[AT] MF 255 Tractor

[charlie]

Mike you can do tillage work with it.  I know a lot of farmers around here 
that have nothing but MF equipment but most of them are small farmers and 
they run the tractors themselves.
Just don't gag it, use the correct size equipment for it and keep the draft 
control working properly (that will keep it from overloading it's self) and 
you'll be very happy with it.

The old farmers, now long gone, like my dad would have told you it was a 
smart tractor.  I don't know how to tell you exactly what "smart" meant to 
them.  I didn't mean the tractor did well in school.  grins.  I guess as 
close I can come is to say it worked easily and got a lot done.   They are 
not without their problems.  Your success with yours will depend largely on 
how hard it was worked and how well it was maintained before you got it.  If 
it breaks, there are some expensive parts in it!

Charlie

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From: <mpnc282 at juno.com>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 8:12 PM
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] MF 255 Tractor

> That's what I was thinking to Charlie, I could buy a new "Boomer" for 
> about 32,000 or an older tractor like this one for bundles less. It's not 
> like I'm going to ask it to do heavy tillage. The hardest work it will see 
> is if I overturn the pasture (5 acres) and disk it up. Mike M
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: "charlie" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] MF 255 Tractor
> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 21:04:24 -0700
>
> Mike,  if you drive it reasonably and don't try to find out how much it 
> will
> handle it'll make a fine utility tractor for you.  They handle well and 
> are
> fairly comfortable to operate.  Not as tough as some but they'll do the 
> job.
> Unless there is some undetected problem with it you did pretty good at
> $4800.   It'll out work two or three of the little, modern choir tractors
> for about 1/4 to 1/3 the cost.
>
> Charlie Hill
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: <mpnc282 at juno.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 5:52 PM
> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] MF 255 Tractor
>
>> Lew and Ed, thanks for the info on the MF 255, I did end up buying it
>> Saturday for 4800, it seemed like a nice amount of tractor for the money.
>> Front tires are fairly new, rears are about 50%. This tractor will see
>> relatively light work, brush hogging and moving things around with the
>> bucket.  Mike M
>>
>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>> From: Edchainsaw at aol.com
>> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> Subject: Re: [AT] MF 255 Tractor
>> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 08:13:34 EDT
>>
>> as i have said many times before  :  I grew up at the Massey
>> Dealership--have driven about every massey you could  drive (or its next
>> of  kin)  -- we
>> didn't own the dealership but it was where we went 2 or 3 times  a week
>> all
>> year round (Dad's  hangout)
>>
>> the weekness  are the power steering  and the loader will   exasporate
>> it...
>> the Multi-Power  was not that big of a problem on those tractors -- if
>> the
>> PO's  did not let it slip when shifting by this I mean   SHIFT THE 
>> LEAVER!
>> get it in LOW or HIGH  and not halfway in  between...  of all the 
>> Massey's
>> we've owned  only 1 had a multi power  go out and   it was from cuttings
>> from  rearend bearings that had  went out--  1 quit do to an oring
>> installed
>> backward at the  factory  this one didn't go bad  it just leaked all the
>> oil
>> out one  night.
>>
>> the other weak area I know of is the front spindles/wheels they are kinda
>> light.
>> DoNOT  put  to much weight on the rearend   ie let it  slip /use the
>> FERGUSONsystem  for what its suppose to do...that is  the draft control.
>>
>> they are not perfect machines by any means!
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/4/2010 12:08:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> at-request at lists.antique-tractor.com writes:
>>
>> MF 255  Tractor
>>
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