John Deere 4840 Tractor and 16 Row 845 Cultivator

[@stanhensley3082]

Hope we get to see this field at harvest time.

[@matijaekart9997]

I just love the fact that you are so specific

[@walterott9852]

Great video! Love to see organic farms!

[@johnkillian4874]

Love that tractor!

[@3069mark]

Well, I guess then that back in the 60's and 70's we were organic and didn't' even know it, because we cultivated our beans and corn. John Deere 4020's and 8-Row JD Cultivators. 1000 acres. Thanks for the video, BTP!

[@UncleBubbles94]

Back in the 60s and 70s you didn't have the chemicals available today. Fuel was cheap, field passes to cultivate row crops easy.

[@1d1hamby]

Thanks for this video. Love to see more like this and talking with the farmer about the crop and equipment.

[@chuckwilliams8015]

Thanks,Jason 👋👍

[@bigtractorpower]

This was a great day in the field.

[@markstengel7680]

Hi and good morning 07/09/19 This weeding episode reminded me of living on east coast. Saying I've got to do weeding. Flower beds & vegetable garden bending over with a how or a rake taking out weeds. I'd say to myself while doing task, man these plants are hearty and will grow in any condition. It was always a battle. If they only had value to man not talking hemp here no thc. It's like your in a row boat with a hole but you only have a cup. Hate weeds. Enjoyed this episode🚜👍

[@mrih1586]

Spent thousands of hours plowing out beans and cotton. Mostly with front mount cultivators. WE set up a little tighter,-closer to the row. And plowed a bit deeper. He's just cutting the tops out of a lot of the cocklebur and ragweed and not getting the roots. AS for the Johnson grass, he's only slowing it down a little. Roundup on a wick did pretty good back in the day. The old man kept us plowing till the beans lapped in the middle. Aw, those were the days. Not!! Every want to be farmer should have to spend at least one summer plowing out cotton the first time over. With and open station tractor, the dust, heat and humidity, and bugs of south Georgia. Naw, I'm being cruel by todays standards. But that's how we had to do it. In spite of the horrible memory's. I still enjoyed the video.

[@rustylanier]

I also spent many hours cultivating soybeans. I was on a 4020 with an RM 4 row. We set our sweeps closer to the row and used a row marker mounted to the tractor frame, a little wobble and you plowed up four rows.. I always hated that super slow first pass. How would you like to change all them sweeps on that 16 row? LOL

[@mrih1586]

@@rustylanier We used a rear mount on non terraced land. But most of ours was small fields that were terraced. Hated changing sweeps. It's really fun changing sweeps or adjusting plows under the belly of the tractor while it's running. Unless you've run a front mount you've never had that pleasure.

[@brandonneibert593]

Awesome video. Old school

[@bigtractorpower]

Big time set up back in 1978. 😁👍

[@bobcrone6151]

I would have killed to run that rig in 1978 😜

[@thomassojka2704]

About as big of a 3 point mounted implement as you'll find. Even with all of the weight on the front, it still made the tractor hop in the front when lifted. Great video!

[@45Deere9500]

A 16 row cultivator is small compared to some of the 3 point mounted equipment now days. We have a 15 knife, Blue Jet NH3 applicator that you would not be able to keep the front end of that 4840 on the ground, if it’d pick it up. There are also 24 row, fully mounted, no lift assist wheel, planters available. www.tcmachineinc.com/tc-24-row-mounted-ccs-planter.html

[@bobcrone6151]

I noticed that too. I can’t remember, did the dude say how much the cultivator weighs? Great upload!

[@Notenoughgears]

This guy has one of the most beautiful shelter belts.

[@bigtractorpower]

It’s pretty country not farm Elizabethtown, KY right on the Eastern time / Central time line.

[@2cylinderfarmer]

Excellent explainiation of row crop cultivation! Well done BTP!

[@thomasmarti5856]

I remember waaayyy back in the day cultivating corn on a open station 706 with an umbrella and a 6 row cultivator and *100 degrees . I ended up with 2nd degree burns on my legs and shoulders. I didn't sleep much for a few days lol.

[@bigtractorpower]

Ouch on the sun burn. I remember lots of cultivating in the 70s and 80s. A farm close to my parents house ran tow 6 row Krause cultivators on an IH 686 and 656. Down the road another farm cultivated with a pair of 1066s that also applied nitrogen at the same time. One 1066 had an IH 6 row and the other an IH 12 row. All open station.

[@jllr95]

Farm around us ran 3 1206's with umbrellas 12 row IH's. It was always cool to see them all working in the same field

[@piperdoug428]

With the first lawsuits against Monsanto in the books we might be going back to this in the not so distant future.

[@Zero01k]

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[@piperdoug428]

@@Zero01k France, first of the G20 countries has banned glyphosate so it CAN happen if the population are made scared enough by propaganda.

[@johnglover5071]

If you can't no-till,your topsoil will be in the ditches and creeks.

[@armchairgeneral7557]

Nope.

[@planetarydisaster3377]

I suggest using a cultivator guidance system, it will help keep the cultivator centered for less crop damage. It is a technology predating GPS, using a combination of hydraulics and sensors to monitor the cultivators position. It attaches between the tractor and cultivator, acting quite a bit like a quick hitch. It will physically steer the cultivator independently of the tractor. That allows faster speed and less stress on the driver. There are various manufactures but I personally liked the Buffalo Scout 2 cultivator guidance system.

[@GICK117]

I now see why organic is more expensive. Much more difficult to produce. Very cool.

[@FriendlyCleaningKC]

Bring on more videos of the organic growers

[@andywagner8367]

I used to cultivate corn and beans with a David brown 990 and 4 row still got the cultivator and tractor haven't cultivated in 6 or 7 years lol

[@niterider5327]

love it !!!! old school !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no auto

[@sharpshooter7127]

AWSOME!!!! Get to see my all time favorite tractor at work 👍. Thanks for the video Jason. I wonder how much of a difference it makes in the harvest yield between plowing and no till?

[@Mr.Badger69]

Nice cultivating beans is not easy

[@mikedemott1720]

Favorite summer job as a Kid

[@cjn7647]

I can still here my uncle yelling at me over the 2 way radio. 'Slow down, you're ridging it.'

[@4gauge10]

I remember when the 4840's were brand new B.T.P..I have a catalog with the models 4040-4840 in it.The two smallest models were naturally aspirated.(4040-4240) The models 4440-4640-4840 were turbocharged of coarse.

[@leegriep75]

We use pesticides but still need to rely on the shovel now and then. And I always found it peaceful driving in the rows.

[@bigtractorpower]

The cultivator is a lost art. It’s always great seeing one in action.

[@motorcop555]

Cool old school technique! Thanks for the video

[@leesteele9290]

I think most of those 16 rows had a lift-assist wheel to help lift and turn on the ends . This big ole gal handles it pretty good but still could maybe use a little help ! Cultivation is pretty much non-existent any more but this organic thing would be impossible with out it for sure . Like to see this at harvest just to see how clean they stay!

[@bigtractorpower]

The 18 row John Deere cultivator had a lift assist wheel standard. This farm has a Caterpillar Lexion 575R combine on tracks. I am eager to film the harvest as well. I live 110 miles from this field so hopefully everything will work out for me to get over for harvest.

[@justincase2830]

@@bigtractorpower I think showing a harvest video would be a big hit. This was very educational.It looked like another shovel to go with the trio would help with the weed eradication but it could be deceiving.

[@rickyjohnson4767]

I used drive a 4840 on a farm awesome video 👍👍

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool.

[@gonerydin4225]

I started cultivating at age 8 with a 2 row mounted on a Farmall H. DANG! I hated that job. LOL

[@interman7715]

gone rydin Same here.

[@RM-qc9vw]

gone rydin Age 10, Allis wd45 with four-row. Loved every minute. Never considered staying on the farm for a second. Hated "chores".

[@keithkuckler2551]

I used a rotary hoe, and, a cultivator, and, had good weed control along with a preemegence herbicide. I used to follow two years of corn with a year of beans, and, then small grain and alfafa, the crop rotation works to control weeds as well. Using both herbicides and mechanical weed control worked well for me.

[@AgriculturebyHans]

Great tractor and video! Nice work.

[@barrychouinard4019]

Used to use mono-rib front tires on the cultivator tractor. Would run a spike down the middle of the rows where the tractor would run when planting. Then when cultivating it was just a matter of placing the front tire in the spike rut, it was like auto-steer for the cultivating. Interesting that on various row crop cultivating videos I don't see anyone running a single rib front tire.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool way to cultivate.

[@chadhulstein5661]

The same sounding lullaby that put me to sleep 40 years ago.. only a 4020 instead 😴😴

[@dafarmer3721]

Chad Hulstein better not fall asleep cultivating 😂

[@dirtymikentheboys5817]

How do you control weed in between the beans. ?

[@grassfeeding6073]

Blind cultivation prior to emergence like a rotary hoe or spring tine harrow. Setting up a cultivator to throw dirt into the row also helps. Check out Geiger Farm's youtube, excellent cultivation videos.

[@andylieffring3987]

Exactly what I was gonna recommend

[@grassfeeding6073]

@@andylieffring3987, Gary McDonald is worth watching as well, although he doesn't have a youtube channel. He's extremely particular about his cultivation and it works. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZeYkIWtbJiNhas

[@cadensullins9302]

Unfortunately my phone is messing up but great video again. Thanks for sharing man.!

[@TysonDiniz]

Do you have any plans to film work on specialty crops in the future? Like sugar beets, or potatoes?

[@thomasdaniel6495]

Reminds me of the days of my youth,spending hours on a 4020,cleaning fields of beans.

[@bigtractorpower]

The 4020 is one of the all time great classics. Thank you for sharing.

[@SteveHolsten]

I love seeing the weeds go down to the green JD monster; especially those damned morning glory vines!

[@walterott9852]

Question about 4WD vs front wheel drive assist. I noticed you calling the big articulated tractors "four wheel drive tractors" and fixed frame ones having front wheel assist? What's the difference? I can see a JD 4840 being a true 2 wheel drive and a Fendt 1046 or JD 8400 being a four wheel drive? Why are they called "front wheel assist"?

[@cesargallo7424]

I think they are called "assisted" because the big traction effort still remain on the big back wheels

[@cesargallo7424]

Until early 90's here in Argentina we used to do the same. Row cultivators however were a little different, had only 1 chisel per row in "v" shape and used to go a little deeper than in the video. Then, after harvest, rows were deleted with disks (and jumping in the tractor cab)

[@freedomring4813]

When I was young I raked hay and once in a blue moon you get a little sleepy and go off course. You could fix it up but this here just a little off course and you destroy some good crop.

[@noelhohberger1188]

That's a cool set up there great stuff

[@valentusslimroast6716]

nice

[@GamerDad-uc7xx]

Could you explain the model number system john deere uses for the thier tractors? Example what's the difference a 6010 or 7010?

[@leinie6683]

I dont think John Deere can even explain their numbering system. System is a bad word for it. I think the numbers are on a dartboard and when they start a new model they throw a dart- and I think they are not the only ones.

[@scothazlett2630]

What do the farmers do about the crops they run over in the end rows?

[@vthegoose]

I guess they just run them over

[@scothazlett2630]

@@vthegoose 🤣

[@davidshumski4629]

Live with it.

[@dalesopotyk1755]

Wow that's congratulations

[@charleskittler4330]

Hoed many a bean field in North Central Illinois back in day lol good looking JD.

[@ghops24]

Why were the 3rd shanks from the middle on both sides leaving a darker pass than the rest of the shanks?

[@farmboydavid7596]

DILLYDILLYLight generally the furthest back shank in the row is set the deepest since it’s further away from the roots of the beans on each side of it. Therefore that third shank is going to dig up the deeper, wetter soil.

[@ghops24]

David Weilein ok thanks

[@piperdoug428]

They could be tractor track scratchers, takes out the compaction of the machine.

[@dingui875]

Toujours top de regarder tes vidéos tu alterne entre modernité et old schooll et originalité!!!!

[@ildairyfarmer2436]

Call me old fashioned, but I enjoy doing my cultivating 120’ at a time at 12 MPH

[@ChiefAUS]

What is the market for organic soy beans?

[@jimmystrain5943]

Are you going to come back at harvest time

[@AgrooTarm]

Big Man 💪💪💪💪

[@gurimander7265]

Mi no+918195046812 call kar ji

[@sevans1178]

There are still a lot of grass and weeds left behind in the beans themselves. Good luck with that at harvest time.

[@kingcatman]

There are a lot of blank spots in those rows and a lot of weeds.

[@jacksonmcwhiney8185]

Doesn’t this allow air in to the soil

[@Northern_Farmer]

Jackson McWhiney I think that’s kinda what you would want..aeration is good in some cases

[@TroianusEquus]

Bacteria on roots do make nitrogen from air available for plants, so the aeration of top soil is a good thing.

[@bobcrone6151]

Hey Ty! Was getting worried bout u! Haven’t see u upload in a while. Hope it’s cause you’re busy, not sick or hurt! How’s ur summer going so far? I hope well. Livestock doing well??

[@Northern_Farmer]

@@bobcrone6151 naw just been having a shitty week..I have some footage ..I'll get it together here shortly

[@bobcrone6151]

Ty cool deal. Hope ur week gets better!

[@vthegoose]

Ah so this is that “weeding” we do in farm sim

[@RB-gk1fi]

Ohh i rember my grandpa talk a lot of this. This is the reason he never had bought a non rowcrop tractor. My dad bought new a case ih 9330 when he took over the farm and my grandpa ohh no why you bought a 4wd ? My dad its okay the tractor can rowcrop work! Ohh then its okay 😂😂😂

[@curtweatherbee2523]

❤️👍🏻🇺🇸🐝

[@ErvinSmith-i6m]

I spent lots of hours watching the waves of the leaves waving as the field changed . And the equipment wasn't so freaking technical that the farmers could repair anything without having too go to the shop.. we need to remember to give things a "'Kiss'""!! Keep it simple stupid..!! I'm just saying.

[@wilsonandrade2220]

👍👍👍

[@jimmystrain5943]

I believe he's done that before lol

[@tduffysd]

this is a prime example why we have roundup ready beans.

[@generationll]

Smaller engine then what the 6030 had before it

[@dirtymikentheboys5817]

More efficient. Less wear.

[@gr82bcrazy1]

Johnson grass is the worst. So hard to get rid of.

[@Adamu98]

I can see you could modify the cultivator to also side dress the crop at the same time so you are killing two birds with one stone.

[@wilsonandrade6246]

👍👍👍

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.