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I found the part about resale entertaining. There is still a market for IH 1400 series combines 50 years later. Any Masseys that survived in this area into the early 90’s were basically sold for scrap. Had a friend with a 550 that he used into the 90’s and then traded it for a 6600, said it was the best day of his life.

I suppose when they state that MF developed the first SP Header (Combine to some) they are referring to the Sunshine Auto Header that was developed by HV Mackay in Australia and put on the market in 1927. Massey Fergusson took over HV Mackay in the sixties. It was a modification of their existing horse drawn machine powered by a Fordson engine from the US.

Anybody know name of song at 0:53?

I love my 240

Probably watched this at MF training school at Stoneleigh. Must admit it's not familar, but there again, I might have dozed off when it was being shown.🤣🤣🤣

My Dad was John Deere all the way but on combines he chose these in the 60s through 80s. Massey was first to come out with auto auger arm in the 60s. And they did a little better job than Deere. This was his last Combine. 860. Farming 850 acres in the 1980s and 90s. We did well. And in 84 the 860 was 145,000! That was a lot in the 80s. I miss those days. Today is a cultural decline including farming.

My dad had owned 255,265,275 and a 285 all good tractors.

Great video of a great combine we were one of the first in the UK to get a 760 18 foot powerflow header it was really better than the rest seeing neighbours struggle with old fashion class and john deere . We later had straw spreaders fitted and a chopper when stubble burning got banned here it was the renamed a 765 . One thing we did notice on the bottom of one of the elevators there was a warning label to clean elevator regularly when operating in snow 😅 didn't see much of that during our harvests and the air con was brilliant along with the drive experience thanks MF

MCool video! Brings back memories from my teenage years. Our neighbor had two Massy combines, a new 860 and 750. I recall he traded in one of his two 750's for the 860. We would help each other at harvest. We were running one JD 8820 and I was pretty jealous that he always had two machines. It was cool seeing the 860, the 750 and our 8820 on the same feild. Remember, that was before grain carts were a thing so us two "boys" would be driving trucks all over the feild. The guys Dad was not able to drive so he unloaed the trucks...we kept him busy.

Yeah, Massey ruled until Jimmy Carter destroyed the farm economy! Put nearly 1/2 the farmers into bankruptcy, no farmer= no equipment sales= no dealers and no builders! We lost Massey, Allis, IHC, and White, all because of Carter! Someone pointed out that these combines had so many moving parts that with wear they became a maintenance nightmare. Yes, they did, but almost everyone else's machine had the same problem for the same reason. IHC revolutionized the industry with their rotary machine as it had 1/2 the moving parts. But even yet today, combines are still a maintenance nightmare. The rotary concept eliminated excessive extra moving parts for a while, but todays machine are back to adding all kind of extra equipment to make a more complex machine, we've gone a bit backwards! But today that same size machine will set you back nearly one million dollars, compared to the 60-70 thousand back then. The price of corn today is still about the same as the pre -Carter days, think of that.

I have 2 860's. A 1984 model and a (newer style). The air intake shroud they show before 3:35 on the 84 is just like that, the newer version they went to a serpentine belt around the drum that drives off the output shaft, and also tey added a chaff extractor unit. They must have got that idea from Mickey Mouse clubhouse. lol. I hate it, they didn't improve anything. Just made it harder to work on.

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Thanks for posting this, Nate! It was a big help in researching an Interesting Iron article I'm working on! (Wonder if Massey's marketing ever gave away SAKs with purchase?)

I miss running my cousin's R-72. Unfortunately he traded it in for a New Holland 9060. Was a beast in the fields and that L10 Cummins had a beautiful sound going down the field. The R-72 will always be my most favorite Combine Harvester.

Man I wish the 200 series was still in production!!!

Love my 1998 Massey Ferguson 231!

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Road many of hours right behind my grandpa and dad in 860’s! And that’s also what I started running.

I have a 510 right but when I get enough money back to buy another one I'm gonna by a 750 or 760

MF was in severe financial troubles during these times and getting financial support from the government maybe that's why they couldn't afford a major upgrade to compete with other makes .

I spent many hours in one of these, You could always put a clean grain sample in the hopper and not throw it over. But they had so many moving parts that they were a maintenance nightmare and with any time on the machine at all they became really unreliable.

Comparing an IHC 1480 to these combines didn't age well .

I just bought a 510 I plan to hang on to it for a while then later jump up to a 550 or 700 or 800 series

Why are some people saying they were junk machines and other people saying they were great machines? So, which was it.

The 700 and 800 series was the best combines massey every made

Awesome balers!

these balers really haven't changed much after AGCO decided to slap Massey-Ferguson stickers on them. Still look the exact same

Gleaner was worse

Mr Tanner, I am a small farmer, I run old equipment, have an old white 2135 and a couple of of old Jd’s 4010 and 3010. I want to double crop next yr try no till after wheat, go milo or beans, what is a decent auto steer I can get that will fit on the white or the JD. My drill is 10’ and my planter is 6 row 30” thank you Rick Anderson, Abilene Kansas farmer

They were good machines, but had no business doing a comparison with IHC, they were the innovator of the system still being used today. I will give them this, they probably were number 1 in the 70s....that's why John Deere copied them, something JD has been notorious for.

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JUNK !

Dude I love the looks and sound of the series 2 gleaners, thanks for uploading 👍👍👍

forty years later, they would introduce another combine that is the leader in the European import market: *IDEAL 7, 8, 9, AND 10*

Thanks for this 🙂👍🏻

I am a JD man mostly, but I have run these 860's and I thought there was many advantages over a Deere back then...I liked how you could walk behind the cab and get in behind the motor...

One of my favorite memories was riding home from Muleshoe tx in dads new 760 30 miles home with it

them ole 410 just would not stay together man what a headache

Thank you for this film🙏🏼🙂. I have never seen it before!

Not a better combine built in their day, easy on fuel, and built to save grain, not throw it out the back like a Deere.

After watching that video, I am ready to buy. Hard to believe they went BK

Ask anyone who ever owned a Massey 540 or 550 about reliability and resale value. And then be ready to run.

well there's sure a fuckload of stopping and starting the engine before the things can be offloaded from their flatcar or trailer....thank god my farm runs Gleaners only

We still run 4 860 Massey's

When case stopped building combines we switched to MF. 510, 540, 750, 760. Went back to case/IH afterwards

Thank you for sharing. My grandpa had a 540. What I learned on. Brings back a lot of great memories!

My dad and grandad had an old super 92 from the 1950's and my dad replaced his 95 John Deere in 1969 with a 410 and I bought a 550 in 1983 neighbor bought a 750 in 85 I quit in 86 and didn't have a problem with Massey we raised Rice, grain sourghum, wheat and beans they were good machines then. But , Massey was in trouble by the late 80's and early 90's The first hint was they closed down their company owned stores. Wr then had to travel several miles around 80 miles round trip aferwards for parts ...and service MF was a victim of the 80's farm crisis as were many farmers.....

Awful combines that did a great job but poorly designed and poorly built

They were a beast but also the same to work on. My Dad always said.he would bet it took the engineers a month to figure how to how stuff to work on

When people tell me it's green or nothing I ask them if they have ever run anything else. It's funny when I hear the answers.