This is by far my favorite video so far. Not only talking tractors but looking at that barn was cool as all get out. This guy worked his butt off, the amount of labor it took to milk, bed and feed the cows is insane. But what a neat barn I’ve never seen one like it. It’s just sad so many of these stall barns sit empty due to vertical integration and the get big or get out attitude the milk companies have pushed for.
I look forward to these videos every week. It is great listening to these guys talk about their old tractors and the history of their farms. Keep’em coming. Thanks
There were still sixty dairy farms in my county when I started working in 1988. Now there's six. A lot of guys had bank barns but maybe 20 stanchions and we switched cows. Some of the barns built in the sixties were more like 60 cow tie stalls. By then people were also starting to put parlors in, usually a double four. Great videos. Sometimes progress isn't all it's cracked up to be. Not only have small farms with 50 to 100 cows disappeared but so have the small town businesses that supported them.
What an incredible tie stall barn! It’s wonderful that guys will do these videos of there tractors and farms and let you see there barns😃. We still milk 50 cows in mn so I’m pretty partial to tie barns!
These stories are awesome! I was born in 82 and our main 2 tractors were a JD 4440 and 4520, We ran a MF 860 for years and still have one today, still have the same 4520 , I know the connection to old equipment and just can't get into the new stuff.
Grandpa's tractors were, a crop row ford 901 and the big tractor was a ford 5000 The 901 had a loader and a two row corn picker that hung on it, there were two different backs for it, one for cob corn and one for shelled corn, nearly all the equipment was ford manufactured. My vocabulary of language that resulted in my mouth being washed put with bar soap came from that.corn picker, I never ran it my self, my job was kicking cob corn in the little giant gravity wagons, I seem to remember a lot of farmers were missing fingers from those old Corn pickers. I spent a lot of time riding that ford 5000 leaning against fender. Unless I was stacking straw off the chute of the old ford square baler, once the wagon was full we run the bales one at a time up a conveyor and stacked it in the barn. Baler, Planter, drill, post hole auger, seeder, fetilizer spreader, two and three molboard plow the disks the rakes, mower, sickle bar and rotory mowers were all ford, Ford was a four letter word and sent to hell many times in aggravation particularly the corn picker and the baler, ever fall, taking in the harvest, kicking corn in wagons and then into cribs. Then wheat would be combined, which went to raking and baling.
I milked around 40 cows on our 160 acre ( 120 acres tillable) for 45 years. No outside income. Sold the cows in 2016. Milked cows with the surge bucket milker with the strap over the cows back.......till 2006. Switched to pipeline. Thats when I learned how expensive things got !!!! More then 100% more detergent / acid to wash the milkers pipeline etc. Water heating costs / electricity costs.......repairs. The bucket milkers....took a five gallon bucket of water and a table spoon of detergent every other day.. One gallon detergent lasted a month. At this point.....unless you were out of debt.....I realized the cause for so many dairy farmers to fail !
By far my favorite video , the end of the video drug me down a bit but as you guys said sadly that way of doing things is a thing of the past just sad that will all be gone soon it’s almost a work of art to a dairymen from the past , I’m not even that old and it just seems like the little farms we had around have disappeared here in New York from when I was little in the early 2000’s times have changed just in that 15-20 year span for dairy
Yea, a family run dairy, that is just work, work, and more work! You have my upmost respect, you earned your retirement, thank you for your hard work, great video too!
We pulled a 1431 with our 4440 in C4. Our 4430 had 20,000 hours on it when they sold the cows. Was a loader tractor for 20 years. All our tractors were sound guards. The good old days.
Good video. Thanks for sharing. The 4430 will always be my favorite John Deere tractor. Grew up working on a dairy that had an early model synchro open station and we pulled 5x16" hydraulic resets. It did anything tillage to pulling a square baler. I later had a 74 model powershift and cab. Good tractors.
My first comment got deleted I think. 😂 My hubby is interested in some of the dairy equipment. He follows your channel and loves all the different interviews you've done.
I had two 30 series SGB tractors and both had brown vinal seats. To my knowledge, brown cloth seats, "personal posture " were started in the 40 series SGB factory installed. I put a personal posture cloth seat on my 4030 but retained the mechanical suspension as the 40 series had the hydraulic seats.
I milked in an L shaped barn with 2 barn cleaners and switching milkers from one section to the other was a pain- he didn’t mention about switching milkers between sections. It’s a neat barn but so labor inefficient not to mention all the motors that have to run every day to make things happen. I also noticed the shoveling comments- that’s a lot of shoveling every day for 101 cows and will age a person quick
I milked head to head in my barn, and yes the switch is a lot of walking. It is a lot of labor in that barn, but having all the cows in one spot is nuce
Don’t get me wrong I really enjoy all the stories you post! I also feel it when another dairy barn goes empty or gets torn down. I still miss Wisconsin and consider it the prettiest countryside there is
A nother great video. I love hearing these old guys stories about how they farmed and see their barns.
This is by far my favorite video so far. Not only talking tractors but looking at that barn was cool as all get out. This guy worked his butt off, the amount of labor it took to milk, bed and feed the cows is insane. But what a neat barn I’ve never seen one like it. It’s just sad so many of these stall barns sit empty due to vertical integration and the get big or get out attitude the milk companies have pushed for.
I look forward to these videos every week. It is great listening to these guys talk about their old tractors and the history of their farms. Keep’em coming. Thanks
The tractor story was cool but the barn story was AMAZING!That many tie stalls I would hate going to the barn in the morning lol
There were still sixty dairy farms in my county when I started working in 1988. Now there's six. A lot of guys had bank barns but maybe 20 stanchions and we switched cows. Some of the barns built in the sixties were more like 60 cow tie stalls. By then people were also starting to put parlors in, usually a double four. Great videos. Sometimes progress isn't all it's cracked up to be. Not only have small farms with 50 to 100 cows disappeared but so have the small town businesses that supported them.
What an incredible tie stall barn! It’s wonderful that guys will do these videos of there tractors and farms and let you see there barns😃. We still milk 50 cows in mn so I’m pretty partial to tie barns!
These stories are awesome! I was born in 82 and our main 2 tractors were a JD 4440 and 4520, We ran a MF 860 for years and still have one today, still have the same 4520 , I know the connection to old equipment and just can't get into the new stuff.
Thanks
Grandpa's tractors were, a crop row ford 901 and the big tractor was a ford 5000
The 901 had a loader and a two row corn picker that hung on it, there were two different backs for it, one for cob corn and one for shelled corn, nearly all the equipment was ford manufactured. My vocabulary of language that resulted in my mouth being washed put with bar soap came from that.corn picker, I never ran it my self, my job was kicking cob corn in the little giant gravity wagons, I seem to remember a lot of farmers were missing fingers from those old Corn pickers. I spent a lot of time riding that ford 5000 leaning against fender. Unless I was stacking straw off the chute of the old ford square baler, once the wagon was full we run the bales one at a time up a conveyor and stacked it in the barn. Baler, Planter, drill, post hole auger, seeder, fetilizer spreader, two and three molboard plow the disks the rakes, mower, sickle bar and rotory mowers were all ford, Ford was a four letter word and sent to hell many times in aggravation particularly the corn picker and the baler, ever fall, taking in the harvest, kicking corn in wagons and then into cribs. Then wheat would be combined, which went to raking and baling.
I milked around 40 cows on our 160 acre ( 120 acres tillable) for 45 years. No outside income. Sold the cows in 2016. Milked cows with the surge bucket milker with the strap over the cows back.......till 2006. Switched to pipeline. Thats when I learned how expensive things got !!!! More then 100% more detergent / acid to wash the milkers pipeline etc. Water heating costs / electricity costs.......repairs. The bucket milkers....took a five gallon bucket of water and a table spoon of detergent every other day.. One gallon detergent lasted a month.
At this point.....unless you were out of debt.....I realized the cause for so many dairy farmers to fail !
Enjoyed your video have a great day.
That barn is a heck of a setup, too bad that will be gone.
Got a 76 4430 with a sync-range and love it
Wonderful interview thanks so much. Love the tie barns
Love the tie stall barn, sad to see more and more of them setting empty . It's definitely getting hard to keep the lights on.
By far my favorite video , the end of the video drug me down a bit but as you guys said sadly that way of doing things is a thing of the past just sad that will all be gone soon it’s almost a work of art to a dairymen from the past , I’m not even that old and it just seems like the little farms we had around have disappeared here in New York from when I was little in the early 2000’s times have changed just in that 15-20 year span for dairy
Yea, a family run dairy, that is just work, work, and more work! You have my upmost respect, you earned your retirement, thank you for your hard work, great video too!
Great video, well worth watching .
Man, I'm really enjoying these stories!
I love my hot 76 model 4430 powershift. Great video.
Very interesting video.
Sorry to hear about your brother the little guy
Would have loved to see that barn in operation. Quite the set up in its day. Very neat to see!
We pulled a 1431 with our 4440 in C4. Our 4430 had 20,000 hours on it when they sold the cows. Was a loader tractor for 20 years. All our tractors were sound guards. The good old days.
I pulled the same with an Oliver 88 with two spark plugs wires pulled off and only one rear tire!
I kid, I kid! Loved the old SG Deere’s
Great video. Lots of man work on that farm. God bless
Good video. Thanks for sharing. The 4430 will always be my favorite John Deere tractor. Grew up working on a dairy that had an early model synchro open station and we pulled 5x16" hydraulic resets. It did anything tillage to pulling a square baler. I later had a 74 model powershift and cab. Good tractors.
My first comment got deleted I think. 😂 My hubby is interested in some of the dairy equipment. He follows your channel and loves all the different interviews you've done.
Shoot me an email
great job
We went from 4020s to a 4430 and then a 4440 and then a 4450 and a 7810
I agree by far my favorite so far.
Very nice
Looks like you could put cows in that barn today and start milking
I had two 30 series SGB tractors and both had brown vinal seats. To my knowledge, brown cloth seats, "personal posture " were started in the 40 series SGB factory installed. I put a personal posture cloth seat on my 4030 but retained the mechanical suspension as the 40 series had the hydraulic seats.
I'm pretty sure you could get cloth seat mechanical in the 30 series
I think you should do a story on frytowns 4620
That's funny!
Love the tractor story's what year model did you find out it was
I didn't run it
Can you explain why he had to stop plowing? What sanctioning board made em stop? How does that work exaclty
I believe it was in the 85 farm bill that every farm got a conservation plan. That farm is hel highly erodible land. Plowing was not in the plan
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Is there a reason behind him tearing it all down?
How many gallon is the bulk tank?
I don't know, but I am guessing 15-2000
I milked in an L shaped barn with 2 barn cleaners and switching milkers from one section to the other was a pain- he didn’t mention about switching milkers between sections.
It’s a neat barn but so labor inefficient not to mention all the motors that have to run every day to make things happen. I also noticed the shoveling comments- that’s a lot of shoveling every day for 101 cows and will age a person quick
I milked head to head in my barn, and yes the switch is a lot of walking. It is a lot of labor in that barn, but having all the cows in one spot is nuce
Don’t get me wrong I really enjoy all the stories you post! I also feel it when another dairy barn goes empty or gets torn down.
I still miss Wisconsin and consider it the prettiest countryside there is
Hi I milk 30 cows with surge equipment. I was wondering what milking units were used and if they were available for sale.
Shoot me an email, I'll forward you his contact information.
with no air breather out of the hood tells me its original , meaning that tractor is a 73 or 74
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