Maybe someone can help me out. In the late 50's and thru 1961, one of my brothers went with a custom cutter who had 9 machines. I have seen pictures of those machines and they look a lot like this one. Since a custom cutter would have fairly new machines, I am not sure what models came out in what years, But I know they were Massey's. I doubt if they were Massey Harris's, but just not sure. I had thoiught that the Super 92 was a Massey Harris, but I am probably wrong on that.
I remember like it was yesterday when we were disking with a brand new Allis 190xt with the plastic still on the seat..pulling that big 22 Krause offset and in the field next to us were 3 Massy Ferguson 92s shiny red cutting away in the golden wheat. What a memory...
I know a chap who collects old combines here in England and he own a very rare French built 1962 Massey Ferguson 892 combine. It is the European version of the Super 92. It was sold as a stop gap while MF Scottish factory was fitted out for the new 400 500 series from the old school 780 special. The French built combines had am 8 in front of the original number. Scottish built combines had 7 in front. By a account's the French built Massey combines were much better than Scottish
If you had a super 92 Massey Ferguson you had the World by the ass LOL of all the combines my father owned which by the way we're all Massey Ferguson the Super 92 was his favourite
A guy in our community was a hobby farmer and found a Super 92 diesel! It was a slick old machine and he used it for wheat harvest only. It's the only one I've ever seen. These guys are moving right along with this old iron. Nice to see it.
Many hours in 60s on Supper 92 on farm in Ada, MN. Dad on combine, brother Fred driving truck. I would be on swather in next field. Dad customized seat by raising it about 15 inches to get his head out of some of the dust. Had to bend over to reach doing well but it worked.
I see comments on here about different motors in these machines. I know in Europe they were equipped with the Perkins diesel. never saw any of those here but some were equipped with a Chrysler Slant six, but most all were equipped with the flat head industrial six. I think the slant six was because Chrysler quit building the flat head version of industrial engines while the combine was still in production. The Perkins diesel would have been a big improvement due to the heat issue and related fire hazard, being under the machine. Don't know why they weren't avillable here in the states. These machines were excellent in small grain, corn was a bit out of the design allowances. Massey had a big market share until the 80s when the farm economy went to crap thanks to Carter and his minions. They made good machinery and were competitive with any.
One of the best combines ever built !! 1st time i saw these working i was in the field with my Dad offsetting behind the custom cutters using those 92s !! Best memories ever !!!👍👍👍👍👍👨🌾👨🌾
That's the way it was smokem if you got em most people that smoked were more responsible than 90% of the dumb -sses these days can't even put a camp fire out jees Louise!
Hello ! ...i am french and i no understand you when you speak because you speak too speedy for me ...but i want tell that your vidéo is really super. ...i remember my young time ....thank you very much !...
I would love to find one of these with all of the heads. I love the old combines. No computers, no GPS, just operator skills. It's a shame that they don't make anything like this anymore. I would grow corn, sorghum and soybeans on my place, but I just can't justify the cost of a modern combine, nor do I have the acreage to make it worth it to me.
My dad had a fleet of these . I was 16 operating one of these and know these from the front to back. Me and my sister could pull and replace an engine in 45 minutes. She was only 8 at the time so she could get into all the little places easy. You had to keep these going because time is money. The drivers thought they could have the day off when an engine went. We just told them to take a 45 minute lunch. They hated us. You could completely rebuild an engine overnight. We always had 2 on standby. It seemed like the season would never end from June thru December. Grains and corn.
How come we had them medium trucks in Europe throughout the 50 iies, 60ies and 70ies and now no more????? Very modern combines for that time and very fast. We had Clayson (later New Holland) and Haas combines in that time. But the straw was never chopped, we bale our straw.
Had a super 92 really good trouble free combine. That flat head 6 cylinder engine down underneath seemed like it would get hot, but never gave any trouble.
I remember every nook and cranny of this machine. My Dad had a fleet of custom combines and we would operate almost year round. I was only 12 running them. My sister who was 8 at the start was my best mechanic. She could crawl into the small places. We could have an engine pulled in and out in a half hour and be running. That passed the operators off when they thought they were going to have the day off. You have to combine when it is time to go. Time is money.
Quelle largeur de coupe ??? 4 ou 5 mètres ? Largeur de batteur ou corps de batteuse ??? 1,05 ou 1,20 ou 1,40 mètre ??? Merci pour cette belle Vidéo !!! J B ( Vesoul ) FRANCE le 05/11/17
