Combine driving position.

[yellowbelly]

Luckily i never drove a 525!!

You've never lived

The GPS self steering looks like it measured that opening out accurately

 

[glasshouse]

You've never lived View attachment 913666
The GPS self steering looks like it measured that opening out accurately

Some crop of straw
Old fashioned winter barley?

 

[yellowbelly]

Some crop of straw
Old fashioned winter barley?

You're asking now it's nearly 40 years ago. Combine was a 1976 MF525 12' cut with an RDS loss monitor.

Just been to look in the office - it was spring barley It was for a local dairy farm and would have been the first cereal after a grass ley. According to the records that combine cut 319 acres of spring barley and winter wheat that year (1981).

 

[glasshouse]

You've never lived View attachment 913666
The GPS self steering looks like it measured that opening out accurately

That combine possibly would have cost less than the value of that crop
Compare to today
£400,000 combine to cut the same value

 

[yellowbelly]

That combine possibly would have cost less than the value of that crop
Compare to today
£400,000 combine to cut the same value

It was £8750, second hand in May 1981.(noticed the invoice while I was looking the last bit up )

 

[glasshouse]

It was £8750, second hand in May 1981.(noticed the invoice while I was looking the last bit up )

What did the 7600 cost?

 

[glasshouse]

It was £8750, second hand in May 1981.(noticed the invoice while I was looking the last bit up )

A Decent second hand combine could cut its value in a day then

 

[JWL]

The noise must hsve been terrible

Probably only one of the reasons I have tinnitus constantly singing away

 

[glasshouse]

Remember father saying he had a fire on one of the old Ransomes which burnt through a plastic diesel pipe thus pouring neat diesel onto the fire

Was plastic invented then?

 

[yellowbelly]

What did the 7600 cost?

Dunno, it was the customer's.

We bought a brand new 7700 in May 1978 for £11,000.

A Decent second hand combine could cut its value in a day then

Not quite - yields weren't as big back then.

 

[Renaultman]

The first ones I drove were a Volvo and Ransomes, both offset seating position.

 

[glasshouse]

Dunno, it was the customer's.

We bought a brand new 7700 in May 1978 for £11,000.

Not quite - yields weren't as big back then.

Yes, a day and a half then

 

[JWL]

I do remember when I had a TF 44 as a replacement for the NH 8080, the TF had the cab truly in the middle whereas the 8080 was slightly to the left. I very nearly took out one of the big stone pillars at the bottom of the farm drive the first time I went to go through them. Good job it was a physically smaller machine.

 

[oakleaf]

You're asking now it's nearly 40 years ago. Combine was a 1976 MF525 12' cut with an RDS loss monitor.

Just been to look in the office - it was spring barley It was for a local dairy farm and would have been the first cereal after a grass ley. According to the records that combine cut 319 acres of spring barley and winter wheat that year (1981).

It was £8750, second hand in May 1981.(noticed the invoice while I was looking the last bit up )

Dunno, it was the customer's.

We bought a brand new 7700 in May 1978 for £11,000.

Not quite - yields weren't as big back then.

You are some man to store & access your data

 

[Exfarmer]

Started my lefthand driving on a 1965 Claas Europa (anybody here even remember them and we still have it), on to the Matador and Senators, Always thought that the side seat was a great seat

Our neighbour a new Europa the same year as we bought a Mercury, father went for the 8’6” rather than the10’ but looking across the hedge to our neighbour cutting just 6’ Made it seem quite big. Never drove it being too young but my job was to help grease up, seem to remember it had over 50 nipples for daily service. We had a grease bucket with a lump ion it and a long tube to the nozzle. My job was to pump .
after the first weeks work father changed the oil in it and forgot to tighten the plug back up, whichwas a disaster and meant a new engine. A very expensive mistake, remember him commenting, he was glad he did it and could not blame anyone else

 

[yellowbelly]

You are some man to store & access your data

We did a lot of contracting back then - it was (and still is) very important to know exactly what it cost to run machines.

It makes for some very interesting reading nowadays.

 

[Farm buy]

Our neighbour a new Europa the same year as we bought a Mercury, father went for the 8’6” rather than the10’ but looking across the hedge to our neighbour cutting just 6’ Made it seem quite big. Never drove it being too young but my job was to help grease up, seem to remember it had over 50 nipples for daily service. We had a grease bucket with a lump ion it and a long tube to the nozzle. My job was to pump .
after the first weeks work father changed the oil in it and forgot to tighten the plug back up, whichwas a disaster and meant a new engine. A very expensive mistake, remember him commenting, he was glad he did it and could not blame anyone else

interesting discussions on here instead of all the agressive talk going on in the world today

 

[76masseyman]

Had an MF 750 in the 80’s with the cab on the left obviously. Dad would start a field anti-clockwise so he was sat furthest away from the end of the header that was next to the edge of the field.
When I challenged his reasoning why he didn’t go clockwise, so he was sat nearer the end of the header next to the boundary, the reason was there wasn’t a huge, expensive, metal guard to bash on that side on a stray post etc.
From then on I looked at MF combines, with most having the guard on the left end damaged.

 

[yellowbelly]

interesting discussions on here instead of all the agressive talk going on in the world today

You can't beat leaning on a gate and 'chewing the cud' with a load of wrinkly old farmers

 

[yellowbelly]

Had an MF 750 in the 80’s with the cab on the left obviously. Dad would start a field anti-clockwise so he was sat furthest away from the end of the header that was next to the edge of the field.
When I challenged his reasoning why he didn’t go clockwise, so he was sat nearer the end of the header next to the boundary, the reason was there wasn’t a huge, expensive, metal guard to bash on that side on a stray post etc.
From then on I looked at MF combines, with most having the guard on the left end damaged.

Nobody cut 'from one side' with a Massey - they just wouldn't 'divide' properly on the wobble box end, not even if you had a divider on