2021 Half Century of Progress Show Plowing

Welcome back!
Last weekend, Jake, Grandpa, and I loaded nine semi trailers and made our way to Rantoul Illinois, home of the Half Century of Progress Show. This show focuses on tractors built 50 years from the show year, but offers a much wider variety of equipment, some of which dates back to the early 1900's! This show is by far my favorite to attend, and meeting subscribers and fans this weekend, and being able to run some of our best equipment, made the 54 hours of hauling worth every second. I hope you enjoy this video that is packed full of unique equipment.
Thanks for watching, and I'll see ya next time!
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[@harrymcmanus7307]

Tks.....love the tractors

[@MikeLoveBuns]

Amazing video! Mike from Missouri

[@kevinirwin2036]

What an absolutely incredible video. Loved all the tractors, but especially the steam, love the smoke. You could sure tell when the Renner boys were coming, wow. Keep the videos coming.

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thanks Kevin! I love the steam tractors as well.

[@JD-oh9vz]

So glad folks are interested in keeping history going.

[@samdodson2081]

thanks.....love your tractors......

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thank you!

[@mentholman3201]

"I know John Renner." Haha! Love it!

[@culmalachie]

what a rich cacophony of sound. Notice that the AC Crawler withthe 8-furrows is not pulling straight? witness the sideways crawling of the tracks - but not much slippage or was that track spinach? grows well in that strong soil. Bet the Greens had a great day with all that Carbon being set free to re-unite with the plants. ;-) . Great video really capturing the essence.

[@bradwarner8933]

Hello John, sure was great meeting you! This video is top shelf. I can’t say enough about your Grandpa. We swapped stories for about an hour, enjoyed every minute of it! What a great show with so many great AMERICANS!

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thanks Brad! We enjoyed talking with you as well!

[@ashtonlewis8580]

Jon and your team, thanks for making the 2021 Half Century of Progress the best one yet. Your great preparation really showed with your superb plowing using very impressive tractors. Nine loads is a real commitment and I appreciate your effort. Grandpa sure can make that 12V-71N bark. Our 850 mile trip from Virginia was well worth it thanks to you all!

[@jonathancurtiss4220]

Grandpa was leaning on that 12 cylinder Detroit:) Gotta love that sound!

[@RennerStockFarms]

He gave it everything it had, the crowd loved it!

[@scottwilke3966]

Great video I love tractors red green yellow blue orange and the tires the way they get down and get a hold of mother ? The grip design hasn't changed since farmers quit using flesh and blood horses !! Good to see the iron horses working ! Whole lot of iron working rolling coal !!! The real cool thing about this little shindig was no safety fanatics no helmits no safety baracades no safety people droping us from getting close enough feel the power and smell the freshly turned earth ! Nothing like the smell of fresh plowed soil ( dirt ) at sunrise after a all niter plowing wheat straw back to mother ! Great show thank you kindly !!!!

[@timmckinley8664]

Great video, one of my highlights was to shake you hand and thank you for the channel. The others were when those deeres were in the furrow, rolling it over. Thanks again for all that you share.

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thanks Tim, it was good meeting you!

[@joemueth4077]

Thanks for showing us what we missed out on. Your plow was looking sweet on that V-12. Your toys were giving me goose bumps. See you back in Belleville.

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thanks Joe!

[@scotthawkins8740]

I was able to see you many times on Friday and Saturday but never able to talk to you !!! You were always busy driving back and forth !!! You have some amazing tractors and enjoy watching your videos !! I believe you are less than an hour away

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thanks Scott!

[@handheldgarage3297]

You can tell those Allis Chalmers have Detriots in them.

[@goldingerfarms9357]

I found myself right at 9:39 in the background. It was awesome to see and hear you all converting diesel into noise! I also enjoyed getting to talk to you and your grandpa. I'm definitely going to skip a few days of class in 2023 and bring my 730 and a disk and stay for the whole show.

[@RennerStockFarms]

Good meeting you! You need a plow for that 730 to bring to our show next year!

[@floodedcar123]

Great video.

[@dougwalker5495]

Thanks for the video.I had it planned to visit the show this year, but Covid stopped that. I sure plan to be at the next one. Cheers from Australia

[@topfuelkustomz3729]

Once again y’all blew it out of the park on the video good job love them deeres and the sound of those screaming Detroit’s I also saw some tractors in this vid that I never seen before it’s always good to see old equipment working👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thank you! You can always expect a good variety of equipment at this show.

[@cmayerMFE]

Thank you for putting us in your video starting the Aultman-Taylor. Thankfully it started pretty well that try, so you didn't have to edit much. It was nice meeting you, and sorry we didn't get together again afterwards. Gives us a reason to come to your show next year. I got to talk to your grandfather while he was loading up on Sunday and as I told him, you folks have an amazing collection of iron. Thank you for showing it off, and keeping it alive!

[@RennerStockFarms]

We hope to see you next year, you guys have a nice Aultman!

[@danlowery3235]

Looks like a beautiful day!

[@RennerStockFarms]

The show started out warm, but it was overall a great weekend. The majority of the rain stayed away and the wind was blowing. 👍🏽

[@mikeyoung8126]

Awesome video love it love seeing those old steam tractors

[@geesss8675]

Amazing. Those steam tractors were really something.

[@johnholliger5136]

Was great getting to meet your grandpa and spending some time chatting with him. I hope I have half his energy when I’m his age. I had the Steiger Cougar 2. Hope to bring it down to your show next year. Thanks for the great video.

[@RennerStockFarms]

That Steiger was a sharp looking machine, I hope to see you guys next year!

[@toddrachelherbrand1823]

Absolutely awesome video every bit of footage was excellent thank you I think the 1206 with the 3 row picker was really neat but all the plowing was my favorite

[@troyplocinski8401]

Looks like your grandpa was in his glory! Good video. Glad to see you guys enjoy your tractors.

[@RennerStockFarms]

He had a blast, thanks for watching!

[@peteschiavoni]

Awesome video. The guys did a great job filming! Your tractors tore that ground up!! And looked and sounded good doing it. Love his t shirt. 🤣🤣 Thanks for sharing!

[@miniaturefarmer464]

Very well done! Keep up the good work!

[@jeremycherny2041]

I've seen a few other videos of this and seen glimpses of your tractors! Your video is very well done. Thanks!

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thank you Jeremy!

[@jeffekkel5870]

Really enjoyed the video. Definitely gonna have to move this show up on my bucket list. Thanks guys!

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thanks for watching!

[@coers1986]

Was nice to finally see your tractors and plows being put to work there. Enjoyed talking to your grandpa for awhile and crazy he said it took 10 loads to get everything there.

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thanks for talking to him! It was worth every load 👍🏽

[@MrGeroth]

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thanks Gerald!

[@arctic66farmer39]

Haha, the smoke from the “locomotives”…. Nice to see. Thx.

[@dannaumann9758]

One of our farm neighbors many years ago had a “twin hook-up” like those shown. Only his were two small around 1940 AC tractors. Not much power though, he pulled a six foot “one-way”! Years later, another neighbor (large wheat farm), pulled 4 -twenty foot “one-ways” behind a Steiger!

[@markmitchell641]

Was there on Thursday. Saw you leaving in semi. Did say high to Jake as he was pulling out display on his utv. Awesome show. Got to see 12v71 tractor and Versatile 1150 as well as your other tractors. Nice displays.

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thanks Mark!

[@gonerydin4225]

This is an awesome video. Takes me waaaaay back!

[@kyleskrabanek332]

Awesome video!! Was a pleasure meeting and getting to talk with y'all !!

[@andrewstich7117]

Very great video about different tractors and equipment keep up the great job you do on your farm

[@HalfCutGarage]

Some nice ol iron that's for sure !!!!

[@RennerStockFarms]

Lots of good stuff at this show!

[@HalfCutGarage]

@@RennerStockFarms I bet !!!! Moved away from.the prairies 20 years ago but still have found memories of all the old Iron at the Motherwell Homestead Show in Saskatchewan! Thanks for sharing and love the videos!

[@chadshafer8095]

Great Video. You got everything on video that you could from Prarie Plowing Tractors to your Versatile. Awesome is all i can say.

[@RennerStockFarms]

The Prairie tractors are some of my favorite!

[@johnnyholland8765]

What a show!!!!

[@RennerStockFarms]

It’s one of the best!

[@shaneharrison4775]

Absolutely awesome video

[@deercreekmechanical]

It was nice meeting you guys and talking with your grandfather about the repowers. I’m at 10:56 in the red old style Kawasaki mule with the white roof just behind the guy in the black t-shirt.

[@rickyjohnson4767]

Awesome video. I used to work on a farm several years ago in west Tennessee. 👍👍

[@retiredwelder1971]

Great job guys!!!! Your tractors are awesome

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thank you!

[@complexsimpleton3116]

The 8020 was the best!

[@timaldrich875]

You guys put on a good show for everyone for sure , thanks for all the work to make it happen . Plan to come over to your place next year

[@RennerStockFarms]

We will see you there!

[@Diesel.09]

@@RennerStockFarmswas you in a tractor pull in stanford illinois a few weeks ago

[@robertslack4680]

Thanks for the footage very nice. Awesome re-powers.

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thanks Robert!

[@chrisgreasamar1731]

Great video Jon! It was good to talk with you on Friday too. I’ll ask again, plz show some JI Case that are in the collection 😉

[@markissboi3583]

12:50 blue jeep handy idea for a small farm .or tilling that tree row au 1970s few farmers here i worked on made these old tandem tractors

[@RennerStockFarms]

The Jeep would be a perfect garden tractor, it even has a PTO.

[@hammeringhankaaron7468]

Glad you were able to get some footage with the help of your friends. I wished I could have been there but I had to work 🥵. Maybe next year... .

[@RennerStockFarms]

Rumor has it that 2023 is the last show there, better put it on your calender!

[@antoniogomeztrapote836]

Una maravilla este tractor Jhon-Deere 2021.

[@tomharrington1393]

Thoroughly enjoyed your video. Really liked the plowing. Whole lot of awesome equipment there. That JD with the gleaming stainless weight cover was special. Bet you got a lot of comments about it. I think I mentioned that I was stationed at Chanute and lived on base in the late 60s and early 70s.

[@RennerStockFarms]

The stainless cover is an eye-catcher, thanks for watching and commenting!

[@matty2helpfull]

That was awesome those old farmall pair ups were really cool thats something I've never seen before

[@RennerStockFarms]

Those tractors will be at our show next year too, they are neat!

[@matty2helpfull]

@@RennerStockFarms and where is this show at I forgot if it was mentioned I'd love to gome to the show next year

[@RennerStockFarms]

I’ll be making a video about it soon, we host a show every other year, opposite of Rantoul.

[@matty2helpfull]

@@RennerStockFarms cool

[@Thebigtipper101]

Wow that was so awesome love the video

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thanks Phillip!

[@michaelwagoner5512]

An absolute amazing videos

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thank you Michael!

[@wergardengals3242]

I’m a new sub to your channel 🤟🏼

[@Chevy4x4dawg]

Love the shirt at end!!!!!

[@RennerStockFarms]

Adam is very proud of it lol

[@rudycarlson8245]

Your 5020 in the video is that at 8 V 71 that’s in it?

[@deepwoodguy2]

That was quite some show...i watch a couple of other youtubers, Goldinger Farms, was one that showed your tractors, plowing away... How about getting that blue jeep that plows one furrow at a time, for your next machine?? 😁 I thot that was a train plowing, black smoke chugging along..it just needed a train whistle to make it complete. Thanks for the vid, ✔✔

[@RennerStockFarms]

That jeep was really cool, it also had a PTO and a belt drive. Those two and the three point hitch were all factory options for that model Jeep, really neat!

[@deepwoodguy2]

@@RennerStockFarms WOW...I thot the jeep plow was a homemade contraption ..guess it is good plowing a garden plot..thanks

[@melvinoxford881]

Hi from texas I was there you guys came to plow and did

[@perenti01]

hello when i was kid growing up 3 score and 10 years ago i'm sure we had a tractor called a twin city am i mistaken i've never seen one on these old tractor videos. Great video .

[@Chevy4x4dawg]

Jon thanks to you, your family and your team for taking the time to video this and to share it with us!!!! Thanks a million buddy!! That 5020 was looking and sounding sharp!!!!!

[@haroldgrzywa2445]

Was there on fri.saw you guys plow better fix your plow that trips it’s bottoms keep up the good work.

[@RennerStockFarms]

Yeah the 1st and 3rd bottom tripped quite a bit, I’m looking into that

[@robwar2288]

I need one!

[@teddycrenshaw223]

One of these days I hope to make it to the Show. Glad you guys had a great time.

[@RennerStockFarms]

Come out to the show we are hosting next year! I’ll be making a video about it soon.

[@briceboehning]

Man I wish I could have made it down there this year!

[@RennerStockFarms]

You missed a good one, but come to our show next year! I’ll have a video out on it soon

[@larrysmith8635]

Sorry about my earlier post the problem was on my end.

[@RennerStockFarms]

You had me second guessing myself that’s for sure! No worries, thanks Larry!

[@DJAN_ANDI]

We plant rice, corn, peanut, and others plants in wet, low supporting capacity land,and small area ?? Is there any design of tractor applicablr in such conditions ??

[@peterjames2004]

come on people usa is the home of country music find some thing different to play like how farms work .power to you for your vids

[@irunolds]

Nothing moves air like a jimmy

[@michaelnordhaus6726]

Great show. You guys have amazing equipment.

[@RennerStockFarms]

Thanks Michael, it was great seeing you again 👍🏽

[@jeremymullen5378]

🔥👊🔥🏍🏍🏍

[@miguelcortez309]

Nice finger

[@gearratio380]

must be a work out driving them ole iron horse all day long

[@treyivey5431]

It’s one thing to break land but it takes skill to break it and have it level with minimum discing

[@rollinlowford]

This video's worth slowing down to Normal speed instead of 1.5x Just to hear that old iron scream.

[@traviscolbry3513]

I think I seen myself in the video and what popped on the v-12 on saturday afternoon I seen the white smoke but I couldnt tell what happened

[@RennerStockFarms]

The top radiator hose blew off, put it back on and topped off the water and it was ready to roll again

[@traviscolbry3513]

@@RennerStockFarms thats what I thought it was but I wasnt sure

[@kevintheilen9643]

Hey, you left out footage of Grandpa and his 7-bottom rake...

[@RennerStockFarms]

I sure did, the soybean combines left a mess and he was the one who had to deal with it.

[@benjiwhitevideos4361]

Pretty sure that is Hailie Deegans opening music.

[@RennerStockFarms]

Looked her up and you’re right

[@benjiwhitevideos4361]

@@RennerStockFarms I wasn’t being a Richard. I just didn’t want you to get in trouble for any kind of copyright stuff.

[@JohnDoe-gq8tt]

KEEPING YOUR EYES ON THE EQUIPMENT AND ALL THE LITTLE 4 WHEELERS I THINK WATCHING OUT FOR THE PEOPLE WOULD BE THE PROBLEM THEY WILL WALK IN FRONT OF YOU WITH OUT LOOKING

[@piperdoug428]

Jake doing a bit of speed plowing eh?

[@RennerStockFarms]

He had the plow set narrow to really get her rolling!

[@piperdoug428]

@@RennerStockFarms 😆

[@jasonhill8574]

Will you have corn to pick at your show

[@RennerStockFarms]

About 30 acres of it

[@jasonhill8574]

I have some 237 pickers will it be wide rows and what time of year

[@stephencoster9532]

I was looking for a mule team pulling its weight! Amazing how many farmers these days are obese? Gone are the days of, 'Mean and lean'...

[@badlandskid]

How to get your field plowed for free.

[@CougarLand]

The sad part is that plowing is what destroyed the soil.......

[@davidschweikhart459]

I am thoroughly and completely disgusted at the 2 young men sitting on/in the John Deere XUV "Flipping off" the Camera!! This is so totally unnecessary and highly rude, and nobody wants to see it! Absolutely disgusting and completely disrespectful!

[@larrysmith8635]

Need a new camera.WAY out of focus

[@RennerStockFarms]

Going to have to disagree with you on that one

[@larrysmith8635]

@@RennerStockFarms cool.what I tried to watch could not make anything out. Good job. Good luck with that.

[@RennerStockFarms]

What part of the video was blurry? I watched it all the way through and it looked fine to me