Snow Pushing 1989

rusty6 · Nov 20, 2020

Some more of my re-cycled vhs home video. This shows my brother pushing some snow with his triple 4 Massey Harris and 8 foot Cancade blade in December 89. The old
Massey has been retired for a few years but the blade still gets the job done, now mounted on a 1085 Massey with cab.
Massey 444

bmack95hd · Nov 20, 2020

Cool video, also fun to to see the lady and child playing in the snow.

JK-NY · Nov 20, 2020

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it. Don’t you put chains on for the winter? It looks like he did pretty good without them but if you got some heavy drifting you might need them. How much snow do you get in an average winter? Here where I live just south of Syracuse NY we get approximately 120-130” average, have seen less than 100” and as much as 180-200”. A bit north of me they get a good amount more, sometimes double what we get in a bad winter in the worst spots.

rusty6 · Nov 20, 2020

(quoted from post at 10:53:28 11/20/20) Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it. Don t you put chains on for the winter? It looks like he did pretty good without them but if you got some heavy drifting you might need them. How much snow do you get in an average winter? .

I don't think we get as much snow as you even in a heavy snowfall winter. We don't get the snow like we did when I was a kid as seen in this photo from 1970. In all those years I can only remember seeing one tractor with chains on it. They just don't seem to be common here. I guess they'd help though.

SVcummins · Nov 20, 2020

I could watch that all day i love watching snow roll off the moldboard . It’s amazing how much more you can push going forward

Bill VA · Nov 20, 2020

You have some great videos!

55 50 Ron · Nov 20, 2020

Massey Harris 444. My dad had one which I used on the swather in 1964 cutting small grain. Great running machine and pulling a 15 ft Versatile swather. I remember the swather had its own built in hydraulic system for platform and reel adjustments. A nice innovation by Versatile as it could be run with tractors without hydraulics and avoid the heavy lever adjustments.

rusty6 · Nov 20, 2020

Thanks all for the compliments on the videos. That little guy in the sled is now my grain truck driver at harvest time.
The triple 4 Massey (not that one) is one of the first tractors I drove working for another farmer in 72. It was his main tractor on a section of land. Pulling a 12 foot Massey #36 disker to seed the crop and a ten foot Massey "Trash King" deep tillage cultivator to work the summerfallow. The steering was interesting. If it went to full lock either direction it could be quite a struggle to get it turned back again.
The one in this video came with the farm my brother bought along with the full line of old small equipment. The old 444 has been in retirement for a few years now. I did do a start up video a while back when he had to move it to get a Ford 6000 out of the shed. It still runs good.
Starting the Massey

Redturbo · Nov 21, 2020

Is that frame work for the Cancade blade home made? Never seen one like that before. I see in your video's it was painted red before when it was mounted on a Cockshutt 50, still same frame work. My later Grandfather's Super W6 has Cancade blade that he got in the late 50's or early 60's. Dad cant remember when it got installed. But it has weird green frame that bolts to the bottom side of the rear end housings & to the front axle. The blade is same colour as yours. Have chains on this old tractor, sure makes it push better than no chains.

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