Hey Josh. Quick safety tip. Never touch your PTO with the engine running. It only takes a few seconds to turn off that engine, connect the PTO and start up again. The arms you save may be your own.
The very first vehicle I ever drove was a 1975 MF135. I was 8yrs old and my friends dad, who owned the farm, asked if I could drive. I said no so he said in less than an hour I’ll have you driving and operating the bail grab to stack bails. That summer of 1975 was just magical for a 8yr old ex city boy. By the end of that harvest I’d driven the MF135, MF165, MF575 and ended on a huge MF4880 4WD monster. At least it looked huge back in 78 to an 8yr old. I’ll never forget those times in 1978/79 Wish I could do it over again.
Good Stuff- just bought an old 75 MF165 today… So excited to get out there & start plowing & filling up a future garden. Actually have several more projects to do before I get to that point, but we have a few acres that’s not being properly utilized, the tractor will allow me to work the land much more efficiently.
My grandfather, a WW2 veteran who survived the sinking of the USS INDIANAPOLIS, came home and was given 72 acres of land by the state of North Carolina, with an old cabin on it to farm. He had 6 different tractors on it...one an old steel steam tractor....but he had just like yours only a bit older...and old 60s model Ford blue one was probably his newest one that he traded stuff for....when I saw your tractor, it reminded me of memories when I was young kid....as I got older, us grandsons spent our summers helping run the farm, especially harvest time...the things I learned on the farm helped me in my own 23 year Marine Corps career....thanks for the videos...farming is a "lost art"... but our President is gonna change that with the deregulations...thanks again...
In 1964 my dad bought a 135. After riding back breaking old fords I was in heaven. it felt like a sportscar compared to a ford or Deere. Still have it and use it to drag pastures and rake hay.
Hi we usually plow then let it sitt for a week. Or so and plow again and plant.whatever grass or weeds you have there after you plow once they will try hard to survive and comeback but when you get them the second time they have a much harder time coming back.just sharing our way.all the best.
Josh ! Here comes JC's safety tip---> Never hook up a PTO shaft with the tractor engine running. Sometimes it may be half engaged and the slightest rotation will put it in power rotation. In other words, You dont want to be sucked into a machine.
you have pto shaft working on machine,without any safety guards, to prevent anyone getting caught in it when its spinning, and when you were attaching the rotavater you should attach the lower arms first, not the top link, and you were in too high a gear, when you were using it in field, you need to slow down on your passes,
I purchased a 3 point tiller several weeks ago and worked our garden already. It took longer to hook it to the tractor than to till it! Saves a lot of time and hard work. I purchased the tiller used, a Landpride RTR 2570, it’s 70” wide, reverse rotation, weighs 874 lbs. It works my Ford 3600 diesel a bit but it all works well together. The tiller was on my list to buy for years, glad I finally got one!
bhahhhaha..I feel ya...our first few implements took forever to hook up!! It was such a pain...funny...we use the tiller about 2 hours per year and then it goes back in the barn bhahhaha
Searched out this video and noticed I’ve already watched it quite a bit ago. I’ve got a 1966 MF135 (gas) and I’m picking up a Land Pride RTR1274 tiller for it tomorrow!
I got a Massey Ferguson 135. I is a wery useful tractor for many types of work. And it always starts, even in low temperatures. The 135 is one of the best tractors ever produced.
Good 👍 job the tiller did a good job my land is va red clay good land but the land is very tight i have a 35 mf good tractor motor sounds good 👍 on your 135
Ive got a 78 year old Farmall M that is up to the task. Never confuse an old tractor for a new one...old is gold. One last thing...was that me singing that song? 😁
I've got arthritis really bad now days but listening to you cutting up on your guitar and having a good time makes me want to pull out one of the guitars. I used to have a blast making up fun songs. It's good medicine. Great videos.
You need to attach the lower links first. One side first, then move the tractor forward or back and adjust the lift up or down to attach the other side lower link, then use the lift for adjustment to attach the upper link. Believe me, after 50 years of hooking up implements to tractors, this is the easy way, and the way that Harry Ferguson meant it to be. PTO shaft last without the engine running. You need a guard over that shaft as well. Get your shorts or trousers hooked up in that shaft and you can count the 540 RPM's yourself.
I also have a 5 foot Muratori tiller and it works great. In the fall, I brush hog the tall foliage in the garden and then till it in, pulling an 8 foot cultipacker behind it. That gives all winter for the vegetation to decompose and be ready for spring planting.
Nice video. I have a 1967 MF 135 and run a 6 ft tiller with it. Great tractor. Many parts available since they were so popular back in the 60's and 70's. It works hard to run the tiller in virgin ground but in worked ground its effortless. Mine has the gas engine. I wish it had the diesel. Can't beat the sound and smell of an old diesel tractor. I agree, the tractor and tiller are a great investment. I used to till our garden but stopped because of the hard pan created by the tiller. Our soil is pretty high in clay content and a couple runs of the tiller would create a hard pan so hard I could barely get a shovel through it. In 2018 we changed to permanent beds and a no-till plan. I set up the beds in rows so I can still drive the tractor in on the aisle ways to tilth the beds with the tiller. Tilthing is really just tilling but only about 2 inches deep. Most "no-till" farmers tilth in one way or another. It doesn't create the hard pan that deep tilling or plowing does. And it doesn't kill as many earth worms. We put weed fabric mulch over the beds and walk ways. We don't use any herbicides and the weeds have been suppressed 95%. Heavy duty reusable weed fabric is also a great investment. It's worked great for us this year. I still use the tiller for my deer food plots. It works great for preparing the seed bed and also for tilling in those seeds that like to be deeper. Follow up the seeding with a 6 ft cultipacker and I have very nice results. I keep an eye on soil compaction in the food plots. I have a single row subsoiler that I put on the MF 135 and it does a great job of breaking the hard pan.
you can't judge a tractor by age just the way it has been taken care of.My 265 just put in 300 acres of corn last week and cut 150 acres of grass hay in the last 2 days.It's not the oldest I have working my rake tractor is a H farmal it's been doing that since 1943 when my grandfather bought it.
tribulation138 - Totally agree! If most people realize the soil destruction they're doing with the tremendous direct cost associated. Things would change in a hearth beat... For me no till to the win and moving more and more toward natural farming. ;-)
We have a MF 178 with multipower and front loader and i gotta say, its an absolute beast. Its great for all around work like potato field, forrest work and snow ploughing.
My dad always had Massey Fergusons. I have hooked up rototillers and mowers to that tractor hundreds of times and never got greasy. Also to my own New Holland.
Another great video. It brings back memories of when I learned to drive and use a tractor. The Massey 135 is what I learned on. That soil looks awesome.
Used to go to the dealer and drool over a 36 inch walk behind mower. Handy on those five acre horse properties. Nice job of tilling, not to mention it's easier on you. Thanks for sharing.
I always like to grease my implement before hooking up. Just lots more room. I agree with another comment just off tractor when hooking pto. Like your channel.
Wow , Yes your right .... a wife that wants to help is priceless . Shes super cute and I think you said she's 40... No way .... She looks way younger than 40 . Your video's are awesome . I learn so much and enjoy the video's as well . Mahalo from Kona
I can't wait to see the plants grow in your garden. Love that tracker tiller set up it took me 4 weekends to do my garden with my 6.5 horsepower front tine push filler
When I was in college at Texas A&M we would endure a lecture from our soil science professor if we called it dirt. It is soil. Dirt is misplaced soil. I got a degree from there in agriculture. I know you called it soil later but you called it dirt at first.
Just found this video. My dad has a Massey 135 just like that except gasoline rather than diesel. I had no doubt when I saw the title that tractor would handle that easily. One of the stiffest dang clutches i ever put my foot on too.
Great tractor. I just came in from working on food plots with my Massey Ferguson 135. They are legendary tractors and with a Perkins Diesel run for many trouble free years. Mine is a 1964 model and looks just like yours. Love the patina.
try hooking up two point arms first then three point arm, then the pto. you can lift arm or lower so the third link will line up. Think about large implements where you are unable to move implement by hand, it has to be all done with the tractor on larger implements.
I know that tractor well, learned to drive on it in 1976. I still got it and a 180 too Mine is a late 60s gas with power steering. Great little machine
I used push tillage machine when I was young and just like driving MF188 with no power steering you needed 💪💪 to operate these equipment. Great vid👍ps don’t forget fit protect cover to your pto shaft don’t won’t any you fine folks getting hurt.ok.woooo
I used to change the implements on my dad's Massey Ferguson all the time by myself when I was a kid. Those through pins are easy like the ones on my dad's box scraper. His Howard tiller had rigid pins and we had to move the lift arms sideways to attach them. Push two buttons on the drive shaft and slide it onto the PTO shaft. His Bush hog only had one button on the drive shaft. 😀 I miss his old tractors. I had a New Holland for a while with a bush hog and rototiller but the Newholland turned out to be a piece of junk. I ended up selling it all it was not paying for itself. I love the two stage clutch on most farming equipment. I ran a hay baler on a small 9N tractor one Summer and you had to leave the tractor in neutral while you put the hay baler in gear and get it going and then with the flywheel keeping that going for a seconds you could put the tractor in gear and start moving. What a pain. I love old equipment from the 40s 50s and 60s and 70s.
That little feller will handle a 6 foot bush hog. I also suggest getting a 2 bottom with 16" plows (not 14"). It will pu;ll 3 bottom plow. I learned to plow on a 135 (Still have it) and a 7 foot lift type disk. With the 2 stage clutch on that tractor, I would lower the implement almost to the ground, engage the PTO so that the U Joints won't ratttle.
Mrs. Stoney Ridge is easy on the eyes, a good sport, has a lethal kick and professional level medical skills. We need to see her doing more in more videos!
yep....thanks for telling me my wife is hot...if you want eye candy head over to Banshi Moon...if you want farm then stay over here...the reason why she's not on the vlogs is because we can't make a video together without someone making a comment about her looking good...on and on...she looks at the comments and it creeps her out...to be frank with you...It doesn't make me too happy either. It's not like saying "nice tractor dude" she's my family
My father in law had one of those tillers. Let me tell you, you don’t want to get something hung in that thing cause it will chew you up and spit you out. Best tiller I’ve ever seen. Put your tractor in granny, drop that thing in the ground and it makes powder. We used on out deer fields and it was awesome. Gonna be a beautiful garden. Great video as well. Your wife is like mine. Doesn’t want to be noticed but loves being outdoors. See ya brother.
A good buddy of mine is sitting in a hospital in WV as I type this praying he won't lose his right leg below the knee. He was doing just what Josh was doing, working with a PTO driven tiller on his tractor. Somehow he got hung up in the PTO/tiller and it nearly tore his leg off. Respect for those type machines can't be over stated. Great looking garden soil Josh!!!
I've done a lot of Teddin and Windrowing with a 135 Massey....not the fastest nor the strongest but it worked.Then my Uncle bought a 4x4 4610 Ford,and between the 2 you could work up some Hay...thanks for the video
I have a 1972 MF 135 I run 8 hours a day 5 days a week. I keep the maintenance up on her she always pulls hard. More than I can say about some other things that are 47 years old.
I like the videos. Suggestion on hooking up the 3pt hitch and PTO. Start with the lift arms, then top link and like you did the PTO shaft last. Once lift arms are connected the top link is simple just lift or lower to line it up. I usually start with the lowest lift arms first then left for the second. Maybe that will make it a bit easier. I am sure it was very nice to have Mrs. Stoneyridge help guide the lift arms.
Dude, get you a 6' heavy pry bar to move that tiller around so hooking it up is easier. Should only hafta move the tractor once and do the rest with the bar.
A piece of 1 1/2 or 2 inch thick wall pipe 5ft long works great for prying equipment around to get pins hooked turns 2 man job into 1 man job. Also run tiller in low gear on tractor makes for less passes. Keep up the good work
We have a 1972 135 with the 3 cylinder Perkins gas which is basically the same as that the 3 cylinder gasser is just a diesel converted to run gas we love our old Masseys we have 4 of them 1 old Ford and one longtrac
Hey stoney ridge farmer just some friendly tips when u hook up a tiller or any other tool on the back of a tractor always hook your lower hitch arms on 1st then your top link and unhook your top 1st and lower hitch arms last that way u have control over your implement using the hydraulics of the tractor to help get your pins in or out and please next time u hook up a tiller make sure your lovey wife doesn't come from behind or stand between implement and tractor to hook up they can fall forward or back quite easy just simple things the old man drummed into me that keeped me safe over the years hope it can for you to all the best and keep the videos coming I enjoy watching them
Haha My Massey is going on 60 years old. Only thing I've ever replaced on it (in my lifetime) was the starter and it's from a different model. I had to kinda rig the wiring together. Still a great old workhorse!
We had a 1965 model (35) Massie, before they put a 1 in front of the 35, one of the smallest tractor's we had but had a lot of bang for a small tractor. It was a worker. No power steering either so was a bit hard to steer especially when the front end loader was on it. Started plowing fields on the family farm with it at age 13, almost put in in a pond once, but that is a story for another time. LOL
John, I tend to disagree. What works best for me is to hook up top link first and with the tractor in neutral use the turnbuckle to move the tractor forward or back to align the bottom two links. And I never attach any of them with the tractor running. I friend of mine lost an arm attaching a pto shaft when the pto wasn't engaged until he tried to hook it up, but that's a different story.
Totally agree with Lazy. I've been hooking up and unhooking implements since I was a teenager on our two Cane farms in Queensland Australia, and i'm 52 now and that's how we did it. Except we would ensure the tractor was in the center and at least one lifting arm was spot on, put in the pin hook up the center bar and wind the center bar in or out to line up the other lift arm however the park brake was always on this enabled the implement only to move back and forward. Sad about some of those older Massey Fergusons was the dry disc brakes hopeless.The newer 168,185 and 188 all had oil disc brakes. The multi power was good but in low it would not hold on down hill runs so you could not use a rotary hoe in low on the multi power. There were a few scary moments for people hauling harvested sugar cane with over 8 tons pushing them you quickly learned not to use the multi power in low going down hill.
Yep ,& then you can jockey around a bit .I was hooking up mowers ,trailers ,discs ,graders when l was 12 years old.by the amount of smoke that was puffing ,could have used a lower gear.Only a 35 Horse tractor Now
Nice Massey, and another great video! We have a 1964 MF65, I have some videos of it on my channel mainly plowing and snow blowing, but we are looking for a rotoriller for our field because we let someone borrow our plows and my Father thinks we can skip the ploughing and just use a rototiller because we a derocked the field a few times way back when.
My granddaddy had a 1951(I think) Ferguson (before Massey and Ferguson got together) when he sold it(it's been at least 15 year's ago) it still plowed his garden and bush hogged like a champ
Nice looking soil good tractor my first tractor was a used 135 massey think it was late 75 model a little different from yours an English made tractor could keep up with 50 acres with no problem
I grew up with Massey Ferguson's My dad had a 35 , 65 , 135, 165, 175, 255, 265, 275, 285, 461 , 471 Massey Ferguson. Before the Massey Ferguson's my dad owned a Allis Chamber and a 9N Ford. I have 3 brothers that has Massey Ferguson's a 35 MF , 451 MF , 471 MF. I have a 539 IMT it the the same as a 35 MF I own it for 13 yrs , rebuilt the 3 cly Diesel engine a year after owning it, I have a little over 2,500 hrs on it now. It's great on fuel efficiency in light work it uses 3/4 gal per hr. such raking hay or using a sickle bar mower, doing heavy load work such as Bushhogging and plowing it will use 1 1/4 gal. These old 135 Massey Ferguson's are great tractors they are good for many different uses.
Loved the video, great job on building the soil. we started our raised beds about two weeks ago. I would love to have that soil, we will work on it. Thanks
Your soil looks pretty good. My garden has been planted since Good Friday. So far everything looks good and finally got some rain. My sweet corn is about a foot tall and tomatoes about 2 foot with a few small tomatoes. Zucchini and squash have blooms. Cantaloupes are kinda slow but now with the warmer weather and the rain should start to take off. Purple hull peas and sweet peas doing really well.
I was a massey Fergus dealer from 1986 till 2002 the 135 massey was with a doubt the best tractor massey ever built I kept one when I sold the business I plan on doing a complete restoration on it soon that tractor will give you years of trouble free service !!! The engine is a perkins AD3 "152" there where thousands of those engines build over a span of 50 years and are still built today they where used in welders and generators all over the world ! Always change the hydraulic/transmission fluid at least once per year
