BIG V8 HARVESTER !

A look at what harvest 2021 was like for us and a good look at the Massey 865 combine ! This harvest hasnt been easy.
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[@GeorgeSaunders]

Beautiful video mate. There is something very special about harvesting into a lovely sunny evening, it just seems to make everything right. Cracking 865 as well, she looks as good as new!

[@LordMuck]

You loved that pipe didn't you ? You massive bender 😂 I'm just about to watch your vid 😉

[@GeorgeSaunders]

@@LordMuck I would stroke and caress that pipe

[@LordMuck]

I know and I'd laugh as you got 3rd degree burns... 🤣

[@trams66]

@@LordMuck George is a pipe lover all the way😂😂😂

[@GeorgeSaunders]

@@LordMuck it'd be worth it

[@mickjennings2968]

Can’t beat the sight of a combine driving off into the sunset in good old Blighty

[@janmurawski4193]

What a great machine I can remember driving a 525 no cab when I was about 30yrs old I’m now 69. Good to see red power doing a harvest. I didn’t have any of the comfort of a cab covered in dust but enjoyed every minute but the best was driving the last load corn back home and getting last orders at the pub happy days. Never will forget

[@julianhawker7672]

I remember watching the original BBC 2 program with Dale and his crew as a kid with my Dad, opened my eyes to the scale of harvest in USA. Nice to see the old 865 still at work. :-)

[@rolandjones5832]

Great film there mate , took me right back to the long summers of the late seventies when I was six , staying at my grandparents house near Gainsborough , sitting on top of their gate posts so I could see over the opposite hedge to watch a 760 combining and the grain being carted away by a mf 1200 . Christmas list to santander that year only had one item on it , the Britain's 760 model combine .I got a great harvest of our living room carpet for many years . Thanks for the memory flashback .

[@AliMackMechanical]

Bloody great Machine the old Massey V8. That sunset was brilliant mate. 👍

[@LinuxGalore]

I grew up in the UK as a kid watching farmers and they combine harvesters. Now I live in Australia and watched a new combine harvester at work here in Northern Queensland, what surprised me was how insanely fast they are moving compared to the combine harvesters of the 1970's.

[@schoubrian]

I love the sunset and the smell of freshly cut wheat.

[@bruceklassen8261]

Massey absolutely dominated the combine scene when they came out with the 760, it shows you what happens when a company rests on its laurels, they have all but being eliminated from the combine market in the current day

[@Teredifa]

I think they may well be making a steady comeback with the AGCO Ideal. If the rumours are true the majority of the development came from the MF guys.

[@joelawrence56]

MF was bankrupted by banks during a prolonged downturn in the farming sector in the early 1980s...IHC was even bigger!

[@jayyoung5423]

Love the shot of the stack on the Perkins..."how dare you". Omg too funny,think I pitched a tent on that one....lol

[@kevinwillis9126]

Loved the vid Kurt thanks.. Take care sir..

[@LordMuck]

Cheers Kev, glad you enjoyed it 👍

[@masseyman6290]

Yes, Yes, Yes, Massey’s wherever you look! That 6480 is a peach, it’s a job to find em as nice as that now.

[@jarrodbinthenc6810]

Wheat harvest with an old MF is just awesome 👌 The smell of the raw exhaust spewing outta that 540 Perkins combined with the smell of the grain, timeless

[@richardjones5255]

An interesting video of harvest time and the value of the combine harvester, I did not realise that USA yields were so much lower than ours. Ouch, I slipped on a polished floor in the office, foot hit the wall, ankle dislocated, big bone broke I was in hospital for a month and could not walk for another month. Several operations were required to repair some damage. He was lucky to get back to even limited work that fast, I wish him well.

[@gordonvanpatten6637]

Super awesome combine, it’s taken Deere and others 30 years to catch these old girls, easy on fuel, didn’t throw grain over, and last forever.

[@SuperGoodison]

Back in the late 90s we ran a MF 665 fantastic combine

[@jarrodbinthenc6810]

Lots of us Americans, & Canadians love the Perkins engines just as much as you British 😀

[@LordMuck]

Apparently a lot of the US and Canadian ones had 6.354's. Now they're a cracking engine 👌🏼

[@robertkeable1627]

Beautiful sunset glad you're all barned up. Be well and stay safe.

[@LordMuck]

Thanks, you too!

[@DaveRB3248]

Ah those were the days. I remember riding in an 860 as a young lad, it wasn’t much of a cab for passengers. You could always tell where they were working from the steady smoke plume.

[@danieltaylor2313]

They old perkins V8 engines have a lovely sound. Nice to see a old Massey combine still running. Local farmer had a Massey Ferguson 760 if I remember right up until 2001 when she caught fire. Still sits in the same place she came to rest.

[@rolnics]

Sunset, combine and that smell of a freshly harvested field, perhaps I should come and do some carting for you, just for that benefit! I did wonder if George was going to pop up with that pipe action! 😂

[@landykid]

this is awesome I live in Brantford. am originally from the UK the factory still exists. you can still see the Massey Ferguson the logo on the side of it very faintly.

[@gtametro]

I remember being about 9 years old riding down a narrow lane on my pushbike and an 865 ( i think, 30 odd years ago now) came hurtling round a bend, I heard it coming before I saw it so I was well out of the way up the verge, but I remember being awestruck by the noise and size of it.

[@fenlandrob6203]

Can’t beat the sunset in the British countryside!! I love it. Great video Mucker of the working side of your life. Fenland Rob

[@christinamoneyhan5688]

Always loved MF equipment. Owned all that I could when I was farming. In my area everyone was JD or I H except for me and MF equipment was always under priced on used machines and equipment although their was a MF dealer . Lots of old 1950’ s tractors and the smaller farm implements around. Thanks for the 865 ride along.

[@michaeltoon607]

How did we ever manage with Massey 780 and 590 series tractors and before anyone says they were the good old days combining till after midnight milking at 5-30,picking up bagged wheat and barley last thing at night all those small bales all stacked by hand,harvest lasting anything up to six weeks bo--ocks to good old days

[@LordMuck]

I agree, if you've lived and breathed that stuff back then, it's nice for a day or two but fuck all that hardship now.

[@adamelliott2302]

I'm now intrigued by the Massey.

[@m0ogy]

I remember my Dad been on a Claas Matador in 1970 and it going up in flames and my Mum pushing me down in a push chair to see a Bedford TK fire engine putting it out. Then in the mid 70's the farm he worked on had a 1964 Clayson with a Ford engine and him wearing Martindale masks as they had no cabs.....those were the days!

[@bmacd2112]

Nice POV video of combine operation. Like you said, lots of people talk about all the big fancy machines but few understand the long grind of getting the job done with those machines. Congratulation on putting another successful harvest in the books.

[@jasonlewin2878]

Brilliant video takes me back when dad ran two 760 lots of noise and smoke

[@albertbasson6611]

Excellent video!! 1982... John Deere 960. No cab. Good when you are heading into the breeze, not so much fun coming downwind.. nine stand of barley!!!!

[@bartdegroot4826]

v8 perkins are nice... but Detroits are Nicer....;) but on the other hand... Hopefully i can hear a few v8's roar ( not only perkins, a few Scania's as well) on the truck and tracktorpulling event at my village over 2 weeks... :)

[@LordMuck]

I'd have to agree 😉

[@andymercer8007]

Great video, proper harvest weather. I can’t get over how tidy those combines are.

[@LordMuck]

Credit has to go to the previous owner and then the two Massey gurus that had it before.

[@ginggur17]

Never late with a V8, awesome soundtrack. 👍👍🇬🇧

[@petessite]

nice to see someone who knowa how to set the reel above the crop , most have the poor ol reel butied in the crop draging it in watch how you run it just flick it in !!! good on ya mucker !!!

[@LordMuck]

On the barley I had an electrical issue so kept it right up but once sorted on the wheat I was able just to flick the top to lay it onto the Powerflow. Worked a treat 👌🏼

[@steamfan7147]

Growing up in the Southern US, the big three in our area were the Massey 860, the Gleaner L2 and the JD 6620. The Massey was the better machine of the three, cleaner grain than the other two, faster unloading auger than the JD and didn't catch on fire twice a day like the Gleaners LOL.

[@donparker8246]

All the nice shiny equipment doesn't take away from the fact that you're going to spend a LOT of long hard hours behind the wheel of a tractor or combine. At the end of the day, it's still work. Kudos to all you and all the people who put in those hours. 😁👍🚜

[@scoobyears01]

In the 80's on the farm i worked on in East Yorkshire we got a new fergie 855 with power flow header (C372 CKH) to join another fergie 760 also with the same header, other farmers in the area were either on NH or Class, happy days

[@Leo-gq7xj]

God to see the harvest going well, I am in southern Australia, my God it's been cold here, 4C yesterday, we have barley and wheat crops here which stretch as far as the horizon, they are enormous, they use a few harvesters in one field, I love the old tractors and harvesters, they are less complicated, in my opinion the more computers etc you have the more which can go wrong, the one thing which is a must have though is an airconditioned cabin, it's looking like a record canola crop down here this year too, no drought or flood.

[@mikeduin8311]

P'eterbraaaaaahhhh, sounds allright to me🤔 Lovely description of the Massey interior trim fabric... Nice lunchbox on the 6480😅and that Sunset, stunning view! All the best!

[@matty2helpfull]

That 865 has way more features then my old 760 had thats really cool I loved running the 760 but it only had a pickup head on it. I can remember riding right on top of the motor listening to that beautiful song those v8 make as a kid

[@jefftheaussie2225]

Podge, I didn’t know there was a variation on the 50s and 60s, we only saw the 750/60 and 850/60s here. They were very well regarded here too and things have to be tough to survive here. I always was a fan of the big black line they left every where, (bugger Greta)you would think they were guaranteed to boil working like that. It looked like someone had fiddled with the pump or left the hand brake on but no. The Massey tractors with the turbo 354 were the same. Relying on the turbo with no muffler had some operators worried about starting fires which is a very real problem here, harvesting with a hot northerly blowing and 40 degrees in the water bag on a good day (damp straw is not the problem then). Have a look at South Sask Farmer, he has an 860 in his arsenal which he loves. It still pulls its weight and it is older than he is. Jeff

[@LordMuck]

I think that exhaust vacuum pre-cleaner also puts a lot of shit out of the exhaust.

[@sonofedmund5004]

Almost poetic that one, pathos and pisstake perfectly blended, how dare you!

[@LordMuck]

Aren't they Greek islands ?

[@markwestmore4178]

Thanks for the memories mucker, left school in 82 remember that combine well, the mighty v8 🙂👍

[@jimmybroom]

Great video as always. Fantastic to see the old combine doing a great job and that Massey is lovely. There is something really special about seeing a combine at work.

[@andygraves3658]

Brilliant video mucker. No doubt a certain Mr Saunders would want to fit straight pipes to every vehicle involved with that harvest. Stay safe :-)

[@ShaneCasey51]

I really did enjoy that video. That Massey Ferguson 865 is a stunning machine. Never seen one in action but is on my bucket list of machines to photograph working.

[@LordMuck]

Get over here next year Shane 👍

[@ShaneCasey51]

@@LordMuck You never know I might take you up on that offer Kurt

[@iainstewart1715]

Found your channel yesterday. One upside of a forced standstill due to f...ing Covid 🤒 Love the videos and the style. Takes me back to "me yoof", working on farms and at college. Seeing that harvest sunset almost brought a nostalgic tear to my eyes 😭

[@tkb818]

As a non farmer, but someone who lives in the country it’s great to see farm machinery working from an operators view. Great video love this channel and looking forward to more vids. 👍👍

[@alexandermckellar4001]

What a great old Combine. Don't know much about them however always been fascinated by machines. Great to watch, it also makes you appreciate what work and time goes into the process from farm to food on the table. Again another great video. Great stuff 👍

[@adeyrussell843]

Superb vid. My favourite part of the day was at the end when you shut everything down for the last time , 5 mins peace and just nature sounds that can not be beaten!

[@philgardener7018]

Wow great video. Brings back many happy memory's growing up on the farm. Good to see the both combine side and the corn cart side

[@geion54]

Nothing more beautiful as an English sunset on a ripe wheat field.

[@acespark1]

Here in Liverpool a company I do work for, runs a giant diesel generator with a Perkins motor. It seems to leak a lot of oil and our sun set disappears over a pile of skips, not quite as nice as yours

[@Lukey-Dukey-AUS]

Nice to see all the equipment working to get the harvest done. I like the tractor thanks.

[@johannwallette8959]

I live in farming areas myself, and I see new and old machinery working side-by-side it's awesome

[@Risenfoenyx]

Absolutely spot on !……fantastic vid!…And never a truer word said! …..can’t beat them summer evenings!

[@trevormansfield6740]

Brilliant video. Also nice to see you doing a bit of graft…….😆

[@stevehoffman9875]

I’ve cut brush and hauled hay wagons with old farmalls, Fords, and Massey Harris tractors. Never did grains. Enjoyed watching this one. I agree sunset on the farm is the best. And nothing beats the smell of fresh cut hay and grain!

[@jackhume4532]

Good evening your Lordship, tonight’s video was really good and an interesting insight into the 800 series Massey Ferguson combines and also to see such a beautiful sunset 🌅 with you driving the tractor 🚜 and grain trailer and in the background the combine is still harvesting the last few acres of the wheat field and until next time TaRa for a bit.

[@terrygreen4338]

Enjoyed the video pleased to see you keeping Greta happy with the V8 Keep up the good work cheers 👍🚜

[@craigowton1277]

Great video as always. Back in the 80s and 90s we used to deliver conventional bales of hay and straw into lots of local stable yards straight of the field I always loved seeing the combines at work.

[@seanworkman431]

I always enjoyed the harvest when I was young, haven't done one for about 25 years. Cleaning and greasing after the harvest is so important. I went to one farm and it took two days to get everything operational.

[@zftransmax1]

Imagine back in the day wen them old massey combines worked the big wheat belts of the States.. a line of them going up the prairies would be an awesome sight... great video.

[@richardtimms8733]

Love the comment on the seat fabric! You’d have thought it’d be nylon from C&A, and highly flammable!

[@randommaniac245]

That,and Greta broke a good laugh,brilliant!

[@weegrant1980]

Always wondered why massey had the cab on the side rather in the middle like the others, that's why most of us probably remember them, that and the big perkins purring away. Remember seeing one crammed into either a dexta or a major years ago. Your spot on about the sunset and the combines still humming away in the distance

[@markkipling644]

Spot on video mucker. There is something very satisfying about watching a combine work on a summer evening, especially if u have just fixed it.

[@jackking5567]

Some of my fondest memories are the end of harvest and sitting atop a stack of bales and drinking a small bottle of beer.

[@jcbjim5960]

Brings back memories we had a 765 first combine I drove when I was 14 bunged it from front to back Solid with winter oats.

[@JonDingle]

Brilliant video and interesting to see the forward/reverser on the combine. Not unlike the modern tractor's and combines of today with their "joystick's". And then there is the belt on the header. Ahead of it's time I would say. I would much prefer to drive that combine than a new one, but then I am a bit stuck in my now old fashioned ways and not so convinced technology is a good thing as you know. Doffage of cap in a southerly direction to you melod!

[@davidlloydgriffitify]

My uncle had one the same but 6 cylinders looking in the cab brings a lot of memories. Very reliable machine

[@whitestream5233]

Great video , You can't beat a good day on the harvesting and watching the sun set. Just magical.

[@robmiller2919]

Nice 865!, Still running a 860 and a 750 here in the states.

[@LordMuck]

'Merica ! 🇺🇸👌🏼

[@iharding4161]

Know f*** all about combines but I’d rather take that beauty over a new one any day. Looks like a joy to work with. Been catching up on your vids again recently, absolute quality as usual 👌

[@jamiieos]

Thanks for sharing knowledge mate always learning stuff when watching your videos

[@jimclements3190]

I swear I could smell the video at the end mate,damp coming, hot tractor and combine,dust In the air,absolutely brilliant mate, a simple experience that will never leave your soul.🤔👍

[@jamesjohnson5640]

Terrific video sir. Nice looking wheat, hope you made out well with it. I think you're right. I too have see sunsets all over the world. But there's something special about the ones at "home" during harvest. Take care. Looking forward to the next one.

[@andybowyer3602]

YO!!!! 20 MINUTES OF MUCK!!!. and bubbles!!! I fcukin love this channel ❤ NICE🦢👍

[@essexpeter6116]

Brings back some memories Muck, thanks. I was lucky enough to be allowed to drive 760s as lunch time relief in 1980 and 81 harvests. They seem to struggle to get a really clean sample sometimes but were streets ahead in capacity and driver comfort at the time. I think the first on the farm were 2 S reg 1977 with 18ft powerflow tables and probably on their 3rd harvest when I first saw them. One was replaced by an 765 with silver cab and wheels and some updated separation, looked smart but did have a few issues with grain pan shaking apart. The last one of that type on the farm was an 865, when it replaced 2 machines. It must have been pushed hard, although I think the area had reduced with less contract work. Could not believe it when the large farm I went to in Suffolk, for my mid college year, ran 2 cab-less Dominators that were not that old. What a crap job for the regular drivers. Apparently boss thought he would save some money. They did make a better sample than the MF.

[@LordMuck]

I'd put a Massey up against a Claas of the same age for a better sample. I think Deutz had the best sample in the day. Claas were just good all-rounders. '5' series Masseys (760/765 860/865) were running faster internals which is why many were slowed down to stop the breakages.

[@trevorjarvis3021]

That was a well put together video there Kurt, most enjoyable indeed.

[@charleshart6992]

Excellent video! Very nice pieces of kit. I grew up with 780s and Matadors.

[@simonbutler6120]

Got to love the sound of a Perkins V8. I had one in my Muir-hill 161..a beast☺️

[@ewansimpson9662]

Great video Mate, I got an Ertl MF 865 toy combine for Xmas 1990……and I’ve still got it tucked away in the loft, good to see a real one still working.

[@notsoserious0944]

Quite a stand of wheat. I've seen Montana harvest this year yielding a bushel an acre in places. Me thinks Greta has never been hungry before but we are always only one harvest away from getting a lot skinnier.

[@LordMuck]

Ain't that the truth.

[@philhermetic]

It has been the same in East Yorkshire, some came in weeks ago, and some is only just ready, but at least weather is set dry and fair but heavy damp this morning. I used to tip cart in the seventies, but now I am in the shed playing with the Fordson. There’s nowt like an English sunset! Phil

[@AndrewHCann]

Excellent video Lord Muck :) also yes Massey Ferguson Brampton be long time in Ontario Canada plus Cockshutt tractor plant was there till 1980's to shut doors forever and farms in my area be wild this for them too! Lots crops were late for them to do also been to wet and not much sunshine till August and less rain too!

[@diaryofaherbert7423]

Last time I remember doing that I was chasing a Ransomes combine with a Ford 4000 and a twin axle Teagle on the back! GOB!

[@bobpaterson1845]

Great video Kurt really enjoyed seein the 860 at work 👍 only ever drove a 525 before went to Claas then John Deere ☹️😂

[@trams66]

Peterborough muscle!!! MINT 👌”

[@LordMuck]

👌🏼🇬🇧🇨🇦

[@davesworkshop2714]

As nice as the 540 sounds, the purr of the 6 cylinder perkins in that tractor made me happy! Gotta love the dynashift too, best transmission of any tractor I've ever driven. Must say I love the days that I get to spend all of on a tractor, nice change from the day job. Great video 👍

[@Rx37Legacy]

Man that looks classy with the wood trim in the cab!

[@moneyprofessional]

Really enjoyed this video. Never been on a MF combine but had a toy one as a kid! Looks a lot more advanced than the Clayson we had which was only a couple of years older. Weird layout though with the engine along side the driver! Every machine I've been on had the driver out front, then the tank and the engine behind that. Totally agree about that sunset and just harvesting generally, hard work, long hours, weather and breakdowns driving you mad, but out in the field like that on a summer's evening - nowhere better to be in the world.

[@trevorpearson1832]

Fantastic video. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks.👍

[@davidbaker3270]

deluxe compared to the earlier 750 also with the v8 engine always remember the air con used to be ice coldin them and very reliable machines

[@TemeraireJimny]

Beautiful sunset there in big sky country!

[@michaelsinn2992]

Reminds me up on the claas matador with my uncle as a boy in the 1970s, no cabs then warm still evenings and the big suffolk sun going down your right there's nothing better. Love the videos keep them coming.

[@paulwomack5866]

Check out KZbin. Lots of old Claas footage, but it's all European. There's LOADS of Matadors out there, mainly Gigants, but the odd Standard too.

[@tigerspook1]

Great video, thanks for sharing your days with us..

[@0796logsplitter]

Really interesting video fella I was brought up on a dairy farm up on the pennines so never experianced harvesting….saw the combines at the agricultural shows in the 80’s but never saw one in action. Lovely to see that massey used in anger 👍

[@andyellis307]

That sight is fantastic Kurt i used to love my time at harvest corn cart done alittle combine work too. Miss it. Great vid as always mate

[@deanfryers1407]

Great video mucker, what a lovley machine, and cracking evening, do well.