John Deere R on Dyno Prony Brake Rollag 2008 Jewison

jayson's 1949 R on Dyno. The old R held 57 horse quite easily.

[@deernutOO]

Fun to watch. My father took the Model R every year of its production to the Nebraska tests on their testing grounds. We lived in Waterloo, IA and he was an experimental engineer during the 13 years prior to the 1949 production of the Model R. Lived until 2003 and never needed hearing aids in spite of being at the side of a running two-cyl diesel all those years until the 4 and 6 cyl production began. I was 10 years old when he was gone to NE and he would come back to talk about what took place at those tests. Great memories. Thanks for this video.

[@ranulfoarias9839]

Full respect for those R tractors , my two brothers and I we plow days and nights good memories 😊

[@deernutOO]

And did that on a small amount of fuel too.

[@TheUberGopher]

Those old tractors fed a lot of people.

[@shanes66charger]

correction. This is a 1950 and held steady at 56.3.

[@CJDism]

Tractor pulling and the dyno are my two favorite spectator sports and Rollag ;)

[@TheFarmerfitz]

Nice sounding tractor...

[@mrfarmerjimbob]

Beautiful tractor--ya can't beat the old 2-cyls--great dyno run but the cameraman could use some lessons.

[@deernutOO]

True, but better than no video at all. thanks to the cameraman.

[@Showboat_Six]

Show us more shoe shots

[@ericchevy1999]

Man that thing pulls hard for an R

[@michaelcollings8779]

On the farm nothing pulled like the old R.

[@chrisnzella]

Please hold camera still and don't use zoom ever when in record. Don't walk around pointing the camera all over the place. No I'm not an expert but I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

[@geronimo1885]

Camera work 😢

[@randalllindemann3545]

In the annals of videography, this clip must be among the very worst. Regarding the suggestions in the comments that the cameraman could use a few lessons, I think it would be more efficient to just replace him with someone with a bit more natural ability.