4440 Doing What It Was Built To Do!!! (4/4/23)

With Matt and Andy doing some spring plowing, Matt hooks the old John Deere 4440 up to the do-all and gives her a good workout. But will the recent repairs hold up and how does it compare to the more modern New Holland tractors the Griggs run???
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[@user-rp1lj8nz4k]

40 series. Excellent tractors.

[@trumpetguy8371]

My grandfather used the 4440 in front of a 12 row planter back in the 80's and 90's. He used a 4630 in front of a disk and chisel plow and an 8640 for the larger disks. Brought back memories of sitting in the cab with him working in the field when I was a little kid.

[@MidwestFarmToys]

Our 4440 didn't have cab glass it just had the 4 post ROPS. Starts to get loud after a while! You're farmin in style with this thing!

[@charlesblizzard718]

The 8 speed powershift will rob a lot of horsepower. Same tractor with the quad range is night and day difference.

[@ericwest8197]

I'm sure Dylan is all smiles watching you run the ole sound guard!!! Lol. Really enjoy watching both channels.

[@ericwest8197]

Spoke too soon. Dang it

[@mikescaffo4850]

I believe that the 4440 was the best selling of all the iron horses that style john deere from the early 70s to the late 80s was probably the best series of deeres ever made

[@rodder2046]

A 4440 was a huge machine when they first came out. And I love to see the older tractors out working. But that is a whole lot of tool for a 150 hp 2wd tractor to be dragging around. I grew up operating the older tractors and It blows my mind what a modern all wheel drive tractor is capable of doing. Thanks for the video.

[@dionwadefarmsllc]

Now that’s what I call farming ❤

[@caryenmon1903]

I love the technology we have today but them were the good ole says when them tractors we’re running everywhere. I sure miss them days.

[@fisherman1233]

Hi from south Carolina 👍🏻👏👏😉👍🏻🙋‍♂️

[@jesusmejiamedina7397]

good job dud

[@carlosalbertoorozcorizo8850]

Creo que el 4440 es un icono de la historia de john Deere, pero la presencia y la figura que tiene con ese doble rodado además del sonido de su motor es algo simplemente hermoso... Algo que ya no se ve en los equipos de hoy en dia👍👍😍😍

[@MidwestFarmToys]

Finally someone actually using one for some grunt work and not just running an auger or somethin lame

[@larrydechant2076]

Love a do all. Had a 13ft forest city and a 19ft Ih 468. When you have the dirt coming over the blades like a waterfall is when it’s pulling hard and leaving the soil worked perfect.

[@paladinbrosif1133]

Subscribed from right down the road in Friendship! Stumbled across the channel by accident, hell yeah!

[@randy2283]

Great video good to see y'all again

[@MultiBaldEagle]

Every region of the country is different, but here in East Central Georgia we rely heavily on strip tillage for corn and cotton. For peanuts we use a 9 shank KMC ripper/roller followed by a do-all to incorporate chemicals. We also spread a lot of Poultry litter for the nitrogen content.

[@gregrhodes8451]

Enjoyed the video Matt

[@dionwadefarmsllc]

Give it hell Matt 💪❤️

[@DylanJoyceFarms]

I talked about that today in a video about smoothing fields up before transitioning to no-till.

[@rosshall641]

we had beef cattle. when they get up in morning they stretch. do we stretch in the morning? NO. We are wore out

[@dralord1307]

Im thinking in those experiment plots, you should run every 3 years till. Tilling every year we know hurts the soil. But I havent seen much data personally on the hybrid approach. Winter Cover, till, summer harvest, then next 2 years winter cover no-till Would also be interesting to see you start Johnson Su Bioreactor plots and how that turns out

[@ericlakota1847]

I really like the older 70s80s jd good looking tractors and they where made out of metal i like old iron tractors

[@user-sw4dm1qj2x]

It would run away with it without those plows on there lol

[@ScarletKnightmare]

I like the way you explain all the details of why you're doing what you're doing. Thanks for the education brother 🤙🏼

[@MidwestFarmToys]

She prolly would've been barely alright if it was a quad range instead of the Powershift. Those fancy things take up a little bit of power

[@nwpioneer2551]

Work, work, work.

[@stevenbetassa7329]

I once had a 4440 and a 4450 fwd, and I prefer the older 4440, turn much better, would like to try a 4755 or 7810

[@rosshall641]

Matt 18000$ into my back . get a better ride. I'm 56 yrs old . when the going gets tough slow DOWN!!!

[@marvincook4543]

"PS IT"TS GOT "POWERSHIT" "LOL"

[@stevebiddle8912]

Enjoyed seeing the JD but too bad it didn’t work out. Hope the trans isn’t damaged. Hadn’t seen the do-all run before.

[@AppalachianRancher]

I'd paint mark those bolts you replaced it'd make for a quick reference in the future.

[@kurtneumann3164]

In high school, 30s and 40s I drove pulling 🫛 Pea combines in late 70's. Synchos. Loved it except 4 16 hour days @ 4$ hour. Would like to see if I could do it again. No problem with power 💪!

[@LtColDaddy71]

That’s a big tool for a 4440. Or any 150 horse tractor. A 15’ is all the money. Not that I know a lot about tillage, but their are times I do till. When we bought 1400 acres of lunar scape that couldn’t even grow weeds, we had 2 dozers hooked up I’n tandem with a huge single shank. It literally shook the world for the Subaru driving city folk in the area who moved out to the country for the fresh air.

[@griggsfarmsllc]

20’ would’ve been ideal for it

[@triplerfarm-zx5qw]

I am a 5 generation farmer just started my KZbin channel about our farm

[@griggsfarmsllc]

Good luck! It’s a lot of work!

[@triplerfarm-zx5qw]

@@griggsfarmsllc yessir it is fun but a way to keep you going and never stop 🥵

[@DylanJoyceFarms]

2 for 1 today! Get to see Matt do tillage and run the 4440. 8 row scratcher do-all was pretty good load for a 4440 even when they were new. We can put some 20.8 rubber, ballast, and get it that fuel pump to make it pull the do-all but then you will probably be diving in the transmission LOL

[@robratcliffe5635]

You trying to get Matt to turn it into a little 4840? Lol

[@DylanJoyceFarms]

,@@robratcliffe5635 🤣I could probably make it keep up horsepower-wise but will be lacking in the weight department. It would be hard to keep the engine cool too.

[@robratcliffe5635]

@Dylan Joyce Farms really needs a 4640 weighted down and maybe the pump screw turned a bit to pull that Du-All. And a chrome straight pipe! Lol Still tho, those 4440's were a great tractor.

[@joescheller6680]

One thing about them 40 series you could turn the screws and pull 50 series also you needed the the fuel wagon real close.

[@joescheller6680]

You sure it was tranny slipping or just wheel slippage. Wheel slipping can feel like tranny slipping.

[@jonathanstancil8544]

Ww used to pull a 10 ft do-all with a 966 IH, which was right at 100 hp. A 25 ft do-all would then need 200-250 hp. It's not quite that simple, but it's close.

[@peanutsmith1462]

The farmer I worked with ever five years we would disc then bottom plow and field cultivate everything in between those years he only disc everything he said doing that puts the organic matter we’re the roots could use them

[@LtColDaddy71]

How did you not burst in to flames with all that green and yellow paint? I’m a fan of all colors. I love the 2 cylinder Deere’s, the 60-70’s TRUE Internationals, the 1460 rotor International combines. I think Ford had damn good tractors. So did White. White had some planters that were way ahead of their time. Then again, Deere makes some great stuff,but they’ve never been 1st. I think they let others make all the mistakes and go to market with a great product 10 years later. I just ordered 2 770 Deere combines after doing a few demos and buying 2 X9’s to lease to a custom harvester. The 770 performed better for me than anything on the market. Im organic, and the 780 and 790 are too rough on edible beans. I’ll always run out of forward speed before I put any stress on the back end. Equipment is fun. Their is so much amazing product tone had.

[@griggsfarmsllc]

We have no color preference and I think it shows on our farm. We buy equipment that will do the best job for us at the right price and has good dealer support.

[@kennardjohnson7875]

In the 1970s university of Illinois did a many years study, moldboarding every year would up your yield almost 20% yearly, and you can't grow vegetables without plowing yearly, so what's my view on no till,lower yield.

[@TheGamingMonkey-nh2nd]

Hey Matt I noticed when u switched to the new Holland tractor it looks like ur muffler is loose u can see it moving

[@griggsfarmsllc]

Not loose. That’s the cab moving around on its suspension

[@joescheller6680]

Disappointed i thought you meant a real plow not a disk. Molboard plow what i was thinking.

[@LampleyBrothersFarming]

Was wanting to see the 4440 pull the front wheel off the ground when you shifted from 7th to 8th 😃.

[@griggsfarmsllc]

Think I need to get @JoyceBrothersFarms to turn the screw on the pump for that to happen!

[@LampleyBrothersFarming]

@Griggs Farms LLC maybe, maybe not. Those 8 speed power shifts are a pretty hard shift going into road gear

[@robratcliffe5635]

@Lampley Brothers Farming they didn't call 'em Power Slams for nothing. I saw a sticker in the back window of one saying "Power Shift, cracking back glass and causing concusssions since late 70s" lol

[@LampleyBrothersFarming]

@Rob Ratcliffe hahaha, we got a J I Case that is a pretty hard shift on the power shift too....bounced a head or two off the back glass once or twice 😆

[@robratcliffe5635]

@Lampley Brothers Farming my cousin had a 4840 that dang near caved my chest in as a teenager once, when I went from 7th down to 8th without throttling back and loading the brakes. Like I said, once. I was a quick learner on how that steering wheel to the chest felt. I fell in love with his 4640 not long after that incident. That Quad Range was nice! Lol

[@jamesciolkosz8827]

4440 was made at the same time the IH 1086 was and I've operated 4440 and both of them rated the same horsepower from the factory 130 horse but of course can turn them up but I will say that 1086 for raw unstoppable POWER will by far outperform the 4440

[@Family1997love]

Hey Matt are you going to use your John Deer 4440 in any future videos?

[@griggsfarmsllc]

🤷‍♂️

[@philipalanparish65]

Ya need a 6 bottom moldboard😂

[@griggsfarmsllc]

Got a four bottom lying in the weeds somewhere

[@simplegreen6596]

i learned something today. JD has proprietary hydraulic fittings? Thats a very JD thing to do. Matt how do you feel about the right to repair movement especially passing in colorado? I've asked millennial farmer the same question multiple times. As deep as he is in with JD im not shocked he's never responded to it.

[@griggsfarmsllc]

The older John Deere’s required their own type of quick connect fittings. As did older IH equipment. As far as I know anything made in the last 30 years or so uses universal fittings. As far as right to repair in CO, not sure what you’re referring too. I’m in favor of Farmer’s and 3rd party techs having access to software that allow them to diagnose equipment and program new parts

[@billwhitman1529]

Pre-1980's JD did have proprietary fittings. We changed our servo's to Pioneer fittings like most others. It's an expense but you had to rebuild the old Deere Servo's so it's not a problem to rebuild them with the standard Pioneer.

[@shoresharp8349]

I'm sure it's a nice 4440 but it would of been even cooler if you had a tw35 . They were good old Ford tractors.

[@griggsfarmsllc]

Never had any TW series. Had ‘00 and ‘30 series before New Holland acquired Ford

[@user-sw4dm1qj2x]

I know ever one have there on opinions about do alls but I wouldn't have one with plows on the front they just drag up too dang. Much

[@billwhitman1529]

As I understand it Matt, you're doing this tillage to smooth out the field? Did you consider rolling it? We have a similar problem in our hay fields and built a roller and ran it over the ground when it was a little moist and it leveled them out beautifully. It's not a common practice around here but I have a list of folks wanting to borrow our roller now, lol. After we roll a field, the next fall we will aerate the field to help loosen it. Just a question, not a criticism.

[@griggsfarmsllc]

No we don’t have a roller. Just gotta make do with the equipment we have

[@mattphillips4260]

when the farm tought me how to run their IH do all they only wanted me to drag out my tracks that may be right for ground that is not in bad shape like you are dealing with any deeper than that was to deep just saying what do you think about v ripping and then maybe hitting with something very shallow to smoth out ripper tracks

[@griggsfarmsllc]

We only do tillage where absolutely needed to fix rough areas in the field or level some ground out. Ripping ground is not a permanent solution as it destroys soil structure and will need continuous ripping. We use plant roots in our cover crops to get rid of any compaction we may have

[@joemaendel3063]

Something very wrong with your tractor we had the 4440 brand-new back in the day pulled 30 foot cultivator 6 inches down and set a heroes behind it no problem Faith gear if the RPM is between 20100 it’s fine

[@charlietanner6211]

i dont know how many acres in that field but i would molboard a few acres no till a few disc a few then compare on ol john bean she gonna need some trans work im afraid you need hook up pressure gages work it hard check press under load temp up the truth will come out thats what i do to cats that are in trouble good luck

[@griggsfarmsllc]

I believe the dampener is going bad in the powershift. That’s been the general consensus of most 40 series experts

[@johngreer3004]

What size tractor is that new holand? Great video. Been enjoying your channel.

[@johngreer3004]

What size disk is that?

[@griggsfarmsllc]

T7.270

[@griggsfarmsllc]

25’

[@joemaendel3063]

Probably your power shift doesn’t like the the cultivator not the tractor

[@todd1808]

🦾🦾

[@davidwilliamson9257]

Got water in your tires?

[@griggsfarmsllc]

No fluid. We generally don’t have a need for it as we rarely pull heavy draft loads

[@davidwilliamson9257]

@@griggsfarmsllc It's a pain in the ass when you have a flat tire too lol but boy does it eliminate spinning

[@Tony2tall]

No easy fix to repair a field abused with a breaking plow.

[@philipalanparish65]

Sorry Matt but that ain’t no plow

[@charliemarvin1129]

I like your Trump sign go trump.

[@geronimomsanchez2883]

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