just bought me a 510 massy. With that said I don't know a darn thing about a combine!! Figured I would have to learn now. Planning on doing my corn here in a few weeks as im still in the upper 20's for moister yet. I know its set for oats now. Just wandering, not knowing much about what im doing. Is getting it set right for corn tuff?? any help would be great!! I have a book that shows the settings, but some of the book got ate by mice?? I don't know how I get myself in some of these perdickuments but I have always had a dream of combining corn?? Combines from the early one to the new ones I think are just one of the most fascinating pices of machinery . Thanks!!!
 
Get a manual, it would be priceless! General rule of thumb, cylinder clearance half to three quarter inch, 500 rpm, chaffer 3/4 seive 3/8 inch. Screened elevator bottoms, fan 3/4 of max. And then adjust settings to match crop. Not a Massey man but someone will correct me. Ben
 
The easiest way to set the sieves is to close them all the way and throw a handful of corn on them.

Then start opening them slowly till it falls through....then bump it just a bit more (open)
 
Those old Massey combines do a fabulous job of threshing. The art of "tinkering" to get the best sample seem to be going by the wayside. When you can make all of the adjustments from the cab you put bushels out the back way too easy. Keep getting out and examining what it is doing. That combine you paid a couple thousand for can do a better job than a brand new one if in good repair and set "just so".
 
Feeder housing in the top holes.

Concave cob plus one row of kernels in the front, cob in rear

Cylinder 450-550 depending on how wet, start at 450 and turn up till getting clean whole cobs out the back.

Fan all the way up, then back off till you quit blowing corn out the back.

sieves just bigger than a kernel in front, progressively bigger as you go back(close down if you are getting some trash in the tank). Last set full open, they are your last chance of saving corn going out the back).

Rethresher bars all out and bolted on the outside.

Set up right, you will get a reputation, for a sample good enough that they won't even bother checking you for damage or FM at the elevator. These machines have way more separating capacity than power, as such they will make a better sample than anything out there.



Make sure your header drive blocks line up perfectly.

Find every grease zerk. There are lots, the one on the large pulley that houses the thresher clutch will save you major headaches.
 
Neighbors had a 510 that they kept when they bought a new JD 7720. They worked side-by-side in windrows. The operator pushed the 7720 and found that it would eat windrows faster than the 510 - but it couldn't save the grain from going out the back so they ended up running the same ground speed.
 
I have a neighbor who owned a 510 and a IH 403 claim to me the 403 would keep up with the 510 picking up swaths. So a 403 must be equal to a 7720 right.
 
we went from a 715 IH to a 510 then a 550 and I know for a fact that a 510 will run all over a 715 let alone a 403. A 510/550 has a lot of capacity for it's size and has nothing to fear from a 6600.
 
I agree with everything you said. He has brought it up several times and I did ask him you sure it wasn't a 503 or did you have the throttle on the 510 all the way forward. He did own a 750 and a 860 later on so it's not like he was one and done on Massey. A 510 should be between a 6600 and 7700 but nowhere near a 7720. I have a late diesel 510 and a Turbo 7700 both from about the same year so I know what these combine can do. Also the earlier 510s had a shorter separator and were closer capacity wise to the 60s top of the line combines.
 
I agree too. A 510 was a great combine, but would not match a 7720. You need a 750 Grey cab with a waked up Perkins for that...
510's are some of the nicest combine ever made, look wise. Just saw an hydrostatic one today.
I wish massey had come up with a hydrostatic drive made in the same way than an IH 715, or better yet, IH915. That would have clean up so much the LH side off the machine, on the 510s all the way to the 860s.
 
I went from a 410 to a 750. Massive improvement. Then I stepped up to a Caseih 1660. What a disappointment. That old 750 would run rings around that 1660. No comparison.
 

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