Did you say you were planning on getting some hay equipment? If so, you'll want to decide on new or used and plan for that. The main baler New Holland is building right now is the 575 and I think the minimum recommended horsepower is 80. The farm I work for bought one last year and it would make a 1085 massey chug like crazy (I think its like 82 HP). There are smaller ones on the market from other companies though, think John Deere makes some. And of course there are a million used ones out there that will run forever.
You'll also want to look at gears and speed. If you've got people loading the wagons rather than using a stacker or something you want to be able to control your speed pretty well and that means gears since you've got to run the engine at PTO speed. So you'll want a pretty slow first gear, and 2nd shouldn't be too much higher.
Other than that I don't have a whole lot of preference. I've run most of them in some form or another and there are things I like and dislike about them all. Internationals (at least all the ones I've run) have a torque amplifier you can kick back and forth from low to high while moving. It effects your speed and engine braking which is nice for baling because you can flip it back and forth instead of stopping to shift gears.
John Deere's are nice, I'm not a real fan of the new sync shuttle transmissions, but the ones I've driven were used for groundskeeping at the county fairgrounds and get the **** beat out of them and run without enough oil or hydraulic fluid or anything. So its hard to tell, the one definitely needs a new clutch.
Masseys-The only one I've run is the 1085 the farm has. It has about the same features as the internationals they have. It seems to have a lot of reliability issues. In the time I've worked for them it had the steering column seize up, a water pump go out, a starter go out which ended up meaning the flywheel needed ground (means splitting the tractor in half) and some other stuff. They take really good care of it too, most of their tractors are over 20 years old and look new in the cab and run like new as well.
I've seen quite a few older Masseys out there that run great and have been around a long time.
Haven't done enough with fords to say anything about them.
Can also tell you that Kubota puts out a very good tractor. Their M series actually costs less for what you get than the smaller L series, and is way less than the tiny little B series tractors. I think they have them up to 90HP. Have never known anyone to have a problem or compaint with a Kubota.
