Your front looks very similar to my 1958 MF 202 Work Bull. You don't have a 202, but it is from that era. My grill says MF, but there are parts that say MHF. Your motor may have a metal tag, that may help with ID.
Your backhoe says it is a Midwestern 210. My backhoe looks very similar and it is a MF 185. The MF 185 was built by Midwestern under the Davis name. MF bought out Midwestern.
I've never seen a loader like that one.
Here is some history that I came across some time ago.
In 1953, long-established Canadian agricultural equipment company Massey-Harris acquired the tractor-building business of Harry Ferguson Inc. Under the new name of Massey-Harris-Ferguson Inc., the company marketed a backhoe-loader outfit consisting of a Massey-Harris Work Bull industrial tractor fitted with a Davis model 500 loader and a model 185 backhoe attachment made by Mid-Western Industries of Wichita, Kan.
This hoe had a digging depth of 13 feet, a dump height of 10 feet, and was mounted on a sturdy rear-mounted frame incorporating independently controlled stabilizer feet. A range of bucket sizes from 12 to 36 inches was offered. The -yard loader bucket could apply 3,000 pounds of breakout force.
This well-advanced machine for its day boasted a heavy king post with sealed ball bearings, horizontal hydraulic cylinders to swing the hoe, and hydraulic relief valves to protect the system from shocks. For hoe operation, a separate seat revolved with the hoe boom so the operator always faced his work. The entire hoe and frame assembly could be easily detached to allow the tractor to be used by itself as a loader.
In 1957, Massey-Harris-Ferguson purchased Mid-Western Industries and changed the company's name to Massey-Ferguson Ltd. (M-F). This purchase marked the company's first move into industrial and construction equipment, and established Massey-Ferguson's Industrial Division at Wichita, Kan. Two years later, M-F replaced the earlier Work Bull tractors with a new backhoe-loader combination based on the 37-hp Massey-Ferguson 702 tractor with model 710 backhoe and 702 loader. It was one of the first to feature a sliding king post enabling flush digging alongside walls and fences.
Building on this successful start, the company broadened its backhoe-loader range to seven models by the end of the 1960s. These included the backhoe-loader combination model 250/252 based on the M-F 3303 tractor. This model offered digging depths down to 13 feet 6 inches and a 60-hp engine. Meanwhile, M-F expanded its earthmoving equipment line further with a number of significant purchases: an excavator factory at Aprilla, Italy, in 1968; the Lorain wheel loader line in 1971; and the Hanomag crawler tractor business in Germany in 1974.
This post was edited by brooktre on 03/20/2022 at 08:26 pm.
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