John Deere 40 Combine Harvester 

In 1958 i had the misfortune to break two JD 45 combines in one day , boss was proud of me !!

It makes me wonder just how proud they were when they got that awesome machine brand new on the farm. The whole family, neighbors and all the children come over to see and watch it working the first time. Can you imagine all the excitement that was going around that day. Thanks for sharing today

I’m 67 and grew up on a small farm in Oregon. I did most of the combine work with a JD45 w/10’ head. Dad started sending me to do custom work and e we would do several hundred acres with this for several years! We had some 100 degree summers and it was hot on the open station! I still would love to have those years back again! Thanks for sharing the video👍😄

My dad and grandpa had 45 round backs. In the summer I used to love riding with my dad as he cut the wheat. How I wish I could ride with him just one more time. Thank you for posting this video. It brings back some of the happiest times of my life.

People laugh because we gear every piece of equipment on this farm around the 4020s. Very cool combine. Enjoy my friend

I Was 80 last October and I remember an old Alice Chalmers with a canvas apron and the wooden slats across it. Had a platform on the side where and stood and filled two bags. You filled one bag and then switched to the other bag... and droped the bag to the ground after you tied it closed with a Miller's knot I remember that just like it was yesterday.

Best way to preserve these old machines is to keep them working! 👍

My uncle had a Massey 310 combine - fall of 76 I helped him with his corn crop . He milked cows so we put high moisture shelled corn in a Harvestore silo . The 310 had a Chrysler slant 6 and a 2 row corn head - plenty of power and plenty of fresh air ! She was a open platform machine .

Oh the memories of being on an open station combine with my Grandpa during harvest time when I was a youngster on the farm

That john deere combine is an absolute beauty

We had the exact same one. Grew up on a dairy farm and we bled green mostly. JD 4020 a 2510 and not a Deere but an Oliver 77 row crop my favorite of all! we had tractors every where, Farmalls H and a B that thing was neat. it had the long offset rear axle. and a couple super A's When I seen your 40 it instantly took me back to a much better part of my life and time. Thanks! ps. the 40 looked a lot bigger when I was a kid!

Nice video we had 2 JD 45's then made a big jump to a JD 105 amazing machines.Thanks for your video.

I love watching the old machines at work. Back when we ran that stuff we could make a living farming with the family! I started out with a round back 55 that I paid less than 1K, turn key ready!

My dad had a john deere 55 and my neighbor growing up had a john deere 45. The neighbor did wheat and oats with it. We bought his straw off the field for bedding.

I like the old stuff it works better than the new crap.

Just a Awesome small machine working away,

The first harvest that I was a full time combine driver was on an old C Gleaner. Good old machine. Only put one bearing in all of harvest, on a straw spreder.

I can remember as a kid, my uncle and granfather running an Allis Chalmers All Crop with a farmall 450 doing oats and a neighbor doing oats and corn with a Gleaner F.

Cool machine something you don't see everyday

The one farm I worked on as a teenager had an early 70's Gleaner combine. It was fun to run and a lot simpler then the modern day combines!

I had a John Deere model 42 pull type combine. Used it for wheat, soybeans , and sunflowers in southern Maryland

I-84 I started running combine in 1951 a Moline 69 harvester my boys have three big John Deere rotary combines my first combine was a Moline W-4 self-propelled on a uni tractor

I've got a 45 that hasn't been run in about 12 years. You're making me want to get it out again!

That’s so nice to see it run, my dad had two ‘55s I can remember riding with him a little when I was a kid, his had cabs on them but no heat or air as well as I can remember.

we had two john deere 45's over the years of farming. I shelled a lot of corn two rows at a time!

Enjoyed your video as a kid my dad had a 141 round back international later date had a 303 he ran alongside my uncles 203 on my first farm I had a 403 international and I first Johndeere was a 4400 I will remember and enjoyed John Deere combines that friends have had clear up to the 105 edible been As I got along in life I had leased two different 4420s then I bought a 6620 in my last combine before I retired was an 8820 Tytan two with rear wheel assist enjoyed your video very much so thanks for sharing

great video Tom! My father always talks about his first memory of my grandfather getting a new combine from Halpin's and it was a JD 40...not sure if it was a round or square...but he still remembers Teddy Halpin riding around one of our fields showing my grandfather how to run it.

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I farm in south eastern Minnesota. I swath and combine a good amount of oats mine and custom. I averaged about 180 to 200 acres per year and I do it all with an 800 ten foot John Deere swather and an f2 gleaner combine. Great vid

We had a Arbos combine. It was built in Italy. Had a Ford 6 cil diesel. Grandpa bought it new in 1967? Arbos was taken over by White but went bankrupt. A few years ago the Chinese started building tractors under the Arbos name

We had a gleaner e open station, worked great. We also had a 2 row corn head for it. We left it parked in the shed for a couple of years when we had too many acres and a bigger combine was hired, A few years turned in to 20 or so years and the shed was not big enough for everything so something had to go. Now that the farm is smaller again, I miss the little combine. You should be wearing a mask. Take care 👍🇨🇦🚜❤️

I remember this being used in the fields.

Cant beat the older machinery. Simple and reliable. Bit like people nowadays. Bought a Massey 860 this year and doing great. Same quality sample as the neighbors Lexion for a fraction of the price

We had a JD40 ran it several years back in 1970s. I thought it was a big improvement over TheJD 30 pull type sack tie combine. I eat and breathe a lot of dust back in the days. I don’t think I could stand it today at 71 years old. How are we still living after all that dusty conditions we were working in back then.

My first combining job was at age 13 in 1977 on my grandfather's round back JD 95 with a 16' head in Arriba, CO.

I grew up around IH combines. Starting with a 121 and the last one was a 403. These new machines are amazing but it's ironic that they can't cut when the computor quits, lol.

We used to go around the corn field twice with the grain drill so we could combine the oats off and open the corn field.

Morning I have one exactly like that sitting in the barn .

We had a 1954 CCIL in Saskatchewan. Used it for at least 12 years. It is now in the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon

i wish i had one like this here!...

MH 90 Special, MH82, JD 55 High Tank, and JD55 Low Tank Square Back with adjustable reel speed and best machine of the bunch. A guy wanted a 55, came to check it out, we took it to the field ahead of a rain, started raining on a half-mile stretch, kept sprinkling, mudded through various wet spots with weeds coming up (really wet Kansas June harvest) we made it out and on way back to barn he asked if I'd take $500 less than I was asking. I replied that "you just saw what it can do.......waited.....he said he'd take it) Ah the good old days.

Hello everyone great vidéo Tom

I love this video ❤

So nice, I would never sell it. Do you have any idea as to the year of manufacture? Thank you for allowing us the pleasure of seeing it.

I would love to find a small combine like this.. very difficult to find in texas..

i ffinished wearing 3 '55's doing beans for neighbors. You coupd see the muffler glow orange at night.

I have a square back 40 combine!

Please pardon my ignorance, honestly learning about farming. In the section where you have multiple combines going: I see 2 large combines harvesting corn. What looks like a 4020 pulling a single row corn combine. What's the JD 40 doing in front with what looks like a grain header?

I got a little Gleaner T3 made in 1954 I restored a few years ago. I'd love to put it up against your 40 in any crop! Mines got a 10 foot header an a FORD 172 Red Tiger Engine on her.

Good old wheat. Makesxa few bucks. Just not enough.

Round back John Deere 45 forgot the year

Good morning, what state would that be in? We bought another one from Ohio but it’s kinda rough.

Had a Massey Ferguson 410 combine

Grow up with a 40 my dad bought new

hola, donde es? en que pais es? Hello were is it? in wat conutry?

503 IH Diesel

Not as homely as the x9

amassey 788 allis gleaner super a

Cut my teeth on a 95 John Deere