Combine driving position.

[oakleaf]

It makes for some very interesting reading nowadays.

It certainly does.
And l for one (despite the occupation getting well berated on here), enjoy putting on the old rose tinted specs and having a good auld reminisc.

 

[sticky]

I got this old girl out of the shed today (first time in two years) I needed the combi drill that was in front of her. I do run her 2 or 3 times a year to make sure everything is ok.

 

[76masseyman]

I got this old girl out of the shed today (first time in two years) I needed the combi drill that was in front of her. I do run her 2 or 3 times a year to make sure everything is ok.View attachment 913808

Mmmm, has somebody done a US harvest run by any chance ? Bit of a US influence with the sticker and work lights positions.

 

[Exfarmer]

Mmmm, has somebody done a US harvest run by any chance ? Bit of a US influence with the sticker and lights positions.

Doubt it got european / sorry French lights and no Danish extension

 

[glasshouse]

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.

I always start anticlockwise
Knife drive and auger both on inside

 

[Renaultman]

I always start anticlockwise
Knife drive and auger both on inside

Snap. Them knife drive guards are expensive.

 

[glasshouse]

Snap. Them knife drive guards are expensive.

So is the knife drive

 

[sticky]

Mmmm, has somebody done a US harvest run by any chance ? Bit of a US influence with the sticker and work lights positions.

Not me.
I bought it off an old boy, along with a 525 which I sold last year, 6 years ago just keep it to keep a mf32 company in the winter.
Getting pressure from above to sell it she says I have to many toys I don't use.

 

[glasshouse]

Snap. Them knife drive guards are expensive.

I once hit a concrete water trough with a swather, what a mess itmade of the knife drive

 

[Farmer Roy]

John Deere 7720 / 8820 had the cabs offset to the left, with the engine next to it, similar to those Masseys

always thought it was a silly idea

 

[oakleaf]

Not me.
I bought it off an old boy, along with a 525 which I sold last year, 6 years ago just keep it to keep a mf32 company in the winter.
Getting pressure from above to sell it she says I have to many toys I don't use.

I suggest this is one of those times where you must overrule and keep it.

 

[Richard98]

they had a cabless mf 625 at home from new until 1998 - grandad flat out refused to wear a mask/airstream helmet etc, dad said he'd come in filthy black every night, I'm sure that was one cause of his terrible breathing in his later years

 

[glasshouse]

they had a cabless mf 625 at home from new until 1998 - grandad flat out refused to wear a mask/airstream helmet etc, dad said he'd come in filthy black every night, I'm sure that was one cause of his terrible breathing in his later years

When was it new?

 

[Richard98]

When was it new?

S reg, 1977 dad tells me

 

[glasshouse]

S reg, 1977 dad tells me

22 yrs of breathing in dust

 

[Richard98]

22 yrs of breathing in dust

Yeah and on the MF 410 before that, and the 780 special first

 

[Renaultman]

they had a cabless mf 625 at home from new until 1998 - grandad flat out refused to wear a mask/airstream helmet etc, dad said he'd come in filthy black every night, I'm sure that was one cause of his terrible breathing in his later years

Many years ago when Emmerdale was Emmerdale farm, Jack did a full day on the non cabbed combine in his pressed white shirt. At the end of his marathon shift it was as white as when he climbed up to it.

 

[glasshouse]

Yeah and on the MF 410 before that, and the 780 special first

But those two probably didnt have a cab option.
Thank goodness we got a cab in 81

 

[Renaultman]

But those two probably didnt have a cab option.
Thank goodness we got a cab in 81

Our first one was an NH 8060 in 1986 ish I think.

 

[Exfarmer]

But those two probably didnt have a cab option.
Thank goodness we got a cab in 81

You don’t want a cab boy, you cant see proper out of those things!