Jerry Gieger's 1957 John Deere 720 diesel is seen hooked to a 4-bottom plow and working the field at Sahuaro Ranch Park in Glendale, Arizona during the Arizona Early Day Gas Engine & Tractor Association show on February 8th, 2014.
Don't listen to none of these jackass's comments not many of them have anything good to say. Sir that is one beautiful 720. I have a G I restored and use dam near every day. Thanks for the great video Sir
This ranch was rather big at one time,mostly producing citrus.Once encroachment of the city of Glendale took over,the city saved a fair chunk of the HQ area and turned it into the Park you see.
One gear to high. That plow seems to scour well. Lugging to much will dilute the oil with unburned fuel by slipping past piston rings. Oil sump to full could seep into combustion chambers overnight. Hydro lock on startup could break crankshaft.
Bullshit. Ran a 70 all my early years pulling 5 16s and disking with a 12 foot. Lugged a lot. My dad would stomp you for turning a tractor up to max. You wound it up and pulled it back just a touch.He just died at 93. Old John is still under the barn. It will still drag the 5 bottom. Those tractors were make to get work done. Not be worked on.
What a lot folks forget is that these guys are hobbiest not real farmers for the most part.They know little of productivity and are just playing with their toys.Chill let them have fun
They’re not hobbyist, they’re retired farmers that were successful. They spend big money on buying tractors and plows of this vintage and fix them up. They bring them out to pull floats at parades in their communities. They are great people to talk to. Salt of the earth. They love to reminisce.
@@observant98 I'm betting this guy is a hobbyist. This might be his Daddy's tractor he restored. But, I'm sure his Daddy wouldn't like his tractor operating out of it's capability.
Nothing sounds as nice as a 2 cyl John Deere! They were very torquey. When my Grandpa and Grandpa traded in their 830 diesel, they weren't very pleased with the newer style Deere that replaced it.
I was at another tractor show today and saw a '42 D and a '48 G, both gas, and man, those big brutes had a very bass-like boom that I could feel in my guts! I caught a couple of old diesel R's too, and the torque from their engines almost lifted the front tires whenever the clutch was engaged.
When I was in high school, I worked for a farmer friend in the summers of '58 and '59, plowed two fields of wheat stubble, about 40 acres each with a D John Deere, probably a '47 or so with electric start. It pulled three bottoms and when it would hit a vein of clay-like soil, it would lift the front wheels just a tad off of the surface.
Randall Cornelius- I get a monthly farming magazine that I don't read but go my favorite little piece called, "My Favorite Tractor." Each month fetchers someone's story and pic. usually of some old tractor they've refurbished, or their granddads tractor that's still running etc. I don't farm but man do I love the machinery out there in those fields..... (not to mention the guys driving them...lol)
Aww, you sound like my kind of woman... My dad has been gone for nine years now. I sure do miss him. I have a collection of the ones he had on the farm, in memory of him.
trabalhar no preparo do é muito bom mas não tenho mais oportunidade . se você reduzir uma marcha o trator trabalhara mais potência de sobra ? muito bom este trator trabalhando com o arado pesado
Aye, isn't it wonderful? 4-F on a 2 cyl, where have we gone wrong - 3-F Reversible on a 6cylinder and now many are going BACK from a big-6 to a Huge 3 or 4. Ah the days of hearing what you were doing! - enclosed in all that plastic foam fume filled "safety cab" full of strobing displays. .... Just gimme a home where the Deere can go roam and the Masseys stay red in the store.... ahh those days of yore
You aren't showing the flywheel on the left side of the tractor! The 2 piston popper wouldn't do squat without that flywheel. Or maybe that's the flywheel on the right side of the operator there. Huh. I remember a much bigger flywheel on the left side of the tractor. Maybe that's another flywheel on the right side of the operator there too, that smaller flywheel. Show the left side of the tractor; we don't see that. You can kind of see it at the 6:02 mark. We had two of those tractors when I was growing up at 14 years old in the early 70's. Ran forever on a tank of diesel. The flywheels are what do it. Flywheels store energy, kind of like mechanical batteries/capacitors. Why don't they use flywheels anymore? Because with flywheels you have less moving parts, less maintenance and lest fuel cost. You tell me we're not in a tyranny. A tyranny of lack of truth and knowledge. Time to change that, to get rid of ignorance. "There is no darkness equal to ignorance."..... Now why did the "false teachings of Israel" keep that out of the bible? 26:27 "There is no eye equal to wisdom, no darkness equal to ignorance, no power equal to the power of the spirit, and no terror equal to poverty of consciousness. 26:28 "There is no higher happiness than wisdom, no better friend than knowledge, and no other savior than the power of the spirit. 26:29 "Those who have intelligence may grasp my speech so they will be wise and knowing." ---- If you doubt what I say, don't "Judge not"', because "judging not" is abdicating your personal responsibility to determine right from wrong. "Judging not" is a false judgment. 7:1 "Judge not falsely, lest you be falsely judged." And if you are mourning that you have been fed lies and half truths (lies) all your life, then know the truth and be comforted.... "The truth and knowledge will set you free." 5:4 "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall thus recognize truth and be comforted." - from Talmud of Jmmanuel, nohoax.com
The flywheel is on the left and covered because it's an electric start with gear teeth on it. Yes the flywheel gives torque for power. As for the right side it's the clutch which can also run a belt. Maybe you should talk it over with Semjasa when it/he beams you up on a UFO with Eduard Albert Meier and you can hash over the contradictions of the book of Enoch with Sitchin and flat vs hollow earth while you smoke each others bale. Damn, it's a plowing vid, grow up!
That's not too big a gap in our part of the country that would be what our normal land would be sized at most of our fields were either a 1/4 or 1/2 mile wide or long.
That is what a 2 cylinder jd us supposed to sound like when it is pulling hard. I spent a lot of time as a kid plowing and disking on a 620. I kept thinking I needed to shift down but dad corrected me and told me to let it chug.
I like old tractors but let me tell you that 730 couldn't pull that 4 bottom plow if they put it in the ground. What I'm saying that gentleman might be plowing 5 to 6 inches deep in a sandy loamy ground. I grew up on a farm in northeast Colorado a long the south Platte river and that heavy black soil. The neighbors had a 730 and 2 bottoms was all it wanted, but that was 8 to 10 inches deep. My dad always said if the neighbors would drop that plow in the ground they couldn't tell everyone how fast they would cover the ground so fast. He would have said the guy in this video was just out there chicken scratching!
Seems like he's trying to put on a show. He's plowing in 3rd and she's struggling. If you plowed for days like this, that baby would be blowing head gaskets. It's plenty strong, just let it work.
I have the exact same plow with a rubber tire. My 720 pulls it just fine. I think this guy is trying to put on a show though. He's plowing in 3rd. That's why it's struggling. Plow in 2nd, if it's hard, 1st. Any tractor this age wouldn't last all day driving like this.
