Part 2 of Dad working in the garden with his first love, the John Deere B. Hilling potatoes is done to provide more soil for the potatoes to hide in and prevent green rotten potatoes!
My dad farmed with mules until 1948 when he got his first tractor which was a B then he had 2 B's then an A 1956 60 new that we still use today and also 1956 70 that we still use
Beautiful garden and a nice job hilling the potatoes. We use to hill our potatoes and sweet corn, turned those coulters around and cultivated edible Navy beans. pull some dirt away and put fresh fertilized dirt next to the beans. Dad's B is hand start but he has added lights, must just set a battery on the platform when lights are needed.
Love seeing old 2 cylinders Nice sounding B I have a 44 B, 1955 50 and a 66-3020 Watched a couple of your videos, I lived in Delta County, farmed on the Garden Peninsula New sub to your channel
Shame that they don’t build tractors like this anymore! How long do you think that these new John deer tractors with plastic fenders and hoods will last?
He is pretty sharp. I wondered why he only cultivated with the right side in the previous video. Now I see the had the left side set for hilling. Thanks for sharing.
It's easier to lower the cultivate that way. He may not be able to stuff both sides into the ground. and lifting would be twice as heavy. I had to put my foot on the dash and let go of the wheel when I was a kid to operate BOTH sides. Which I always did.
Dad had a 42 B that I used to cultivate with. I had to put all my weight/height/might into working the manual lift as I WAS a small Jr. High aged kid at the time.
I did the same thing when dad used to require us to cultivate the corn fields as kids! No power steering meant some of the corn was missing at the ends of the rows!😁👍
@@zawadafarms7402 Are you giving me a quiz? Well, you don't want to run over your crops so the rear wheels are spaced to span two rows and drop into the garden foot-paths. The front wheels are designed to align with the foot-path between the two rows unless you purchased the option wide-track front axle which put the front wheels in line with the rear wheels.
@@zawadafarms7402 I went to the web and discovered that John Deere invented the Roll-O-Matic front end. So I was referring to the basic design of putting the two front wheels tight together and angling them in toward eachother at the bottom. The Roll-O-Matic feature was a further enhancement that I was unaware of. Here's a video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vaUkDFoC9iI.html
Now that’s awesome nothing runs like a Deere lol better then hand raked this. 💥💪 what do the back hooks do 🤔 he’s not using them right n this thank you 😊
Question: what purpose is served by the spring teeth behind hilling discs? Thank you for the interesting video. I think the next thing your dad is going to do is lop that low hanging branch haha.
OOOHHHH Never a memory cease when turning the ol' fly wheel only after opening up the spark plugs but best not get your right hand caugt in the fly wheel. And what a "B****ch to lift the cultivator pieces to each side of the tractor...and then off again....watch those fingers & toes...
It took a few minutes to hill the potatoes, but how long did it take to put the machinery on the tractor? Don’t get me wrong I used to hill potatoes for my dad using a Massey 35 with a pull type holler on the 3 point hitch.
I hear you, probably half an hour prepping the tractor. But as we age, I’ll happily let the machine do the hard work. Nothing left to prove, just get the job done.
