Mostly Massey

centash

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Got a few Massey Harris pictures, will feature Massey Ferguson separate.MH 444 diesel fresh out of the paint shop at our plow day. My dad put a crankshaft in this tractor about 1960-61. I think it has an incorrect front axle.
Rare 203
My 44 Special, purchased from the original owner a couple of years ago. He bought it new and kept in excellent condition for nearly 60 years. Shows 6500 hours.
55 Massey that I owned for about 20 years, restored it and sold. Plan to buy it back
333 with loader, not sure if it is an MH loader or not.
Another 55, this one has the front trunnion reversed to move the axle ahead....maybe it steered easier like that
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very nice tractors. Don't see a 444 standard very often. Back in the day. grandpa had a 44 special diesel row crop.
 
If you ever see anyone needing it I have a 55 LPG head that I had worked for a pulling tractor engine. Perfect shape and I will sell cheap.
 
Great pictures....Makes me wish that I had my 203 Massey back....I sent it to Michigan in the early 80's..
 
Do either of those 55s have a hand clutch? I have a diesel 55 Western Special with the hand clutch and arched front axle. Just wondering if the hand clutch was specific to the Westerns or was an option across the board.
 
Mine didn't and I think the hand clutch was specific to the Western Special. That model would have the arched axle and 23.1 x 26 rear tires. Any I have seen had the cutout in the platform for the hand clutch lever. Ben
 
Pulled a lot with my 55, shelf full of trophies. Head should be easy to sell to a puller. Ben
 
Thanks for the pics. All standards. It's interesting to see the different tractor styles used around the country. Here in Iowa years ago we had mostly row crop tractors with very few standard or wheatland tractors. In Canada very few row crops are seen. I noticed this when I was in Saskatchewan. One native farmer there told me he had seen only two row crops in his life. Another Canadian asked me what we Iowans use a three point hitch for. When I was driving through a machinery lot in Sask I saw a IH 1086 flat back, no three point or PTO. First and probably last time I've seen a modern (to me)tractor equipped like that.
 
There were few row crops grown here in that era, thus more standard tractors. As row
crops became more common, so did row crop tractors. Most ' bareback' tractors...no 3
pt and some with no pto were sold out west were heavier pulling on large acerages
were the norm. Ben
 
Bought an IH 674 out in the wheat country in eastern Oregon- guy said the 3 point was used once a year, for about 2 hours, to clean out the heifer pen in the spring. "Just enough to keep it in working order".
 

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