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first a miracle,
now a necessity,
but definitely Massey.
Mankind has been harvesting grain for
many centimes, but we advanced all the
way from the scythe to the first combine
in, a little over 100 years
Two companies, founded by Daniel
Massey and Alanson Hams and now
merged as Massey-Ferguson, had a lot to
do with those advances in harvesting
technology especially the evolution
of the gram combine
Giant strides in
mechanized
harvesting.
Massey's reaper binder was an im
portant step In the 1860's, they were
saying that "it does more 'n eighteen
hands does, and you don't have to
cook nothin' for it neither "
But the developments that followed
were even more significant In 1910,
Massey introduced its No 1 Reaper
Thresher that combined cutting, thresh
ing and separating functions into a
single horse-drawn machine
Over the next 28 years, improvements
to Massey's reaper thresher led up to the
combine as farmers know it today These
improvements included powenng the
The Combine:
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mechanism first with a gasoline engine
and later with a tractor PTO, and the
introduction of the rasp bar cylinder, a
tremendous improvement in threshing
efficiency
500 Massey combines
lead charge of the
“Harvest Brigade?
In the 1930's Tom Carroll, a Massey
engineer recognized as the father of the
modem combine, developed the prototype
of the world's first successful selt-propelled
combine Massey introduced it in 1938
The new combine was just m time for
World War II Some 500 units were used
to form a "Harvest Bngade" following
the opening wheat from Texas to Sas
katchewan sweeping across a million
acres to harvest 25 million bushels a season
Supported by Massey technicians, the
Bngade became an ongoing and still
mostly Massey tradition that continues
to this day
The com combine fits into Massey's
hentage, too The Schmidt brothers,
Massey-Ferguson dealers in Ohio, put
the snapping unit from a Massey com
picker on a combine and the result was
a workable com combine
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One good ideakeeps
leading to another.
That's the way it's been, all through
the evolution of Massey combines From
hydraulic header lifts to all-gear final dnves
and from low-profile corn head design to
the quick-attach header feature, the list of
Massey innovations goes' on and on
This non-stop improvement policy
means the Massey combine you buy today
is the most productive Massey combine
ever You can be sure that, when there
is a better way of harvesting, you II find
if in a Massey combine
So, see your MF dealer and check out
the newest Massey combines, including
the higher capacity MF 860 and 850 models
now being introduced You'll be looking at
134 years of harvesting ideas, ready to
work for you
MF=
Massey Ferguson
Now, more than ever,
' Massey makes sense.