Barn Find Massey 300 Picking Corn in the Snow! From Abandoned to Harvesting! PT 6
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- Опубліковано 7 гру 2023
- Finally hitting the corn field with the Massey 300. Complicated by unexpected snow. Thanks to my friends Eli and Wade for coming out to run machines and help out!
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We had a 300 on the farm when I was kid in the 80’s. I was small enough that I sat sideways behind dad in the cab and would ride every round. Then when I was about 8 or 9 we got a 40 John Deere and that became my combine and I would run it and dad ran the 300. Fast forward a couple years and we got a 750…..boy we were doing big things then. Anyway, thanks for digging up some old memories for me, my dad’s been gone about 5 years now and stuff like this just makes me smile with a tear in my eye. 👍
Was a lot of fun to put to work. Thanks for tuning in.
Yes my dad was gone in 64 when I was 17, the year before I graduated high school. Loved my dad, died from cancer at 56. Here I am 77 a few years later. Now my dog has cancer and will miss him a lot. Might never get another as I love him so much.
Grew up in a 510 with my grandpa in western Oklahoma. Love to see these old Masseys run again. Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed
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That’s a cool picture of it in the field and in the snow. That picture could very well have been taken 45 years ago when it was probably doing just that. It probably did that quite a few times in its previous life. Thanks for giving the old girl a second life! I really enjoyed watching it thus far.
great job. nice to watch
Great success! I enjoyed this very much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great 300 series!! Lot of work but really nice machine ; an you did a Gr8 job . Enjoyed it all . Thanks!!
Thanks!
Love watching older equipment being used.
Me too.
That’s awesome, made my eyes leak, I ran a 300 a lot of hours, was the sp combine n the farm
Glad you enjoyed it.
Had a 300 410. 510. 550 760 and a 860. Great machines
Nice fleet. I really liked the 860 I had.
It’s one hell of a combine.
We used to pick corn almost every year in the snow. With a 2 row New Ideal picker and a 285 Massey Ferguson picking 300 acres
Great footage! Nice seeing that old girl still able to make a dollar. When I started farming on my own in 83, I ran an old open station JD 45 round back. Man was that thing cold cutting soybeans in November and December. I still remember wearing carhartt overalls and stocking cap. Although the old combine is long gone to the scrap yard, I still have the metal seat pan and seat base off of it. I think it was either a 59,60 or 61 model. Still have a scar on my left hand from rolling my hand into a chain sprocket while trying to reverse the cylinder with a bar after stopping it up. Shouldn’t have been resting my hand on the chain. When I finally got it to roll through reversed it quickly rolled over rolling my knuckle under the sprocket. I was definitely in a fix. After 5-10 minutes I was able to get it rolled forward freeing my hand up. I was 14 years old. Lesson learned!! Lol
Great story. The old combines are always a challenge for sure.
I also had a 750, so it was a blast from the past
Used to be a lot of 750s around.
Aww geez man.......a little oil on those 60 year old roller chains pleeeez ? I ran a 410 Massey back in the 80's it had A/c so it was comfortable in the summer but noisy so I found some black foam at a surplus store like they put in the JD soundguard cabs and lined the inside of that Massey cab with it....what a difference it was quieter and cleaner so for wintertime I hung a LP convection heater up in the corner of the cab.......after it warmed up it would keep the windows defogged and you could take your coat off on a 20 degree day.......I miss that old combine....thanks for the memories.....
All chains were oiled.
I JUST SUB LIKE WATCHING OLD COMBINES WORK MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR'S
GOBBLESS. SAY HI TO BARB FOR US AUNT MILLIE
Pretty Cool
Good job. I ran a 510 Massey and we had a Dodge truck just like the one you have. Our big truck was a F750 pulling a 40 foot flat bed grain trailer. Things shure has come a long, long way in the past 55 years.
Crazy to park this combine next to my 860 which is only 11 years newer.
@@tmonteIH Hope to see more of your videos soon.
Plays like a sci-fi movie with the tiny scared animal being chase through standing corn by a giant voracious predator......great video man.......
Thanks.
We put a lot of hours on a slant 6 as an irrigation engine, sounded just like that!
Cousin was still running two slant 6 motors on wells when he passed away. Spent a lot of hours working on them with him every year.
The 300 was a fun machine to shell corn. The 750,860 series had huge capacity to run a lot of crop through them.AL B.
860 is quite literally double the size of a 300 in almost every way. Still a very relevant machine for harvesting dryland corn for us.
Cool video, love the old iron. Nothing is important enough to be texting while driving though. Put the phone down or park.
Good of saving her . Motor sounds great .
It sure is a sweet sound.
The little one and old smokie!
You bet.
Great job getting that Massey back in the field!
A little more tweaking and it should be perfect.
Yep. Just glad it made it to the field.
Pushing the stalks over. Slow’er down a little. Stalks should pull striaght down. Nice work on the old girl. My grandfather had the exact one.
When the corn is this bad it doesn’t matter.
they are two of the cool LUST COMBINES AND YOU HAVE GLEANER TO LUCKY GUY
Thanks
Back in the 70s and 80s my dad and his friend had a 300 and a 410. The 300 was slightly different from yours, as the feeder house stayed with the header and the cab door worked like a normal door
Would’ve been an early model.
Boy a man can sure dream about this
It’s sure fun.
We used to run an old 300 with a 3 roll head. It ran like a champ 200 Bu corn was no problem for it. With it empty it took about 50 pounds on the end of a snout to raise the rear end off the ground. That was the good old days! Traded it on a 540.
They sure are light on the back end.
@@tmonteIH probably why the calcium in the tires. Sure enough does rot the wheels off. I see your 300 has tiny little wheel weights on too. Would rather have 3 times the weight in weights than any calcium at all. 50lbs on the auger, well depends if you have a bevel gear skipping out while dumping I'd guess. Personally I'd rather dump all the calcium than ruin the steer jobbies.
I’m surprised your sieve’s didn’t freeze over when it was snowing. I tried that once behind a 750 and left a nice yellow trail the cows had to clean up that winter.
Didn’t harvest much while it was snowing. Just enough to test. Came back after lunch and all the snow had already melted off the warm corn.
Look at the corn just spew out of the end of that auger! How many bushel per minute unloading
Reminds me of the days of driving a Gleaner F2
Maybe I should rescue an old gleaner next.
@@tmonteIH gotta find an early silver seeder… A or C model
@@andrewtimmerman9974 A with a 2 row head would be cool.
The Dodge truck is doing a fine job isn't it. And it really looks Good, are you able to keep it in the barn ? Thanks for Sharing. 😊
It’ll go inside.
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Awesome very cool are you guys running narrow row corn 30 inch ?
Yes we are. We’ve kind of always been 30” here. Only been growing corn for 30ish years dryland. Were wheat and Milo farmers before that.
Ive never combined corn, what does corn yeild ? Our oats back in the late 90's ran 120 an acre, 50 to 70 fo4 wheat, 80ish for feed barley and 44 for canola
Irrigated corn 200+. Normal years dryland is 80-100. This stuff was significantly less.
runs good for it's age. Slant 6 Chryslers engines run forever.
Seems like it.
How much corn is left in the old girl. You said to clean it out and then be done. Do you have calves to feed the remnants to or just discard it?
Couple bushels. Usually just open the traps and leave it in the field for the deer and pheasants.
A lot of the stalks still standing after harvesting with 300 seems . Dont it chop them too and spit it out.? Like the videos.
Stalks go through the stalk rolls on the cornhead and get crimped. Don’t actually go through the combine. Only thing that’s supposed to go through is the cob and husk.
@@tmonteIH thanks for explaining it..
drought corn ?
Looks to be possibly dryland corn or maybe hailed dryland. That's just a guess, though.
Third year of a drought and it was hailed on twice.
@@tmonteIH it had the tell-tale signs of hail. I assume it’s dry land? Or is this field on a pivot?
@@MattKrogmeier dryland.
How many grease zierks on that MF?
12 on the cornhead and around 20 on the combine.