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O/T Musings about M-F Implements

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Christos

12-15-2005 22:05:20




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Hi Everybody, I was curious - I live in Ohio and while I have MF 135, I've begun to search for implements to go with it and I am mindboggled at the 'rarity' for lack of a better term, of Massey-Ferguson Implements. I've seen 1 MF Two row planter in the last year. The scrap yard that had it wanted a twelve arms and legs for it. I've seen 3 model 33/43 Grain Drills at Tri-Greens and the usual plows, balers and mowers. The town I live in used to be Massey Country as thats what the dealership was. But why haven't I seen more of the planters, disk harrows, grader blades, etc, that they had to have made? I'm curious as to what people have thought of it and if there was any particular reason why their implements just dropped off the face of the earth after the late 1970s.

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moore

03-01-2006 12:12:48




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 Re: O/T Musings about M-F Implements in reply to Christos, 12-15-2005 22:05:20  
I have a Massey Harris seed drill,13 row with seed and fertiliser boxes and running on iron wheels.
I can't find any serial numbers etc on it, just want to hear anyones thoughts ,if any,about it as i am not well up in this vintage machinery business.



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Roy in UK

12-17-2005 22:42:15




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 Re: O/T Musings about M-F Implements in reply to Christos, 12-15-2005 22:05:20  
A lot of the Ferguson implements were indeed "Ferguson" designed and built by Ferguson"s for Ferguson tractors as part of the "Ferguson system". I do not know about across the pond, but in Europe a lot of the Massey Ferguson implements not built "in house" but were built by other companies but painted red with MF decals, e.g. in UK their seed drills were built by Howards, a lot of cultivators were Bomford or Mark-stig. GKN made very nice trailers for them, then they later on they had their trailers built by Weeks (what a heap of crap they were! )I seem to remember the potato planter was made by MIL.

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DavidP, South Wales

12-18-2005 15:02:13




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 Re: O/T Musings about M-F Implements in reply to Roy in UK, 12-17-2005 22:42:15  
Hi Roy,
YES I would agree with the implements made by other firms in the later years but I believe the early ones were made by Ferguson.
I would certainly agree with you about the Weeks trailers. Good when new but had very little resistance to anything being dropped on the floor. We have rebodied quite a few in the past and made up support stands to be able to turn the body around for fitting of new panels. Our panels were considerably thicker than the original which entailed grinding the channel slots out to suit.
Cheers
DavidP

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DavidP, South Wales

12-16-2005 12:49:21




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 Re: O/T Musings about M-F Implements in reply to Christos, 12-15-2005 22:05:20  
Hi Christos,
I think that I would be correct in saying that it was Harry Fergusons plan to produce a 'full line' of machinery to accompany the tractors. Yes certainly up to the late 70's in the UK there were many original grey machines at work. Almost any job you could think of and there was an MF machine for it. I would think that the cost of producing the machines against the numbers sold meant that MF like most manufacturers slimmed down the rang and kept those which would sell in volume and make a profit. I'm sure that there are old machines around begging for someone to come and rescue them but not at the price of lining someones pocket through greed.
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DavidP

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