Finally a Massey farm 👍🇺🇸. Them 100 series Massey Ferguson are in my opinion the best looking and best built most reliable farm tractors ever bolted togather! Great Video
We had a 95 Massey on our farrm. It ran the manure spreader, grain mill, chopper , Bailer, silo filler . Pulled wagons. It was the tractor that never left the farm. It was always there & always dependable.
Massey Ferguson bought Badger Northland close to 1965, then divested them somewhere between 1978 and 1982. Hence, the reason for so much similarly in equipment for years there.
The Uni choppers had no capacity until they went to the cream/grey ones. That tunnel auger in the 767 chopper unit just killed it from really going and their chopper heads weren't much to write home about. If they would have had the 803C's 15 years earlier the idea would have worked out better, and put an adapter on it and hang a Deere head and you were talking. Alot of Uni's were in my area, for seed production, choppers, and picking ear corn as well as a few combine units.
I worked on a feedlot in Iowa we had a 3310,a4410 and a 6650 self propelled with a 6v92 Detroit . All 3 were a absolute pain in the butt to keep running And after they went to more than 3 rows the head didn't feed well constantly loosing there bite when trasitioning from the back of the head to the feed rolls and if you reversed the head to far then it was time to drag all the corn off the head or feed it by hand .And at the end we had to build most of our own parts because Hiniker bought Fox for there stalk chopper and abandoned the choppers. Finally bought a 3970 deere and cranked up a 4650 to 235hp ,The 4410 Fox had a little more capacity but you couldn't keep it in the field where once you got the Deere running in the morning it would run all day. When I was a kid in the early 70's in southern Ia If you had a combine it was a 510 Massey they probably had at least 50 percent of the combine market until the 6600/7700 came out and by that time MF dealers were getting to be fewer and you had a JD dealer in about every other town back then .When i moved to the more central part of the state there was a MF dealer here until the mid 90's .I talked to 1 of the owners once and he said in their haydays their 1 store dealership would sell 40 combines a year . When i worked for Deere and they released the 9000 series if we sold 8 or 9 new machines a year we were doing good . Keep the videos coming this has become one of my favorite channels
Thanks Ryan, was going to ask to do a story on a big Massey. My grandpa had two 1155 back in the day and I've always had a soft spot for them. He then had a 2775 for a few years with the big 640 v8 until the mfwd started coming out and traded into a 4650
So I'm way north of you guys, and when I was a small kid, I think every farm here had a Massey combine. Some even had 2. Quite a few 1100 were around here too.
Was a Massey Harris farm when younger(33,33D, 44 Special and 55), but when I come along the MF dealers were gone for the most part. I was enamored with Massey tractors. A neighbor had an MF 1150 with a cab that was awesome. Was the scavenger spreader green in color?? I bought a new single axle after using tank spreaders on our dairy. Didn't have much luck with the scavenger even with a lifted auger in the center. Went to a New Idea 3622 spreader within a year.
I would have to liked to listen to gentlemen on the Massey Ferguson . His story about his life with selling tractors. Couldn't stand how pushy and brash as he trying to do an interview .
