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I remember sitting on the fender when I was a kid while my dad was doing this. I thought it was so cool on the first pass down. Those busters were the only plows that I didn’t plow with. I finally tried it once in high school, and my rows both wide and narrow, 😂. We actually had a B and a C. I started driving the B when I was three years old. My dad showed me how to drive it, and I fell in love with it. He turned me loose in a field to disc,…and he left me to go do other work on our farm. The C had all of the plows for it,…a disc, 2 row busters, planters with fertilizer box, front and rear cultivators, a shredder, and a four wheeled farm trailer. The B had a middle buster that we never used. We pulled the disc and shredder with it sometimes. We had a John Deere sickle mower that we towed behind it for cutting hay. As a kid,…that was all I ever wanted to do. I loved spending my Saturdays out there as well. I sure do miss it sometimes. Leonard
Grew up as a farm kid with my dad and grandpa using a gleaner e. It was a two row head also. I think dad spent as much time swapping out those greaseless bearings as he did anything else during the harvest! He had a 5 gallon pail of those little bearings! I think he could about do it blindfolded! I’m glad you didn’t put a bunch of music in there.
Thanks, Bobby. Don't see it around here anymore, but it used to be fairly common. Just last week, I saw a tractor in harvested milo pulling a stalk chopper (like the old antique ones, just much wider) and tandem disk behind it.
Thanks, Bobby. Don't see it around here anymore, but it used to be fairly common. Just last week, I saw a tractor in harvested milo pulling a stalk chopper (like the old antique ones, just much wider) and tandem disk behind it.
Hey man it's a 1975 model I know because we owned it from 1978-2000 or so. Serial #12001. I know all the history on it. We bought it from the original owner. If you want to hear about it give me a holler. You bought it from our kinfolk that we sold it to.
I was half asleep last night and gave you some wrong info. It's a 1974. They made 12500 615's in 74 and the last 500 had the new quick attach head and this i s the very first one. In 75 they all had the quick attach head.
Thanks for commenting! And what a coincidence that you found it on RU-vid! (Sorry for the late response, we were dealing with hurricane Beryl and the aftermath; just got internet back). I love knowing the history as it's often as interesting as the equipment itself. Tom did say that it was a family owned machine, but I didn't know much else. I had a feeling that the 12001 serial number had some significance. It's a well worn combine and I put quite a bit of work into it, but it runs strong and did a great job in corn last year. If there's anything else you would like to share about, I'll document it. Thanks again!
I was raised on a 100 . It was the utv of my day. It raked hay , pulled the loaded hay wagons from the field, planted skips, fed the cows, cultivated beans and corn and done all of the garden work, turning , disking, cultivating,and planting. And provided transportation for hunting! Thanks for the video in brings back memories of my grandfather. God bless.
You have a sharp eye. The tractor tread spacing is 44". If I were running the intended 9.5x24 rears, I believe I could bring them in to 40" minimum. However, with the 11.2x24's, I couldn't get them as narrow as I wanted.
You have a good crop! Hope you get rain without bad weather. I know that my Dad and I adjusted the cultivator with a 2x4! It seems to have the correct depth of all the shanks. On marketplace there is a guy from Gary, Texas that may have a 100 grill.
Lol I bought one of these at a farm sale that is 2 point that fits my 300 Farmall. I had no idea what the heck it was for. It's 2 shank just like yours but obviously it cuts directly behind my tires. Great video
I don't have any experience with the G, but it looks like it would be an excellent cultivating tractor with all that visibility to the front. I've only seen them with culitvators mounted, but I assume there are other implements for it as well.
I have to admit that I don't know what dresser plates are. Maybe by a different name? If I wanted to throw more dirt up to the plant, I do have something called dirt hustlers that look like mickey mouse ears and attach to the neck of the sweeps.
@@rustyrelicsranch the ones I referred to were about roughly 30 inches and (I think used to keep plants from getting buried by dirt). They were flat plate about 10 or 12 inches high. Bill
Ok, I know what you mean. We called them "fenders". I had a set mounted, but took them off before the video because the beans were tall enough to not get buried.
@@rustyrelicsranch yes sir. No tilled and sprayed. I love the cultivated way myself. Love seeing them farmalls at work. I have a super A and a 140 and a wide front M that I do some vegetables and deer plot stuff with. I plant alittle of everything from 3 types of sweet corn to all kinds of tomatoes and squash cucumbers peppers alittle of everything lol
That's a good looking 100. Everyone I ever talked to that had a 100 said they were one of the easiest steering tractors they ever had. You made an excellent trade.
I know this because I operated one of these for over 12 years. The rear gang frame was IH Blue. The Shanks were typically black. Looked like it was working fine. The engine sounds very good.
Thanks for the info. It was painted that way when my cousin got it. When cleaning things up for paint, I can sometimes find a tiny bit of original paint color under a clamp or something, but sometimes it's just all rust and I have to guess at it. In the middle buster video, they're painted incorrectly. I painted the framework red, but then came across an original at a tractor show and it was blue.
Thanks for the info. It was painted that way when my cousin got it. When cleaning things up for paint, I can sometimes find a tiny bit of original paint color under a clamp or something, but sometimes it's just all rust and I have to guess at it. In the middle buster video, they're painted incorrectly. I painted the framework red, but then came across an original at a tractor show and it was blue.
Nice little setup. Will those be 36" rows then? We plant beans on 15" spacing with our planter. I wondered if you could have went through and split the rows for more crop?
Where are you located? I rarely see them sold separately from the tractor. And if they are, chances are that pieces are missing. I recommend looking for a junk A that has the cultivators on it. They are usually cheap. I do know a guy in East Texas that would probably have cultivators.
You're a long way from Texas! The Red Power Roundup is in Spencer, Iowa this June. There is always a lot of vendors there and a fair chance that there could be cultivators there.
I first planted corn with a Farmall 230; a C with numbers in place of the letter. Our 2 row planter was an IH with fast hitch but a much different planting system. It had double disc seed openers and large steel wheels that closed the furrow and set the depth. Another disc placed the fertilizer 2 inches to the side. Your planter looks like a Deere but I never saw one that had a large shovel plow running right ahead of the planting shoe. The covering shovels look as if they were burying the beans 6 inches deep. That must not have been the case because you got a very good stand.
I believe the differences stem from the soil types and practices employed across the country. Much of the soil in this area is a dark/black gumbo (mine is more sandy) that retains moisture and can be quite sticky. The row crop here is on raised beds and the large shovel sweep is knocking off the dry dirt and taking out any grass and weeds that may be on the row top. I agree that the covering shovels appear to be "burying" the seed, but after the roller packs it, the seed was about 1.5" deep.
It just packs the seedbed behind the planter. Way back when, this was common in this area. Much of the soil here is dark and wet and if you tried to use a pack wheel directly behind the planter, it would just gum up with the sticky dirt. The JD Max-emerge seemed to solve that and the rolling/packing operation became obsolete.
Thanks, Cody. I haven't tried to find new ones so I don't know if they are available or not. Around here, old ones show up at local auctions or Facebook marketplace and I pick up what I need for spare parts. However.....my cousin found a plow parts guy in Indiana. As soon as I get that information, I can post it.
Hi Jason. I get my blades here locally from United Ag. Last time I bought some, they were around $15 each. I know there are also vendors on the internet that sell disc blades. I have noticed that the aftermarket blades are shaped a little bit differently than the IH blades, but I haven't had any issues with them (the original IH blades have a flatter center and then curve whereas the new aftermarket blades have the same curvature throughout).
@rustyrelicsranch one more question, what are the blade sizes, same size per gang or staggered sizes. Trying to find them on the upper texas coast is not easy
@@jasonfilipp5848 The blades in the furrow are 16" and are new ones. The middle and top of row blades are used and slightly smaller (like 15-1/4 or 15). The ones in the furrow wear the fastest and on an old disk, are the smallest so I put new ones in the furrow and then rearrange the others as necessary to get the staggered sizes.
