My family bought a Model L I think in 1939. They used it on a small family farm to plow, disc, cultivate, pull a horse drawn mowing machine and a hay rake. They also built a small dozing blade assembly and later pulled a flip scoop which could be an interesting device...specially if you fogot to let go the handles when dumping. Greg
@@aixaburlison4 Dad had a 50 when he sold out. Was a handy little tractor. We also had a spoked model B that I'd give about anything to own and play with.
Only watched about 13 minutes and it struck me, that thing probably defined the expression, "wrapped around the axle". SO many ways to get a hand or loose clothing caught up in the works. Oh, it IS a beautiful beast, and I love John Deere tractors, but I bet it took its toll on human life.
I grew up on Olivers, but my uncle had a couple of JD A's. As a kid, the A was easier to determine what gear it was in. Pulling in loads of hay, the A needed a drawbar lock pin to keep the pin from jumping out. When we baled hay with the A, anytime we stopped, we would always leave the clutch engaged, and just pop the shifter into neutral, to keep from plugging the baler. After a couple of years, our 77 Oliver was the tractor of choice for the baler.
One of my first jobs was in a machine shop where they rebuilt engines in the old "Poppin' Johnnies". My main job was boring the cylinders which would wear in an oval shape because of the weight of the pistons laying down in a horizontal position.
First I have heard of Frolic, it is interesting to study these early innovative people like Frolic, Cummins, Kettering, R. G. LeTourneau, Holt, Best and Rudolph Diesel. Many encountered significant failures in their life works and were only realized for their technological contributions years after their death.
My father had a John Deere agency in Central Vermont back in the late forties into the late fifties and I remember so many of the tractors and Crawlers shown in this video. It brings back great memories!!!
I used to drive the two cylinder John Deere's. The A, the D, the M and an older version of the A. The D was started by turning the flywheel and doing the other bits. :)
When I was a kid, we started out with a Model D, then the mighty Model R diesel and then my favorite , the 4020... They we always the pride of the farm and valued almost as much as the farm's wife...
I remember my dad had two As they were great tractors at the time one you had to start from the fly wheel I could start it when I was about 12 years old .then he bought the 720 power steering what will they think of next we thought that was one tuff tractor I cant amagine how many miles I put on that tractor .
We had an A and an H. Both of ours had electric start, but the battery was usually dead on the A and I most often started it by hand turning the flywheel. We got the H when I was 13 and the A when I was about 15 and except for rebuilding the hydraulics in the A I don't think we ever added a drop of oil to either one that I can ever remember, lol. We built a wood splitter to run from the hydraulic pump was why we rebuilt it, hooked it up with quick couple hoses. We did the plowing, tilling and harrowing with the H and did bush hogging, mowing, raking and baling with the A. Put a few miles on those two myself.
What a great video Thank you for this. I was raised on JD tractors. I did own a Spoker D at one time and I still remember the serial number. 33652. I do nott know where rtthis tractor is today. I traded a old Army Jeep that did not run for it that I paid 100 dolars for and when I sold it to an oldd Amish man I got 3500 dollars for it. I thought I was going to be filthy rich. How I would like to buy it back for 35oo today. One other thing. When you were talking about the early JD B no one said a word about the 4 bolt front end ? i was waiting for that to come out. I also had a 4 bolt B at one time. Any way thanke for every thing. .Jack ...The Old Scovy
For being first tractor those water lo boys look prity reliable and streight fwd and easy to work on i looks like a good seller no pulling hair out trying to find out what broke when it went down all the gears exposed. Model d reminds me of erly fordson ford tractors who where the first tractors on market for the every day farmer
I know the one at about 19:00 as the 'grove tractor' since I grew up seeing them work the orange groves in Florida, many running propane fuel. The seat was pretty low, all to keep from hanging up on the tree branches.
I have a castiron model of a d from when i was a kid 38 years old now so the model toy is all of 30 years old im 38 got it a 4 years old i asume its older then my memory only toy i still have from that young even Jd toys where built to last
This guy is WRONG about small crawlers. I was born in Yakima and raised on the family orchards in Selah. Jesse Lindeman was a friend of my Grandpa's and we still have the delivery receipt for a Lindeman crawler in 1943. CLETRAC crawlers ruled the roost in the Yakima valley NOT CAT. Lindeman was a CLETRAC dealer in Yakima before the JD deal. His company was YAKIMA IMPLEMENT. Model W's and K-20 CLETRAC'S were found everywhere. Cats were the EXEPTION not the rule. There were also T20 McCormick Deering crawlers found.
Ran into a man who was 110% IHC HE SAID HE DIDN'T LIKE JD 2CYL. ENGINES SAID THEY RAN TO UNEVEN FOR PTO OPERATED EQUIPMENT. the flywheel took care of that. My dad and Granddad didnt agree with that they ran JD two lungers for years..
Spent many hours in my youth operating a JD A, B, and G. Extremely reliable, never broke down all the years my Dad had them. Still love the unique sound and glad there are so many keeping the old two cylinder gas and diesels running.
Rob W is one of those that try to apply standards of today to people and machines of the past. If I judged the southern confederacy by todays standards they were evil and wrong. But, I realize that they were Men of their time.
