I posted the message below on the Massey Ferguson board but thought it might stir some reponse on this forum as well.
POST: Farming here in America is so diverse. I see post on here all the time about certain types of tractors and equipment being rare or seldom seen. This 165 Massey is an example. Down South there used to be hundreds (maybe thousands) of these row-crop 165 diesels everywhere. I've never seen any other type but I guess they are out there. I see post about the rarity of Row-crop Ford tractors, like the 700, 900, 741, etc. I've seen lots of them through the years. They have never been rare in the South. I even posted something myself once about a "six-row disk" and good lots of replies like, "What do you mean by six-row disk?" Well down here most everyone identifies a disk by the number of 40 inch rows it will cover. Two-row, four-row, six-row. Apparently, everywhere else, they are identified by the width in feet.
Just my observation.
POST: Farming here in America is so diverse. I see post on here all the time about certain types of tractors and equipment being rare or seldom seen. This 165 Massey is an example. Down South there used to be hundreds (maybe thousands) of these row-crop 165 diesels everywhere. I've never seen any other type but I guess they are out there. I see post about the rarity of Row-crop Ford tractors, like the 700, 900, 741, etc. I've seen lots of them through the years. They have never been rare in the South. I even posted something myself once about a "six-row disk" and good lots of replies like, "What do you mean by six-row disk?" Well down here most everyone identifies a disk by the number of 40 inch rows it will cover. Two-row, four-row, six-row. Apparently, everywhere else, they are identified by the width in feet.
Just my observation.
