And somehow, contrary to all intuition and logic, the wooden tractor will be better built and more practical than the commercial version. Sadly, citing time and physics, I fear Matthias will deny us the please of such a project.
Tractors are just awesome engineering. Simple and and well thought out and incredibly useful once you have one. I'd say they are just as, if not more important than the car as a social changer. Plowing and harvesting was never the same for example. Congratulations!
Nice tractor Matthias! Careful with round things on the bucket like that. A surprising number of people die each year by being crushed by logs and round bales that kick over the back of the bucket with the loader high in the air. Once you see someone pass that way, it is something that you cannot forget.
Speed, ignoring your center of gravity, and not thinking through consequences have killed more farmers than we can imagine. Please be careful.... Remember, you've got a family counting on you.
I love driving tractors. So much power and utility its crazy. Also the very crude feeling of the clutch (at least in the ones I used to drive) just gives it such a sweet feeling. That seemed to work out nicely, kudos to that.
I've always liked tractors. I think it's the sound, and the changing smells of fresh country air mixed with diesel. You can see so much more at a slow pace and there's always a sense of power and usefulness too. There's more to like about farming than just growing stuff for sale. Thanks for the clip.
When I was a kid I used to use my parent's tractor very often. Not for agricultural things but we had horses and needed it to bring them water, build fences and my dad is a hunter so we used it to bring self-built deerstands to the surrounding countryside. Watching your video I instantly missed the smell of working with a tractor... I don't know why, but I always liked it.
Nice tractor there. :) Word of a warning though - if you're pulling something very sturdy like willow shrubs off the ground, do it in reverse. My grandfather was pulling willows off and had chains tied to the rear of the tractor. He ended up flipping it and without a cabin, poor man fell right under that thing. Luckily he survived with three broken ribs and punctured chest cavity, but the tractor has never ran since.
That was fun. When I was a kid my dad had a track-layer type tractor with a bucket loader like yours and a set of rippers on the back. I was too young to ever get to drive it, but he used to hoist me way up in the bucket. There's nothing so fun as heavy equipment!
This is an awesome video.all four of my grand parents where from Germany they all spoke it, and my dad is a large Diesel mechanic and it's kinda funny to see them in use when I have only really seen them apart haha
I once drove a tractor through a field with the bucket up. I was going very slow but the front tire hit a hole and before I could react the tractor was laying on its side. Tough lesson learned! I love your tractor though!! You won't regret owning it. :)
Love my 1955 Grey Ferguson tractor, done all sorts with it and having had a few near serious accidents with it have learned to respect it and never over load it. If your going on uneven ground think about a roll cage.
Totally cool tractor. I got to use Case 4 wheel drive similiar to this one once here in Normandy(we have a 60 year old little tractor for mowing paddocks.) The big ones are easier than cars to drive and manipulate the front loader...Great fun and how lucky to live in Canada! cheers...rr
Glad to see you wearing hearing protection. That way you can not hear the keyboard commandos questioning YOUR choice to preserve your hearing. Keep it up. Just a word of advice when hauling a load in the tractor bucket, keep the bucket low to the ground to keep the center of gravity low. If traveling quickly, it could only take a small bump on the ground to sway the bucket and tip the tractor over. Don't ask how I know. Love your vids.
Agree in general on keeping the load low. Two factors involved in raising that load at that time, 1 the unsecured chain. If that were being dragged instead of suspended, has the potential for getting caught under the tires, and causing significant issues with the load. Fix for that would be to have a screw gun and some screws along to secure the end of the chain (after wrapping it around that post multiple times) so that it isn't being dragged. 2 the expectation that the load was wider than the space available because of trees or brush at the level he had been carrying it. This should have been a brief raise and then lower to pass the obstruction. He commented on the obstruction in the video, as well as the chain, but I suspect he felt the danger was not worth the effort at fighting with the chain. (I think he was wrong, but he was the one driving, not me.) As an observation, both trips with the shorter poles were done with the bucket low, though perhaps not as low as it should have been. Things like that come with education and experience. More with experience.
I have a John Deere 5210 with a loader on the front and a blade on the back (and a 6' snowblower when I need it). I don't use it very often but when I need it it is the only tool that will work! Well worth the money to have a tractor around the 1 acre spread! Thanks for the video!
The only bad thing is if you paint it your usual green, people will think it is a John Deere. Case and International are good tractors. The farm I used to work on had one of each, and they were tanks. We cut, raked, bailed, and moved hay (round bales) with those things all day and they never slowed down. Very nice purchase!!!!
One of the things I love about his videos is that, sure, he doesn't want to cut off his fingers or lose an eye, but he doesn't feel the need to take safety measures for the camera that he wouldn't do in real life. You watch This Old House (which I love), and you think to yourself, "I know damn well Tommy Silva doesn't wear safety glasses while he's cutting in trim with latex paint" :)
@Jeff Stone, the old popping johnnie, usually model 60s, what we called lay down two cylinders. disc and when ya shut it down, you could be on your second glass of iced tea before the motor finally stopped turning, lol. fellow here had one, when he started it up a man down the road would come over just to watch it run. worked on them quite a bit. I always liked the smaller model 40s, 2 cyl in line motor. those days are gone, just good memories.....
The 1494 was an inherited David brown design from here in the uk. When case IH brought David brown they made the davidbroens for a while in case IH livery always had a cab on in the uk good tractors for there time.
A simple pole barn, perhaps with piece-en-piece walls. That building style allows one to use short lengths of logs, 8 or 10 feet. A lot of buildings for the fur trade era were built this way, as were others. See: www.northwestjournal.ca/PostCon.htm Also called post and plank construction: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-and-plank
Just you and a tractor ... and I love it. Your videos are always so interesting, I get excited to see a number by your name every time. Do you think you will ever just build a big CNC machine? It seems like it would save a LOT of time ... which might mean shorter videos but it could also mean more of them and more interesting designs.
I am going to get one some time soon!!!!! We have a place in the UK called Diggerland where you can go and play on all the heavy machinery all day long!
Time to build a tractor shed! Consider adding a pulley system between the tractor bucket and your workshop to lift other heavy items onto a workbench. Yes a come-along or hoist would be a more traditional solution for that, but it may be that one more justification for why you have such an impressive tractor!
I grew up on a farm where my dad was proud of our perfect safety record, my advice is to slow down with a load, and keep the loader bucket as low as you can and only raise it when necessary. Dad also taught me that diesel engines don't like being bogged down at low rpms, always better to have the engine running faster than what it sounded like in the video.
Totally agree with keeping the loader low. Loader raised raises the center of gravity and if a wheel goes over a hole--over she goes. Seen it happen. Loader is probably the most useful attachment of any for a tractor.
Hey Matthias, I always thought you have some German roots, but never was totally sure. You are a fantastic engineer, I absolutely love your videos. I would really love to hear some more of your past. What your dad did in Germany and why you moved to Canada. Grüße aus Deutschland ;)
I agree it is a little bigger than I would have chosen for you, but a front end loader is really priceless when you need it. Especially that one that has hydraulic tilt. With 4 wheel drive and power steering a heavy load should be no problems. Now if you buy any huge antique cast iron woodworking machines you can move them yourself. 1:09 the boy and his new toy moment.
I can't be the only person who, as the doors went up, was half expecting something built from 3/8ths ply to back out? Or maybe I can... Nice tractoring Matthias!
Matthias, you should definitely get a roll-cage or cabin on that. Rolling a tractor is much easier than surviving a roll. There is also a risk of being hit by stuff falling.
Tractoring time yeah!! How about building an exclusive garage shee for the tractor and also building some sort of umbrellaso you can tractor in comfort!!!
I look forward to the video where you make a tractor out of wood
It should also be foldable, so it fixes the garage space problem.
Me to! He should do a big build project like that. I bet he does stuff like that in his sleep lol :P
It also needs pocket holes, lots and lots of pocket holes!! :'D
And somehow, contrary to all intuition and logic, the wooden tractor will be better built and more practical than the commercial version. Sadly, citing time and physics, I fear Matthias will deny us the please of such a project.
I have already made a wooden tractor and painted green!! Check it out on my channel!!
Plot twist, that wasn't his swing set. >:D
In the next video "I'll build this thing using some wood I found..."
+Luiz Fellipe Carneiro Finally, video evidence of one of Matthias' garbage runs.
Hey Matthias, you certainly can invent some wood jig to hang that tractor from the ceiling, no problem! You've been through worse!
Oh, and no pocket holes allowed, huh? They are all evil and must die!
Underrated comment.
Tractors are just awesome engineering. Simple and and well thought out and incredibly useful once you have one. I'd say they are just as, if not more important than the car as a social changer. Plowing and harvesting was never the same for example. Congratulations!
Nice tractor Matthias! Careful with round things on the bucket like that. A surprising number of people die each year by being crushed by logs and round bales that kick over the back of the bucket with the loader high in the air. Once you see someone pass that way, it is something that you cannot forget.
Speed, ignoring your center of gravity, and not thinking through consequences have killed more farmers than we can imagine. Please be careful.... Remember, you've got a family counting on you.
closed casket funerals for young men are a sad thing
Just because Cody got a dozer...
yeah, that dozer is insane! I think Jimmy Diresta is going to have to get a bigger toy next!
Can we please not mention that shill here? This is an honest channel.
+Matthias Wandel How come you didn't build a tractor out of scrap plywood from the garbadge 😂
+the boss chef that made me laugh way too much lol
yeah i second that lol
I love driving tractors. So much power and utility its crazy. Also the very crude feeling of the clutch (at least in the ones I used to drive) just gives it such a sweet feeling. That seemed to work out nicely, kudos to that.
I feel like the little lawn tractor leaked a little oil when that behemoth rolled out :)
It used to leak a little oil, but I fixed the leak just this year.
Pure fear.
I see what you did there LOL
I'm so happy for you! Congrats on the new toy.
That's one badass tractor! Great fun.
Can't wait to see what you do with the PTO
I've always liked tractors. I think it's the sound, and the changing smells of fresh country air mixed with diesel. You can see so much more at a slow pace and there's always a sense of power and usefulness too. There's more to like about farming than just growing stuff for sale. Thanks for the clip.
When I was a kid I used to use my parent's tractor very often. Not for agricultural things but we had horses and needed it to bring them water, build fences and my dad is a hunter so we used it to bring self-built deerstands to the surrounding countryside. Watching your video I instantly missed the smell of working with a tractor... I don't know why, but I always liked it.
Tractors...the ultimate man toy! I had to get one myself. Glad i did. It's a rural thing...gotta have a tractor in the driveway in the country.
I love big toys. takes me back to my childhood.
Sweet! I could watch you "tractoring" all day lol. I used to have a blast with my grandfather and his old John Deere.
Nice tractor there. :)
Word of a warning though - if you're pulling something very sturdy like willow shrubs off the ground, do it in reverse. My grandfather was pulling willows off and had chains tied to the rear of the tractor. He ended up flipping it and without a cabin, poor man fell right under that thing. Luckily he survived with three broken ribs and punctured chest cavity, but the tractor has never ran since.
That was fun. When I was a kid my dad had a track-layer type tractor with a bucket loader like yours and a set of rippers on the back. I was too young to ever get to drive it, but he used to hoist me way up in the bucket. There's nothing so fun as heavy equipment!
That's a really nice tractor! Having the front-end loader is a really great thing to have. It really saves on your back.
Pretty hilarious when you back out the new tractor and it absolutely dwarfs your old lawn tractor!
This is an awesome video.all four of my grand parents where from Germany they all spoke it, and my dad is a large Diesel mechanic and it's kinda funny to see them in use when I have only really seen them apart haha
Good job, great tractor, now I want one!
You are fun to watch, thank you.
I once drove a tractor through a field with the bucket up. I was going very slow but the front tire hit a hole and before I could react the tractor was laying on its side. Tough lesson learned! I love your tractor though!! You won't regret owning it. :)
I always love to see your new woodworking tools :-)
Just want to say, congratulations. Have fun with the new toy! :-)
Love my 1955 Grey Ferguson tractor, done all sorts with it and having had a few near serious accidents with it have learned to respect it and never over load it. If your going on uneven ground think about a roll cage.
I love videos your like this. It reminds me of the first time I drove a tractor and how powerful and useful they are
Man huge respect out to you man. Like I couldn't move that tripod that many times. Huge respect man
Totally cool tractor. I got to use Case 4 wheel drive similiar to this one once here in Normandy(we have a 60 year old little tractor for mowing paddocks.) The big ones are easier than cars to drive and manipulate the front loader...Great fun and how lucky to live in Canada!
cheers...rr
That is a big and absolutely gorgeous property.
Glad to see you wearing hearing protection. That way you can not hear the keyboard commandos questioning YOUR choice to preserve your hearing. Keep it up. Just a word of advice when hauling a load in the tractor bucket, keep the bucket low to the ground to keep the center of gravity low. If traveling quickly, it could only take a small bump on the ground to sway the bucket and tip the tractor over. Don't ask how I know. Love your vids.
Agree in general on keeping the load low. Two factors involved in raising that load at that time,
1 the unsecured chain. If that were being dragged instead of suspended, has the potential for getting caught under the tires, and causing significant issues with the load. Fix for that would be to have a screw gun and some screws along to secure the end of the chain (after wrapping it around that post multiple times) so that it isn't being dragged.
2 the expectation that the load was wider than the space available because of trees or brush at the level he had been carrying it. This should have been a brief raise and then lower to pass the obstruction. He commented on the obstruction in the video, as well as the chain, but I suspect he felt the danger was not worth the effort at fighting with the chain. (I think he was wrong, but he was the one driving, not me.)
As an observation, both trips with the shorter poles were done with the bucket low, though perhaps not as low as it should have been. Things like that come with education and experience. More with experience.
I have a John Deere 5210 with a loader on the front and a blade on the back (and a 6' snowblower when I need it). I don't use it very often but when I need it it is the only tool that will work! Well worth the money to have a tractor around the 1 acre spread! Thanks for the video!
You took the easy path and bought a tractor. Building a tractor with recycle plywood is more of a challenge :)
AWESOME video. Love how the tractor extracts those logs like it's nothing! : )
The only bad thing is if you paint it your usual green, people will think it is a John Deere. Case and International are good tractors. The farm I used to work on had one of each, and they were tanks. We cut, raked, bailed, and moved hay (round bales) with those things all day and they never slowed down. Very nice purchase!!!!
Extreme tractoring, great job!
What a fine piece of machinery! :D
The engine sounds nice and healthy too ^_^
watched 20 seconds, and saw the tractor, just clicked LIKE! Awesome Matthias!
Matthias... you've got class! Nice tractor!
Nice! My dad had an old Oliver... fond memories... many uses!
You are living the life, my friend!
Thats pretty cool - looks like a lot of fun
That tractor looks like a lot of fun!
I went to your site and read the story of the band saw. I just bought one of those for $50, bit so far it works. If it breaks, now I know what to do.
Just make sure the pulley set screws aren't loose. That's what caused the damage on this one.
One of the things I love about his videos is that, sure, he doesn't want to cut off his fingers or lose an eye, but he doesn't feel the need to take safety measures for the camera that he wouldn't do in real life. You watch This Old House (which I love), and you think to yourself, "I know damn well Tommy Silva doesn't wear safety glasses while he's cutting in trim with latex paint" :)
"Lets do some tractoring" I love it! Show us more!
That tractor must have taken you forever to build! I can't wait for you to post the plans.
I look forward to your future mowing video with one of those huge mower decks that they use for along highways.
Cody would be proud of you, good homesteading :-)
Every man's dream. I only have 1.5 acres but have always wanted a tractor like yours. Very cool sir.
Now that's some fine tractoring!
That's a sweet tractor. Good for you!!
That's an awesome tractor!
@Jeff Stone, the old popping johnnie, usually model 60s, what we called lay down two cylinders. disc and when ya shut it down, you could be on your second glass of iced tea before the motor finally stopped turning, lol. fellow here had one, when he started it up a man down the road would come over just to watch it run. worked on them quite a bit. I always liked the smaller model 40s, 2 cyl in line motor. those days are gone, just good memories.....
Tractors are so cool!
I guess you know now why tractors have a low gear! Good addition to the farm. Enjoy!
That's some fine tractor'ing Matthias!
that's a real tractor alright
dat turbo
such diesel
Much wow!
Wow you were going fast in that thing!!! downright reckless! looks like fun
that tractors a beast! 😃 good work
Wow! Now that is a tractor! Nice!
I'm happy to here you live in Canada! :)
The 1494 was an inherited David brown design from here in the uk. When case IH brought David brown they made the davidbroens for a while in case IH livery always had a cab on in the uk good tractors for there time.
Nice vid, I hope you will enjoy your new toy.
I like it!
time to build an extra or spare garage? 😉
he needs to org' a good old fashioned barn raising!
A simple pole barn, perhaps with piece-en-piece walls.
That building style allows one to use short lengths of logs, 8 or 10 feet. A lot of buildings for the fur trade era were built this way, as were others.
See:
www.northwestjournal.ca/PostCon.htm
Also called post and plank construction:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-and-plank
Built entirely of wood found in the garbage.
Always loved tractors, one day I will justify the need for one! An old Ferguson-Brown would be great :D
Just you and a tractor ... and I love it. Your videos are always so interesting, I get excited to see a number by your name every time. Do you think you will ever just build a big CNC machine? It seems like it would save a LOT of time ... which might mean shorter videos but it could also mean more of them and more interesting designs.
Great Tractor. my father-inlaw makes CASE tractors and I live where they. one out of Racine, WI
That looks so fun! Now I want a tractor.
Was going say the same thing, I want one now!
I want more than a tractor... Already got a few haha
Own two, my oldest is my avatar.
Came to the comments looking for one such as yours. Was surprised it took more than 30 seconds to find it.
And yeah, I want one too.
Imagine: There are people out there, they have so much tractors, they sell them..
Slick! Good stuff Matthias!
I am impressed. THAT is a tractor !!
That's a good looking tractor!
LOL, you were having WAY to much fun :-)
You chose a good brand tractor and it is very cool
Tractoring looks fun!
That looks like great fun, i want one
damn...that looks like ALOT of fun!
That's a gorgeous piece of land.
I am going to get one some time soon!!!!! We have a place in the UK called Diggerland where you can go and play on all the heavy machinery all day long!
Time to build a tractor shed! Consider adding a pulley system between the tractor bucket and your workshop to lift other heavy items onto a workbench. Yes a come-along or hoist would be a more traditional solution for that, but it may be that one more justification for why you have such an impressive tractor!
Must be so nice to have all that land... something I can only dream about living in Vancouver...
I grew up on a farm where my dad was proud of our perfect safety record, my advice is to slow down with a load, and keep the loader bucket as low as you can and only raise it when necessary. Dad also taught me that diesel engines don't like being bogged down at low rpms, always better to have the engine running faster than what it sounded like in the video.
Totally agree with keeping the loader low. Loader raised raises the center of gravity and if a wheel goes over a hole--over she goes. Seen it happen. Loader is probably the most useful attachment of any for a tractor.
Looking forward to the new box-jointed swing set
Hey Matthias, I always thought you have some German roots, but never was totally sure.
You are a fantastic engineer, I absolutely love your videos. I would really love to hear some more of your past. What your dad did in Germany and why you moved to Canada.
Grüße aus Deutschland ;)
What an awesome toy!
now that'S a real tractor! i love it!
@Matthias Wandel why dont you make a gear crank for your garage door chain? as a project of course.
Looking forward to your build of a pole barn for the tractor ;)
i think that was the first time i heard you say "oh $#!t"!!! nice tractor
Hi! You could store the tractor outside under a lean to attached to the shed. Daniel
I agree it is a little bigger than I would have chosen for you, but a front end loader is really priceless when you need it.
Especially that one that has hydraulic tilt.
With 4 wheel drive and power steering a heavy load should be no problems.
Now if you buy any huge antique cast iron woodworking machines you can move them yourself.
1:09 the boy and his new toy moment.
I can't be the only person who, as the doors went up, was half expecting something built from 3/8ths ply to back out?
Or maybe I can...
Nice tractoring Matthias!
That's a beauty. It needs its own shed.
Matthias, you should definitely get a roll-cage or cabin on that. Rolling a tractor is much easier than surviving a roll. There is also a risk of being hit by stuff falling.
Awesome tractor!
Tractoring time yeah!! How about building an exclusive garage shee for the tractor and also building some sort of umbrellaso you can tractor in comfort!!!
"Let's do some tractoring!"
Something I never thought I'd hear.
hey Matthias, is that a swing in the middle of nowhere?
This used to be a sort of family campground for the previous owners of the place.
+Matthias Wandel oh, I C.
Its just leaky valves, its an old tractor its expected
Katalist I suspect he could purchase some new seals if it was important enough, which I doubt it really is
I drive tractors way bigger then that and im only 12 XD
That's a real nice tractor.
Tell me about space requirements... I'm still trying to fit my woodworking equipment around that tractor my granddad left me. x.x
How many acres do you have? Looks like a nice place for a homestead.