Harvest pics!!

jakeboy

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Location
somerset
Sorry boys couldnt resist some classic shots!! Massey haters look away now!!!
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jakeboy

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Location
somerset
Many many, many moons ago....early 2000/2001 at a guess, our 525 what we have now, and neighbours 520 super 2

note the cheeky little scamp piloting the 520, and the 35....wonder who that could be :D

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John can I use these photos on my website?? I'm going to do a section soon on other people's classics?? I have quite a few all ready!!
"And if the corn prices slip any further I may get bl##dy inundated" !!?
 

jakeboy

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Location
somerset
The best invention in the world was putting a cab on a combine.

Nice machine there jakeboy ! and thanks for posting photos.
Thank you David!
The cabs on the 525s were known to many as coffins!! For various reasons! For one they looked the same shape!!
Any wiring routed into the operators station through the cab panel quickly chaffed through with the vibration causing electrical fires!!
Most operators would suffer heat stroke!! When the roof top cab chillers packed up!! Providing they worked in the first place!!??
Also with the majority of fires emanating from in and around the engine bay any quick access lifting up the engine bay cover was thwarted by the cab panel!! Losing vital time to stick the old extinguisher in, which usually was not bigger than a smartie tube!! So fat lot of good!
But you are definitely right the dust is a killer!! my cousin had to Finnish work aged 50 and died at 52 through lung disease caused by dust from his combine driving for a large estate cutting over a thousand acres yearly during sixties and seventies!! But he absolutely loved his job!! Never wanted to do anything else!!
He had no regrets, and enjoyed every working day!!
How many today can say that!!?
I have an old Massey combine brochure which quotes!! Unlike our competitors machines the operators are sat to the side of the feed elevator away from the harmful dust!!??
Bet my cousin could argue that point!!
Regards All
 

Vincent

Member
Location
Kildare Ireland
Our neighbours had a 525 that was parked up in the shed when it was replaced with a deutz Fahr, was then put out to make space and finally scrapped a shame really . If it was still there I'd have it after seeing the above machines still going strong. Spent many a day and evening on it.
 

chaffcutter

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Arable Farmer
Location
S. Staffs
The Massey baggers had a rotary screen cleaner which used to do a really good job, the grain was coming off so slowly they could cope easily. But the last bagger I worked on was a contractors M103, it was much faster and the wheat came off so quick you had a job to keep up with two of us filling and another tying, can't remember if it had a cleaner screen or not, anyone know?
 

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