JOHN DEERE 8970 Tractor Working on Spring Tillage

[@frios011]

What a BEAST! No silly electronics, no frills, raw power tractor. These were the days when you had to pay attention to everything and not rely on gadgets to alert you to inconsistencies!

[@billwellman7380]

You need to come back to the area, we have several professional farmers in the area that are all excellent operators. The farm shown here has been around a very long time and are legends in the farming community. The operator of the 8970 in the video is a really nice guy - everyone working at this farm are all hard working talented people, we are glad they’re in our community!

[@GOLTURBO555]

Im available. To work at your farm

[@MaheshKumar-fl1sn]

में आईपीओ में।।😮❤@@GOLTURBO555

[@billwellman7380]

@@GOLTURBO555I wish I owned the farm. Just a neighbor who’s proud of our agriculture community here!

[@Deathwish682]

My favorite JD tractor of them all, thanks for featuring. Never have seen one in my area of KS, lot of the smaller 8560-8770 around here though

[@Thewaywefarm]

I always have wanted an 8970, great looking, reliable and powerful tractors. Great video as always!

[@bigtractorpower]

I have wanted to feature an 8970 for a long time. Josh did a great job filming this one. They are cool tractors. Maybe almost as good as a Steiger 400 😁👍

[@craigdennis4840]

The 8970 is our biggest tractor on my Uncles farm. We use it for everything. We also have a 8770. Both are awesome tractors!!

[@SimonKL11]

This setup gets the job done😁💪 tillage videos are always great, thank you for sharing👍👍

[@timgear9892]

70 series was the best Deere 4wd , and the 8970 takes the cake. I have an 8770 I bought new in '96, and probably will be buried with it as a head stone.

[@truthandfreedom885]

Electronic fuel injection issues from what I understand was the fuel injection system was partially built by John Deere and then the second part was built by Cummings. Listening to the people on Combine Forum , when there were problems John Deere would blame Cummings and coming so blame John Deere and you couldn't get anything fixed. Of course this would have only been relative to the 8970.

[@redironacres]

I run an 8560 for my tillage tractor. The 60 and 70 series are my favourite John Deere articulates

[@SoybeanFarmer3300]

Jason, thank you very much for taking the time to bring us this video. I really enjoyed watching this. 🙂

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching. The 8970 has long been on my wish list to find and highlight. It’s a cool tractor from the 90’s.

[@Ironmountain81]

Oh man this brings backs memories, i remember when 4 of these showed up on the farm in 1995.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

A couple of those will get the job done fast. Looks like that team does a great job.

[@tctoytractors9325]

My favorite series of John Deere tractors

[@jeffreyhoover2105]

THANK YOU JASON FOR THIS VIDEO THATS COVERING ALOT OF GROUND QUICKLY AHEAD OF PLANTING ITS ALWAYS INTERESTING TO FIND OUT THE ORGINAL PRICE TAG OF THESE TRACTORS OR EQUIPMENT WHEN THEY WERE NEW

[@ScottPykare]

Great tillage video and this JD looks so cool with those big duals on it. I'd sure like to drive that set up. GO BTP 👍🏻 💪.

[@jamiegivens3970]

Great looking setup. Those were cool some cool looking benders.

[@paulmartin8784]

There is still a few of us that dont use auto steer😊 Nice video,thanks Jason you are the best

[@anthonyhengst2908]

I'd love to see what auto steer would do for my John Deere A.

[@paulmartin8784]

@@anthonyhengst2908 👍😂

[@machineryworking4589]

Wonderful videos Farming equipment. thank you!! I can't stop watching 👍👍👍👍

[@chadakoin1]

Just finished the spring tillage in my garden boxes. Used right and left hands attached to a hoe and rake to plant squash , tomatoes, beans, basil and celery on about .0025 of an acre.

[@lewisgeyer1440]

Another great video, thanks!

[@noehueber6602]

Hello everyone great equipement and tractor i love old us equipement

[@craigsibley8161]

Nice set-up 👍👍👍 Getting it done...

[@kenhurley4441]

When putting a new tire on where there's duels, you always install the new tire on the inside. That applies to trucks, tractors, etc. It's easier on the bearings of the vehicle.

[@mr.allnut650]

That's logic to anyone who ist familiar with the lever principles!

[@AkbarMoncongloe]

Nice

[@davepayne586]

power on the land

[@bigtractorpower]

Great tractor. The ultimate Deere in 1993.

[@jamesjolly7406]

Super💯video

[@404nitro]

This one looks great on those metric tires. Most of them we ever see around here have the narrower tires on them.

[@martymartin2894]

Beast of a machine.

[@michaelwellman3485]

Are you at Rockefeller farms in Phelps Ny?

[@Blackwellll3066]

It's nice to see a 28-31 year old tractor still working

[@jamesjolly7406]

Hi 👋 from Dexter🏠Missouri

[@frankscruggs4749]

Good video.

[@rickyjohnson4767]

Awesome jd i like it

[@bigtractorpower]

The SoundGard II 4wds are cool ones in my book.

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

My neighbor had one of those, nice tractor 👍👍. Good video Jason.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice. Great tractor.

[@piperdoug428]

We had a 95 8970 on 42” triples

[@truthandfreedom885]

John Deere would have been smart to put 855 Cummins engines in all there 4 wheel drive tractors.

[@gerryspang5917]

Yes the 855 cu inch Cummins NT and later N14 were tough engines, reliable and reasonable to run and overhaul, but only went u to 425 H.P. People wanted higher H.P.

[@tugboat2739]

Howdy bigtractorpower

[@luisnunes7933]

Hello! Milestone Green tractor, Cummins powered!

[@mr.allnut650]

Doesn't duals mean an enormous stress for the axles and the axle bearings?! And even more so triples!

[@truckercowboyrobertharris6787]

That is one cool tractor. Have a 1/64 scale version.

[@scottpage81]

love these older JD 4wd tractors. Not a fan of the newer looking ones

[@adnanchadhar8329]

Good work

[@martymartin2894]

Would this be more powerful than the new big John Deere and which would be a better machine thanks.

[@UncleRuckus717]

220gal fuel tank... Ugh. My head hurts when I fill up the 12gal tank on my compact tractor and that thing sips fuel!

[@paulschleeve5210]

Maybe depending on field size, 6mph x 30' more like 20 acres an hour?

[@tractorchasers]

Small fields with lots of turning around and road time in between. Probably closer to 20 acres per hour in a large field.

[@balquhidder]

Hard to believe that the biggest 4WD then, was only 10 hp bigger than the smallest 9R these days,

[@bigtractorpower]

And 10 less than the largest 8R now. Tractors have grown allot in the past 30 years.

[@paulofrancisco565]

👏👏👍👍🚜🚜

[@matthayes2370]

I run a 9220 for my tillage rig

[@johntabler349]

Multiple passes or single? How does it perform on sod!?

[@billrockefeller4192]

Single pass before the John Deere 1790 bean planter. We don't use the set up on sod, don't think it would do a very good job that way.

[@johntabler349]

@@billrockefeller4192 thanks I'm still Old school moldboard but am looking at expanding in the next few years, we are in an area where 200 acres is a big farm so I would be looking at a scale down version

[@Hermiwalle]

9 meters wide (30 feet) and 10 km/h (6mph) , is 9 hectares/h which is 22.5 acres/h. not 10 as you said in this video. I thought that sounded insanely pathetic for that tillage team. and I was correct to think so as it wasn't correct.

[@bigtractorpower]

The farmer told me he covering 10 acres an hour. The fields are not large in NY. There is allot of transport time.

[@Hermiwalle]

@@bigtractorpower aha, depends how you look at it.

[@bigtractorpower]

@@Hermiwalle I can only report what the farmer tells me. This 8050 can run 10 mph but with all the rocks in New York 6 mph is the speed they find works best.

[@nasosnasos8054]

Price ?

[@davecramer9725]

Why would you need 24 forward and 6 reverse gears in a tractor sounds way over calcauted to me

[@buddymartin7923]

More gears (if it's a good strong transmission) is always better. The new cv transmissions are adjustable at 1/10 of a mph. ....you don't have to lug the engine to pull the implement to fast or over rev the engine to get the ground speed from to low a gear (like when 5th is to slow but 6th us to fast) the more gears, the less of a jump between any two and the better you can match engine rpm to ground speed. It makes a HUGE difference in diesel consumption, time in the field, and machine wear

[@isaacnaeger731]

Beautiful tractor, no around me owns one though.

[@johntabler349]

The farms in our area aren't nearly big enough

[@SanjayKumar-jp5yz]

Sanjay raj

[@redrustyhill2]

Why such a big tractor for such a small tool?

[@IG10705]

Use what you have at your disposal. Work the tractor that you are not using instead of letting it sit in a barn