Sam Neill from Portadown was one of 15 members of the ‘Massey Ferguson Worldwide’ Facebook group that was running a display of a variety of models, alongside ‘The Ferguson Club’, at Balmoral Show.
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00:00We're celebrating 60 years of the 100 series this year.
00:05We always like to have a theme, and this year that happens to be our theme, 60 years of the Red Giants.
00:12Them tractors done just about everything.
00:14They done all the plowing in the springtime.
00:18At that time it was more disc, and they disced two or three times over every acre that was plowed.
00:24They pulled seed drills.
00:27They mowed hay, baled hay, cut silage.
00:31And then sometimes even in the early days they pulled trail combines to combine it.
00:37I was reared on them.
00:39I just was always stuck on a tractor with my dad to get out of my mom's road, I suppose.
00:46I remember he couldn't get any help whenever it was a Massey 65, and he couldn't get any help to draw in hay whenever I was six years old.
00:54And he put me on the tractor and told me to drive from bales to bales, and he threw them up and my mother built them, and that was me hooked.
01:02They're still in very big demand to go for export to third world countries to start a complete new life doing exactly the same tough work that they always did.
01:12But a lot of them have found their way into preservation and are only used as hobby tractors and road runs and vintage events.
01:20But some people still love to use them.
01:22They're still very usable.
01:24Massey Ferguson in the UK sold the 35 and 65 up until 1964, 65.
01:33And then the company decided to do a project called the DX project.
01:40The world tractors.
01:42And they brought out, they used the French built 130, was the smallest of the range, 35 horsepower.
01:51The 135 replaced the 35 at 45 horsepower.
01:56The 165 replaced the 65 at 58 horsepower.
02:00And they brought out a new big tractor, 175 at 67 horsepower.