1950 MASSEY FERGUSON 35 TRACTOR PROMOTIONAL FILM 61504
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Go Years Ahead With The Ferguson 35 is a short promotional film from the 1950s that highlights the features and capabilities of the Ferguson 35 Tractor. The film opens with a delivery truck carrying the Ferguson 35 tractor to a farm. The Ferguson sales/deliveryman backs the tractor off the trailer then shows off the tractor’s body to the farmer (02:10). The film explains the engine as the Ferguson man points out the oil tank, removes the front grill to show the radiator (04:30), and opens the hood to show where the battery is (05:05). The film shows the tractor’s 6-speed transmission (05:45) with safety starter. The film then shows the Ferguson man driving the tractor to demonstrate its various capabilities. The tractor drags a cultivator rake behind it. A close-up shot shows the Ferguson 35’s steering wheel and instrument panel (08:10). The Ferguson man demonstrates the light-power takeoff (09:15). The Ferguson 35 bales hay (09:31) with a side baler, pulls a harvester (10:40), and pulls a water tank with attached sprayer. The tractor rakes a field (13:04), then it uses its hydraulic lift to raise the rake. The Ferguson’s hydraulic loader allows for the moving of earth or manure. The film then shows the Ferguson 35 with various wheel sizes. The Ferguson man demonstrates the hydraulic control lever for raising or lowering the tractor’s implement or tool attachment (16:40). He demonstrates moving a barrel with the tractor. Using a multipurpose blade, he backfills earth, and he demonstrates plowing and adjusting the depth of the plow (20:05). The tractor hits steel stakes in the ground to demonstrate a safety feature (21:26). Slow motion footage shows the tractor plowing over a dead furrow to show how the cultivating depth remains constant. The tractor pulls a cultivator with a large fertilizer box (24:02). It then pulls a Ferguson subsoiler (26:38). There is footage of both brake pedals (27:00) and a look at the tractor’s brakes. The tractor backs up to attach an implement (28:10). The farmer begins driving the tractor to experience the Ferguson 35. The film shows the farmer taking possession of the tractor and receiving the owner’s manual from the Ferguson salesman. The film ends with the farmer walking over to his new tractor, climbing on, and starting it up.
The Massey Ferguson 35 (MF35) is a tractor produced by Massey Ferguson. In 1953 a team led by Hermann Klemm started developing a new model for Ferguson, known as the TO35, to replace the TO30. Although Ferguson had merged with Massey-Harris to form Massey Ferguson in 1953, the TO35 was marketed under the Ferguson name. The new Ferguson 35 was launched in the United States on 5 January 1955, a year earlier than planned, following a decision made at a conference in San Antonio in March 1954. It was initially available in two models: standard or deluxe, with a third (utility) added in 1956. Despite not being designed for industrial use, it became popular among industry users. The color scheme was changed from all-grey to a beige shell and wheels and a grey body in May 1956. In December 1957 the scheme changed again when the TO35 was rebranded in the standard Massey Ferguson red and grey. However, the wording on the tractor continued to be "Ferguson" until February 1960. Production ended in late 1964.
Best tractor ever. Still in huge demand for orchard work.
Growing up we had a Ferguson 30 (I believe). Great little tractor. We never used it for plowing, or heavy work, but it was so great for lighter tasks, hauling hay loads, raking, disking, dragging. Just a very versatile worker, and so easy/fun to drive. It was also the only tractor we had with electric start - all the others had to be cranked.
I just bought a Massey Ferguson 35 1964 3-cyl diesel, my first tractor. The first thing was to delivery drive it 300km 13h nonstop across the southern part of Sweden. It worked out just perfect and it was a fine trip on small roads among lakes, farms and forests along the way. Its a really good and for its time advanced tractor.
I basically grew up on Massy Ferguson 35 special. I started raking hay at 7 years old. When I was 3 I got on that tractor started it and drove it through the side of the barn. I spent many years on that tractor. Once I was on a trailer behind and got knocked out by it’s exhaust. Fun times indeed.
There are still dozens of classic grey Fergie 35s around NZ, used for light work on farms and sports grounds, and for towing boats out of water at beaches etc. I remember my grandfather trusting me to steer the tractor he used while managing the Shacklock Company farm near Dunedin.
35s were red bonnet with grey chassis/wheels
20s were grey
35s would be considered red
I am a an owner of a 35 diesel maxi Massey Ferguson and a gas engine 30 to Massey Ferguson I am in impressed of this old machine it has had a rough life but it runs like it just round off the line. I need to find headers for is someone put the wrong crush rings for the injectors and eroded away some of the but metal
I have my Uncles he bought new in 56'. I've owned and farmed with it since 1980. Engine is getting its second overhaul right now due to a failed oil pump.The first time I rebuilt the tractor I used XO Rust Gray and Forest Green.I t matched well my original sales poster colors. She has served this N. Idaho farm faithfully and will for many more years.
This machine seems to have much more engineering behind it than the tractors in the John Deere and Farmall films I've been watching.
I’ve been wanting one. Now I’m sold.
What a great little tractor. It had so many new and unique features. And not a computer in sight! Interesting how tractors have grown in size over the years. They all seem to be huge now.
It did have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
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They were the bees knees when i was a kid
Computers are great when they work. But a nightmare when they don’t. Reliability is many times pathetic. But it helps sell lots of parts and makes things so the average guy can’t fix them. Service in medical etc has become a time wasting frustration nerve racking experience. Used to be Hello. What can I do for you? Bingo done in a matter of minutes. Now you can waste a month with obnoxious contrary talking computers that spit out truckloads of useless info but can’t listen to the real issue.
@@arvbergstedt3303 That’s very true. Technology rules our lives.
Really enjoyed the "film". Have had my 1963 35x for over 20 years now. Have had to do very little to it despite 8500 hours on the clock and she starts very willingly even after months of sitting idle over winter.
This ad was so good im moving to the countryside and buying a second hand ferguson 35
And you'll be mighty glad you did!
I just bought one yesterday. An MF35 with the 4 cylinder gas engine. It was made in 1962, according to the serial number. $2500. Included an almost new box blade.
Used one of those in the 80’s as a kid. It never let us down.
The gray and green paint scheme was only available from 1954 to 1956, the first three years of thr TO-35. This was probably filmed in 1954.
That is amazing it’s just like a dream I wish they still made them!
They are still making them.
In Yugoslavia as the IMT 539 and also in India.
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They do. Mahindra still makes them in India, they even copied the perkins engine. Can't get them in USA due to tier 4
Greetings from Kuusamo, Finland. Our family has had MF 35 -62 since the seventies. We plow our potatofields at summer and heavy snow away the rest of the year :D Jokes aside, it drops some oil and transmission connectors could use a fix but nothing is stopping the Massey Ferguson.
Have 1964 TO35. Used to work our small 12 acre home with several implements. She's a great little machine
The idea a 1950’s farmer’s priority is the distinct appearance kind of amazes me.
I'm going to order one as soon as possible, my old tractor is done.
The MF 35,the best tractor ever made, period.
we had 2 of these on the farm from 1950s to 1990, we sold the farm in 1990 and they were still working then
We had a MF 35 when I was growing up. We grew a bit of garden vegetables and a few acres of Tobacco. It's still the largest tractor my Dad has ever owned, he bought a second one and an IH 140 a few years ago.
Most of the features in today's tractors were invented by Ferguson ❤️
in Ireland
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@@4DModding Hell ya in Ireland 🇮🇪
The 3 point was Ferguson invention
@@Poorboyzgarage447. Yes and, He wisely patented it.
Fergieman
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This is fascinating. My 1959 Massey Ferguson 204 Work Bull is based on the 35 (very early in the evolution of construction/industrial tractors). I enjoy learning about the 35. It compares very favorably against the Ford 8N I grew up with. Really like that two step clutch pedal.
Love that you have a '59 Massey Ferguson! Is it in working order?
@@PeriscopeFilm yep, I use it all the time. That Work Bull series (202 and 204 were gas, 203 and 204 diesel) based on the 35 were very early in the evolution of construction tractors, long before anyone thought of a Case 580. Mine serves well, getting in firewood and moving material. I hope to restore its backhoe one day.
OOPS, my edit won’t work. 203 and 205 were Perkins diesel, the 202 and 204 run Continental Z134 gas.
Between my last reply and this one, I went out back, bucked a windfall maple into three sections, and used the Massey Ferguson to pull the logs up to the woodshed behind the house, where we use our splitter. I have a three point boom pole on the back, rigged with a small winch (world’s smallest logging skidder?) that works great for getting firewood. I tend to use downforce on the bucket for my parking brake. The Work Bull series is industrial yellow, not gray (mine is yellow & rust😉). My brakes are both on the left, a sort of “trident” pedal for torque converter on right (no clutch). Right prong for forward, left for reverse, middle to just rev it up. Trans looks like your video, but only has two speeds, plus the high/low on the right. Reverse is in torque converter in front of the trans, so I have 4 speeds forward or reverse, and warning, the PTO definitely will reverse if you step on the reverse pedal while it’s in use.
Glad to find this on here.
Thank you so much for sharing! This is awesome! 😍👍
This tractor rides like a dream
Loved my 1955 TO-35
Enjoyed this episode.
I worked for a Ford dealer in the 80's and 90's, 8n 1994 we had watch a training video and write a test on the 8n 9n hydraulic system because there are so many still out there being used.
Our new MF 35 with 3 cylinder Perkins Diesel 32,5 PS DIN was delivered in fall 1962 with 3m harrow and 2 farrow plough and twin wheels.
We have a mf 35 x had it from new ,used nearly everyday still runs and looks like new
Sold. I'll take that tractor today.
You and at least half the agricultural world!.
Tafe now not mf
This is the Ferguson TO35 (tractor overseas), which became over here (England) the Ferguson FE35 in 1956 and then the MF 35 in 1958
I believe the TO35 started in 1953 already. A couple of years before us.
We don't have any original 35s here in Greece, but we still have a lot of the IMT 35, the Yugoslavian license copy of it. Granted, they have been superseded for farm work now, having only about 35 hp, but you still see the occasional one doing light work such as weeds spraying.
On a related note, our neighbor when I was a kid had a MF 135. I still remember the sound of that Perkins 152 idling at what seemed like 300 rpm
I have a 1989 IMT 539, it has 39hp. I have owned it since 2007. It has the same design as the 35 Massey Ferguson same hood and fenders. It's a great little tractor.
Great to see information about the old tractor Messi Ferguson
I like these old films but ih is my tractor of choice
Spent a lot of time on the successor the 135, it’s still in use today.
In 2020 my brother David ,who is a rice farmer in guyana still have a MF35 tractor parked up in his farm yard .It was the first farm tractor i drove.The pto was used to drive a water pump to flood the ricefild
Got a 30 surprises me how much power it has run a six foot snow blower with a quite a bit of snow and just keeps going
It is a miracle that this tractor didn’t fall off the trailer its way to the farm. Doesn’t seem to have been roped or chained down at all and one sharp braking would have had interesting consequences.
my little 51 ferguson is amazing for it's size go anywhere easy to get around
We have one still runs well and hasn't been stopped since new, few leaks of oil and fuel though, Allen from Lowood qld Australia 🇦🇺🌏🍻🍺mate
@Charlie K
Our grandfather tractor is the MF 65. With the 4.203 Perkins diesel engine. It starts the engine 30 degrees under zero without flame candle.
So sometimes no other machine is starting without starting pilot ehter. Otherwise battery empty.
Our new common rail tractors John Deere have problems starting by that low temperatures.
I remember a cold day were my old merdes diesel was running because it had an wather headet fuel filter. The new cars could not run run that day.
Yes new machines are more fuel efficient, but at the cost of a more complex machine wihich can cause expensive repairs!
2:25 very nice color 👌👌👌
I wish this was posted correctly. There was no MASSEY FERGUSON in 1950, Massey and Ferguson merged in 1958. This is a Harry Ferguson tO 35. and it's not a 1950 Harry Ferguson and Henry Ford were making the 8N for together at that time. Harry Ferguson provided the lift system while Ford provided the front half. After they spllit Harry Ferguson took his lift system and began making the TO 20 in 1953. The TO 30 came later and then the TO 35. This tractor is probably closer to a 1956 or '57. The Massey-Ferguson TO 35 came out in 1958 and was the first hear the tractor was painted Red. Some of the TO 35's were painted a bamboo beige and green. I do love the video though.
We had a Ford 8n BOUGHT NEW IN 1948 AND IT WAS Ford only. Ferguson at that time was the TO20. We bought a new Ferguson (only) in 1954 and it was a TO30. In 1955 I saw the first TO35 and in a year or 2 it became a Massey Ferguson. Also, in later 50's they came out with a 40 and it could be had with taller tires and they dubbed it the "High'40.
so wrong the ferguson to 20 cam out in 1948
Scott Morrow ,
Mine is Red. So you think its closer to 58? And not 56 like seller stated? Either way I love it
Massey-Harris and Ferguson began the merger in 53, officially finished in 58. 56 through 58 models were basically the same between the two. I have a 56 Massey-Harris MH50, has all the same controls and gear train just slightly different body panels. 56 to 58s Massey-Harris were also the red and gold. I do believe though the fergusons weren't the red until 58, correct me if I'm wrong.
My ma owns one. A gold belly with a "roof". In parenthesis due to it being more like a frame with a textile plad on it. Most fun tractor i've ever driven. Even has the hydraulic frontloader.
Good old times.
Very cool video. I just got the American version
I have the 1st year version TO-35, Grey & green with tag; MASSEY-HARRIS-FERGUSON, built in early '50's, I think, 1951
Very good.
We still have this one
My Dad grew up on a farm in the 30's/40's and 50's and when I was a little kid he used to drive our '56 Ford with just one knee and Mom would always yell at him for not having his hands on the steering wheel and he used to reply...Ahhh, I used to plow the back 40 in our Massey Ferguson with my knee, driving a car with my knee is easy.
So fine
I have a 1956 four pot FE35 with that damn 23c engine, it smokes a bit... when it stops smoking I'll get worried...
Don't you just love the way that the driver dumps the plough at the start...
Must be genetic. Hay customer just bought a 2020 model "toy" Massey of about 30 HP and hydraulic drop could be lethal. She plans to have a restrictor fitted.
This is the TO-35 for those of you who are confused why the two tone colors are gray and green.
I have and use a 240 with the 3 cylinder Perkins engine everyday on my "little" 50 acre farm
In 1964 my dad bought a MFM135. Still have it. Compared to those old Fords it was a sports car.
Massey ferguson dünyada baska tanimam 135 lik 25 yil kullandim 72 model sıfır almistık hala seviyorum
As someone who owns an N series ford, I wish ford didn’t horn Ferguson. I honestly feel ford would have be further ahead continuing to work with Ferguson through that time. This whole video takes jabs at fords shortcomings
I wish newer tractors were built with the people in mind instead of making a buck
Ferguson Gray and metallic green, all I see is black and white.
I like how at the beginning they are hauling it on a single axle trailer, I'm sure it didn't have brakes back in those days and by today's standards it would be severely overloaded, most laws for single axle is 2k lbs without brakes but you can haul up to 3500 lbs with brakes which both together are easily greater than those limits.
I have 2x MF 35 diesel deluxe models, a '59 w/ Standard 23c & '60 w/ Perkins, both have the standard 6F/2R transmission, I wish they had multi-power which didn't become available till later. The live pto is great to have but don't really have a need for the ground speed setting, basically the pto is only used with a woods mower, bush hog and a tedder, raking hay is with a ground driven rake and the hydraulics aren't powerful enough to run our hydraulically driven rake.
Overall a great little tractor that really any farmer should have but does have it's shortcomings. They could easily update it with more powerful hydraulics, update the transmission to have more choices for working speeds and they would easily sell them, only problem Massey Ferguson no longer owns Perkins and haven't used their engines in a long time.
When Ferguson partnered with Massey the continued producing the 35 for years with improvements.
The brakes in my 35x still kicks ma almost off the seat when you tap the light 🤣🤣
That’s a real work truck, not like today’s junk
Interesting, didn't know Ferguson had live PTO in 1950.
Was actually 1955 when the TO35 weas introduced!
The foot peddles suck on these old tractors. It's hard to push them down vs forward peddles like on newer tractors.
I imagine the old tractors had no power steering or other conveniences. Thanks for the comment.
My brother had a deluxe power shift wheels I'm wondering because it was red if that color was exclusive to that particular model?
Quality American tractor not like today’s Chinese and India junk. Politicians have sold us out!
Ferguson is British though
@@larsschothorst5888 TO 35s built in Detroit
TAFE is building massey tracter in india. ok
I have an mf20 74 model industrial and learned something about it top link ground function pto.
We have an mf35 with the perkins engine think it is from 64. Our differs on several points. It has a tractometer that i never seen on another tractor and the handbrake lever is different.
Seen other cabs but not that one we have. (think its was requiered by law to a have cab/rollcage in Sweden)
2:17 Clash the plough down on the ground as hard as you can why don't you !
Who all have a MF35?
I've got a 1963 with the Perkins diesel (only way to go).
Also have a MF135 which is also a diesel.
Mat Helm just rebuilt the engine on my 35.. diesel.. have had it for 20 years...
@@wmherndon Did you use a kit? I ask because my MF35 needs a set of rings, and I wonder where you got your parts from. Thanks
Mat Helm sent the engine to a shop in Sacramento ca. They did the short block and I believe the valves.. I can dig up the info if you like. My buddy who is a diesel mechanic helped me.. actually did most of the real work. It was a real pain.. but runs
great now..
Mat Helm I know we had a gasket kit.. and as I am remembering the engine studs were super expensive .. and we had to get them from 2 different sources.. again I can look for you if you want..
I own a massey 35 and it still works
nice and btw this isnt a masey ferguson it a ferguson
Wish my 30 had a live PTO. Oh well, I really just need an overrunning clutch for the brush hog.
Just as a fact trivia...there was no Massey Ferguson in 1950...it was just "Ferguson"...
i got a massey ferguson 35
Nice .voice
I have a bucket on mine. Some say this tractor has no business having the bucket.... has anyone heard this?
Ahh farm equipment without Digital Rights Management and anti self-repair tech.
One thing i know you wont pull 3 14s in our soil.
Not in our soil either. I pull 2.14's with a 539 IMT with the weight of a loader and a heavy roll bar with a metal canopy on top and fluid in the tires. The 539 IMT is a copy of the TO35 Massey Ferguson.
And the question today is "how easy is it to get this two position live clutch today".
Pretty easy actually , lots of stores are still carrying parts for the mf series of tractor .
Oliver invented the live PTO. That baler was a contraption at best.
No, Oliver didn't. Cockshutt did with the 1946 Cockshutt 30. Oliver copied it.
what would that tractor have sold for new ? when.
I've seen 3,600 and around that price range
The 35 did not come out until 1954 or 1955.
your thinking of the massey ferguson not ferguson
I have two fe 35 diesel .both 1957. 1958 became massey Ferguson in my understanding
this is a Ferguson 2085 with 35 transmission
Correct the mf35 was not until 57-58
Creeper gear, Live PTO, Adjustable Front Axle, PC- DC Lever in 1950 Tractor itself 😳
I want to model that is on Clarkson’s Farm
The small farm where we board our horses has a 35 which, although unrestored, is a reliable workhorse that is "semi-retired" and now used only for dragging the arena and sand ring. ua-cam.com/video/K4HlZekj3qU/v-deo.html
At 8:21 tractor hour meter reads 69. Nice.
Wait! It's not a Kubota?
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i thought the 35 came out in 54 or 55
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Aww, dad! I thought you said you bought a *tractor* !
I didn't think it could pull 3 mold board plow.Did I say that right?
The thirty five started in nineteen fifty five
thats a 2085 with a 35 transmission
It is an America built Ferguson 35 rather than a British built FE-35 which came out later and had a different styling
I thought Massey Ferguson was invented and produced in the UK or did USA claim it for themselves
Wrong. The. First. Massey. Ferguson. Tractor. Was. The. 35. It. Was. Brand. New. We. Had. One. It. Was. Painted. Grey. And. Gold. Not. Red. And. Grey. Till. The. Next year
and it is 1958
I had one but it got stolen