jimmyhouser
Gold Member
- Joined
- Feb 4, 2018
- Messages
- 260
- Location
- Charleston, SC
- Tractor
- Massey 1734E, Allis 5030, Case VAC, Ferguson F40
So far I have used this tractor for an oversized 1 acre garden, 6 acres of sunflowers, mowing, box blading the neighborhood road, and scooping horse manure.
Implements are a loader, 2 disc John Deere new ground plow, 1 row Pittsburgh style cultivator/cole 12mx planter, 5' rototiller, single tooth subsoiler, 5' rotary cutter, 5' box blade, 5' finish mower and a borrowed 55 gallon sprayer.
This tractor is perfectly capable of handling all these implements even for a hydrostatic transmission. I was pulling the disc plow on some land that hasn't been prepped in over 40 years and had no problems shredding through roots. The subsoiler worked great for irrigating my garden. Cultivating my crops would probably be better with draft control or gauge wheels on my cultivator frame. As for everything else, this machine has been top notch. The only warranty work that has been done is the loader valve float mode detent is inoperable and the skid steer hitch didn't agree with the first loader bucket.
The regen does not seem to bother me, but I noticed that it takes a lot less time if I don't load the engine down during the process. Cruise control would be nice, and so would twin brake pedals, but you can't have it all for a nicely priced tractor. I also removed the lights on the ROPS so I didn't goof up and break both of them. I bought an extra grab handle to go in the blank spots on the RH fender, added 4" round LED lights on the rear, and an inner air filter from a 1736 premium tractor. For the lower fuel filter, I use part number 86006 from Carquest. It has a mesh screen element. The original filter from Massey is paper element and I feel that it restricts flow to the fuel system. Especially in regen.
All in all, the little tractor keeps surprising me. Shoot, even my wife can drive it!
I'm used to my old Allis Chalmers 5030, which I still use for finish mowing mainly. It isn't near as efficient as the 1734. Even though this new Massey is in my life, I'll never give up the old school little Allis.
All 4 tires are loaded with h2o 75%
R4 industrial tires
Implements are a loader, 2 disc John Deere new ground plow, 1 row Pittsburgh style cultivator/cole 12mx planter, 5' rototiller, single tooth subsoiler, 5' rotary cutter, 5' box blade, 5' finish mower and a borrowed 55 gallon sprayer.
This tractor is perfectly capable of handling all these implements even for a hydrostatic transmission. I was pulling the disc plow on some land that hasn't been prepped in over 40 years and had no problems shredding through roots. The subsoiler worked great for irrigating my garden. Cultivating my crops would probably be better with draft control or gauge wheels on my cultivator frame. As for everything else, this machine has been top notch. The only warranty work that has been done is the loader valve float mode detent is inoperable and the skid steer hitch didn't agree with the first loader bucket.
The regen does not seem to bother me, but I noticed that it takes a lot less time if I don't load the engine down during the process. Cruise control would be nice, and so would twin brake pedals, but you can't have it all for a nicely priced tractor. I also removed the lights on the ROPS so I didn't goof up and break both of them. I bought an extra grab handle to go in the blank spots on the RH fender, added 4" round LED lights on the rear, and an inner air filter from a 1736 premium tractor. For the lower fuel filter, I use part number 86006 from Carquest. It has a mesh screen element. The original filter from Massey is paper element and I feel that it restricts flow to the fuel system. Especially in regen.
All in all, the little tractor keeps surprising me. Shoot, even my wife can drive it!
I'm used to my old Allis Chalmers 5030, which I still use for finish mowing mainly. It isn't near as efficient as the 1734. Even though this new Massey is in my life, I'll never give up the old school little Allis.
All 4 tires are loaded with h2o 75%
R4 industrial tires
