My planting corn in 62 entailed me watching the grown ups do it. You were just a young en' back then, too. As fun to watch now, as it was back then. Thanks for the memories.
In 1962 Dad planted with a H, and a 4 row IHC planter with steel wheels. We cultivated with a 4 row on the M, and a 2 row on the H. Times changed a bit. Thanks Pete.
Pete, I bought an International 56 planter this spring from my old boss. Your videos have been extremely helpful and are the best information I have found about the 56 planter. I planted just a small plot of corn and for as rough of shape as my planter is in it did amazing. I am planning to go over it good this winter and get it all ready to plant next season. I would love to ask you a few questions sometime if possible as I am new to planting and the 56 planter. Thanks. -Nick
In 1962, I planted corn with a WD and a 290 planter. I had to have the corn done before going on senour class trip to NY and Washington . Got done too late to ride the bus to the train, but cough the train in Kenton Ohio.
We had a 56 planter too. Dry fert. Insectide boxes and herbicide boxes. Didn't always use herb. Boxes. Pulled with a 460. Last few years with 706D. Then we went to 800. Good planter too.
Always a pleasure to see the IH 56 corn planter in action, especially after you worked so diligently to get it in tip-top shape. Nothing like springtime in SW Wisconsin
That reminded me of my grandpa back in the early 70's using the Fordson Super Major that I still have today pulling a John Deere 494a planter. Thanks for the ride.
Wow I just come across this and final 450 with a 56 corn planter I can remember doing that back in the middle '70s and yes I was a kid then and we had a 4row 56 corn planter and yes planted a lot of corn then in West Central Wisconsin roughly about 150 acres with it a year sometimes more of the 200 acres but then I remember getting a used international 400 6 year old corn planter around 1980 just says the 800 planters come out and also use the 450 for that but then it was a little more weight so we end up putting the 856 tractor on it which my dad bought 856 brand new in 1968 and that was the main tractor or the biggest one on the farm until 1977 when we got a used 1456 and that was quite a brute also! And on the home Farm my brother has it both of them tractors yet and I myself when I farmed I had an international 800 corn planter 6row which I still have and I know my brother and a home Farm which my dad before him bought a 900 6row and later on updated to a 950 but now plants with a 12 row and I myself I still have my 800 6 row
Have a lot of good memories watching a 56 plant. We have always had AC tractors but the drill was JD and the planter was a IH 56. My series 2 D15 was a nice match for it. I now plant with a White 5100 and a 185. Great combination.
I got the same planter,minus the gandy boxes and the markers. Have a retractable pipe and chain combo, hang the chain in the last row planted. Clamps to the front weights.
I sure did enjoy this thank you very much for taking the time to put it together so we could see it I know you got to be happy finishing up with the corn planting🙂☕
I'm obviously an Oliver guy, but I've always liked the look of the Farmall 450. And that IH 56 continues to get the job done effectively. Like you, I enjoy farming with "vintage" equipment. Keep the good videos coming.
Pete: Love the purr of that Farmall. That era engine reminds me of our family farm in the 60’s. I have a McCormick 295 planter that I still use for food plots for deer. We’re too far north to get harvestable corn for the cows but we do pretty good with small grains like oats and barley using similar legacy equipment. I had to invest in newer tractors though. Love AC in my ‘old age’😊.
Simply amazing Mr Pete!! I LOVE seeing you and others planting the way it ALL used to be done!! Awesome camera angles Mr Pete as well, really enjoyed the ride!! Sounds like the planter did an amazing job for you!!! Hmmm, chicken composted fertilizer, are there videos about this on your channel? Very interesting my friend🤔😉😁 Thank you sir for bringing us along!! Looking fwd to seeing what's next 😁👍🇺🇸
Excellent, after reading your bio I answered some of my own questions. I work up in the Viroqua/Cashton area selling feed some. Work with Nelson Agri center a lot, so some of the scenery I think I recognize.
When you start planting if it's a wide front end like that 450 do you use the radiator cap as the guide just asking because I wanted to start a farming operation
Hey Pete I have a question for you. Could you show how the marker arms work on that planter? We have a 56 too that has never had the arms on it so I put them on tonight and they were either down with both or you had to get off the tractor and pull one down and the other rises. Thanks
Sure. Does the one you installed look like mine with the little steel balls on the chain and the rubber flapper that switches arms? The older 56s had a different system, used latches that held the arms up and alternated.
My planting corn in 62 entailed me watching the grown ups do it. You were just a young en' back then, too. As fun to watch now, as it was back then. Thanks for the memories.
Glad you enjoyed it.
In 1962 Dad planted with a H, and a 4 row IHC planter with steel wheels.
We cultivated with a 4 row on the M, and a 2 row on the H. Times changed a bit.
Thanks Pete.
I forgot to mention the check wires.
i love farming old style more work but you feel more connected to the land
Good job Pete. My dad bought one of those planters brand new,years ago.
Must have been pretty cool to pull in with a brand new 56 back in the day.
Great to see you using old equipment that worked so many years back and can now still work.
Yup, it can still get the job done.
Pete, I bought an International 56 planter this spring from my old boss. Your videos have been extremely helpful and are the best information I have found about the 56 planter. I planted just a small plot of corn and for as rough of shape as my planter is in it did amazing. I am planning to go over it good this winter and get it all ready to plant next season. I would love to ask you a few questions sometime if possible as I am new to planting and the 56 planter. Thanks. -Nick
Thank you for the kind words. Feel free to ask. Either here or shoot me an email. I might not reply right away, but I'll answer as best I can.
What a rig man 👊
Red power! Boom!
In 1962, I planted corn with a WD and a 290 planter. I had to have the corn done before going on senour class trip to NY and Washington .
Got done too late to ride the bus to the train, but cough the train in Kenton Ohio.
Good thing you caught the train and didn't miss out. I wasn't quite big enough to plant in '62 🙂
Great combination! I could listen to that tractor purr all day 🙂
Thanks! I do like the sound of those old four cylinder Farmalls.
We had a 56 planter too. Dry fert. Insectide boxes and herbicide boxes. Didn't always use herb. Boxes. Pulled with a 460. Last few years with 706D. Then we went to 800. Good planter too.
I think the 800 is under rated as far as planters go.
Hmmm that 56 planter looks somewhat familiar! Glad to see there wasn’t too much wrong with it. Good to see it being used again.
I’m glad it was so well maintained and cared for!
Planter works! thanks for the ride and for not knocking me off!
Didn't knock you off cuz you were hanging on tight!
@@farmerpete hanging on for dear life!! Lol
Yes, at our ages, we WOULD get hurt!
@@kswaynes7569 ya, I don't fall very well anymore
Thanks Farmer Pete , enjoyed the video and the ride !
Glad you liked it Cousin Scott.
Always a pleasure to see the IH 56 corn planter in action, especially after you worked so diligently to get it in tip-top shape. Nothing like springtime in SW Wisconsin
That's for sure.
Thanks Pete for sharing this great video of the older equipment still getting the job done without all the bells and whistles of the new equipment 👏👏
If I was 30 years younger and farming more acers I suppose I'd have the bells and whistles too. As it is I prefer this way. Thanks.
That reminded me of my grandpa back in the early 70's using the Fordson Super Major that I still have today pulling a John Deere 494a planter. Thanks for the ride.
Thanks Tim.
I always loved the IH 56 corn planter. So good to see one in action and doing good work. Thanks for showing a good video.
Thank you. I'm glad you like it.
as always a great video Pete,,,,keep'em coming my friend
Thank you.
Wow I just come across this and final 450 with a 56 corn planter I can remember doing that back in the middle '70s and yes I was a kid then and we had a 4row 56 corn planter and yes planted a lot of corn then in West Central Wisconsin roughly about 150 acres with it a year sometimes more of the 200 acres but then I remember getting a used international 400 6 year old corn planter around 1980 just says the 800 planters come out and also use the 450 for that but then it was a little more weight so we end up putting the 856 tractor on it which my dad bought 856 brand new in 1968 and that was the main tractor or the biggest one on the farm until 1977 when we got a used 1456 and that was quite a brute also! And on the home Farm my brother has it both of them tractors yet and I myself when I farmed I had an international 800 corn planter 6row which I still have and I know my brother and a home Farm which my dad before him bought a 900 6row and later on updated to a 950 but now plants with a 12 row and I myself I still have my 800 6 row
Yes, those old planters planted a lot of corn back in the 60s and 70s. Now just a few dinosaurs like me still using them.
Nice pete love that you use the older stuff like us! 😄
Nothing wrong with the older stuff. It still gets the job done.
Have a lot of good memories watching a 56 plant. We have always had AC tractors but the drill was JD and the planter was a IH 56. My series 2 D15 was a nice match for it. I now plant with a White 5100 and a 185. Great combination.
I bet the D15 worked well on a 56. I always heard that White made a good planter.
I got the same planter,minus the gandy boxes and the markers. Have a retractable pipe and chain combo, hang the chain in the last row planted. Clamps to the front weights.
That sounds like an effective way to keep your rows spaced.
nice video pete i enjoyed it cant wait to see more farming the way it use to be
Thank you. There's still a few of us old farts around.
I sure did enjoy this thank you very much for taking the time to put it together so we could see it I know you got to be happy finishing up with the corn planting🙂☕
Thank you SBF! I know all of us farmers are happy when all of our fields are planted.
I'm obviously an Oliver guy, but I've always liked the look of the Farmall 450. And that IH 56 continues to get the job done effectively. Like you, I enjoy farming with "vintage" equipment. Keep the good videos coming.
Thanks Charley.
Excellent video! That Farmall sounds great and the planter looks in very good shape.
It’s a really clean planter. I was lucky to get it. Thanks!
Great video. Home made fertilizer. Never occurred to me.
Actually I buy it in 40# bags from the place where I sell my organic grain.
Love that tight turn radius at end of row! Can you still get disks for the planter (control seeding rate)?
Pete: Love the purr of that Farmall. That era engine reminds me of our family farm in the 60’s. I have a McCormick 295 planter that I still use for food plots for deer. We’re too far north to get harvestable corn for the cows but we do pretty good with small grains like oats and barley using similar legacy equipment. I had to invest in newer tractors though. Love AC in my ‘old age’😊.
I’ve always thought those 4 cylinder Farmalls are what a tractor is supposed to sound like.
That is just like it was done for a lot of years...
That's true. Would have been a pretty common sight around here in the 60s and 70s.
Love still seeing the old gear in the field! Jw when did ih go from a finger marker to the disc style marker?
I'm not sure. I have a set of each. Prefer the discs.
@farmerpete aha ok just curious
Simply amazing Mr Pete!! I LOVE seeing you and others planting the way it ALL used to be done!! Awesome camera angles Mr Pete as well, really enjoyed the ride!! Sounds like the planter did an amazing job for you!!! Hmmm, chicken composted fertilizer, are there videos about this on your channel? Very interesting my friend🤔😉😁 Thank you sir for bringing us along!! Looking fwd to seeing what's next 😁👍🇺🇸
Thank you Nelson.
No better planter for the money than an lH 56.
Seedbed looked better than 1962's seedbeds but Agriculture didn't offer "no-till" planters in 1962 to plant through sod strips.
True! I have to say the fields worked up really well this year.
30" rows?
38” rows. That’s what all my equipment is.
So you have 2 56 planters?
My older one became spare parts.
@@farmerpete the one you rebuilt?
Yes. Even with what I did this one is in better shape. And now I have lots of parts to keep it going!
Awesome
Thank you.
nice music also what is the music liked it
The music is a nice fit. It's just some non-copyrighted music I downloaded from TH-cam's audio library.
Are you farming organic Pete? Just started watching, enjoying the videos.
Yes, the fields I planted in the video were just eligible to be certified this year. The fields closer to by barn have been certified since 2018.
Excellent, after reading your bio I answered some of my own questions. I work up in the Viroqua/Cashton area selling feed some. Work with Nelson Agri center a lot, so some of the scenery I think I recognize.
When you start planting if it's a wide front end like that 450 do you use the radiator cap as the guide just asking because I wanted to start a farming operation
You're right, I line up the mark with the radiator cap. Good luck starting your farm!
Hey Pete I have a question for you. Could you show how the marker arms work on that planter? We have a 56 too that has never had the arms on it so I put them on tonight and they were either down with both or you had to get off the tractor and pull one down and the other rises. Thanks
Sure. Does the one you installed look like mine with the little steel balls on the chain and the rubber flapper that switches arms? The older 56s had a different system, used latches that held the arms up and alternated.
@@farmerpete it does have the balls but I’m not sure about the rubber pieces
@@MillerFamilyFarms Stay tuned for marker video tomorrow.
@@farmerpete thank you