rather nice original Massy Ferguson 135

[Pennine Ploughing]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1945162405696271

if you look a 1.55 in this has chains on pickup hitch

bit of i nice short clip from the 1970s

 

[sawdust]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1945162405696271

if you look a 1.55 in this has chains on pickup hitch

bit of i nice short clip from the 1970s

Chopper tractor was L reg 1972 with chains yet we had a P reg 165 1974 with lift rods

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Chopper tractor was L reg 1972 with chains yet we had a P reg 165 1974 with lift rods

was the rods the type like a big u shape, or were they the later type single round rod that went through an eye?

 

[superspec]

Ive done a bit of research
Pick up hitch was launched in Jan 1969
New type swinging draw bar carriage carriage became standard in July 1969
Chain replaces rod in July 1971

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Ive done a bit of research
Pick up hitch was launched in Jan 1969
New type swinging draw bar carriage carriage became standard in July 1969
Chain replaces rod in July 1971

View attachment 576464

thank you for posting that,

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Ive done a bit of research
Pick up hitch was launched in Jan 1969
New type swinging draw bar carriage carriage became standard in July 1969
Chain replaces rod in July 1971

View attachment 576464

will have to say, my 135 had chains on it, but i have made rods to go on to it, as chains knock the paint off the back axle. and also rattle

 

[superspec]

No problem, It is nearly 50 years ago so its difficult to remember exactly

I like the rods better too

 

[sawdust]

was the rods the type like a big u shape, or were they the later type single round rod that went through an eye?

That was the type on all 1's I had dealings with

 

[sawdust]

No problem, It is nearly 50 years ago so its difficult to remember exactly

I like the rods better too

Still curious as to a 1974 P reg 165 having lift rods if chains were the norm

 

[sawdust]

was the rods the type like a big u shape, or were they the later type single round rod that went through an eye?

First dealing I had with those were on a 1978 T plate 565

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

First dealing I had with those were on a 1978 T plate 565

i dont know when that type came out

 

[SMID]

Still curious as to a 1974 P reg having lift rods if chains were the norm

Ony chance the hitch came off an earlier tractor or old stock baring in mind hitches were dealer fit items . The first 590 was ordered here when a stranger came in for a bag of tatties opened his boot to put the bag in and this wooden massey box is sitting , that any use? he says, eh what are you wanting says I ,another bag of tatties secured it, the 590 got a hitch for 2 bags of tatties

 

[multi power]

First dealing I had with those were on a 1978 T plate 565

Just I seen a 188 with the rod type hitch, I can't remember what reg it was, it had no cab

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Just I seen a 188 with the rod type hitch, I can't remember what reg it was, it had no cab

a tractor of that era with no cab just does not look right

 

[Celtic Driver]

Ive done a bit of research
Pick up hitch was launched in Jan 1969
New type swinging draw bar carriage carriage became standard in July 1969
Chain replaces rod in July 1971

View attachment 576464

Why would they go from these rods to chains , backward step to me .

 

[SMID]

Why would they go from these rods to chains , backward step to me .

It was likely hood of folk getting their fingers trapped in loop that saw the end of that design

 

[sawdust]

It was likely hood of folk getting their fingers trapped in loop that saw the end of that design

Old saying, never stick your finger into summit you'd never stick you cock into

 

[Roy_H]

This looks to be a very nice working 135, nothing to do with me i might add

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Massey-Fe...255627?hash=item4d62fd65cb:g:bDkAAOSw30tZrG-a


@multi power @REStracTORATION

looking it the pics, it does look untouched, but there is something that may not be right,
can you guess what it is ? or am i wrong

Rear wheels

@Pennine Ploughing
Lift chains rather than lift rods on PUH, never seen that before, but look original!

Our 168 had that type of hitch with the chains, a bloody awful arrangement. I would rather have had the old Ferguson "T" bar type PUH than that thing .

 

[SMID]

Old saying, never stick your finger into summit you'd never stick you cock into

Ha Ha am down to 9 courtesy of a log spliter

 

[multi power]

It was likely hood of folk getting their fingers trapped in loop that saw the end of that design

Yes I was in college with a lad who had lost half of all 4 fingers on one hand having had got them trapped on rod of a 135 hitch