The planter that revolutionized planting forever

Even though I have been on KZbin for a few years I have never taken time to properly show you my John Deere 7000 4 row planter and Ford 1720 Tractor. I use this planter for planting corn on our wet spots

[@Jaguar79gt]

baby tractor and baby planter looks so cute 😅 videopart with drone looks so amazing 👍

[@6thGenFarmer]

Thank you!

[@mikehagan4320]

Its Great to see that you are a Quality enough of a person to Appreciate the sentiment of your Father and Grandfather's Gifts. I always liked the 20 series Ford tractors. I had A Brand New 2120 Ford. With 4x4 shuttle shift and a loader. A Guy offered me a Bunch more than I paid for it so I sold it to him. I've been kicking myself every since. I could have use that soo many times! Fun video! Best Wishes from Montana! M.H.

[@TheJimmybud]

You sure look proud driving that setup, good for you! All of my grandpa tractors are still on the farm.

[@MatthiasSchulenburg]

Just stumbled over this one (again), so much fun to watch old equipment work, especially when it does a work more efficient than a modern piece of equipment. Love to see you being proud of it, and hope to see the little planter this year again. 🙂

[@rau123]

Nice tractor! I loved the aerial drone footage. It's fun watching the planting in a small spot.

[@6thGenFarmer]

Thank you!

[@tx-okfarmer]

Very cool setup! I think the planter looks great, even with the working wounds. 🙂

[@6thGenFarmer]

Thank you!

[@wilkitcher6960]

Awesome video, loved it and nice to see a change from the big kit!

[@6thGenFarmer]

It’s a nice change of pace!

[@curtisowens4588]

I like your choice of music Carson nice job on the replanting. Keep the videos coming.

[@6thGenFarmer]

Appreciate it Curtis!

[@dairyfarmmidwest1615]

Nice tractor my grandpa gave me Alis Chalmers when I was in high school

[@burtzorn4059]

Yes you can rebuild your cylinder. Nice set up. I have a 1620 and like it a lot. Good video

[@6thGenFarmer]

Thanks!

[@matthewdavis9979]

Very awesome video!!! Great little go getter set up. I want that set up just for 10 acres or so of sweet corn for fresh market sales!!!

[@greggergen9104]

My how times have changed. We planted with a four row planter, and then the spots that drowned out, we planted by hand one at a time... However we only had 250 acres of corn.

[@randychristian7642]

Now that's more my style farming.

[@davidbrovelli9008]

The 1720's are great little tractors. We've had one for twenty plus years. I'm jealous you have hydraulics on yours.

[@6thGenFarmer]

They are great little tractors! We bought a kit to add the hydraulics on!

[@wry569]

Great video!!

[@6thGenFarmer]

Thankyou!

[@CuriousEarthMan]

Thanks Carson! That is a very cool little setup. All the aspects were interesting! I looked up the 1720. It's a nice, small, utility tractor made until '95. It was fun seeing the marker arms go down in the drone wide-shot. I'd like to see you bring your planter up to modern specs with your knowledge and experience! (maybe with some of someone else's money? haha) MOSTLY, I'm glad you are getting/got seed in the ground! Super enjoyable, thank you again!

[@calebrozeboom]

Hey I'll help ya make it an electric drive! Looks like a fun project I would love to do!

[@6thGenFarmer]

Are you a dealer!?!

[@calebrozeboom]

@@6thGenFarmer no unfortunately not😥 I just love doing those kinda things and I'd be happy to help!

[@ronaldschultz1189]

Yes you can rebuild that hydraulic cylinder. Very simple. Monitors can be checked by ag express systems. Very good people to deal with.

[@TheGhostHAG]

Where do y'all farm at? Love that setup! Hello from Wisconsin

[@6thGenFarmer]

Thank you! We farm in Southern MN

[@TheGhostHAG]

@@6thGenFarmer Amazing! Northfield born! Much love

[@Johndeere8410rx]

I’ve got a 4 row 7000 with 1 of everything precision planting offers including electric drive

[@6thGenFarmer]

I’m very jealous!!

[@johnbeckett1191]

We still use a 7000 6 row planter (with a splitter for beens) on 3jfarms. It's been our planting king for 6-7 years now. Love the thing. If interested its on my channel 3jfarms. Love the videos man.

[@3jfarms526]

Never can go wrong with the old 7000. 👌

[@6thGenFarmer]

I’ll check it out! Thanks

[@j.ericswede7084]

Always cheerful, always positive. Now we know you're very sentimental too. Love your Channel. We had 20 acres of onions that were sheared off with the small abrasive particles of volcanic sand we plant in by high wind this spring. (South Central Washington)

[@6thGenFarmer]

Wow. Crazy how different your area is from mine. I’ve never even seen a volcano

[@j.ericswede7084]

@@6thGenFarmer We can see both Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams on a clear day!

[@justwar76]

Cool video

[@anzackiwiastrix2850]

Um i assume your beaniemuffs are on your other open cab..... open cab rolling was my summer jobi hated the most, no radio so cd Walkman on repeat(little to early for mp3). Either wrap up and sweet, or get covered in dust and itch. I'm 90% positive it the cause Tinnitus. The worst was when i had to feed out silage in winter, while my uncle and dad used the fix cab i froze. Sadistic family or hasing, cos that how they did it in their day.... We had a couple a of old internationals done up to factory new, One was a triwheel and the other a bulldozer conversion kit , best to never mod an antic. We had old traction engines as well to run chaff cutters for all the horse trainers around, truing $7 bails of alfailfa in to 2 bags of $14 chaff was a no brainier. it was extra work in summer down time but they would all come to help as they would get a discount, actually it was some fun memories. Hauling the BBQ to the field after. But why is the strongest memories of my childhood of getting all the jobs that made me itch. OSH would be very unhappy nowadays with the stuff i did as a kid, wow look at me rambling yer in short antic are best left unmodded. well each to their own tho.

[@bradolsen8629]

What is your major in college I am assuming it has something to do with agriculture??

[@6thGenFarmer]

Agricultural systems technology with a minor in precision ag!

[@chrissyfrancis8952]

Henry Ford grew up on a farm, HATED it. He started Fordson, making tractors bc of that. Just like the model T, he made them more affordable & mass produced them.

[@geraldmckillip5594]

I remember in 1962 riding on my dad's lap on his 560 IH Tractor planting with his 4 row planner ...... Good memories , Thank-you for doing this video ...... 3 thumbs up , 👍 👍👍

[@tomlines7181]

Love it. We had more lights on our tractors and usually didn’t run after dark with the planter.

[@LtColDaddy71]

You hit the nail right on the head. I’d probably prefer to start with a 7200/7300, but you can put all the great tech on those old units.

[@6thGenFarmer]

I would start with a newer planter but I just want to do it to this one because of the sentimental value

[@LtColDaddy71]

@@6thGenFarmer no, no, no, that one is perfect for a replant unit. Or, even as a main unit on a very small farm. My point is that even farming at scale, the old stuff has its place, but the 72-7300 has a little better bones to build on, being a vacuum planter from the factory. A really good friend of mine who farms in Livingston County IL has a 16 row 7200. It has everything, even delta force. He is a top producer, very consistent 300+ corn, 90+ beans and 100+ wheat. One place the older stuff can fill the void is in Controlled traffic farming. A 1:1 or 3:1 ratio are the best formats to use, I’m on a 2:1 system personally and it’s proven to be a 15% yield bump for us no till guys. I plant 80’ at a time and harvest 40’. He plants 40’ and harvests at 40. Your limited to how wide equipment is made. If your combine can only handle a 6 or 8 row head, a good upgraded older vacuum planter would do a very great job for you.

[@jeanbernede]

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[@billupstateny9151]

OLF, Wes Pandy Channel is planting this year, and last for that matter W/ a 12 row 7000. He takes tons of grief in the comments. Things like " get a real planter" & other nasty remarks. However, he had portions of his ground deliver 300 bushel corn last year, with what he readily admits is a 50 year old machine. The difference between his planter & a new exact emerge 1775? , yes that $$ difference goes in the bank. BTW, 1 have a 1620 sitting in the shop, bought new in 1993, looks just like your ford, was not available in green 🤔

[@jongregory5594]

Carson, this video made me smile. You obviously take good care of "Carson's" tractor.

[@6thGenFarmer]

Thank you Jon!

[@robertpayne2717]

My dad bought a John Deere 7100 planter in 1975. Those were very good planters. And you are right they are still relevant. I had several friends who were well pleased with the IHC 900 SERIES PLANTERS FOR COTTON AND SOYBEANS AT THAT TIME THERE WAS VERY LITTLE CORN 🌽 PLANTED THEN

[@brucegrahamart]

You are in my top 10 of Ag KZbinrs ! This video is a treasure !

[@6thGenFarmer]

Thank you!

[@musicgroopie1]

I love seeing those old Ford's still running. My dad raised us on those Ford's. They're tough as nails.

[@curtisdowling3773]

Yes your cylinder can be rebuilt . That's an original JD cylinder.

[@DavidThurmond-l6o]

John Deere planters will plant in the highway if u wanted they got the best downforce in my opinion but thats just me everyone likes there on brand

[@DavidThurmond-l6o]

One 4 row deere planter could plant a good 300 acres takeing ur time planted a many acres of cotton in west Tennessee back in the 80s with one

[@cs-rj8ru]

Your hobby junk is better than 95% of the machinery I see used in the field around here....

[@brianxavier8873]

By all means convert it to electric. I'm curious to see how a 4 row could be converted to electric. Maybe use vset ?

[@mbeitzel2010]

One Lonely Farmer Wes Pandy is your man to ask about rebuilding that cylinder. He has a channel here on you tube . Wes has a wealth of knowledge of farming and fixing machines . I've seen him totally rebuild a burned out tractor . Split a tractor in !/2 with an IVT transmission all in a shop that some farmers would not walk into . I'm sure that if you ask him he will walk you thru your rebuild. Andy from Farming Fixing and Fabricating is another person that could tell you how to rebuild that cylinder . Leg Arms from Welker Farms is another person who could help you .

[@6thGenFarmer]

Thank you for the input!

[@DavidThurmond-l6o]

Found a horseshoe in the field gonna have good luck lol corn gonna have a lot of corn

[@westtennesseefarming288]

Deere still makes a four row available with electric drives

[@hickoryridgefarmer]

I love my 1720. It’s got 1600hrs doing great. The glow plug light quit illuminating when you roll the key backwards but all glow plugs still get hot. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@6thGenFarmer]

My glow plug light also stopped illuminating but still works

[@bladewiper]

Marvellous old tractor and planter. Is the tractor all original or has the paint and dash been touched up.

[@6thGenFarmer]

It’s all original! It is starting to show its age in places though

[@kytareaperss]

That is a beautiful looking Ford ya got there! One can tell that it's been taken care of very well

[@6thGenFarmer]

Thank you Nate!

[@tedb.5707]

And to think that farmers used to plant half-sections and full-sections with 4-row planters, markers and open-station tractors all the time. Equipment has grown.

[@ronaldschultz1189]

You could put a 28 percent nitrogen side dress unit on that planter also. I did one with an electric pump and old fertilizer tank.

[@kristopherbrissenden362]

Awesome video. Would love to see a video setting it up on that small tractor. I have one just like it and cannot get it to level out.

[@rickhenkle7778]

Good memories!! We also planted our sweet corn with it!!

[@DavidThurmond-l6o]

Nothing like the old 4 row 7000 planter

[@BWYinYang]

Perfect size to plant for sweet corn on cob for home

[@brockpero2190]

We use the same planter to plant 250 acres a year

[@RK-fh1zb]

Hey 6Th Gen You should check out Goldinger Farms they have a really nice farm in Northeast Missouri his names Chase you guys have a few things in common in regards to you and him both have old planters. You shoul check his channel out

[@6thGenFarmer]

Thank you Robert I will have to do that!

[@ronaldschultz1189]

I built a 7000 15 row 15 in splitter planter by making pusher units out of 7000 units. One bar and simple to work on.

[@6thGenFarmer]

What did you use to make the units pushers?

[@bzs187]

I can tell you, it is sucks to follow a marker in the dark. It's worst with bad seedbed, then guessing game starts. :D

[@6thGenFarmer]

Haha! My dad said he had a 8320 with the advanced lighting package in the mid 2000’s and that was the only tractor he could see his mark from one end of the field to the other at night.

[@merlesaari7059]

We got ourselves a 1720 used to be our main tractor for about 15 years! Fed cows with it and just everyday use

[@6thGenFarmer]

I’m surprised to see all the other 1720 owners on here! Mine is the only one that I have ever seen

[@curtisdowling3773]

I had one just like it ! I used it until I retired .

[@6thGenFarmer]

That’s awesome!

[@marktetzloff4660]

yep and john deere patented that planter in 1959

[@6thGenFarmer]

Older than I thought it was!

[@crippledfarmer4592]

We built a 6 row out of 2 4 rows and put row clutches and ag leader gps on

[@6thGenFarmer]

What row clutches did you go with? Agleader?

[@crippledfarmer4592]

@@6thGenFarmer sure stops I think is what they were called

[@crippledfarmer4592]

Yes ag leader stuff

[@chrishunt5727]

Talk to Duffy Ag on KZbin. He just rebuilt his 7000, including cylinders

[@6thGenFarmer]

I will have to look him up! Thanks for the tip

[@ANOSH-Studio]

Boy, you go into a lot of detail when talking about machinery. Not many of your viewers are interested to know that. Trim your videos into short scenes of your more common chores. And why are you lone in the video? Bring co-workers, some kind of girlfriend or just more people, and engage in more daily interactions to make your videos more interesting.

[@maxiskritik1039]

I think he makes a great job and should not do the things you tell him to do.. who do you think you are?! 😅

[@greggardner2823]

I watch because of who he is and how he does it. If he changed I would no longer be interested in watching.

[@greggergen9104]

That is who he is. It is not about entertainment it is about his approach to life and farming.

[@jeremylange8498]

I have been farming for along time I grew up during the Chang from the steel box John Deere to the 7000. Had both I still plant with a 7000. We switched from 38 in to 30. I bought an eight row with a computer tech 200. I switched back to 38 in now I plant with a 4 row 7000 that I switched the motor put on liquid tanks and the flat closing wheels. Best planters ever made and I’m not even I jd guy.