Farming like its 1960 

I was 7 years old in 1960...the oldest son. 120 acre farm. A 2 and a 3 bottom plow. 2 row planter. 4 row cultivator. A single row corn picker. 10 foot drill. A pull along combine. 12,000 chickens we fed by hand. 20 sows-farrow to finish. Fed out 20 steers. Dad worked in town. I plowed, disked and harrowed a lot...and cultivated. My sister-who was a year older and I fed the chickens and I fed the steers-climbing up the silo in the winter and throwing down silage. The good old days ;)

Growing up on a small farm has to be the greates life ever and you will never know it until you get older.

Love the 400. The old ones are the best

"The old man put the roller on Percy.. because he likes it better.. Percy doesn't have any brakes." My father was not much for brakes on a couple of his tractors too.

Great and heart warming video. Spent a lifetime with farmers large and small. MF distributor in sixties and own mobile Agricultural Engineer for rest of time to retiring at seventy, all makes and models and industrial as well but happiest out in the field. Wonderful people and great machinery in all weathers. I watched this man making an adjustment to the combine and just wish I could be there to help, getting on now but still get about among old customers and help with preparations for hay and harvest etc. wish you a long and happy time a video to lift the hearts old blokes to be sure.

I grew up on a farm in Southern Ontario, Canada with MH/MF tractors. This sure brings back a lot of memories. Times were much simpler then. 😊

Brilliant video you made there, shows that not everyone needs or has brand new plant to work with. We still farm with the old gear as well as some modern stuff, the spring barley is drilled with a 1966 Massey Ferguson 135 and a 1982 Massey 30 seed drill, we spray it with a 1974 Massey Ferguson 185 and 12 meter Hardi sprayer, cut it with a 1974 New Holland 1530 that has a 10 foot cut, turn the straw with a Jones Mini tedder and square bale some of it with the 185 and a Jones 12T square baler from the 70's. We do plough with a 2001 Massey Ferguson 6270 and four furrow reversible 160 headstock Kvernland model E plough from the late 90's and power harrow the ground with a 1998 Maschio 3 meter power harrow, some round bales are baled with a 1997 Welger RP 200, they are still oldish machinery as well but it works absolutely fine for us and we intend to keep doing it that way

Thanks for that brings back a lot of great memories might have been hard work but didn't know any other way at the time 👍👍

Fantastic video..brought back great memories when i worked for a local farmer back in the 80's too the mid 90's..was so impressed with his massy ranging from a 135. 165 168 188..within 7 years moved on up made the 165 redundant and invested in a 240 and a 390.within 2 more years the 168 became redundant and he bought another 390T..was mainly into patateo's and tillage barley and winter sugar beet. Always more so enjoyed summer patateo picking 4 stone paper bags back braking work shaking stalks and filling bags. Personally my favourite tractor at the time was the 188 white tarpoling cab plastic windows except the windows on the door and windscreen wiper was pure crap..but over all that 188 was a great tractor well able too pull the 390 out of the odd trench in the headland now and again while rotavating..👍👍🤣🤣🫣🫣🤟🤟Again great memories thanks for your video and hope terrance and percy are still doing great work for you..👍👍🤟🤟💕

Brought back memories for me with the combines and the tractors. The first tractor I had was a fordson major with no cab I also had Ferguson 65 a Nuffield and Finnished with a Ferguson 165 all the tractors I drove where all polished and I looked after them.

Brings back memories when i was a kid an my dad worked on the farm,taking my dads flask of tea and old gas mask bag for a lunchbag full of sandwiches when he was combining . The Life was so slower in those days, when we mived to the farm in 1976 there were 8 full time workers, it was originally beef cattle and arable, when my dad retired in 1997 there were two men, now theres no full time Workers and all work is done by contractors in hrs not weeks, a real sad affair. Thank you for helping bring back the good old days , brought a smile to my "57" yr old face

Great to watch, brings back good memories. Thank you from down under..nz.

Brilliant video 🚜🚜

Need to share small bits of this more often, it’s incredible.

As a teenager I worked on several farms with balers, one where I had to pick up the loose bales in the field and stack them into bricks of eight, four high and the other had a ride on sledge where I stacked the bales into triangles of ten again four high, backbreaking work for a fourteen year old, but I did get paid one old penny per bale (240 = 1 pound) a fortune at the time!

When I was 8 yrs old, in 1960, our bailer was a late 40s McCormick, I think it had a canvas pick-up lifting the hay, with its own Wisconsin engine, and no pto hook up… the tractor was a Ferguson 30, our bales were long, and about 100lbs… I drove that rig…

Absolutely lovely part of Britain you have, time taken to make this video is much appreciated and very well done, what your showing is exactly what we did with the very same equipment/combine etc, we got ours done like everyone else did without a lot of rushing about like they do nowadays.

Your are so lucky to do this job. I wish I had a job on the farm .Happy days I the 70s.

Just like being at my grandfathers small holding in the 60's and 70's and his gray Fergie. Just not long bought a more modern tractor. 1974 David Brown 996. No brakes,slow to start and poor hydraulics. Working on it to restore it. My other tractor 1955 Fordson Major. M😀 Good vid.

Excellent video. Worked for a Massey Ferguson dealership from 1974 till 2002. Great to see the red kit getting a good workout as intended. Combine looks excellent for its age, obviously been looked after and kept undercover. Im sure it will still be trundling around the field when all the modern combines have gone to meet their makers.

Oh the itchy oats. Just the sight of the dust is making me itch.

Spotted the video while looking through and the bales and the flat eight reminds me childhood my father having 5 conventional balers that be contracted out and then it changing to the Hesstons which was massive adjustment

I love old equipment it's gonna last longer than the new for sure

This is exactly how I play Farm Simulator :) I couldn't care less about the big modern stuff :)

Nice job 😊

My family enjoys the same problems too chap . Get them kids busy learning , we’re getting old 🤷‍♂️🤞

The tractor on the trailer looks a bit more modern than the 1960’s haha!!!!

Great video. A bale sledge was a rarity back in the day. The common practise was for the bales to be dropped randomly as they were ejected from the baler.

Cool as! Though not quite Clarkson's Farm 🤣🤣

Thank you. I enjoyed your video. Grew up with your machinery on our mixed farm in the Midlands, inc MF35, MF65, MF 178 & MF185 tractors. My RU-vid name reflects your MF400 combines predecessor. Would love to come and drive your kit 😊. We had a simple sledge initially and bales had to be set up in the field by hand, later replaced by a Brown's flat eight system, with bale sledge, loader and 56 bale carrier, which was excellent and removed a lot of manual handling.

Ahoj. Teda chlape , jedním slovem paráda. Krásný souhrn sezony na farmě. Ať se daří . God bless.

Have just seen this 😂😂 very good keep it up I’ve never seen your old man so serious

Madness!

Good luck to you guys! I particularly like that you and some friends, neighbours muck in to plant and then share the crop of potato's. I'm guessing you're West Country, Devon, Dorset, Somerset? Try and make more use of the head cam. Cheers.

1:02 It's an open front header as opposed to a comb front header

Nice video, especially interesting to see Percy. Is it a 539 or 533? I sold my '77 533 last year because i needed a faster tractor as i use it on 2 locations which are 5,5 miles from each other, but it was a great machine for the sort of work that didn't need a very strong engine. For mowing and working smaller plots it's excellent. Howcome it doesn't have headlights?

Did you get rid of the bale sled? I am interested in it.

Man driving combine inviting accident to the unloading auger.

where is your farm located?

I hated those old MF combines. You could never get to the engine and they started a lot of fires in the fields in Kansas.

Sick of all the adverts will not be watching any more videos!

at least mo computers and electrics to go wrong

Wildflowers? You must farm with money.

I'm guessing this is a u tube clown show for u tube. Who would ever put a 10 foot reel on a header for a 410 combine.

What a disappointment your title was farming like it's 1960 and the only piece of kit I saw that was from 1960 was the combine the Massey Ferguson tractor was from the 100 range and the only came out mid to late sixty's the baler is from the 70s/80s the cooks sledge you slated so was from the 80s and only in need of some tlc and (Percy) looks to be a Tafe copy of a MF35 from the 1980s and there is no excuse for running it with no brakes all parts are really available and dirt cheap