Massey 760 updates

Screamendemand · Apr 17, 2019

Just bought and old Massey 760 with a white cab it's a hydro its in pretty rough shape but I would like to go through it completely every thing and do some updates I am going to be doing custome work with the machine is there any updates I hear something about air foil systems how far can you turn up the pump to run safe and is any known issues do they overheat it has some short of Paddel systems in the feeder house is that good or bad I will be cutting barley and wheat any where for 100 to 130 bushels to the acre how many acre could it cover cutting in those conditions

Bob · Apr 17, 2019

What engine? I had a 760 hydro with the 540, but (IIRC) they could have the turbo I6, as well.

A "white cab" 760 does not have the "positive torque" cylinder belt drive system that came later, and with the V8 I had, shredding the cylinder belt was easy enough to do WITHOUT cranking up the pump.

Paddle feeder house worked GREAT for the crops we grew, with the exception of flax, especially when the straw was still green and ropy, but the seed was dry,

You haven't experienced "mad" 'til you have to deal with a feederhouse full of paddles wrapped full of tough flax straw!

We never ran an airfoil sieve, many others in the area deal, some loved 'em, and some hated 'em
Air Foil sieve

big tee · Apr 17, 2019

We had one back in 09--Also a 750. They were tough combines!---Tee

Texasmark1 · Apr 17, 2019

I bought a 760 diesel back in '90-91 time line. Drove it 85 miles from where I bought it to my farm on a Saturday.....took about 10 hours. Quite a journey.
Right off on the trip, I no more got on the highway shoulder and the drive belt shed about 2".......thought I was doomed but trimmed up the belt, removing
the shed part, got back in and away I went, no further problems. Real upgrade from the JD 95 predecessor....and the AC worked great.

jon f mn · Apr 17, 2019

Those combines we're great
machines in their day, at
least in small grains. How
many acres depends on what
kind of crop and support you
have. 100 bu. crop dumping in
a truck at the end of the
field you would have to have a
decent day to get 80 acres
done. With a grain cart and
big square fields you should
get well over 100 acres. That
combine should have the 354
Perkins in it and they are
already wound pretty tight,
I'm not sure there is much
more in them.

Bob · Apr 17, 2019

(quoted from post at 00:05:54 04/17/19) Just bought and old Massey 760 with a white cab it's a hydro its in pretty rough shape but I would like to go through it completely every thing and do some updates I am going to be doing custome work with the machine is there any updates I hear something about air foil systems how far can you turn up the pump to run safe and is any known issues do they overheat it has some short of Paddel systems in the feeder house is that good or bad I will be cutting barley and wheat any where for 100 to 130 bushels to the acre how many acre could it cover cutting in those conditions

Rethinking my post, and yours.

You wrote "white cab", and the older models had a red cab with a white TOP.

The newer, updated models had a SILVER cab. Changed, IIRC, in '78 or '79.

Which do you have?

Bob · Apr 17, 2019

Jon, you wrote "Those combines we're great
machines in their day, at
least in small grains."

When they came out in '73 or '74, what did CASE (as an example) have that could have begun to hold it's own with a 760?

You also state "That combine should have the 354 Perkins".

The hydros were equipped with either the turbo'ed 354 or the N.A. 540 V8 (as I wrote before).

Some belt-drive machines had the Perkins 372 N.A..

I called mine "the poor man's 8820", as it would give the original version of the 8820 a good run.

NOT as well-built (or as high-priced, though)!

jon f mn · Apr 17, 2019

Case didn't make combines at
that time, but the L2 gleaner
would give it fits trying to
keep up and was much easier to
work on. The JD 7700 was a bit
less capacity in small grains,
but like the L2 was better in
corn and beans due to the
larger diameter cylinder which
did less damage than the
smaller diameter, faster
spinning cylinder in the
masseys. And when I said in
their day I was comparing them
to todays machines which have
much more capacity, I'm not
sure you can buy a new machine
with less capacity than the
760. And you can also add the
re-thresher system as a
drawback, not because it
didn't work, but because it
took more setup and knowledge
to get to work right. They
were a good machine in their
day, especially in small
grains as I said. They will do
fine today if you don't expect
them to keep up with a modern
machine. They may have offered
the V8 in the 760, but I've
only seen them in the 850/60.

Screamendemand · Apr 17, 2019

it has a v8 in it

Screamendemand · Apr 17, 2019

It's a v8 with a white top

Screamendemand · Apr 17, 2019

(quoted from post at 22:17:53 04/16/19) What engine? I had a 760 hydro with the 540, but (IIRC) they could have the turbo I6, as well.

A "white cab" 760 does not have the "positive torque" cylinder belt drive system that came later, and with the V8 I had, shredding the cylinder belt was easy enough to do WITHOUT cranking up the pump.

Paddle feeder house worked GREAT for the crops we grew, with the exception of flax, especially when the straw was still green and ropy, but the seed was dry,

You haven't experienced "mad" 'til you have to deal with a feederhouse full of paddles wrapped full of tough flax straw!

We never ran an airfoil sieve, many others in the area deal, some loved 'em, and some hated 'em
Air Foil sieve

Texasmark1 · Apr 19, 2019

I don't remember if mine was a V8 but I do remember it was a diesel....don't remember if the top or the whole cab was white....white to reflect the sun.

rusty6 · Apr 19, 2019

Massey sold a lot of those 760-750 machines here. You could usually tell where they were in the field by the cloud of black smoke
from the Perkins diesel. Not sure but I think some of the 760s had the bigger 372 Perkins six. I put in my time on a 510 (great
machine) and then a 550 (not so great). Cheap running with that 354 Perkins and no lack of power. After 20 years of IH axial flow
combining I'd never want to go back to the old Masseys.

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