Best tractor ever. Still in huge demand for orchard work.

I basically grew up on Massy Ferguson 35 special. I started raking hay at 7 years old. When I was 3 I got on that tractor started it and drove it through the side of the barn. I spent many years on that tractor. Once I was on a trailer behind and got knocked out by it’s exhaust. Fun times indeed.

I just bought a Massey Ferguson 35 1964 3-cyl diesel, my first tractor. The first thing was to delivery drive it 300km 13h nonstop across the southern part of Sweden. It worked out just perfect and it was a fine trip on small roads among lakes, farms and forests along the way. Its a really good and for its time advanced tractor.

The idea a 1950’s farmer’s priority is the distinct appearance kind of amazes me.

This machine seems to have much more engineering behind it than the tractors in the John Deere and Farmall films I've been watching.

There are still dozens of classic grey Fergie 35s around NZ, used for light work on farms and sports grounds, and for towing boats out of water at beaches etc. I remember my grandfather trusting me to steer the tractor he used while managing the Shacklock Company farm near Dunedin.

@MF12000

2 жыл бұрын

35s were red bonnet with grey chassis/wheels 20s were grey 35s would be considered red

@jasonwatson8375

Жыл бұрын

I am a an owner of a 35 diesel maxi Massey Ferguson and a gas engine 30 to Massey Ferguson I am in impressed of this old machine it has had a rough life but it runs like it just round off the line. I need to find headers for is someone put the wrong crush rings for the injectors and eroded away some of the but metal

Used one of those in the 80’s as a kid. It never let us down.

I have my Uncles he bought new in 56'. I've owned and farmed with it since 1980. Engine is getting its second overhaul right now due to a failed oil pump.The first time I rebuilt the tractor I used XO Rust Gray and Forest Green.I t matched well my original sales poster colors. She has served this N. Idaho farm faithfully and will for many more years.

I’ve been wanting one. Now I’m sold.

The MF 35,the best tractor ever made, period.

Have 1964 TO35. Used to work our small 12 acre home with several implements. She's a great little machine

Really enjoyed the "film". Have had my 1963 35x for over 20 years now. Have had to do very little to it despite 8500 hours on the clock and she starts very willingly even after months of sitting idle over winter.

This ad was so good im moving to the countryside and buying a second hand ferguson 35

@jamesfranks634

Жыл бұрын

And you'll be mighty glad you did!

What a great little tractor. It had so many new and unique features. And not a computer in sight! Interesting how tractors have grown in size over the years. They all seem to be huge now.

@barrytipton1179

Жыл бұрын

It did have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

@radharcanna

Жыл бұрын

@@barrytipton1179 🤣

@barrytipton1179

Жыл бұрын

They were the bees knees when i was a kid

@arvbergstedt3303

Жыл бұрын

Computers are great when they work. But a nightmare when they don’t. Reliability is many times pathetic. But it helps sell lots of parts and makes things so the average guy can’t fix them. Service in medical etc has become a time wasting frustration nerve racking experience. Used to be Hello. What can I do for you? Bingo done in a matter of minutes. Now you can waste a month with obnoxious contrary talking computers that spit out truckloads of useless info but can’t listen to the real issue.

@radharcanna

Жыл бұрын

@@arvbergstedt3303 That’s very true. Technology rules our lives.

That is amazing it’s just like a dream I wish they still made them!

@Drottninggatan2017

Жыл бұрын

They are still making them. In Yugoslavia as the IMT 539 and also in India. kzread.info/dash/bejne/moymks6dg9POl7Q.html

@dwitcraft

Жыл бұрын

They do. Mahindra still makes them in India, they even copied the perkins engine. Can't get them in USA due to tier 4

Greetings from Kuusamo, Finland. Our family has had MF 35 -62 since the seventies. We plow our potatofields at summer and heavy snow away the rest of the year :D Jokes aside, it drops some oil and transmission connectors could use a fix but nothing is stopping the Massey Ferguson.

we had 2 of these on the farm from 1950s to 1990, we sold the farm in 1990 and they were still working then

Most of the features in today's tractors were invented by Ferguson ❤️

@4DModding

Жыл бұрын

in Ireland :)

@ozmullally4154

Жыл бұрын

@@4DModding Hell ya in Ireland 🇮🇪

@Poorboyzgarage447

7 ай бұрын

The 3 point was Ferguson invention

@Corvacar

Ай бұрын

@@Poorboyzgarage447. Yes and, He wisely patented it. Fergieman

This tractor rides like a dream

This is fascinating. My 1959 Massey Ferguson 204 Work Bull is based on the 35 (very early in the evolution of construction/industrial tractors). I enjoy learning about the 35. It compares very favorably against the Ford 8N I grew up with. Really like that two step clutch pedal.

@PeriscopeFilm

10 ай бұрын

Love that you have a '59 Massey Ferguson! Is it in working order?

@lanedexter6303

10 ай бұрын

@@PeriscopeFilm yep, I use it all the time. That Work Bull series (202 and 204 were gas, 203 and 204 diesel) based on the 35 were very early in the evolution of construction tractors, long before anyone thought of a Case 580. Mine serves well, getting in firewood and moving material. I hope to restore its backhoe one day.

@lanedexter6303

10 ай бұрын

OOPS, my edit won’t work. 203 and 205 were Perkins diesel, the 202 and 204 run Continental Z134 gas.

@lanedexter6303

10 ай бұрын

Between my last reply and this one, I went out back, bucked a windfall maple into three sections, and used the Massey Ferguson to pull the logs up to the woodshed behind the house, where we use our splitter. I have a three point boom pole on the back, rigged with a small winch (world’s smallest logging skidder?) that works great for getting firewood. I tend to use downforce on the bucket for my parking brake. The Work Bull series is industrial yellow, not gray (mine is yellow & rust😉). My brakes are both on the left, a sort of “trident” pedal for torque converter on right (no clutch). Right prong for forward, left for reverse, middle to just rev it up. Trans looks like your video, but only has two speeds, plus the high/low on the right. Reverse is in torque converter in front of the trans, so I have 4 speeds forward or reverse, and warning, the PTO definitely will reverse if you step on the reverse pedal while it’s in use.

We had a MF 35 when I was growing up. We grew a bit of garden vegetables and a few acres of Tobacco. It's still the largest tractor my Dad has ever owned, he bought a second one and an IH 140 a few years ago.

It is a miracle that this tractor didn’t fall off the trailer its way to the farm. Doesn’t seem to have been roped or chained down at all and one sharp braking would have had interesting consequences.

Glad to find this on here.

Sold. I'll take that tractor today.

@geraldswain3259

4 жыл бұрын

You and at least half the agricultural world!.

@tomvarcoe3100

4 жыл бұрын

Tafe now not mf

I wish this was posted correctly. There was no MASSEY FERGUSON in 1950, Massey and Ferguson merged in 1958. This is a Harry Ferguson tO 35. and it's not a 1950 Harry Ferguson and Henry Ford were making the 8N for together at that time. Harry Ferguson provided the lift system while Ford provided the front half. After they spllit Harry Ferguson took his lift system and began making the TO 20 in 1953. The TO 30 came later and then the TO 35. This tractor is probably closer to a 1956 or '57. The Massey-Ferguson TO 35 came out in 1958 and was the first hear the tractor was painted Red. Some of the TO 35's were painted a bamboo beige and green. I do love the video though.

@nhtr70

4 жыл бұрын

We had a Ford 8n BOUGHT NEW IN 1948 AND IT WAS Ford only. Ferguson at that time was the TO20. We bought a new Ferguson (only) in 1954 and it was a TO30. In 1955 I saw the first TO35 and in a year or 2 it became a Massey Ferguson. Also, in later 50's they came out with a 40 and it could be had with taller tires and they dubbed it the "High'40.

@scottmorrow2288

3 жыл бұрын

so wrong the ferguson to 20 cam out in 1948

@hughbathe2346

3 жыл бұрын

Scott Morrow ,

@justicebruno5249

2 жыл бұрын

Mine is Red. So you think its closer to 58? And not 56 like seller stated? Either way I love it

@gykie-poo

Жыл бұрын

Massey-Harris and Ferguson began the merger in 53, officially finished in 58. 56 through 58 models were basically the same between the two. I have a 56 Massey-Harris MH50, has all the same controls and gear train just slightly different body panels. 56 to 58s Massey-Harris were also the red and gold. I do believe though the fergusons weren't the red until 58, correct me if I'm wrong.

We have a mf 35 x had it from new ,used nearly everyday still runs and looks like new

Our new MF 35 with 3 cylinder Perkins Diesel 32,5 PS DIN was delivered in fall 1962 with 3m harrow and 2 farrow plough and twin wheels.

Thank you so much for sharing! This is awesome! 😍👍

This is the Ferguson TO35 (tractor overseas), which became over here (England) the Ferguson FE35 in 1956 and then the MF 35 in 1958

@Drottninggatan2017

Жыл бұрын

I believe the TO35 started in 1953 already. A couple of years before us.

Enjoyed this episode.

We don't have any original 35s here in Greece, but we still have a lot of the IMT 35, the Yugoslavian license copy of it. Granted, they have been superseded for farm work now, having only about 35 hp, but you still see the occasional one doing light work such as weeds spraying. On a related note, our neighbor when I was a kid had a MF 135. I still remember the sound of that Perkins 152 idling at what seemed like 300 rpm

@donaldthomas5852

2 жыл бұрын

I have a 1989 IMT 539, it has 39hp. I have owned it since 2007. It has the same design as the 35 Massey Ferguson same hood and fenders. It's a great little tractor.

Loved my 1955 TO-35

I worked for a Ford dealer in the 80's and 90's, 8n 1994 we had watch a training video and write a test on the 8n 9n hydraulic system because there are so many still out there being used.

Good old times.

Spent a lot of time on the successor the 135, it’s still in use today.

I have the 1st year version TO-35, Grey & green with tag; MASSEY-HARRIS-FERGUSON, built in early '50's, I think, 1951

I like these old films but ih is my tractor of choice

Great to see information about the old tractor Messi Ferguson

Very cool video. I just got the American version

We still have this one

We have one still runs well and hasn't been stopped since new, few leaks of oil and fuel though, Allen from Lowood qld Australia 🇦🇺🌏🍻🍺mate

@ralfpusteblume2144

3 жыл бұрын

@Charlie K Our grandfather tractor is the MF 65. With the 4.203 Perkins diesel engine. It starts the engine 30 degrees under zero without flame candle. So sometimes no other machine is starting without starting pilot ehter. Otherwise battery empty. Our new common rail tractors John Deere have problems starting by that low temperatures. I remember a cold day were my old merdes diesel was running because it had an wather headet fuel filter. The new cars could not run run that day. Yes new machines are more fuel efficient, but at the cost of a more complex machine wihich can cause expensive repairs!

Got a 30 surprises me how much power it has run a six foot snow blower with a quite a bit of snow and just keeps going

I have a 1956 four pot FE35 with that damn 23c engine, it smokes a bit... when it stops smoking I'll get worried... Don't you just love the way that the driver dumps the plough at the start...

@richardbarber4444

4 жыл бұрын

Must be genetic. Hay customer just bought a 2020 model "toy" Massey of about 30 HP and hydraulic drop could be lethal. She plans to have a restrictor fitted.

My Dad grew up on a farm in the 30's/40's and 50's and when I was a little kid he used to drive our '56 Ford with just one knee and Mom would always yell at him for not having his hands on the steering wheel and he used to reply...Ahhh, I used to plow the back 40 in our Massey Ferguson with my knee, driving a car with my knee is easy.

@addisonjones7762

4 жыл бұрын

So fine

This is the TO-35 for those of you who are confused why the two tone colors are gray and green.

my little 51 ferguson is amazing for it's size go anywhere easy to get around

Ferguson Gray and metallic green, all I see is black and white.

Very good.

My ma owns one. A gold belly with a "roof". In parenthesis due to it being more like a frame with a textile plad on it. Most fun tractor i've ever driven. Even has the hydraulic frontloader.

I wish newer tractors were built with the people in mind instead of making a buck

2:25 very nice color 👌👌👌

In 2020 my brother David ,who is a rice farmer in guyana still have a MF35 tractor parked up in his farm yard .It was the first farm tractor i drove.The pto was used to drive a water pump to flood the ricefild

Interesting, didn't know Ferguson had live PTO in 1950.

@nhtr70

4 жыл бұрын

Was actually 1955 when the TO35 weas introduced!

Massey ferguson dünyada baska tanimam 135 lik 25 yil kullandim 72 model sıfır almistık hala seviyorum

That’s a real work truck, not like today’s junk

The foot peddles suck on these old tractors. It's hard to push them down vs forward peddles like on newer tractors.

@PeriscopeFilm

Жыл бұрын

I imagine the old tractors had no power steering or other conveniences. Thanks for the comment.

The brakes in my 35x still kicks ma almost off the seat when you tap the light 🤣🤣

When Ferguson partnered with Massey the continued producing the 35 for years with improvements.

I have and use a 240 with the 3 cylinder Perkins engine everyday on my "little" 50 acre farm

Who all have a MF35? I've got a 1963 with the Perkins diesel (only way to go). Also have a MF135 which is also a diesel.

@wmherndon

4 жыл бұрын

Mat Helm just rebuilt the engine on my 35.. diesel.. have had it for 20 years...

@MatHelm

4 жыл бұрын

@@wmherndon Did you use a kit? I ask because my MF35 needs a set of rings, and I wonder where you got your parts from. Thanks

@wmherndon

4 жыл бұрын

Mat Helm sent the engine to a shop in Sacramento ca. They did the short block and I believe the valves.. I can dig up the info if you like. My buddy who is a diesel mechanic helped me.. actually did most of the real work. It was a real pain.. but runs great now..

@wmherndon

4 жыл бұрын

Mat Helm I know we had a gasket kit.. and as I am remembering the engine studs were super expensive .. and we had to get them from 2 different sources.. again I can look for you if you want..

@bothwell07

4 жыл бұрын

I own a massey 35 and it still works

In 1964 my dad bought a MFM135. Still have it. Compared to those old Fords it was a sports car.

I have an mf20 74 model industrial and learned something about it top link ground function pto.

i got a massey ferguson 35

As someone who owns an N series ford, I wish ford didn’t horn Ferguson. I honestly feel ford would have be further ahead continuing to work with Ferguson through that time. This whole video takes jabs at fords shortcomings

We have an mf35 with the perkins engine think it is from 64. Our differs on several points. It has a tractometer that i never seen on another tractor and the handbrake lever is different. Seen other cabs but not that one we have. (think its was requiered by law to a have cab/rollcage in Sweden)

I like how at the beginning they are hauling it on a single axle trailer, I'm sure it didn't have brakes back in those days and by today's standards it would be severely overloaded, most laws for single axle is 2k lbs without brakes but you can haul up to 3500 lbs with brakes which both together are easily greater than those limits. I have 2x MF 35 diesel deluxe models, a '59 w/ Standard 23c & '60 w/ Perkins, both have the standard 6F/2R transmission, I wish they had multi-power which didn't become available till later. The live pto is great to have but don't really have a need for the ground speed setting, basically the pto is only used with a woods mower, bush hog and a tedder, raking hay is with a ground driven rake and the hydraulics aren't powerful enough to run our hydraulically driven rake. Overall a great little tractor that really any farmer should have but does have it's shortcomings. They could easily update it with more powerful hydraulics, update the transmission to have more choices for working speeds and they would easily sell them, only problem Massey Ferguson no longer owns Perkins and haven't used their engines in a long time.

My brother had a deluxe power shift wheels I'm wondering because it was red if that color was exclusive to that particular model?

Nice .voice

Wish my 30 had a live PTO. Oh well, I really just need an overrunning clutch for the brush hog.

One thing i know you wont pull 3 14s in our soil.

@donaldthomas5852

3 жыл бұрын

Not in our soil either. I pull 2.14's with a 539 IMT with the weight of a loader and a heavy roll bar with a metal canopy on top and fluid in the tires. The 539 IMT is a copy of the TO35 Massey Ferguson.

Oliver invented the live PTO. That baler was a contraption at best.

@42lookc

4 жыл бұрын

No, Oliver didn't. Cockshutt did with the 1946 Cockshutt 30. Oliver copied it.

The 35 did not come out until 1954 or 1955.

@lisawilson8328

4 жыл бұрын

your thinking of the massey ferguson not ferguson

@steved6990

4 жыл бұрын

I have two fe 35 diesel .both 1957. 1958 became massey Ferguson in my understanding

@TheDoug9901

4 жыл бұрын

this is a Ferguson 2085 with 35 transmission

@nathanbeerens2386

4 жыл бұрын

Correct the mf35 was not until 57-58

Quality American tractor not like today’s Chinese and India junk. Politicians have sold us out!

@larsschothorst5888

4 жыл бұрын

Ferguson is British though

@nathanbeerens2386

4 жыл бұрын

@@larsschothorst5888 TO 35s built in Detroit

@harjitsingh9701

3 жыл бұрын

TAFE is building massey tracter in india. ok

nice and btw this isnt a masey ferguson it a ferguson

💪👍😀

I want to model that is on Clarkson’s Farm

what would that tractor have sold for new ? when.

@PABackyardRevivals

3 жыл бұрын

I've seen 3,600 and around that price range

👍👍👍👍👍

I have a bucket on mine. Some say this tractor has no business having the bucket.... has anyone heard this?

And the question today is "how easy is it to get this two position live clutch today".

@rickyricardo3551

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty easy actually , lots of stores are still carrying parts for the mf series of tractor .

Wait! It's not a Kubota?

Creeper gear, Live PTO, Adjustable Front Axle, PC- DC Lever in 1950 Tractor itself 😳

I didn't think it could pull 3 mold board plow.Did I say that right?

Ahh farm equipment without Digital Rights Management and anti self-repair tech.

The small farm where we board our horses has a 35 which, although unrestored, is a reliable workhorse that is "semi-retired" and now used only for dragging the arena and sand ring. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fWh8zryem82Zobg.html

thats a 2085 with a 35 transmission

@michaelhalsall5684

3 жыл бұрын

It is an America built Ferguson 35 rather than a British built FE-35 which came out later and had a different styling

Aww, dad! I thought you said you bought a *tractor* !

and it is 1958

At 8:21 tractor hour meter reads 69. Nice.

I had one but it got stolen

Fallout 3

MF 240

I thought Massey Ferguson was invented and produced in the UK or did USA claim it for themselves

Unwatchable with those numbers ,what a pity, lucky lots of other old film don’t have it.

@clayz1

4 жыл бұрын

andy de la rue I never even noticed. Too involved watching that beaut of a tractor.

They never mentioned the gas fume inducing under neath exhaust system pointing right at the operator seat , imagine hours in the hot sun with wind or no wind sucking in all those either gas or Non fully burnt diesel fumes all day from the total poor afterthought exhaust placement , Some shots showed the vertical above machine exhaust stack which is Less likely to waff into the person behind it the Horizontal under chassis exhaust is terrible for any clean air for the person driving this thing right in the point of fire for carbon monoxide and all of the other gas gasses to breath in all day if he makes it that far by the human in the seat. Today's diesel's are crazy for all types of emissions killers from afterburners to the particulate filter through the emissions fluid Does you can imagine how much poison these Farmer were breathing in those many years & probably shorting they life span. From a gaseous internal organs and tissues flesh degradation for years on end. Farming is potentially fatal to start with & this poor exhaust proves that point very clearly , the only way I'd run a tractor like this be it a petroleum or diesel burner would be with some kinda of air conditioning face mask or entire Helmet and breath in all fresh air all the time. No ROPS in those days either & I'll bet killed hundreds if not thousands of farmers yearly without the roll over protection system in place. Plus they showed a very deadly waiting fatality in real time by the person showing granny or walking speed gear and not even on the Seat , One Punjabi or east Indian was filmed not long ago for TikTok infamy doing the very same thing walking by the moving tractor pulling a multi cultivator disc Plow & lost his footing trying to jump on the moving tractor pulling the disc and got completely torn to shreds by the following implement and the aftermath was also filmed showing people threading the now shredded failed farmer being pulled out in pieces and hardly recognizable as a once human being very very graphic footage that was but it goes to show how potentially lethal farming is when doing things normally but throw haphazard tricks or internet video fame in the mix and your going to die eventually , like the caption says Do not try this at home or your going to die. Punjabi proved that as well. He was so torn up l don't think there was one tissue or organ salvageable for transplant worse than a big Commercial jet airliner crash corpse now that's badder than bad.

@donaldthomas5852

2 жыл бұрын

I have a IMT 539 and the exhaust is underneath on the left side runs back behind the rear axle and the seat. So when driving forward the exhaust flumes are behind you. Not coming up at you while your in the seat.

@donaldthomas5852

2 жыл бұрын

My IMT 539 is the same as a Massey Ferguson 35

@MAllen-fy2kg

2 жыл бұрын

@ Damian..... get a life!

@colinwallace5286

Жыл бұрын

Nothing like applying current medical knowledge to past times. Might be why old cars don’t have seat belts, or only have belts that keep you in the seat while your face bangs off the steering wheel or dashboard. Things change.

@rapman5363

Жыл бұрын

Ok Damian 😂😂😂......get a life