That's exactly the setup I had the luck to drive during my university holidays in Western Australia during the mid 1970's. Two Chamberlain tractors hooked up together and plowing all night long for a couple of weeks. So great to see a similar setup (different brand of tractor) at the 4:37 min mark where he's turned around to adjust the throttle. Great memories of a life long ago! There's another few similar setups too, such a great video.
There is no meditation like plowing as you and your machine become one . you can focus on just making time . flying very much the same .great vids thanx
I guess deep plowing is out of fashion these days for the big farms. Lot of no til planting these days. At most they use a spring tooth harrow / disc / roller combination kind of tool to break up the top few inches. Lot of changes from the old days. Back in my day there were no air conditioned cabs to ride in..... You were out in the elements for every condition you worked in. My Dad and I had leathery, dark faces by the end if the season every year..., It was a badge of honor to me. ha. Had to make something positive out of it,,,,, ha Great clip, Ron Lukow..... Really took me back to the 50's and 60's. Thanks for posting!! Russ
The double tractors reminded me of when one of our neighbors combined the front half of something big, Ford, and 4 wheel drive with something big, Ford, and 2 wheel drive. It did about 25-30mph when the speed limit for a tractor in the UK was 20mph- dunno what it is now. The steering had about a foot of slop in the middle and hair-trigger everything else in the 2 inches of movement either side. Guess who was stupid enough to volunteer to drive it when it was borrowed? The brakes were also hair-trigger.
Buen vídeo 😁👍 me gustó el desfile de tractores ... Lo que me sorprende es ver a los tractores dobles .. me gustaría ver cómo sincronizan el mecanismo de un tractor con el otro 🇲🇽😁🖐️🇺🇸
Brings back tears for the good old days. Farmers getting together to help each other, other times just having fun for braging rights on who has the best tractor.
It sure does. I still plant field corn and sudan grass in my garden just to see it. And sudan grass does help with the root knot nematodes that trouble my tomatoes, LOL
I am late to the show but thanks for the step back Ron, the gal on the 1010 really put a grin on my old mug, the Poppin Johns were a smash hit as well, Old Iron with a work ethic.^^
C'mon guys. You're working flat ground. Piece of cake! Let's get on the side-hill and do some old alfalfa sod. Every other year you have to turn it up hill so you don't end up with helluva dead furrow in the years to come....course you could plow always down-hill and have a flat farm in a 100 years or so....wishful thinkin'. But tuning up hill with 4-14s wasn't fun as the 14" furrow wanted to roll back down...3-16s worked better. That's how we did it in LaCrosse county WI.
O4:39 ...... A Farmall 400 in tandem with an M ..... Love It !!! I'm assuming just a weight -advantage ? How much weight does the front -end of an M add on your draw-bar .. ? If skillfully coordinated with a Driver for the M , I could see a little 4-wheelin action possibilities ....
Excelente los Tractores y los Arados.En mi país Venezuela,esos equipos desaparecieron, trajeron tractores Iraníes,Chinos,unas chatarras de mala calidad.Mi padre tenía un HD4,un Minneapolis Molinne,un Fordson y un Internacional.Eran una maravilla.
I think that it would be nice if you had a caption of what the tractor is. What was the tractor at 16:00. Yellow tricycle with enclosed motor? Assume that it is a MM something.
Question: What do they call the Farmall tandem set-up at 1:55 of the video and where can if find the details of what it takes to put it together? Not that I have the capacity, but I am just curious. John K.
John Koopman : The Farmall tandem is called just that....a Farmall tandem ! Or a JD tandem or a Ford tandem or a Massey tandem. Or just plain simply a tandem. Your welcome !😊😊😊
I have a question does anyone know how many acres is land it takes to grow corn to make 1 gallon of biodiesel so that they could plow the fields for next year? Really I'd like to know does anyone know
brain smith, more horse power means more pulling pulling power alot of them your made because the farmer needed bigger tractors before bigger tractors were made. hope this helps
brain smith, more horse power means more pulling pulling power alot of them your made because the farmer needed bigger tractors before bigger tractors were made. hope this helps
Notice the rear wheel slippage on some of the tractors. 10% was considered "good" -- now with 4WD and better tires we can reduce the slippage and resulting compaction
"Could the owner of a large John Deere tractor please report to the beer tent as you have parked on top of a pig. The owner of a John Deere tractor you have parked on top of a pig."
Thank you for sharing.variety of tractors. In india we don't have these many. Few of the farmers are women. We can't see such thing here..are they participating to exhibit performance of tractors?
Quando comprei arado Ikeda escama de peixe 🎏🐟 povo criticaram melhor arado E depois que comprei Plantio direto Eita vontade de chorar 😢 saudades Santa Cruz do Rio pardo SP Brasil abraços
I had no previous experience, but drove similar conversion in 1975 during my Uni holidays, on night shift plowing for wheat planting. It was quite an easy setup to operate, adjusting the rear throttle to match the "beat" of the front engine. Never worried about _getting run over_ because the front engine took precedence, and the rear engine was brought up to matching power.
What would you think a 3020 would pull in those soils? Look back on the videos from 4 years ago. A 3 btm on a 3020 was too much that year. We consider a 4020D mostly a 4btm tractor in our soils in NE IL. At least that's how we farmed with them.
Three bottoms in that black soil was a load for a 3020. We ran a 4010 pulling a three-bottom flip plow in the Texas Panhandle and it was a load. It all depends on the soil and how deep you're plowing.
I grew up in NE Illinois. Most of the time, we pulled 3-16s with my dad's JD G. In flatlands, we pulled 4-14s. I knew several people with 720s/730s who were pulling 5-16 pull type plows with no problem. Some people just don't want to WORK their tractors.
