[AT] Update on the MF 1155

Sun Feb 24 18:30:38 PST 2019

I have 3 5 bottom semi mount and at least 5 4 to 5 bottom pull type 
plows bought for the same reason.  just too cheap to let go to the 
scrap...  Usually one of the auctioneer's hands is a scrapper.  That is 
how I ended up with 2 Owatonna swathers and an extra header....

Cecil

On 2/24/2019 7:55 PM, deanvp at att.net wrote:
>
> Spencer,
>
> I’m not sure being able to turn around on your 15 acres is a game 
> ender.    We Antique Tractor owners seem to be able to adapt.  Give 
> some thought to a 1958 JD 820 or 830.  They will provide the macho 
> feel, All it will take is around $10 grand restored.   Sometimes 
> opportunities will arise where you just cannot turn them down. Many 
> years ago before plows became expensive I was at an auction where a 5 
> bottom tag plow was being sold. It was pristine. JD of course and all 
> the origin decals still were there and the moldboards and shares were 
> like new.  I stupidly sat there and watched the bid get up to $25.  I 
> said to myself that is a steal. But…..  I don’t have anything to pull 
> it with. It sold for $25. About once a week I kick myself for letting 
> this thing get away.    So if the right opportunity comes along….. be 
> reckless and figure out what you are do with it later.
>
> Dean VP
>
> Apache junction, AZ
>
> *From:* AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> *On Behalf Of 
> *Spencer Yost
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 24, 2019 5:06 PM
> *To:* Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [AT] Update on the MF 1155
>
> I am not sure of the age of your son Scott, it sounds like we must be 
> pretty close in age.  When I think big tractors I think of those 
> Massey’s too. More so, I think of the “six” series Farmall and IH 
> tractors. Like the 706 and 966. I still  keep an eye out for them. 
> It’s a pipe dream, I never will own one. Recently I saw this on 
> craigslist:
>
>
> https://greensboro.craigslist.org/grd/d/coats-ih-706-tractor-plow-and-disk/6818930052.html
>
> If I was stupid rich or just plain stupid I would buy it.   On my puny 
> 15 acres I don’t even have enough room to turn it...
>
> Spencer Yost
>
>
> On Feb 24, 2019, at 10:33 AM, Indiana Robinson 
> <robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Son Scott did buy the MF 1155. I figured that he would. He has
>     wanted one for too long and this one was in too good of general
>     condition for him to pass it up. He had asked me to go with him
>     when he first looked at it when there was no one around. It was
>     sitting on the lot of a dealer I have bought stuff from for a very
>     long time. Not constant purchases and not big stuff. I never
>     farmed very big, couple of hundred acres most of the time. The
>     farm is a lifestyle thing, I made most of my income from other
>     enterprises. Still it takes a lot of equipment to do the job. Over
>     the years I bought a couple of combines from him, a 20 something
>     foot wide harrogator, a wider set of wings for my big disk, field
>     sprayer etc. Several years ago we bought a Vermeer round baler
>     from him. He always treated me well. When I started dealing with
>     him he was a small independent dealership and a farmer like a lot
>     of other small dealers were. Today he and his sons have a huge
>     operation with one huge building that is absolutely full of
>     classic tractors that are not for sale. Over the years he has
>     bought most of the farms that surround him and he now has his own
>     system of private roads from one to another. We became business
>     friends over those years and I was always impressed that when I
>     walked in he always treated me the same as if I was one of the
>     biggest farmers in the state. That is the way you should do business.
>
>     Anywho... Scott had his mind mostly made up but wanted me to go
>     along to help check it over carefully with it running and him
>     driving it to check each function. We studied it pretty carefully
>     for maybe 2 hours or more and if anything had popped up he would
>     have backed away but he was confident enough that we went in a
>     semi with a low-boy. I had to meet him at a local shopping center
>     because it is pretty tough to get even a 40' trailer in to this
>     farm and this was a 52' trailer.
>
>     Everything seemed OK and they were willing to drop the price $500.
>     He asked them to pop the duals off and load them on the truck.
>
>     Kind of a funny bit of irony here... They have large industrial
>     battery electric impact wrenches so they don't have to drag air
>     hoses around. Worked really great but to get the duals off they
>     had to jack the tractor up a little. Yep, pneumatic jack and an
>     air hose dragged out to the apron where the tractor was sitting.  :-)
>
>     It all went well, of course Scott loads and hauls big stuff almost
>     daily, sometimes several times a day. He spends more time behind a
>     desk these days  but he is still on job sites most days.
>
>     The 1155 is quite wide. It has power adjust (spin out) rear wheels
>     but also wide slide out axles. He is considering cutting down the
>     axles some so the don't stick past the wheels. Thinks it might
>     save some doorways. The duals are clamp on and don't use the
>     axles. I doubt he will ever use the duals.
>
>     I have a little Case VAC that has the wide axle option and I'm
>     still considering chopping those... (shrug)
>
>     We have 3 ways to get to the farm here, none of them semi
>     friendly.  :-)   Coming in from the north requires  going through
>     an oddball 20' tall rail-road underpass that was built long long
>     ago as a bridge over a fair sized creek and then back in about the
>     1920's people started driving around one side of it in dry weather
>     on a gravel bar. It wasn't even a road then. Later a heavy one
>     lane "U" shaped concrete "shelf" was poured around there for
>     traffic. Scott comes through there fairly often with a tri-axle
>     dump truck towing a tri-axle trailer with a backhoe/loader or
>     maybe a good sized excavator but it is not suited for a semi at
>     all. The other two directions are only slightly better due to
>     utility poles in too close to the corners and narrow culverts.
>     Scott  considered parking on the wider road and unloading the
>     tractor and me driving it home but then we would still have had to
>     deal with the duals and it was a cold day.  :-)  He managed to get
>     the longer trailer "buttoned" past the corners with only minimal
>     damage to the road ditches which were about like quicksand.
>
>     He has already been working on the 1155 for several days now off
>     and on. I can about guarantee you that the first thing he did was
>     rework all of the wiring.  I noticed yesterday that he has the
>     hood off and I think the whole exhaust system. It had some minor
>     exhaust leakage where the manifold mounts to the heads and I know
>     that he ordered a batch of gaskets for it. I know that he was
>     planning on putting some money in it trying to get everything just
>     right.
>
>     It is important to understand here that while this tractor will
>     not be an actual "trailer queen" this pretty much falls under the
>     heading of "a toy he always wanted" like his Harley or his 4
>     wheeler and not a tractor to farm with productively. He works very
>     hard and makes very good money and he plans his fun stuff too. I
>     am not sure of the value of this tractor, the big tractors (this
>     is 140 HP and about 20,000 pounds ballasted) have never been on my
>     wish list so I have not followed them. The 10 to 60 HP tractors
>     are my choice and I like the smaller ones more all of the time
>     like my Cub, Pony, VAC, Allis C etc.
>
>     I don't guess he would mind me saying that he paid $7,000 for it.
>     It's a nice tractor and when he asked me I told him that if he
>     didn't like it after he bought it or something failed badly he
>     could probably at least part it out for more than that...
>
>     I'll have to see if I can convince him to take it to Portland.
>     Then if he uses the semi he can haul a couple more for me.  :-)
>     :-)  :-)
>
>     .
>
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>     -- 
>
>     Francis Robinson
>     aka "farmer"
>     Central Indiana USA
>     robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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