Later history of MH and photos: http://www.yellowswirl.info/414978414 This article reminded me that Massey-Harris pioneered the self-propelled combine during WWII to improve farmer productivity.
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| Cody Lee posted Taken by Dave Gresser at Brantford, Ontario. Screw the plow! Look at those brand new Massey 750s! [The 750/760 was introduced at the beginning of the 1970s.] |
Photos of unit trains carrying Massey-Harris or Massey-Ferguson combines
Gary Berry has been posting several photos about a combine plant. I assume they are all about a Massey Ferguson combine plant in Brantford, ON.
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| Gary Berry posted Just newly built Massey Ferguson Combine Plant 1964 Dennis DeBruler March 4, 1988 was the last day it was open. It was one of the victims of the crash of farm-land values in the 1980s. Evidently 2,500 people got calls that weekend telling them not to go to work on Monday because they did not have a job. http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/.../end-of-the-line-for... |
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| Gary Barry commented on his posting above See the front offices. |
This was in the late 70's to 80's in the Massey Ferguson Combine Plant of Brantford, Ontario, Canada. First one is In the Combine Plant on the "C" line.Second is the Dog House as we called it, With the Straw Walkers Assembly. Third was the Main Frame front Final Drives and front Pan Assemblies. Thanks all Farmers of wheat and Corn Harvests. .
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| Gary Berry posted Coming off our Main Line ... I work just behind this Photo, we called it the hospital. Where we ran'em and completed them to be shipped. WESTWARD! Jaden Mcdonald What year is that? Kyle Kolle 80s Maurice Woods What city is the factory in? Linda Chamberlain Brantford, Ontario. I named my own M-F 760, "Brantford," for its hometown, which is named for an Indian, as well. Thomas R. Cassan Linda Chamberlain Chief Joseph Brant of the Grand River First nations, Mohawk six nations Confederacy. Brock Williams 750 kg drum and a v8 Perkins I drove one man it was a great combine |
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| Gary Berry posted I found this picture online and this view I clearly remember. Taken from on top of the plant's roof. We would go out and find machines by row, and number, by priority of hottest combine to ship. My partner Ed and I would get on the tractor and retrieve,and drive them into the shop to be finalized, top to bottom. I believe this is mid to late 70's. [Comments indicated 1978 or 1979 and Model 750.] |
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| Gary Berry posted MF combine plant's Back Yard was a sea of machines, row on row. |
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| Brian Dalgarno commented on Gary's posting |
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| Gary Berry posted Workers at Massey Ferguson’s Brantford, Ont., combine plant in the early 1980s install cabs on the assembly line. In 1973 Jan. my first job I was directed to do was to work on this Cab Line. It was a piece work job. 14 men. I installed the front windshield sealed in rubber. |
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| Gary Berry posted Perkins V-8's on top of the Cylinders Line. |
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| Garry Berry commented on his posting Just received from England I believe. |
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| Gary Berry posted Start of Main Line Rear Axle Assembly could be the 80's 860. Rich Miller No, this is an 80's version because the wire mesh on the right side of the engine compartment. Early versions did not have that opening for the cooler there. Also, the rear wheel is gray. All 70's versions were yellow. Ben Murray That looks good 860 by the looks of it, Linda Chamberlain Combine embryo.  |
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| Gary Berry posted May 11, 1983, Brantford, Ontario: TH&B "West Local" is departing Brantford for Hamilton in the late evening light after setting off six empty flats cars and lifting ten flat cars of new Massey Ferguson combines. Loaded on the cars from our shipping docks. I worked helping in there sometimes. |
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| Gary Berry posted I worked many years just to the right of this Main Line End. The Hospital we referred it by. PS. You see that little piece of the front elevator, at right bottom that was my stall. I ran the top section for 13 years!! Linda Chamberlain Was not so full, until M-F unionized. Gary Berry The company was brutal in the early years, management would say your staying overtime, no asking, if you do not ... don't bother coming back to work Monday. If you didn't fight back they'd kill ya! Individually they would have ended any family life you had. These were not times for weak principals, I worked cause I wanted to, 12 hours a day and 7 days a week friends! [Quite a few comments concerned the lack of accessibility to the bearings after the combine was assembled.] |
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| Gary Berry posted I worked at the Massey Ferguson Combine Plant in the 70's and 80's built 300,510, 550, 750,760,850, 860's and several European models. Thank you for your support over all the years very grateful for your loyalty. Gary Berry shared |
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| JR Horsley commented on the above posting I'm saving your name, I may have questions later this year... just bought this. |
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| Gary Berry posted Massey 860 shaker shoe, sieves in rear. Catch and gather your wheat. |
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| Gary Berry posted From the table line. MFCP Massey Ferguson Combine Plant. Brantford. |
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| Gary Berry posted Massey Ferguson combine exercises. [Hydraulic jacks under the wheels to test the hillside leveling feature.] |
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| YellowSwirl Massey Harris clipper trailed combine 1950 [This brings back many memories. This is what my grandfather used on wheat, oats and barley in the 1950s and 60s. Now that I'm thinking about it, he must have quite growing grains because he never had a newer combine. He pulled it with a Minneapolis-Moline "M" tractor, which did not have a live PTO. But I think it was a pretty big tractor for its day. Pulling this combine and plowing where its two jobs. He had smaller tractors for the other jobs. He had a big 1947 Dodge truck into which he would unload the combine in the field and then haul the grain to market.] |
750+760
This shows the guts in operation
A video segment showing the Brantford plant.
This plant, and a Cockshutt Plow Company plant are now part of the "Greenwich Mohawk Brownfield." May 2011 photos taken by an "urban explorer."
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