I spent many hours doing custom combining with the 510 back in the 60’s. The damn A/C never seemed to work properly so it could be pretty miserable in the cab, still it was better than operating the JD 95 where all you had was an umbrella. This brings back a lot of memories.
We had a 510, had the 327 Chevy engine not a perfect combine but a damn good one! The sound of that engine would make the hair stand up in the back of your neck, straight pipe off the manifolds had their own cackle LOL thanks for posting brought back a lot of good memories
In 1966 my dad hired a cutter from Buhler, Ks to cut our wheat that year. He had 3 510's. I believe they had 14 ft headers and they might have been 16ft, I just don't remember for sure. These machines did not have cabs on them. They did a good job of cutting and Dad was pleased with the job they did.
Masseys were the choice of custom cutters back then, the quiktach head system made it a 5 minute job to switch headers and the swing away auger kept it out of the way , you used to see 510's loaded up on the back of single axle trucks headed up and down the highways during harvest pulling the header on a trailer behind it, I bet you had to pay attention doing that so you didn't drop a wheel off the shoulder of the highway, they sure looked top heavy on the back of those little trucks. When Massey came with the 750 custom cutters finally started hauling them on trailers they were just too big.
First combine I learned to operate and repair was a 510 with the 327 V8. Good machine for it's time, but had weak points such as header clutch and the system they used for rethreshing instead of a returns elevator. We went to JD machines after that.
Did anyone ever set one of these up to harvest clover seed? My neighbor has two F2’s and I pay him to cut mine. But I can get a 74’ with the Perkins pretty cheap.
