I'm 26 and I agree. I'm restoring a 59 530 and eventually want to get an old 494a planter, 227 picker, and 50 sheller for it just to do the few acres I have. My brother and I farm together on dad's land with the new stuff, but nothing makes my day more than having an excuse to use old "putt putt" for something.
You ever wonder what today's farmers would make of how you actually needed to use more than a thumb, running these old things you still had that real connection to your land
@@goldbug66 , yep that was hard to do sometimes, Grandpa had an old JD plow that was a tough nut sometimes, pulling the rope at the right time so the cogs caught and pulled the plow up, was a knack, and getting it to release to drop the plow was sheer willpower.
I agree about the trip rope! I had a painful right arm at the start of every ploughing season. Here in Norfolk, England in a really hard frost pulling the rope to drop the plough was liable to cause the cast point to break when it dropped onto the iron-hard ground! It happened to me more than once. A year or two ago I mole drained a field that I had first ploughed using a Ransomes plough and 3 cylinder Fowler FD3 crawler with no cab in about 1960. When I moled it I was using our 380 hp Quadtrac with twin mounted mole, aircon working while I listened to the radio. If 50 years ago I could have seen myself I doubt that I would have believed my eyes. Now even that Quadtrac is outdated - I don't even have to steer my Claas Challenger, satellites do it for me while I keep an eye on what's happening and drink my coffee! I have some vintage tractors to play with, but I'm more than happy that things have moved on! John.
I love the ole 2 cyclinders they sound so damn good and I don't know how many times I gotten my ass beat popping the hand clutch on grandpa's old 60. I was only about 8 raking hay with it
I remember that sound in the 60s and 70s as a kid when farmers around my way were out in the fields that beautiful sound never gets old nothing runs like a deere
I miss the old days with the old John Deeres. We farmed with an MT, B, 520 all gas tractors. Then we got the "R" with the gas pony engine that started the diesel motor. That one was awesome when blowing sileage up the pipe to the silo. I blew out smoke rings when you worked it hard but it pulled like a plow horse!!
I began operating our 1952 JD R when I was 8. 14 ft field cultivator ganged w same sized four-gang disk. Double cornering 80 A 1/2 mile long. I was barely taller than the clutch handle. My brother, 10 years older, did all the ploughing. Heck of a tractor. NW Lower Michigan. 560 A dairy and potato farm. Sandy-loam soils. Dad had the first tractor on rubber and the first R in the county.
This 4 John Deere Tractors, remind me of Early March Season in Southern Michigan. Getting the Fields ready for Planting Corn, Re-planting Tomatoes, and Many other Crops in The Fields... Between Eau Claire and Dowiagic, Michigan. I miss those Days.
Love the Ole John Deere's. My grandparents ran mainly John Deere's. 435, 730, Ole model A, 830 all diesel engines. Then the last John Deere they bought was a 2940 front wheel drive. I do love the farm work. Wished I could find someone that could use help on the farm.
Never plowed with a John Deere but used a brush hog with a John Deere B for years love the sound........Thanks Dad for the experience & the memories.......Good Times.
Bella imagen me remonto a mi infancia en el norte de ARGENTINA ver estos jhon deere de los años 50 nobles maquinas recuerdo esas campañas de arada de terreno para sembrar trigo asi comense con esta pasion x la agricultura bello recuerdo❤👍🙋🚜
I seem to recall that my uncle had one of these John Deer diesels that started on gas then switched to diesel.........was I imagining this? I know he had to spin a large wheel to get it started as it didn't have an electric starter.
Dave Meers you are correct, the 730 and 830 diesel units came equipped with pony motors in colder climates...essentially you fired up the (gas) pony motor that would run 4000+ rpms, and that motor was used to turn over the diesel unit which essentially started the diesel.. RU-vid JD 730 pony start....
I grew up on a farm near Vleesbaai, Mosselbaai, RSA. Even though my dad was a Ford man, we both enjoyed the 'Boot boot boot boot' sound of the tractors. In our area they got the name of the 'Klop John Deere' because of that sound.
Makes me think of my late father, he loved his John Deere 70. There was just 2 rules 1) never over rev. the engine 2) never ever have someone sit on the mudguard, for any reason. 'Cause once the fall ..... by the time u see it its wayyy to late.
My dad ran an R for a few years that had belonged to one of his brothers. I used to disk wheat fields in the Texas Panhandle with an 18’ Krause one-way. Pulled it like butter.
we had a 720 diesel. it ran good other than the pony motor start. I swear I could out pull it with my old super 88 diesel oliver. dad pulled 2 14 plow with it I pulled 3 14 with my oliver. he'd have to get out of my way after a few rounds.
Greg Gergen my neighbor use to pull 3 bottom 16 inch mounted plow with a 520 John Deere and they did it non stop 24 hrs a day ,stopped to refuel and eat ,bathroom breaks. Pulled in third gear. He also had a 560 Farmall gas pulled 5bottom 14inch semi mounted plow in second year the farmall used to have to get out of the John Deere' s way every so many times around the field. . With the 560 he used 30 gallons of gas from 7:00 am to noon good gas was not as expensive back then, in the mid 60's. Many times in the middle of the night I remember hearing them out plowing , then I would drift back to sleep. Good old times .
@@allenboyer715 I had the exact same 560 set up my other tractors were massey harris 44 special pulling 3-14 pull type and a 444 with a 4-14 pull type. All my plows were olivers. Easiest pulling plows I ever saw.. talk fast those massey harris were fast they lapped everything my neighbors had and in first gear
Peter, On the ends, the head lands. A path was plowed to mark where to start and stop at both ends. But the furrow, the ditch the plow makes gives a big bump when you hit it, so they filled it back in. Some don't mark the ends because you do the head lands last. They just tidy up the short ends last.
Yeah. Wondered that too. Lol. Always ploughed headlands last so there was never a need to drive through any dead furrow. Lovely to hear and watch. Drove almost every one of the lettered 2 cylinder machines (A, B, D, H, M, R) as a kid plus the corresponding 2 digit series and a few examples of 20 and 30 series. Hard to imagine that a 60 was once one of our BIG tractors. :)
