wow a AC 200 then a Case 800. I'm loving the oldies and you cant film enough of these kinds of machines in my opinion. I get a little tired of the huge new 1/2 a million dollar set-ups, but I understand that's your bread and butter and there are a lot of them out there and people like "Big" My very first tractor I ever owned was a Case Vac, I was a teenager, 1st gen farmer. I had that tractor, no land, and 4 calves. Very lean times
I Love this video. Great to see these CLASSIC Tractors again. When I was young, my Dad had a CASE 800, and when I was 12 years old I spent lots of time harrowing our fields South of Moosomin, Saskatchewan. Great Memories. Thank You.
I grew up on a farm and cattke ranch in New Mexico (I am 70 now) and we had a LP Gas version of this tractor, and I absolutely loved operating it. Foot throttle and a torque converter lockup lever on the panel. You could get a cultivator or a two bottom plow aligned by feathering the throttle and then after startup roll, drop the lockup and you were on your way on another pass. We had two John Deere B's (one with spokes in all four wheels) and the other the "new" full sheet metal. A F20 Farmall, A WD9 international and a TD 9 Crawler version. Good way to grow up, I never got over it LOL
That is the tractor I started with, around age 10, or so. Helping in the field. Ours was diesel, row crop. Caseomatic drive was excellent. Had mounted 3 bottom plow, and front mount 4 row cultivator. Very efficient tractor.
I started with a Case VAC and have added a Case310 trac-hoe rebuilding the engine. And recently picked up an Case800 terratrac dozer with scarifier on the back. All these give me great pleasure running and restoring in spare time.
Love this old equipment, so cool! That 800 tractor sounds identical to the Case 800 combine my grandfather used to have. It had a 719B Case 4 cylinder gas engine in it. That thing had a sweet sound all of its own under load. We also used to have a CaseIH 5300 soybean special end wheel drill like that. Only ours was a 20 x 6. We pulled it with my dads Farmall M with live hydraulics.
Love the stories and info about the older equipment. Boy there was an amazing lot of good work done back in the day with this older equipment. Thanks, great video!
We've had a couple of ol' JI CASE tractors over the years. Had a 730 CASE-O-MATIC with a gas engine, wide front end,& eagle hitch. Then a 831 COMFORT KING with a diesel engine, wide front end, & 3 point hitch. I also think at one time my dad had a JI CASE 430 utility with the eagle hitch, & an Oliver loader mounted on it. Dad always has had a soft spot for the ol' JI CASE tractors. Thanks for sharing.
See Case and IH working as a team, they were meant to be together for ever . They were always my favorite 2 brands with Allis Chalmers and David Brown being my next favorites.
My first tractor I ever bought on my own is my case 811b wide front. I pulled 3 16 maul board plow and a 12 ft disk with it for 6 years before retiring it to a sprayer tractor. She is now getting a bit of a make over and still going to be a sprayer tractor.
@@bigtractorpower sure did...thanks for showing it. Still use a ji 970 to cut hay. Cousin uses a 931 comfort king. Both use 9' vicons...love the sounds!
We still use a ih 5100 grain drill for winter crops, ours has markers and a small seed box on it. We pull it with a classic JD 4240 . Love every bit of it
@@bigtractorpower ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KmbRm-uirNg.html I've always wondered if you've ever seen one of these. Love your work.
This era of tractor, and older, is what I grew up with... I haven't run anything newer than 80s manufacture... I like the "old iran"... They were built to k last... How many of the newer tractors or combines or bailers will be running when they are as old as this beauty... and the AC I see hooked to the disc? Back in the 50s you could use those old pieces of equipment and support a family on a hundred acres... Not anymore... I think that's sad...
This is why the 70s to 90s full size tractors are very hot right now! No computer problems and they can be repaired alot easier too! Watch some online auctions some the super low hour units sell for about what they were new!
My uncle had an 830 diesel case-o-matic looked just like this tractor but had a wide front. Always enjoyed the sound of that tractor. He also had a Case 830 gas comfort king. Much nicer tractor then the case-o-matic
My uncle had a Case 800 Diesel Case O Matic, '56 Case 300 gas, 1954 DC Case, 1950 SC Case, & a 1937 CC Case. I drove them all. The CC had a straight pipe, no muffler, on rubber, had to turn steering wheel more than half a turn before front wheels moved. The 3 older ones had hand clutches & "chicken roost" steering arms.
I have a 970, 1070, 1370 & 730 My father & grandfather both had a IH 5100 & CIH 5100 for over 30 years they get the job done but take a while to get over some acres but we did it with a gas 460 theory was always the lightest tractor to pull the end wheel drills
I once saw a Case 800 sitting in the driveway in the middle of Indianapolis, must have been someone's project because it was a long way from any field.
That would be good. Often during planting and harvest there is little time to visit. This tractor was bought new by the farm. It came from the factory with out fenders and was recently restored.
The Case-O-Matic decals either are missing or it's not a Case O Matic. Needs fenders, it's so open. Where does he carry his lunch and water? Very nice looking tractor though.
The tractor is a one owner machine and came from the factory with out fenders. It has recently been restored and needs its 800 badge and Case O Matic emblem.
The western special has large square fenders that encase the rear tire to reduce dust and it has a standard front axle. A western special would have pulled a disc plow or chisel plow as well as a press drill for seating winter wheat. You would primarily find one in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Montana.
What is the need for this type of tire on the seeder? I seen this on a John Deere seeder earlier this year. It is the first I ever noticed it. Not a farmer, but I grew up around all this older farm machinery.
It is a marker wheel/tire. It is so you can drive the tractor in a way to make your next pass roughly line up with the last pass without an overlap or a large gap that will be noticeable when the wheat starts popping up out of the ground. Example: overlap/overseed by 6 inches every pass will add up over 50 acres in wasted seed. That also works the other way 6 inches farther away from each pass adds up to lower total yield for the number of acers. A good driver can make it so you can't tell where one pass begins and the other ends. Here is a 90's version of the drilling operation. Not too much is different really other than a more refined design for more accurate seeding rates and seed placement. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tC0zKO5vNag.html
@@chadtheartist5081 In the "olden" days, well even somewhat today, Planters (different from seed drills like this) use(d) marker arms with a disc that dug a furrow that on the next pass you guided the center of the tractor to plant consistent row spacing. Tractors had/have a raised chrome ornament or crease in the hood as a "sight" to aim for the marker furrow. You can kinda see it on this tractor it can be more pronounced on other brands/models. Typically only found on tractors designed for row crop and not on "standard or wheatland" tractors without adjustable wheels. Here is my modern late 90's tractor and planter using marker arms www.thejunkmanadv.com/uploads/8/4/0/3/8403513/littlecatplanter_orig.jpg
@@thejunkman I appreciate this as well. I am familiar with the ridge markers on planters. I guess I found it odd that box seeders never seem to have them. I grew up watching 4020's, narrow front 3020's, and narrow front poppin Johnny's. farm the three field's behind my house. I used to get so excited to watch them work. They had a 95 combine as well. They used to ear pick with the picker that would attach to the front on their narrow front 2 cylinder Deere. And they had one Oliver. It had a distinct sound.. Sounded like it was always a full rev as it ran the gravity wagons to and from the field.
A modern gas tractor is such over looked from big brands. We can make very fuel efficient gas motors now. Heck the price alone vs diesel would make a average utility or row crop tractor very attractive to farmers. There is a reason these gas tractor keep getting used.
@@bigtractorpower not entirely sure just know grandad got it new and if I remember right it was in the early to mid 70s . we nicknamed it little red and mostly use it as a feed tractor
