Bringing this crusty 60 year old tractor back to life!
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2020
- Bringing this 60 year old tractor back to life! Today we'll get to work on Earl The Tractor! After several years of being abandoned in a field! Hope ya'll enjoy!
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Earl either has a blown exhaust gasket or a cracked manifold. Just watch the smoke when you give it gas.
Or it's an old tractor that hasn't run in 3 years or more
No that's just oil because it's blue if it was white then you would have something to worry about. The oil drips in from the valves ecpecially if it has been sitting.
Maybe put a new exhaust and muffler and let it be done. Earl looks pretty cool just as he is. Great job and great video.
Thank you!
@@randywright7433 would's be Earl without that costume muffler...
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer At about 30:24 you can see exhaust smoke come from the manifold area as well as out the top of the stack. It's not that it smokes, but where the smoke comes from I think he is referring to.
I just bought one sitting 20 years here in Australia. A 1963 MK11
I took the fuel pump glass bowl off to check the fuel, broke the seal, made a new one put it on. Battery in, turned the key and it fired without winding over. Zero smoke.
The steering was frozen because the rubber on the tie rods were rotten. Pumped the tyres up, sprayed some wd40 in them, kicked the front wheels a few times and drove it home 2klms.
That’s what I’m talkin about Massey Ferguson is a beast. After picking my jaw up off the floor pricing new tractors I found a MF 3165 rotting in a field for FREE. Spent a lot of time money and beer fixing it. Just bush hogged my pasture for the first time this weekend. It’s a damn good feeling fixing something yourself and watching it purr in the fields. Keep up the good work Stoney Ridge from a Vet turned farmer right outside of Nashville.
I sure enjoyed this video. I have done work on equipment for over 60 years. It is a love hate relationship doing that kind of work. But it is so rewarding to take something like Earl and get him running again. If it was me I would enjoy the character of Earl, keep him serviced and enjoy using him looking just like he is, clean but with lots of pentane. Thanks for sharing, Paul from Texas
Brother if I was so lucky to have ole Earl I surly would not sell her. That is pure gold..
Nothing beats that kinda thing to me
Earl is 60ish years old. Its made someone (or many) some good honest money over the years. It deserves a restore and retirement.
Keep that old massey. They are classics. My dad is 83 and still has the 1957 Massey Harris 50 that his dad bought brand new for their dairy. I have three, a TO 30 (not running), TO 35 (not running), and a 165 diesel with a loader. I have done a lot of work with all three on our 20 acres over the last 24 years. But like anything else, the need care and they will get it soon. I have been enjoying this series. Keep up the good work!!
Pretty darn good for never having done this before. I'm the former armorer (among many other jobs) of the Beaufort (SC) Sheriff's Office, and now that I'm retired I buy and restore old guns. My latest being a 1944 M1 Carbine. All I need is a UA-cam tutorial and I can knock it out. Thanks for the entertainment. Well worth the membership fee.
Oh, I say restore Earl and make her shine again...after you finish the Jeep.
At age 5 ( in 1960 ) I started driving a Ferguson 65. This was made possible because the "Fergy" was the only tractor on the place that had power steering. I still have one on my place, today, ... and it's still as useful as ever.
It was great watching you repair this tractor I grew up running This tractor O my grandfather's 15 acre form Long days working Bush hawg , Smooth and they driveway Box Blade, Hauling firewood What they owe truck bed as a trailer. Just brings back so many memories growing up appreciate it
I think u should keep it and restore it we all would like to see earl stay thank u for the great videos
Massey Tractors are beasts...they work better the more they get used...had two on our farm and they did everything. I learned to drive one when I could reach the pedals...love them Massey Farm Tractors. I would put some paint on parts that look rusty...Massey Red and Black
I want to tell you ... thank you for what you do on your channel ... it's a very welcome site to see that little dot next to your channel aspasuly these days and the days ahead... again thank you ...
keep it and restore it had one 30 yrs ago loved it then and would love one now
I love that you saved this tractor. That being said, I think $4,000 is a bit.....hopeful.
Power steering....45hp tractor....$4k should be no problem...heck you can hardly buy anything for that price
@@StoneyRidgeFarmerI'll admit, I'm and Allis-Chalmers guy, not a Massey guy, so my knowledge is a bit limited. I wish you luck!
I'm so glad you are taking good care of MY tractor!
Earl
Hello hope you are doing great
Greetings from Central Kentucky. My grandfather had a MF 165 circa 1970. It was a hoss of a tractor. I cut my tractor-driving teeth on in. Good luck with the 65. It will be a great tractor for you once you get it up and running.
Hey it was good to see you get Earl fixed and back together again running. Being you asked I think I would just touch it up a bit. Service it and call it good. Great video Josh. 👍👍👍❤️
I would love to see you do a full restoration of that old beauty, complete with a new paint job. Then you would have something to really crow about, a vintage tractor that you fully restored and truly gave new life to...
Josh, years ago, my dad had to replace a bearing in an air compressor. He couldn't get the bearing out, so he took it to a machine shop, where they welded a bead on the race, which, after it cooled down, pulled out with little effort. Your puller wouldn't have been able to pull it as it was quite large.
Restore Restore !!! Can you see in your minds eye how Creat Earl will Restored and how proud Earl will be ??? I really enjoy your vids "Great training and teaching films" Salamat
One thing I can say is that parts for Massey Ferguson tractors are reasonably easy to get parts for no matter their age. They are so popular and rebuildable.
Josh, I have 1959 Massey 85 that is similar. A friend's Dad used it on his farm and it sat after he died. I bought it for $500, and put another $150 into moving it. The shop I took it to turned me down. They thought it would be more expensive to repair than it was worth. I am going to take it to a shop where the mechanic will work on it as his schedule and my check book allows.
500 ml is roughly 20 oz. Think of the pop bottles you get at the convenience store.
Kevin, Just my 2 cents worth but if a mechanic works on your tractor and charges a minimal $50.00 an hour you'll be underwater on the tractor ten ways from sunday.Old tractors were designed and made for a typical farmer to do most repairs. Buy a complete set of manuals:factory original or re-pops.Operator,service and parts. Avoid generic manuals. then go through the tractor yourself. It really isn't all that hard with manuals. I've bought,fixed,kept or sold around 50 pieces of rolling stock:tractors to dozers. Take you time,take pics,label parts (right down to where the bolts removed came from.zip lock bags for those) take notes: not really that hard to fix old tractors and for me it's a relaxing and profitable endeavor for my spare time.
That's so cute you named your little tractor Earl. How precious is that? Maybe you can paint the headlights to look like eyes and fashion some eyelashes to complete the look.
Leave it the way it is Josh, it provides a great history lesson on how old farm equipment use to be built. My opinion, things were built to last back then. Great tutorial video!
Josh, heat that copper washer untill it is just about cherry red, with a propane torch. The heat will swell the copper and it will compress again and seal when you install the plug. This is done on the spark plug washers on lycoming aircraft engines every 100 hrs.
I’ve got a 1971 Massey 1100. It’s been in our pasture for at least 15 years, probably longer. I pulled it up yesterday to start a rebuild on it. We were needing another tractor on the place so I thought why not give it a try. Great video.
Thank you for thinking of the next guy!
I stumbled onto your channel a few years ago when you were replacing the seat on your other massey. I had a '56 MF50 and was getting it up and running at the time. Tuned up, new tires & rims, new electrical, new ignition, battery, cleaned the fuel tank, all new fluids. About the time I got it running just right, I sold it to a collector and bought a '16 Kioti with 4WD and front-end loader. I miss the character of the old tractor and my wife loved how cute it was, but the new tractor gets so much more work done and I don't have to work on it constantly. Probably would have kept it as a hobby if it wasn't my only tractor.
Hi....... Thank you 🎥👍👍👍
Give Earl a nice coat of red paint. Remove as much rust if you can. Slowly try to fix as much as you can whilst using Earl for value. That tractor will give you good miles and value on farm.
I had a 59 MF 65 row crop, logging winch, cut a great quantity of firewood, softwood logs/pulp, and poplar pulp. Great Continental gas engine!
I would leave it keep it and use it along with the other old tractor I love seeing these old tractors in use
It’s great that you didn’t quit and worked the problem! I think that earl May deserve a full restoration!
I think a series were you full restore this tractor would be awesome (maybe leave the old paint to keep some of its character)!
Keep it and restore Earl. I have a 58 MF 65 diesel sitting in the garage getting ready to di the same to mine. Excellent video!
Great job! Clean it up a bit more and keep Earl on the farm! You revived him he’ll pay you back by being a great tractor on the farm!
From crippled over 61 year old to Earl the Pearl....nice work Josh
Can't beat those old Massey's, we used to have a Massey 65 Diesel with a loader and it was a good tractor. That would be perfect for your place, I say keep it.
Which model of loader did you have on your tractor? I have seen a multitude of different loaders for these MF-65 tractors.
@@TigerUNC52 oh God I can't remember now, that was years ago when I was in my teens
I got to say Josh that the bloopers really put a smile on my face, especially the the last one 🤣😂🤣
Clean it up good and work it, that's why it was built.
You can put Earl on the market but work him till he sells and that's how you respect all those that came before you.
Every tool you use deserves your respect and labor, I have old tools that I keep because they served me well and will
leave them to my son, sometimes he smiles and shakes his head at me but not at the tool.
A mechanic is just another old tool in the making.
Hey Josh. First things first great video. Little trick for ya. If your replacing a bearing race use the old race too drive it in. Like metals won't damage each other. You should leave early with the way he is. Nothing like a tractor with character. And 500mls is half a litre. It takes 3.98 litres too make a gallons. Hope that helps and I'll see ya in the next one. Thanks for taking us along. Whoo!
My grandpa has this tractor, he bought it in 1961 and he has used it for everything in his farm, even now it runs great.
My Uncle cleaned up an old tractor and completely rebuilt it. He then painted it. He was so happy with that old tractor because of the work he did. He showed it to me and I could see the pride he had in it. .
Nothing like having an old tractor around.
I got a 1965 Case 730 with a “Duz-All” loader on it. Got it from Uncle Oscar. Real strong loader and handy to have around.🇨🇦🤠
Also l don’t spend money on cosmetics like paint or fixing dents or redoing the seat. Gas Tires Oil all odds and ends. She is always needing something ha ha ha. Up here our gas is like glue but fortunately the carburetor is real simple to work on ha ha🇨🇦🤠
Leave her like it is 👍
Love that parts like that are still available for these old machines. Tractor restorers in about 50 years are going to be screwed dragging a 2020 John Deere out of a field and realising that it's a perfectly working tractor, it's just that the previous owner used an unauthorised oil filter so the ECU bricked the entire machine.
Matt
Hello hope you are doing great
Just a thought for ya Josh, and know that I've worked as a semi truck mechanic for many yrs and owned my own for yrs. So, with that said just a little advice, and yes some will disagree on here but, even though the bearings in that axle run in oil, it's always a good idea to pack the bearing in grease when reinstalling. In fact, the yrs I worked for a Mack dealer in Ky. if we were caught installing wheel bearings, (new or old), dry, we could be wrote up or even fired. Yes those bearings run in oil but it takes some time of running to get the oil up and in that bearing. And once it is in the bearing it will wash out the grease. You don't want that bearing running dry for ANY time. Just a thought.
John in Ky
Josh Restoration of Earl would make a great series of videos!!!
You are a smart man. Earl is back to life. Oh.... Yes.
Amazed at how well built Earl is. Keep the paint but get him all fixed up. He's a beauty
No need to repaint or restore, the tractor is perfect the way it is. 🚜-Woooooo!!!
Nice job Josh, that old tractor is rocking it!!!!
I saw another tractor mechanic spray the entire tractor (over paint and all) with a combination of diesel and oil, and it brought the machine back to life without removing the patina it has. It looked great! Old timers would routinely spray their machines like this to prevent rust since they were often left outside.
I’d leave it as it is cosmetically. He’s like me, old with some signs of age but lots of character!
So good to see Earl fixed. My vote is to put new exhaust, stock out the back. Pressure wash, then spray down with diesel in a garden sprayer once a year. Great patina, and thread lubricant for future maintenance.
David
Hello hope you are doing great
Still use one of these. Grandad bought it new. It’s a 1962 model and it’s used for the jobs that need it. Also I’m pretty sure that one will have a plug in the front of the head where you can put a temp gauge. In the 165 it has a mechanical gauge in the hole so it’s worth a thought
Great vids, great tractor no computers nonsense to stop you fixing it. Clean her up and get earl working.👍
I have the same 65 also a 135. I bought the 65 but I grew up on the 135. My dad gave it to me few years before he passed away. Great tractors!
Earl lives! Great job getting it repaired Josh.
Looks like you had a lot of fun Josh that's God bless you and your wife on the front lines of this virus
Love the old tractors I have a 1947 Feamall “C” narrow and a 1965 Economy Power King. Love the sound of old tractors makes.
I would be awfully tempted to go down to Tractor Supply and get MF red for a driveway paint job, but then I enjoy doing that sort of thing. Earl runs and has new rubber. That's 70% of the battle right there. He still has a lot of work left to give if someone wants to use him.
Great job putting ole Earl back together Josh, you are a man with many talents !!
They don't make things like they used to, old dump trucks, tractors, homes, you name it. It is awesome to have those kind of skills.
I have an old farm house, I'd much rather have a new one. Vehicles on the other hand are trash compared to older models
Looking at it the other way, get pre 50s homes, barns, etc... and you get circle sawn wood, black walnut? Oak? Or even just pine, fantastic. I can agree with plumbing, insulation and modern conveniences, but imagine the possibilities.
@@ontariosfinest8971 true
Love the way Earle looks as is, I have been watching and waiting for you to get him fixed. Good job!!!!!
The amount of patience you have to retake stuff, constantly back track for the camera or the number of tripods you have blown through. You sir are a saint...
When I put anti seize on a bolt 'for the next guy', I'm really happy when that next guy is me. I see you do a lot of long term planning, it's good to see
Amen brother
There’s something spiritual about fixing an old tractor and giving it a second life instead of running down to the dealer and getting their latest and greatest. Congrats! Great work on Earl.
Fix the exhaust, clean it up, spray it down with an oil/diesel mixture to keep it shinny and inhibit the rust. Be careful dragging something large and it getting snagged, you don’t want that to tip over on of you.
Earl has come a long way now, but I think he still needs some more love. Clean him up and continue to restore him as you can. Earl would make an excellent third working tractor for your farm.
Refurb it all the way! I love to see it fully restored. Awesome work
Josh You are doing everything right. The only thing i could add is wipe some oil onto the working surface of the seal. it doesn't matter so much on that axle seal because its slow moving. It will get wet soon enough. It stops the seal burning the edge off of it initially. Mainly applicable to fast moving parts like crank, cam, gearbox seals. I'v a bit of work on those old MF Tractors over the years . A lot of them are still in use here in NZ and they were reliable. Being continentals those tyres will last well. Continentals are never cheap. I can't remember if they have an access panel above the differential as some of the bearing may have gone into the diff housing. if it does open it up and have a fish around with a telescopic magnet.
I remember when you came and picked up that tractor and brought it home with you. The first tractor I operated decades ago was a 1965 Massey Ferguson which was new at the time and owned by a guy who hired some of us to clear a field for him and I drove that tractor and loved it. That was my introduction to tractors and since then drove a Ford tractor another guy had which he used for farming and logging. In 2002 I purchased a John Deere 790 tractor which I still have and in 2016 I purchased a 3032E tractor from the same dealership and love it also.
It sounds like you do what a former friend of mine did as he rebuilt tractors also and rebuilt two of them and made changes to a third one he owned. The last one he had before he died was a used Massey Ferguson and it is still working, but his son-n-law don't know how to operate it. Those tires are heavy and you must have had a time getting them back on the tractor too, but worth all the work performed on it so it works just fine. I think you should keep the tractor as a backup to do some of the work you have just in case one other tractor is down.
Wow...great job... greetings from PARAGUAY!!💪💪💪
Old farmers trick is to put the bearing in gear oil on a hot plate on low for 20 minutes or so. Then press it on. We didn't have a press. We used a peace of pipe and a 4 pound hammer and that's why we heated it up the bearings.
Steve B and if you have a freezer big enough you throw the axle in to get cold then add said hot bearing they usually drop right on
Josh,
Add a ROPS with a seat belt. Roll bars save lives. Your videos are fantastic.
yep...it's a 1950s tractor my friend...I agree with ya
Awesome work
Great job! That’s a functional tractor the way it is. A new muffler would be good. As for Continental tires: I use them on my motorcycle and my bicycle. They perform admirably. No regrets about using Continentals, despite the cost.
She lives again. Great video . Thanks for sharing.
Enjoy the tractor, I had a 58 model 65. Did the Same job. Brought back memories.
I have a small farm in the catskill mt. ny I love the old Massey Ferguson tractors I have 2 TO 35 tractors that I rebuilt one was 30 yrs ago the other was in pieces I bought local and totally rebuilt , that one has power steering, makes it real nice to drive . one I use for my pro root o tiller the other for my finish mower. makes it easy to steer while mowing . I love those old Masseys and I enjoy working on them , pretty simple.
I would use Earl just like it is. It took a lot of years for Earl to build all of that character!
I recently bought a 1958 Massey Ferguson 50 looks identical, did a mild restoration and I love it. Enjoy yours !
Thanks for getting Earl up and running 🏃♀️
I love it the way Earl looks now! I think if Earl was mine I’d clear coat him and show off that natural patina, maybe a new muffler and put him to work! Great job as always! I really appreciate you taking the time to teach us all something!
a full restoration would be an awesome series of videos to watch.
Has it really been 6 months?
Keep it like it is and work it. Go Earl!!
Here are my two cents. I would take the tins off and really clean the crap out of it with soap, water, and a pressure washer. I would take off the exhaust manifolds and pull the heads off. This is super easy on these old girls. After doing a quick valve adjustment and put it back together. It is honestly an easy project and you can have it done in a weekend. clean the tins with some 0000 scotch bright pads and cover the whole tractor in a 10/1 mixture of boiled linseed oil and mineral spirits. Will look and sound great.
Shew....pulling the heads....nothing is quick on a 60 year old piece of machinery bhahhaha
I would like to see a full resto done on the tractor. There’s something about a shiny old tractor that I just love.
Wood
Hello hope you are doing great
I would clean it up and leave it the way it is. A little character always looks good.
👍🇺🇸Good stuff J! Earl should get some more love. Clean him up a bit, replace some parts & some paint. Keep him running cause they just wanna work.
Good score on the Continentals! How cool is that they reached out to ya?!
One thing… you’re workin too hard! Gotta find a good woman to help ya! Stay strong my friend!
I love Earl, you should rebuild it and make him Shiney.
Please leave earl how he is he would be a great tractor for brushhogging or raking or manure spreading.
I leaned how to drive a tractor exactly like that in the late 70's.
I used to do the trash rounds at a campground in Erie pa, where my folks had a camper we went to on the weekends.
That metal seat + camp roads = 8yr old me bouncing and laughing. ..
I'd leave it like it is and pull a rake behind it thanks for sharing with us and as always what another awesome job and video
when doin stuff like this I use the bottom third of a 5 gallon drum to catch everything, works great and you can clean up good without making a mess. can even make handles and bend a pour out spot too.Cool project
Thanks for finishing Earl, I was worried about him being scrapped or something like that. Josh you are my inspiration as corny as that sounds its my goal to be you at 54 years old lol
Try Seafoam. After 2 nearly dead vehicles, it worked. If everything inside is really gunked up n dirty, you'll see smoke like you've never seen n it will cough n choke n scare you senseless. May take more than one can. All of a sudden, voila, it will purr; promise! However, Seafoam will only clean engines not rebuild broken parts LOL
Woo hoooo! Earl lives to farm another day!! Another great video as always. Love the intro jingle, wife thinks I'm crazy cuz I randomly blurt out "oooh stoney ridge" Thu out the day lol
Definitely restore it...these classics must be saved.