THE REMARKABLE MUIR-HILL TRACTOR HISTORY. PART 1 

Nice one Alan. Digging contractor here used to have a few of them for pulling low loaders and diggers about. Fond memories of watching it going up and down past the house here. 😊

O'Brien Plant Hire in cavan had one, I managed to get it stuck in reverse with a vibrating roller, was fun that day

Thanks for the video Alan, here in Lincolnshire I remember a local estate owning two of them, they did massive hours. Also remember seeing Birds Eye with pea Viners on the back in the fields .Enjoy your stop in England Cheers Dave🙂

I'm showing my age here, but there was a contractor in the south part of Co. Limerick who ran a Muir-Hill in early 70's pulling a double chop harvester. It was a major attraction and used to draw a serious amount of onlookers.

Very interesting Alan I look forward to part 2.In 1969/70 I can remember a tillage farmer on the Boyne Road outside Navan having MH101 pulling an unusual grain trailer,the trailer was single axle with four wheels equally spaced across the back,wouldn,t be great in soft ground.In mid 80,s a drainage contractor between Navan and Kells had a very big MH,it had v8 engine,Fuller split-shift gearbox,industrial tyres and airbrakes,he used it to pull lowloader for a short while.I found out later that some of these machines were used to tow drilling rigs when oil was first discovered in the Middle East..

I remember a Bruree co limerick contractor, Maurice sheehy had 2 Muir Hills drawing silage, i remember being in the cab and there was some view and a nice whistle from the ford 6 cylinder engine. Nice video with great detail on the muir hill history. Thanks for posting.

Thanks Alan nice intro to MH. I only ever got to drive a 121, which was bought at auction by the dealer I worked for. I was tasked to "get her running" etc. Never had any troubles with it. It was as you say so simple. Put fuel, oil and water in it, and It would go until the fuel ran out! Loved it.

I had the pleasure of driving a Muir Hill (121 I think) for a few hours back in the late 90's. I was pulling a dumper trailer and the Muir Hill just sailed across the same ruts and slippery ground that the much newer Ford 7740 I was driving earlier couldn't manage!

We had 2 in the early 70s they used to pull our pea viners along with 2 ford county and a massey 1150, Sir David brown built tractors with harry ferguson he died in 1993 his factory was 15 mile from me in huddersfield.

I worked on the MH101's in the late 60's and the MH161 when it was launched. On both machines they had problems with the front steering knuckle boots splitting. The MH161 with the Perkins V8 was an awesome machine but had problems with the Fuller Roadranger splitter gearbox and clutches. They also had problems with the plumbed steel hydraulic pipes that kept blowing the olives, we converted them to hydraulic hoses. In 1974 i stopped working on tractors to join HM Forces. I then went onto using the MHA5000 shovel and rear acter units in the Army. The Army stopped using these in 1998.

Coens in Tullamore, Co Offaly were importers of muir hill in 70/80's...Also David Brown and Claas.... A lot of Contractors around would have had them originally on double chops/harvesters... Later pulling trailers...

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Great video 📹 👍

A good friend of mine had 2 of these under shanee poole dumpers back in the eightys

Hi from canada, back in the late80's my father purchased a murr hill, tractor. Engine blowen! But my father was a farm equipment mechanic. So we got a Engine and put it in.used for are fall work on are small farm. It was 110hp .we couldn't sell it over here as a murh hill. So painted as a county and it sold fast then. Only difference was the engine between a county and it.

Nice one Alan, they were a great yoke to pull in there day.Enjoy England, that's claas country your heading to.

We have one that was brought to the USA. Has the honorable job of pull the deer corn wagon

I drove a 121 and it was a great tractor and then we got 171 it could pull like a train with the v 8 engine but loads of trouble with wheels ,tyres ,crown wheels only had for 2 to3 years from new it was traded in for a tw 30 which could not pull like the 171.

I used to drive a Muir Hill 101. It used to stink of gearbox oil possibly due to the loop that was above the gearbox in the cabin. I absolutely loved the tractor. I used to pull a 13 furrow ground ripper. My employer, P B Headley in Hoath, Kent, had two. Mine was the fastest, the other I believe to have been an M H 102 but not entirely sure. Would love to hear from you. I am now 67 so my memory might not be so sure. Regards Mark.

Good to see my old 1124 at 10.07😉

Frank Harden Farms / Grass dryer` Misson Lincs used 121s pulling Wally grass cutters and 95 100s IN THE 60s 70s

have a look at the 95 100 two wheel drive might have been a northrop

While the high cab gave a great view it, the heavy engine out front and the short wheelbase led to "nodding dog syndrome" when travelling on the road!

somebody mentioned to me a long time ago that the cabs were the same as 2c or 3c JCB..anyone know ? I pulled a sub soiler with one in SW Scotland in early 70s .. On the ground we were on, it did just as well as the TD5

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Should have left up more pics of the tractors, less of you.