John Deere's FIRST TRACTOR - Waterloo Boy Model N Sold By John Deere Company

[@EdgarFriendly-op3rn]

I work at Deere HQ in Moline, they have a fully restored one sitting on our display floor. Cool old machine.

[@pflaffik]

A restored one can never beat an unrestored original in full working condition.

[@millomweb]

Is it complete with fan belt - unlike the one in the vid ?

[@TryAdaptLearn]

It’s awesome to see the first John Deere tractor working and amazing that some of the parts were still available to order through the dealership.

[@EricMatson-ru7jj]

It wasnt there first tractor The D was

[@Little-She-Devil]

If you hear the engine running and just HAVE to keep listening means it’s in your heart.

[@jnsmill]

You just can’t beat the sound of those old John Deere’s a sound all their own. My uncle had an old JD that he used for belt power. We lived a half mile away, but could hear it pop along, never missed a beat.

[@georgemacdonald5282]

I'm making a brass model of this tractor and learned more about the detail for my model than any other video, thankyou, george

[@russellbergersen3296]

I work fixing and restoring antique tractors. Would love to sink my teeth into something like this. Absolutely beautiful.

[@dwightl5863]

Grew up with the "Poppin Johnnie's" and totally unmistakable. Good interview and really enjoy the unique characteristics described and shown on this Model N. Would like this to be "standard operating procedure" in all the videos.

[@silverbullet7434]

Oh the days of my youth. Working on a farm planting weeding picking , cutting corn all by hand , on a good day picking tomatoes making $4.00 for eight or ten hours. String beans $.50 a basket lima beans , $2 . a bushel basket. John Deere with a field trailer following while I loaded them . Weekends hucstering the streets of Philadelphia . all around deeres pop in n hopin along. Oh no electric starters big handwheel to start. I remember each step for several tractors just to startem.

[@DerelictDan69]

Those were the days

[@watchjaredwork1487]

Thank God he “restored” it by keeping it original!

[@24681359David]

Why? I don't get the appeal. Tractors don't look near as nice as they do when they are factory new with a nice shine. You can't tell me this machine wouldn't look allot more impressive all dolled up.

[@tractorhyatt7044]

One of my favorite tractors! Thanks for sharing. 🇺🇸🚜👍

[@virgiljohnson9880]

Cool memories 😎

[@Chickennss]

He’s right about the community. My grandad had many hit and miss engine friends. From coast to coast.

[@ostlandr]

I remember seeing the 2 cylinder Deeres working when I was a kid. Amazing how much work they were capable of. The old timers insisted that if the stack wasn't cherry red and there wasn't steam coming off the radiator, you weren't working it hard.

[@maakjar]

Wow great story! What a find

[@Biglug8888]

Love the sound of a Johnny Popper.

[@LucyVanPelt2022]

1923?! Wow! It's amazing it still runs that's an old tractor

[@littlerougue]

I love the fact he just got it running and left it as found. I really believe there it is important to have some of them preserved as how they came off the farm as opposed to off the showroom floor.

[@allenbuck5589]

Nice work. Great looking old lady

[@RestorationAustralia]

Very cool Tractor.

[@TerrapinCreations666]

I’d love to see these old tractors actually doing something that shows how powerful they are.

[@carldevault7227]

Threshers fulton county fair grounds in ohio next week you can! They do it every year!

[@benscoles5085]

@@carldevault7227 I have been there, and yes, it is a good show.

[@andrewcoulter7675]

Beautiful

[@matthewpiper3288]

Awesome

[@johnrodgers1968]

That is awesome I love tractors

[@brianlubeck4184]

Technically speaking the Waterloo Boy tractor was not the first model that John Deere made. The actual first model they made was the Dain All Wheel Drive. Only a handful of that model was made.

[@muhammadanassiddiki5753]

Beautiful Boy ❤❤

[@7viewerlogic670]

Great video!

[@iksexplorationsfollower2588]

Love the way it's been keep in this condition, That's what I with a tractor of mine, some times they can be over done, This one is a real credit to you.

[@TheAlignmentGuy_TM]

There comes to be a point when even the modifications are "vintage".

[@billtiner1080]

Glad you left it old and used.

[@BRPFan]

Wow you have a awesome tractor there! 👍👍

[@rogerwhite3644]

Hats off

[@Grabatire]

I'm inclined to recognize the 'Dain' tractor as John Deere's first tractor, but I must give a nod to the Waterloo Boy as the first tractor John Deere made available for sale.

[@Renault_75-34MX]

I think the German equivalent to that motor when taking recognition in to account are the Lanz single cylinder engine used in the various bulldogs untill John Deere retired them a few years after Lanz merged with them. I can hear some passing by on the weekends, I have my windows closed, but they can get up to 10.5l.

[@crocodilemasala7956]

Nice

[@jacobramsey7624]

I wonder if there are any waterloo boy tractors out there that still do some sort of fun work like pulling a trailer at shows.

[@grantbollinger9033]

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[@curtisjohnson1125]

Poppin John .

[@bradwiebelhaus7065]

Like it

[@pflaffik]

Its so awesome that he kept it original, i wouldnt want one any other way. This is easily one of my favorite classic tractors. If it was restored and painted: No thanks, if i want a new tractor i would pick up the phone and order a 2022 Kubota. Wish more people will help saving unrestored cars and tractors from the restorers and modifiers, say NO to restored stuff, and never sell your classic to someone whos looking to restore it.

[@rawbacon]

Cool

[@DeanCharles123]

Just to be curious, why doesn't the cooling fan turn?

[@pixel288]

It’s belt is not hooked up.

[@DeanCharles123]

@@pixel288 Doesn't the belt that drives the fan also drive the water pump? Might be wise to put a belt on if you plan to run it for any length of time?

[@tractorcorleone]

A very rare JD oldtimer tractor 👍😃👍

[@redneckpyromania6965]

Thats cool and all but i'm all about that red powah baby

[@hunterjacobs2178]

Red junk 😁

[@flatlandhd]

Actually John Deere sold the Big 4 at the turn of the century and then made two other tractors before they purchased Waterloo boys started selling them

[@Type_One_Diabetic]

IF YALL WANNA SEE A PRISTINE WATERLOO BOY GO TO THE MT PLEASANT IOWA OLD THRASHERS

[@aaronsesula2033]

So do you want to sell it ?

[@wadejohnson6245]

Why is the fan not rotating

[@fuzzwack1]

I see the water pump works together with the fan to cool the engine, I wonder why he dosnt have a belt on the turn the fan...and later in the video you can see it overheating..not good.

[@davidfast5403]

This baby sounds exactly like our old53 JohnDeere model 60 I say it's a 53 because it was brought out to the farm Aug 20th at 1130 at night they rolled it off the truck & pushed it into the barn cause Noone was suppose to see it till Sept 15th

[@melchristian8876]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@iwanaGoFast2010]

Still using a waterloo on my 6000 acre farm.

[@nate4731]

I see many of old tractors here in indiana rusting away

[@masonjarhillbilly]

Johnny Popper was a slang term for the 2 cylinder John Deere's.

[@powderriver2424]

I can reaffirm to the statement about finding something laying in the open. Nothing is just laying outside of a field anymore I remember all the old steam and oil tractors lined up along fields in the 70’s old threshing equipment too. The old giants disappeared.

[@richardwernig8938]

Would Colin's model N be considered a "Poppa Popper" or a "Grandpopper"?

[@deanknowles1631]

Not the 1st John Deere. The 1st John Deere was called the Dain. The only complete 4-cylinder Dain All-Wheel-Drive tractor, John Deere’s oldest known, was welcomed back into the Deere & Co. family. The Dain, which pre-dates John Deere’s first 2-cylinder tractor (the 1923 Model D), was put on permanent display at the John Deere Collectors Center in Moline, Ill., March 13, 2004. The Dain tractor was named so after John Deere’s V.P. 100 where ordered to be initially manufactured by John Deere. Mr. Dain died of pneumonia testing the Dain tractor in poor weather. At that period of time John Deere purchased the Waterloo Boy company. The Waterloo Boy tractor was cheaper to build so John Deere shelved the manufacturing of the Dain Tractor. Not many people knew that Frank Hansen sued John Deere. Hansen claimed he had the only Running fully restored Dain in existence. I believe the other 2 still arounfpd where not complete or not running. After years of legal nonsense by John Deere with Hansen, John Deere recognized that the Dain was indeed the original John Deere tractor even tough only 6 to 8 where built.

[@ssaidhasani7468]

جاندیر عالی هستید

[@calvinellis1891]

What keeps JD from wanting to buy it.

[@martingardener90]

Well done for leaving it in it's working clothes!

[@millomweb]

It's time he put a fan belt on it !

[@akallio9000]

Doesn't it have a seat for the driver? I'd think it'd be very tiring standing on that thing from can-see to can't-see while bumping along in a rocky field with those steel wheels.

[@rogermetzger7335]

Something tells me traction is NOT a problem with that rig.

[@robertmack7116]

Love the tractor, but where did they find that puker voiceover guy? The five o’clock news?

[@EricMatson-ru7jj]

Water Lo Boy was not JD 1st tractor They bought the co. out Model D was there 1st tractor

[@randall1959]

John Deere and Harley Davidson.

[@watchjaredwork1487]

Dang! Even has the muffler! Hardly ever see those

[@pflaffik]

Didnt he say that was retrofitted by the first owner?

[@batman9175]

Old iron

[@jonsteffen2344]

My question is why ain't the cooling fan running?

[@timberanek45]

There’s no fan belt

[@scotsmanofnewengland7713]

John Deere was born in Vermont !,

[@JohnWayne_]

One would think he would of gave it a paint job by now

[@mattdillon4398]

They're only original once!

[@pflaffik]

Why would you destroy it with new paint? Its an irreversible damage, it took about a century to create that patina and you would ruin it in minutes... My tractor is only 60 years old but i love it a lot for being an unrestored original, if it wasnt i wouldnt own it.

[@arnoldaltjr.2099]

My imagination or did he pour priming fuel into a closed petcock?

[@akallio9000]

It looked to me like air was preventing the fuel from going in easily. I'd think it'd be easier to do with a squirt oil can.

[@roberthumphrey1304]

That cylinder is near TDC. The piston closes the petcock about an inch before top dead center to give the cylinder a little compression when starting.

[@brunomazzergiachello5529]

Le waterlow boy n est pas un jhon d'erreur à l origine

[@r.robbie7918]

What's wrong with the soundtrack? The voice over goes up and down like a yo-yo but sound of the movie is normal... Strange. Ow wait, it's how American narrators seem to think they get more attention!