Thank God for farmers .This old machinery works perty good . I remember as a teenager going out in a field to weld the front of a combine that had broken off with my father he was the only one around at that time with a portable welder . Early 1970s
I miss the smell and sounds of my grandpa farmall 706, super m, and h. The sounds of each running, the cool fall air, grandma's cooking, and the cool fall air...the best parts of my childhood
Great video! Love seeing all of the old farm equipment working! Takes me back to my childhood on the farm! Thanks for sharing! Have a great and awesome day!
If we could go back in time and figure out a way to keep all of these companies in business. I'm really impressed with the speed of these old machines. I don't think I've ever seen an LP Oliver or a self propelled corn picker before. Cool
Almost all of the companies on the video are still in existence, in on form or another. They got bought out or merged with another small company and then got bought out and renamed, etc., but you can still trace their offspring, many to Champion.
Are these older models able to handle today's high yield corn crops or did they have to plant varieties of corn suitable for these machines to harvest? I would imagine some of the smaller capacity combines would fill up fairly fast on a high yield corn field! :D I'm from Australia, love to see videos like this on RU-vid, many thanks to the organizers who put this together!
I often do show production dates and general specs when I show tractors. Corn pockets and combines are a little tougher to track down all the details on. I have a fairly complete literature collection on every major brand from 1960 though 2020. Tractor manufactures often print a new sales brochure on a tractor each year so it’s easy to track a production run from start to finish. With corn pickers the farm equipment manufacture often printed one brochure and never updated it again as the corn picker was a lower selling unit and had no changes. With combines models like the John Deere 45 shown in this video were produced from 1945 to 1969. Although the 45 in this video is a later 1966-1969. If I can pin point production I like to share it. If I am unsure I don’t like to guess. Over all all the machines you see in this video minus the corn belt corn picker loading the Jeep F11 were built from the late 1950’s through the 1960’s. Thank you for watching.
Had a 45 Deere then a 403 International. Just right for a 300 acre farm. That was a sharp looking D17 with the big front tires. When I was 12 years old my neighbor had a 4000 Ford and a two row New Idea corn picker. Thought that was the biggest piece of machinery. Nothing like the behemoths of today.
Allot of dairy farms when I was growing up in the late 70’s and early 80’s had combines this and also ran New Idea pickers. It was a neat time in farming.
Hey, James. Just watched this, and yes very cool. But that truck is actually a Jeep FC180 I believe. We had the 1/2 ton version short bed, an fc150. 1960
The show needs more Massey, Allis and FORD. I wanted to share some clips and angles not show in previous videos to help promote next years show. It’s only 361 days away 😁
My Dad put a swamp cooler on top of the cab for air conditioning. Every time we got a little sideways, you’d get a face full of some funky smelling water. Lucky we didn’t get legionnaires disease!
Now I have to ask my Dad which model Case combine he had when I was really young. The 2nd machine I remember was a JD 3300. Looked like they were harvesting wide rows, and I know my Dad switched to narrow the 1st year Case built narrow heads.
These are 38 inch rows. Wide rows like these were common through the late 60’s and began to give way to 30 inch rows in the 70’s. I grew up around a Case 1060 combine that had a 3 row corn head. I hope to find one to film some day.
@@bigtractorpower He had 3 row narrow corn heads squeezed down to 28" rows for both the Case in the late '60s and 3300 JD early '70s, he eventually went up to 29" rows in '81 when he bought a IH 800 planter and couldn't squeeze it down to 28". He didn't go to 30" until he switched back to a Case combine with a 1063 cornhead in '91. I had just got off the phone with him when I saw this, but will ask him what the model was on the Case combine next time I talk to him.
I like the guy driving the JD 730 LP tractor and steering with his leg, as he's taking pictures on his phone! =) Always love your videos my friend. - Dave
Now how does one get in that 856 at 1:30? Crawl thru the window? I remember helping friends pick corn with 2 row picker on a JD 730 deisel narrow front, we hauled wagons with a JD 3020 narrow front, and ran the elevator with a Farmall model H.
5:30 and after...some poor person has to shell that stuff(which was me for a few summers in high school in the late 80's in NW Iowa), hopefully right after it's hauled in from the field and not after it's been all but dynamited out of a wire crib after sitting for a couple seasons.
We have allis d17 i wish it was a d19 like the orange and we have a few older fords dads 80 and never sold one tractor even though we have 20 tractors and we still buy modern tractors at 10:20 that red pucker with bent down shute dose horable job knocks down more corn then any thing inless that is the idear only to pic the corn
You labeled the first two John Deere combines as "95" when they were showing "45". Did you just get excited for the "9" key, or were they rebuilt to 495 standards??
New machines will use less fuel per bushel harvested and i'm sure the old iron set right will thresh as clean a sample but thats where the comparison ends.
Very good question. The short answer is they have two corn shelters running and they truck the grain out and spread the cobs back on the field. The long action answer comes in this 17 minute video I made on it posted at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OfyvR6gT8AQ.html
We pulled many a wagon with our 8N! It has a drawbar that we would raise to shift the weight more on the rear when pulling was hard. Many, many times I had to steer using the brakes because I was running the front end up in the air! Good times!!! My mom (at 89) still is on the family farm and still owns the old 8N.
