I'm now forced to face the fact that I am now part of history - the equipment and methods that I was part of in the 60's and 70's truly were truly the "Golden Age of Farming." Dad made a good living farming - enough to provide for six kids, several dogs (and a pet raccoon!) I can't begin to tell you how that era of hard work, dusty clothes, sunburned necks and long hours trying to beat Mother Nature shaped me as a kid. We started learning to drive tractors when we were only 12. When we reached 14, Dad told us he would pay $4/hr to drive the tractors - about twice the minimum wage at the time. I told him he didn't have to pay so much, and he looked me squarely in the eye and said "You give me a good day's work, and I'm happy to pay a good day's wage." Started out on a Farmall 560 pulling a 10' disk. It was always kind of disheartening to disk all day in one field, finish for the day and look at how much field there was still left to do! Harvest season was noses clogged with soybean dust, fighting through muddy fields to get the crop in ahead of more rain. The family farm is now part of that history - Dad is now long passed, the acreage is being farmed by longtime neighbors, and the grain bins, buildings and elevators are now rusting quietly. But in its heyday, that farm was an amazing testament to one man's hard work and vision. Thank you for this video, bigtractorpower - you've given me a pleasant trip back to a simpler time!!
This is by far the best comment i've ever seen in my life. A tru diein breed. Brings back memories. It took a real man to do what it took to make a good living. Thanks alot for bring that back.
At least it is being farmed. My grandfathers farm is now part Mercer County Park, and all the other land I farmed with farmers I worked for until 1986, is now houses or office building. As my professor in Architecture school said, “New Jersey will be the first state paved from one end to the other.”
I wish I could live in those times, I'm only 12 but I know those were the days of hard work. This is by far the best comment ever, and somehow it almost brought a tear to my eye. God bless America, and all the farmers within.
By your comment I can say that you had a happy life. I wish I can have a lofe in the field plowing, seeding and harvesting. But born and raise in a city just allow me get close to a tractor now that I'm graduating in agroforestry engineering...
Awesome video . I loved this era that I grew up. The equipment we used was still from the fifties. But it worked. We had 400 achers. What a great time we had. TY for sharing this awesome video
BTP, I loved this farming 101 from the late 20th century! Can’t wait til your next video. I’m running out of suggestions for you. I think row spacing and seed population changes over the decades might be interesting. We used to do 40” bean and corn rows in the 60’s/70’s. Strip tilling is another good subject.
Very good video on the process of crop farming. Old iron YES nice to see it still in uses. The new stuff is nice also. Growing up on the farm was alot of work but, watching the crops grow always made a person feel good. Thank you BTP.
In the late 60's - early 70's and as a kid I was stuck on a TO30 Ferguson to plow with 2 -12's JD plow that the tongue was cut short to fit the tractor it was designed to be horse drawn, and a one row Woods Bros corn picker, so I guess I was farming with the pre golden era equipment, then we got a Farmall H , now that was a BIG tractor for us.
A very nice and informative video, thank you. I grew up growing oranges when I was a kid, and while that is a form of farming, it is nothing at all like the short of farming you show.
I use a John Deere 4020 tractor, 6620 combine, and 7000 planter for the grain portion of my operation. When I raised organic crops, I also used a F-145A 5-16 plow, and an FM belly mount cultivator. My last organic crop was 2 years ago, I use chemicals now. For the livestock, I have a JD 400 grinder/mixer, Schultz/Allis Chalmers 325 manure spreader (can't find ANY info whatsoever for this machine), and a Case 1845C skidloader. Except for the skidloader, I could be farming in the 80's. Take out the combine, and I'd be back in the '70's. I like the older equipment, though. I'm just a young gun starting out, so I'm very happy with the equipment I have. I'd really like a scale on my grinder/mixer, that's about it. :)
Enjoy your videos. I grew up on a 🌾 rice farm in central Arkansas. Left the farm in 1999 but the farm never left me. Thanks again for your time and effort to bring us these videos.
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Excellent production ! Those were my days and I truly enjoyed it. I thank you for this video! I want to go back to farming full time , I was happier then . Oh well life moves on , again Thanks!
Thank you for watching. It seems like just yesterday when the machines in this video were common place. They are getting harder and harder to find. Great memories to share when I can find them to film.
Same dude 850 versatile 4640 John deere 7520 John deere gmc general L3 L2 and r 62 Minneapolis moline g1000 ford L9000 two of them bunch more thats all the stuff we farm with
Great video, your voice is soothing making it easy to listen to and learn. I hope you make more videos with that MM A4T-1600 that tractor looked like it just came off of the showroom floor, an awesome discovery. Thank You for sharing.
I grew up in the late 70 s and 80s helping my uncles and aunts on there farms on the eastern shore of md.I remember we would all go up in the hay loft and make tunnels all through the strawlbales and then we would all play hide and go seek,I can still hear my uncle telling us kids to put them bales back the way we found them.One thing for shore it's fun when your a kid on a farm but as the years passed and the older I got the more work it was to do.work never seems to end on a dairy farm , twice a day milking and feeding up all the livestock it dont matter if its Christmas morning or anything else you had to milk them holsteins early in the morning and afternoon every day. I always enjoyed farming and helping out on the farm and the best part I liked was family get to gethers and all the homemade foods .I never expected to get paid when I was a kid but I shore did eat good and that was good enough for me.
Dang we lived that era. Not actually lived there but we used all 70s equitment. That was the cheapest stuff on the market in the 1990s-2000s. I like the tractor in the thumbnail
Good video we had a new Deere 7000 plateless planter 8 row wide 36in dry fertilizer. New in 1975 what improvements over 1280 and 694A Planters. Purchased through our dealership first one in the area. Competition said their Planters were better. Haha Deere had the last laugh.
@@bigtractorpower Well, I see that now. I guess I don't see them anymore because I don't live near any big haying operations anymore. Sometimes we overlook the simple answers.
Great educational video showing & explaining the farming process of different crops grown. For me tho, it was very enjoyable to just set back & watch the equipment working in the fields. Stay safe.
stay safe from what? I always wonder about that very common comment. Almost every video on everything will have a stay safe attached to it or some comment on how dangerous it is. My world isn't all that dangerous, I certainly hope yours is not, but then again you wouldn't need reminding to "stay safe" if it was. It makes me wonder how we all became "safety people" I've seen it most in our kids, it's too dangerous to go outside and play ball, or ride bikes unsupervised like we did, so they stay on the couch, play video games and get all the dangers that come from obesity such as diabetes and heart disease. When I went to school my class of 20 kids might have had 1 overweight girl and 1 boy. When I compare what I see in children from then and now I start to question all this safety and nutritional knowledge we've gained since the 80's. None of this is directed at you by any means, it's just something that I've been wondering about as I see our society changing. My thinking is we've taken another step in evolution like upright man, to tool maker, to now this new safety man. I don't think it's a step forward by any degree, but what do I know is they'll figure it out in a million years or something. All I know is 12 year old kids went from running jumping little animals to these big round chunk monster's who don't have the physical ability to run and jump, and now we're getting the adult versions of these chunk monsters and it isn't healthy, safe, productive, or anything good that I can see. I blame it all on this safety obsession that started a while back.
@@jtoddjb JESUS dude, calm down. It's just another way of saying "Take Care". I don't view everyone as an unsafe operator or a complete idiot. That being said, from what I've seen in some of the videos here & witnessed personally, I really wonder sometimes.
Thank you for watching. In 1985 Allis-Chalmers farm equipment division was near bankruptcy from a depressed agriculture economy. Deutz-Fahr from Germany bought the tractor and combine line from Allis-Chalmers. Allis-Chalmers also built industrial pumps and electric generators. AC went on as a company with out tractor. A new company called Deutz-Allis was created. Deutz-Allis dropped orange in favor of Deutz-Fahr spring green. The color change went over so poorly that by 1990 Deutz sold the Deutz-Allis division to its North American management team and the Allis-Gleaner Company was formed in 1990. AGCO brought back orange tractors under the Agco-Allis name. AGCO went on to by White Farm Equipment, Hesston, Massey Ferguson, New Idea Fendt, Ag Chem, Sun Flower, Valtra, Challenger tracked tractors from Caterpillar, GSI Grain Bins and about 15 other brands world wide. Today AGCO is the third largest farm equipment company in the world. I made a video on the history of AGCO that explains the history from Allis-Chalmers to AGCO that is posted at m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hSQH-XKcYy4.html
@@bigtractorpower Hey Thanks Man! I am so interested in all these big beautiful machines. Like a 5 year I guess. I actually own a Tractor for here on our 10 acre ranch. Just to push a little dirt around when needed and for snow in the winter. I never needed large equipment other than when I was still working my construction biz back in California. And then, I only rented them occasionally. I find the history is almost as interesting as the tractors themselves. Farm tractors that is. They are beautiful functional machines. I will check out hte other video, thanks again.
we are finding out now that plowing under old crops which is high in carbon, by the putting the carbon into the soil, carbon holds the nutrients that the crop needs until the crop is ready to use it
*This video is hands down the best explanation of crop farming I've come across. My grandson is going to be absolutely thrilled with it! I definitely hit that thumbs-up button, no doubt about it.*
Bigtractorpower , it is hearwarming to hear you describe it as the golden age of farming. Even though I started out in 1995, I started with a 4020 and a 6600 on rented land. When I hire really good guys now, they are young men and good guys and ladies but really have no concept of what it would be like to pull a twenty hour day on an open air tractor with a dusty sandwich bag in the toolbox beside you. When I hire good people now, everything I have now is autosteer, air conditioned, gps mapping to my office etc, but there has been a tangible element that has been lost along the way I think between man and dirt and I am guessing many of your fellow subscribers may feel the same way as I. I hope in the year ahead you might consider doing a long feature specifically on years gone by for your subscribers and help capture it into history permanently. Thank you for your good work sir, you have my highest respect.
Great video Jay. Love the old iron. As you know I absolutely love moldboard plowing. Maybe you can do a video on the advancement of it from beginning to now,single bottom horse drawn plows to 10+ bottom on land and rollover models. Plowing still seems to be popular in Europe. Here it's become a method of the past, although I have seen it being done more now than the past 10-15 years. Keep up the great work, old carpet farmers as myself enjoy the amount of time and effort you put into these videos for all to enjoy. Hope to catch up next time you come home.
There were allot of great 4wds and plows in Chili and Churchville. It seems the Krause Dominator seems to have taken over in the area. Great idea on the plowing evolution. Hopefully I will be in NY to say hello sometime this year.
Funny most of what's on here is what I'm still running. All the mechanics at JD always tell me never get rid of my 4440 or 4640. They say they can't keep the new ones running. Not that i would ever be able to afford a new tractor. All i can do to break even.
I do not know that there is one. If it fits on the road where I live they go. Normally about 17ft is as wide as an implement can be to fit on the pavement. Some of the 60ft air seeders used to plant wheat and soybeans here in Kentucky where I film are 19ft to 21ft folded and they take up the entire road and require a truck escort during transport. Farmers are not required to have an escort but they do it for safety of traffic, the operator and the machine.
excellent run through the why of various farming ways. i love machines but only played on livestock farms of medium size so nice to see what others were doing while i ran Massey 35 and 135 and such upto ford 7810 and a few Bambi 3350s . cheers.
One year you will need to see the mahemthat is the northern Red River Valley sugar beet harvest. 24-7. All brand new gear, all mud, 4wd tractors everywhere getting semi trucks to the road. Although, there are always a couple deaths a year because of the hours and inexperience of truck drivers
Como no es que en EEUU no sean más la tierra o es hace lo que yo digo ,,no lo que yo hago el campo trabajado rinde 30 x ciento más y gasta de agroquímicos. 50 cx ciento menos cual es el negocio ¿ no dar trabajo a la gente ?
I wish I could know what it was like to farm back then. I've seen pictures of my grandpa harvesting corn with a John Deere 3300 combine with the 2 row head. He was running that combine in his underwear, because it had no windows in it and it was hot as hell out! My dad would sit right behind the head and pull weeds out when they would farm down by the river bottoms. They were poor and worked HARD. My dad tells me stories of staying out late to finish plowing. One time he was out at 10:00 or so at night plowing with an open seat Allis Chalmers and a 4 bottom plow. He fell asleep at the wheel and went through at least 15 feet of trees and brush before he woke up. (Woods lined the field he was working on both sides.)He had to walk the 5 miles back to the house to go get grandpa to help drag him out. Grandpa wasn't happy lol - my dad was maybe 15 at the time. They ran no-cab tractors for most of the time they farmed - even to and from the grain elevator, since they couldn't afford a grain truck. The only tractor with a cab that my grandpa ever owned (bought it in the late 80s) was a 1972 John Deere 4230. The combine is long gone, but he still has that 4230 to this day, along with the gravity flow wagons they used. It was rough and they worked their rear ends off all year round. My grandpa was a shop teacher at the high school for 30 years AND a farmer at the same time! He also bulldozed in the summertime to make ends meet. Even through all that, he still managed to put food on the table and provide for the family - to me, that's badass.
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We never used a soil finisher or field cultivator, we had two discs that went in and broke up the soil then followed by a "finishing disc" (a disc with closer blade spacing basically) and finished up the seed bed. Plowing or chisel plowing was done in the Fall, only done in the spring if we absolutely had to do it.
As a relatively new subscriber, I'm playing catch up on your AWESOME channel. I really appreciate and enjoy watching ALL of your videos. Love your platform! All of the best from a retired "farmer" in Az.
one of the cheapest parts that makes the biggest difference is a shuttle cart, when you consider upwards of a 5th of your day is running to a truck or emptying when not right full is wasted hours.
Good video again! Its always nice to see how farming is done in the USA. A lot of things are different then here in the EU. Looking forward to the upcoming videos. Grtz from the netherlands
Great footage, straight facts, professional narration. Videos like this are the reason I’ll never pay for cable or satellite tv again. Imagine Discovery or History channel doing this. Everything would be dramatized to hell and back. And we wouldn’t have learned one single fact.
At 8:00, I was startled to see the tractor driver applying incectcide without using any safety equipment at all. I can only suppose this is an old video back from a time when such safety regulations did not exist? Unimaginable scene nowadays!
What a great time the 80’s were. paid off my college debt, worked on a farm part time (Case IH 1460) ate dirt, played golf, Jersey shore, made some money, chased women. Doesn’t get much better than that!!!
