Possible Yanmar on TV Show

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As many of you are probly like me love shows on TLC and Discovery, and A&E. Well last year the wife and i got into the Colony (discovery channel i think). This season just started last week and second episode is this week.

Anyway to the point. The point of the show is to put these people in as close to a disaster like scenario as possible, where they have to fend for food collect and purify water and all the things that go with life. Anyway part of the junk that they left them is an old tractor with no tires. I think they end up using it to charge bateries and probably like last year create some sort of power inverter so that they can run 120volt things like power tools. This tractor was only breifly shown in the first show, but they show previews of it being started up. It looks a lot like a yanmar, maybe a 1401 or 1410 type tractor? Look rough, but is a small tractor thats atleast from the 80's and i think based on size its prolly a jap tractor. I think its deisel to cause in the first episode they show them scavenging and they take a gallon or two of fuel out of a big box truck which i would only guess to be deisel. Then they show previews of them making their own fuel with rotted flesh of animals in a tub ( one guy says that he remembers doing that growing up, is how they do it). The only thing i can think of is that a gas tractor will prolly not run on any fluid or stuff that rotting animals provide , but a deisel probably will from the liquified fat and oils that leach out of the animal, leading me again to think that is a deisel tractor. Watch for yourself this show is addictive!
 
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Went to Discovery.com and watched the episode. They show the tractor at 11:15 in the episode. I am not a yanny expert but that round badge looks like one as well as the body style form the early eighties.

Colony, The: New Beginning : Video : Discovery Channel

Watch and see for yourself. Once it loads you can just click to the 11 minute mark or so if you ahve no interest in the show.
 
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Looked more like a Massey Ferguson to me............
 
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That was my second thought? As they are that color. I paused it on full screan and thought that badge had japanese lettere on it, or maybe it was the " MF" ???? I Know massys had a bumper like that and few yanmars did or do?
 
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That is a Massey 165. you can see in the comparison. It sure is difficult but i managed to get a picture. :thumbsup:
 

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Yep you were correct JD this eposode 2 days ago they said (the mechanic girl) this is a massey ferguson 165 and you could see the badge clearly "165". They made biodeisel out of heated animal fat and the residue that cooked off of it.
 
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Highlights from one of the upcoming shows they found tires for the back and pull a car across the lot. Looks pretty cool!
 
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yea i saw that, i was thinking aparently they found the tires and they had air.
 
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Wife watched quite a few home improvement shows. I remember one of the shows clearly had a mid sized YM tractor.
 
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We do too i must have never seen that one. We dont watch all the yard crashers and landscape shows though. Mostly the makeover redecorate/remodel type showes.
 

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