Love these old adverts , I used some of these tools in the 70s and they were still solid . Still appreciate them now , part of the evolution and still feel good where hydraulics can take the feedback away from your hands . Great videos 👍🇬🇧
Will do, stay tuned I've got the John deere, then the AgCo then international. People really do appreciate the perspective of looking back what it was like 👍
Point, they used to work the soil alot more and hybrids were still relatively new and alot of farmers were sold thru could plant way less Hybridized seed than the inbred corn seed they would just get from their own bin (so to speak) to replant the next year. Hybrids did quadruple yield for farmers but some were oversold on populations and the great dust bowl was still in everyone's mind. I know, my grandpa always thought I planted to many seeds! Lol.
I am in my mid 50s but as a kid I loved the stories that the old farmers would tell me. My former bosses dad would talk about how he farmed , I remember Lester talked about planting corn in hills so they could cultivate from front to back or side to side and even diagonally witch I had never heard of doing.
@@jeffharper7579 Ford offered what was called a check row planter. We had one, I think they dated from the WW II era. The idea was that you pulled a knotted string the length of the field. You then threaded the string through a mechanism on the planter. The knots on the string triggered the planter to drop the seeds. It was only a two row planter intended to be use with a Ford N tractor. What this did was plant the seeds in two row perpendicular to each other so you could cultivate in both directions. This was long before chemical herbicides so this was a way to to clean the weeds out from between the rows. Kernel spacing in the rows had to be more than 12 inches apart to let a tractor tire pass. Yields for corn in this era were still normally less than 60 bushel an acre. It was a very time consuming way to plant corn because you had to move the string for every pass of the planter.
Thanks👍🌽.sounds neat but time consuming. I helped a farmer back in the early 80s notill beans in the wheat, yeah no seed monitor so half the 30 acre field had a strip from a plugged tube .
Remember the big Floor TV's built into the cabinets? Some rolled on wheels... I wonder if those TV's are even serviceable/ operational and around in todays world? I'd like to get an old TV set that works, a model built in the 60's, just barely before color TV was becoming a regular thing, and compare to what we watch today. I think that would really bring this 75 yr old equipment to life on one's mind. Let us know if anyone knows where to get antique TV's! Thank you
I bet you have less down time than any farmer with modern equipment! Love the old stuff, I would rather rebuild than replace. They used to make things right, it lasts... a lifetime. Literally! Cool stuff
