i recently purchased and use a 1974 John Deere 4430 for shredding fields and making hay. great tractor! I will slowly be restoring and fixing the old boy to as best of its former glory as i can. with God's help it has not yet seen its best days. i really appreciate your channel. keep the videos going.
It amazes me that the 4430 and 4630 were our big tractors growing up, bought new, they are still here, but the 44 has been moved to the feed wagon and the 46 is now on the mower conditioner. Practically the 2 smallest tractors we still use.
We have a 1975 john deere 4030 with a soundguard cab and bale hay with it here in central ky for our beef black angus cattle and it's my favorite tractor by far
Nice looking tractor and baler. I had one just like it with the power shift. Good tractor. I sold it to a buddy I've mine when I got my IH 5088. He's still running it. One of John Deere's best tractors.
Spent so many hours riding passenger as a small guy in a 4430 doing field work, planting pulling carts ect. Then the 4440 showed up an tho nearly the same it changed the game!
We had a 4630 I spent many hours in . It was our biggest tractor for a time pulling our 3970 harvester then we moved it to the disc mower and corn planter.
Great video Jason. I put a lot of hours on some 4430's as well as 4440's and a 4450. If you ever come across a 1175 Case get some video if you can, 1175 was the first tractor I got to run and actually do work with, when I was a kid.
There's still a LOT pof these and the later 4440 out there doing exactly what they were made for. This one is in nice shape yet, but it sure would look a lot nicer with the proper sized rear tires on it, though I understand cutting costs and using what you have available.
recently bought a 2950 fwa loader and it's been a great addition plus its great on fuel, also run a 568 exactly same as the one in the video, it makes 5x6 bales tho
@@nellsonstout7001 yeah i know allot of truckers want the 5x5 or if making 100% alfalfa make the 5x5 but making grass or straw make 5x6. most my bales are 68-70
I have many hours in a 4430 John Deere. That was the first tractor I drove when I started working for my Uncle in 1978. He bought the tractor new; I need to find out the year he purchased the tractor. He has passed, but his sons still own the tractor. This video brings me back to some great memories. Thank you for making the video. Great job, and Thank you for all of your😀 videos.
Jason, I've ran a 4430 2WD with a syncro transmission with a Loader on it. The AC doesn't work on it so the windows are cracked open and unfortunately it's loud
Lots of problems with transmission/rear end issues with them after about 5000 hrs. Happened with my cousin's tractor, the JD mechanic told him the transmission dipstick was too short on them, and never ever let it get below the full mark.
great video of a classic! That 4430 is so well-kept too. One thing I've not sure on with the 4430 is whether or not they were all turboed? Why did some come with engine breathers and like the ones in this this video, don't have them?
There is a computer screen in the cab that shows the full rate. I briefly show it in the video. The baler also has an arrow gauge that moves up as the baler fills.
Lots of guys around here just disconnect them, they knock the string loose and bat them so far away, just rather back up the 5/10 feet while it's tieing or wrapping.
The bale is tied as the baler is reversed. Once the twin is cut the bale is ejected. Then the tractor pulls forward to begin refilling the baler with hay to create the next bale.
@@elmton.john.1961. The bar at the back automaticly trips when the bale comes out of the baler an pushes the bale back therr is probably a pin that id broken John Deere doesnt have a ramp thats on a New Holland baler
@@dwighttipps414 you're right Dwight, I'm in the UK and I was comparing it to our John Deere balers of that period which had a sprung steel ramp that cleared the bale away from the baler as the back door was lifted.
@dwighttipps414 lots of guys here disconnect them from.the tailgate, just have alot less issues without them. Ramp would be better and alot less vigorous and abusive. Hesston has the kicker properly figured out
Some of the best john deere tractors were made from the early 70s to the early 90s and not full of all this unessasary nonsense like today it looks like a computer room not a tractor
I remember working for a farmer out in Eastern Washington in 1976 and he had a two year old 4430, What a great modern (at the time) that sound guard cab was.
I pull a 566 1000 rpm with a IH 706 with a 310 Ci ya she will smoke some. But the high hp is crazy your fuel not mine . I can run 5 mph old school hp and less fuel burn . You need to fix your kicker :)
Too bad it has to back up to dump the bale. Makes for a lot of cycles on the clutch. The operator doesnt seam to care about taking off at full rpm either.. shaving the clutch a bit on every bale.
@@nellsonstout7001 i always assume on a big 4wd bareback means drawbar and remotes but on a rigid frame (2wd or fwa) bareback means pto + remotes but no arms
@@nellsonstout7001 is correct. I'm not sure what Deere used for the option of PTO, and remotes minus three point. I don't believe it would be considered a standard, or Wheatland because it has an adjustable wide front.
4430s are good tractors, I've worked on several. unless the farmer really cares about his equipment these are some of the nastiest, most worn out tractors on the farm.
Also the john deere kicker is bad to come out underneath the bale before it drops out of the chamber if you're downhill of have the gate opening too fast so you wind up with the kicker on the wrong side of the bale.
On the farm I grew up on we had a 4230. That was the main tractor for the operation for many years. It was a real workhorse. My dad still has the tractor to this day.
Une cabine légendaire en avance sur son temps... Ici en Bretagne (France) il y a encore beaucoup de John Deere équipés de la "Sound Gard 2" qui travaillent tous les jours... Des séries -40,-50 et-55 en provenance de Manheim (Allemagne)... 🙂
They are some of the best tractors ever made, at one time we had 7 4430’s in use on our hay and cattle farm in Western Ky.
i recently purchased and use a 1974 John Deere 4430 for shredding fields and making hay. great tractor! I will slowly be restoring and fixing the old boy to as best of its former glory as i can. with God's help it has not yet seen its best days. i really appreciate your channel. keep the videos going.
Looks like my Dad's hay rig. Love seeing the old John Deere 30-Series in action.
The 30 series changed the industry and are long lasting.
@bigtractorpower Yes, sir, they did.
I still have one 4430 and it's been one of the best
I wish she were a 4440 but would love to run that setup all day!!😊👍🏻
Same
I have an open post 4430 and love it. It was sitting outside for over a year and grancked up like a champ. Love my 4430
It amazes me that the 4430 and 4630 were our big tractors growing up, bought new, they are still here, but the 44 has been moved to the feed wagon and the 46 is now on the mower conditioner. Practically the 2 smallest tractors we still use.
Me too.. now I rake and bale with 4430 .4630 gets odd jobs. They are wonderful tractors.
Thanks for the memories . Spent a lot of hours on one of these, so comfortable . Hard to ride others after this !
I bought a 1977 4430 in 1988 for $13k. It is on our 535 baler right now. I put a JD air seat in her……what an upgrade!
I have a 1977 4430 still going strong . Love it
We have a 1975 john deere 4030 with a soundguard cab and bale hay with it here in central ky for our beef black angus cattle and it's my favorite tractor by far
Nice looking tractor and baler. I had one just like it with the power shift. Good tractor. I sold it to a buddy I've mine when I got my IH 5088. He's still running it. One of John Deere's best tractors.
Spent so many hours riding passenger as a small guy in a 4430 doing field work, planting pulling carts ect. Then the 4440 showed up an tho nearly the same it changed the game!
We bake hay with our all original John Deere 4650 and 566 John Deere round baler and I have to say it puts up the best bake I’ve ever seen
Thanks Jason. I really enjoy watching baling.
Awesome video!
Thank you for watching.
We had a 4630 I spent many hours in . It was our biggest tractor for a time pulling our 3970 harvester then we moved it to the disc mower and corn planter.
Great video Jason. I put a lot of hours on some 4430's as well as 4440's and a 4450. If you ever come across a 1175 Case get some video if you can, 1175 was the first tractor I got to run and actually do work with, when I was a kid.
Love the black smoke. The good ole days.
The soundgard tractors are one of my favorites😁👍 thanks for the video👍👍
They dominated the 70’s and 80’s and into the 90’s. Good tractors.
Excellent video big tractor 👍👍👍 the one without the cab looked great...
There's still a LOT pof these and the later 4440 out there doing exactly what they were made for. This one is in nice shape yet, but it sure would look a lot nicer with the proper sized rear tires on it, though I understand cutting costs and using what you have available.
recently bought a 2950 fwa loader and it's been a great addition plus its great on fuel, also run a 568 exactly same as the one in the video, it makes 5x6 bales tho
Maybe he’s just making 5x5s with it. My cousins make 5x5s with a 569 premium
@@nellsonstout7001 yeah i know allot of truckers want the 5x5 or if making 100% alfalfa make the 5x5 but making grass or straw make 5x6. most my bales are 68-70
Beautiful work both the grower and you mr the best videos
Some people get to have all the fun 😊
Very nice
i own a john deere 566 round baler with around 36000 bales on it and going strong, made 44 bales with it today
Very nice. What tractor do you run with it?
@@bigtractorpower case-ih MX 135
I own a 4430 and that baby is a great. 3500 hours
I grew up on the John Deere 4455 tw drive
Hey Jason, happy memorial day weekend
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I have many hours in a 4430 John Deere. That was the first tractor I drove when I started working for my Uncle in 1978. He bought the tractor new; I need to find out the year he purchased the tractor. He has passed, but his sons still own the tractor. This video brings me back to some great memories. Thank you for making the video. Great job, and Thank you for all of your😀 videos.
Jason, I've ran a 4430 2WD with a syncro transmission with a Loader on it. The AC doesn't work on it so the windows are cracked open and unfortunately it's loud
Good video.
Lots of problems with transmission/rear end issues with them after about 5000 hrs. Happened with my cousin's tractor, the JD mechanic told him the transmission dipstick was too short on them, and never ever let it get below the full mark.
Howdy bigtractorpower
great video of a classic! That 4430 is so well-kept too. One thing I've not sure on with the 4430 is whether or not they were all turboed? Why did some come with engine breathers and like the ones in this this video, don't have them?
4430 4630 both turbos. some had the air stack on the hood others had it underneath hood
@@TheJdeere4020 thanks
that baler was built 15 miles from my house, ottumwa iowa
Home of JD Hay & Forage 👍👍👍
We used to have a 568 and it was a damn good baler but it had almost 20,000 bales so we got a 560M JD and it is also a wonderful baler.
Really cool tractor, the ones without cabs just don't look at good as like 6030 n such.
What let's you know when the baler is full?
There is a computer screen in the cab that shows the full rate. I briefly show it in the video. The baler also has an arrow gauge that moves up as the baler fills.
Air cleaner ? I have 4230 .
No sound?
Great sound here, it must be what you're using.
I use a 4440 on my farm
I’ve been pulled by a 4440
Why is your bale kicker not working?
Lots of guys around here just disconnect them, they knock the string loose and bat them so far away, just rather back up the 5/10 feet while it's tieing or wrapping.
Why do they always back up to unload bailes?
The bale is tied as the baler is reversed. Once the twin is cut the bale is ejected. Then the tractor pulls forward to begin refilling the baler with hay to create the next bale.
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4430 and 4455
Waht class grass is?
Orchard grass mix I think.
Is the kicker broke
This baler does not have one.
Yes it does its just not chained to the door so it's not working.
no its currently handycap
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You shouldnt have to stop an back up to dump the bale.
better than anything you got keyboard warrior, i bet you play farm sim for a living and smell like cheetos
This baler doesn't have an ejecter ramp, if the operator didn't reverse to eject the bale the back door would catch the bale as it was lowered.
@@elmton.john.1961. The bar at the back automaticly trips when the bale comes out of the baler an pushes the bale back therr is probably a pin that id broken
John Deere doesnt have a ramp thats on a New Holland baler
@@dwighttipps414 you're right Dwight, I'm in the UK and I was comparing it to our John Deere balers of that period which had a sprung steel ramp that cleared the bale away from the baler as the back door was lifted.
@dwighttipps414 lots of guys here disconnect them from.the tailgate, just have alot less issues without them. Ramp would be better and alot less vigorous and abusive. Hesston has the kicker properly figured out
4430s look way better without the precleaner
Id love to run that set-up all day long. That baler is really gobbling up the hay. Good job BTP
Those rear tires must be 34's i like them with 38's make it a little more level.
Must be an early production model. No high intake and 18.4-38's.
Some of the best john deere tractors were made from the early 70s to the early 90s and not full of all this unessasary nonsense like today it looks like a computer room not a tractor
I remember working for a farmer out in Eastern Washington in 1976 and he had a two year old 4430, What a great modern (at the time) that sound guard cab was.
Out of a single tractor model I see the most in Iowa whenever I'm driving through the country, it's the old 44 series John Deere.
I pull a 566 1000 rpm with a IH 706 with a 310 Ci ya she will smoke some. But the high hp is crazy your fuel not mine . I can run 5 mph old school hp and less fuel burn . You need to fix your kicker :)
Too bad it has to back up to dump the bale. Makes for a lot of cycles on the clutch. The operator doesnt seam to care about taking off at full rpm either.. shaving the clutch a bit on every bale.
Loved the tour of the operator platform. Hope to see more of that in your videos.
The classic cabs are tough to get a ride along view in. I thought this would be a good way to show it.
We run a 4430 bareback with a 568 round baler. Great set up.
It’s a 5x6 tho eh
@@piperdoug428 Yes
Bareback means drawbar and remotes only. PTO without 3 point isn’t bareback
@@nellsonstout7001 i always assume on a big 4wd bareback means drawbar and remotes but on a rigid frame (2wd or fwa) bareback means pto + remotes but no arms
@@nellsonstout7001 is correct. I'm not sure what Deere used for the option of PTO, and remotes minus three point. I don't believe it would be considered a standard, or Wheatland because it has an adjustable wide front.
We’ve got a ‘77 4430 that’s been in the family the whole time. We use it with our 550M baler and 625 MoCo. It’s still a beast.
4430s are good tractors, I've worked on several. unless the farmer really cares about his equipment these are some of the nastiest, most worn out tractors on the farm.
Nothing sounds better than a 404 out doing work.
The Soundgard body was ahead of its time
Awesome tractor. We got 2 4840s, we really like them 👍👍
My neighbor also has 2 4840’s they do everything with those two tractors
@@karlherzog3979 oh yeah we like them, and our 4955.
What's up with no push bar on the baler? That would save so much time
They’re quite prone to breaking the chain link on the spring so allot of guys just leave it, plus some brands of netwrap will break when pushed
Also the john deere kicker is bad to come out underneath the bale before it drops out of the chamber if you're downhill of have the gate opening too fast so you wind up with the kicker on the wrong side of the bale.
Nice looking rig!!
Beautiful tractor
On the farm I grew up on we had a 4230. That was the main tractor for the operation for many years. It was a real workhorse. My dad still has the tractor to this day.
Very cool. The 30 series were built to last.
@@bigtractorpower yep, there are still a lot of them out there. My uncle still has a 4630.
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What would a 4430 be worth
Depending on condition and hours they seem to bring $15,000 to $35,000 today.
Une cabine légendaire en avance sur son temps... Ici en Bretagne (France) il y a encore beaucoup de John Deere équipés de la "Sound Gard 2" qui travaillent tous les jours... Des séries -40,-50 et-55 en provenance de Manheim (Allemagne)... 🙂