smcapstick
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- Kirkby Lonsdale
What manufacturer made these?
Identification of these weights
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Thick Farmer
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- Location
- West Wales
Ford?
- Location
- Cornwall.
I was going to say Ford remember taking them on and off 5000's & 7000's in early 80's.
smcapstick
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- Location
- Kirkby Lonsdale
I was always under the impression they went straight from these:
...to these:
...to these:
...to these:
...to these:
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Not ford @smcapstick they are MF 100 series front weights painted blue defo.
- Location
- Cornwall.
No wonder I couldn't get them on. 
marshbarn
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- Location
- shropshire
i think they are massey weights painted blue
- Location
- south norfolk
You lot are confused with the colour.they are massey weights circa 1970.got a set in my workshop painted blue aswell to suit the ford they went on
Nick...
Nick...
Massey Ferguson 100 series, see:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MASSEY-FE...K_BOI_FarmingEquipment_RL&hash=item5afdfdfa6f
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MASSEY-FE...K_BOI_FarmingEquipment_RL&hash=item5afdfdfa6f
Thick Farmer
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- Location
- West Wales
I think I recognise the tractor in the bottom pic!
smcapstick
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- Location
- Kirkby Lonsdale
I have a frame with them to suit a Ford... but my gut told me not to trust the blue!
It's the worst one!
Many thanks, chaps. Might have to keep hold of them until I get another 135!
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Had a set just like that off a MF168, also painted blue to go on a Ford at a later date.
Why ruin a ford by hanging massey crap on the front of it?
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Were they sold on Landini
Post Driver
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- Location
- South East
Ursus also
John 1594
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
Why ruin a ford by hanging massey crap on the front of it?
well its a certainty the MF weights wont be porus
smcapstick
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- Location
- Kirkby Lonsdale
Looking at them again... they are quite ugly!
well its a certainty the MF weights wont be porus
OUCH!! there's no need for that.
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
but its correct
old vin ag
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In reply to the OP who asked what manufacturer made these,you are all most probably wrong.If the question had been which make of tractor were these supplied with or to fit, Massey Ferguson would have been the correct answer.
Let me explain further. I worked for a Great company called A C BAMLETT. LTD OF THIRSK in the early 1970's and up to the time Oliver Rix sold the company to JEFF EVANS it had a considerable foundry capacity on site.In fact if you walked around many of the Towns in that area of Yorkshire a lot of the cast iron manhole covers were inscribed Bamlett. With change of ownership the foundry closed ,but as we had lots of orders for those front end weight as shown in the photo We then bought them in largely from a Company in Bingley near Bradford by the lorry load.They came 2 tons to a pallet unpainted, we drilled and thread tapped them 8 at time sprayed them red (only red) and shipped them with our other products such as yard scrapers, disc harrows and Tive Grain drills and to start with Econ hedge cutters and Gritters .They were supplied to M F dealers all over England one dealer I remember that would order 5 or 10 tons at at time was the John Ritchies Group of FAKENHAM ,NORWICH AND WOODBRIDGE.
What I could never understand was that no one not even M F imprinted. a name on them something that could have been so easily done by altering the casting mould slightly. Regarding the price each I can only imagine it was very much like now when for non genuine items there can be a large saving to be made.
Old vin AGAG
Let me explain further. I worked for a Great company called A C BAMLETT. LTD OF THIRSK in the early 1970's and up to the time Oliver Rix sold the company to JEFF EVANS it had a considerable foundry capacity on site.In fact if you walked around many of the Towns in that area of Yorkshire a lot of the cast iron manhole covers were inscribed Bamlett. With change of ownership the foundry closed ,but as we had lots of orders for those front end weight as shown in the photo We then bought them in largely from a Company in Bingley near Bradford by the lorry load.They came 2 tons to a pallet unpainted, we drilled and thread tapped them 8 at time sprayed them red (only red) and shipped them with our other products such as yard scrapers, disc harrows and Tive Grain drills and to start with Econ hedge cutters and Gritters .They were supplied to M F dealers all over England one dealer I remember that would order 5 or 10 tons at at time was the John Ritchies Group of FAKENHAM ,NORWICH AND WOODBRIDGE.
What I could never understand was that no one not even M F imprinted. a name on them something that could have been so easily done by altering the casting mould slightly. Regarding the price each I can only imagine it was very much like now when for non genuine items there can be a large saving to be made.
Old vin AGAG