some more classic pics !!!

[jakeboy]

Hope you like these !!!

classics still earning there keep !!

 

[nick...]

Thanks for posting.must be a shame to get them dirty
Nick...

 

[TheTallGuy]

Thanks for posting.must be a shame to get them dirty
Nick...

Classic machinery should have a bit of dirt - I like to see kit as it would have been on the farm, not looking like a showroom.

 

[Flat 10]

Do you want another massey combine (a 400?) jakeboy?

 

[jakeboy]

Classic machinery should have a bit of dirt - I like to see kit as it would have been on the farm, not looking like a showroom.

To be honest after all the paintwork was done on combines, they looked not right, they would never have had such a good paintwork as new, but now they have completed a few harvests, only about a dozen or so acres every year each, they look a lot better we have nothing that doesn't get used, there seems little point in not being able to use the stuff, some people would rather keep the original patena but I hope this paintwork see them through the next forty or fifty years obviously in some one else's ownership,I don't think a coat of paint will sustain me on that long!!! Regards jakeboy

 

[jakeboy]

Do you want another massey combine (a 400?) jakeboy?

Oh oh you got to stop tempting me!!! That's how I got in this mess in the first place ha ha!!!! Love to see some pictures if possible, regards jakeboy

 

[John 1594]

wish our 525 was that clean..ive just got her out for her pre harvest checkover....few issues to attend to

somehow she has managed to lose a set of front straw walker blocks, leaving the walker bouncing on the crank (i thought i could hear a banging noise during the last few hours of last year, but we kept going and got done)

now i have washed the grease off, the table auger has serious rot issues, we are going to plate the worst bits to get through this year, in the winter it needs the center of the auger cutting right out and a new bit of plate rolling and stitching in

also planning on replacing the old style 3 piece retractable finger guides with more modern single piece rubber ones

rotary screen is suffereing from fatuige as well, luckily i have a spare, so thats a straight swapover job!!!!

 

[Lofty]

Excelent combines! Even got a classic crop of wheat to cut as well although I reckon the crop pre dates the combines by about 40 years.

 

[Flat 10]

wish our 525 was that clean..ive just got her out for her pre harvest checkover....few issues to attend to

somehow she has managed to lose a set of front straw walker blocks, leaving the walker bouncing on the crank (i thought i could hear a banging noise during the last few hours of last year, but we kept going and got done)

now i have washed the grease off, the table auger has serious rot issues, we are going to plate the worst bits to get through this year, in the winter it needs the center of the auger cutting right out and a new bit of plate rolling and stitching in

also planning on replacing the old style 3 piece retractable finger guides with more modern single piece rubber ones

rotary screen is suffereing from fatuige as well, luckily i have a spare, so thats a straight swapover job!!!!

Surely now is the time to upgrade to a slightly more modern one with a cab? before you spend all this time and money.
Just sayin................

 

[John 1594]

Surely now is the time to upgrade to a slightly more modern one with a cab? before you spend all this time and money.
Just sayin................

not to worry....had a trip to a friend who used to run them "back in the day"

had a rootle through his old stores...ive came away with a hessian sack full of new straw walker bearings and bolts, a full set of belts, fingers, sections, hyd rams, pipes and pumps, a new rotary screen, various control cables and god knows what else thrown in the box as well

all for the princely sum of a 100 quid


Now who was it who said old kit wasnt cost effective

its not what you know, or how big your bank balance is, its knowing someone with the parts you need!!!

 

[Thick Farmer]

My New Holland 1530 has just completed its 40th harvest.

I had to change the belt that drives the knife, but other than that it was trouble free.

 

[Mursal]

@John 1594 We've seen the fingers on the table auger replaced with stationary paddles (folded flat tacked along where the finger were), worked really really well and a lot less to give trouble? Each one was the full width of where the fingers were and the paddle bit was roughly the height of the auger. 3 or 4 paddles spaced around the auger.

 

[John 1594]

@John 1594 We've seen the fingers on the table auger replaced with stationary paddles (folded flat tacked along where the finger were), worked really really well and a lot less to give trouble? Each one was the full width of where the fingers were and the paddle bit was roughly the height of the auger. 3 or 4 paddles spaced around the auger.

it looks as ive i might have to take out a loan and visit the local MF dealer, and order some of those rubber "holders" what screw on the auger and stop the fingers flapping about in the hole

least ive got a new set of fingers to go with them though!!!

 

[MF-ANDY]

Showing my age now. Can remember doing pdis on 525 super 2 when they were new

 

[Partstech]

Showing my age now. Can remember doing pdis on 525 super 2 when they were new

Did you have to pdi the Austin Minis they gave away with the new ones aswell ?

 

[jakeboy]

Showing my age now. Can remember doing pdis on 525 super 2 when they were new

The 525 pictured was supplied by the Ben Turner group, it came from a seed company in Surrey where it cut a large variety of crops but only clocked 1200 hrs and they never used the multi flow, it was still in a packing crate along with the original bolts and belt!!! It was registered in 1979.

 

[MF-ANDY]

Did you have to pdi the Austin Minis they gave away with the new ones aswell ?

think that was only with a 760

 

[Partstech]

think that was only with a 760

Didnt David at Trinity Hall get one?

 

[John 1594]

ours is a 77 model, apparently the multi flow was taken off in 78 and "disposed of"

 

[Treditor]

They're looking good. Bit smaller than those northern 8645s!