Don plants sweet corn using all antique implements. He uses a 100 + year old John Deere 999 corn planter, a 1950's John Deere Disc and Trip Plow. It's planting corn the old school way.
Going to pick up an Ole corn 🌽 seeder this weekend. Kinda excited to pick it up and looking forward to clean up a field. Put the machine to use 2024. 🚜. Thanks for sharing the great video. It help ne understand what all Need to take place.
Absolutely Awesome Video!! IM FROM PENNSYLVANIA!!! we do something crazy, we plow with Garden tractors called PA Plow Day all with single bottoms we just did 90 arces last weekend with 227 tractors
@@waardenburgfamilyfarm4764 it really is! It's my 4th year plowing and fun to hang out with folks ya meet that come from different states, 14 different states including one from Canada
Hello Brenda and Don Waardenburg I have been watching your channel since you started renovating your house and farm shortly after you bought it. I love how you two have transformed the property. Have a good day God Bless you and your family from Wendy Bertie a viewer in Toronto Ontario Canada
Hello Wendy. Thank you so much for the encouragement! Yes we have worked hard for 4 years and next week we are taking our first weekly vacation with the whole family in 4 years. BTW, we love Canada....Canadian Rockies, Yukon and I also fish near Perth....beautiful lakes in the east.
I believe the seed driill is a 1944 model and should have 4 other seed spockets, that should have a place just behind the seat for the box witch held them when not in use, also
I was hoping that someone could ID the year. I was thinking it was older because it was pulled by horses...but not every farm could afford a tractor I guess. Is there a distinguishing feature that pointed to the 1944 model? Thank you for the information!
I recently got a 246 3 point 2 row JD and a 494A 4 row JD planter. Going to use them for sweetcorn and tight areas besides my 8 row that I normally use for field corn. I got the 246 so if my planter monitor lies to me and says a row planted and nothing grows, the 3point planter will be easy to use to replant a row or two. As I just got them, they are both set at 38 inch rows so I'll have to adjust to the 39 inch rows I plant now.
JD and most of the big corporations have changed to be sure. But gone are the days where equipment is simple and built for the long run. The old stuff is best (spoken by an old guy!)
Why do you choose to use glyphosate on your field corn? Are you concerned that it will blow onto your other fields? Is the field corn what you feed your beef cattle?
We use no-till on the field corn so I cannot cultivate to control the weeds. I think the uncontrolled weeds would greatly reduce corn yield. We do feed our beef cattle a little corn, but they are mostly grass fed. Thank you for watching. I've only been doing this for 4 years so I'm no expert at this point.
When I was born in 1942 Dad was farming 24 York County, Pennsylvania acres with 2 mules. In 1948 he added 47 more adjoining acres, a red belly Ford 8 N appeared with a 2 bottom 12 inch plow and cultivators. Pull behind implements got the wooden tongues replaced with shorter metal ones, his McCormack Deering 2 row corn planter went to 3 point lift with a local blacksmith conversion. David Bradley provided a 3 point mower. A Ford 850 was added in 1955, I was plowing with it and a John Deere 2 bottom 16 inch plow like yours without the tripping feature. Dad told me to only go deep enough to not hit clay, I loved to just bring up a little or orange color! He planted our corn, it's seat was still mounted! Was good to see parallel use of vintage equipment 80 years later.
