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Oregon | 510 diesel A/C was the combine I learned on. we bought it new. Ran it 6 years or so. Never had any significant downtime. AC condenser leaked in cab so your hands were wet each time you crossed a grassed waterway. But I loved that combine. Seemed like it was ahead of its time for quite a while. Then one day you heard about an the Axial Flow in the country, then nothing else mattered anymore.
I can still feel how that engine cowl opened and closed. Kinda miss it. And that arm rest in front of those three hydraulic levers- yessir, that was big time.
And I miss thrashing sunflowers through the night- I missed weeks of school at a time and spent every minute in that combine cab.
Everyone seems to complain about that generation of Massey combines- but we never had any trouble. The Old Man would plug it up all the time, but he was a gunner- never seemed to me like it was the combine's fault.
Seems to me that the separate returns thrasher on the new S-Series Deere is a lot like the returns thresher on the Massey in the 1970s. But what do I know.
-Mike | |
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MF 510 good or bad memories?
