ptsg
Super Member
I was going through some old pictures and decided to make a slideshow video about the restoration of the 1962 Toselli 226 I had back in 2015.
I got this machine basically for free. I traded a very old and small 2wd tractor with 13HP for this one.
This tractor comes with a 28 HP air cooled VM engine. It's a very compact tractor being 2.5 meters (98") long and 1 meter (40") wide, weighting around 1700 Kg (3800 lbs).
It does have a standard cat 1 3 pt hitch, a two speed PTO and it uses a 8x2 gearbox for the main transmission.
Toselli company was bought by Agrifull back in the 70's and the Agrifull was bought by Fiat in the 80's I believe.
As you can see from the pictures, I got it in a very sad shape and had a few problems:
- Someone had put a undersized exhaust pipe all the way to the rear which choked the engine pretty bad and was full of carbon inside of the manifold. The exhaust was actually the first part I did for the tractor.
- The right track would disengage or brake to steer the tractor, turned out, that other than the clutches and brake bands were full of oil, it also had a pin missing on the linkage that would apply the brake band.
- Sometime in it's life, it was dropped from a truck and broke a piece of the rear transmission housing casting and also cracked one of the final drives. Booth were easily fixed by welding with some Nickel rods.
- The engine, besides being aircooled, also requires some basic maintenance on the cooling system, which was never done. The air duct had a nest inside and the fins on the heads were completely blocked with all kinds of nasty stuff. Fortunately, the engine was in good shape and ran very good.
- Part of the 3 point was missing, so I just remake the entire linkage.
- The steering levers will do two functions at the same time. Will disengage the clutch for each track and apply the brake band accordingly. Needless to say, it was way out of adjustment.
- The PTO had one gear missing a bunch of teeth and the rest all cracked. Had to get a new gear made for it.
Unfortunately I've never finished the tractor 100%. The hood and grille still needed to be prepped and painted as it was full of dents and I never mounted the headlights as I wanted to fixed some stuff on it but never did.
Somewhere in the middle of the restoration, I found the big brother of this machine for around 800$. A Toselli 340, a 39 HP 3 cylinder machine. Almost in the same state of the 226 but the mechanical were in better shape. However, the engine was lacking lots of power. Probably could use a rebuild.
In the end, I made a bulldozer blade for the 226 but then swapped it to the 340 and sold it. While I also traded the 226 and a Kubota B7000 with an homemade loader for the new Branson. Sadly, the 226 is sitting outside in the dealer with the paint completely faded and getting rust all over the place.
I got this machine basically for free. I traded a very old and small 2wd tractor with 13HP for this one.
This tractor comes with a 28 HP air cooled VM engine. It's a very compact tractor being 2.5 meters (98") long and 1 meter (40") wide, weighting around 1700 Kg (3800 lbs).
It does have a standard cat 1 3 pt hitch, a two speed PTO and it uses a 8x2 gearbox for the main transmission.
Toselli company was bought by Agrifull back in the 70's and the Agrifull was bought by Fiat in the 80's I believe.
As you can see from the pictures, I got it in a very sad shape and had a few problems:
- Someone had put a undersized exhaust pipe all the way to the rear which choked the engine pretty bad and was full of carbon inside of the manifold. The exhaust was actually the first part I did for the tractor.
- The right track would disengage or brake to steer the tractor, turned out, that other than the clutches and brake bands were full of oil, it also had a pin missing on the linkage that would apply the brake band.
- Sometime in it's life, it was dropped from a truck and broke a piece of the rear transmission housing casting and also cracked one of the final drives. Booth were easily fixed by welding with some Nickel rods.
- The engine, besides being aircooled, also requires some basic maintenance on the cooling system, which was never done. The air duct had a nest inside and the fins on the heads were completely blocked with all kinds of nasty stuff. Fortunately, the engine was in good shape and ran very good.
- Part of the 3 point was missing, so I just remake the entire linkage.
- The steering levers will do two functions at the same time. Will disengage the clutch for each track and apply the brake band accordingly. Needless to say, it was way out of adjustment.
- The PTO had one gear missing a bunch of teeth and the rest all cracked. Had to get a new gear made for it.
Unfortunately I've never finished the tractor 100%. The hood and grille still needed to be prepped and painted as it was full of dents and I never mounted the headlights as I wanted to fixed some stuff on it but never did.
Somewhere in the middle of the restoration, I found the big brother of this machine for around 800$. A Toselli 340, a 39 HP 3 cylinder machine. Almost in the same state of the 226 but the mechanical were in better shape. However, the engine was lacking lots of power. Probably could use a rebuild.
In the end, I made a bulldozer blade for the 226 but then swapped it to the 340 and sold it. While I also traded the 226 and a Kubota B7000 with an homemade loader for the new Branson. Sadly, the 226 is sitting outside in the dealer with the paint completely faded and getting rust all over the place.
