Seriously! As an non-farmer I'm amazed at how quickly and how much things have changed. I could watch Dougo describe his use of all these old pieces of equipment. I'm sure, for their time, they were revolutionary and amazing. I bet Dougo had similar conversations with Merlin back in the day! :)
I enjoyed the recalling that Dougo was doing. He is right, you guys do have it a lot easier today than we did 40-50 years agjo. Great video ! Farming has come a long way.
Can you imagine what the young bucks of today would think of operating an open station combine or even a trailed 7.5ft cut bagger combine behind a 60 hp tractor where 15acres per day was a massive achievement. When you stopped for the day you had to then go round and pick up all the 150lb bags of barley, wheat or oats on to flat bed trailers or trucks!
@@Dan.Whiteford I want to say they couldn’t do it. But, it still amazes me the things we did back then. We didn’t have a choice! We did the best we could with what we had. And truth be told, we were better for it, and made better money. Until the 80’s 🤣
One should also mention that almost everyone who is still farming that did back in the day is doing 5 or 10 times, or however much more than they did way back when. But nonetheless, there was much more manual labor involved in every aspect than there is today that’s for sure
You can tell Dougo has been to a lot of auctions over the years, you can always take something off if you get too hot. I am in my late sixties and you are right Dougo we really worked hard but each new machine made life so much easier. Keep the videos coming guys, love the BS!
I grew up on a farm outside of Adrian MN. In the mid 60's dad bought a new 4020 which was a big tractor back then. Now I am a contractor in Michigan and a few years ago I was doing a bathroom remodel outside of Ann Arbor and driving down a back road I came up behind a John Deere tractor going down the road. I happened to be on the phone with my brother who now has dad's 4020 and I told him about the tractor that I was approaching. I said it looks like a smaller model but when I passed it I realized it was a 4020! Things have changed so much in my lifetime!
You youngsters! 😉 I learned to drive combine in a John Deere 6600, gear drive, no AC. My earliest memories of riding in a combine are in a John Deere 45 square back, standing in the corner of the cab because there wasn't any real place to sit. Dad even had me steer the 45 once, while cutting beans, while he stepped off to walk behind the combine to see what kind of a job it was doing. I was probably 6-7 at that time. Enjoy the folding corn head. Can't imagine you'll dislike being able to fold and go, instead of needing to put it on a trailer. Thanks for another good video!
We farmed with a 1962 jd 105 all the way until we quit in 2006 bean head with wood panels . 4 row corn head . No shredder had what we called Whirley birds to spread the straw. We added AC prior to that combined with the doors open when you fish the day all you could see was your eyes when you took your glasses off.
Absolutely loved the end with Dougo and Chet in the old 4400. Dougo really seemed to love the nostalgia of it. Thank you Larson Farms for a year of ups and downs. Thank you for giving us all a glimpse into your beautiful lives. I appreciate you all and hope you have a blessed Christmas and New Year.
Lol... I really enjoyed Dougo's rendition about how they got the 4400 out of the mud. Dad told me that they used the EXACT same method back then. They had a 4400 and a 5500. I have to hear all about how " spoiled " we are now because of modern equipment. He and grandpa make it look like they worked 29 hours a day, 9 days a week back then. I have a question.... is it actually true that you guys had to battle Indians and wooley mammoths back then as you were working fields?
@@steves9915 You must live in the high country because they told me the T-Rex's kept the other dinosaurs out of the bean fields here. I guess the danged cavemen used to toss rocks at the 4450 and kept busting the windows though. Abe Lincoln and Joe Biden both promised they would help get rid of them but then the meteor hit, and... well.. you know.
I remember riding an IH combine in the late fifties. It had its own engine and was pulled by a H. I operated it and filled bags of wheat, oats, barley etc. Fun, no cab, no ac, no gps except for my Dad or Uncle navigating the H. It was dirty, dusty and itchy. Times have changed.
Chet , Let’s not be knocking the 4400 too much, my 4420 1985 year is still in service on my 100 acre farm and it does a great job using a 215 platform. Chuck (86 yrs old) and myself enjoy watching you young guys farming at it’s best.
That brought back a lot of memories. Go to more auctions. thanks for having your dad tell everyone how he farmed with what machinery when he was younger. Thank you all.
Good times options. Best thing is tell someone They have a hole in their shirt and get them to raise Their arm as the building goes on. Pretty cool When the auctioneer points at them and says sold!
When I was around 18 or I help a farmer that had a 4400 and a 213 head with a 4 row 36" corn head !! He farmed around 500 acres with it !! About his last year I took our 6620 with the same size head over to help him out and after the first load he parked the 4400 and let me finish it while he hauled in !! Cut 80 acres that day at 5 - 5.5 mph !! The good old days !! Miss the farm life and the family tradition
Wow so many memories come back with the 4400 combine, I was 8 years old when my dad bought a 4400 new in 1978, and then I started driving it when I was 14 ,, I thought I had a big piece of machinery,,thank you guys so much for all the many memories today
It's funny for me to see the huge tractors you guys have now. Growing up, my Dad grew tobacco and had a Farmall. You guys know how small they were. Heat and AC on those were Summer & Winter! 🤣
You guys at the end going through all the old machinery brings back memories. First combine i ran was a old Gleaner G and thought o was hot stuff when I got into the L lol. It had fan setting and not just a old hang down fan.
This was a fun video. Enjoyed the trip back in time. I am your dads age and never realized that they were that small back then and I have seen farming all my life in southern Michigan. Hope you all have a great Christmas.
Ran a 7700 and seeing that cab brought back all the memories. Besides it being a hydro compared to the variable speed in that 4400, everything else was the same. I always think the new ones look so hard to run with all the tech so it was funny to hear the young guys wondering how to run it.
Cut many an acre of wheat with a Massey 92, 14 foot header and either a 70 or 90 bushel hopper (Can't remember which). Dads' machine had a HUGE 16 foot header and a straight pipe off the old Chrysler Industrial flathead 6, of course there wasn't a cab anywhere in sight. We'd see the JD 4400's and think they were giants. Cleaning out the sieves and straw walkers in late July/early August was a great time.
Don’t feel bad Chet, I have been to many sales in my forty years of farming and bought a lot of stuff, but more times than I have bought something the piece I wanted started a more than I wanted the end price to be!!
Chet, Big Swede and Dougo, my first combine to run was a Gleaner E. I was 11 years old running around a 100 acre field with the custom operator who showed me everything I needed to know. He jumped out to eat a sandwich and get a drink and when my uncle pulled up to empty the hopper he had " paper kittens " when he saw who was running the rig. I had her, but soon after that I was designated to running the bale wagon. Good times and yes the clutch was very stiff.
Dougo Chet Eric that was a super time with you all at the auction thank you for sharing and your time was really good loved it was real great Happy Holidays guys .
My 1st combine to operate? A 1958 A Gleaner. Ford propane industrial engine. A pipe around the operator with 2 lights on it. Rice lugs & an 11 ft. header. I cut soybeans in 20 degree weather. Fun times! :o)
Dougo, back in the day, my dad owned a 203 International combine, 2 row corn head and 10ft bean head, then he moved up to a 3300 John Deere combine and then in 1977 he bought the 4400 in which I learned to operate. When we had our farm machinery sell in 1992, the combine had only 1000 hrs on it.
Chet and Erik, you young guys missed out on so much fun. I ran a 4400 in hot New Mexico with no AC. Finally graduated to a 6600. We hustled to get done by July 4th. It was a great experience. Thanks for taking us along
It’s fun watching Dougo around walk around the old 4400, back in the 60’s we started with a McCormic 151…it originally didn’t have a cab (that was added later) no AC, no PS, no power anything , ran on regular gas maybe had a 80 bushel grain tank
Haven't been to a farm auction for almost 50 years, but I remember they tried to schedule for the coldest day of the year! I think there was a bonus if a strong wind was blowing. Buildings with torpedo heaters were very crowded. When I was 8 or so I raised my hand to wave at a neighbor, the auctioneer pointed at my dad and yelled "Sold"! Never did that again.
That was awesome seeing you guys react to the old Deere combine! I grew up driving a 4200 on the farm combining oats when I was 8 or so. Such fond memories, and Doug-o's right, you could lift the rear end of those super easy in reverse lol. We had a 4240 (I think it was) cab tractor I love to work in too!
Auctions were fun. My dad and a neighbor had a Model 55 also, traded up to a used 1972 6600 in 1973. Spent quite a few hours in that one. At least that one had a cylinder down at the hinge to pull the auger out, then you latched it. The big lever on the lower right was how you engage the entire separator and header. Keep the videos coming, love it. Ray from Dawson
I thing the Larsons need to go to a event where they have horses pulling the equipment. Plows, disks, swathers and etc. my first memory was putting up loose hay in the barn with a team pulling the hay fork up after it stabbed a mouth full of hay off the hay wagon. All the neighbors helped one another when it com to harvesting. A 4400 combine wasn’t even thought of. Big tractors was Allis Chalmers WD45. Heat and AC - yeah all you wanted plenty of heat in the summer and all the ac you could stand in the winter.
Find an Amish farm that's willing to allow them to film... won't happen because that's against the Amish ways. But, there are other farms that still use horse drawn equipment to farm with, including harvesting. Cheers :)
Their is a place for equipment like that old 4400. A very good friend is farming about 500 paid off acres and growing specialty crops, and he’s netting every bit as much as you and I do farming 5k plus. BUT, he’s not building equity like we are. That is the catch. But I still respect him for what he is doing, and I love seeing that old iron still working.
Merry Christmas, Dougo looked like the kid from a christmas story who had the snow suit on, and fell down and couldn't get back up. When he was trying to bend down and look at the bottom of that trailer, thought for a second he was going down. When Dougo said his flashlight was buried under his layers of clothes, I had to laugh. God bless all of you.
I can remember our 1st combine I can remember was an 815 IH, Then we upgraded to a 6600 Deere. So yes I've been around that classic JD iron. Many days of sweating all day long cause AC Was out, cutting beans.
Yeah Doug, there are those of us who are very familiar with the equipment of the 70's and 80's. We had a 6600 and it was the horse of the area for a few years. The previous combine was a Gleaner and when we moved to the Deere for the first year we felt like we were shelling corn in road gear, lol. Transporting crop quickly became a problem.
Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable. Congratulations on the corn head you got. Would think the folding corn head would be nice feature to have. The previous owner said not many hours on it. Know you will put it to good use. Wow, some of that equipment went high. But new is hard to get right now , so nice used stuff is going good. The owner took good care of equipment the way it looked. I think the auction company enjoyed having all of you there. Their mobile trailer was a place inside. Great way to conduct business. Things now days are something else. Funny your reaction Chet to the old combine. Such a huge huge difference now days in equipment. What we had in the 50’s and 60’s was so different to what you have now. Running old equipment was really hard work. We never had a cab on anything, tractor or combine. Wow, a world of difference now days. The equipment you have now is luxury so to speak in comparison. Glad you took us to the auction. It was interesting. Thanks. About it for now. You all take care and be safe and go get that new used corn head. Looking forward to the next video. Thanks for everything. The Iowa farm boy from years ago.
I enjoyed it all but I really enjoyed hearing Dougo tell how much different it was years ago, and he was right. Farming has really changed. Great video. Merry Christmas you guys 👍👍👍❤️🎄
Merry Christmas to you all from Bundaberg Australia I I enjoy your presentations but I'm glad it's you shivering over there I like the warmer climate I was a farmer myself for 55years can relate to the ups and downs you go through
Chet, you younger guys don't know what fun the old days were. My dad had a JD 95 when I was growing up. With a 4 row corn head you could go about 2 mph. We used to run all night my dad and I trading off so that one could go in the house to warm up for a while after dumping a gravity box. Later dad traded up to a 6600 which was luxury by comparison. Now I run a S670 for the farm I work for.
The 4400 sure took me back. You wanted to park those babies nose down when you had to swing the auger out, gravity helps! LOL When I started we had a 55 also, the 4400's looked huge compared to them. Ah, the memories! Good video guys!
Chet and Dougo in the cab of the 4400 was priceless! I'm amazed to learn of the technological advances in the AG business over the years. Thank you for sharing. Congrats on 300K
I had a 3300 and then a 6600 I bought to just cut wheat with, due to the IH rotor's chewing straw up to much, and I like long stem straw for bedding and it dont make as much of a mess in a haymow as straw from a rotor combine. I would have bought a old IH combine, but I got good deals on both the 3300 and the 6600, and ended up selling one for more than I paid for it and the other for what I had in it, so they cost me nothing when I was doing custom wheat cutting for the straw back several years ago. It is amazing how much equipment has changed from when a kid. The combine and tractor seats are definitely much more comfortable than what I grew up with. I remember when we traded the Case 930 and 1370 off for a new Case 2290 and 2390, I though wow these seats are nice in the 90 series, and now days thee seats are heated and air conditioned, and some even give you a massage. Many of this younger generation of farmers have no idea how easy they got it. Back in the day their was no reverser if you plugged the combine, you had to manually reverse it and dig by hand, lol. Plus they were much easier to plug back in the day than they are now, because there as no such thing as roundup ready beans, lol. You cultivated and walked fields with weedhooks, lol.
Chet, Erik, Dougo and the Larson Farm family, Merry Christmas and please have a safe and happy new year, god bless you all from the Topping family, Melbourne Australia.
I went to a farm auction once and let’s just say I was not prepared for the cold at all. I had nowhere near enough clothes on. 🥶 thanks Larson Farms👍🇺🇸
I love how they were looking at the 4400 chet looked at it like it was a toy and when my dad bought one for our first combine 4 years ago I thought it was huge.
I love when Dougo goes down history lane!! You need to do a history of Larson farms video soon
Yes they should! He can go on for days to compare current machines vs back in the days.
Seriously! As an non-farmer I'm amazed at how quickly and how much things have changed. I could watch Dougo describe his use of all these old pieces of equipment. I'm sure, for their time, they were revolutionary and amazing. I bet Dougo had similar conversations with Merlin back in the day! :)
Someone is spoiled obviously
Yeah please not
@Dave Cole spoiled to a point but not like Chet doesn't work for his keep! He works harder than bunch of people his age
I enjoyed the recalling that Dougo was doing. He is right, you guys do have it a lot easier today than we did 40-50 years agjo. Great video ! Farming has come a long way.
Can you imagine what the young bucks of today would think of operating an open station combine or even a trailed 7.5ft cut bagger combine behind a 60 hp tractor where 15acres per day was a massive achievement. When you stopped for the day you had to then go round and pick up all the 150lb bags of barley, wheat or oats on to flat bed trailers or trucks!
@@Dan.Whiteford I want to say they couldn’t do it. But, it still amazes me the things we did back then. We didn’t have a choice! We did the best we could with what we had. And truth be told, we were better for it, and made better money. Until the 80’s 🤣
One should also mention that almost everyone who is still farming that did back in the day is doing 5 or 10 times, or however much more than they did way back when. But nonetheless, there was much more manual labor involved in every aspect than there is today that’s for sure
Your right but the people 30 yes ago had it easier than the people 30 yes before them
@@SouthernILAg You mean that they're farming 5 or 10 times more land?
You’re never too overdressed for an auction in the winter!
Chet: “Can you guys understand him?”
Erik: “Raise your hand if you’re not sure.”
🤣That was GOLD!!!🤣
Merry Christmas, guys!!! 👍😃🙏🏻🇺🇸🌽
i agree but erik rarely disappoints with his comments
You can tell Dougo has been to a lot of auctions over the years, you can always take something off if you get too hot. I am in my late sixties and you are right Dougo we really worked hard but each new machine made life so much easier. Keep the videos coming guys, love the BS!
Nice little history lesson for those of us that aren't that familiar with the old times
That girl at the window really like Chet. She blushed when you walked in
Yeah she was definitely into him haha
Yeah I noticed that too
I grew up on a farm outside of Adrian MN. In the mid 60's dad bought a new 4020 which was a big tractor back then. Now I am a contractor in Michigan and a few years ago I was doing a bathroom remodel outside of Ann Arbor and driving down a back road I came up behind a John Deere tractor going down the road. I happened to be on the phone with my brother who now has dad's 4020 and I told him about the tractor that I was approaching. I said it looks like a smaller model but when I passed it I realized it was a 4020! Things have changed so much in my lifetime!
Perfect timing! Got on TH-cam and about to eat and boom your video! Have a great Christmas
Good video. Your right Dougo, the younger generation don’t realize how hard farming used to be.
growing up in my teens i loved to go to farm auctions with my dad RIP.
You youngsters! 😉 I learned to drive combine in a John Deere 6600, gear drive, no AC. My earliest memories of riding in a combine are in a John Deere 45 square back, standing in the corner of the cab because there wasn't any real place to sit. Dad even had me steer the 45 once, while cutting beans, while he stepped off to walk behind the combine to see what kind of a job it was doing. I was probably 6-7 at that time.
Enjoy the folding corn head. Can't imagine you'll dislike being able to fold and go, instead of needing to put it on a trailer.
Thanks for another good video!
We farmed with a 1962 jd 105 all the way until we quit in 2006 bean head with wood panels . 4 row corn head . No shredder had what we called Whirley birds to spread the straw. We added AC prior to that combined with the doors open when you fish the day all you could see was your eyes when you took your glasses off.
The best part of this video is just looking and talking about the old machinery
Great video! Take every opportunity to listen to your dad and his stories. Some day when he's gone you'll understand.
Making a request for more auction walk throughs with Dougo and the Swede. That was a good one. Enjoyed listening to Dougo talk abouth old iron
Absolutely loved the end with Dougo and Chet in the old 4400. Dougo really seemed to love the nostalgia of it. Thank you Larson Farms for a year of ups and downs. Thank you for giving us all a glimpse into your beautiful lives. I appreciate you all and hope you have a blessed Christmas and New Year.
Lol... I really enjoyed Dougo's rendition about how they got the 4400 out of the mud. Dad told me that they used the EXACT same method back then. They had a 4400 and a 5500. I have to hear all about how " spoiled " we are now because of modern equipment. He and grandpa make it look like they worked 29 hours a day, 9 days a week back then. I have a question.... is it actually true that you guys had to battle Indians and wooley mammoths back then as you were working fields?
The brontosaurs used to trample the corn field to get to their favorites, the beans!
@@steves9915 You must live in the high country because they told me the T-Rex's kept the other dinosaurs out of the bean fields here. I guess the danged cavemen used to toss rocks at the 4450 and kept busting the windows though. Abe Lincoln and Joe Biden both promised they would help get rid of them but then the meteor hit, and... well.. you know.
@@alexdrake9931 you guessed it right on the high country.
Always entertaining with the Larson Farm.
Merry Christmas all!
All you guys are hilarious!! Merry Christmas to all and god bless!! Stay safe and healthy!!
@@Mississippi-xj7rq Thank you so much for the kind words. May you have a blessed Holiday also.
Dougo was really happy talking about how it was farming back in the days. Lots of stories from Dougo we need more Dougo stories.
What a great lesson on the old equipment. Chet is properly amazed. Merry Christmas to all.
I totally switched from the little twerp in Iowa to you guys , what fun. that grey frozen tundra I do not miss at all.
I remember riding an IH combine in the late fifties. It had its own engine and was pulled by a H. I operated it and filled bags of wheat, oats, barley etc. Fun, no cab, no ac, no gps except for my Dad or Uncle navigating the H. It was dirty, dusty and itchy. Times have changed.
Chet , Let’s not be knocking the 4400 too much, my 4420 1985 year is still in service on my 100 acre farm and it does a great job using a 215 platform. Chuck (86 yrs old) and myself enjoy watching you young guys farming at it’s best.
That brought back a lot of memories. Go to more auctions. thanks for having your dad tell everyone how he farmed with what machinery when he was younger. Thank you all.
Good times options. Best thing is tell someone They have a hole in their shirt and get them to raise Their arm as the building goes on. Pretty cool When the auctioneer points at them and says sold!
When I was around 18 or I help a farmer that had a 4400 and a 213 head with a 4 row 36" corn head !! He farmed around 500 acres with it !! About his last year I took our 6620 with the same size head over to help him out and after the first load he parked the 4400 and let me finish it while he hauled in !! Cut 80 acres that day at 5 - 5.5 mph !! The good old days !! Miss the farm life and the family tradition
great video of the auction. Merry Christmas Larson family and every one else
Note to self, Be thankful for what we have today!!!!
Enjoyed
Merry Christmas to all!
thank you larson farms for the good memories around the 4400. those where big machines in there day
Wow so many memories come back with the 4400 combine, I was 8 years old when my dad bought a 4400 new in 1978, and then I started driving it when I was 14 ,, I thought I had a big piece of machinery,,thank you guys so much for all the many memories today
Me too....Ohhhh the good ol days of harvesting on Christmas...
Our first self propelled combine was a 600 Case, no cab, 2 row head , 10 ft grain head. You guys would love running that all day. Thx for the video!!
It's funny for me to see the huge tractors you guys have now. Growing up, my Dad grew tobacco and had a Farmall. You guys know how small they were. Heat and AC on those were Summer & Winter! 🤣
Enjoy watching your video's Chet! You and your family have a nice Christmas!
You guys at the end going through all the old machinery brings back memories. First combine i ran was a old Gleaner G and thought o was hot stuff when I got into the L lol. It had fan setting and not just a old hang down fan.
This was a fun video. Enjoyed the trip back in time. I am your dads age and never realized that they were that small back then and I have seen farming all my life in southern Michigan. Hope you all have a great Christmas.
Ran a 7700 and seeing that cab brought back all the memories. Besides it being a hydro compared to the variable speed in that 4400, everything else was the same. I always think the new ones look so hard to run with all the tech so it was funny to hear the young guys wondering how to run it.
Great to remember what it was like way back when.
Cut many an acre of wheat with a Massey 92, 14 foot header and either a 70 or 90 bushel hopper (Can't remember which). Dads' machine had a HUGE 16 foot header and a straight pipe off the old Chrysler Industrial flathead 6, of course there wasn't a cab anywhere in sight. We'd see the JD 4400's and think they were giants. Cleaning out the sieves and straw walkers in late July/early August was a great time.
Don’t feel bad Chet, I have been to many sales in my forty years of farming and bought a lot of stuff, but more times than I have bought something the piece I wanted started a more than I wanted the end price to be!!
I enjoy watching you go to shows or auctions. This kind of equipment was still a thought when I was farming.
Loved the history lesson from Dougo - always great to hear about how this farm got its start.
Like your idea Chet on putting it at the end of the driveway. Cause you can do anything !
Chet, Big Swede and Dougo, my first combine to run was a Gleaner E. I was 11 years old running around a 100 acre field with the custom operator who showed me everything I needed to know. He jumped out to eat a sandwich and get a drink and when my uncle pulled up to empty the hopper he had " paper kittens " when he saw who was running the rig. I had her, but soon after that I was designated to running the bale wagon. Good times and yes the clutch was very stiff.
Dougo Chet Eric that was a super time with you all at the auction thank you for sharing and your time was really good loved it was real great Happy Holidays guys .
Thank you for including us.
The Blonde and Chad had some chemistry….
How I remember the proper operation of a combine by Dougo !! Hard to believe the improvements to farm equipment over the years I'm now 78.
Awesome
Have a great holiday Sir.
@@amysblessings.
My 1st combine to operate? A 1958 A Gleaner. Ford propane industrial engine. A pipe around the operator with 2 lights on it. Rice lugs & an 11 ft. header. I cut soybeans in 20 degree weather. Fun times! :o)
Dougo, back in the day, my dad owned a 203 International combine, 2 row corn head and 10ft bean head, then he moved up to a 3300 John Deere combine and then in 1977 he bought the 4400 in which I learned to operate. When we had our farm machinery sell in 1992, the combine had only 1000 hrs on it.
You guys sure do have fun. Merry Christmas to you all from Iowa
Chet and Erik, you young guys missed out on so much fun. I ran a 4400 in hot New Mexico with no AC. Finally graduated to a 6600. We hustled to get done by July 4th. It was a great experience. Thanks for taking us along
It’s fun watching Dougo around walk around the old 4400, back in the 60’s we started with a McCormic 151…it originally didn’t have a cab (that was added later) no AC, no PS, no power anything , ran on regular gas maybe had a 80 bushel grain tank
Haven't been to a farm auction for almost 50 years, but I remember they tried to schedule for the coldest day of the year! I think there was a bonus if a strong wind was blowing. Buildings with torpedo heaters were very crowded. When I was 8 or so I raised my hand to wave at a neighbor, the auctioneer pointed at my dad and yelled "Sold"! Never did that again.
Good job teaching the young ones Dougo! You were right for sure about how hard you had to work back in the day! And those days were not long ago!
LARSON FARMS. THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO TO FEED US ALL
We had a 4400 in 1981 to 1986. My neighbor has two of them and still use them both one for corn and one for beans.
We had a 403 and 303 IH combine when I was growing up. When it came time to change heads the feeder house stayed with the head.
That was awesome seeing you guys react to the old Deere combine! I grew up driving a 4200 on the farm combining oats when I was 8 or so. Such fond memories, and Doug-o's right, you could lift the rear end of those super easy in reverse lol. We had a 4240 (I think it was) cab tractor I love to work in too!
'55's were the leaders of design, many others followed!
Thanks for the field trip! Excellent video, yes Chet you should buy a4400 and place it out front of the farm!👍. 🇺🇸✅
Auctions were fun. My dad and a neighbor had a Model 55 also, traded up to a used 1972 6600 in 1973. Spent quite a few hours in that one. At least that one had a cylinder down at the hinge to pull the auger out, then you latched it. The big lever on the lower right was how you engage the entire separator and header. Keep the videos coming, love it.
Ray from Dawson
I thing the Larsons need to go to a event where they have horses pulling the equipment. Plows, disks, swathers and etc. my first memory was putting up loose hay in the barn with a team pulling the hay fork up after it stabbed a mouth full of hay off the hay wagon. All the neighbors helped one another when it com to harvesting. A 4400 combine wasn’t even thought of. Big tractors was Allis Chalmers WD45. Heat and AC - yeah all you wanted plenty of heat in the summer and all the ac you could stand in the winter.
Find an Amish farm that's willing to allow them to film... won't happen because that's against the Amish ways. But, there are other farms that still use horse drawn equipment to farm with, including harvesting. Cheers :)
My neighbors here in Missouri have a old fashioned threshers out harvest.. With steam engines for power..
Really impressed with our 712 Corn Head
Nice your dad explains the older equipment.
Their is a place for equipment like that old 4400. A very good friend is farming about 500 paid off acres and growing specialty crops, and he’s netting every bit as much as you and I do farming 5k plus. BUT, he’s not building equity like we are. That is the catch. But I still respect him for what he is doing, and I love seeing that old iron still working.
Merry Christmas, Dougo looked like the kid from a christmas story who had the snow suit on, and fell down and couldn't get back up. When he was trying to bend down and look at the bottom of that trailer, thought for a second he was going down. When Dougo said his flashlight was buried under his layers of clothes, I had to laugh. God bless all of you.
The machine shed for the combine was 4 log poles and a tarpaper roof!
And looks like they give away nice stuff. Hats and such. Good video.
Thank you for the history lesson on machinery Boyz. I enjoyed that. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Cheers
Great video today, amazing how different the equipment is now
I can remember our 1st combine I can remember was an 815 IH, Then we upgraded to a 6600 Deere. So yes I've been around that classic JD iron. Many days of sweating all day long cause AC Was out, cutting beans.
Yeah Doug, there are those of us who are very familiar with the equipment of the 70's and 80's. We had a 6600 and it was the horse of the area for a few years. The previous combine was a Gleaner and when we moved to the Deere for the first year we felt like we were shelling corn in road gear, lol. Transporting crop quickly became a problem.
Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable.
Congratulations on the corn head you got. Would think the folding corn head would be nice feature to have. The previous owner said not many hours on it. Know you will put it to good use.
Wow, some of that equipment went high. But new is hard to get right now , so nice used stuff is going good. The owner took good care of equipment the way it looked.
I think the auction company enjoyed having all of you there. Their mobile trailer was a place inside. Great way to conduct business. Things now days are something else.
Funny your reaction Chet to the old combine. Such a huge huge difference now days in equipment. What we had in the 50’s and 60’s was so different to what you have now. Running old equipment was really hard work. We never had a cab on anything, tractor or combine. Wow, a world of difference now days. The equipment you have now is luxury so to speak in comparison.
Glad you took us to the auction. It was interesting. Thanks.
About it for now. You all take care and be safe and go get that new used corn head.
Looking forward to the next video. Thanks for everything.
The Iowa farm boy from years ago.
I enjoyed it all but I really enjoyed hearing Dougo tell how much different it was years ago, and he was right. Farming has really changed. Great video. Merry Christmas you guys 👍👍👍❤️🎄
Merry Christmas to all at Larson Farms, I really enjoy all of the content, I could never give a thumbs down on any of your shows !!
Merry Christmas!!
It's amazing to see how much the equipment has changed and it's easier on the farmer as long as they have a big wallet. Merry Christmas guys!
I grew up on a JD 55 then a 95. You all Rock !
Rest video as usual, enjoy them all. My how times have changed, Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year.
Nothing better than a Larson farms video.
Chet .. The idea of having that old 4400 out front is awesome!
Hi guys thanks for a great year of filming look forward to next year and all its foreboding...all the best many thanks again....
Merry Christmas to you all from Bundaberg Australia I I enjoy your presentations but I'm glad it's you shivering over there I like the warmer climate I was a farmer myself for 55years can relate to the ups and downs you go through
ole Dougo got threw to the back of the bus, and the young bucks took over. good video fellas! Merry Christmas to everyone!
Chet, you younger guys don't know what fun the old days were. My dad had a JD 95 when I was growing up. With a 4 row corn head you could go about 2 mph. We used to run all night my dad and I trading off so that one could go in the house to warm up for a while after dumping a gravity box. Later dad traded up to a 6600 which was luxury by comparison. Now I run a S670 for the farm I work for.
Im a starting farmer going to look at buying a 6600 next week
MERRY CHRISTMAS LARSON FARM ENJOY YOUR VIDEOS EVERY DAY I WENT FROM FARMING TO MOWING LAWNS JUST ENJOY THIS
Merry Christmas, and God bless you all this season.
Merry Christmas 🎁🎄 Larson family. Stopped watching Cole so I could see a real farm in the working. Thank you for what you do. See you next year!
The 4400 sure took me back. You wanted to park those babies nose down when you had to swing the auger out, gravity helps! LOL When I started we had a 55 also, the 4400's looked huge compared to them. Ah, the memories! Good video guys!
Chet and Dougo in the cab of the 4400 was priceless! I'm amazed to learn of the technological advances in the AG business over the years. Thank you for sharing. Congrats on 300K
A 4400 was my first combine in 1979. 13 foot platform and 443 corn head.
Great video Chet Dougo and Big Swede
I had a 3300 and then a 6600 I bought to just cut wheat with, due to the IH rotor's chewing straw up to much, and I like long stem straw for bedding and it dont make as much of a mess in a haymow as straw from a rotor combine. I would have bought a old IH combine, but I got good deals on both the 3300 and the 6600, and ended up selling one for more than I paid for it and the other for what I had in it, so they cost me nothing when I was doing custom wheat cutting for the straw back several years ago. It is amazing how much equipment has changed from when a kid. The combine and tractor seats are definitely much more comfortable than what I grew up with. I remember when we traded the Case 930 and 1370 off for a new Case 2290 and 2390, I though wow these seats are nice in the 90 series, and now days thee seats are heated and air conditioned, and some even give you a massage. Many of this younger generation of farmers have no idea how easy they got it. Back in the day their was no reverser if you plugged the combine, you had to manually reverse it and dig by hand, lol. Plus they were much easier to plug back in the day than they are now, because there as no such thing as roundup ready beans, lol. You cultivated and walked fields with weedhooks, lol.
Chet, Erik, Dougo and the Larson Farm family, Merry Christmas and please have a safe and happy new year, god bless you all from the Topping family, Melbourne Australia.
I went to a farm auction once and let’s just say I was not prepared for the cold at all. I had nowhere near enough clothes on. 🥶 thanks Larson Farms👍🇺🇸
I spy a smitten kitten @ 11:33 👍'Thanks for bringin' us along for the show, it was a blast!
Expensive couple of hats you got there
I love how they were looking at the 4400 chet looked at it like it was a toy and when my dad bought one for our first combine 4 years ago I thought it was huge.
Hello from Moosomin, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks for sharing your great video’s please keep them comin
These kids really don't understand how easy they have it now! Love seeing the old equipment.
Time to get a 4 row so that Chet can open up all of the headlands or end rows next year.