Vintage Thursday. A new arrival.

[@steviechalmers1218]

I was gonna say a 590 , but nice purchase of the 550 , it’s great to see the older tractors still working 👍

[@ipfreely10001]

I drove a 565 single door, grey cab a long time ago, prob 1984/5 on a place that carted grass via a single chop to the cows daily- cows were always on 2 paddocks and you drove in, got thro the cows, started the trailer tipping and tried to get the grass out in as many lumps as you could for all the cows to eat. Place was a Micky mouse joke! I did it for extra ££ whilst at ag college at wkends!

[@andreasjansson1687]

Have a 575 from 1979 silver cab whit two doors we never had one door in Sweden. Its been on the farm for almost 30 years it was my fathers tractor and i haven't got the heart to sell it so i kept it and still use it along whit a 399, 5465 and a 6445

[@themayorofdipshittery3646]

Remember trading in a P reg 135 for a 1979 (new) 550 with the silver top cab as our “small” tractor, I’ve never driven anything with such light steering. You couldn’t turn the heater on while you were in the cab or you got a face full of dust for ten seconds but once it cleared it was fairly warm, about the second tractor we had with a heater, bliss in the winter 👍

[@markclark7660]

I have an early 565 with the silver top half, great wee tractor plenty power canny fault it

[@markbuckley7756]

Great wee tractors own a 590 myself couldn't fault it tbh

[@ranwolfFARM]

The 550 looks great. I am looking forward to seeing it when you have finished the repairs. Thank you for sharing it.

[@lordofhowell7158]

Tidy little investment! Brilliant video 💪🏻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@dan_4127]

Great video Dan! We all know the real reason you bought a red cab version is so that you'll have a good enough reason to buy a silver cab if one comes up! 😆 Could the yellow paint on the hard nose be from if it's been replaced by one that used to be in an industrial one? Love videos, keep up the good work and looking forward to seeing your video's of you fixing up the small issues that you mentioned.

[@annielane6018]

Good to see vintage Thursday back. Do like the other bits from around the farm too, trees, animals .... it's all good. 🚜👍👌

[@iainpaton7129]

Nice wee tractor 🚜 friend and can't wait for the next video thank you 😊from Scotland 👍

[@masseydriverb3582]

I had a red cab 8 speed 2 door 590 a great tractor

[@mightymoo8292]

Ay up we have a 590 4wd with a silver cab and 2 doors. Multi power has been disconnected hopefully get round to sorting that. Keep up the vids nice one

[@andrewstephens6860]

My neighbours had 2 590 4wds both red cab a W reg 8 speed and an X reg multi power

[@kevinbillany4014]

used to have a 1979 575,couldnt pull hen off its nest,we used to do muck spreading with 2 165s,the 575 & 3 howerd 150 roto spreaders & the 165s would leave the 575 standing at the muck hill,bloody big dinner plate steering wheel aswell,used to wander all over,was a multi power,swapped it for a 398T multi power,now that was a tractor & half,pulled a 3leg flat lift down 18ins,was waterd & duald tho.not bad for a 2wd.proper pocket rocket.

[@masseymadgalway4613]

Well ware, another beauty for the collection. 👌👍

[@skisavoie]

We’ll, I for one, am looking forward to the restoration, workshop video. 👌👍

[@tjfeeney5383]

Nice purchase Dan well wear and best of luck with it👍

[@macfarms]

She's a cute little thing. 500 series seemed like nice tractors, not something we had over here in Canada.

[@adeyrussell843]

The 1st tractor I drove was a 590 , great little workhorse. Simple but did everything it was asked to! Great vid Dan

[@bobpaterson1845]

Drove a 575 4WD an a 595 both in 2WD an 4WD an all of them were the silver cab single door which like yourself I actually preferred 🤔 never got the chance of drivin a red cab model as went on to the 600 series 👍

[@roberthiggins6401]

Nice. I learned to drive on a 595 mk2 8 speed non multi power single door silver cab 2wd. Was a good tractor but boss sold it when he discovered it had a cracked block.

[@christinamoneyhan5688]

Other than the color what don’t you like? Yes I was a automobile sales person at one time too. Lol.

[@farmernige]

We had 2 of those 550's when i was at school. The first was a 1 door grey cab but no pick up hitch. Those and spool valves were options. Old man changed it 2 years later for the 2 door red cab with puck up hitch. I was so excited thinking we could pull the Teagle titan 7T silage trailers when the neighbours came.to do our silage but it didn't have enough power so we used their 165.

[@chrisgregory3163]

Nice tractor. Dan my dad had a sliver cab 500 i got a pic of it somewhere

[@jerry3972]

I have used a 565 with a front loader for various jobs on my uncles beef farm. I've always liked the 500 series

[@ethanearle9457]

It’s a bitsa ,bitsa everything 😂

[@matthewbray5536]

Looks a nice little tractor Dan . Well done . Multi power has a good road speed.

[@willmoore3790]

Nice tractor funnily enough I've just bought a 590 with a silver cab 8 speed in really good nick very pleased with it so far

[@OliverLee390]

Very nice Dan, can't wait to see it in action

[@paulthompson8467]

Nice Massey we had a 590 but she was very slow on the road compared to the 165 so we changed the 590 for a ford 7610 but she wasn't a bad tractor good health to enjoy 👍

[@hilts5050]

I used to drive the red cab 590 1980(W) multi power many years ago did a lot of ploughing and silage hauling with it, spent a whole day silage hauling with no exhaust as the silencer fell off and went under the rear wheel due to the old stoney lanes where i worked.

[@stevehucker7170]

Another great video Dan thanks for sharing I didn’t know that the red cab had the two doors ,the 565 I spent hours in with my dad many years ago had the grey cab and one door and I didn’t know until you mentioned it that there was another option.

[@charleshart6992]

Very nice! Would look good with new paint and transfers.

[@fredbaker3822]

Hi there Great video Dan, Also can you do a video on your tvo 35, about the fuel type the tvo and how it all works and what your supposed to do thanks

[@vintagetractorollie9421]

Very nice original tractor Dan dare I say it about red I quite like it 😂

[@andreas515c2]

Hi Dan, I´ve never seen a 550, guess we didn´t have this in Germany. I think the 500 series started with the 560. Farm on, Andreas

[@bencarter2334]

We had a 575 with a silver cab. It was a great tractor but we should have had 4wd. Ours was a 1978 (bought new) and left the farm in 93 and replaced with a 390. They were all prone to rust.

[@hedydd2]

The 500 series were a first generation cab, as was the even more rust prone 600 series. Basically their frame and body was made from fabricated and welded sheet steel formed into boxes. This is unlike current cabs which have thick pillar formed frames with single skin panels with relatively minimal rust traps.

[@laytonphillips6667]

Great addition to the fleet dan, I drove a silver cab one few years ago. Be ideal for the fodder beat drill. Lovely tractors to drive . Very easy to drive and work with.

[@masseyman6290]

Took my tractor driving test in 1990 on an 'S' reg single door, silver cab, 8 speed 550, great little tractor and still going strong today, albeit not being used much anymore.

[@kylesullivan3114]

What a nice bit of kit always loved the 500 series everybody buys the 590 when they get a 500 series the 550 is something a bit different well jealous 😀 🤣🤣🤣

[@graemebowyer4901]

Nice little tractor. Ideal for Road runs, as with MP, it will have a fair turn of speed, getting towards 40K. The repairs should be well within your capabilities. Hopefully you will provide regular updates.

[@esavage7224]

Pleased to see the 550 Dan good choice.For its age good condition.My neighbour owned two of them, they were both multipower fast on the road, .I would love a 575 drove one for years best memories one of the 1st ones produced .The later 590 I drove never felt as good T reg French made 8 speed sycromesh gear box in it had problems with the gearbox . mike

[@JonDingle]

Tidy tractor that young man!

[@martyn2141]

I've got somewhere the floppy plastic 45 record that Massey Freguson put in Power Farming magazine which was a song about the 'thoroughbred' range of tractors. Looks in fair fettle to me.

[@markallen6961]

Had a 590 multi power, the large left hand window on those cabs was good when hedge trimming and probably one of the easyest cabs to get in and out of.some time massey used a yellow under coat i seem to remember, could this be the yellow paint you can see?

[@mikeclifton7778]

My preference would be the silver-cabbed single door models but hopefully it'll all work out. To get a Multi Power version is good, making up for the lack of it on the 165. It should be able to earn it's keep with a bt of hard graft too.

[@calumanderson5617]

Kind of puzzled why does it have two leveling handle boxes on the rear linkage, wondering if they were part of a fleet on a business grounds maintenance tractors ?🤔👍

[@antonyfarming]

Looks good 👍

[@anthony342]

where i worked and still go and have a wonder , Geoff has a 590 8 speed 2wd , a 590 turbo multi power 2wd , and mk2 2wd multi power 595 and a 2wd 575 ...plus two 698's a 699 a 2640. and 3000 series plus a 178 and a 35 . used to have a 4wd 590 and 4wd 188 ...... i forgot and a 298

[@nickhill3362]

I drove a none multi power 550 years ago and if my memory is correct it was very slow on the road will your multi power be faster faster Dan

[@hedydd2]

Oh yes!

[@ginggur17]

You’ll be with a 2680 before long pal.

[@sweed58]

We had a 565 for 30yrs and only needed a hydraulic pump, it had done 15000hrs it was bomb proof

[@hedydd2]

Hmm. I had a 595 [1975] and 590 4WD [1979], the former with MP and the latter with 8 speed synchro. Both terribly and seriously unreliable tractors and put me off MF from 1983 until 2004 when I bought a new 7490 followed in 2007 by a 5445 T3, both superb machines.

[@sweed58]

@@hedydd2 The problem with the 595 and 590 4x4 was they were built in France and the local dealer said they always were trouble compared to the Coventry built ones, having said that we have a 5460 and a 5465 and have very little trouble and the were built in france

[@TractorTen]

I expect the p.u.h was stolen too! ,i remember years ago my boss had a wide angle pto shaft stolen from that sale ...

[@markponton8493]

She looks in great condition for 500 series Dan, I do prefer the silver though. Spent many hours in a 500 series. First was a 565 which we had from new and was our main for a while then a 595mk1 MP which liked to eat liners but went like rocket on the road and finally a 4wd 590 with a loader.

[@anthony342]

the 2wd multi power went like shit off a chrome shovel . im sure the one i used to drive would do about 28 mph

[@markponton8493]

@@anthony342 yeh it was a 2wd, was like a race car after the 8 speed 565

[@anthony342]

@@markponton8493 the huge back tyres helped

[@hedydd2]

@@anthony342 It just felt like it did. They were much faster than the standard tractors which did about 25kph or 18mph. I think the MP models did just over 30kph, depending on which wheels were fitted.

[@stuartkerr8160]

We had a 550 and a 675 messy

[@hedydd2]

It's a Simpson engine. Probably has an IPTO rather than dual clutch, seeing as it has MP and spool valves, which also means that it has an auxiliary hydraulic pump and combining valve. Yes, a proper microbic fuel filter is essential. The original was a CAV796 and they are easily sourced and cheap.

[@CowfarmerDan]

All correct, except no combining valve for some reason.

[@derredriver]

A five series with a rusting cab I'm shocked they all had paper mache cabs

[@hedydd2]

All those boxed in welded sheet steel panels with multiple rust traps was the order of the day. Ford cabs were no better and both MF and Ford's bubble cab were built side by side at Sankey's Telford factory. Ford decided on curves to reduce drumming but it had far more parts welded together. Fiat and Same tractors of the same era had dreadful quality sheet steel that turned into rust in front of your eyes, just like Italian cars of the time.

[@russellpetrie119]

is it red ? lol you got a like this

[@casto-]

And I thought you were a man of your word! I’m not buying another one… new arrival turns up 🤣🤪. So what the next one turning up🤔🤔🤪

[@CowfarmerDan]

Maybe an MB trac 😆

[@casto-]

@@CowfarmerDan 🤣🤣 even I’m not daft enough to buy another at the prices they are!! Unimog though🤔🤔😁

[@CowfarmerDan]

Most things are daft prices at the moment!

[@Robstew9000]

I thought 590 before the revival. The 575 I know well spent a lot of hours on one..

[@anthony342]

a 4wd 575 is very rare to see nowadays

[@Robstew9000]

@@anthony342 the 575 I drove was v reg and 2wd fitted with removable Massey loader..farmer had set of duals for it and I did all the Cambridge rolling with her..

[@anthony342]

they grey went to 2 doors just before the red cabs , not that many around

[@greggroome2791]

👍👍🙏🙏🇨🇮🇨🇮🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@russellpetrie119]

1358 another hole top back corner of door probabley spotted it in the vlog