The evolution of equipment and the way it was advertised is very interesting. This video clip really caught my attention as funny and a look into the ag industry, marketing towards American farm life in the 50's. Preserve and protect this history, so our kids know where we come from! Thanks for watching!
100% we need to preserve the history so the next generation understands the evolution of mechanized farming and the stories of the pioneers that lived thru the Golden age. Thanks
I'm pretty sure that first gentleman with a pipe later played Grandpa Miller on Petticoat Junction. He played the cymbals in the Hooterville Volunteer Fire Dept Band. (edit) Walter Baldwin! Born in 1889. A couple years younger than Fred Ziffle.
Fun video. Thanks for sharing! I especially enjoyed seeing the new green line-up at the dealership. I grew up on a 720 Diesel. It smoked up a storm pulling 4 bottoms or a 16-foot disk, but could do it day in and day out! It could also bale hay all day on less than 5 gallons of fuel. The 720 was an amazing tractor!
I see. Four guys "too busy" to demonstrate a 420? One smoking a pipe while leaning his chair up against the tree, another arguing for more power, a neighbor showing up in white socks and leather loafers (no pun intended), and the boy who seems to be the only one working with his 620 and mounted plow! Ah the 1950s, a simpler time.
When I was a kidd a neighbor had a 420... always loved that tractor. A few years before his death his kids had a full restoration done on it. It's new again.
Great story, I hope to honor my father with a 4020 refurbishment before his time. So love to hear about stuff like this. Any pictures by chance? I bet it's next level, almost collectors edition shape?
Yes, the hat challenge was entertaining to see how Deere marketed its production equipment in the 50's. Let's preserve the history so our kids know where they came from! Thanks for watching. Would you take the Hat challenge???
@@growthefarmup2606 Defiantly not! I knew they were a 2-3 plow tractor but my 60 was rated at a 3-4 plow. My 60 could pull 3-14" plows easily but only a 4-14" in the sandiest of our soils back in Southcentral Michigan.
@@growthefarmup2606 I doubt this was made for TV - TV was all black-n-white in the 50s. Probably 16mm color film for John Deere Days. I remember Dick VanDyke & Mary Tyler Moore in separate beds in the early 60s, but Archie & Edith Bunker together in bed by the early 70s.
@Fail Ranch a totally different time, for sure, I kinda thought the acting in the JD 420 Challenge video we put together was so bad it's almost great! Lol Good for a laugh and a look at some old school farm equipment! 😉
With all the technology today the weatherman still can't forecast the weather. Love the the old John Deere promotional films. Love the delivery truck. 🚜
We had a hard time pulling 3-16 plows with a 730 Diesel around our farm, clay ground. 4020 was a fight with 5-16. 210 Allis Chalmers did OK with 5-16, needed a full rack of weights. Doubt the little 420 would have done that good in hard ground. Great Video though, Thanks for sharing.
Never had a 420, did run a 40 though. Hard to believe though. Around here a 720 has a load with a 4 bottom, according to this movie logic, the 720 should do 6! Not!
Good info, always listen to the folks that have experience with actually running this equipment. Pass on the history pass on the knowledge. Thanks for the lesson Frank!
Same here. 4 bottom on the 720, 3 on the 60, 2 on the 435 GM diesel 2 cylander. I remember Dad bought a brand new 4430. Unhooked the 720 and gonna show that 4 bottom what for. Went a little faster but not what 12 yr old me was hoping for. 720s and 730s were a hell of a tractor.
@David Shumski Thank you, this comment is a history lesson in farming and real world equipment experience, unto itself! SOME of the next generation appreciate how far equipment has come (how easy we have it with heated leather seats and climate control) and respect your generations experience actually running this classic equipment. Let's not pretend that Farming doesn't have its challenges in any decade, but from a equipment perspective you were the pioneering generation that participated in the mechanization of agriculture. Hearing about the models and how they pulled, what worked, what you liked and disliked is history that should be preserved and respected. Appreciate you took the time to give us your history lesson! The non farm viewers eat these comments like yours up!!! And hopefully tuffens up the younger generation when they complain about their finger tip controls!
I have two of these tractors and one was a demo at the dealer my grandfather bought.... When he told the sales guy , after he demoed it with a 3 bottom , "I want that one" the sales guy said ok lets go order you one.... He said no I want that one!! Cause he had seen it work with his own eyes...
My Dad bought a 420 and was told it would pull a 3 bottom plow...what a joke even with weights on the front it was a wheelie machine...finally took one bottom off the plow and it was usable at best...our A popped along with a 3 14 alot faster
Ok wow, so we have a comment that it can't be done? Could it be soil type? We've see. A couple comments that it could barely pull it. Thnx for your info
Thanks for posting this , just love the video of it all from the grill to the cars to . My son is redoing a 58 420 now for his FFA project. Can not wait till it’s done with a 90 over kit in it and a Crome straight pipe on it they sound so good
That is awesome! If you check the community tab we post pics and links to people running this classic equipment and pictures of redoing this classic equipment. Your son is working on a piece of history, sounds like a well rounded young man! Send pics to lauberbrad44@gmail.com and we'll post pictures to the channel for everyone see your sons progress and learning! Preserve the history! Thank you Edit, only if you would like to share with the community, of course. Great story!!!
And they probably don't have the parts you need either, but they can have em tomorow!!! Lol. Heck, I don't think a $50 bill buys much a JD dealership these days!!!
I've got a spread axle 4020 that we restored and it's used to run conveyers and chores still. I think it's a 68' they are good Ole tractors that just run!
I own a 420, and a 2-16 mounted plow. I don't have weights nor ballast in the tires and I ran out of traction before I ran out of power on my test run after getting the plow home this summer. The old girl didn't even bark....just started spinning the landside rear wheel! I was cutting about 6 inches when it lost traction. Plowing, from my understanding is almost as much of an art as it is a science. Plow has to be adjust to the line of pull from the tractor, and the bottoms angled slightly nose down for the plow to "suck" properly. (JD's term in the plow manual, not mine). Also it says that a properly adjusted plow should cut half as deep as its cut width. A 12" bottom should cut 6" deep, while a 16"bottom should cut 8" deep. This winters job...get some ballast in those tires!
Wow, a seat that actually fit a person? And a A.M radio??? You were living the dream @Whiskey! Lol. Yea, the 4020 was my childhood! Can relate! Thanks.
Unless he cheated! Setting the plown shallow! Lol but we gotta remember in John Deere land, it's always sunny, the equipment, never breaks down! The conditions are always perfect, The wind never blows, it always rains right on time, I wonder how we get a ticket to JD land? Lol.
@@RJ1999x we can go there next! I've been getting the Internation Harvester and AgCo history vids ready for the holiday season and some exciting regenerative farming vid collaborations with Hank Haney and Kieth Burns of green cover seeds that all farmers will find some value in it!
Wouldn't have done that in our South Georgia Tift loam, not 3-14" and not deep. 2-16" would have been a pretty good match for them though. I've pulled 3-16" with my 630 and that is about all the more she wanted. Pull a 3-16" flip plow deep with an 1100 Massey Ferguson and it is a pretty good match at 4.5 MPH.
@RJ 1999 plowing is a lost art, I did actually quite a bit of 6 bottom plowing on organic fields in the late 90's just Tryijg anything to lower the weed bank and bury the weed seeds! That said, I do not still do it, for what that's worth! Lol. But my time plowing taught me one thing, how to properly set a plow is something not alot of people know how to do anymore, alot of trial and error until ifigired out you should cut 1/2 as deep as the plow bottom is wide, and slightly angled, ever so slightly, depending on soil type. I tend to agree. The video doesn't really look like there "Plowing Correct" almost looks like the plow is set shallow? And not leveled correctly and it was lugging that 3 bottom.
Wow... Very "Leave It To Beaver" style! So..... where do I pick myself up a John Deere 420? That sounded gas powered too, Is that right? Who doesn't want a green JD 420 pulling machine to match their states legalization plan? 🤣💨💨💨
June Cleaver goes to Tegridy Farms? Lol. The JD 420, official tractor of Colorado farmers everywhere! Thanks for the watch... would you have taken the hat challenge?
@@growthefarmup2606 Interesting... So shop Colorado eh? :) Or elsewhere cuz they're not sellin'!? :) Hmmm... Tractor salesman guarantees it will pull it... Guy has the newest tractors and gets to try them... If he fails, he isn't selling a tractor.. smart money would have changed the bet. "Buy me a hat if you can't pull it, if you can, cut me a price break!" But, I'm tough on salesmen.. 😁Thanks for sharing!
Your 💯 correct, that's farming, it's not cookie cutter! Farming is about adjusting to real world conditions and crop plans can change drastically throughout the growing season, across every farm, we have some river bottom ground (sand) and some heavy clay just 10 miles away. 2 totally different fertility, weed control crop plans for 2 totally different soil types. Have found that cover crops benefit regardless of soil type, they help hold more water and nutrients in the sand and help break up and grow deep roots in the clay. Good Comment 👍
This is a edit of the 1957 John deere promotional video, I found it in my warehouse on 8mm film and transfered it to digital. And cut some of the equipment into their own segments. I checked put you channel... wow your on some serious side hills man! I'm in the flatlands compared to you! Good luck. These are kinda cool old vids aren't they?
We had Olivers from 1928 until 1990-ish.. Never looked at JD, IH< Famrall, although Ford was on our radar... Until the New Generation of JD... Oliver was the King. Of course White took over and drained their budgets... If not for White,... It would Oliver and JD.
Moonbeam, I love it! Lol This marketing vid ftpm the 50's is very corny! (pun intended). This clip was soo bad its good! Would you have taken the hat challenge?? Thanks for checking it out!
The cost of farming today, equipment needs to last 40 years, so we can afford to put it on a 30 year mortgage like a house! Problem is modern stuff is maybe good for 10-15 years then the gremlins creap into em. I've found just wholesale replacing wiring harness and switches and electrical/battery hookups etc every decade is worth alot of trouble shooting! I learned always order 2 when you get new harnesses, that way you've got a nice, not weather checked or worn out, rubbed thru harness ready to replace when needed... it will be needed!
@@growthefarmup2606 There has got to be a market for a tractor that is just built simple and in the open-source frame of mind. Will it be as powerful as a Deere? No. Will it be as efficient as a Deere? No. Will it be as expensive as a Deere? Oh, hell no. But the biggest advantage would be that every single system and subsystem would be documented, available to the public, and fixable with commonly found parts. I think this idea would be a winner.
@Fail Ranch U just gave me an idea... just like we build our "real" Semi trucks we just get a frame for a platform Stretch it out and add some axles. Put a Cat C 15 in it, etc. The logo Says Peterbilt or kenworth or FLD but really it's just a eaten Fuller 13 speed in a Caterpillar truck. Your talking about basically a "Glider aftermarket Agricultiral Tractor" kinda briliant, I think they would be insanely popular with the farm exemption, Can we please put absolutely no electronic sensors on the tractor at all! All manual handles and levers, just manual. No electric over hydrolic. It Just works, Unfortunately or fortunately however you look at it we are going to need a cab and an air conditioning and heater to sell these things in 2022 I like where your heads at... Has anybody sketched anything like this up?.? Hmmmmm
It's better to buy a little larger, higher hp tractor and underwork it....not buy a undersized, underpowered tractor like in this video..and work the pis- out of it..
Love these old movies, Thank You for posting these.
The evolution of equipment and the way it was advertised is very interesting. This video clip really caught my attention as funny and a look into the ag industry, marketing towards American farm life in the 50's. Preserve and protect this history, so our kids know where we come from! Thanks for watching!
This video showed me something I truly don't believe..... a farmer cursing the rain.
Thank you for this. I needed it. It was the golden Era of life here in the corn belt of America.
100% we need to preserve the history so the next generation understands the evolution of mechanized farming and the stories of the pioneers that lived thru the Golden age. Thanks
I'm pretty sure that first gentleman with a pipe later played Grandpa Miller on Petticoat Junction. He played the cymbals in the Hooterville Volunteer Fire Dept Band. (edit) Walter Baldwin! Born in 1889. A couple years younger than Fred Ziffle.
Great info, our first official ID of the actors on the 420 challenge! Thanks.
Walter Baldwin also played Mr. Parrish, father of Homer Parrish. Homer was one of the main characters in the 1946 film “The Best Years of Our Lives!”
Barber Andy griffith also I thought he looked familiar
@@rondavis2791 Walter was the barber on just the first episode I think, then Howard McNear (Floyd) took over.
@@rotunda57 yup lol "he's blind as an owl"lol one of my favorite episodes. I believe it's the one with the stranger.
They went all out back then, loved it.
Fun video. Thanks for sharing! I especially enjoyed seeing the new green line-up at the dealership. I grew up on a 720 Diesel. It smoked up a storm pulling 4 bottoms or a 16-foot disk, but could do it day in and day out! It could also bale hay all day on less than 5 gallons of fuel. The 720 was an amazing tractor!
I love the videos thank you so much for sharing
Thank you so much for posting this. Need more of these!
More to come!
I see. Four guys "too busy" to demonstrate a 420? One smoking a pipe while leaning his chair up against the tree, another arguing for more power, a neighbor showing up in white socks and leather loafers (no pun intended), and the boy who seems to be the only one working with his 620 and mounted plow! Ah the 1950s, a simpler time.
They don't seem to to farming to hard, to be fair it was "mother's" birthday, and they are some bad actors! Lol.
When I was a kidd a neighbor had a 420... always loved that tractor. A few years before his death his kids had a full restoration done on it. It's new again.
Great story, I hope to honor my father with a 4020 refurbishment before his time. So love to hear about stuff like this. Any pictures by chance? I bet it's next level, almost collectors edition shape?
Heck I didn’t know it would do it either. Hey thanks for sharing, enjoyed watching!
Brand new, the 420 was as strong as your 1020 Cousin!
Yes, the hat challenge was entertaining to see how Deere marketed its production equipment in the 50's. Let's preserve the history so our kids know where they came from! Thanks for watching. Would you take the Hat challenge???
@KSWayne S would you have taken the hat challenge?
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Well coz that’s interesting. Btw merry Christmas coz !
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Defiantly not! I knew they were a 2-3 plow tractor but my 60 was rated at a 3-4 plow. My 60 could pull 3-14" plows easily but only a 4-14" in the sandiest of our soils back in Southcentral Michigan.
I sill have a 430. Use it quite often. Handy little machine.
12:13 Haha - A married couple in separate beds, in the same room. 😃
I laughed at that too! Was that the standards and practices for television in this Era? Old school! Thanks
@@growthefarmup2606 I doubt this was made for TV - TV was all black-n-white in the 50s. Probably 16mm color film for John Deere Days. I remember Dick VanDyke & Mary Tyler Moore in separate beds in the early 60s, but Archie & Edith Bunker together in bed by the early 70s.
Watch closer. He calls her mother. Which is even weirder.
@Fail Ranch a totally different time, for sure, I kinda thought the acting in the JD 420 Challenge video we put together was so bad it's almost great! Lol Good for a laugh and a look at some old school farm equipment! 😉
I came for the 420 challenge, and I am killing it. (snicker)
With all the technology today the weatherman still can't forecast the weather. Love the the old John Deere promotional films. Love the delivery truck. 🚜
I have often wondered if we created the "weather man" Just so we all know who to blame!!! Lol.
@@growthefarmup2606 That's one job a person can have and lie to the public and never get fired besides a politician.
We had a hard time pulling 3-16 plows with a 730 Diesel around our farm, clay ground. 4020 was a fight with 5-16. 210 Allis Chalmers did OK with 5-16, needed a full rack of weights. Doubt the little 420 would have done that good in hard ground. Great Video though, Thanks for sharing.
It seems more people are skeptical that a 420 could pull a 3/16. In clay I would say prob no way! Not set properly anyway.
Well, these promo films probably tried to avoid the subject of clay ground, as much as possible, for obvious reasons.
Never had a 420, did run a 40 though. Hard to believe though. Around here a 720 has a load with a 4 bottom, according to this movie logic, the 720 should do 6! Not!
Good info, always listen to the folks that have experience with actually running this equipment. Pass on the history pass on the knowledge. Thanks for the lesson Frank!
Same here. 4 bottom on the 720, 3 on the 60, 2 on the 435 GM diesel 2 cylander. I remember Dad bought a brand new 4430. Unhooked the 720 and gonna show that 4 bottom what for. Went a little faster but not what 12 yr old me was hoping for. 720s and 730s were a hell of a tractor.
@David Shumski Thank you, this comment is a history lesson in farming and real world equipment experience, unto itself! SOME of the next generation appreciate how far equipment has come (how easy we have it with heated leather seats and climate control) and respect your generations experience actually running this classic equipment. Let's not pretend that Farming doesn't have its challenges in any decade, but from a equipment perspective you were the pioneering generation that participated in the mechanization of agriculture. Hearing about the models and how they pulled, what worked, what you liked and disliked is history that should be preserved and respected. Appreciate you took the time to give us your history lesson! The non farm viewers eat these comments like yours up!!! And hopefully tuffens up the younger generation when they complain about their finger tip controls!
@@davidshumski4629 the 435 had a habit of destroying the transmission.
@@randymagnum143I still have the 2 14 mounted plow still never destroyed the transmission. Not saying that your wrong.
Long live John Deere Nation. Thanks for sharing some history.
I roll Green all day long as well.
@@growthefarmup2606 If it ain't "Green", it shouldn't be seen.
I have two of these tractors and one was a demo at the dealer my grandfather bought.... When he told the sales guy , after he demoed it with a 3 bottom , "I want that one" the sales guy said ok lets go order you one.... He said no I want that one!! Cause he had seen it work with his own eyes...
The bond between a man and his tractor is biblical, once you see it, you know!
My Dad bought a 420 and was told it would pull a 3 bottom plow...what a joke even with weights on the front it was a wheelie machine...finally took one bottom off the plow and it was usable at best...our A popped along with a 3 14 alot faster
Ok wow, so we have a comment that it can't be done? Could it be soil type? We've see. A couple comments that it could barely pull it. Thnx for your info
Thanks for posting this , just love the video of it all from the grill to the cars to .
My son is redoing a 58 420 now for his FFA project. Can not wait till it’s done with a 90 over kit in it and a Crome straight pipe on it they sound so good
That is awesome! If you check the community tab we post pics and links to people running this classic equipment and pictures of redoing this classic equipment. Your son is working on a piece of history, sounds like a well rounded young man! Send pics to lauberbrad44@gmail.com and we'll post pictures to the channel for everyone see your sons progress and learning! Preserve the history! Thank you
Edit, only if you would like to share with the community, of course. Great story!!!
I like burnt bruats and rare steaks. I still have a 435 JD
Nothing wrong with a a little crunch in your lunch but the steak gotta be rare rare! 💯
Thank you for the wonderful memories 😂
Thank you for watching, more to come!
"I don't believe it, it can't be done!"
And then Elon Musk Does it!
What sad is, go to the dealer now, and a ball cap cost 25.00.
And they probably don't have the parts you need either, but they can have em tomorow!!! Lol. Heck, I don't think a $50 bill buys much a JD dealership these days!!!
Farmers have been fighting farmers forever. It is why the industry has its problems.
Had to believe that tractor was only 20 horse power, plus it didn't have that John Deere 2 cylinder sound.
Right, and one would assume the LP (propane) version would have like 1/2 the horsepower???
It's 2 standing up
I believe that was a Dubuque tractor
@Bob Suszka the debuque factory did open- may of 46' and pit out its 1st tractors in March of 47, your prob right. Thanks for the info!
I love those little 420s and M’s
I've got a spread axle 4020 that we restored and it's used to run conveyers and chores still. I think it's a 68' they are good Ole tractors that just run!
@@growthefarmup2606 my dad grew up on a 69 3020 and he tells me stories all the time
@@growthefarmup2606 I ment in the comment to mean that I like the 2 cylinder 430 and 420
Oh yea old school. Gas powered. Going ba k to the true first designs
There's some big ears hanging off that corn in the background.
I own a 420, and a 2-16 mounted plow. I don't have weights nor ballast in the tires and I ran out of traction before I ran out of power on my test run after getting the plow home this summer. The old girl didn't even bark....just started spinning the landside rear wheel! I was cutting about 6 inches when it lost traction. Plowing, from my understanding is almost as much of an art as it is a science. Plow has to be adjust to the line of pull from the tractor, and the bottoms angled slightly nose down for the plow to "suck" properly. (JD's term in the plow manual, not mine). Also it says that a properly adjusted plow should cut half as deep as its cut width. A 12" bottom should cut 6" deep, while a 16"bottom should cut 8" deep. This winters job...get some ballast in those tires!
Properly Plowing is a lost art for sure!
Lol, those old sales adds are interesting and funny! I sure would like to have one of those 55 Chevys though! Just saying!
No doubt on the 55-57 Chevy. And this is coming from a blue oval Ford guy! Lol.
that sounded a earl thinkel weather forcast from wowo radio out fort wayne indiana back in the 60's an 70's lol
I used to ride next to Dad on the 720 diesel. It had a wide seat and an AM radio.
Wow, a seat that actually fit a person? And a A.M radio??? You were living the dream @Whiskey! Lol. Yea, the 4020 was my childhood! Can relate! Thanks.
That dealer would have lost that bet, everytime
Unless he cheated! Setting the plown shallow! Lol but we gotta remember in John Deere land, it's always sunny, the equipment, never breaks down! The conditions are always perfect, The wind never blows, it always rains right on time, I wonder how we get a ticket to JD land? Lol.
@@growthefarmup2606 I'd rather go to Allis Chalmers land!👍
@@RJ1999x we can go there next! I've been getting the Internation Harvester and AgCo history vids ready for the holiday season and some exciting regenerative farming vid collaborations with Hank Haney and Kieth Burns of green cover seeds that all farmers will find some value in it!
Wouldn't have done that in our South Georgia Tift loam, not 3-14" and not deep. 2-16" would have been a pretty good match for them though. I've pulled 3-16" with my 630 and that is about all the more she wanted. Pull a 3-16" flip plow deep with an 1100 Massey Ferguson and it is a pretty good match at 4.5 MPH.
South Georgia is a different world than up here in winter freeze country for sure!
A 420 wouldn't pull 3 bottoms in anything but sand, and then not very deep
@RJ 1999 plowing is a lost art, I did actually quite a bit of 6 bottom plowing on organic fields in the late 90's just Tryijg anything to lower the weed bank and bury the weed seeds! That said, I do not still do it, for what that's worth! Lol. But my time plowing taught me one thing, how to properly set a plow is something not alot of people know how to do anymore, alot of trial and error until ifigired out you should cut 1/2 as deep as the plow bottom is wide, and slightly angled, ever so slightly, depending on soil type. I tend to agree. The video doesn't really look like there "Plowing Correct" almost looks like the plow is set shallow? And not leveled correctly and it was lugging that 3 bottom.
@@growthefarmup2606 I love plowing, but haven't done it in years. I taught myself how to set a plow and can usually dial them in after a few rounds
MR YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!, IF YOU WERE IN A SANDY AREA IN SOUTH GA., IT WOULDN'T BE VERY DEEP!!.
When those three farmers left the John Deere dealership they stopped by the creek under some trees and smoked a joint.
The guy.with the pipe had 420 in it
Wow... Very "Leave It To Beaver" style! So..... where do I pick myself up a John Deere 420? That sounded gas powered too, Is that right? Who doesn't want a green JD 420 pulling machine to match their states legalization plan? 🤣💨💨💨
June Cleaver goes to Tegridy Farms? Lol. The JD 420, official tractor of Colorado farmers everywhere! Thanks for the watch... would you have taken the hat challenge?
@@growthefarmup2606 Interesting... So shop Colorado eh? :) Or elsewhere cuz they're not sellin'!? :) Hmmm... Tractor salesman guarantees it will pull it... Guy has the newest tractors and gets to try them... If he fails, he isn't selling a tractor.. smart money would have changed the bet. "Buy me a hat if you can't pull it, if you can, cut me a price break!" But, I'm tough on salesmen.. 😁Thanks for sharing!
What kind of ground you have and what you're plowing under makes a big difference. Clay in sod or sandy wheat stubble.
Your 💯 correct, that's farming, it's not cookie cutter! Farming is about adjusting to real world conditions and crop plans can change drastically throughout the growing season, across every farm, we have some river bottom ground (sand) and some heavy clay just 10 miles away. 2 totally different fertility, weed control crop plans for 2 totally different soil types. Have found that cover crops benefit regardless of soil type, they help hold more water and nutrients in the sand and help break up and grow deep roots in the clay. Good Comment 👍
Spent many hours on my dads 420. No way it pulled 3 bottoms. 2 was plenty. Love the sound though.
Whered you get this video bro? Link me pls.
This is a edit of the 1957 John deere promotional video, I found it in my warehouse on 8mm film and transfered it to digital. And cut some of the equipment into their own segments. I checked put you channel... wow your on some serious side hills man! I'm in the flatlands compared to you! Good luck. These are kinda cool old vids aren't they?
We had Olivers from 1928 until 1990-ish.. Never looked at JD, IH< Famrall, although Ford was on our radar... Until the New Generation of JD... Oliver was the King. Of course White took over and drained their budgets... If not for White,... It would Oliver and JD.
I love these old promotional videos. I'm quite sure the 2 guys with the bet going, were Hollywood actors.
7:32
Did anyone else think this was a growers seminar with a guy named!Moonbeam?
Moonbeam, I love it! Lol This marketing vid ftpm the 50's is very corny! (pun intended). This clip was soo bad its good! Would you have taken the hat challenge?? Thanks for checking it out!
No hat challenge for me. I always lose.
@Ron Zimmerman ahhh c'mon. The farmer in the video didn't convince you? Lol. Wouldn't it be funny if they actually sold equipment this way today?
Actually, a local Chevy dealer does. Still driving a Ford.
@Ron Zimmerman nice! Blue oval Here too.
Must be a ‘58 or newer. Grandpa’s ‘57 didn’t have power steering. Pretty good machine for the money though. Only lasted 40 years.
The cost of farming today, equipment needs to last 40 years, so we can afford to put it on a 30 year mortgage like a house! Problem is modern stuff is maybe good for 10-15 years then the gremlins creap into em. I've found just wholesale replacing wiring harness and switches and electrical/battery hookups etc every decade is worth alot of trouble shooting! I learned always order 2 when you get new harnesses, that way you've got a nice, not weather checked or worn out, rubbed thru harness ready to replace when needed... it will be needed!
@@growthefarmup2606 There has got to be a market for a tractor that is just built simple and in the open-source frame of mind. Will it be as powerful as a Deere? No. Will it be as efficient as a Deere? No. Will it be as expensive as a Deere? Oh, hell no. But the biggest advantage would be that every single system and subsystem would be documented, available to the public, and fixable with commonly found parts. I think this idea would be a winner.
@Fail Ranch U just gave me an idea... just like we build our "real" Semi trucks we just get a frame for a platform Stretch it out and add some axles. Put a Cat C 15 in it, etc. The logo Says Peterbilt or kenworth or FLD but really it's just a eaten Fuller 13 speed in a Caterpillar truck. Your talking about basically a "Glider aftermarket Agricultiral Tractor" kinda briliant, I think they would be insanely popular with the farm exemption, Can we please put absolutely no electronic sensors on the tractor at all! All manual handles and levers, just manual. No electric over hydrolic. It Just works, Unfortunately or fortunately however you look at it we are going to need a cab and an air conditioning and heater to sell these things in 2022 I like where your heads at... Has anybody sketched anything like this up?.? Hmmmmm
they need a new 990 david brown tractor lol
A real golly gee wiz
Ahhh shucks! Lol.
Is the elderly gentleman the actor who played the first Floyd on The Andy Griffith Show?
Not the 420 I thought I was getting in to......
The JD 420, the official Tractor of Tegridy Farms! Lol. Would you have taken the hat challenge?
It's better to buy a little larger, higher hp tractor and underwork it....not buy a undersized, underpowered tractor like in this video..and work the pis- out of it..