You bet, checkout farmers weekly picture, farmer takes four 865s for a spin!!! I'm piloting no 2 !What a hectic few days, but most enjoyable!!! Pictures will follow.
some more classic pics !!!
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76masseyman
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- Lincolncestershire
Great to see them preserved and used as intended. Went past a farm visitor centre at Farnsfield near Newark yesterday. MF 525 or 625 style combine (with cab) and MF1200 in the kids play area !!!
Credit to you those machines. And I just adore the 700 and 800 series combines.
Credit to you those machines. And I just adore the 700 and 800 series combines.
Warp Land Farmer
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- Hazzard County
Aaahhhh brings back memories of sitting on the tank behind the driver seat cutting with Dad. Brilliant.
mf298
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- Ayton, Berwickshire
13 harvests on a 525 with 12' header and a cab! Best memory - cold September night in a howling gale cutting wheat as fast as we could to save it all blowing off and ending up on the ground. Me sitting in nice warm cab next to engine and the two guys leading off with ford 4000 with no back to their cabs, frozen! Straw coming out the back and disappearing.
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- Mendips Somerset
John 1594
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- Cambridgeshire
finally got our old girl screwed back together, fitted a pair of fresh gear cables, new rotary screen and a handfull of wooden straw walker bearings, washed it down this morning, grease up and gearbox/engine oil changes once it has dried out a bit
blackbob
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- Aberdeenshire
A couple of ads from old FW's I bought on ebay, 1965 and '66 respectively
John 1594
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- Cambridgeshire
Got the brouchure for one of these, cant have sold many as ive never seen one in the flesh!!!
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looks like a thurlow nunn sticker on the side. any idea of its history?
John 1594
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- Cambridgeshire
yes she is a thurlow nunnmachine from new,
first registered on the 8/8/77 to R.J Nunn and sons, poplar farm, stowupland, stowmarket
sold to Geoffrey Hopking, flagrass hill farm, march, cambridgeshire on 7/4/89
he ran it up until about 1993, then traded up to a 535 with a cab and he sold it to his neighbours, J Smith, creek farm, march, cambridgeshire, they retired a few years later and sold it to thier nephew C Smith at corner farm.
i bought it off Colin in 2004, it had been stood up since around 2001 due to him cotracting all his farm out to someone else
wasnt a bad buy for £500 really...it hadnt been well maintained for many years though, it was borderline wether it was saveable, but we managed to get it going and it cut the 2004 harvest eventually.
That winter we stripped it right down, had all the riddles, walkers and grain pan out and sorted out most of the issues
it still needs a bit of tinkering every year to keep it going, but its cheaper and easier that waiting for a contractor
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- S. Staffs
Our first combine was a 735 bagger with an extended platform replacing the bag chute so we could hold ten or so bags, then the trailer run alongside and empty on the move..at a whole 1 or 2 mph! Got the few acres we had then done for a couple of years before it went up in smoke, it never seemed a good idea to have chaff falling onto a hot manifold.
Red Fred
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- Hants/Dorset border
A couple of ads from old FW's I bought on ebay, 1965 and '66 respectively"
Don't those '60s ads look surprisingly modern (or am I just getting older?)
Roy Stokes
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- East Shropshire
Can you imagine bagging off a modern 12 tonne/hectare crop, not for the faint hearted
Red Fred
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- Hants/Dorset border
We decided it would be fun to get the old Massey Sunshine binder out and give it a run once up and down a field of oats. It worked fine, but we ended up with several hundred sheaves which dad made us put through the combine by hand. Never tried it again!Can you imagine bagging off a modern 12 tonne/hectare crop, not for the faint hearted
blackbob
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- Aberdeenshire
You and me both Fred
What surprised me was seeing the 788, 500, and 'new' 510 all in the same ad, when I would have thought they were successive 'generations'?
Although I see Clayson were the same with the 103 and 140. Hope I don't get into trouble for advertising the Opposition in this thread
Another, somewhat scary, one.. perhaps the 'good old days' weren't so good after all, and damn hard work - being asthmatic, I would hate to be handling dusty sacks:
What surprised me was seeing the 788, 500, and 'new' 510 all in the same ad, when I would have thought they were successive 'generations'?
Although I see Clayson were the same with the 103 and 140. Hope I don't get into trouble for advertising the Opposition in this thread
Another, somewhat scary, one.. perhaps the 'good old days' weren't so good after all, and damn hard work - being asthmatic, I would hate to be handling dusty sacks:
John go on YouTube Massey 400 part 1/ part 2/ part 3 you will see me at Dillington park ,yesterday's farming show, there was 6 combines booked in! Only 2 of us turned up me and a lovely 31, driven by a very keen young combine fan, lovely machine, lovely week end, plenty to cut !! Took half a tank home!!! oops..
John 1594
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- Cambridgeshire
was the 31 the forerunner to the 187?? The last owner of mine had a 187 previous to buying the 525 from his uncle, they bought her new in 1970, OER 126J, via standens in march
when he sold her she was that worn the rasp bars on the drum were completely smooth so dad reckons