1970's CORN HARVEST and PLOWING

In this video Big Tractor Power takes a look at corn harvesting and fall plowing with JOHN DEERE farm machines from the 1970's. This video shares the popular methods of corn picking and combining corn 50 years ago as well as fall tillage practices with corn stalk mowing, disking and plowing.
Watch for these JOHN DEERE farm machines:
110 hp JOHN DEERE 4240 tractor and 300 Corn Picker
120 hp 147 bu JOHN DEERE 6600 combine
150 hohpJOHN DEERE 4640 tractor and 220 flail shredder
140 hp JOHN DEERE 5020 and disk
110 hp JOHN DEERE 4240 NF and Allis-Chalmers plow
140 hp JOHN DEERE 4520 and JOHN DEERE plow
Big Tractor Power Video 2,539
Connect with Big Tractor Power @ www.bigtractorpower.com
E-mail [e-mail]
See More Great Tractor Videos - Subscribe ➜ / bigtractorpower
Share this Video: ➜ • JOHN DEERE 9320 Tracto...

[@404nitro]

As much as I like all the modern equipment, there's just something extra satisfying about watching old school stuff

[@guydaubenspeck9206]

Only thing better is running the old school stuff

[@kygreenskeeper8326]

Absolutely love the old equipment

[@johngreer8101]

I love running the old stuff to!

[@l337pwnage]

It pays to be familiar, in 50 years, that's where we will be back to.

[@kygreenskeeper8326]

@@l337pwnage Boy I sure hope so.... Lol

[@DanielGarcia-hp1me]

I love how you presented the "then and now" equipment and information about performance, I really love the old equipment as I grew up on a farm and my dad wasn't wealthy to run new equipment, but the equipment from the era you showed just did the job as good as any new equipment would.

[@djwheels66]

I remember the stalk chopping with a John Deere 4430 was one of my first opportunities on the farm to do some driving. I am in a wheelchair, so it was difficult to get me in the cabs as I got much older. But my teen and early ‘20’s years were filled with tractor opportunities

[@bobsmith1814]

Great video, it brought me back to watching my grandfather harvesting the corn then mouldboard plowing the field. I remember my cousin using a 6600 combine and her teaching me how to run it

[@joachimgahm3182]

Back to childhood 🤩great Justin 🎉

[@justgonnaskedaddle6715]

I love watching your videos and learning the history of the different pieces of equipment.

[@RichardWright4707]

Great video always good to see classic machines still working. Memories of autumn work here in England would be of ploughing with a Ford 7610 and 4 furrow Dowdeswell cultivating and drilling winter wheat and barley followed by the potato harvest those special days of earthy smells and Misty mornings

[@lfeco]

By the numbers you quoted we can tell you do know farming. Enjoyed the vid.

[@theda850two]

Fond memories of running a 6600 combine, I went with a custom harvesting crew to Oklahoma and Kansas in 1977 as a 17 year old, Straight cutting wheat with 20 and 22 foot heads,

[@Blackwellll3066]

As cool as modern equipment is, still love old school equipment cuz its more enjoyable

[@RealJohnWayne]

Great Video!! This brings back a lot of memories for me, I was a Dealer Principle from 1980 through 1994, when most of these Deere's were produced. "Nothing Runs Like A Deere" 🦌 👍 🇺🇸

[@berniemarkley]

My dad went back to farming in 1963 farming 1000 acres in East Central Illinois. He harvested the wheat, corn and soybeans that year with a little JD 45 combine. He gradually moved up to a 95, then 105 and finally to a 7700 when they were introduced. Lots of memories, for sure!

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool combine progression. Big strips from a 45 to a 7700 Turbo. 👍👍

[@joshstenz]

Thanks for the video. I cut my teeth on a JD 4400 combine and 4430 tractor - the video brings back fond memories!

[@brianzybura8633]

I use to own and work with a 1978 John Deere 4040 and an IH 720 4-18 plow, fall ploughing corn stalks back in the late Seventies and early Eighties. Great times back then.

[@danw6014]

The tractor on the Allis Chalmers plow was a 4230. I still pick ear corn for my steers. Most people around me had New Idea pickers. On a farm I worked on in highschool we had two pickers, one with a sheller on it. I got some of the cleanest corn with it. We would store what we shelled in the chopper wagons, gravity wagons and kicker wagons lined with plywood and shovel it into a John Deere 400 feed grinder along with some oats for lambs. We finished about 500 a year. The ear corn was fed to about 40 dairy cows. I continued to pick corn every year until 2000 when the gentleman sold the cows. A diesel 4020 power shift was my tractor of choice for picking. Back when I started there were over 60 dairy farms in my county. Now there are only six. What was not to common in my area was stationary shellers. I found a Minneapolis Moline Model D so I can shell corn out for my lambs. White made their big sheller until 1975. Another practice that faded away during the 1970s.

[@sarah_farm]

You're doing such a great job at showing everyone the way you see the world! Thank you for this!

[@danieldzurko8053]

Thank you for this look at history!

[@emmitt00]

excellent video

[@mikedemott1720]

Those were the Good Ole Days. Plowing with a Heat Hauser. Freeze going one direction.Sweat going the other way

[@bigtractorpower]

Farming sure has changed with heated and air conditioned seats in the cab.

[@wi.dave3812]

Now this is the harvesting I remember as a young man. Good honest work 😀🇺🇸

[@SimonKL11]

It is very cool to see the older equipment at work😁👍 it's impressive how much farm machines have changed over 50 years👍👍

[@dinomelvin3369]

Thank you. 👍👍👍

[@nathanalmond8280]

I remember this very well. Lot of good memories.

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@craigsibley8161]

Excellent video once again big T 👍👍👍 showing how it was done in the decade I was born. Nice touch with the modern comparison as well...

[@outbackladas]

Awesome video, thanks 👍

[@davidhaskins9457]

Enjoyed the video Jason

[@johnclarkkitner9556]

Love this vedio. That how we sid on are farm. We do not plant corn anymore.

[@gregcrisp8743]

That’s the way my dad used to do it but I’m so glad for the modern equipment

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

Great Video,things sure have changed.

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

Great video Jason

[@peterm6128]

This is an awesome video Jason. It was great to hear about the production differences between the 1970's equipment and today's equipment. Thank you.

[@l337pwnage]

It's all about consolidating wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Farmers even back in 1800's saw this coming.

[@frankscruggs4749]

Good video.

[@douglassellers7528]

Oh man I liked this video!

[@craigrudd6093]

awesome video !!!!!!!

[@noehueber6602]

Hello everyone good vidéo big tractor power good vidéo Good jobs from all vidéo

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@flatbedtruckingsamrides.9355]

You sure put together great content.

[@scottpykare801]

Appreciate all the info Jason. It helps to see how it used to be done vs now.

[@user-wt3bx1oy5o]

Neat video

[@RickHenkle]

Thats how I grew up!! Only we had IH tractors.. There was never any green paint on our farm, Dad just liked Red I guess, lol..

[@kygreenskeeper8326]

I still pick my corn with a new idea two row picker...Takes awhile but it still gets the job done....Im pulling that picker with a 784 international...

[@danw6014]

A 325 hooked to my 4020. Sitting in the shop today. It's drizzling and the corn is still in the 30% range.

[@kygreenskeeper8326]

@@danw6014 awesome.... Raining here to but I got half of my 40 acres picked before the weather got me... I use these wet days for shop work

[@kygreenskeeper8326]

@@danw6014 how do you like the old 325 bud? That's what I've had for 30 years now ... Had to buy a spare picker for parts this year... Drove 150 miles to get it... Not easy to find anymore in my area

[@Traktor_Ngawi]

Good job👍👍👍👍👍

[@carynix8043]

Love the old school

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@ih1206]

Excellent video! Well presented

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@adnanchadhar8329]

Good 👍

[@caminola417]

Growing up as a kid in the farmer behind my house used to plow with a three bottom reversible plow on a John Deere 4020 tractor and then followed it up with a disk and a Brillion attached. Later they would just chisel plow

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. Those were days.

[@AkbarMoncongloe]

Good video, Good job brother 👍

[@larrykrise3609]

enjoyed the vidieo.this is the way dad and i did it

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching. I enjoy finding these classics still hard at work.

[@Ticky66MN]

Awesome video! I don't think I have ever seen a narrow front 40 series tractor. Very cool equipment I this one. Thank you.

[@prariewindsfarm]

My understanding is the only 40 series that came with a narrow front was the 4040. I have one that came factory with the narrow front. It was called a convertible pedestal. The convertible pedestal could have a wide front, double wheel narrow front, or single wheel narrow front on it.

[@Ticky66MN]

Wow, very interesting. Thank you for the note.@@prariewindsfarm

[@Thewaywefarm]

Great video Big Tractor Power! Hopefully get our one row picker going as well as our 12 row corn head!

[@bigtractorpower]

1 to 12 shows a big progression in harvesting. Any luck on the 3 row?

[@Thewaywefarm]

@@bigtractorpower Auction is this coming Friday!

[@robertburt9071]

I remember running New idea picker sheller for many acres

[@fasx56]

The video quality is sure good for being produced about 50 years ago. Were these videos produced by John Deer,? smart move by the Company to have the for sight to preserve history on how farm equipment and methods of farming have changed with time.

[@kennethcarlton2860]

What year was the on land plow start being used ? I pulled an on land plow with a 856 and a few years later we had bigger tractors and larger on land plows

[@giorgospantelaios3928]

The time era we miss

[@jamesbarbour8400]

If John Deere produced the 5020 tractor from 1965, what year was its predecessor, the 5010, produced from ? Don't recall it being part of the range introduced in 1960, though I may be wrong ?

[@paulofrancisco565]

👏👏👌👌🙏🙏🚜🚜

[@shadwikbenoit6018]

That old 6600 has some bad slack on the back axle

[@davidwhisnant3230]

Spend a many cold fall night bottom plowing or chiseling or sowing wheat with 2 cylinder or old formall don't fix land now all notill

[@bigtractorpower]

Those were days. No till has changed allot.

[@raywhite1442]

Final pass plowing hmm I heard that lots of people would run over it with a disk

[@derekcrago2197]

So what is the difference between engine horsepower and PTO horsepower???🤷🏼‍♂️

[@bigtractorpower]

From the 1960’s through 2009 companies power take off power for tractors. The pto power is about 30-40 hp less than the engine horse power. Today manufactures use the engine horse power to advertise. Most tractors today use the engine horse power as the tractors model number.

[@carlspeight1795]

Where is the Matt content???????

[@ArmpitStudios]

I’ll take ‘70s farming over modern equipment any day. Just look at this stuff! New stuff looks silly.

[@johnberry1107]

Great content. A perfect example of what happens to jobs. Fewer farmers making more food on less acres. The jobs did not go to china. The jobs went to people capable of doing them. Stay safe. Pickers were nobody’s friend.

[@jimbrown7226]

Big difference between then and now is nobody was farming 2 or 3 thousand acers back then

[@scottkaercher1733]

We use to pick the whole ears and sell it to hog farmer's around us.

[@louisevillebrun3854]

Dekalb