1970's CORN HARVEST and PLOWING 

As much as I like all the modern equipment, there's just something extra satisfying about watching old school stuff

I love how you presented the "then and now" equipment and information about performance, I really love the old equipment as I grew up on a farm and my dad wasn't wealthy to run new equipment, but the equipment from the era you showed just did the job as good as any new equipment would.

Great video, it brought me back to watching my grandfather harvesting the corn then mouldboard plowing the field. I remember my cousin using a 6600 combine and her teaching me how to run it

Back to childhood 🤩great Justin 🎉

I remember the stalk chopping with a John Deere 4430 was one of my first opportunities on the farm to do some driving. I am in a wheelchair, so it was difficult to get me in the cabs as I got much older. But my teen and early ‘20’s years were filled with tractor opportunities

I love watching your videos and learning the history of the different pieces of equipment.

Great video always good to see classic machines still working. Memories of autumn work here in England would be of ploughing with a Ford 7610 and 4 furrow Dowdeswell cultivating and drilling winter wheat and barley followed by the potato harvest those special days of earthy smells and Misty mornings

As cool as modern equipment is, still love old school equipment cuz its more enjoyable

You're doing such a great job at showing everyone the way you see the world! Thank you for this!

Thanks for the video. I cut my teeth on a JD 4400 combine and 4430 tractor - the video brings back fond memories!

Great Video!! This brings back a lot of memories for me, I was a Dealer Principle from 1980 through 1994, when most of these Deere's were produced. "Nothing Runs Like A Deere" 🦌 👍 🇺🇸

The tractor on the Allis Chalmers plow was a 4230. I still pick ear corn for my steers. Most people around me had New Idea pickers. On a farm I worked on in highschool we had two pickers, one with a sheller on it. I got some of the cleanest corn with it. We would store what we shelled in the chopper wagons, gravity wagons and kicker wagons lined with plywood and shovel it into a John Deere 400 feed grinder along with some oats for lambs. We finished about 500 a year. The ear corn was fed to about 40 dairy cows. I continued to pick corn every year until 2000 when the gentleman sold the cows. A diesel 4020 power shift was my tractor of choice for picking. Back when I started there were over 60 dairy farms in my county. Now there are only six. What was not to common in my area was stationary shellers. I found a Minneapolis Moline Model D so I can shell corn out for my lambs. White made their big sheller until 1975. Another practice that faded away during the 1970s.

My dad went back to farming in 1963 farming 1000 acres in East Central Illinois. He harvested the wheat, corn and soybeans that year with a little JD 45 combine. He gradually moved up to a 95, then 105 and finally to a 7700 when they were introduced. Lots of memories, for sure!

By the numbers you quoted we can tell you do know farming. Enjoyed the vid.

excellent video

Fond memories of running a 6600 combine, I went with a custom harvesting crew to Oklahoma and Kansas in 1977 as a 17 year old, Straight cutting wheat with 20 and 22 foot heads,

This is an awesome video Jason. It was great to hear about the production differences between the 1970's equipment and today's equipment. Thank you.

Those were the Good Ole Days. Plowing with a Heat Hauser. Freeze going one direction.Sweat going the other way

Now this is the harvesting I remember as a young man. Good honest work 😀🇺🇸

Thank you for this look at history!

Thank you. 👍👍👍

I use to own and work with a 1978 John Deere 4040 and an IH 720 4-18 plow, fall ploughing corn stalks back in the late Seventies and early Eighties. Great times back then.

It is very cool to see the older equipment at work😁👍 it's impressive how much farm machines have changed over 50 years👍👍

I remember this very well. Lot of good memories.

Hello everyone good vidéo big tractor power good vidéo Good jobs from all vidéo

That’s the way my dad used to do it but I’m so glad for the modern equipment

Love this vedio. That how we sid on are farm. We do not plant corn anymore.

Enjoyed the video Jason

Great video Jason

Excellent video once again big T 👍👍👍 showing how it was done in the decade I was born. Nice touch with the modern comparison as well...

Awesome video, thanks 👍

Great Video,things sure have changed.

Good video.

Good job👍👍👍👍👍

Excellent video! Well presented

Oh man I liked this video!

Good video, Good job brother 👍

awesome video !!!!!!!

You sure put together great content.

I still pick my corn with a new idea two row picker...Takes awhile but it still gets the job done....Im pulling that picker with a 784 international...

Growing up as a kid in the farmer behind my house used to plow with a three bottom reversible plow on a John Deere 4020 tractor and then followed it up with a disk and a Brillion attached. Later they would just chisel plow

Appreciate all the info Jason. It helps to see how it used to be done vs now.

Neat video

enjoyed the vidieo.this is the way dad and i did it

Awesome video! I don't think I have ever seen a narrow front 40 series tractor. Very cool equipment I this one. Thank you.

Thats how I grew up!! Only we had IH tractors.. There was never any green paint on our farm, Dad just liked Red I guess, lol..

Love the old school

Great video Big Tractor Power! Hopefully get our one row picker going as well as our 12 row corn head!

Good 👍

The video quality is sure good for being produced about 50 years ago. Were these videos produced by John Deer,? smart move by the Company to have the for sight to preserve history on how farm equipment and methods of farming have changed with time.

I remember running New idea picker sheller for many acres

The time era we miss

What year was the on land plow start being used ? I pulled an on land plow with a 856 and a few years later we had bigger tractors and larger on land plows

Spend a many cold fall night bottom plowing or chiseling or sowing wheat with 2 cylinder or old formall don't fix land now all notill

If John Deere produced the 5020 tractor from 1965, what year was its predecessor, the 5010, produced from ? Don't recall it being part of the range introduced in 1960, though I may be wrong ?

That old 6600 has some bad slack on the back axle

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Final pass plowing hmm I heard that lots of people would run over it with a disk

Big difference between then and now is nobody was farming 2 or 3 thousand acers back then

So what is the difference between engine horsepower and PTO horsepower???🤷🏼‍♂️

I’ll take ‘70s farming over modern equipment any day. Just look at this stuff! New stuff looks silly.

Great content. A perfect example of what happens to jobs. Fewer farmers making more food on less acres. The jobs did not go to china. The jobs went to people capable of doing them. Stay safe. Pickers were nobody’s friend.

Where is the Matt content???????

Dekalb

We use to pick the whole ears and sell it to hog farmer's around us.