TRACTORS at Work: JOHN DEERE 4020 

Bundled up on a 4020 during spring tillage was an annual ritual. Even with a full Carhartt I remember being hunched over leaning into the wind trying to stay warm just like this guy. The 4010-4020 was revolutionary, they sold hundreds around me from two small JD dealers... Gramp was still using a Super MTA to chop corn when he bought a 4020. Needless to say it changed the entire operation overnight. Great Video.

My opinion, the best JD ever built. Growing up we had a ‘71 4000 and a ‘69 4020. The 4020 shorted out and burned and a big new 4430 tried to replace it but the more versatile 4000 always out worked, out lasted the big tractor. My brother still owns his first tractor…a 72 powershift. Thanks for sharing this video. It brings back a lot of memories.

It never gets old watching a good ol 4020 still working. My grandmother always spoke highly of the one she owned back in the day. Thanks for the great video and God bless - Everett

I grew up plowing until 2:00 in the morning after school in the rice fields of south Louisiana on a 69 4020 I was pulling a John Deere 11’7” twa disc. The video brought back memories. It looked like the middle sweep was missing on the disc in the video because it was leaving a strip down the middle. Those were some long, cold nights for us Southern boys in the early spring. No cab . Eventually got a radio. I recently bought a ‘69 4020 and am restoring it. I use it for plowing and pulling a 15’ batwing mower. Every time I’m on it I realize how grateful I feel to own such a piece of history like that

Best tractor ever! Drove one many hours!🤠🇺🇸

I bought a 1969 4020 back in 1990 for $10,500. I later checked the serial number on it and it was built within a couple of weeks of when I was born. Needless to say I still have it and use around my farm. I love the way it matches up with my 1411 discbine.

Hey there Jason, I hope you're all well and good! Now that's kicking it old school, 2 wheel drive, open station, bundled up in the Spring, exactly the way I was doing it as a boy growing up, using both the 20 and then 30 series tractors in the late 60's and 70's, the only difference being that I had a Roll Gard and Canopy, which was yellow painted steel at that time, with the Green Polyethylene Canopy with lights coming later on the 40 series. I really enjoy your videos, and your drone work, which just keeps getting better! You're one of the few that shows not only the new equipment, which I love, but also some of the old equipment, such as this, that takes me back with fond memories, of a simpler time, as a boy growing up on the farm, a half Century ago.💕 I hope y'all have a good one! "Nothing Runs Like A Deere" 🦌👍🇺🇸

We actually have a 69 4020 with a year a round cab on it. If I remember right it has close to 13000 hours on it. We still use it to pull a 7000 corn planter. We’ve had it for 30 years and done very little to it. It just keeps running. Has plenty of power for what we need and It’s so cheap on fuel we hate to replace it. It will be a sad day when we do.

Dad introduced me to a 4010 back in 1964 , I nine plus years old , collage kid hired for spring cultivating didn't work out, pulled me out of school I think for 2 weeks.. long hrs and never got stuck...Morris Mn. 300 ft north of the airport

Best tractor ever!!! Got to ride along (sit up on the fender) as a kid growing up with the farmer who farmed the land behind my house.

A real machine right there. This was the last tractor my grandad bought back in 1971. It replaced his 720 Poppin John. We used it long after his passing. It is all raw power and very stable wheel base. This is the machine I learned to drive on. Thanks for the video.

My grandma has a 1965 4020 Diesel (SN #101606) standard that my grandpa purchased new in '65 with the big Wheatland fenders, Power Shift transmission, and a 3-point hitch. He mounted one of those huge farmhand loaders on it, but traded it the early '90s for a 158 loader with grapple from a 5020. It still runs like new even though it has over 44,000 hours and one engine overhaul done to it. Made many memories moving hay, feeding cows, running the grain vac, and other chores.

We got a 4020 brand new in the late 60s, I think, huge jump in performance on the farm. Afterwards added a 4030, also new. The good ole days for sure.

Love the old tractors... Thx Jason my friend.

I owned a 4020 and pulled a 12 ft chisel, you knew you were maxed out when it went to power hopping. One of the best tractors ever made.

The very first tractor I drove I was 10 years old in 1991 and it was a 1971 4020 with the hydraulic levers on the right hand side and it was a syncro shift…. Oh the memories thank you for this trip down memory lane for me… great video BTP

You gotta love that older farm equipment , brings back a lot of good memories John Deere 4020 and the John Deere 4320 could do a lot of work back in the day Thanks for sharing .

Great video, loved my dad's 4020. That guy is stirring up a lot of weed seeds with that disk, field cultivating would be better. John T.

1968 4020, still use it every day. I cut land with at 12 foot off set disc behind the 4020. Best tractor ever made by JD.

Many great memories farming with the 4020. Back in the day it was used as one of the bigger tractors used in a mjor role. Today the 4020 is more of a support role tractor for those smaller jobs. Still so very much enjoyed when operating. I remember well when the 4000 series was introduced by John Deere, the "New Generation of Tractors" and they sure paved the way for what was to come after.

This brings back very good memories.

Love it. I could watch that old girl work all day!

hands down was one of the best tractors ever built

The best tractor there is.

Who needs satellite guidance??😂 Open air too....AWESOME😊Very cool Jason.

We had two growing up! We used them for raking, hauling hay, scraping manure, and everything else in between!

That's how I spent most of my life growing up on a farm outside of Hopkinsville Ky. Up the field. Down the field. All day long. 14 hour days. After school and weekends. Spring break.

So good to see these old tractors at work. Even better that one can hear them too.

I remember driving one on the farm I picked rocks and dug fence lines.

Just bought a 1969 4020 in excellent condition. I'm like a kid at Christmas time!

I have one 4020D,great tractor pulling a JD non-leveling disk harrow. IH HAD the best disk harrows

We had two 4020s they were a big tough tractor at the time. Both had power shift and had been turned up about 20 horses! The best tractor JD ever made in my opinion!!!

Probably the best tractors built the 20 series Deere and 66 series IH imo .

My 4020 does it all. Mowing and balling, plowing, fitting and planting, picking corn in the fall and hauling a tandem box spreader. Can handle a 750 notill drill or a 7000 6 row notill planter with ease.

I remember those cold spring days in an open tractor. Except I used a Farmall 806. When i was young I didn’t mind it, but i am glad i am not doing it now. As a matter of fact, riding in an open tractor was never ideal, too cold, too windy, to hot, dust and bugs. other than that it, it was fun.

Your use of your hover drone is awesome! Your productions have come up a long way! I hope someday you can get a Sunday Morning or Saturday Morning exhibition Show and promote awareness of the critical importance of American Farming. The Families that sacrifices

The 4020 is a real classic👍😁 always great to see one at work😉👍

Great video of a tractor from the day! Who would have ever dreamed that there would be tractor mowers that cost more than a 95 ish horsepower tractor?

I spent many hours on a 4020 back in the day. Doing everything thing from cultivating corn to baling hay. They do it all.

A great machine that you could tune to the task and be very productive. Last of the old school tractors. Good memories.

Reliable tractor! I spent a lot of time on a 4020.

We have been using 20 series JD tractors since the early 70’s We have a 2020 and a 3020 and a 4020 and a 4520. Best line of tractors ever other than the IH 66 series IMO

He never lifted that disc when he turned. Must like putting bearings in it.

I used to run my uncle's 4010 and I thought it was a large tractor until a few years later when I pulled up beside it with a IH 1456 & my boss was always getting larger sized equipment to keep up with all the custom farming we had

The first tractor I ever owned. A 1971 4020 synchro. I bought it in September of 1977. It's still here. We mainly use it for blading driveways and mowing roadsides. Most of our field work is done by our 8R tractors and our hay and livestock work is done by our 6R tractors. And we pull a float in our annual Ag Festival Parade with the 4020.

I worked with a 4020 diesel for a day back in the early eighties. It rolled coal a little. Man, I loved it. Well who would not.

In the 50s there were lots of tractor brands, when John Deere came out with the 4010 diesel it was a total game changer. The only other tractor that looked like it was a Case, soon lots of the other brands were on lots after being replaced by the John Deeres. I know lots of people liked the two-cylinder John Deeres but it was when the 4010s came out it changed everything.

That's a fine looking 4020

Great video! Sure does bring back the memories. Growing up on one of those girls with a straight pipe, probably why my hearing is crap now. Lol. Love that tractor, no side console but power shift. Plowing, mowin, choppin she did it all.

I farmed in Mpumalanga South Africa and had 3x 4020 tractors,and ecactly the same implements for 35years. The tractors were sold at my retirement sale August last year. still pulling strong .Greetings Wynand Basson

spent alot off time with this set up but iwas lucky i had a cab and radio

We had one here in the UK. Best tractor ever.

I enjoyed running my 4020 for many years

I own a John Deere 3010 diesel; and love every moment I operate it. From cutting to baling hay and even some odd jobs, when needed.

Awesome video BTP. I kick my self silly every time I see a 4020, for not buying the one I had a chance at several years ago for &7K. Side console w/powershift trans, and diff lock. It was in very good shape too.

I every drove a 4020 I worked for a Fram who had one good tractor 🚜.

I drilled many acres of wheat with a 4020 pulling a 14' tandem disc with a 14' wheat drill behind it in the mid 80's. Loved that 4020!!!

The JD is still doing his job.

The boss back in the days

4020 was a very good tractor great video too

I had driven a Massy Harris 444 diesel starting at age 7 . Dad would get me started then go back and stack bales. When I was 9 he bought a 69 4020 new with a tricycle and number 50 side mounted mower. They farmed three farms in that day and everything was moldboard plowed and worked. Still have the 4020 now has a wide front. Still think there's not been a better handling tractor. My uncle had bought a M M 670 diesel the same year and everyone would grab the 4020. Last guy outta the barn in the morning got stuck on the M M which weighed about the same but handled poorly in comparison with bout twenty less horsepower.

I used to drive one for my uncle when he farmed in the 80's. Loved it 69 model.

I love these old John Deere tractors you dint need no dumb tech person to work on them when you can do it yourself.

That disc is cutting beautifully

I have run a few of these old girls they're a great tractor

I did enjoy, thanks Jason

Operated a 4020 back in the day in the Palo Verde Valley. Cutting cotton stalks and discing.

A local beef farmer has a 4020 on his farm always seeing it do small jobs like raking hay, hauling hay ect

Great video! I have a 3020 diesel, but would love to add a 4020. Thanks for a nice spring tillage "old school" tractor at work.

about the bestest JD ever built

I use to operate a 4020 on one of the farms I worked before I joined the NAVY

The best tractor ever

We had a 64 4020 a 67 4020, and a 63 4010 all synchro range the 4010 and one of the could be shifted into reverse faster than the 3 pt. Hitch could raise a 6 row 7100 planter.

His guidance system wasn't working too well, He was overlapping quite a bit!

I remember using those 4020 JDs, when I worked for a neighboring farmer. My family always used Case tractors.

Not a big JD guy, but I have a soft spot for the 4020's and 4430's.

Put thousands of hours on 4010/4020 tractors. Plowing, planting, haying, picking corn and of course hauling manure.

A 730 diesel and a 4020 diesel power shift are the only two tractors on my collectors list

In 1965 dad bought a new row crop standard 4020 diesel. This morning I bought a 4020 row crop standard diesel. It's not real slick , engine sounds good.

Very nice 👍

Great video always love watching your videos have a 3010 and always want a 4020 side console

We have a 3020 and man I really love it, I’d like to get a 4020 too

Great tractors

Good video.

Back when green paint meant something.

first tractor I ever drove was a 72 4020 synchro. I miss the roar of that 404

We have 2 4020, a diesel synchro and a lp powershift with a loader both are awesome

Spent many hours on a '69 4020.

Might want to get a Cultivator Shovel for the center

Nice!!! Loved it thanks man! #TRUMP2024

I have one 4025 which is the same but in Mexico is 4025

Esos tractores fueron muy bien construidos ya no los hacen igual de buenos

i own a 64 and a 66 both powershift and both diesels

Ive always hated disks that left that center strip We pulled a 210 disk with ours

Excelent

The operator in this video should lift up the disk when turning around on the headlands.

Ain't broke why replace such awesome Work machine.

Anyone complaining about new equipment price (it is expensive), these would be nearing $100K in current dollars. 1966, my mother got her first new car - galaxie 500 fastback with a 390 for $3300. cost both of my parents $4k to go to college back then (late60s through early 70s) including room and board, so buying this thing could literally send 2 1/2 kids to college and cover their room and board. in state school in PA now is about $40k with room and board - maybe more. in state. insane.

Great vídeo Jason.

Very, very nice!