TTZ from Uzbekistan

[kevanos]

I posted some pictures of TTZ-built tractors on FarmPhoto. Here's the link to one... www.farmphoto.com/homestead/message.asp?dsply=all&mid=12440

TTZ tractors are built at the Tashkent Tractor Plant in Tashkent, and is a part of Uzselhozmash Holding. It has a joint venture with Case called UzCasetractor for tractors, and UzCasemash for cotton pickers. They have a CaseIH and a New Holland tractor listed on their web page as products.
www.carthillamc.com/uzselhozmashholding/eng/index.htm

[Woodbeef]

Hey Kevanos,

how's it going?

Intertesting looking tricyles.

Too bad the info is not in the same language as the front page.

First time I saw a sales pitch to buy in to the company also.

[kevanos]

Woodbeef,

Thanks for the reply. Things are going well!

The salespitch at TTZ is interesting, especially since they do have three or four joint-ventures with Case New Holland. I used Babelfish to translate the pages from Russian to English. The tricycle tractors are listed as being for Cotton. Cotton is evidently a big crop in Uzbekistan, which is where the company is based.

[Red_Painter]

Is the tricycle tractor based on the Minsk tractors? Remember seeing a trade magazine from the CCCP at U of Idaho years back. They had some pictures of Minsk(Belarus) tractors in tricycle form (maybe higher clearance wheels) for the cotton production. They also had an odd looking cotton picker which seemed a little like the Ben Pearson Rust picker or AC picker maybe built in the US at one time. It had a front tricycle wheel with big wheels in the rear. Four row picker had picker units staggered behind the first two inner picker units. Kind of an odd looking picker.

[kevanos]

I've read in various places that all of the tractors built in the former Soviet Union had the same basic designs. Since the breakup, the designs have been moving apart from one-another.

[eppie]

Somebody said lately on the topic Pudding started, that Belarus had built Farmall M license. Well, if i look at the Belarus 600, it sure looks like a farmall. the successor, 650 too.