promethiusgarden
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So I joined this forum when I started researching buying this tractor. This tractor was what was in my budget, since I didn't want a monthly payment. Have since purchased it, tweaked a bit, and have been running it pretty hard. And have recently inquired about some issues. This is my first tractor and I'm using it to help me grow vegetables for market. So thought I would just post some pics.
So I thought this was a '64 for some reason but just looked up the serial and it appears to be a '61. It's got Multipower and two stage clutch and live and ground speed PTO control. It's got a Perkins 3cyl, and from the serial I guess we can assume it has the A3.152.
This tractor has surprised me with it's power. I was chisel plowing with the two shanks in the picture. I only got two because they say you should allow around 15 hp per shank. The tractor is purportedly around 38, so I figured go with two shanks not to stress out the 50 year old horse, well I'm pretty certain it could handle another shank. It pulled up a huge rock and flipped up to the surface and barely hesitated, probably 3 foot diameter "boulder." I was trucking along in 3 low too. This tractor is quite beastly for it's size.
Yeah hard to start when it's cold, and the lift arms stutter, but if it's warm out everything functions perfectly.
I'm also borrowing a friends mid 90's Kubota, the bucket, power steering and 4wd is nice...BUT...it doesn't have the kind of soul that the massy has when I fire it up. Sometimes I feel like I'm riding with the ghosts of farmers gone by. I really like this tractor, my neighbor (he's in his mid 60's who was born and raised in his farm house next door) came over and told me that he made his first money when he was a teenager plowing with a tractor just like this. He said when he was a kid there was Massy's like this everywhere. He's got a 165 and a barn full other other misc old tractors but comes over and likes to watch the old 35 run, I think it's nostalgic for him. I ran into another guy down the road who said he has 3 of these out in the field. I'm in my early 30's but I really like the old vintage stuff that performs well.
New alternator, a friend helped me wire it up.
Changed rear tire spacing to 5 foot centers. 3 point hitch tool bar and chisels from Buckeye tractor in Ohio.
So I thought this was a '64 for some reason but just looked up the serial and it appears to be a '61. It's got Multipower and two stage clutch and live and ground speed PTO control. It's got a Perkins 3cyl, and from the serial I guess we can assume it has the A3.152.
This tractor has surprised me with it's power. I was chisel plowing with the two shanks in the picture. I only got two because they say you should allow around 15 hp per shank. The tractor is purportedly around 38, so I figured go with two shanks not to stress out the 50 year old horse, well I'm pretty certain it could handle another shank. It pulled up a huge rock and flipped up to the surface and barely hesitated, probably 3 foot diameter "boulder." I was trucking along in 3 low too. This tractor is quite beastly for it's size.
Yeah hard to start when it's cold, and the lift arms stutter, but if it's warm out everything functions perfectly.
I'm also borrowing a friends mid 90's Kubota, the bucket, power steering and 4wd is nice...BUT...it doesn't have the kind of soul that the massy has when I fire it up. Sometimes I feel like I'm riding with the ghosts of farmers gone by. I really like this tractor, my neighbor (he's in his mid 60's who was born and raised in his farm house next door) came over and told me that he made his first money when he was a teenager plowing with a tractor just like this. He said when he was a kid there was Massy's like this everywhere. He's got a 165 and a barn full other other misc old tractors but comes over and likes to watch the old 35 run, I think it's nostalgic for him. I ran into another guy down the road who said he has 3 of these out in the field. I'm in my early 30's but I really like the old vintage stuff that performs well.
New alternator, a friend helped me wire it up.
Changed rear tire spacing to 5 foot centers. 3 point hitch tool bar and chisels from Buckeye tractor in Ohio.
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