Massey Ferguson Farm Implements and Machinery Part 2 1970-77, George French and Dennis Burston. DVD, approx 90 minutes. ISBN 978-1-908397-44-7. Now available from Old Pond at £16.95 inc. VAT.
In Part 2 of this 3-part set we move on to 1970-77, a period when MF was responding to the drive for increased agricultural output.
The programme starts with a couple of MF 40 ploughs, two of seven ploughs featured along with a wide range of ground-engaging and other implements. The very first MF 1100 tractor sold in the UK is shown pulling an MF 23 coil-tine cultivator. MF’s famous pressure-control coupler is seen operating with a set of 520 disc harrows and 178 tractor.
How many MF 51 mowers are now to be seen working? We have one hitched to an early MF 135 Multi-Power 4-wheel drive tractor. We finish with a pair of combine harvesters – a 415 and a 515 – both new in the late 1960s and a common sight throughout the 1970s.
The programme includes:
MF 135 and 40 2-furrow plough
MF 135 and 40 3-furrow plough
MF 135 and 11 spinner–broadcaster
MF185 and 28 disc harrows
MF 135 and 34 multi-purpose grain & fertiliser drill
MF 175 and 727 subsoiler
MF 135 and 721 multi-purpose blade
MF 135 and 35 loader
MF 165 and 19 manure spreader
MF 178 and 41 3-furrow ploughMF 185 and 24 chisel plough
MF 165 and 52 10ft disc harrows
MF 178 and 738 tiller
MF 165 and 39 spring-tine cultivator
MF 690 and 30 15-row corn drill
MF 175 and 40 loader
MF 788 combine harvester
MF 711 potato harvester
MF 1080 and 86 6-furrow plough
MF 86 5-furrow plough (static)
MF 86 4-furrow plough (static)
MF 1080 and MF 41 5-furrow ploughMF 1200 and 52 semi-mounted disc harrows
MF 1100 and 23 coil-tine cultivator
MF 178, pressure-control coupler and 520 disc harrows
MF 595, 30 4m drill and Reekie transport trailer
MF 135 4wd and 51 rotary mower
MF 165 and 60 5ft cutter-bar mower
MF 178, 740 forage harvester and 17 trailer
MF 675 and 124 baler
MF 187 combine harvester
MF 18 and 22 trailers
MF 415 combine harvester
MF 515 combine harvester.
The first DVD in the three-part series is available here.
when is the release date please?
Posted by: tim | 09/29/2012 at 09:51 PM
The programme is at the replicators. It should be about four weeks to release date, end October.
Posted by: Roger Smith | 10/01/2012 at 05:17 PM