kcm.MN
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Richard G.
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Stout old tractor.
Almost bought one years ago, but it had a bad gear in it and I passed on it.
Richard in NW SC
Almost bought one years ago, but it had a bad gear in it and I passed on it.
Richard in NW SC
There were a few in our neighborhood. My father-in-law had one when we built the house in 74. I used it to plow snow with a front blade. It was a wide front with chains, it was a bit of a tank but had plenty of power(it had a TSC kit). That six volt system had all it could do to roll it over. He also had a UB Moline and a WD 45 Allis Chambers. That UB had high compression pistons and was a pretty good horse too.
Goose
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I owned a carbon copy of that one once.
I used it several years and sold it to my father. A few years after that, I happened to be at his place one Sunday afternoon and we walked past it. I asked him, "How's the old Massey doing"?
He said he thought the engine was shot in it, it wouldn't hardly run. He told me he wasn't going to put any money into it, and if I wanted it, I could have it.
I lived only a mile from him at the time, and I babied it home on the road.
In snooping around on it, I pulled the distributor cap and saw the carbon button that contacts the rotor was gone. I had a VAC Case that happened to take the same Delco Remy distributor cap. I borrowed the cap off of the Case, fired the Massey up, and took off down the road. (Opposite direction from my Dad's place). I hit full throttle in road gear and you wouldn't believe the black soot and crud that flew out of the muffler. I ran it about five miles wide open in road gear and by the time I got home that Massey was running as pretty as you could want it to.
My Dad never mentioned it again and I never said anything.
I used it several years and sold it to my father. A few years after that, I happened to be at his place one Sunday afternoon and we walked past it. I asked him, "How's the old Massey doing"?
He said he thought the engine was shot in it, it wouldn't hardly run. He told me he wasn't going to put any money into it, and if I wanted it, I could have it.
I lived only a mile from him at the time, and I babied it home on the road.
In snooping around on it, I pulled the distributor cap and saw the carbon button that contacts the rotor was gone. I had a VAC Case that happened to take the same Delco Remy distributor cap. I borrowed the cap off of the Case, fired the Massey up, and took off down the road. (Opposite direction from my Dad's place). I hit full throttle in road gear and you wouldn't believe the black soot and crud that flew out of the muffler. I ran it about five miles wide open in road gear and by the time I got home that Massey was running as pretty as you could want it to.
My Dad never mentioned it again and I never said anything.
DeltaSteve
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Local guy pulls a carbon copy(except for a chrome straight pipe) of that one at our local antique pulls.One hard pullin' son of a
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