TRACTORS at Work: JOHN DEERE 4020

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[@Steelrailbearing]

Bundled up on a 4020 during spring tillage was an annual ritual. Even with a full Carhartt I remember being hunched over leaning into the wind trying to stay warm just like this guy. The 4010-4020 was revolutionary, they sold hundreds around me from two small JD dealers... Gramp was still using a Super MTA to chop corn when he bought a 4020. Needless to say it changed the entire operation overnight. Great Video.

[@bigtractorpower]

Wow an MTA to a 4020. Big upgrade. Thank you for sharing.

[@Steelrailbearing]

@@bigtractorpower No problem, I really enjoyed watching this.. The operator all bundled up in that cold spring weather really evokes memories...

[@shortytari]

We actually have a 69 4020 with a year a round cab on it. If I remember right it has close to 13000 hours on it. We still use it to pull a 7000 corn planter. We’ve had it for 30 years and done very little to it. It just keeps running. Has plenty of power for what we need and It’s so cheap on fuel we hate to replace it. It will be a sad day when we do.

[@clintwilliams3096]

My opinion, the best JD ever built. Growing up we had a ‘71 4000 and a ‘69 4020. The 4020 shorted out and burned and a big new 4430 tried to replace it but the more versatile 4000 always out worked, out lasted the big tractor. My brother still owns his first tractor…a 72 powershift. Thanks for sharing this video. It brings back a lot of memories.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for sharing. The 4020 is one of the all time greats. I hope to find a 4000 to film and feature some time.

[@armandkeller8831]

I agree. The 4020 I think is the best tractor ever made. Love my 1066 IH so it's close 2nd. I will find a 4020 one day.

[@TwoFarmBoys]

It never gets old watching a good ol 4020 still working. My grandmother always spoke highly of the one she owned back in the day. Thanks for the great video and God bless - Everett

[@waynedartez9910]

I grew up plowing until 2:00 in the morning after school in the rice fields of south Louisiana on a 69 4020 I was pulling a John Deere 11’7” twa disc. The video brought back memories. It looked like the middle sweep was missing on the disc in the video because it was leaving a strip down the middle. Those were some long, cold nights for us Southern boys in the early spring. No cab . Eventually got a radio. I recently bought a ‘69 4020 and am restoring it. I use it for plowing and pulling a 15’ batwing mower. Every time I’m on it I realize how grateful I feel to own such a piece of history like that

[@idontwantahandle325]

That's how I spent most of my life growing up on a farm outside of Hopkinsville Ky. Up the field. Down the field. All day long. 14 hour days. After school and weekends. Spring break.

[@snydedon9636]

We got a 4020 brand new in the late 60s, I think, huge jump in performance on the farm. Afterwards added a 4030, also new. The good ole days for sure.

[@RealJohnWayne]

Hey there Jason, I hope you're all well and good! Now that's kicking it old school, 2 wheel drive, open station, bundled up in the Spring, exactly the way I was doing it as a boy growing up, using both the 20 and then 30 series tractors in the late 60's and 70's, the only difference being that I had a Roll Gard and Canopy, which was yellow painted steel at that time, with the Green Polyethylene Canopy with lights coming later on the 40 series. I really enjoy your videos, and your drone work, which just keeps getting better! You're one of the few that shows not only the new equipment, which I love, but also some of the old equipment, such as this, that takes me back with fond memories, of a simpler time, as a boy growing up on the farm, a half Century ago.💕 I hope y'all have a good one! "Nothing Runs Like A Deere" 🦌👍🇺🇸

[@jackwillie2729]

Dad introduced me to a 4010 back in 1964 , I nine plus years old , collage kid hired for spring cultivating didn't work out, pulled me out of school I think for 2 weeks.. long hrs and never got stuck...Morris Mn. 300 ft north of the airport

[@garykueker1539]

I bought a 1969 4020 back in 1990 for $10,500. I later checked the serial number on it and it was built within a couple of weeks of when I was born. Needless to say I still have it and use around my farm. I love the way it matches up with my 1411 discbine.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool tractor to have. Thank you for sharing about it.

[@klh3244]

Best tractor ever! Drove one many hours!🤠🇺🇸

[@kennytill8788]

Best tractor ever so universal

[@damianursusc362]

Old JD Best engine tractor

[@caminola417]

Best tractor ever!!! Got to ride along (sit up on the fender) as a kid growing up with the farmer who farmed the land behind my house.

[@matthewkabanuk443]

My grandma has a 1965 4020 Diesel (SN #101606) standard that my grandpa purchased new in '65 with the big Wheatland fenders, Power Shift transmission, and a 3-point hitch. He mounted one of those huge farmhand loaders on it, but traded it the early '90s for a 158 loader with grapple from a 5020. It still runs like new even though it has over 44,000 hours and one engine overhaul done to it. Made many memories moving hay, feeding cows, running the grain vac, and other chores.

[@bigtractorpower]

Wow what great history. Thank you for sharing. I have a 4020 Wheatland filmed disking in Iowa. I will feature it later this year.

[@bamaman6297]

A real machine right there. This was the last tractor my grandad bought back in 1971. It replaced his 720 Poppin John. We used it long after his passing. It is all raw power and very stable wheel base. This is the machine I learned to drive on. Thanks for the video.

[@wardog392]

I owned a 4020 and pulled a 12 ft chisel, you knew you were maxed out when it went to power hopping. One of the best tractors ever made.

[@danw6014]

My 4020 does it all. Mowing and balling, plowing, fitting and planting, picking corn in the fall and hauling a tandem box spreader. Can handle a 750 notill drill or a 7000 6 row notill planter with ease.

[@scottpykare801]

Who needs satellite guidance??😂 Open air too....AWESOME😊Very cool Jason.

[@claymack1109]

Alot of people need it so they don't get lost in such a big open area

[@terryjohnson1410]

I remember driving one on the farm I picked rocks and dug fence lines.

[@bruceknapp1962]

Many great memories farming with the 4020. Back in the day it was used as one of the bigger tractors used in a mjor role. Today the 4020 is more of a support role tractor for those smaller jobs. Still so very much enjoyed when operating. I remember well when the 4000 series was introduced by John Deere, the "New Generation of Tractors" and they sure paved the way for what was to come after.

[@chrismathenia4825]

He never lifted that disc when he turned. Must like putting bearings in it.

[@garywharton6006]

And tweaking the hitch pole

[@eddersilvaa2706]

Digale a ese teactorista k de las bueltas al otro lado anda al reves

[@kellyallan5470]

Your right on bearings. Been there. No different then changeing. Disk. Not Picken up. In turns. All ways a leaning experience.

[@curtmcelvain1749]

Lift mine, just enough to cover tire tracks. To each their own I guess

[@josephsmith6415]

If you turn in plowed ground it is already broken up. You can turn wide turn

[@joegotz1971]

I remember those cold spring days in an open tractor. Except I used a Farmall 806. When i was young I didn’t mind it, but i am glad i am not doing it now. As a matter of fact, riding in an open tractor was never ideal, too cold, too windy, to hot, dust and bugs. other than that it, it was fun.

[@bigtractorpower]

Those were the days. The 806 is also a great tractor. I hope to get a chance to feature an 806 in the Tractors at Work series of videos.

[@MilkMan608]

An 806 is an ox by comparison. The 4020 was nimble.

[@rickperry9546]

The very first tractor I drove I was 10 years old in 1991 and it was a 1971 4020 with the hydraulic levers on the right hand side and it was a syncro shift…. Oh the memories thank you for this trip down memory lane for me… great video BTP

[@tommyburns2195]

1968 4020, still use it every day. I cut land with at 12 foot off set disc behind the 4020. Best tractor ever made by JD.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice. Thank you for sharing.

[@marknewman1971]

You gotta love that older farm equipment , brings back a lot of good memories John Deere 4020 and the John Deere 4320 could do a lot of work back in the day Thanks for sharing .

[@kellyallan5470]

Old school clutches. What we. Learned. Worken them fields.

[@user-tp4bo5sc5e]

Quiero saber cómo se quita el pasador grande que agarra los brazos del levante

[@lannyfenster7461]

I have one 4020D,great tractor pulling a JD non-leveling disk harrow. IH HAD the best disk harrows

[@raghavaraju7713]

Kkkkk

[@busenitzcustomwoodworks6768]

We had two growing up! We used them for raking, hauling hay, scraping manure, and everything else in between!

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool.

[@richardkerr8546]

This brings back very good memories.

[@johnthompson4162]

Great video, loved my dad's 4020. That guy is stirring up a lot of weed seeds with that disk, field cultivating would be better. John T.

[@bigtractorpower]

This is the primary tillage pass to break the ground up. A harrowing pass will follow ahead of the planter.

[@tracypratt5897]

We had two 4020s they were a big tough tractor at the time. Both had power shift and had been turned up about 20 horses! The best tractor JD ever made in my opinion!!!

[@bigtractorpower]

The 4020 is one solid tractor.

[@johnbennett9149]

hands down was one of the best tractors ever built

[@kennethcarlton2860]

I used to run my uncle's 4010 and I thought it was a large tractor until a few years later when I pulled up beside it with a IH 1456 & my boss was always getting larger sized equipment to keep up with all the custom farming we had

[@donnellykieranj]

Love it. I could watch that old girl work all day!

[@bigtractorpower]

It’s always great getting a chance to film these classics hard at work.

[@kellywilson8440]

Probably the best tractors built the 20 series Deere and 66 series IH imo .

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@curtiscains8533]

Your use of your hover drone is awesome! Your productions have come up a long way! I hope someday you can get a Sunday Morning or Saturday Morning exhibition Show and promote awareness of the critical importance of American Farming. The Families that sacrifices

[@brianzybura8633]

I worked with a 4020 diesel for a day back in the early eighties. It rolled coal a little. Man, I loved it. Well who would not.

[@LyfovRyan51]

So good to see these old tractors at work. Even better that one can hear them too.

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@milkweed7678]

Great video of a tractor from the day! Who would have ever dreamed that there would be tractor mowers that cost more than a 95 ish horsepower tractor?

[@christianhollauer881]

The JD is still doing his job.

[@wesleyclark4777]

The best tractor there is.

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@michaeltucker9993]

Just bought a 1969 4020 in excellent condition. I'm like a kid at Christmas time!

[@bigtractorpower]

Congratulations. Very nice.

[@bongobill2000]

I enjoyed running my 4020 for many years

[@pinesedgefarm1155]

Reliable tractor! I spent a lot of time on a 4020.

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@MarshallLanier-oi1mk]

The first tractor I ever owned. A 1971 4020 synchro. I bought it in September of 1977. It's still here. We mainly use it for blading driveways and mowing roadsides. Most of our field work is done by our 8R tractors and our hay and livestock work is done by our 6R tractors. And we pull a float in our annual Ag Festival Parade with the 4020.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice 4020 to have. They were built to last a life time.

[@nextinline8234]

I did enjoy, thanks Jason

[@jaredkelly1356]

We have been using 20 series JD tractors since the early 70’s We have a 2020 and a 3020 and a 4020 and a 4520. Best line of tractors ever other than the IH 66 series IMO

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice tractors. Very cool to have a 4520 at the top of the line.

[@regunter6599]

In the 50s there were lots of tractor brands, when John Deere came out with the 4010 diesel it was a total game changer. The only other tractor that looked like it was a Case, soon lots of the other brands were on lots after being replaced by the John Deeres. I know lots of people liked the two-cylinder John Deeres but it was when the 4010s came out it changed everything.

[@davidmead731]

A great machine that you could tune to the task and be very productive. Last of the old school tractors. Good memories.

[@SimonKL11]

The 4020 is a real classic👍😁 always great to see one at work😉👍

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@kygreenskeeper8326]

Love the old tractors... Thx Jason my friend.

[@bigtractorpower]

It’s always great to find a 4020

[@billbennetch9144]

I had driven a Massy Harris 444 diesel starting at age 7 . Dad would get me started then go back and stack bales. When I was 9 he bought a 69 4020 new with a tricycle and number 50 side mounted mower. They farmed three farms in that day and everything was moldboard plowed and worked. Still have the 4020 now has a wide front. Still think there's not been a better handling tractor. My uncle had bought a M M 670 diesel the same year and everyone would grab the 4020. Last guy outta the barn in the morning got stuck on the M M which weighed about the same but handled poorly in comparison with bout twenty less horsepower.

[@bigtractorpower]

Great tractor history. Thank you for sharing.

[@claymack1109]

I love these old John Deere tractors you dint need no dumb tech person to work on them when you can do it yourself.

[@carynix8043]

The boss back in the days

[@denniscolston9544]

spent alot off time with this set up but iwas lucky i had a cab and radio

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice. The factory cab became available in 1969.

[@404nitro]

Awesome video BTP. I kick my self silly every time I see a 4020, for not buying the one I had a chance at several years ago for &7K. Side console w/powershift trans, and diff lock. It was in very good shape too.

[@nellsonstout7001]

I’d kick me too if I were you

[@404nitro]

@@nellsonstout7001 I know, I know. SMH

[@xade7863]

@@404nitro I know where one is that was in perfect condition powershift side console 3 remote( I’ve never seen one with 3 so idk if it’s rare or just not common here)and they won’t sell it for 20,000 and don’t even use it said the powershift was deadly .

[@josephfinklea3650]

I every drove a 4020 I worked for a Fram who had one good tractor 🚜.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool.

[@robertpayne2717]

We had a 64 4020 a 67 4020, and a 63 4010 all synchro range the 4010 and one of the could be shifted into reverse faster than the 3 pt. Hitch could raise a 6 row 7100 planter.

[@Blackwellll3066]

A local beef farmer has a 4020 on his farm always seeing it do small jobs like raking hay, hauling hay ect

[@davidmicalizio824]

Operated a 4020 back in the day in the Palo Verde Valley. Cutting cotton stalks and discing.

[@markkeister6057]

Great video! Sure does bring back the memories. Growing up on one of those girls with a straight pipe, probably why my hearing is crap now. Lol. Love that tractor, no side console but power shift. Plowing, mowin, choppin she did it all.

[@bigtractorpower]

The 4020 is one solid tractor. It would be neat to film one forage harvesting.

[@markkeister6057]

@@bigtractorpower for me it was 30 yrs ago. Lol 4020 with single row New Holland 717 chopper and we had graduated to self unloading wagons. My grand dad had an old IH chopper and a 910 Long if you run into one of those. In the 80s we still used cable operated wagons and used forks to feed the chain fed blower at the silo.

[@heavyhauler79]

I own a John Deere 3010 diesel; and love every moment I operate it. From cutting to baling hay and even some odd jobs, when needed.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice. I will be featuring a 3020 during wheat harvest this year.

[@heavyhauler79]

@@bigtractorpower I will be waiting for that video to come, plus I also like the harvest season.

[@ellensanford5775]

we have a 4000 that we might use this summer

[@heavyhauler79]

@@ellensanford5775 has it been restored or just sitting in the shed?

[@scottphillips4992]

I drilled many acres of wheat with a 4020 pulling a 14' tandem disc with a 14' wheat drill behind it in the mid 80's. Loved that 4020!!!

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. The 4020 is one of the all time greats.

[@wynandbasson1880]

I farmed in Mpumalanga South Africa and had 3x 4020 tractors,and ecactly the same implements for 35years. The tractors were sold at my retirement sale August last year. still pulling strong .Greetings Wynand Basson

[@bigtractorpower]

Very interesting. What crops did you raise.

[@markrskinner]

We had one here in the UK. Best tractor ever.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool.

[@joelknierim1456]

Great video! I have a 3020 diesel, but would love to add a 4020. Thanks for a nice spring tillage "old school" tractor at work.

[@bigtractorpower]

The 3020 is a great tractor. I will have a 3020 video out this summer during wheat harvest.

[@Bitcoin_Millionaire]

That disc is cutting beautifully

[@bigtractorpower]

Classic implement still hard at work.

[@popswrench2]

about the bestest JD ever built

[@randallcrane2704]

That's a fine looking 4020

[@bigtractorpower]

One owner tractor. 👍👍

[@randallcrane2704]

@@bigtractorpower 👍👍

[@millardhayes1884]

I used to drive one for my uncle when he farmed in the 80's. Loved it 69 model.

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@claycountykillers]

A 730 diesel and a 4020 diesel power shift are the only two tractors on my collectors list

[@bigtractorpower]

Both very nice tractors.

[@jamesbarker4163]

I use to operate a 4020 on one of the farms I worked before I joined the NAVY

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@willhorting5317]

I remember using those 4020 JDs, when I worked for a neighboring farmer. My family always used Case tractors.

[@danw6014]

Put thousands of hours on 4010/4020 tractors. Plowing, planting, haying, picking corn and of course hauling manure.

[@markdanielczyk944]

Not a big JD guy, but I have a soft spot for the 4020's and 4430's.

[@bigtractorpower]

Both are very good tractors.

[@haydentaylor8651]

We have a 3020 and man I really love it, I’d like to get a 4020 too

[@mikemoss9968]

I have run a few of these old girls they're a great tractor

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice.

[@ileenmcminn2062]

His guidance system wasn't working too well, He was overlapping quite a bit!

[@MilkMan608]

Having so much fun he's making the field seem bigger!

[@railroader4854]

I spent many hours on a 4020 back in the day. Doing everything thing from cultivating corn to baling hay. They do it all.

[@Cattleman0311]

Back when green paint meant something.

[@williammatzek4660]

In 1965 dad bought a new row crop standard 4020 diesel. This morning I bought a 4020 row crop standard diesel. It's not real slick , engine sounds good.

[@bigtractorpower]

Congratulations on the 4020. 👍👍

[@jasonknight4906]

4020 was a very good tractor great video too

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching. The 4020 is one of the all time greats.

[@stephenbontrager5894]

Great video always love watching your videos have a 3010 and always want a 4020 side console

[@bigtractorpower]

A 3010 is a nice tractor. I hope to find one to film sometime.

[@frankscruggs4749]

Good video.

[@OnePieceTractor]

Ive always hated disks that left that center strip We pulled a 210 disk with ours

[@marcelocunico5341]

Great vídeo Jason.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@jonnn983]

Very, very nice!

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@Challenger3985Productions]

i've seen one of those tractors at an auction in brownsville kentucky

[@kadenemerson3569]

We have 2 4020, a diesel synchro and a lp powershift with a loader both are awesome

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice. The 4020 is one of they all time greats. 👍👍

[@user-pb3gc8kg2i]

The best tractor ever

[@bigtractorpower]

It definitely made an impact. I would agree it’s at the top of the list. The Farmall M is right there too.

[@daw162]

Anyone complaining about new equipment price (it is expensive), these would be nearing $100K in current dollars. 1966, my mother got her first new car - galaxie 500 fastback with a 390 for $3300. cost both of my parents $4k to go to college back then (late60s through early 70s) including room and board, so buying this thing could literally send 2 1/2 kids to college and cover their room and board. in state school in PA now is about $40k with room and board - maybe more. in state. insane.

[@bigtractorpower]

It’s interesting how things change. Today $10,000 seems like a minor expense in farming in 1969 it was a major investment. In today’s dollars a the cost of a new 4020 would be $78,000. The closet thing horse power wise I can find in the modern John Deere line up is the 5115M which is 100 pto hp and 115 engine Hp. The 5115M list for $98,000. In 1969 the 4020 would have been the lead tractor on many farms. Today a 5115M is a chore tractor and a haying tractor.

[@dobsonrunfarm9329]

Spent many hours on a '69 4020.

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@ronniejenkins4633]

We have a 4020 but it hasn't been used in a while, we are hopefully going to try and get it going again, it's a great tractor just needs some work to get it going again.

[@bigtractorpower]

Great tractor. I hope it fires right up.

[@Dextamartijn]

Nice to see a combo like this but still prefer Blue power

[@bigtractorpower]

Stay tuned a 9600 is on the way this week.

[@kennytill8788]

Best tractor ever

[@bigtractorpower]

Marking its 60th anniversary this year. 👍👍

[@jorgealejandrobenitezsanto7454]

Esos tractores fueron muy bien construidos ya no los hacen igual de buenos

[@leepatton1180]

Great tractors

[@bigtractorpower]

The 4020 is one of the all time greats.

[@mikedemott1720]

Might want to get a Cultivator Shovel for the center

[@bigtractorpower]

This tractor and disk were bought new for the farm in 1969. They have worked this field many years. I am sure there is another tillage pass ahead of planting.

[@helloeveryone906]

Ain't broke why replace such awesome Work machine.

[@bigtractorpower]

The 4020 was built to last. 👍👍

[@jesusblanco3962]

I have one 4025 which is the same but in Mexico is 4025

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool variation. What model year is your 4025?

[@ellensanford5775]

we have a 4000 that still works to this day and it is just a amazing that i actually thought it was a 4020

[@bigtractorpower]

I hope to feature a 4000 at some point to talk about its history and part of the New Generation tractor line up.

[@andrewkiesling3334]

i own a 64 and a 66 both powershift and both diesels