Re: Full Time Farming With Massey Ferguson

Posted by the tractor vet on October 05, 2021 at 15:03:30 from (108.220.145.239):

In Reply to: Full Time Farming With Massey Ferguson posted by Bill VA on October 05, 2021 at 12:51:29:

Had a friend who was a young dairy farmer that bought brand new M f 180 a new set of 880 four bottoms and a 13 foot disc , while the rest of us were usen old junk . The tractor and implements arrived just in time to start spring plowing , we all had to go see his new toy at the same time another guy got a new 175 and a 150 just down the road . The massey dealer was selling them like hot cakes . Well Ernie was just heading to the first field when myself and another friend arrived . Ernie set in to plowing and we all stood back and watched . On the fifth round in a 15 acre field we all heard the BANG and the Massey stopped dead in it's tracks . It was unhooked from the plow while still in the furrow and pulled back to the barn with the OLD 560 FARMALL The call was made to the dealer that it BROKE and about and hour later the truck was there to pick it up . A week goes by and his tractor was still at the dealer . He got it back the next week and went out to where he dropped the plow and hooked back up and went back to plowing already loosen a week and a half . The truck had not made it back to the dealer just some 8-10 miles away when it went down once again , this time the hyd. went out . Now two weeks behind he goes looking for a set of fast hitch plows as he traded his for the 560 on the 880' and the dealer sold them off first thing . Ernie came down to see myself and my buddy to see if we could come up and help get the plowing done So mike and i took our OLD 450 D's up with our two sets of four bottoms and started then another friend showed up with his 504 and another friend showed up with his 560 . Then the massey comes back and it lasted three days before it trashed out the Multipower once again then it was hyd problems again and back and forth . The guy with the 175 was not fairing much better . That was like back in 69 and before the next season the Massey was GONE and a 870 Case was setting at his farm . We spiced the 870 up a bit with a turbo off a case loader and turned up the wick . He had no problems with the Case and bought another Case a couple years later stepping up to a 1070. the other guy with the two new masseys he did get most of his problems worked out and was DEEP into Massey with two new tractor implement and a new 300 Massey combine . He was tryen to steal some of my buddy's custom combining as he also ran a 300 . INHO from the flywheel back were good for a BOAT ANCHOR

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