Combining winter wheat with a Massey Ferguson 510 combine in Holland. The video was taken during the harvest of 2012 Visit my channel for more classic combines working in Holland. / tractorspotter
I worked a custom harvest crew in 1968 in Washington State USA for a fella named Raymond Glass. he had a pair of 510 Massey's. 327 CI Chevy v-8's with straight pipes and 14 foot wide header.
Really nice tidy combine. Looks like its got a fixed header. I would like one of these with the quick detachable header. Hard to find good combines like this now.
You can tell which ones are workers. They all have the duct tape to seal the return elevators and augers. I remember running our old MF 300 back in the early eightys. It took a roll of duct tape to keep the grain in the combine. Every year it was the same old thing. Pull off the old tape and put on new.
Fantastic seeing one of these at work again. The 500 series were way ahead at the time in ease of driver control and were well built and designed and a pleasure to work on. Spent several years in service and overhaul of them. Because of the super efficient cutter bar and automatic height control the sieves became over loaded hence the 510 with the wider rear end. Never short of power and a fast unload time they were a great machine. As always harvesting settings were important but main ones easy to do from the drivers seat and forced other manufacturers to follow suit. if you compare the design of the 500 Series with other machines at the time they win hands down. Amazes me the only comment some can make is whether the tyres are the right way round, some farms used the combine wheels on MF tractors when a light footprint was required ie top dressing in spring and popped wheels back on as they came after use. It does'nt make a bit of difference on a Combine they are not hauling anything. Regarding grain loss not on these if serviced properly, I don't ever remember that being a problem with 500 Series.
They were okay ' but 515 had the cascade or drum at back and below straw walkers if stop in oats of heavy straw crop had to turn across row ,as the walkers would bloke up solid one hell of job on hot itchy day!!need put all modern day drivers on these would not complain about there job today!!bloody night mare
When I was farming in Alberta some farmers reversed the tire direction so they could always back out of a wet spot if they started to lose traction going in.
Classic !! Hard to find these in the field anymore.Not many small farms left and most went for scrap now.I drove one of these many years ago now,I tried to imagine using one like this down south custom combining,LOL
Wow where's all the air con,cd stereos,led displays,and computer gizmos now?!!... This is why I enjoy looking at these old classic machines....everythings seat of the pants operation,you have to be on your toes watching all that's going on around you,being in the elements........
My uncle bought one secondhand in the late 70s.The cab was more like a hothouse.You were out of the worst of the dust but it was a miserable place to spend a hot afternoon.
Trying to figure out why the wheels are on backward. The 510's were a bit shy in the sieves. Lots of walkers and lots of cylinder, but a nice machine to operate.
Ahhh, had a 510 western special on the farm when I was growing up. Don't recall what it had for an engine orginally (Likely a 327 C.I.) but my dad swapped in a pontiac 350 that ran good ofor years until it dropped a valve into the #2 cylinder, we planned to put in another 350. Then the BSE crisis hit Canada and we got wiped out and now we don't have enough farm left to make a living... but hearing this old girl run brings back fond memories.
