In my father's day they cultivated corn 3 times with a two row behind a horse. He grew up left the farm and worked for Boeing when man flew to the moon. Never in history has a single generation seen so much change. Now in my golden years I'm trying to live closer to the land and not use chemicals. It's hard to go back to organic, my hat's off to you.
Here in SW Ontario almost all the cultivators are gone, but I do remember all those long hot days in the sun. I don't think our yields have suffered. On a dry year we prefer to keep the moisture. Everybody's soil is different. If we can't get a handle on some of these new to us weeds the cultivator may make a big comeback. Nice rig.You can see what your doing. Thanks. Doug
I'd run over 600 acres every year in Michigan with a 4 row on a John Deere A. That's a lot of neck work. I got took off the farm in late August 1967 by the draft. I'm a totally disabled vet. God bless you. Thanks for the pics. I hope you get to stay on the farm.
i really liked ur video of cultivating corn. i have never even seen a 4 row cultivator before in my life. my paps only the 2 row ones. i have a jd model 50, but no fender's like urs. boy i'dl like a set for mine some day.
Excellent video of a lost art. Our part of the county grows crops on a contour so no straight rows. Plus point rows to clean up. For all the video work I am very empressed with you only getting into the corn for short time. I used to run a front mount on a 4020 back in high school mid 90s for a neighbor . If you watched the cultivators going thru the cotton it would put u in a trance haha. Thanks for keeping this type of farming alive!!!!!
Chevy4x4dawg The first pass of corn cultivation would put you in a trace to! Especially right after eating lunch. Full stomach, hot sun bearing down, and that small two leaf stage corn plant passing through the fenders as you were leaning over forward to see better. And if you did snooze, there were the tattletale plowed out rows of corn. And sooner or later Dad would see it! That first pass was tough.
Bigger farmers would have just sprayed for weeds and call it done. I think this video is great. Cultivation like this is a thing of the past but I noticed that the two young farmers on the RU-vid channel "How Farms Work" used a cultivator this year.
Lol I remember my dad sticking me in the sewing all day when I was 10 years old going the same thing but with a 656 . With that tractor we also had a high lift in a corn picker to mount on it
Thanks for all of your comments unfortunately we do not have the fertilizer applicator. I really enjoy being able to use the 50 for cultivating it keeps our 630 open for cutting hay. Hopefully this spring I will have more videos of two cylinder farming. I have been urging my dad to look into buying some new Gen tractors and implements to cover the new ground we have been picking up, but I could never replace our two cylinders.
My grandfather had a 50 and she was just used for transplanting 4 rows at a time. The 60 and 520 were cultivating tractors and my grandfather seems to remember cultivating better than anything else. Still have our 60 but she's rusting away in the fencerow and I would like to restore it someday. Your 50 sounds good, keep her running.
Hi do you have a video of a 4 row cultivator with fertilizer applicator . My Dad imported a John Deere 70 row crop tractor gasoline only with a 4 row cultivator when he farmed in Zambia ( Africa ) I still have it .
Nice video. I have a 60 I used with a No. 40 cultivator. I don't think a little 50 would have done a good job in my heavier, hillier ground. I'm now 6r30 with an FM cultivator on a 4430, but I'd like to find a 1955 70 to put a 6row Big 60 on... The 60 now mostly pulls an auger wagon, hauling chicken feed. Keep farmin'
My dad was 23 in 1954 and bought a 4 row planter and a JD 60 that year. He said the marker arm seemed so far out with a 4 row. He had used a 2 row planter with a team of horses to plant before that. IH H for tillage. He farmed 240 acres with that equipment and fed cattle. Said that 60 worked circles around that H. Still got the 60, still got Dad too!
An H and a 60 are two different tractors. It's like comparing apples and oranges. There are thousands of H's earning there keep every day. I would take an H any day over a JD 2 cyl. I wont change my opinion until I grow another arm and hand.
This machine is from the era when companies made small machines that farmers could afford to own themselves, now you need to harvest half of the farms in the county to pay for a machine that costs as much as your farm.
Hey! I found the video you suggested while looking up JD 40 tractors. Could not find The Farmboy59 for the life of me no matter what I typed. Looks about like our boys.
