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BRIAN----------- please leave the room!!
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Combines tip for all mf owners
sidewinder
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thats good atleast I know a massey wouldnt get a bad home
Porky
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4420 is about the same vintage and capacity as a 410-510 massey. Both were good old girls (Masseys),and would stack up quite favorably against any Deere of that era. Your comments are fruitless and inaccurate.
boetboer
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Nobody would want to touch a combine you've had anyway,genius.
cookie_jar
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I had a 1958 John Deere 25 combine that barely got around the field too. Cost a fortune in parts, and the same parts broke over and over again. I traded it in even deal for a 1956 Massey 80SP in 1976, and I roared around the fields on the old girl till I retired her in 2000 when I got my 1979 MF 750 for $4,000 (Canadian $) including a soybean head. After spending $1,000, I'm now roaring around the fields with my 750. All old combines are troublesome, especially when you store them outside like I do, and don't let anyone tell you different. The old Masseys are way cheaper to buy and way cheaper to get parts for. The John Deeres are simply too DEAR for my wallet. It may be just my luck, but every single JD product I've ever owned has had what I would consider inexcusable major blunders in design. You can call me John Cheepe if you like, a John Deere man I'm not.
J__D__Titan
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Geesh, Brian. Is that allIJ It's bad enough to hear about your abuse of a John Deere. At least you won't do the same to a Massey. get a life!
Rob
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Dumb Ass Do you wear a football helmet when you combine tooIJ You need one when working on those darn 4400 and 4420's. There are so many moving parts on them there is always a bearing going out.
Rockpicker
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I have had MF and JD combines throughout the years and my experience has been the opposite yours. I currently own a MF 1976 510, MH 1954 90 Special, 2 SB JD 95s, JD 8820 and a CTS II. And I know a lot of other farmers that have had the opposite experience you have had with JD and MF. Around these parts, MF does not stand for Massey Ferguson. You can guess what it stands for.
Deerebines
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Boy, I hate to add insult to injury but I can't help but agree. Been alot less stress this past harvest since that 860 went the trip and a more reliable red machine took it's place. We always had a running joke amongst ourselves what that "MF" really stood for on the back.
Rockpicker
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I have nothing against the MF 92 or their combines before that. They were good combines just a hard to work on sometimes. last May I bought a real nice 90 Special that had been shedded almost its entire life. I would still take a JD over any MH back then. In my opinion, MF started losing their touch with the 510. We bought one new in 1963 and another one in 1975. They were nothing to write home about. We had a lot of trouble with the Chevy 350 in the newer one. Then we traded them for a new 760. That only lasted 3 years before seeing the "green" light. However, I bough 1976 510 this spring from my neighbor. He had been after me for awhile to buy it since he knows I kinda collect combines. It hasn't cut very much, it has AC, and it has the Perkins diesel which are hard to find around here. I figure to to cut about 30 acres of specialty oats with it to shine it up. Finally, after driving the it home, I realized why we got rid of them in the first place. I tell people who give me a hard time that I bought it to remind us why we run green (grin).