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.Thanks for posting.must be a shame to get them dirty
Nick...
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 jakeboyClassic 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.
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 jakeboyDo you want another massey combine (a 400?) jakeboy?
Surely now is the time to upgrade to a slightly more modern one with a cab? before you spend all this time and money.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 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.
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.Showing my age now. Can remember doing pdis on 525 super 2 when they were new
think that was only with a 760Did you have to pdi the Austin Minis they gave away with the new ones aswell ?
think that was only with a 760