Adding more ground, that’s great. Fitting it down with 1970’s equipment, that’s awesome. The video clip at the end was the truest thing I’ve ever seen. Thanks, J.T.
Great review and like your style and outlook on life. First introduced to the 1155 back in '77 over here in Blighty. My jaw dropped when it came into the yard, porn on wheels. You could hear the turbo whistling from 2 miles away when it was heading to the auction, those were the days
TV8 540 twin turbo marine Perkins put out an estimated 350 hp at the flywheel, worked on a lot of them in Florida,cool sounding engine. The farm that I worked at had five of them three with chrome stacks.
Cool 😎, we had a 1155 without the cab. Two 1135s, one 1100, one 1130. Two 175s one 135. A 35. When our 1155 burnt-out 5 clutches in less than two years, daddy said that's enough! He traded it for our first 1135. We were pulling a 720 Massy Ferguson harrow with the 1155, it was just too much for the clutch. Plenty of HP though!
Hi, great video. Always good to see the older tractors. I used to operate a 1080 Mr multi power many years ago. It'd pull that every day of the week. Also used a 4020 JD similar work and no problems at all. Now to really give her a test, put a mower conditioner or a precision chop forager on the PTO, that'll give her something to make those horses think about. Kind regards from across the pond. Mal.
A fallow winter under some chicken/turkey manure would do it good. That shtuff will burn up the vegetation. Maybe a moldboard would have been better for the sod breaking prep, but maybe it would be the same. Can always try again next year 😂 You need a mascot in the extra opening on the hood--a gnome, your favorite team, IT, Dwight Schrute LOL. This armchair farming is easy! Thanks for sharing this with us.
Another thing is, that engine is really healthy. No smoke, popping, no knockin like a jehovas witness😆. Really cool tractor, JT! Keep up the good work, God bless! 👍👌
JT I've said it before, your a nice guy, BUT more than that you are a hard Working Man! For a city worker from the UK there is some 'envy' of your life choices 😊
We had a 1155 with a straight pipe. People in the housing EDITION didn't like it pulling a 20 ft Disc, a 20.5 field cultivator and a 21 foot brillon packer altogether 4 in deep. L 3rd... loud
Awesome! Love the Masseys. I love hearing a seeing a tractor really work. (Sell Big John and find another cool MF! 😉) Need a set of duals for the 1155!
Sounds really good!!! I love the impulse thump for the V8 sound. That Massey is living its best life. Would it have been better to use a bottom plow and just till under the top soil???
Watching you cultivate a field is a little like watching a campfire. It's sort of mesmerizing. I can't look away. Anyway, I'm not a farmer, but I grew up in farm country, and it looks to me like you worked that soil up just fine. However, what do you do about all the weed seeds that are bound to be in that soil? Can you spray wheat with something that will kill weeds & not the wheat? BTW, I love that 1155. It sounds so mean, and it looks cool as anything!
Thank you very much! As for the weeds, I hit it with roundup a few days prior and I’ll hit the wheat with husky in the spring. And hopefully the grass won’t get out of control 😉
Love them big Massey work hard in a field. What is the difference or how do you when to run a disc over the chisel plow. All we had growing up was a disc or we plowed .? Thanks for a great video.
Man, that's great. I'm looking online to buy copies and vintage brochures of those Massey's... I want to find out more about them when they were new. I love the old brochures of those tractors. I'm very intrigued to know what wheel options they had in the election from the farmer. What tire measurements does your girl have? They seem wide... I always look at you from Argentina. My greetings.
Not telling u how to farm. But probably need to spray that ground pretty good. Don’t want a weed field in ur wheat field. In today’s world ground is ground. U can make it better little time and a little money. Another killer video!!!!
Check the adjustment, small vertical rod under plate between feet on my 1085. Mine doesn't work good in hi range but ok in low. I believe if it needs rebuild, it's a split job. Had mine done when hydraulics went
Like Brandon said, check the linkage, I believe on the 1155 the linkage goes straight to a hydraulic block. If that’s all ok, then your charge pump pressure is the next obstacle. It is steers/ all other hydraulics work fine then your M/P clutches are shot. That is a split and they are behind the front cover of the trans.
Would one of those spiked rollers help to break up the clumps more then hit it with the cultivator? Or one of those rollers with all the individual narrow rollers that kinda wobble back and forth. Oliver66farmboy uses them to break up the clumps and help to smooth the feild out a bit.
I am currently breaking a small field , a triangle 10 acre piece that is separated by the rest of the farm by the railroad. I am using a ancient Minneapolis Moline one way I found in the tree rows, the tractor is a 1030 Case. My chisel plow and field cultivator are 20 miles away. Next year I am planting a native grass mix. Curious what steps you took to break up this sod.
Thanks for the response. I usually do the same as you. A chisel plow with twisted spikes, usually working it twice different directions. Then disc a couple times then the vibershank. This piece came with a JD Surflex and that ancient MM one way. Never used one, I just had to try them out
We had a 45 acre field rented & crop on it. Landlord rented it to another farmer who would pay more. That farmer harvested the crop & sold it so he could plant another crop. It was a huge mess. Everything got straightened out in the courts...
Never doubted she'd pull for a moment. Never even saw any black smoke puffing. Did she even grunt? She may not have been the prettiest bell at the ball, but damned if she wouldn't turn a head or two at a barn dance.....................
