i want to become a farmer but I live in the city and I've never used a tractor. do you have any recommendations on how I can get a job as a farm helper? Much appreciated.
@@jamesrussell8903 There isn't any farming around here anymore, mostly just hay and gardens, i like a big garden. The only people larger farms hire is Mexicans from what i see. lol - Sorry can't help
@@helplure Doesnt need to plow a field, its a riding mower. I have a 1982 MF-270 for that. That old ferguson would plow a field quicker though with my mowers 22 hp Briggs engine.
I have a 1954 Ferguson TE-A 20 and i really love it because it's easy to work on when something need to be fixed, it's cheap to get new parts for it, it's very fun to drive and it's build to last a very long time compared to the tractors that's being produced today.
i,m 63 now but when i was 14 i was lucky enough to get to drive one of these little grey massey,s when odd jobbing on local farm pea picking days. Brilliant little machine. i bet its still around today somewhere.
I grew up on a Sheep Station in Western NSW and when it rained the road from the Homestead to the bus stop was impassable by car so Dad would connect the "Carry All" to the back of the Fergie and I would stand on it and Dad would take me to meet the school bus.When I got older Dad taught me how to drive on the Fergie.Happy days indeed,I miss them both so much.
The circular saw attachment certainly seems safe enough, unless young Billy aimlessly wanders into the blade and Yikes!!!! What are we gonna tell Billy's mother?
And now that John Deere, Cat, and others have made it impossible to repair/ replace serialized electronic modules without dealer scan equipment (or bootleg software) old analog tractors are going up in value.
may. But these complex modern machines can do much more and diffrent works with less and less human. They may not that lastig than the old ones, but they are still worth the money.
@@thelastprussian6491 80s tractors have nearly the same power and can do nearly as much work as modern ones with no electronics its a con to make more money for big corps that leads us into the world of you will own nothing and be happy. why dose a tractor need a complex engine management.
@@britsfabrication as i mentioned, the new ones can drive itself and can use theire power more efficent. The Power might be the same, but the quality in work increase. There are still factorys than build new Tractors like in 1985. ,,Belarus'' for example. But there sipmlistic ( and less complex ) design can not beat out the ,,spaceship-tech'' Machines of... let's say New Holland...or what ever you may favor. The Time of big and easy Tractors of ,,pre 2000'' is over. May it comes back, may the rebotic will drive them on their own soon. Who can say?
My dad has been running a Massey Ferguson for nearly 25 years. Moved to the farm my mom grew up on in '95 when I was five, and a year or two later he bought his old tractor from the neighbor. Fixed it up. Let me ride on his lap and steer it many times. This is one of my fondest memories! Still uses it for everything. He painted it dark green to match his 73 Bronco. They look weird to me in their original color (red).
I'm not even a person with a farming background but I learned to drive as a kid with one of these with the gear stick between the legs (4 gears) and the throttle behaving much like a car but manipulated using a lever near the steering wheel. Man oh man did I have fun with this beauty back in the mid 90's.
We have been using this tractor in our farm for more than 50 years never break down all what have repair is the fuel pump and battery everything else is fine
It was correctly set up, but then they showed it on the first pass. DOH!! On the second and all subsequent passes the right hand wheels would be running in the trough formed by the last furrow thus levelling the plough. Nobody ever bothered to upset the proper setting just to get a proper first furrow.
Not a massey this is a Standard Ferguson made by the Standard motor co of Standard/Triumph fame. Harry Ferguson teamed up with Massey Harris a little later, mid 50s. After that they were red & grey as opposed to the little grey Fergie
What happened to the lifting rig? I haven't seen it ever before, would make it easier to lift as long as you have something to support it after lifting itself.
@@AeroFix94 Yep, you are correct. Thank you. Well @Saul1337, I think you make a valid point. The front tires are easily lifted using the front end loader. Just set the bucket on the ground and keep moving the loader down. Still, your point is valid when discussing the rear. I guess farm jacks, similar to old style bumper jacks when vehicles had thick chrome numbers, are so ubiquitous, we just use that in the field when we need to lift something. Actually, now that I think about it, my rear tire sidewalls are so rigid that if I had a flat rear tire I’d remove any rear load such as a 3-point attachment or rear weights, add weight to the loader bucket which would reduce rear tire load similar to a teeter totter, then drive back to the mechanic shop where I have a large floor jack, jack stands, tire plugs, plug slime, tire plug repair hand tools (hole reaming tool, plug insert tool, razor knife to trim the excess plug,) and an air compressor, then I’d repair the tire. I probably would not remove the tire from the tractor unless there was more damage then a common tire puncture.
These tractors will still be alive even when 2021 models are nothing but scrap metal. The attachments available from Ferguson were so far ahead of their time it wasn't even funny, and some of the features on the tractor like how it is IMPOSSIBLE to start it in gear puts even current machines with their electronic switches that often fail and can be bypassed completely to shame. Mr Ferguson was a very clever man, and would be truly disgusted with what todays manufacturers have done with the machines he pioneered, and lets not even get into what Agco have done to his name :(
It's amazing how many of these are still running. Also it's my opinion that fossil fuel powered machines saved a lot of animals from abuse. Probably wrong
my uncle had one of these tractors when i was a kid, i think it was a '41 Ford 9N. that mower bar attachment @1:50 cut three of our dogs feet off once. can't imagine how many people got hurt by that ginormous saw blade. it's still sitting in a shed in Pennsylvania i suppose.
I will buy 4 tractor models 😄 Ferguson TE 20, Lanz Bulldog, Porsche 308 super diesel and the normal tractor built on it's backhoe counterpart the Fiat 880 DT. There were backhoe tractors built on the Fiat 880 during the late 70s and early 80s but the numbers of how many built is unknown but i guess over 100 were built at that time our is one example of how they looked like when they got produced and ready to be sold 😄
