DELUXE | John Deere 4020 Tractor 

74 yr old farm kid raised, now city dweller,enjoys the machinery I grew up on(3020,4010,400 IHC,JD A,1939 Oliver 80 gas). Envy the sizes of equipment available today. Jason so lucky you get to be in/experience 1st hand old to new........ Keep the videos coming!

What a great sound.We ran 2 of them for a lot of years.One was a power shift.Loved them both.They could do anything we needed done.Light work,heavy pulling ,pto work and just fun to drive.Tuff as nails!!!

One option you missed was the PowerShift disconnect lever on the left side of the cowl. It was to aid in cold starting. The other thing worth mentioning is the hydraulic pump in the Hydrostatic FWA possessed twice the capacity of the regular pump. From the sounds of this one when it is turned on, either a hard line bracket has broken or the main relief valve has seen better days due to likely overheating. These tractors are pushing oil thru the hubs even with it turned off which is soaking power. Imagine when it is cold out! In the low setting, you got a little something for the effort. They could turn way tighter than a MFWD, but that is about the only advantage they had. Need to leave the weights off the front of these tractors, the axle itself was usually enough ballast for 2WD. If they didn't slip some when on the high setting, they heated up the hydraulics fast when pulling hard.

jd4020 has got to be the best tractor ever made for all around farming its big enough to do heavy work and small enough to do light work and the powershift was better than any other transmission they had back then no other company had a transmission that was as good as this and these tractors never lose their value

4020 diesel.....one of the greatest tractors ever built......Thanks for the video

the JD 4020 is like a Coyote and cockroaches,itll be around forever,not much can killem,they just keep going,awesome Tractor

That's an interesting machine with the FWA. I grew up with one just like this, minus the FWA, same side console, powershift, but we had a very nice hiniker cab on it. I am not a fan of 4020's. It makes a great chore tractor. It makes a mediocre workhorse. On hot summers, you didn't dare shut it down or it wouldn't restart until the whole tractor cooled off. If we tried to make it work pulling, it would buck back and something would break, at one point it was in the shop getting the powershift fixed because dad made the mistake of thinking we could try to plow with it, next month it was back getting some hydraulic issue fixed because one of the remotes just up and quit working, and two months later something else happened where it would go into gear, but there was this wierd delay and then a big jerk when it engaged. We had a lot of loaner tractor time that summer. We only had 34's on the back of ours, so maybe that had something to do with it, but IMO the engines do not lug past maybe a 200 rpm drop. They just start losing power and can't recover, so the tractor could either do the work, or not, there wasn't much in between. This was a big deal because we farmed hills, and varied soil from sandy to loam to red clay. I am sure a lot of guys farming flat black earth have stories about how nice a 4020 was. We enjoyed it on our corn planter and for chore work, but we didn;t use it to till, it would just run out of steam and peeter out on the transitions from flat ground to sandy hills, or worse, red clay, or mostly impossible for it, red clay hills. We had good use of it on our haybine later on also when we picked up a larger one, the 4020 seemed to excel on lighter pulling work, or PTO jobs. For the heavy work though, it couldn't hold a candle to our Case 1030, and our smaller David Brown 1200 gave it a run for it's money too. We rented a David Brown 1410 one summer, THAT was an excellent tractor for that HP range. Different strokes for different folks, and if ya love these tractors, that's just fine. But years of operating one on a dairy and the frustration of dealing with it's limitations leaves it on the bench for me.

All the Deere’s had that same sound. A lovely ole work horse.

The 4020 in my opinion is one of the main staple tractors in farming

Some rich looking soil.

I’ve never seen a 4020 with a 4wd before. Bet that thing would bring 3-4 times what it was new on a auction today!

I spent 100's of hours on Dad's 4020 after I got out of the Navy. i worked with him the first year I got out. He did custom chopping pulling a JD 38 chopper.

This tractor is a thing of beauty!!!

Fully enclosed climate controlled cab without one once of insulation ,my how things have changed !!! Still the coolest tractor Deere will ever build !! Thanks for the video

I got a 2004 5320 cab 2wd John Deere 64hp fluid in the tires can pull 3.16's plow. And I got a 1990 Massey Ferguson 3070 cab 2wd 90hp fluid in tires that pulls 4.16's plow, that could probably pull 5.16's as heavy as the tractor is built.

I have a 71 4020 with a canopy . When I got married I told my wife it goes with me no matter what

That powershift seems like a very nice feature so long as it's working right

probably over 100,000 of them still in service ins some capacity

A friend and neighbor of mine used to have a guy chop his hay and he had a 4020. I loved to watch him chop hay with it.

Jason I don’t know if it’s something you’d like to video or not but every year the second weekend in October the Antique Steam & Gas Engine Club puts on our fall show at Boonville, IN. Just east of Evansville. We pick corn, plow, disk, field cultivate, harrow, spread fertilizer, and plant winter wheat. We also have a corn shelling demonstration with a JD No 6 sheller. Some of the rarer pieces that come every year are a Massey Harris self propelled picker MF 97 LP and diesel, 98. Various different Molines, Oliver’s, and more

I enjoy your older iron videos just as much as the new tractor ones. So interesting to see these tractors still getting the job done. Was this some type of plowing day as there were other colour tractors and plows in the field near the end of the video. Sure looks like beautiful rich soil on that farm as well.

Love it! Didn’t know those cabs could come with heat, let alone air conditioning. I’d love that cab on my 3010

We had a 4640 with FWA , kept blowing hydraulic lines .

I don't have any firsthand knowledge but the hydrostatic fwd didn't have a good reputation in the area where I grew up. I've only seen it on the 30 series myself. Great tractor and video, thank you.

Bravo; Classic John Deere 4020 Tractor.

So beautiful, I think every farmer love the old JD's, I believe Oliver plows were very popular

Tractors don’t have to have electronics and fancy details to get the job done

BACK IN THE EARLY 1970'S WE HAD A GUY WHO HAD A JOHN DEERE 4020 FWA.CAB.LOADER AND POWERSHIFT CUT CORN FOR US IT WAS SOME GREAT TRACTOR.THANKS FOR THE VIDEO IT BROUGHT BACK GREAT MEMORIES.

Real Cool. A model highly sought after by classic tractor collectors. A huge following of John Deere aficionados. Very nice photography. The farmland is picturesque. Can almost smell the freshly ploughed earth. A Classic BTP Episode🚜👍

Love to see the 4020 in action it will always be one of my favorites tractors great video 👍

And on the eighth day God said "I need a tractor!" And helped John Deere create the 4020

Boy howdy a Cadillac for 1969...Muscle Tractor.!!!

It's the most beautiful tractor I've ever seen.

My favorite tractor!!!!

My Uncle, now retired, later had a 4240 that he absolutely loved.

Awesome video! Love the Oliver 546 plow. We have a 5 bottom we pull behind a 1984 8010 Allis-Chalmers.

Nice tractor. Oliver made a great plow as well. They pulled easier than other brands for some reason.

I joy all your videos. I had a 64 4020 and 71 4320 both good tractors.

Hello BigTractorPower, WOW, you really out did yourself this time! I really Love those John Deere 4020's and especially with the powershift and Hydraulic Front Wheel Assist. These are the definition of classic. I grew up somewhere between 75 to 125 miles North of there near the town of Mazeppa MN. I had a John Deere 4000 (Which is a 4020 with a 4010 transmission) and a International Harvester 710 AR 4-18" plow. Thank you very, very much for your fantastic video as well as your great commentary. Thanks, Bill

Cool tractor! Love the fact that she's still working ground. No show queen.

3:18 dude straight up grabbed a gear while plowing

If he were to ever sell that I’d be there with the keys to my house that’s a beautiful tractor

Man that 4020 has all the best things on it that’s awesome I love it

Best tractor ever made!

I guess up watching my dad run a 4020 FWD. by far my favorite tractor.

Great part about being hydraulic fwa is the turning radius, cant crank the hubs over like that in a mechanical drive. That 4020 needs 2 more boards behind it, lol.

Yes thats rare unit nice soil thanks

R-series of his times. :) Nice to see this rare version in action.

4320 was my favorite but it was only made for a couple years before the 30 series was introduced.

Love that 4020 my had a power shift and synco tranny I learned at 7 year old how to drive plowing in 3rd gear in a 100 acre field and dissing in 5th with a 4row disc

That thing is neat

Awesome tractor! I’ve always thought the series were cool but the rare few with HFWA have always been my personal favorites, thank you for sharing:)

In my opinion, John Deere's most successful tractor. I've never seen one with front assist.

Extremely rare to see the 4020 FWD... And with cab, even more... Awesome tractor i love it

Nice video haven't seen a hydrostatic front wheel drive 4020. Thst Oliver plow looked brand new. Maybe that always was stored in the barn out of the weather.

A few months ago there was a john deere 4620 with cab and 2 wheel drive for sale but being a city boy I dont have a use for it. I wish I did.

Def a rare find mike. Awesome video, the original owner must’ve really had the town chattering bout the $ spent on such a loaded 4020.

Absolutely love this tractor

An oldie but goldie 👍🏻

I didn't know it had a front wheel assist option. How cool an awesome tractor even better

The Oliver plow was the best in it's day.

The hydrostatic front wheel assist- does that work similar to say a rear wheel assist on a combine? Similar to say an axle off a 7720 combine? Never seen or heard of such an option on a 4020, but very cool indeed.

Loved the video & information of my favorite tractor ever, the John Deere 4020. As a boy growing up, the farmer behind our house had a row crop & a trike which he gave rides to me.

This was'back when they made real tractors this model was a damn work haas

4020 was always favorite deere, dad had some johnny poppers when started and that was it, after that we had a blend of colors, orange, blue that dad purchased new in 62 that brother still has, yellow, red, and the other green

I always wondered why they choked it with that teeny little exhaust pipe on the late model ones. Many of the ones around here that did a lot of heavy tillage ended up with an M&W turbo kit. Some had the Red Rooster LP assist that mounted a small LP tank on the front, when they hit a tough spot,it metered some propane into the intake for a power boost.

Very rare optioned machine!

@bigtractorpower when he flipped the switch to 12 o’clock what did he call that setting ? I heard 4wd normal , 2 wheel but couldn’t catch it. Maybe 4 wheel diff lock ?

If the farmer that is doing the disking, knows his job, he can fill in the dead furrow. Also you can plant corn any number of ways.

We’d refer that in England as; having all the bell’s and whistle’s. Can anyone explain what the smoke coming from the bottom of the engine @ 3:34 is? Looks like it’s coming from the side of the oil pan? Thanks

Awesome guys thanks

Great video, love watching moldboard plows rolling it over. Never new they made a 4020 4 wheel drive.

What a nice looking tractor would be interesting to know how many were optioned up like that

Love the 4020. Favourite all time.. Haven't gotten used to it being called a 'classic' yet though. What does that make me? 😏

Sounds great also with original muffler 😎 But i like straight pipes too.

Power Shift, the best

Excellent video Jason thanks for the classic

Has always you do a Outstanding job, with your videos. Your voice add a captivating charisma, to your videos. Tractor, Plow and Operator are Great. Enjoyed it.

Best video ever!!!

I'm not positive but I thought the 69-70 4020s came with Stolper cabs with the fan box on roof in the front left corner and the Hinson cabs came out in 71 with the A/C box front and center on roof.

That tractor has a stopler cab, not a hinson. And no ac, do you see a compressor on it..

John Deere holy Grail

11:30 have those farmers ever considered trying ploughing the first furrow in the middle of the field and then plough outwards towards each headland (side of the field)? No dead furrows can be got from that method. The ultimate solution is a reversible. That's not a pop at those farmers as I complement them on using old machinery to get a return on their sizable investment many decades ago. But I haven't seen a dead furrow in Ireland all my growing up as a boy in the late 80s, before the reversibles arrived mid-90s.

Nice vintage tractor, I'm in the process of purchasing a JD 1020 myself

Hat 4020 struggled a little with a 4bot but he was in hay ground a little harder going boy those dead ferral's were in pain in the neck if you didn't strick out your land good and square you sure could make a mess out of the field nice video I like how you try and mix up your videos between all the different makes and models I have some pretty good stories of plowing at knight any way thanks

It seems strange seeing a 4020 that isn't 2wd, excellent find and video. I'm guessing that it is down to the simplicity of the conventional plough that a lot of farms in America didn't go the way of the reversible plough so that they could plough all the same way across the field

Great tractor

Look at the dark black soil!

Anyone know how effective the hydraulic front wheel assist was on those tractors?

That's awesome I didn't know the 4020 had a deluxe edition

What was the older John Deere working in field looked like maybe John Deere A , That 4020 should had a 5 or 6 bottom plow , we pulled a 3 bottom behind our 2010 gas. didn't have near the horse power as this 4020 with front wheel assist

This was 14 grand when it was new. Now a new tractor with the same HP and same features costs nearly 100 grand.

That’s a really nice tractor

Que tipo de motor idraulico yevan las llantas delanteras ycomo lo icieron si se pudiera saber grasias

Thx for this film and your infos !

we have a '72 4020 with cab and power shift

Do you know where to get the toggle switch for the 4 wheel assist

The 3 pt looks like it needs to be adjusted for the plow to pull level.

Hi using a reverse able plough is much easier and you don’t get a huge trench.

Plus I believe the early 4020’s only had 85hp.