Farmall M Plowing with a Little Genius 3x14 Plow | Advice for TikTok Brain! Antique farm tractor in operation on the farm. Vintage farm tractor in operation on the farm. #farmallfanatic #farmall #antiquetractors
I am right there with you, 20 years ago I was all about the F series with the crank starts and now passing 60, crank starting an old F series is not what it used to be.
Trailing implements are certainly in a league of their own. The upside is convincing a gentleman at a plow day who actually operated this type of equipment back in the day to get on & go a few rounds. He hesitated and told me he didn’t want to break anything …… I told him to get on, and not to worry….. If something breaks….. We’ll FIX it !!!!! That big smile on his face when he stopped after 4 rounds was worth everything to me. He confided in the few adjustments he had made and shared the why & what to look for. Now in your case where you are actually working your ground for yourself, I’m with you !!!! Live PTO & live hydraulics, let alone power brakes & steering go a long ways toward actually getting the work done in a timely manner. To each his own as we all have differing situations.
Wow. The video footage of you looking back at the rope trip plow is priceless to me. I know that view oh so well. From a boy around 10 to my early 20s. Sure brought back some drudgery, but mostly fond memories of happy days gone by. Man that’s when farming was FARMING.
Enjoy watching these videos and the auction ones are great. I have the W 6 and 9 series and grew up if you can’t crank start it you can’t drive it. Now I love the electric start. Grew up on Saskatchewan farm never used a plow, my father did with horses, I enjoy learning about your Farmall and plows on your videos. Good work.
Oh, the memories you bring back , like walking the furrow behind grandpa on the H and a two bottom rope trip until the one day that plow opened a ground hornet nest ... needless to say, that's the end of that memory !!! I want to thank you for the memories of the older equipment i grew up with ! Please keep up the great videos ... Thank you .....
I always enjoy your videos. I thank you for your time and effort. Your videos are some of my favorites. I love watching the old equipment work. I feel we share a good amount of opinions. Thank you for thanking us. Hope you have a great day and I'll see you later. You're welcome.
Get the old M going. I used a Super M pulling the same plows back in the 60's. Pulled them no problem Then we bought a new 460 and 3 row 14s quick hitch which worked great and it had power steering which was a game changer. The 460 replaced a 400 we lost in a field fire. My grandpa was throwing a wrench into the toolbox and broke the sediment bowl and she burst into flames. Even.worse was we were bailing hay with it and by the time fire rescue got there rear tires were on fire. I remember that like it was yesterday. I also plowed with a 300 utility pulling 2 14 plows. Thanks for the video
The M sounds good! I have fond memories of my Dad and my Grandfather plowing with our M’s using the same plow. Unfortunately I don’t have an M but I do one of their plows in my front yard. May they both R.I.P.. Great video. Thanks so much.
60 years ago followed my Dad on an M pulling a 2 bottom rope trip. We mostly threw dirt to the middle to counteract years of one way plows. Had to to make furrow irrigation work. When you finished you put a nice thick coat of axle grease on the bottoms
Not to be too nostalgic or sentimental, your videos sharing the C,M and H strengths -return me to a time past -back in the 60’s and 70’s on a 100 acre farm in Mapelton Maine at my great grandfathers potato farm…. Love the sound and power to help the land bring forth its bounty! Keep sharing my friend!!!!!
Grew up on a farm in NY. My uncle, who owned the farm, hated Farmall. He had a Massey-Harris 44. But I always appreciated all the older tractors. I go back to the 40's and 50's on the farm. It is great seeing the older stuff doing farm work. I enjoy your videos. You show some of the fun of farming.
@@FarmallFanatic We had a farmer around the corner from us My uncle liked him and would work with him and he would work with us. They got along very well. He just didn't like Farmall Tractors.
I’m from the old school of moldboard plowing. I was taught that the maximum depth of the plow should only be as deep as 1/2 the width of the shear. This is for good soil turn over and clearance of soil and trash between the plow shin and frame.
I've shaken my head with some of the comments people made on my channel which proved that they didn't actually watch much of the video at all. Your M does have the original hydraulics with the proper IH valve. M&W hydraulics are live. It sure did a good job. Want another Joy Rider seat? I'm sure we have a couple of those kicking around somewhere. A 4 bottom 60 or 70- plow would be nice and you have lots of tractors you can pull one with. I would also like to find one to pull with a WD-9 or something like that. Around here, the 770 plows are common. They are the newer trailing plows (Some are even Case IH) and have auto trips as a rule
I'm pushing 70 and as I get older I like the "creature comforts" more and more but I still enjoy the old way just to be able to say "I can still do it"
Glad to see the mighty M back in the field. I miss hearing that throaty sound it makes. I noticed the right tire of the plow lifting off the ground. That means the points of the plow needs replacing. Maybe you should get that plow in the shop this winter and work on it the whole winter. Lol !!😄😄
Well FF, I for one am glad that you keep putting out videos. I appreciate the time you spend and your point of view on things, we’re all different and farm or have farmed in totally different parts of the country, if not world, so who’s to say what exactly is right or wrong…take care from, I hope a considered core viewer💥🇺🇸💥
Thanks for the great consistent content. I'm kind of like you. When I was a little kid, my grandfather(a long time Western Pa farmer) still insisted on keeping a big team of horses and plowed a lot with them with an old walk behind Oliver plow, even though my older bros bought him a Super C with all the modern attachments. He wouldn't change up until the day he passed,but I enjoy the modern stuff(Hydraulics, cabs, air con, etc). Keep enjoying what you do and entertaining us . Bill
If I had to judge it looked like the M and the 3 bottom did the nicest job of plowing this year even tho you said it was the toughest on you physically...I enjoyed watching...thank you
In my youth I did my own tires. I would always take the time to remove the tire and put a coat of paint on the rims. I have the bead hammer and tire bars. I had the patching equipment to even replace a tire valve on a tube to save money when they were Twenty Bucks. Then I got old so I no longer have tire ballast. Dad had trip plow, planter disc and drill. We never had the pump on the H connected until we bought a used IH 64 combine then we had a single acting cylinder for the header. Maybe the worst thing we had with rope trip equipment was the rope would rot out and break in the field. Still I see your point on Two or Three Point equipment being less fooling around with. As long as the tractor engine is running you should have a hitch to lift your equipment up and down.
Hell yeah breaking out the OG tractor! I'm ready for a brand new small tractor because mine is on its last leg but it's nice not having a payment. You know how nice that would be to have something that you're not waiting for something to break for at least hopefully the first year or so lol. Thanks for sharing and have a great day!
I love the sound of them old tractors. They had a rumble to them, not the roar of diesels nowadays if I ever come across the Tumblebug, I will let you know because then you would have the best set up. If anybody I know on here do you have a two-way turning plow and then you have a tumble two-way turning plowanyway I love your videos
Can't wait to see you in person...next week at red power show down in Bloomsburg at the fairgrounds. I always enjoy the videos. I also own Red power. Several. See you hopefully next week
Never plowed with an M. Grew up plowing with an H and a 2x16 following my dad on a G John Deere with 3x16 plowed many acres that way growing up. Miss them days.
I can agree on creature comforts. It’s fun to occasionally get a reminder on how things used to be, but if it’s something you’re using all day, every day….. Ergonomics are nice. Also makes you wonder why the guys who used the old stuff all day every day have back issues 🤔🤣
Nice of you to thank your viewership 👌 but if you didn't have good content you wouldn't have any viewership 🤔 So Thank You 💪💥 great video of the Mighty M showing the plough whos the boss 💪💪💥Red Power
I know exactly what you mean. Till my back went to hell and took my health with it i use to love to play. Only farmed about 50 acres a year. Helped my neighbor with 200 acres. Them were the good times for me. Now I push my walker and just wish I could do anything. By the way you are looking good, how are your health battles doing. I hope well !!! TAKE CARE BUDDY !!!!
Well you drop about 800 -1000 lbs of weight what you don't expect is difference in the way tractor handles the load . Throwing two sets of wheel weights makes a big difference from experience.My 1941 pulling and handling silage wagons you could get pushed sideways real easy .I ended 4 sets of wheel weights and it maked big difference which I turn my easy adjustment in pulling classes from 5000 to 8500 lbs.I used 3 weight bracket on hitch,belly and one on the front.iI really my on farm because of nine speed m&w really change ground speed also PTO changed to it run about 720 or little more.That 826 and 400 are cat ass in up grades to farm on your level of enjoyment enjoy the summer.
I gotta tell ya you tell it like it is and man I respect that 100%. Someone's always got something stupid to say guess that's why there are so many stupid people out there! To make my point this current administration is just screwing this country into the ground and all these Americans sit around on their cans and do nothing about it. Imagine what our forefathers would have to sat about now! Keep on plowin!
When teaching my boys to use a rope trip Oliver plow they had to learn to be cognizant to just do one quick pull. There were a lot of times when they would unknowing double pull the rope and drop/lift and not start a furrow or lift/drop and run a furrow in the road before they realized it. But they got the hang of it and can now run equipment that is 50-60-70 years old that most people have no clue about. I know gps tractors and push button spray mix sprayers are the present but I also believe a lot of this technology is killing the persons ability to critically think and rationalize a working solution. Old equipment means you are the computer and the solution.
That’s why you take your trip style plow and replace it with the cylinder and yeah, you can put a cylinder on a trip flow just takes a little bit of welding
One of Grandpa's old sayings, "you buy cheap you get cheap", that applies to those cheap Stanley mufflers, they are straight through unbaffled, I do not like the sound of them compared to a real IH muffler .
Your lays are dull not pulling the plow down. We had an old black smith that sharpened them in the old forge then hammer them out. He formed sharp point about 2.5 to three inches wide on the leading point of the lay.
I brought a M a few months ago that has fire crator pistons in it looks like my the inspection camera and that thing has a sound of its own. I really don’t have any implements for the M yet but the long lever on the the plow is depth control and the string is the trip the raise it and lower it? My M has a 3 point on it but it’s the kit where you buy your own cylinders and nobody never put the cylinders on it but they are on the bucket list lol
Ok I’ll admit that I’m a 1% viewer that’s seen enuf plowing and past ready to see some Seeding!! It’s almost mid June for goodness sakes!! You going to push 110 day corn again??
I'm pretty much Gonna do whatever I want... And people are gonna find it entertaining or they're not going to find it entertaining. Either way, i'm to the point I don't care
