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Things you don't see any more Massey Harris

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JOCCO

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At least in my neck of the woods. They were once prevelant along with there implements and hit miss engines. Few guys you to show and pull them but that has dried up. was just thinking about it past few days. I was around them a lot years ago. So share your MH stories.
 
(quoted from post at 07:15:17 05/10/19) At least in my neck of the woods. They were once prevelant along with there implements and hit miss engines. .
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A good old Canadian company. The 44 Massey Harris was about the most common tractor found here on Sask. farms when I was a kid. When I went to work for another farmer in the spring of 71 I was driving a 444 MH. Big old slow turning 4 cylinder gas engine. Heavy steering but I was used to that. Now my brother has one. Almost the same tractor. Massey Harris combines were everywhere here in the 50s and 60s.
 
That was a nice machine in its day Many had Prestolite or autolite for distributors. But cant help with your ignition question.
 
We have a 333 my Dad and I restored before he passed away. My son drives it in the parade when he?s available.
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There were quite a few around here in central Minnesota, mostly 44's. I recall my Dad asking our neighbor how his Massey Harris 44 did with a 3 bottom plow , his reply was " It just smiles"
 
There's a father and son in our club who collect them. They live just over west of me. They have somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 or more between them.
 
There was an auction not to far away recently that had a 44 Wheatland and a 2 row self propelled picker in it. I did not go so I don't know what they sold for.
 
I went to an auction last Saturday where there was a 33 and 44 Special. Both were row crops with wide front ends and both in decent shape for their age. The 44S sold for $950 and the 33 about $300 less. We had a 101 Jr. standard clearance years ago. My father bought it to replace the Fordson F for belt work. It wasn't good for much else.
 
I only ever saw one Massey Harris here (N. AR) and it was a 444 Special (I think). Big old gas burner. Guy wanted $1300 for it, it was in really nice shape too. New tires, fresh overhaul, new paint etc. I was going to buy it, left and came back a day or two later and it was gone. Oh well. I only drove it a little and it seemed like it would've been plenty enough power for my operation at that time. That's been 10 years or so ago. I wound up with a Cub and a 9n Ford, and always wished for something bigger.

Around here, the only "old" tractors you can find are N, NAA, and hundred series Fords, some Massey Ferguson's, a few 2 cylinder JD's, and the occasional Farmall, and they're mostly Cubs, A's and Super A's. I have the only 300 Farmall that I know of in the county and know of only a handful of H's and M's. Allis' and Oliver's are nearly non-existent, as are most row-crop style tractors. Being as we are in the hills, most farmers wanted low, wide tread tractors. The Ford's were cheap to buy and cheap to fix back in the day, so I guess that's why there are so many of them here.

That's a nice 333 you have Phillip. I imagine you're proud of it.

Mac
 
When did Massey-Harris become Massey-Ferguson, around 1956 - 1957? Wasn't there a big lawsuit about that?
 
Going across Missouri, tailgated by some guy in a Harley. Right ON my tail. UP ahead, a huge dead dog in the middle of my lane, I couldn't do anything, I just straddled the carcass, the Harley couldn't see anything, I watched in my mirror as he tried to brake, swerved, then just rode her up and over, splashed guts and hide and blood all over. HE wobbled, weebbled, swerved, but didn't go down, but he did back off a hundred yards.
 
I have a small collection of the Massey Harris row crops, have all 3 of 101s (super, junior, senior), 81, Pony, 22, 30, 44 and a 33!!! My son has a 35 Massey Ferguson!!!
 
There are no Massey Harris tractors in this area. None.
That said, I'm in the process of overhauling a gasoline 44. I'm slowly getting overhaul parts lined up for it and will be doing the engine assembly this summer.
 
We had a triple 3 when I was a kid that pulled a 3 bottom plow and we thought we had the world by the tail before that we had 2 John Deere A with pull type 2 bottom plows
 
I am currently scrapping a Massey #6? sickle mower that I believe was made in Des Moines, Iowa. Don't know what year it was made. Uncle had a 44 and I thought it was a cooler tractor than an M. IMO Leo
 
A lot more Masseys than Moline that was a lot more than Case but Coop-Cockshut was up to about the Massey level.
 
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