The Ole 760 Massy
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- ** The year wouldn't be complete without firing up the Ole 760 Massy combine and doing a little ride along while she is cutting some crop. She was a beast of a combine in her day. For comparisons with the Fendt IDEAL, check out theses videos from last year.
** • Massy Ferguson 760
** • David vs Goliath
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Those 6 cyl. Perkins engines were real workhorses.
Helped with Lethbridge area amber durum harvest in 1975 as a 20 year old. When I arrived the boss put me in a super 92. We started most days at 7a.m. and combined til midnight. When the 92 blew a head gasket after about 6 weeks I was put in one of the 750’s. I was in heaven running that combine.It got late that year (Nov.) so a custom combine gang with 6-760’s was hired to help finish. This gang had started in Texas in April and moved north as the crops ripened-about 100 miles/week they said.
Did it with 4 510s on a harvest crew in 74 hydros grain hogs I'm with ya
Massey combines didn't throw much grain out the back . They were good combines.
steven Wisner They didn't throw much out if you set them up right, good old girls..
@@nigelchurch4573 my neighbour still runs a 530 here in Finland and it is the most efficient combine he has had. Gone through many sampo (big manufacturer in finland) and newish claas combine but the 530 still is the best.
Gotta set any combine and have the brains to slow down, cause of most throw over
Hi Mike, Could you do "a history of the farm" someday? With old images etc.
Luv how Mike asks himself questions for us. Thanks Mike
like he knows whats comping up in the comments anyways ^^
He is just super in touch with his audiance. 😝🤣
Mike asks all the right questions and he always has the right answer too.
I love that he always has the right answer to the questions he asks himself. He certainly cant stump himself.
Perfect questions raised by Mike himself with the responses giving perfect insight, thanks for that a bunch👌👍
It's always good to look back, to see where we came from and to appreciate it. Thanks for posting this video
I remember when I was a kid my uncles neighbor showed up with his brand new Massy 760. We all thought it was the biggest thing we had seen. There were a lot of them that guys kept going around here since they used them for grass seed. They still like a conventional for grass seed. I agree about the straw walkers. Crawling on those things was torture!
Don't plug it that's 4 sure
Brings me back to my childhood with my grandfather in his MF 760, 850's, and 860's. Lots of summers spent repairing them, one year watched one burn. Oh how fun it would be to run one again.
awesome to see those old machines work
Love the old masseys they were a great machine. We ran two 750s when i was a kid. Still run a conventional combine now so that we can bale up straw
Great stuff Mike, glad to see the old lady still getting to take a swing in the field
Grew up in massey’s. Had a 760 then a bunch of 860’s, like 6 at one time even. Had several belt drive and many hydro’s. Has special tools and brackets to remove belts under the cab and removing big gear box. Etc etc. one we had the ol straw storm!!
That's awesome! 🙂
Mike your enthusiasm for farming is awesome. I dread the day when family farming is just a memory and global corporations control all means of production. Keep up the good fight!
We built our little farm with a 1965 Massey Ferguson. Having it restored now. She is small but mighty.
The sound is awesome👍
I remember when I was a kid, in the 70s
Dad drive a Volvo BM 7 foot header without a cabin🤔😄👍
I also learned to drive combine on a 760 and too have spent many an hour piloting one....with the door open because the air con give up😂 brilliant machine for thier time!
great to see you still bring the old iron out, nothing better then the smell of rich burning diesel!
Thank you for sharing your videos rock!
the last shot was good the new dog in town coming over the hill to see what has imvaded its territory, glad to see you respect the old girl in letting her still get in on the harvest.
Laverda, a distant relative to your Fendt, got shakers. I worked as development “pilot” for Danish factory Dronningborg in the 90’s. Also with shakers.
They came out in mid 80’s and had 4 computers, a screen that looked like a old “tv game”. From around 90 we had gps mapping, with reference station because gps was still scrambled to avoid russians to use it. The Dronningborg 40 is for sure the grandmother of your Fendt combines.
We learn to drive straight from mocking, now you just press the screen, totally unfair. :-)
If almost all modern combines are rotary, then by definition, aren't they conventional these days... :-) Great to see you still keeping this old beauty running and cutting a few acres with it to keep everything moving.
That Perkins still sounds sweet
Reminds me of my youth good times. I ran a john Deere 6600 for a number of years. Thanks Mike keep these vids coming.
The first combine I operated was a 7720 John Deere and the header was offset , a little weird to get use to at first
My dad and uncle share a old 750 massey for years.
Love the old Massey!!! We still run two if them!!
Love this old gal!! Need more vids of her!!! Look after yourself!
With a straight Transmission, the Engine supplied by Massey was a 354 Cubic Inch turbocharged Perkins. This was the same Engine used in the 1130 and 1135 Tractors.
If the Combine was equipped with with a Hydro Transmission, then Massey put the 540 Cubic Inch V8.
Fergieman
Thanks for the videos MIKE I think they’re awesome
We only had a small acerage of barley and oats but often late harvest old secondhand combines ,started on a Mf 780 Special then a MF 500 ,then 525 by far the best was the 500 as it was reliable ,the 525 was a pig in a late damp harvest as the rotary straw seperator at the back would wrap with damp straw and occasionally block up combine ,spent 2 hours one night in dark inside combine with a pen knife cutting out straw once
The largest combine I have driven was an 18 foot Dronningborg.
The great thing about it was that it had a cab.
We still run two 760s and two 860s great old machines. They give some problems but they are easy to work on and parts are cheap.
my combining learning experience was with a johndeer pull type cannot remember the series size it was, it was our nieghbours. loving it i bought a 7781 johndeer pull type in 1983 dad just tottaly cussed that combine yet i would go a full harvest unbroken down, i used a JD front wheel assist 4440 it was a load for the tractor, i could pull down the tractor so bad i hadda stop at times
A realy nice classic combine. I'm from Germany by us we can not drive the 760 combines because the oversize.
Some of us could only dream to have a combine (even a old one like that)
It looks like the old girl still does a pretty decent job!
That’s awesome Mike. Haven’t things changed.
It might be small by today's standards but it all got done! Good old days of plenty of labour and the weather was always good. Have you worked out how many acres/tonnes/ bushels it took to buy the 760 compared to your ideals... thanks for the videos very very interesting and informative.
What percentage of your subs/patrons are farmers, I wonder?
I would love to see comparison, maybe even including price per feet of header/productivity
How did you comment 2 days ago?😂
Im 100% sure his farm would be more effective if he just bought 10 old mfs - of course you need drivers and thats the main cost but im sure you can find enthusiasts who would love to harvest with it for a small wage
@@kingofrivia1248 I am sure that getting people to run them for few days wouldn't be a problem, but their harvest is longer than a month...
great video. love those old machines.
That when farmers were farmers an new the sounds of their machines. Thank you so much Mike to get that great piece of history out of the shed an show it off . An yes it still thrashes grain like the $1,000,000 equipment today . An yes I watched the video twice an may watch it the third time as well . 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇨🇦🤗
That header is called a rigid platform header!
That was largest combine on the market at that time. John Deere and International weren't even I picture for custom cutters then.
How many months would it take to harvest your crops with the massey?
Or how many Massey's would it take to do the job of the ideal?
Thanks for your time to do the video very good thanks again
May as well put an operator in it for the season. Being that everything is straight cut, I can’t see any harm in this thing rolling with the Fendts. Up north where I farm, swathing is the main method. Puts an end to using auxiliary smaller combines. Not going to drag out an old class 4-6 combine and run it in my 35-40ft swaths.
I worked at a MF dealer years ago. It was 7 miles to the farm. You could see my old 860 smoking that far away🤣🤣🤣
Great video mike reminds me of my Grandads farm in The UK
Just need the tall silver grain tank extension on her then it with look even better!!
The red tank extension looks great on the older 750s and 760s adds another good 20 bushels
We harvest rice with claas lexion..I think claas is the queen of rice... Case in our area is the best to wheat etc
That Perkins sounds a lot like those diesels Gleaner put in their K thru M series combines back in the day.
My brother got his arm caught in the hopper auger in an old one like that back in '88. If it wasn't for the cover-alls stopping the auger he probably would of died. But those were easy to handle. I learned on one of them when I was 8.
We ran 760 some were older that that one and we had pick up reels. and v8 Perkins with 180 hp.
are walker had extinction and fish backs to fluff up the crop big up grade. the only thing that was crap on those was the return.
For that time, it was a nice combin.😉
How many hours has the 760 done?
First combine I run was a 132 Cockshutt 1951.
Lovely video i have been looking up these older mf combines. here in the UK there is still some about for very little money hopefully im going to find one to cut my small acreage
Claas still has a walker machine. It still has the aps and cylinder but walkers instead of the rotors at the back.
Hey mike, can we history of the farm, like how many acres you use to farm with these
New hollands cx8 are still conventional combines
C est une sacré largeur de coupe pour une machine assez ancienne
Did some 510 s hdros grain hogs custom harvesting onetine 16 ft heads
Some of those massey's had an update i believe...they came with 23 inch longer sieves and walkers and the number on the combine was 765 and 865. I could be wrong here.
Those are pretty rare
t670 John Deere is a full on conventional thrasher system
If you owned your machine whatever it maybe, your favorite on the farm. Would you ever do modifications to it? Bigger turbo etc...
MIKE!! did u notice there's no wind!! :)
Mike,how many times per day were your parents telling you "watch out on yourslef" while you were lil kiddo during the harvest season or other dirt works?
You for got to mention that the walker door was also good for checking the straw to see how good a job you were doing in threshing.
92, super 92, 510 western, 750, 860 and ended with and 8460. (Claus)
Had a good run.
You were a spoiled child running a pair of 860 Massey's. We took of 2,000 acres a year with a pair of 105 John Deere combines. Would love to spend an hour ( Two Rounds) in one of the t hose again.
Dad rented a 510 Massey ( no cab) to run with our JD105's one year. Massey held it own.
So do you use this combine every harvest?
Mike quick question I just started watching your videos do u and your family own the farm u work at and how many total fields and land do u farm
Sweet video! Probably before the old 760's time, but did your dad ever try out or know anything about the Western RotoThresh?
Seen a 760 massy with a 4 row corn head going yesterday. Thought of you then!
I found you on the tiktoker
John Deere make a conventional combine. The T series
also theres the new holland cx series
Claas tucano/avero is too i think 🤔 and i guess the smaller fendt/massey/jd W series, Sampo etc..
@@rockfosg And the Smaller Lexions^^
Some people prefer em coz ya can bale the straw better. They dont chomp it to smitherinze like a rotory does.
In the west of the eu, most combines are still conventional (for better straw, smaller fields,...)
New holland does produce a conventional combine yet. Some people by them that want to bale the straw for livestock.
Hi Mike, are you gonna get that new fendt 1167 to test?
Old school 💪
So the score at the moment it is MF 760 / 1 JD X9 / 0
Power BI Perkins ❤😂
I learned on a gleaner
8:16 Mike 😂😂😂
Whos running the combine?
Hi Mike I'm just curious did they lose a lot of product out the back in the chat for was it a pretty good machine
If you still use that machine why not weld fingers in the augers?
I would like to hear why you guys switched from Massey to john deere and why you never talk about trying a new Massey combine out
The Ideal's Mike runs now are Massey's just with a Fendt badge stuck on!
Is that a pipe going from air intake to exhaust
Lexions can actually be either walkers or hybrids, 5000 and 6000 series Lexions are "conventional" walkers.
Babushka of combines😂😂😂
Is this the model Massey from the superman 3 movie? Wheatkings covered the MF logo. Would love to know who has those 3 machines . Would love to see them
Lets get together in 2060 and see how the 40 year old Fendts are doing!
I just got me mf 540 combine with wheat header
Mike, it is obvious you must had a feeder chain instead of the infamous paddles and never try tuff flax, you'd soon changed your mind comparing the 1460.
Awesome just plain awesome
i am 80 years old and this video made tears come to my eyes. when i was young , my father started with a massey 82 to a super 92 than a 410 then a 510 than a 760 than an 860. in 1957 dad worked with massey and mounted a 2 row corn head off of a massey sp corn picker. it dropped the corn on TOP of the cyl. this was on the massey 82. i started work with massey in 1965 as a service man. worked 41 years for massey until they din't keep up with the times. i than went with case/ih.. i live in west central iowa but have a small wheat/soybean farm 9 miles south salina.. love to go down there and show the young guys how to harvest wheat ha ha. i have been known to stop at a harvest and ask if i can run a combine and they say get in and stay 2 to 3 days. when done they say how much do we owe you and i say nothing .these are salt of the earth people, same as you guys. i love your channel and would to see your operation swap harvesting stories
Thanks for sharing your story sir!
The old girl is cutting more than the JD X9 did
Hahahahaha...😄🤣
Nothing new.
Does your dad have you guys leave a few acres near the farm for the Massey to get some exercise every year?
Man this video brings back memories. The sound of that Perkins is music to my ears. My Dad bought a 750 new back in the 70s before I was born...the old red cab with the small auger, non-hydro, no radio...but it did have A/C. The cab actually stayed kind of clean if you kept the blower speed up, and it gave you a gentle rain on the really humid days of wheat harvest. We mostly grew corn and soybeans, with only a little bit of wheat...so the tiny little heater got more use that the A/C did up here in MN. We ran a pickup head on it for wheat (also experimented with mustard a few years), a 15-ft flex head and 6 row 1153 corn head. I can remember my Dad jumping out of cab and then walking alongside and behind while it kept going down the field, so that he could see how everything was running and if he needed to make adjustments. I grew up riding in the back of the cab until I was too big to sit up straight without hitting my head on the roof, shortly after that I learned how to drive it. We didn't need alarms, you just listened for noises and felt for vibrations that were different...and they always growled if you were pushing them too hard. Cutting short beans on dry sandy (and hilly) ground with no height control was a stressful experience...you couldn't afford to leave any beans on the ground and Dad made sure we got as much as possible or else we weren't allowed to drive combine. We ended up getting several more used MF'ers over the years and ran them up until 2001 I think.
We used to run Gleaner L2’s against the 760’s every year custom cutting at a friends who cropped 7000 acres net Thief River Falls Minnesota. He had 5- 760’s and we had 2 L2 all running 24’ headers in heavy spring wheat up to 70 bushels per acre. We had the same capacity. Once we ran across the fence from an 8820 with a 36’ Macdon and we were all going the same speed. Back up closer to Winnipeg we ran against a 760 with a 24 ‘ head in a thin stand of wheat but it was yielding 40 bushels. We were both going 7 mph but on a half mile run we could lap the Massey after a while because we could boost the speed to 9 mph on the turns and use the wheel brakes to spin the machine on a dime. We were 10000 pounds lighter and that really made a difference. Then in the mid 90’s working NW of Winnipeg my buddy had 10” of rain in August. Water everywhere. I ended up equipping my machine with custom built steel rice paddles like a riverboat bolted to the wheels. I still got stuck 18 times that fall and my buddy 12 lol. He put on RWA because his L2 had Hydro and duals but had to take the duals off because they became a 6’ wall of mud he couldn’t get through. One day he buried his machine to the frame in the middle of the field. We brought out a Steiger and got it stuck. Then a second Steiger got stuck trying to pull out the first. Then a long cable attached to the neighbors Versatile got the Steigers out and finally 2 of them to get the combine out. 9 men 8 hours to get that machine out. Fun times lol!
If u were keeping up with a 760 or860 u threw over some where because everyone I know that had both or both in the same field named the L correctly as silver seeders
What the hell did u have in the back of those walkers
You must be thinking of picking up swathed grain versus straight combining. With our 1000’s of hours of experience we never had any excessive loss
in 50 years, your son will film one of your old Fendt Ideal and say - My dad use to ride this thing, can u imagine? a driver sitting on a seat all day long-
I grew up on Classey Masseys , grandpa had a 300, then a 410 ,then my dad kinda took over and we had a 510, all that in late sixties to mid seventies then I got involved and we had a white cab 750 then a gray cab 750 then my wife died and I gave up the farming ! Always wanted to have a 760 or an 860but never had the opportunity !! We had a really good Massey dealer in our area and he had I would say a majority share of the market at the time , everybody wanted to have the biggest and Deere and IH were behind !!! Great to see you're hanging on to a little of the past everyone needs a reminder every now and then of where they came from !!!
I remember having to crawl onto the straw walkers if they ever became plugged. Worst job ever. Dusty, dirty and as Mike says they ripped the crap out of your knees. I still have a couple scars on my knees from doing it when I was a teenager and I'm 60 now. We plugged them twice when the straw chopper belt broke a couple of times over the years. Terrible, terrible job.
Just ripped my pants today on our combine's walkers..
Lovely job unplugging the walkers on those when it's blazing hot outside.😳😳🥵🥵
Yup been there..... packed all the way to the front... Not me driving though thank goodness!! a combine enema!! LOL!!
I just love the older equipment... I dunno what it is.. its just cool!!
It's cause they are reliable, no electronics, took skill to operate but would go forever and then some, ya they aren't the fastest but you know every farmer has a couple sitting in the back 40 just incase 😂
One of the best combines ever made, and didn't need a service truck at the end of the field like new ones.