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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1794097" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>I kind of grew up on the Masseys. Think we've owned all told about 15 of 'em. Still have two myself, and the home farm where I grew up still has something like 6 or so. Started out with a 165 gas w/loader and with an external front mounted hyd pump just for the loader (tractor was too small for much of anything else IMO), traded that for a 285 with QT loader and with an external front mounted auxilliary hyd pump w/25gpm and independent valve system for the loader... was probably one of the best loader tractors we ever had... all it would have needed yet was FWA. Nice and compact, great power, gutsy and quick on the governor (put it on the silage blower and the whole tractor would shake/dance from the torque as it'd kick in), easy on fuel. We went through 3 of those... all brand new... traded about every 2 years or so... used them as primary unit for cleaning barns in our dairy, so alot of daily use. I now have the same model QT loader mounted on my 2705... also been a great rig, but definitely alot bigger and so more clumsy than that 285 was. That said, the 285 wouldn't have been able to handle the bale unroller I have on the front along with a bale carrier on the back nearly as well through the deep snow as the 2705. After that 2000 series, they "cheapened them up"... lost the 24 speed, and went DOWN in hydraulic capacity. I think they brought back the hydraulics on the 8000 series.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1794097, member: 39018"] I kind of grew up on the Masseys. Think we've owned all told about 15 of 'em. Still have two myself, and the home farm where I grew up still has something like 6 or so. Started out with a 165 gas w/loader and with an external front mounted hyd pump just for the loader (tractor was too small for much of anything else IMO), traded that for a 285 with QT loader and with an external front mounted auxilliary hyd pump w/25gpm and independent valve system for the loader... was probably one of the best loader tractors we ever had... all it would have needed yet was FWA. Nice and compact, great power, gutsy and quick on the governor (put it on the silage blower and the whole tractor would shake/dance from the torque as it'd kick in), easy on fuel. We went through 3 of those... all brand new... traded about every 2 years or so... used them as primary unit for cleaning barns in our dairy, so alot of daily use. I now have the same model QT loader mounted on my 2705... also been a great rig, but definitely alot bigger and so more clumsy than that 285 was. That said, the 285 wouldn't have been able to handle the bale unroller I have on the front along with a bale carrier on the back nearly as well through the deep snow as the 2705. After that 2000 series, they "cheapened them up"... lost the 24 speed, and went DOWN in hydraulic capacity. I think they brought back the hydraulics on the 8000 series. [/QUOTE]
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