Still impressive for a 60 year old machine that was at the back of a shed until a few weeks ago. I wonder how many Lexion 8000 will still be running in 60 years?
One of the few combinesa left working that can get through a gate without removing the header. Looking forward to seeing the repairs required over the winter to get her ready for next year's campaign.
That is true that. So many traditional stone gate posts and ancient hedgerows have been grubbed out so huge modern behemoths can stride across huge prairy like plains stretching far away over the horizon. Proper little bonny combines is what nature and the countryside prefers.
Tremendous video Dan. Great to see the old girl still working. After 60 years and 12 years laid up a few breakdowns are inevitable. Well done for getting her out again for us all to see.
Always nice to see one of the elderly ladies out dancing in the fields. And when it comes to the grain sample, looks good, given what Mother nature has offered the plants this season.
I can remember helping my dad out with a very similar Massey back when I was a teenager some 55 yrs ago. Was a big upgrade from our previous combine I can tell you! If I remember correctly it was a 500 series combine we had.
Fantastic video dan, great to see her working away again, get her in the shed in the winter and I'm sure she be good as new next year. Can't beat a little old combine to harvest with.
Had to luagh when you were wrestling the gear box. It was always an issue on the 415 the farm had I worked on. It used to lurch after he'd find his gear. Happy memories. Great video.
Love these old machines. My uncle had a 788 and then a 525 when I was growing up. Got character like all the old stuff. Workin like a trooper it would seem now after the 3 breakdowns 👍
Great video Dan 👍 no shame to the old girl 🤔 she'll be a bit shinier inside now 👍 was told first time I drove a combine that your speed should be that when you go into the crop the straw should start coming out the back in line with the edge of the standing crop and your speed was bang on 👌
Great to see the 400 working Dan. I used to work on Massey combines in the distant past, anything from 726 to 625 and remember the 400/500 series well.
As old as it is and being sat for 12 years it was in a bit of a state, it's a miracle it's gotten as far as it has. The work it's managed would have done the engine some good and the grain polished it up nicely. I'm looking forward to seeing this little old beast doing a bit better next year!
I actually learned how how to drive a similar (but more primitive) combine when I was a kid. In my mind it was HUGE, but it seems pretty small on video 50 years later....
Happy Christmas to you and yours Dan. Loved the run down tractor history. As I have said before was brought up around and driving 35 x 65s and 185 what I call proper tractors. Have never driven anything modern tho 👍
Great machine, drove one during the late 1960’s back in the day with no cab, no mask and lots of dust, used to look more like a coal miner at the end of the day, than a farm worker. 😊
Another great video Dan, really enjoyed the combine series. Such a shame she couldn't finish, hope you get/got the rest of your harvest in! The grain looked really good!
Great video Dan. My uncle had the same combine, he bought it at a farm sale in a poor state and sorted it up. Still remember the noise of it. Hope you get your harvest in safely.
What a shame, fantastic pics sir! Great to see what she can still do and she can still be fixed, look forward to seeing it. I'm sure you can get a little magnetic laser that will help you align the pulleys. Thanks Dan
Hope you haven't gotten frustrated with the breakdowns. Great fun watching the video, outstanding. Amazing for a machine to work effectively. The sample looks great, plump it will be a very good bushel weight. Great feed for your herd
Happy Christmas to you and yours dan. Really enjoyed the run down of your tractor history. As Iv said before was brought up on fergies 35 x 65 185 what I call proper tractors. Never driven anything modern tho 👍
Great video Dan if it wasn’t for people like yourselves these machines would end up as scrap, If you parked a modern car for 12 years I’m sure you would have a much bigger headache.
the water pump bearing needs 2 be replaced the sooner the better and can U run the grain through a seed cleaner 2 get the chaff out I would try I have no idea 💡😮 if it will work or not 😊😊 OMG 1 28 2O24
A shame you didn't finish. Your Dad could have done with a dust mask. I worked on the bagging version of that machine in my teens. Hard graft compared with today's kit. Brought back memories.
Considering the dry year the sample you showed is plenty good enough. If you're thinking of growing it next year it may be worth having someone in to screen the best grain for sowing next year? Unless you're thinking of growing a winter verity? I asked to soon Dan never mind. I'd say you're well over 2 tonne looking at the heap and the acres you said. Such a pity you didn't get finished what's close by but until the end the repairs were just niggles and a pain, no long stops. Great to see her going. Hopefully the combine cutting the rest of it will give you a much better idea of the tonnes he/ she harvests?
Interesting video which shows how simple in principle a combine is but liable to breakdown and be unusable due to age and being stored for 12 years. To contradict myself the machine is actually a complex system of operating parts all put together to achieve one outcome and all depend on other parts working to achieve the desired end result. Looks like a good crop of wheat.
Brilliant to see cheepest cutting and thrashing available i have run my re commissioned 535 to do my 30 acres would loved to pulled in and joined in with the 400 get her in and do the little jobs over winter
Just shows one can't do a job correctly enough without further troubles. Yes the fan bearings need attended. Isn't that the water pump bearings. Be spraying down those alternator bolts so that can be fixed correctly. I think she did well, but that hydraulic pump shieve needs straightened out so this doesn't happen. Use a straight edge off the pump pully to see how straight it is. That must be corrected before anything else even if the motor bracket needs cut off and rewelded.
Hi Dan when you take the pump off see if the shaft running through the pump it only takes a very small amount drift to cause the belt to jump off if the pulley comes off then you can see if the shaft has a small twist any problems let me know this combine has to keep going let me know Pete Ag Eng
Manufactured from 1960 to 1966 two models is the 400 and the 500 the 400 and had three cylinders and a 500 head four cylinders the rest you’ll have to look up on the Internet like I did
hi Dan brings back memories of the first combine I drove she was a massy Harris 580 special the hydraulic hand clutch took a lot of getting used to. the Joy's of no cabs
Yes, cutting oats on Bardsey Island, north Wales with a McCormick mkV PTO drive binder and MF 35x. Last time was about year 2000. Miss those days. One day we'll do it again.
@@colinevans9672 Yes, life used to be a lot simpler. I'm going back to the 70's when it seems that the sun always shone and my pint glass was always full. When reality sets in though you have to admit that combines do away with a lot of the hard graft and things weren't all that great after all.
Yes I did two years of it after I left school in 64. That year was the end off thrashing in my area when the local contractor gave it up . We only did about ten acres of wheat at that stage mainly for wheat batons to put on the potato pie/clamp before soiling up. At the end of thrashing they were brought inside and that was a big improvement. I was glad to see the back of it all and the two hundred weight bags of wheat. I did manage to carry one up the granary steps just to prove I could, only just mind you but I was only about sixteen or seventeen.
Hydraulic pump bracket has probably twisted slightly. I used to fit wedge shaped flat washers between the bracket and adjuster channel to get the pullies to run in line. Definitely needs a wider section belt fitting. Get the fan bearing changed asap, you dont want the expense of a new rad core. Sounds like the traction gearbox input shaft is dragging, needs the brake cone adjusting. Not doing the 1st and reverse pinions in the box any good. Fan drive shaft circlips were always an issue, later models went to a snap ring, but were still not perfect. Not a proper fix, but a dab with the welder usually cures it !!!!!
@@CowfarmerDan You must have a very early machine, never seen one without a brake. Didnt start working on MF combines till 1974, but worked on several MF 400/500's. Problem could be the bearings in the clutch pulley being a bit tight due to solidified grease or rust and causing the input shaft to drag. Might be worth pulling it apart and cleaning everything up. Cheaper than a new set of cogs!
Blimey the old man was showing her no mercy. I had similar problems with mine belt driving the de awner snapped which wouldn't have been too bad but sadly it wrapped around the drive pulley which then shredded two other belts which then caught a hydraulic pipe and the engine oil drain pipe bloody nightmare took four hours to get all that off the pulley
Still impressive for a 60 year old machine that was at the back of a shed until a few weeks ago. I wonder how many Lexion 8000 will still be running in 60 years?
One of the few combinesa left working that can get through a gate without removing the header. Looking forward to seeing the repairs required over the winter to get her ready for next year's campaign.
That is true that. So many traditional stone gate posts and ancient hedgerows have been grubbed out so huge modern behemoths can stride across huge prairy like plains stretching far away over the horizon. Proper little bonny combines is what nature and the countryside prefers.
Tremendous video Dan. Great to see the old girl still working. After 60 years and 12 years laid up a few breakdowns are inevitable. Well done for getting her out again for us all to see.
Brings back a lot of memories watching the old Red Warrior in action. Congratulations in getting her working again
Always nice to see one of the elderly ladies out dancing in the fields. And when it comes to the grain sample, looks good, given what Mother nature has offered the plants this season.
Great to see the old combine working And going well and doesn’t owe you a penny not like a modern one would Dan.
😭 She didn’t make it to the end 😔. To be fair after 12yrs I don’t think she did too badly. Hopefully we’ll see her again for the next harvest 🤞
Fabulous crop for a spring - sown wheat with a year like this. Your devotion to getting the old girl going again was admirable.
I can remember helping my dad out with a very similar Massey back when I was a teenager some 55 yrs ago. Was a big upgrade from our previous combine I can tell you! If I remember correctly it was a 500 series combine we had.
For sitting unused for so long the combine did a great job
Fantastic video dan, great to see her working away again, get her in the shed in the winter and I'm sure she be good as new next year. Can't beat a little old combine to harvest with.
Brings back great memories of my childhood sitting up with Dad on his 400
great to see the old stuff still going
Top stuff Dan! Really great to see the combine in action.
Had to luagh when you were wrestling the gear box. It was always an issue on the 415 the farm had I worked on. It used to lurch after he'd find his gear. Happy memories. Great video.
Love these old machines. My uncle had a 788 and then a 525 when I was growing up. Got character like all the old stuff. Workin like a trooper it would seem now after the 3 breakdowns 👍
I had a B195 B section belt fitted to pulleys not lined properly and it chewed up the belt within a day at quite low speed!
Dorset registration, I can remember seeing these at a farm back in the 1970’s and at an agricultural machinery repairers bone yard.
Lovely bit of kit
Not a bad days work at all!
Should maybe get your other vintage combine out have two going for next year
Now that I'd love to photograph whilst she is working, what a beauty.
Great video Dan 👍 no shame to the old girl 🤔 she'll be a bit shinier inside now 👍 was told first time I drove a combine that your speed should be that when you go into the crop the straw should start coming out the back in line with the edge of the standing crop and your speed was bang on 👌
Dan and the team. Well done for getting her running looking forward to seeing more vintage Thursday
A most enjoyable & interesting video well done keep up the good work on your channel 👍👍👍
My granddad had a 82 massy combine that I cut wheat and sorghum with in the early 60’s. A very nice combine, I really enjoyed this video
Great to see the 400 working Dan. I used to work on Massey combines in the distant past, anything from 726 to 625 and remember the 400/500 series well.
As old as it is and being sat for 12 years it was in a bit of a state, it's a miracle it's gotten as far as it has. The work it's managed would have done the engine some good and the grain polished it up nicely. I'm looking forward to seeing this little old beast doing a bit better next year!
I actually learned how how to drive a similar (but more primitive) combine when I was a kid. In my mind it was HUGE, but it seems pretty small on video 50 years later....
Great video, good to see the old combine running, keep up the vintage Thursdays, every credit!!
What a great old machine. Love it.! 🙂👍
Great video Dan, that combine was running great between the unfortunate breakdowns, great to see it working again 👍
Thank you very much for this video. 🙂👍
Happy Christmas to you and yours Dan. Loved the run down tractor history. As I have said before was brought up around and driving 35 x 65s and 185 what I call proper tractors. Have never driven anything modern tho 👍
Great to see her running! Brilliant video 💪🏻 🏴
Thanks for bringing us along. Great to see these old machines getting a run out.
It is so nice to see the Combine out in the Field doing such a fabulous Job 👍👍👍🌺
Great to see the combine running Dan! Hope you manage to fix the issues, certainly worth keeping her in working order!
Great machine, drove one during the late 1960’s back in the day with no cab, no mask and lots of dust, used to look more like a coal miner at the end of the day, than a farm worker. 😊
How much did these machines cost back in the day ?
Great harvest video Dan thanks for sharing 👍
Love it. Brings me back to my days drawing to two 500s
Brilliant video Dan you will get combine sorted ready for next season
Another great video Dan, really enjoyed the combine series. Such a shame she couldn't finish, hope you get/got the rest of your harvest in! The grain looked really good!
Fantastic!
I think it's done very well
It is great that you are still using this old masey combine would 💘 to come up and see it from alison sadler and jeremy mellor England 🇬🇧 😀
That's a brilliant sample for a combined of that age a brilliant video
Glad it worked for you. Shame you couldn't finish the field. At least you have a contractor to call on.
nice to see it working at last😊👍
Great video Dan. My uncle had the same combine, he bought it at a farm sale in a poor state and sorted it up. Still remember the noise of it. Hope you get your harvest in safely.
That made my day when growing up on farms in 70s Dan she done well👍🏻👍🏻🤠
Great video Dan,Massey Ferguson 60 year old machine, incredible ,am speechless
What a shame the old combine didn’t want to play ball this year, particularly after you spent so much time trying to get it ready.
Brilliant just a shame it couldn't do it all maybe next year 🤞
Thanks
Excellent video as always Dan 👍👍👍
Wonderful, invokes such memories for me...
What a shame, fantastic pics sir! Great to see what she can still do and she can still be fixed, look forward to seeing it. I'm sure you can get a little magnetic laser that will help you align the pulleys. Thanks Dan
My old neighbor up north has a Massey Ferguson 300 combine. His looks very similar only that one has a cab
She is a fair machine to take stuff in. You dad is fairly pushing her on
Hope you haven't gotten frustrated with the breakdowns. Great fun watching the video, outstanding. Amazing for a machine to work effectively. The sample looks great, plump it will be a very good bushel weight. Great feed for your herd
Happy Christmas to you and yours dan. Really enjoyed the run down of your tractor history. As Iv said before was brought up on fergies 35 x 65 185 what I call proper tractors. Never driven anything modern tho 👍
Father Phil will know what the problem is he knows his vintage machines
Brilliant video
Nice combine.
I think everyone should know how to drive the old machine before getting into the new one great video
Great video Dan if it wasn’t for people like yourselves these machines would end up as scrap, If you parked a modern car for 12 years I’m sure you would have a much bigger headache.
the water pump bearing needs 2 be replaced the sooner the better and can U run the grain through a seed cleaner 2 get the chaff out I would try I have no idea 💡😮 if it will work or not 😊😊 OMG 1 28 2O24
Good looking crop
very good for 60 year old combine
I think this also applies to anyone buying an old (cheap) combine at an auction
A shame you didn't finish. Your Dad could have done with a dust mask. I worked on the bagging version of that machine in my teens. Hard graft compared with today's kit. Brought back memories.
Considering the dry year the sample you showed is plenty good enough.
If you're thinking of growing it next year it may be worth having someone in to screen the best grain for sowing next year? Unless you're thinking of growing a winter verity?
I asked to soon Dan never mind.
I'd say you're well over 2 tonne looking at the heap and the acres you said.
Such a pity you didn't get finished what's close by but until the end the repairs were just niggles and a pain, no long stops.
Great to see her going.
Hopefully the combine cutting the rest of it will give you a much better idea of the tonnes he/ she harvests?
Nice Video
Interesting video which shows how simple in principle a combine is but liable to breakdown and be unusable due to age and being stored for 12 years. To contradict myself the machine is actually a complex system of operating parts all put together to achieve one outcome and all depend on other parts working to achieve the desired end result. Looks like a good crop of wheat.
Brilliant to see cheepest cutting and thrashing available i have run my re commissioned 535 to do my 30 acres would loved to pulled in and joined in with the 400 get her in and do the little jobs over winter
Hi Crawfords Farm
Just shows one can't do a job correctly enough without further troubles. Yes the fan bearings need attended. Isn't that the water pump bearings. Be spraying down those alternator bolts so that can be fixed correctly. I think she did well, but that hydraulic pump shieve needs straightened out so this doesn't happen. Use a straight edge off the pump pully to see how straight it is. That must be corrected before anything else even if the motor bracket needs cut off and rewelded.
Hi Dan when you take the pump off see if the shaft running through the pump it only takes a very small amount drift to cause the belt to jump off if the pulley comes off then you can see if the shaft has a small twist any problems let me know this combine has to keep going let me know Pete Ag Eng
outstanding Dan great to see her play some kind of part . off topic but any more progress on the lean-to you's were building ? cheers 👍
No, was a bit hectic with a teleporter and driver on hire so no time to mess with the camera.
you tend to find that massey machinery breaks down alot.
My dad had one 66.
Manufactured from 1960 to 1966 two models is the 400 and the 500 the 400 and had three cylinders and a 500 head four cylinders the rest you’ll have to look up on the Internet like I did
400 is 4 cylinder, 500 is 6 cylinder. Both Perkins.
hi Dan brings back memories of the first combine I drove she was a massy Harris 580 special the hydraulic hand clutch took a lot of getting used to. the Joy's of no cabs
Great to see the MF 400 brings back lots of memoirs. What size cut is it.
Revards
10 foot.
Welcome to the 1960s-early 70s harvest
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Can anyone else remember working on a binder and stooking sheaves?
Yes, cutting oats on Bardsey Island, north Wales with a McCormick mkV PTO drive binder and MF 35x. Last time was about year 2000. Miss those days. One day we'll do it again.
@@colinevans9672 Yes, life used to be a lot simpler. I'm going back to the 70's when it seems that the sun always shone and my pint glass was always full. When reality sets in though you have to admit that combines do away with a lot of the hard graft and things weren't all that great after all.
Yes I did two years of it after I left school in 64. That year was the end off thrashing in my area when the local contractor gave it up . We only did about ten acres of wheat at that stage mainly for wheat batons to put on the potato pie/clamp before soiling up. At the end of thrashing they were brought inside and that was a big improvement. I was glad to see the back of it all and the two hundred weight bags of wheat. I did manage to carry one up the granary steps just to prove I could, only just mind you but I was only about sixteen or seventeen.
That sample is fine. What actual day did you cut it and what was the moisture? (Haven’t got to the end of the video yet).
27th August and 14%.
Hydraulic pump bracket has probably twisted slightly. I used to fit wedge shaped flat washers between the bracket and adjuster channel to get the pullies to run in line. Definitely needs a wider section belt fitting. Get the fan bearing changed asap, you dont want the expense of a new rad core. Sounds like the traction gearbox input shaft is dragging, needs the brake cone adjusting. Not doing the 1st and reverse pinions in the box any good. Fan drive shaft circlips were always an issue, later models went to a snap ring, but were still not perfect. Not a proper fix, but a dab with the welder usually cures it !!!!!
No brake on the gearbox input shaft on this one, although it's shown in the workshop book we have.
Did the early ones not have it fitted?
@@CowfarmerDan You must have a very early machine, never seen one without a brake. Didnt start working on MF combines till 1974, but worked on several MF 400/500's. Problem could be the bearings in the clutch pulley being a bit tight due to solidified grease or rust and causing the input shaft to drag. Might be worth pulling it apart and cleaning everything up. Cheaper than a new set of cogs!
@@robertallen3441 thanks for the advice, can probably upgrade to a 415 gearbox if we get chance 🤞
Blimey the old man was showing her no mercy. I had similar problems with mine belt driving the de awner snapped which wouldn't have been too bad but sadly it wrapped around the drive pulley which then shredded two other belts which then caught a hydraulic pipe and the engine oil drain pipe bloody nightmare took four hours to get all that off the pulley
The days when you had to use your judgment on how to set up your combine with no buttons to press for adjustments!
why is grain stored inside sheds vs silos?
Sheds can be used to store all kinds of stuff. Grain, straw, machines, housing cattle.
Silos are single purpose.
Oo arr
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