Sawyer Massey tractors

[Craig A]

I just LOVE the Sawyer Massey line....and here some pics and I haven't a CLUE as to their ratings. Sawyer Massey used some very strange number ratings---sort of like Huber..try and keep THEM straight in your head. Just TRY!

[John Hammink]

Craig, one of our club members owns this 1907 Sawyer-Massey steamer (60 hp at the flywheel).

[Craig A]

^ WOW! What a beauty!!! Wonder how that engine spent its life to still have that nice smooth boiler shell!!

[Brian Manning]

Heres a picture of my Grandfathers Sawyer-Massey from around 1950's. They are a wonderful machine, quiet, dependable,strong, easy to maintain etc.. The extra belt pulley was to run a belt to the back of the platforn to run a buzz saw to "circle" slabes of wood for the firebox.

[Craig A]

NICE photo!!! That's one HECK of a pulley for sawing slabs!!!!

[Tom Cwach]

The tractor in the bottom two photos looks like a Minneapolis 25 HP farm motor to me.

[Ed Dina]

Tom's right again..its a 25-50 Minneapolis

[Craig A]

As long as someone knows what's what I'll just keep posting!!!

[Sawyer-Massey 11-22]

Greetings all:

I believe the 20-60 Sawyer is located in Holland. Is this correct John. It was sold out of Ontario some years ago.

Brian,...........where did your grandfather live, what was his name and do you know what became of the engine?

We sold our 20-60 in 2001 after having been in the since new. It was built in '15 and languished at an agents warehouse until my grandfather bought it in '25. It threshed commercially until 1958. Grandfather had a run farms that consisted of as many as 70 farms in a season, often barn threshing with a foot or more of snow on the ground. He had a set of lugs [Sawyer item] similar to a set of mud spades that he used in the winter, just one row per wheel. We still have the bill of sale for the engine, and grandfather's log book for all his threshing jobs.

Robert