HARVESTING WHEAT & PLANTING SOYBEANS

In this video we spend time out in the field with a 1978 JOHN DEERE 6600 combine harvesting wheat. This 120 hp 147 bu. combine is harvesting wheat with 16ft JOHN DEERE 216 grain platform. Viewers will ride along in the cab and see the farmers view of operations the combine. Following behind the combines is a 130 hp JOHN DEERE 4440 tractor no-tilling a second crop of soybeans into the wheat stubble with an ALLIS-CHALMERS 333 11 row planter. The video talks about the history of no-till farming.
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[@johnlee6054]

The 6600 diesel also came a 329 cu. as that what mine had which was standard for a 4400 diesel also..never ran out of power even with full hopper and up hill..great combine for it's time..thankyou bigtractorpower

[@deancook6832]

Allis Chalmers brought one of those no-till planters around to demo in my neighborhood sometime in the late 60's. I don't remember Dad being very impressed with it. We didn't plant much with it, it was a 2 row set at 40", we were planting with 8 row 30" planter at that time.

[@harrydoyle1408]

There's a lot to love in this video as a kid who grew up with 4400s and 6600s. 1. The sound of the belts as he kicked the auger on. 2. The same sounds when he threw the machine in gear. 3. Running with the door open because anyone who was around these combines know, in a 6600 the A/C either didn't work or barely kept the sweat off of you. Great memories of when farming was farming.

[@scottpykare801]

Wow, this takes me back to when I was 10 or 11 years old. A farmer farmed a couple fields next to and behind my grandparents house. I used to watch him do corn/soybeans in his 6600 for hrs. The equipment looked larger than life. It was the best when I got to ride with him!! Thanks Jason for another awesome video!! GO BTP👍👍

[@clinkerclint]

The sound of that belt brings back a lot of happy memories!

[@elizandromaculan7183]

I agree

[@Ron-rs2zl]

I know this all to well. Harvesting grain in the HOT 🔥 summer sun and no A/C. Look at him sweat 😓. I paid $1600 in 2000 and "retired" her about 2014 and upgraded to a 6620 for $10000 with A/C 😎.

[@johnclarkkitner9556]

Love the older equipment. Still farm with old john poppers.

[@shamsmujaddidi4586]

Enjoyed it so much that watching it one time was not enough for me I my self have a 1977 john deer 940 combine and still using it on my wheat farms and enjoy using it , but I would love to see the soybean growth on that wheat field , it looked a very productive soil to me , thank you and greetings to you from Afghanistan

[@luistrevino3991]

Awesome video. I love the sounds of the belt engagement when the head is activated. I miss the sound of the belts screech when the unloading auger is turned on. It's great hearing the rpm go up when the combine is going to unload or start cutting again. Brings back a lot of memories. Hope you do more videos like this.

[@vincentvanpaepeghem4844]

Great video! Love seeing the classic farm machineries at work! Thanks for sharing! Have a great and awesome day!

[@mrourcanada8964]

Definitely that series I combine is my favourite of all time is fantastic to see that old iron still out in the field working away and I love you from the car brings back such good memories and when I was a little kid riding with my uncle thanks for sharing

[@jarrettjamesgolf1176]

Its cool to see how far technology has came

[@Burdman660]

Might not have shiny new paint but I bet he's more profitable than his neighbors.

[@stephenbontrager5894]

Always loved the 6600 series of combines and the 4440 is one of the best series of tractors appreciate watching the videos with more of my generation of farm power

[@farmerjohnson8121]

Love this video...I could watch the old equipment work all day long..

[@chrisfoulk4715]

We had a 6600 for about 20 years. Upgraded to a 6620 about 10-11 years ago. Our 6600 had the 329 diesel engine in it, was very good on fuel.

[@dougsigman4724]

I had one. My first combine. 1980. You can tell it’s a 78 by the hydralicly latching unloading auger. Last year of the “00” series. Only year that had that feature. 👍✌️🇺🇸!! I run a s680 now. What a difference. Retiring next year. Makes me feel old. 😐

[@SimonKL11]

You filmed some great classics this summer😉👍 Glad to see the old machines still working👍

[@keithsteck432]

My dad had a 1978 7700 combine. It was a very good machine.

[@dustinlowry9075]

Great video Jason 👍 I’m John Deere Technician out California for about 15 years . I Love to see that old iron still running. Awesome video

[@haydentaylor8651]

Just proves how great John Deere is, I have hardly ever seen old combines from other companies running but I always see old John Deere equipment running

[@retireddriver16]

Yep I combine with a John Deere 3300 it was a 1973 model good little combine 13 foot and a 2 row corn head

[@ajfarmer007]

Had a 1978 6600 hydro and yes Ac/heat worked too. Also had vg grain sample.... sold it 4 yrs ago Now have a 1980 6620

[@mrih1586]

That's the way we had to do it back in the 80's. Gleaner combines, ac seldom worked. No unload on the go. We had that same planter. Can't say I miss those days.

[@garywest8901]

Yes sir , enjoyed B T P. Really enjoy seeing the classics . My first two planters were ac333. My combine is a j d 4420 very similar to 6600. I also use drop chains for markers. Lol.

[@evangoodlock1]

Love the old stuff. Please keep them coming.

[@kevinniemietz273]

Always upvote the classics.

[@scruffy6151]

I like the markers they are using. Old iron still making money nice.

[@ih1206]

Don’t miss the old 4400 dad had, I was a happy camper when we got a 6620 and sold off the 4400. Up here in the northern half of Ohio, double crops beans are iffy. So years are ok, some years it’s a waste of time, and once in a rare while the double crops will run better than the first crop beans in my experience. We don’t have a long enough growing season north of columbus to get the wheat of (for us the Fourth of July typically) and get the beans to fully mature and dry down before the frost kills them in November. We try anyhow, once in a while we get lucky.

[@wayneharney8]

Pretty cool to see this! Leftover straw doesn't only hold moisture, it also prevents erosion and adds organic material to the soil

[@ericcole8628]

The sound of that bring me back

[@stickerel2868]

Nice seeing the old iron. Seen the first wheat come off in SW Ontario yesterday. Any Gleaner video's from this wheat season?

[@matthewschlichting5962]

We pulled a 6 row 333 planter with a 5 row 33 model splitting the rows behind in tandom for years worked great

[@ronniejenkins2056]

I like seeing the old iron still doing the job great video

[@TonyZilincik]

I remember when that was the latest tech.! Great machine!

[@brianpappas5650]

Ive got a 7700 combine i use every year ..for about 10 years i did 160 acres now i do less but it still works

[@jankotze1959]

Very nice old JD's, they are well looked after,

[@Mottercar]

Very enjoyable video and a great channel Respect and support from the UK.

[@motorcop555]

Man! Talk about a cool old school lineup on that farm! I dig it 🤟🏻

[@michaelstark703]

Push the lever forward forward and the belt screeches, those are the times I remember.

[@LackoFarms]

We had 2 JD 7700s, before that a JD 105 & JD 95 - now just one JD 7720 - No-Till and double crop whenever possible

[@kent4799]

Awesome video. I wonder where the old header is? This is a 20 series header which came out with the 20 series combines such as the 6620,7720, and 8820. And this is flex head. The distance from the sickle to auger makes it difficult. Not so much in wheat but in rice where high moisture content made it lay there until a huge wad was built, Then all of that came in. If it made it past the auger and feeder house the cylinder might choke up...wasn't fun! Even bolted up in the ridged position didn't help. The PVC pipe on the reel was our trick. We we're having a lot of problems with reel wrapping up in the soybean harvest with morning glories. This as the answer to getting out and cutting them off with a knife... the good ole days of Ozbun's Harvesting!

[@user-snowman5]

Nice to see good ole iron still at work even with open door conditioning

[@williamthomas9463]

Love that, what is now old,equipment. It’s what I was raised using, when it was still new and cutting edge. Might want to budget in a little money for A.C. repair and a pressure washer though.

[@canadiantractorspotter9969]

Nice Video,

[@paulofrancisco565]

Parabéns 👍👍👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@shawnennis265]

Now this is farming jack

[@carloscordova1351]

Hey man nice combine whooooow

[@bigtractorpower]

It’s one of the greats in John Deere history.

[@tduckl1]

I like the row marker attachment on the tractor! Where there is a will… Autosteer and gps aren’t practical for us.

[@Blackwellll3066]

Love the old deere just surprised he didnt have a jd 650 or 1210 grain cart running along combine cuz of how long it takes to unload that small grain tank

[@landonwalter7506]

We had a 6600 first combine I ever operated now I have a 9510

[@observant98]

This was back in ‘78...42 years ago. I believe it was these combines like the smaller 3300 and 4400 and the larger 6600 and 7700 that

[@observant98]

.....John Deere into the combine business big time. They took over from Massey Ferguson and Allis Chalmers Gleaner which were the big names until then.

[@truthandfreedom885]

Spent many hours in a JD 6600 & a couple of JD #105's. At least in the John Deere 105 he could have opened the RH window and the upper half of the LH door and had a nice breeze blowing through, providing the wind direction wasn't too terrible.

[@scottb2712]

That's what I learned on.. A 7700 with a 16 foot rigged head cutting beans... It was a lot more work back then.. No auto head.. You were constantly adjusting the head height

[@danielbeiersr3642]

Still using 6600 and 7700 combines to harvest small grain/grass seed

[@brianc9208]

Also available was a 329 cubic inch Diesel engine usually the 404 was hydrostatic drive

[@jfdb59]

Awesome. Still gettin it done and making money. Some quick math; Total cost in 1978 for this set up was $38016, with wheat's average closing price for 1978 at $ 3.18 NOT adjusted for year. Wheat price has increased a whopping $1.73 in 42 years....let that sink in. Combines have increased...a little more. Adjusted for inflation, a 38016 dollar combine and header with $3.18 wheat would be like spending $149495 with wheat fetching $12.51 a bushel! Now guys spend $650000 to harvest wheat fetching $4.91...pretty damn sad. No wonder no one can get into farming even if they wanted to. I'd love to but how? Now yes...the new machine is more productive. About 5X more productive figuring 16'@3.5 mph vs 45'@5.5. But the machine is still 4.3X more expensive to buy and a LOT more expensive to maintain and service.

[@peterkulick1407]

We use a 6620 for corn.

[@theloniousm4337]

Love the thud sounds as the 6600 works on slugs and wads of wheat coming into the cylinder. Hard to imagine a 16ft header producing a "wad" but apparently it happens. Those are the sounds a real combine is supposed to make. Your ear told you if you were feeding it too fast, not some computer program.

[@joehusnik4337]

👍

[@brandonthomas1298]

We run a 6600 on our farm in Florida. We only grow corn we use a 444 4row corn head

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. Thank you for sharing.

[@leesteele9290]

See that planter is way ahead of it's time ,no markers just a GPS chain on a pipe !!!!

[@noahranker4133]

Hello btp is their any x 9s around you for wheat demo

[@kirakash3676]

My husbands grandpa had two of them new

[@haydentaylor8651]

That’s how you know John Deere has the best equipment

[@scottb2712]

I think that my other uncle had two of those planters... Worked good except the chain's would fall off..so you had to keep getting out and checking

[@timkelley8775]

I would guess if these are their primary equipment for this. They are debt free. And they are good mechanics to keep all that iron churning.

[@md.fuelkiller1990]

And you don't need an IT Guru from the company to fix them!

[@wagonerjared]

Hot boxin it.

[@kennethdockery7376]

Awesome man love the vids keep them coming

[@walterlaubscherjr2011]

Great video BTP will we see the soybean harvest from this machine

[@Alex-uy7pc]

Gotta a few farms running all old machinery up my way. I always wonder.. what happens if a rod lets go and takes out the block? They gonna repower it? Is that farm one major breakdown away from shutting down? Don't get me wrong, the margins of every farm are pretty tight, smaller the tighter.. but something kinda sad about them old farms going under.

[@clinkerclint]

So got a question for you gear heads.. the 6600 was 120hp. 4020 (same 404 engine as late 6600s) was 86? Hp? Somewhere close to that anyway. So, if you turned a 4020 up to 120hp, I feel that it would smoke quite a bit. How did the deere engineers build a 120hp 404 CID naturally aspirated engine that didn't smoke?

[@johnlee6054]

they were turbo'ed in the 4320=about 115 hp..turbo'ed in the 4520=about 130 hp..and turbo and intercooled in the 4620 at about 145 hp and all 404 cu. and what a great engine it was

[@clinkerclint]

@@johnlee6054 heck yes!!! Don't forget the legendary 4630 and 7700 turbo as well!

[@SteveHolsten]

Thanks again, BTP. What did the guy use for markers while planting?

[@johnlee6054]

Steve..looked like a steel pipe with chains hanging down which would drag close to the last row planted

[@thayhai1994]

Máy này chắc ra cũng lâu lắm rồi nhìn hơi củ nghe anh

[@rlguerrero2263]

May I ask you Why there are two gaps on the planter? Does your soybean variety will fill it?

[@LackoFarms]

We ran 2 JD 7700s in the late 90s into early 2000s Family Farm was a bit larger then

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. The 7700 Turbo is a cool combine.

[@LackoFarms]

@@bigtractorpower we had one of each a 1973, and a Turbo 1976 with rotary screen

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice.

[@tomshaw2358]

Ive used that GPS before

[@scruffy6151]

That's a high dollar set up you know lol. It gets the job done that's all that matters.

[@bernardniesen8694]

I am surprised to see the two open spaces on the planter.

[@valentusslimroast6716]

we used a 6601

[@mike1967obu]

Did they get a stand of beans with that planter and population?

[@samskeeter1]

The 6600 sounded like it needed another 30 horses under the bonnet.

[@andrewlanman1709]

Looks to me like the planter is missing two rows and what is the bar and chain hanging off the weights

[@martyhitchcock]

The bar and chains are the marker system with the chain being dragged over the last outside row planted. The missing row units lets him come back in and spray during the growing season without running over soybeans and makes for an easy way to maintain correct coverage across the sprayer boom width.

[@terrywilkinson4730]

That's When The True Farmer's Were Around

[@jfdb59]

Yeah because the farmers today aren't "true" farmers right? Just fake pussy cry babies with their new fangled fancy technology and efficiency they need to survive in a market with rasor thin margins that didn't exist in 78. Ugh these comments are so tired. Every generation uses what is available to them. It doesn't make any one generation superior to another for using the current state of the art.

[@michaelstark703]

jfdb59 in all honesty, don’t think the margins have ever been there except in a rare year every 20 or so. I remember one year when Nixon was in office the beans hit $12.00, only time I ever saw a big smile on my dads face. Then it went to hell again. Wider row spacing, less population, less fertilizer, lousy spray capabilities. Never been or will be easy. It’s farming.

[@christopherpernat5458]

What was that long bar in front of the 4440 tractor?

[@bigtractorpower]

Row guide. It helps the farmer line up the next pass to match the last when he turns around.

[@christopherpernat5458]

@@bigtractorpower better than markers?

[@foxacresfarm7595]

Worst thing about those combines is the AC working half the time

[@andrewlanman1709]

Kinda weird not to see a Hopper extension

[@Parents_of_Twins]

How much land are they farming? I can understand those guys who are farming 8-11k acres having all new machines but I don't know how farmers doing less than 500 or 1k acres afford the equipment.

[@niekopdekamp7397]

For what is the metal pipe used in front of the tractor?

[@anthonyhengst2908]

It looked to me like it is to mark the width of the planter without having to look back so much.

[@motorcop555]

Homemade row marker

[@ronniejenkins2056]

It would help you know how far apart to run the planter because it was the same width as the planter

[@jacudaboy]

329 diesel engine the 404 was on the 7700

[@ninus17]

I think there is an error in the title

[@prune501]

these folk make any money

[@SmallMartingale]

Probably good profit it doesn't look like they owe the bank on that equipment

[@richardhaughey532]

Dont look like the A/C is working