Jack,

Found this in the internet, Looks like you really know what your doing...

Click link below...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trwanOHa1Vw
 
Joe

Thanks Joe,  I didn't realise that I had been posted on U-Tube, is that fame or notoriety??.
      Kind Regards to Jo-Jo.
                                                    Jack.

Everyone in the MCA,
                                 The season's greetings to all, I hope you all have a 'Christmassey' time and a succesful 2017 !!.

          Jack.

Merry Massey Christmas Jack,

Hope your M-H Dickie decals from Horncastle have arrived and up to expectations? I look forward to seeing your latest restoration in the New Year, I am sure it will look the part behind the red Pacemaker.

All the Best.

Malcolm.

Hi Jack,  Sorry for my delay in responding but seeing your binder in action makes for a great show. Joe's video from You-tube also makes it fun to see.  It runs as smooth as mine!  They definitely are a fun little machine to operate.  Mine hardly ever misses a knot and it runs circles around a pto driven IH binder that iis also in our neighborhood.  Everyone complains that we drive it too fast but they have no idea have fast a good team of horses can and should walk out with this equipment. We really struggled with it when we finally got it operational. I finally told the driver to pick up the speed and it have been working perfectly ever since!!

I do't think I even have a pic of mine operatiing.  I will see if I can finds some and post them!!

Thanks for sharing!

Gary

Merry Christmas to you too Jack and to your lovely wife!  You really need to get on a plane and come to the States.  We would all take good care of you!!  But until then have a safe and peaceful Christmas with all your Massey friends.

Gary

It was good to see Jack enjoying his GP this past weekend at his local working weekend in Little Casterton near Stamford Lincolnshire, as one of the small group of organisers it was nice to see him enjoying his tractor rather than knocking stakes in the ground or taking care of all the usual chores involved in running an event.

This recent addition to his M-H collection is seen here pulling a very early locally manufactured "Martin's of Stamford" cultivator, they were well known for their horse and early tractor implements, they did make an early tractor which I think competed at the 1919 Lincoln Tractor Trials.
Hopefully Jack will fill us in on the Martin detail, if I remember correctly he is related to the Martin family.

Enjoy the photo's.

Malcolm.

Malcolm Thanks for the photos of Jack and his tractor. If I remember correctly from Sunday Jack's cultivator is a chain lift. Must be a very Early one.I have a Martin's cultivator but the lift is a dog and gear like on the Ransomes ploughs. Alan

Gary,
       Thanks for your help in getting me back in the loop, we primitives need a fair bit of prodding to keep us in line!!, also thanks to Malcolm for putting the photos on the website. The GP wanted a bit of 'fettling' to get it right, new bearings and oilseals in the steering pivots, ignition advancing 10 degrees, manifold rebuilding and one or two smaller corrections but it is not a good starter which is surprising when the manifold/carburettor setup is identical  to (but smaller than) my other Masseys, and they are good starters,  the magneto is good.

Alan.
     You are quite right, the drag is a chain lift, in fact it is a factory modified horse drawn implement which would have required at least 3 horses to pull it. I got it from a man who's Grandfather had it new with a new Austin tractor in1919.

Finally, a Confession. I have erred and strayed like a lost sheep!!,  I have been rebuilding a Case model 'C' but have been granted absolution by Malcolm as it is a Racine tractor and is part of the 'family'.  Mea Culpa!!

Nice looking GP Jack! Is that a 60 inch width? Looks too wide to be a 48, what is the Serial #? Just wondering if I know of any that are close in number to yours. I am surprised it is a bad starter, usually the overheads fire right up.

Keep up the good work!

Joe