1958 John Deere 720 Two-Cylinder Diesel Picking Ear Corn Dad's Favorite Tractor Is Back!!

[@larrybruck2949]

My dad would pull his one row new idea picker with his 44 Massey Harris. My brother and I rode in the wagon for fun and to pull off husks. Good video and God bless. Love the sound of the Johnny popper diesel!

[@dennymarquart2665]

Can't wait to see you pulling 4 or 5 bottom plow 720 sounded good

[@Scott-q6q]

The only way to go.keep up the good work

[@CheeseMiser]

Were you born a loser or something

[@shakes7333]

Would much rather watch old iron working then to watch someone's million dollar combine at work. This is great stuff!! Thank You

[@douglasmeek9774]

Very cool ! Thank you!!

[@dirtgrainsteel]

Thank you too!

[@rogerhodges7656]

I remember working with an old two cylinder JD. My friend would throttle it way back and you could clearly hear each cylinder fire. Boom, boom, boom.

[@michaelbaker826]

Really enjoyed the video. Beautiful work and I liked seeing the older equipment getting the job done. Thanks for sharing!!

[@alithemagicbum]

Thanks for sharing. Always fascinated by older technologies.

[@garymessina1609]

The old girl runs really well since the rebuild can't miss the sauage wingding great video thanks Brandon and Madison

[@mikemoss9968]

Yeah 50 years ago we had a picker just like that it worked great that old Johnny poppers sounds good

[@lewiemcneely9143]

I like the diesels more than all the rest of their stuff put together. THANKS!

[@artillerest43rdva7]

hope you had a great sausage party! it is great to have family to spend time with , enjoying each other’s company and having a great dinner! take care, and enjoy your days!

[@jaybrooks2502]

That’s absolutely the best ear and eye candy I’ve seen in a while!

[@peteschiavoni]

Dad’s 720 sounds great. Slid right through that ear corn. Hope y’all had a great Sausage party

[@danw6014]

My dad had a 70 diesel and the same model picker back in the 1970s. He fed a few steers with the corn. Dad was one of the first farmers in my area to plant 30 inch rows because of the one row picker.

[@ScootSack]

Anytime you use the 720 diesel it's a beautiful site. I could set on that tractor all day and love every minute of it.

[@DonWelter]

Hope the sausage wing-ding goes well. The ground conditions are a lot better than in our part of N Central Ohio. Been nothing but a slop wallow the last week or so. Always a good feeling to be on the last row...and hope for no breakdowns with a couple hundred feet to go.

[@marchindy]

Always enjoy your videos so thanks for spending the time to put them out. 720 sounds great.

[@brittblanton8342]

Great video Brandon and Madison brought back a lot of memories of when I was a kid. The old John Deer sounds great 👍

[@richardpaauwe6520]

Enjoyed it Would have liked to seen how you changed trailers

[@dirtgrainsteel]

Thank you! Yeah I should have probably showed that

[@jazzerbyte]

Great sounding tractor and goes with the rest of the equipment. Looked like it has a gear for a proper ground speed match.

[@donaldneuenfeldt5527]

Awesome video.

[@mfreund15448]

Happy Sunday Brandon!

[@mfreund15448]

I just saw the short yesterday of the picker

[@jameslandstoffer3205]

Brandon , love the ear corn videos. I'm 80 now and fondly remember as a 7-8 year old picking ear corn that spilled on the ground on the farm at Monroeville Indiana. That's how we got money for Christmas.

[@jamesharber7820]

I knew a Jim Landstoffer in high school at Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was a cousin to my next door neighbor boys, Ken and Gene Hoffman at Yoder, Indiana. I ran our one row picker…at age 8! :)

[@jameslandstoffer3205]

That's right. I remember you Jim. Remember your Cushman Eagle and your 55 T-Bird...406 engine I believe. You helped me do an engine swap on my 51 Ford. Good to hear from you.

[@jamesharber7820]

@@jameslandstoffer3205 Jim, you have a great memory. I’d forgotten about your 1951 Ford engine swap. The ‘Bird was a 1957 and with the 406 was fantastic….I shifted from 1st to second at 7200 RPMs!!! Ours was a wonderful time to grow up. One time you had a party in the basement of your parents house on the west side of Fort Wayne…it may have been New Years. I met a young lady there who might have been a neighbor of yours. She and I went for a walk on your street and I remember two things about that walk: she had a unique, strong fragrance perfume which I’d recognize instantly yet today…I have never encountered it ever again; secondly, she was “pleasingly plump”. :) It’s good to know that you are still alive! Seems like so very many people I have known have died. For example, Gene and later Ken Hoffman. Gene was two years older than me and Ken was four years older. I remember that your dad bought, remodeled and sold two houses on a small lot on the east side of highway one less than one mile north of my road, Pleasant Center Road.

[@jameslandstoffer3205]

@@jamesharber7820 what a blast from the past! You are right about so many have passed away. The "Thinning of the herd" they call it. You have got me thinking, did the pleasingly plump girl have red hair? I have driven past the old home place a few times since I returned to Indiana 10 years ago. Hardly recognizable now. Those two houses are still standing though. Another memory I have is playing "Barn Basketball" in your barn. More like "Barn Football". We had one game at Jefferson school gym against some other guys. We called our selves " The Yoder Jets. Ken Hoffman was our big man. So many good memories come back to me because you replied to my post. Thanks old friend.

[@tomcorcoran3401]

I still love picking a litter ear corn and I own my Dad’s old 720 gas, hopefully this fall he can come pick a load! Great video.

[@dirtgrainsteel]

I would like to eventually find a 720 gas for running my feed grinder it would be nice to have a big tractor on it than my 620.....I love picking Ear Corn also especially when conditions are right and it goes smoothly....thank you for watching!

[@SamMaass-s5h]

I cultivated with a 720 diesel one summer. It was very enjoyable.

[@LeighCowley]

We use to run two John Deere A’s and a D. I cut lots of hay with the A. The other A was a true tricycle. Only one wheel on the front. They put a far, hand on it that would lift way higher than the loaders you see now. It was built for loose hay. Then we went to small bales. We use to stack about twenty bales on it then haul it to the stack yard. I didn’t care for that one because when it was loaded it was hard steering. I tell people that I had to stand on one side of the steering wheel to get it to turn. Lololo

[@robertmeyerholtz8504]

No shucking rollers on that New Idea picker? We had one just like that and my dad hated the thing because it would always leave half the shucks on the ear which took up space in the crib when storing. Great to see you still have one in good running order and that you still use it. Great video.

[@williammatzek4660]

In 1958 the 720 was a big tractor.

[@garethstott]

Always ask questions before accepting an invite to a sausage party.

[@garybarrett-q8p]

hey Brandon send me a sandwitch bet they are tastie!!!! l will be watchin!!!!!

[@patframpton6193]

Hi Brendon. Did you plant any of the coloured corn, I think you called it Indian corn. Is it edible or just for decorative purposes. I have not seen it in the UK.

[@mattphillips4260]

as easy as the 729 has that picker going you think it would do ok with a 2 row

[@aaronjarvenpa1743]

I’m surprised you haven’t invested in a two row picker

[@dirtgrainsteel]

I'm looking for a John Deere 300 picker...right now with the amount of steers I fatten out and the amount of corn I have to pick the 1 row works alright but now that I've got my own place where I can expand in to a cow calf herd and some hogs I'm going to need to pick more corn so a larger picker is going to be something I'm going to want I had thought about building one out of a small Gleaner like a F2

[@aaronjarvenpa1743]

@ A old gleaner head would work I didn’t think of that. or from an any make would work. There dime a dozen any old farm has one or dealership.

[@wademizelle3433]

How did you break in the engine on 720?

[@bethmotgomery2662]

INSTALL ROPS BARS ON EM 2 CYLINDERS WHY DON'T YA!!!!!??