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Saving an Abandoned Massey Ferguson Turf Tractor
🕑 Added 2023-07-25 12:58:16 +0000 UTCThe GoPro footage came out kind of grainy. Is it too distracting?
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Eddie Williamson
Short version...bank caved in...while I was on the seat digging forward and watching it go down!
Steven Cox
i have 2 Massey Fergeson tractors tea-24 a 1945 and 1954 model.
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Wow! There had to be a story there!
Eddie Williamson
Back in the day I put thousands of hours on a MF135 with a 3 cylinder Perkins engine, pretty much the same running works with different sheet metal. Incredibly tough and reliable. Tillage work and spraying all day then powered a PTO irrigation pump at night. All mechanical, no goofy electronics to complicate things. Went fully submerged into a farm pond, hot engine and wide open throttle. Replaced one connecting rod, fluids and filters and it was good to go again.
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Biodiesel is the worst.
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It's crazy.
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Great. Music is so tricky. Some hate it, some love it, most don't even notice.
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Ooof!
Nick Hough
We have an old Massey 20D with a loader and a blower that we use for snow removal, they're tough little tractors. Ours sounds identical to the one in the video, I assume it's the same machine with a different wheel setup. Ours needed an injection pump rebuild this past winter, turns out, when you don't change fuel filters for 20 years things start to gum up.
Colin McElduff
That was great, loved the fault finding, amazed it moved itself after that length of time!
Michael S Wilhelm
So old school. I've been around long enough ('60s) to know what was what. (I really enjoyed the intro sound track, too).
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Those Japanese tractors are indestructible.
Britt A Releford
The video was fine. I like videos where you rescue abandoned machines and get them running again. I rescued a mid 70's Yanmar tractor a couple of years ago. Got it running and used it for cutting my yard. Had a blast doing it. Still need to do an in-frame rebuild on the engine though. If you were local, I'd have you do it.
Darren B McLellan
Glad to throw some of my coffee money in the fund!
Bill Scott
Nice to see you return to your, will it run roots.
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Those were the days!
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It's driving me crazy!
James Riordan
Superb videography / intro. Harkens back to “early Wes” rescuing dad’s treasures from the forest. Frankly made me a bit misty-eyed 🥹
Sue Rollinson
Ours is a Klenatron BugBuster, but I don't think that they are made anymore. You'll enjoy listening to the flies fry, especially if they are big and juicy!
thedeafguitarist
You can see a difference from the normal videos but its still pretty good and fine to watch. Nothing to complain about.
David Baldwin
looks fine to me on my computer. great to see you working with your dad
Nick Vogel
I love my father but would hit the wall fast when I would ask for a Phillips and he would say, "Thats the star, right?"
Jeff Chandler
Looks good to me! I enjoy watching you work with your dad. I used to do lots of projects with him before I moved to Texas.
Bill
Such a great video! Love the interaction between you & your dad.
David Yates
The video was a bit pixelated but perfectly watchable for me. I'm no expert on diesels but I know enough to be able to follow along without a detailed conversation. For me the most important thing is that I got to come along for the ride, which is really all I want.
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Good for him!
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He said it's now leaking oil from every orifice. Some buyers remorse is to be expected!
Eric Corse
LOL
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I need one. They are diabolical.
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And my mom is worse!
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There you go!
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OK great!
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I think the answer is yes.
Eric Corse
Does your dad buy this older stuff to fix and resell or is he like the rest of us and just like to have it.
Max Chaplin
Looks perfectly fine on my screen 👍🏻. Great video as always.
James Underwood
Glad we can support your efforts. Awesome your dad is still active and you can hang out and help him. My Grandfather died at 96 but at 93 he was on a ladder pulling siding off of an old shed to help us tear it down. Great times!
Chris Freemesser
I think it's awesome that you get to work with your dad like that...not everybody gets to. As for the video I'm sitting here watching it on my 13" laptop and honestly totally forgot you had mentioned it was grainy so it's just fine by me
Peter Facey
Great stuff. It always gets confusing when three people are talking. I wonder if radio lapel mikes for you and your Dad would help.
mike forbes
No issues here full screen on my ipad, nice work!
George Glass
Looks okay to me. No problem following along with the steps.
CapnMac82
That tractor brings back some memories. If mostly crass ones about kinfolk scoffing at "hobby farm" or "golf course" tractors. Definitely cool to see it run, even over the range of cameras used. Most decidedly one of those, "oh, it's an easy fix, just remove the entire fuels system and overhaul same." Which will likely be an archeological dig of sorts, finding all the "band aid" solutions applied in the tractor's beforetimes.
Sue Rollinson
The video quality is fine. We have a biblical plague of flies too. My husband rigged up the Bug Zapper (40 years old), and it made short work of all of the flies.
Brian VanDragt
I can't see a difference on my phone. I grew up watching vcr tapes, so it's still better than that.
Graeme Zimmer
Interesting video Wes, thanks!
Andy Francis
Looks good to me
Tom Hollowell
I hope your Dad lives a very long life, or you have a lot of siblings because I can imagine disposing of his collection may take some time. Nice video!
Dale Tractor
My son and I watch your videos, and I was just thinking “it would be cool to see Wes do a Diesel Creek style rescue” and lo and behold this pops up! Video looks great, I think some difference in quality is expected when you are working in the field vs your usual film studio. My boy seemed like he enjoyed it! I definitely did. Thanks man!
Ron Wedel
Yeah, it's grainy on my computer monitor & TV, not as noticeable on my phone
Anditainment
Yeah, I think your dad should bring his own ether next time, he's harder on that stuff than them boys from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas... The footage is enjoyable on a small screen, I guess some snarky disclaimer is called for, like "just crappy enough to watch it on the crapper" or something...
Michael Stern
No worries on the quality...didn't notice
Doug Wray
No video issues for me. Great recovery!!! That thing's cherry!
Jason griggs
You can watch it just fine
Darran
You can see its grainy but its fine to watch. Not distracting.
Jeferson Luis Fischer
cool, new video !!!!
Sam Colt
Wes the video looks just fine. No worries. I enjoy the videos of older equipment that has been sitting for years and the process of getting it to run again. 👍
