Massey Ferguson 512

[Sedalia Dave]

 

 

 

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

 

 

 

 

      ......... don't seem to work so well with them big round ones .......  

[Blackwater 53393]

I did that same job, off and on, for ten years!!  
 

Two or three times a year, I would have to go out and help one or another of my uncles or my boss pick up hay and stack it in their barn so’s they could feed their horses the next winter!

 

 I hated loading hay! Always took a week or more to lose the scrapes and scratches after a week in the field!!

[Bailey Creek,5759]

Never picked up hay. 

Loaded it from bailer. to hay rack. Unless a bail busted.

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Did it a time or two myself. Didn't have a lot of fun either. 

I recall those in use back home in the 1950's

 

Canadian Trivia: Vincent Massey, of the Massey family, served as Canada's first Canadian born Governor General.

[Sedalia Dave]

Figured out why I had never seen one of these. They were made and sold only in New Zeland.

 

H.V. McKay Massey Harris, Model 512 Sunlifter Hay Bale Loader on Display, Sunshine, Victoria, circa 1930s-1940s

 

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