Does anyone know of any Massey 450s excavators being broke!! For an on going restoration! Or indeed any running order machines?
Regards jakeboy
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Regards jakeboy
07860 281755
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Massey 450s
- Thread starter jakeboy
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Try c w good and son at Kington or nelson m green.
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P v Dobson did have some new old stock many years ago may well be worth a try?
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@Lincs Lass
United parts got any?
United parts got any?
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I dont even know if Jim is still there ,,last I heard he was moving back up to Scotland for family reasons .He rarely had anything other than Cat machines ,the od volvo ,,never seen any massey stuff in his yard
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Ive pasted your number on to my old boss ,hes got a mate that has got a massey ,not sure what model so if you might get a call
Kellands still had some parts a few years ago
try and find a spare grease nipple for the track expander, I could find nothing else to fit but genuine
I bought a whole machine for parts and then got it going
I do have a parts book if that's ever any help
Are you going to use it or just play @jakeboy ?
try and find a spare grease nipple for the track expander, I could find nothing else to fit but genuine
I bought a whole machine for parts and then got it going
I do have a parts book if that's ever any help
Are you going to use it or just play @jakeboy ?
Morning Henarar.Kellands still had some parts a few years ago
try and find a spare grease nipple for the track expander, I could find nothing else to fit but genuine
I bought a whole machine for parts and then got it going
I do have a parts book if that's ever any help
Are you going to use it or just play @jakeboy ?
I live on a smallholding now and there is planning for a bungalow and some outbuildings, so it will be used periodically, and the cost of dragging machinery in and out when I need it is a non starter as we normally work quite a distance from home and haulage is expensive.
The 450 holds a lot of memories for me good ones I say, we had one in the early seventies while agricultural contracting and I went on to operate one full time working in the industry I'm in today, it's a world away from current machinery I operate for sure, but it will still do the job and are very basic to put right unlike the stuff we have now that are very complex.
I well remember the grease connector on track tensioner? Christ know where I'll get one of those?
I have spoken to someone at Kellands and they are going to have a root around! The bloke couldn't stop laughing!!
It was a popular model for them and I use to work amongst a company that ran 6 of them, apart from tracks throwing off dipper arm bushes and the drips of oil!! They were a reliable old bus.
Standing behind one working with that Perkins purring is a lovely sound indeed.
I would like to strip the paint and carry out all what is wanted ie bucket linkage bushes dipper bushes, the cab door is a mess needs a new frame? Some half wit must of skewed it against a wall while half open! Also try and tighten up the control linkage.
So plenty to do and as ever very little time.
But just glad to find one they are rare for sure.
Kind regards Colin
Kellands did have them, but that was a few years ago, I was just thinking I must have had my first one 18 years now and the second one about 10
Ken Barber said to me when I bought it and at time had never driven a slew before "its slow but you won't break it"
the other one has a cab though To be honest I can't ever remember having my door shut years ago as you would wrap your knuckles on the glass!! When slewing such was the linkage play on the the levers!Kellands did have them, but that was a few years ago, I was just thinking I must have had my first one 18 years now and the second one about 10
Ken Barber said to me when I bought it and at time had never driven a slew before "its slow but you won't break it"
View attachment 441680 No problems with the door on this one
Also the top window would always drip when raining despite New rubbers and silicone, the first model I had1972 had a slewing brake! And a pull starter switch.
The later model a 1976 didn't have the slew brake , and had an ordinary Lucas key?start
The slew brake was a godsend for peeling off sides of trenches when the buckets weren't quite wide enough!!
Regards colin
I was going to say good luck with getting rid of the play in the levers
Both of mine have both a slew brake and a lucas key
mind you the slew brakes don't work
no idea of the size, I know that I went several places to try to get one but had to get one at kellands
I do have a spare
If I need to pump them up mate I might be heading your way!!?
you need a good grease gun