Hi from Durham FudWeasel 👋 👍 great start and hope you enjoyed your scotch egg and pork pie 👌 and something else we learned is your tools fit nicely on the c section facing upwards 🤣 hope your shoulder is OK mate on serious note and at least you've got some good metal to use or weigh in to offset some costs 👌 hope what ever is up with combine isn't to much of a repair and not down too long, thanks for your time be safe and see you soon 👍 👋
10/10 for perseverance on. These bolts think I would have had the blue spanner out by then😁 think once that boat anchor is removed 80% of the ugliness will have gone too👍 great video
The first 1080 I ever remember seeing was on the edge of Wicken Fen, down Factory road, Burwell in 1971. My father farmed Priory Farm then, but Mitchum’s, tractor and machinery dealers, farmed the last few fields closest to the reed fields at Wicken Fen and it was their tractor. My father had 3 MF 175’s, a 165 and 2 135’s, plus a couple of Fordson Majors, a yellow Fordson Major County Crawler and a Track Marshall Crawler with a Turner linkage. Mitchum’s MF1080 looked absolutely massive compared to our 175’s. Not sure if it was French or American, but it did look very American to me, having a flat deck floor (but no Cab) and the gear shift on the dashboard to the right of the steering wheel, by the throttle lever, which IIRC, you pushed forward to increase the revs. Mitchum’s driver seemed to like the tractor a lot. We moved to North Suffolk shortly afterward. Some 7 years later we bought a French built MF 595 (Mk1), which was a modern version of the 1080, but which was a bloody disaster of a tractor! IIRC, You had to split the tractor to change a hydraulic filter. It had the European type PAVT back wheels (which your 1080 doesn’t) and European type cast front wheels (which your 1080 also doesn’t). The front wheels were too narrow ant it would get stuck as soon as it hit any boggy ground. Which by the Autumn of 1976, it all suddenly became.
That’s interesting. You want to get a copy of ‘the farm in the fens’ by Alan Bloom. He lived at Priory Farm in the early war years. Fascinating account of how he cleared the wildernesses & drained it by hand & sweat & tears for the war effort. The government was panicking because we’d been relying on imports for too long ( ring any bells?) anyway I heard they’ve flooded it again for the wildlife !?!? Don’t know if it’s true....
@@darrenphillips6456 Thanks Darren. I’ve got the book and read it several times. My book was given by my Grandmother to my Grandfather for Christmas in 1944. They lived at Haddenham. It amazes me that they knew the war was ending by the end of 1944. So much so that a Cambridge professor met Alan Bloom on the Cock-up bridge over Burwell Lode to tell him that when the war ended, he’d got to let it all go wild again. It took until the millennium for that to happen. We invited Alan and his son back to Priory farm in 1971. He was absolutely chuffed to bits to see how his good work had continued. Ironically in 1972, we then moved to North Suffolk, not far form his Bressingham Gardens. A fantastic book and a brilliant read.
@@Rickwardful .... agreed. I’ve read it at least 3 times. Interesting how Priory Farm was all set to be a bombing range until they discovered a special type of Buckthorn grew there which they used in munitions. I wonder what this ingredient was? Never have been able to find out. Yes a one off (Alan Bloom). His accounts of his time in Canada & how he amassed the steam collection really fascinating. His memorial at Bressingham church is inscribed “He made things grow”. How appropriate!!
Hope shoulder gets better Mr Fud-Weasel the repair of the nose cone has turned up very nicely indeed, I still think a 3000 series would fit in nicely 👌
Spent a brief time in the UK years ago, my perception of a cold snack & those I experienced in the pubs differed substantially, emphasis on the degree of cold.
The combine repair would be of interest to some of us @ least, just have no knowledge of the Massey line, perhaps some day you will have a go w/ an International, many, many of which were built in the UK, unlike french tractors.
Unfortunately several of my customers actually don't want me to film when I am working for them, I have to respect their wishes. At some point, I'll get an International, I thought the Hydro models were fantastic things, years ahead of their time. I'd also like an Allis Chalmers, a 6000 series and definitely a Detroit engined Oliver 990.
@@ClarenceFudWeasel Agree, both the Oliver & International hydro were far ahead of their time. I still own a 60's vintage Oliver, equipped w/ a FUNK hydraulic power reverser.
That I have not yet determined. The rest of the tag says made in Detroit United States for Massey Ferguson, France. I have never seen another 1080 like it in Europe. They were launched in the US before Europe, maybe it was an early one sold before manufacturing was ready in Europe? Perhaps I have something a little special.
Like in Duke Hazard movie “which side do you want it” slap LOL another vid of sub frame with mind of its own once drop from the tractor LOL Hope your shoulder gets better, I did same thing yesterday, couldn’t pick up anything in my left hand, I hate old age even I am bit younger you Fud.
Bit of a surprise to see you back on the spanners but good none the less. So the 1080 was a US import for France? Was that very common? Hope that you didn't over do it on the shoulder front and that some cool lubricant made it feel better.
Well I have never seen another, but it doesn't mean that they don't exist. It's quite an early one so I wondered if it was imported because the factory couldn't meet demand possibly. I'll have to dig some more. I'll be stiff tomorrow, there's no mistaking that! Thanks for your concern.
Good day from Ontario Canada Now over here we had 175, 180 which has 236 Perkins, then we had 1085 which had 318 Perkins so what motor has this 1080 got. The cast weights on wheels look like 1085 & I can't remember anything more about them. Only couple that were around & transmission were not the best. Thanks
You don't often see a tractor wearing a chastity belt! I think I'd be tempted right from the start to just gas axe that frame into small manageable chunks and unbolt what's left afterwards. Granted, there may be some useful metal in that frame, so careful choice of axing, but hey-ho, it's more about getting Eloise out of her chastity belt.
We all get older but our brains don’t seem to age as quickly as our bodies, my brain tells me I can do something in ten minutes but 20 minutes later the old bones have to have a rest. I find myself admitting defeat more often now that the mid 60’s have shown up on the old clock.
In my mind, I'm still 18 and can lift the engine and transmission out of a Mini unaided. Sadly doing such stupid things in youth is what has left me with dicky joints, permanent tinnitus, I'm going deaf and when I stand up out of a chair it takes me ten minutes to straighten up. And I haven't even had my mid-life crisis yet. It's 15 years late.
@@ClarenceFudWeasel I did 40 years as a farm laborer only getting to operate tractors in the last five and like you all the hard work as a young lad did for me, I can still get things done but it takes a lot longer than it used to.
What did you upload the size of the screen? Nearly chucked the laptop out the window thinking it was broken 🤣😄. She's a fair machine when you see her she would look the part with duels on the back. Oh there I go again spending peoples money for them 😉😆 stay safe 🏴
I think I'll save the duals for when I get an 1155. As far as the screen size, I have no idea. The camera is set to 16:9 aspect ratio, but it always comes out like you are looking in through your neighbors letter box. I'll investigate one day. Maybe.
Agreed, there's a special place in hell for people who leave excess thread unprotected on bolts. There are shops that sell different sizes every day, no excuses.
S crap it and save yourself (and the planet) the grief of the agricultural equivalent of the Triumph Stag
Sure, I'll post for my viewers now. "Some guy off the Internet didn't like the 1080 so I have scrapped it."
No. Not going to happen.
@@ClarenceFudWeasel I was being a tad light hearted - but keep the Samaritans phone # handy😉
So was I, but I'll call the Samaritans just to be sure.
@@ClarenceFudWeasel Ask them nicely and they might put you ahead of the Stag owners queue 😉
@@markfiges999 They have a special team dedicated to MF owners. I have them on speed dial.
"I'm appearing in a play entitled 'Today is tomorrows new yesterday..."
We don't take cheques from thespians.
@@ClarenceFudWeasel "My name is Warrington Minge..."
Great stuff my friend...as an old timer myself take advantage of the battery tools. Great stuff, thanks
I'm starting to rely on them now.
Thanks for watching.
Hi from Durham FudWeasel 👋 👍 great start and hope you enjoyed your scotch egg and pork pie 👌 and something else we learned is your tools fit nicely on the c section facing upwards 🤣 hope your shoulder is OK mate on serious note and at least you've got some good metal to use or weigh in to offset some costs 👌 hope what ever is up with combine isn't to much of a repair and not down too long, thanks for your time be safe and see you soon 👍 👋
I'm sure you will be seeing more of that frame in the future if you stick around 😉
Thanks for watching.
@@ClarenceFudWeaselfrom other week when subbed am always here just never there👌🤣
Now it starting to look like a proper massey ferguson!!! Cant wait to see the next videos!!
10/10 for perseverance on. These bolts think I would have had the blue spanner out by then😁 think once that boat anchor is removed 80% of the ugliness will have gone too👍 great video
Thank you for watching. Much appreciated.
Love the videos and I like this tractor. Looking forward to the vids on it
Thank you, hopefully more to come soon.
As someone else correctly mentioned, the Front Wieght Support Bracket is American spec - the European style bracket is a cast item
The whole tractor is US spec. It was made in Detroit in Feb 1968
The first 1080 I ever remember seeing was on the edge of Wicken Fen, down Factory road, Burwell in 1971. My father farmed Priory Farm then, but Mitchum’s, tractor and machinery dealers, farmed the last few fields closest to the reed fields at Wicken Fen and it was their tractor. My father had 3 MF 175’s, a 165 and 2 135’s, plus a couple of Fordson Majors, a yellow Fordson Major County Crawler and a Track Marshall Crawler with a Turner linkage.
Mitchum’s MF1080 looked absolutely massive compared to our 175’s. Not sure if it was French or American, but it did look very American to me, having a flat deck floor (but no Cab) and the gear shift on the dashboard to the right of the steering wheel, by the throttle lever, which IIRC, you pushed forward to increase the revs. Mitchum’s driver seemed to like the tractor a lot.
We moved to North Suffolk shortly afterward. Some 7 years later we bought a French built MF 595 (Mk1), which was a modern version of the 1080, but which was a bloody disaster of a tractor!
IIRC, You had to split the tractor to change a hydraulic filter. It had the European type PAVT back wheels (which your 1080 doesn’t) and European type cast front wheels (which your 1080 also doesn’t). The front wheels were too narrow ant it would get stuck as soon as it hit any boggy ground. Which by the Autumn of 1976, it all suddenly became.
Some great memories there, thank you for sharing them.
That’s interesting. You want to get a copy of ‘the farm in the fens’ by Alan Bloom. He lived at Priory Farm in the early war years. Fascinating account of how he cleared the wildernesses & drained it by hand & sweat & tears for the war effort. The government was panicking because we’d been relying on imports for too long ( ring any bells?) anyway I heard they’ve flooded it again for the wildlife !?!? Don’t know if it’s true....
@@darrenphillips6456
Thanks Darren. I’ve got the book and read it several times. My book was given by my Grandmother to my Grandfather for Christmas in 1944. They lived at Haddenham. It amazes me that they knew the war was ending by the end of 1944. So much so that a Cambridge professor met Alan Bloom on the Cock-up bridge over Burwell Lode to tell him that when the war ended, he’d got to let it all go wild again. It took until the millennium for that to happen.
We invited Alan and his son back to Priory farm in 1971. He was absolutely chuffed to bits to see how his good work had continued.
Ironically in 1972, we then moved to North Suffolk, not far form his Bressingham Gardens.
A fantastic book and a brilliant read.
@@Rickwardful .... agreed. I’ve read it at least 3 times. Interesting how Priory Farm was all set to be a bombing range until they discovered a special type of Buckthorn grew there which they used in munitions. I wonder what this ingredient was? Never have been able to find out. Yes a one off (Alan Bloom). His accounts of his time in Canada & how he amassed the steam collection really fascinating. His memorial at Bressingham church is inscribed “He made things grow”. How appropriate!!
Do my eyes deceive, or is your truck one of those FULL sized American pick-up favorites❓👍👌🚜
No, it's a mid-size Toyota. Unfortunately we don't have full size pickups here or I would have a 2500 Dodge Cummins.
Great video as always I am new to your channel
Well I am glad you are enjoying it. Thanks for watching.
Hope shoulder gets better Mr Fud-Weasel the repair of the nose cone has turned up very nicely indeed, I still think a 3000 series would fit in nicely 👌
Thanks. I really want another 3085. Superb tractor they were.
Spent a brief time in the UK years ago, my perception of a cold snack & those I experienced in the pubs differed substantially, emphasis on the degree of cold.
Now we have a better appreciation of cold snacks. I don't think you would be disappointed.
@@ClarenceFudWeasel and our beer isn't weak ferrets piss
Good job Clarence, You will get her all spiffing again in time👍👌💪😎
Overall, this is going to be a fairly simple refurb on this one I think. Should be out earning it's keep quite quickly. Thanks for watching.
Hope your shoulder gets better soon. You will get it appart yet.👍
Thanks, I'll get it in the week and then get rid of that blue thing.
Enjoyed the video. Thanks.👍
Thanks for watching.
1080 on a crash diet and makeover. Looking forward to the next installment!
You won't have to wait too long I hope.
Thanks for watching.
The combine repair would be of interest to some of us @ least, just have no knowledge of the Massey line, perhaps some day you will have a go w/ an International, many, many of which were built in the UK, unlike french tractors.
Unfortunately several of my customers actually don't want me to film when I am working for them, I have to respect their wishes.
At some point, I'll get an International, I thought the Hydro models were fantastic things, years ahead of their time. I'd also like an Allis Chalmers, a 6000 series and definitely a Detroit engined Oliver 990.
@@ClarenceFudWeasel Agree, both the Oliver & International hydro were far ahead of their time. I still own a 60's vintage Oliver, equipped w/ a FUNK hydraulic power reverser.
Good progress!
Thank you sir
The nose cone turned out well.
So just curious was it an American tractor brought to France at some stage and the decals changed?
That I have not yet determined. The rest of the tag says made in Detroit United States for Massey Ferguson, France. I have never seen another 1080 like it in Europe. They were launched in the US before Europe, maybe it was an early one sold before manufacturing was ready in Europe? Perhaps I have something a little special.
Like in Duke Hazard movie “which side do you want it” slap LOL another vid of sub frame with mind of its own once drop from the tractor LOL Hope your shoulder gets better, I did same thing yesterday, couldn’t pick up anything in my left hand, I hate old age even I am bit younger you Fud.
The problem is that in my head I'm still 18, my body just can't keep up 🙄. It's really frustrating 😂
Thanks for watching
Great video, good to see you working on the 1080, I'm sure it a be looking good when it's finished, any baling videos?
Thanks for watching and baling videos start soon,
Bit of a surprise to see you back on the spanners but good none the less. So the 1080 was a US import for France? Was that very common? Hope that you didn't over do it on the shoulder front and that some cool lubricant made it feel better.
Well I have never seen another, but it doesn't mean that they don't exist. It's quite an early one so I wondered if it was imported because the factory couldn't meet demand possibly. I'll have to dig some more.
I'll be stiff tomorrow, there's no mistaking that! Thanks for your concern.
Is it me or are there more wasps this year early?
They are everywhere. Mostly small German ones that really sting.
Good day from Ontario Canada Now over here we had 175, 180 which has 236 Perkins, then we had 1085 which had 318 Perkins so what motor has this 1080 got. The cast weights on wheels look like 1085 & I can't remember anything more about them. Only couple that were around & transmission were not the best. Thanks
It has the same 318 as the 1085. In fact it is a 1085 with different sheet metal.
Thanks for watching
You don't often see a tractor wearing a chastity belt!
I think I'd be tempted right from the start to just gas axe that frame into small manageable chunks and unbolt what's left afterwards. Granted, there may be some useful metal in that frame, so careful choice of axing, but hey-ho, it's more about getting Eloise out of her chastity belt.
The only problem is my gas kit is on another farm and is not what you would call portable, otherwise I would have done just that.
Thanks for watching
The blue just had to go after all it is Lord Mucks favourite colour.
It's more Landini than Ford, but it definitely has to go.
Thanks for watching.
We all get older but our brains don’t seem to age as quickly as our bodies, my brain tells me I can do something in ten minutes but 20 minutes later the old bones have to have a rest. I find myself admitting defeat more often now that the mid 60’s have shown up on the old clock.
In my mind, I'm still 18 and can lift the engine and transmission out of a Mini unaided. Sadly doing such stupid things in youth is what has left me with dicky joints, permanent tinnitus, I'm going deaf and when I stand up out of a chair it takes me ten minutes to straighten up. And I haven't even had my mid-life crisis yet. It's 15 years late.
@@ClarenceFudWeasel I did 40 years as a farm laborer only getting to operate tractors in the last five and like you all the hard work as a young lad did for me, I can still get things done but it takes a lot longer than it used to.
What did you upload the size of the screen? Nearly chucked the laptop out the window thinking it was broken 🤣😄. She's a fair machine when you see her she would look the part with duels on the back. Oh there I go again spending peoples money for them 😉😆 stay safe 🏴
I think I'll save the duals for when I get an 1155.
As far as the screen size, I have no idea. The camera is set to 16:9 aspect ratio, but it always comes out like you are looking in through your neighbors letter box. I'll investigate one day. Maybe.
@@ClarenceFudWeasel v8 power 😊.
@@ClarenceFudWeasel put it on 4:3 not 16 fucking 9 🤦🏻♂️
Could she be out of canada at somepoint sure they are french in some parts and would be why it was made in the US
All the rest of the tag is about the factory in France so I think it was imported for some reason.
Some MF 595's had a greasable clutch thrust bearing. Oh and by the way, you have permission to dance on my grave!!!
So it's you! You did it! 😂
I have seen it on 595s, so it's logical that the 1080 should have it too, it just took me by surprise.
Thanks for watching.
Agreed, there's a special place in hell for people who leave excess thread unprotected on bolts. There are shops that sell different sizes every day, no excuses.
They will burn in eternal torment alongside the people who mix metric and imperial and whitworth fasteners because they are 'close enough'
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