MM Rt100 Tractor? UPDATE

Bryce Frazier · Sep 4, 2014

Well, the guy sent me a few pictures, and it is for sure a MM RTI.

Appears to have a factory front loader on it, and all in all looks to be in rather rough shape. I went on tractor data, and it says that only 4,338 were ever built, and that is over a number of years!

If the price is right is it worth looking into? Is there any value to something like this if it was all restored? Bryce

Dick2 · Sep 4, 2014

Looks like it belongs in a museum somewhere. Doubt that it meets any safety standards in place today. Too much liability risk to use in any commercial application. At least that is my opinion.

IaGary · Sep 4, 2014

Now that looks like a heavy conclameration.

I had never seen a R MM in a industrial version.

Gary

Mike (WA) · Sep 4, 2014

Not much collector value in industrial versions, in my experience, especially when they look cobbled up like that one. I'd pass it by, if I were you- it will surely cost far more to fix it up than it will be worth.

Alan K · Sep 4, 2014

Ive often wondered how much power a person actually has with one of them as the R wasn't huge horsepower to begin with.

rrlund · Sep 4, 2014

Something I learned collecting toy tractors,buy what you like. If you're looking to make money on it because you think it might be rare or collectable,I think I'd pass,but if it turns your crank and you want to have it as a user,grab it.

PJH · Sep 4, 2014

That resembles some of my projects. Keep adding steel until it blows out a tire.

Seriously - the first picture, if you look at all of the angles, looks to me like the bucket is not aligned with the machine. It suggests to me that something is badly sprung. When I see a picture of a loader tractor, I like to see the front end, square on, and a little ways back, to compare all of the lines and angles for square and parallel. I'd ask him for a head-on picture before I drove too many miles to look at it. I've worked on sprung loader frames. They are hard to tweak, and never back to perfection.

rrlund · Sep 4, 2014

I hadn't noticed that,but if you look close at the second picture,it looks like the bottom pin is out of the bucket doesn't it?

PJH · Sep 4, 2014

Yeah Randy - it might just be parked with the bucket unattached. No weeds growing under it. That's a sign that it hasn't sat there too long. That cover off of the left side of the block (I think) would worry me. Seems I remember our old Minnie having inspection plates on the side of the block, but it's been many years since I've been around one. And ours was a different model.

Bryce Frazier · Sep 4, 2014

He said that this one starting having trouble and the broke in to it to find that it has thrown a rod. Here is another picture of the tractor, I think I would probably just take the loader off.... Bryce

PJH · Sep 4, 2014

That picture explains it Bryce. Good luck, if you end up with it.

ss55 · Sep 4, 2014

"Thrown a rod" - as in thought the side of the block, or is that another way to say a spun bearing & maybe a galled/ruined crankshaft?

MM Rt100 Tractor? UPDATE

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