Farmall 140 Planting Silver Queen Corn

[@MarkWYoung-ky4uc]

That Silver Queen reminds me of grandma. We liked yellow corn and always planted Golden Queen. She liked the white corn so we would always plant some Silver Queen for her. Either way, you can't go wrong with the Queens!🌽😊

[@MarkWYoung-ky4uc]

I love that 184 planter! I was watching you plant and in my opinion, the angle iron was to knock off the top of a row like the sweep on the front of my old Holland tobacco planter. It was right in front of the piece that made the furrow the plant went in. By the way, it's a shame the 140 is no longer made. Your videos would sell many of them! Keep up the great work and I hope you have a bumper crop!

[@Jtwes]

Thank You Mark. Hope to plant some beans soon.

[@Stoneynsc1]

We always called them bed knockers. Down here is SC we have to run subsoilers to rip through the hard pan or crops will burn up in dry weather. We would subsoil and bed the ground and then plant into that stale bed. A stale bed will pull moisture up so you're putting that seed right into some good moist soil. I love those old IH and Cole planters. Love the videos man, keep it up. Thanks.

[@Jtwes]

Thank You

[@natevanlandingham1945]

I noticed when going though southern GA for work this week some of the corn fields there were 3 to 6"s high already

[@lamontpowell6235]

45 to 50 years ago we would plant about 3 acres of sweet corn using a horse drawn corn planter pulled by a Cub tractor. Daddy always drove because the rows had to be straight as an arrow, and I would walk behind, holding up and guiding the planter. Once when I was 16 or 17, I stayed out way to late, and he offered to let me drive for planting. I refused, knowing I could stay awake walking behind the planter, but I might fall asleep if I was driving the Cub, and he would through a dirt clod or rock to wake me up. Last week I noticed the planter is still in the shed, probably has not been used since I finished college and moved away from home. Still in very good condition though, with all the plates.

[@Jtwes]

I love hearing memories like that . God Bless you.

[@MarkWYoung-ky4uc]

I remember doing the same thing years ago with grandpa's old Cole corn planter.

[@RickLatta61]

I remember helping Daddy plant corn with our 140 when I was a kid. We had the side mounted planter and fertilizer. My job was to keep the fertilizer hooper full. Hard work but I would love to help my Dad plant another field of corn. He's been gone 6 years now but my sister still has that old 140.

[@Jtwes]

I filled the hopper up when we were making rows for tobacco when I was young. Thanks for sharing that memory God Bless .

[@MarkWYoung-ky4uc]

I've filled that hopper up many times and when I got older, emptied it too. I have daddy's old 140 and wouldn't sell it for anything. For my money, the Farmall 140 is the greatest small farm tractor ever built!

[@RickLatta61]

We would never sell ours either. I just got back from showing my sister and brother-in-law how to hook up the disk and turning plow. Last year they used a tiller to plant their garden because the 140 had carb and governor issues which I fixed last fall. Old girl runs like a top now and sis is very happy! I think that old tractor brings back the same memories for her. Old 140s never die!

[@myakkaapof]

Look like that angel iron is keeping the top of them rows flattened out real nice...i just bought a cub been learning alot from your videos.

[@Jtwes]

Thank you for watching and enjoy that cub.

[@jaybeeman3628]

I also have bought a cub and learned a lot

[@Jtwes]

I wouldn’t mind having one.

[@351Fordracing]

Well, I'm right there with y'all lol. I'm a NC boy myself and just bought my first ever farmall,, a 51' super A! Love watching and learning from your videos!!

[@jaybeeman3628]

I hated rolling cultivators tell I watched u demo a set and how they work and stuff. Now I love them. Would love to see how them buzzard wing lay by sweeps work of u have some or not. I bought some and don’t know how to use them. Also from n.c. Vance co.

[@williefelts1449]

I have and still use the 140 my uncle bought in 66, he made the rows 1 at a time for 65 acres of tobacco. Bull tongue two metal fertilizer spouts.2 listers! That was one of my 1st jobs filling the fertilizer buckets. I couldn’t lift the buckets but I could fillem! 1 ton 3-9-9 /acre 200 lb bags! He’d try and put in one two ton truck load a day! Those were tough days but it made men out of us I wouldn’t trade it for any amount of money! Keep them videos coming!

[@Jtwes]

I don’t think there’s to many folks who can really appreciate how much work is involved with a 140 and 65 acres. My guess is on a good day you might could have got 7-10 done.

[@williefelts1449]

@@Jtwes It would take him 11 days to get over, by the time he went and got a load got back got started he’d get about 5 acres a day! My two uncles had two tobacco planters they’d run 1 all day and the two from about 1 pm to bout dark! It took till about 1 to get far enough ahead pulling plants out of plant bed to run two planters! The reason they didn’t run two tractors putting in fertilizer is while one was putting in fertilizer the other was fixing the land up! Once with the disc with a 3020 John Deere Twice with a chisel plow, one more time with the disc then we’d spray on the chemicals on top of the rows and relist! Sometimes we would have to threelist! ‘Twas a lot of work and just as soon as bacca was planted bean land was being fixed hay being cut back being plowed putting dow bulldog soda! Sorry for boring u but things made a lot more sense then than they do now to me!

[@Jtwes]

They still make sense . That’s how it was done then.

[@olesam8970]

I can appreciate how much 65 acres would have been.....we only farmed 15 acres of tobacco and Daddy was able to raise 4 kids on it. I had to handle those 200 lb bags too as a young'un. I'd slide them to the truck tailgate and fill a # 2 washtub sitting on the ground. Then repeat for another tub. Took 2 to fill the hopper. I always had cuts on my feet from going barefoot and I can feel the sting of that fertilizer right now when I hopped into the bed of the pickup......memories.

[@williefelts1449]

@@olesam8970 Yes sir when it got warm enough we went barefooted a lot also! Working in the plantbeds was fun to me! We’d had them late in the year and plant them in February! Us boys would get on our knees put our right arm under the plastic cover and pull the plastic out from under the dirt while the grown men would work the cove to the side still under the dirt so the whole space that had been covered since last year was ready to be raked to freshen up the dirt! My uncles would mix the seed they always liked G-28 tobacco seeds! Then they would Sox the beds pull cover back over put a shovel full of dirt back bout every 4’ then came the hole punching! Puncher had two plow handles one on each end of a 4’ telephone pole that had 20 penny nails all over it that the heads had been cut off, we pulled it up and down the bed and crossways also so the plants could get water! Good days !

[@lelandrentz755]

I cannot wait to see you cultivating that corn

[@Jtwes]

Me to but we got to get it past the crows first.lol

[@granada025]

@@Jtwes I usually lay 3' pieces of 1" black plastic pipe down here and there after the corn starts coming up and the crows think they are snakes and don't bother it. Been working for years.

[@Jtwes]

Definitely going to try that.

[@josephbennett4877]

Glad your healthy again! The angle iron stabilizes the planter, but also flattens the soil on both sides of the row, in effect, making a bed. Seems like that planter might have been used on a tool bar. Ready to plant tobacco patch yet?

[@Jtwes]

Not yet . I think they have some 184 planters on tool bars .

[@gregschwering4511]

Nice looking rig. I sensed you were looking for a little information. On sweet corn the normal distance between plant should be 8 to 12 inches. The farther they are spaced out the bigger chance of getting 2 nice ears per plant. I’d leave the angle iron on. It does nice knocking down the ridge of dirt which if you didn’t do that and you get a big rain all that water would sit on your row possibly drowning it out.

[@Jtwes]

I wasn’t sure of the exact spacing but I knew last years was to thick. Thanks for the info.

[@johnhall1614]

I've heard them called clod busters, keeps the big dirt clods off the rows.

[@wesleycallison2079]

That planter does a good job. Should be easier to cultivate with it flattened out on both sides.

[@Jtwes]

Yes sir Wesley , you have figured out what those rolling cultivators like. Lol

[@BenWinborn]

Just got done spraying some power max sorry I’m late mr joe and almost to a thousand subs congrats it’s been a ride 🤣 I always love hearing your words of wisdom you remind me of my uncle jewel cant wait for a thousand subs then you can do live streams :)

[@Jtwes]

Thank You Ben.

[@johnhall1614]

That does a wonderful job, good work

[@Jtwes]

Thank You John I hope I can get a good stand.

[@williefelts1449]

You adjusted the stop on the long arm to push planter deeper! We always use the long bar that goes from the front lift to the hitch that hooks up under your feet! They also make a bent long bar to use if you are planting and have the fertilizer distributor on at the same time! Like it’s set up if you are bottom plowing! Also on one of your videos you had a shank that kept tripping, the spring has a nut on top sets at the back of the shank oil real good and give it a couple of turns if it still trips hit her a couple more should solve the problem! I enjoy your videos!

[@Jtwes]

Hey Willie Thanks for watching. I take the center arm off on purpose. With that planter even with the center arm all the way up it doesn’t let the packing wheel go down as far as it needs to go. I haven’t really looked at that shank that close to see what’s tripping but I always use that nut your talking about to adjust the angle of the foot I’m using. I hope to bring some more content soon and expand a little to. Trucks, chainsaws , etc lol

[@williefelts1449]

I know the nut u are talking about but on top of the spring there’s a nut as well it’s doesn’t have but two sides takes a big adjustable wrench

[@Jtwes]

Oh yeah I know which one now . I’ll try tightening it.

[@williefelts1449]

There’s a shop where I live 252-456-3710 the steering parts u were needing if anyone has it Danny will! He’s got a couple of acres of 100s 130s140s and many many more tractors

[@Jtwes]

Thank you willie

[@garyritterstrings]

hello, I use a Cole one Row Seeder with seed and fertilizer hoppers. How will you fertilize? Why not use your Farmall seeder and fertilizer rig?

[@waveoglesby2920]

I have one of those as well. Do you use the fertilizer hopper when you plant corn?

[@Jtwes]

I could mount the hopper and put it down when I plant but for 14 rows I can put it down by hand. Some times I wait to see the stand and use the hopper on a real lite first cultivating.

[@waveoglesby2920]

Do you not hill the corn before you plant it. I heard you say your friend tilled it. What do you think is best hilling it or tilling it before you plant.? Thanks for posting this. Your rows look a lot straighter than mine.

[@Jtwes]

No I plant it flat. I went through it with one of those rototillers instead of disking.

[@joewilson1457]

When I work at the john deere place we would put gauge shoes on the planters when planting soybeans to control the depth that's what this looks like

[@Jtwes]

It does keep it from going to deep I’ve noticed.

[@taragreenhill8383]

Great video. How is the steering doing? It looked like you got rid of a lot the play in it

[@Jtwes]

Doing pretty good it is a lot better and the wobble is out. I might do some more work on it this fall if I can come across the parts I’m looking for.

[@fishydubsfishing6516]

Silver queen is to sweet

[@Jtwes]

I had some at a church picnic last summer that made silver queen taste like sour patch kids lol

[@gleanerk]

Last row a little moist. You sunk down some . How did the front end do ? 🌽🌽

[@Jtwes]

I was a little worried that last row was going to be one of those wholes with no bottom the way it sunk down. Steering did pretty good.

[@kevinpayne8708]

Do you have much of a problem with crows eating your corn? I had a heck of a time with crows last year. They'd get it soon as it started to sprout.

[@Jtwes]

Yes I do . I just rely on prayer and ask God to keep the crows off.

[@stumpy2816]

👍👍

[@jamesthompson8592]

The iron keeps plant the at right depth

[@Jtwes]

Thank you I thought it might be for real sandy land like eastern NC

[@jamesthompson8592]

@@Jtwes in soft land if you don’t something the planter wonts get to deep

[@kennethfowler4126]

What are the holes in the rear of the fenders for?

[@Jtwes]

Very good question I was wondering my self. They been there since I bought the tractor.

[@klutze5]

What happened to the beard

[@Jtwes]

My wife told me to say I got gum in it lol. No not really just shaved off for a bit probably will start letting it grow again.