two gears. Gerald J.
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