Farming in 1978, Super 8 footage.

[@joemueth4077]

In '78, I was 14 years old running a 8430 and a 7700. I thought I was bad as_. Wish I could do it all over again. Thanks for sharing the memories.

[@glennienhaus6030]

I remember that as well !! Good simple life

[@rodneyblair515]

Yep I know the feeling

[@interman7715]

Why did you think you were bad ? Did you do something wrong?

[@joemueth4077]

@@interman7715 No, I just meant a big shot at that age on a big machine.

[@gregkortbein5108]

16 in 1978. Good times 4440 Deere

[@jlmmarshall5148]

Farming the way it should be

[@MrNobody2828]

I still use a 1949 A, 4020, 4320, 4055 and 8330 for tractors and a 36 year old 7720 titan II combine. The older...the better it was made!

[@westrotter7847]

I wish i could return to those days. I felt so alive running that equipment and that smell of the land after it was turned along with the sound of the engine while harvesting or planting.❤❤

[@joemueth4077]

Right there with you my man.

[@westrotter7847]

Love these videos !!! Makes me think of home...

[@oldcousinfrenchman3911]

Thank you for sharing! So fun to see Dave A. and Terri H. and all that great old equipment I grew up with! I loved The "Black Beauty Truck 23".

[@Husker3435]

Yessir, back when you had to actually drive a tractor all day and pay attention, love it, big time trip down memory lane…thx and a big 10-4 to the the video🇺🇸

[@georgeketchmark3087]

Planted my first crop in 1978 and I’m still at it running equipment from the 70s and 80s.

[@freedomforall5071]

Me Too! JD 6600, White 2-105, Case 970 with working AC on all them believe it or not and JD & Alias planters too!

[@east1851]

Top of the line equipment for 78

[@thatranger92]

Im 13 and running our 4640 and ford 5000 at the farm. I love the old iron too much.

[@davidrobertson376]

I am 56 and still running a Ford 7700 and two Leylands, a 270 and 272 I was like you when I was a boy. Dad had a Nuffield 1060, Grey mudguard Super Major and Field marshal series 2. I just loved them all.

[@thatranger92]

@@davidrobertson376 that sounds awesome.

[@romanianfarmtech]

That's a golden video. As a farm machinery operator, I really appreciate this video.

[@timcrawford5882]

Yep the good old days when men were men and our woman were happy grew up on 5000 acres of cabbage beans hay and wheat. 27 oliver tractors 8630 jd dozers tiling machines we learned to work

[@davehughesfarm7983]

I was raised on a 400 with 4 row,,,,,awesome footage,,,,please take me back and drop me off..

[@michaelneuman6910]

Awesome brings back some great memories.

[@matthewheinze1231]

What an awesome snapshot of big operation farming in the late 70s. Thanks for sharing!!!!

[@rodneyblair515]

Yep I remember those days long and Dusty without a cab tractor

[@ethanthopy1996]

Love the old school content keep it coming!!!

[@jamiegivens3970]

I'm loving your old videos! Definitely post up more if you have them.

[@freedomforall5071]

This is us farming in 2023!

[@farmboy2848]

Us too

[@monkyboy1966]

We have the old Triple K out too

[@EDBZ28]

Great video! Looked like big operators for 1978. I was born a year later, in ‘79. Spraying outfit looked crude! But they didn’t have anything better back then. Today, us farmers have it so much easier with equipment being used, but I think it’s far more stressful. We had a Chevy C50 grain truck same cab style as this one. Neat old 1940’s(?) car parked on rd in background.

[@prjndigo]

oh, they had tons better stuff for spraying back then, but everybody still had working older tractors because Deere hadn't figured out how to have them fail 3 weeks after the lease was up yet

[@EDBZ28]

@@prjndigo 😂…good thing for me I can’t afford the new ones! Our newest is a 2004 7820

[@farmingfishingfamilyontari2814]

I was also born in ‘79. I’m glad I was part of the 70’s even though I didn’t remember. Those saddle tanks looked big for that tractor.

[@EDBZ28]

@@farmingfishingfamilyontari2814 Ha ha me too! Yep a lot of weight hanging out there

[@joemueth4077]

They were running three 7700's. We ran two 7700's on 1000 acres back then. Worked out pretty darn good.

[@CountryTesla]

Gotta know where you came from to see where you're going. Thanks for posting! Only have one goldy, planting in the 80s

[@robwar2288]

Wow!!!! Neat!!

[@davidmann2988]

Farming back when the farmers actually drove their tractors

[@davidmann2988]

We had a jd 70d and farmall 560. Planting 4 rows at a time.

[@bnstr4876]

For over a quarter of a million farmers in the United States these were their last few years of farming before the farm crisis.

[@jasonbabcock2742]

Did Grandpa come out in his 1920s Packard to watch all this new fancy technology? Saw some vehicle from the teens or twentys in the background during the spraying.

[@logpile1318]

I was running an 8430 in 1978

[@gentlegiants1974]

1978, the calm before the storm that became the Farm Crisis in the 80's

[@scottpage4877]

Hmmm, here we are again

[@davidwhisnant3230]

I agree with you

[@RedIron1066]

The decade of shattered dreams

[@jerrykeith1922]

With GPS today today's kids wouldn't know how to use row markers lol

[@kevintheilen9643]

Umm... Make that three combines!

[@rogerclough8800]

View quality bit poor but machinery scale pretty impressive. Many parts of the world would marvel at that scale even today ( Africa, Asia and India).

[@ashleyflint3501]

Dirt is the same, Machinery more computerized and expensive and man has got lazier, wont be long and he will have the robots doing it for him !

[@chretienbernard4200]

Quand je vois cette vidéo je me dit que nous les petits français on a 30 ans de retard sur les États-Unis Quand je vois le matériel qu ils avaient en 1878😱😱😱

[@deanmeyer1815]

A good time, then. Just before the economy tanked.

[@sloboshan]

В США в ті роки яка вже техніка була