Ultimate JOHN DEERE Tractor of the 1990's | 8400

In this video Big Tractor Power take's a look at the iconic 225 hp JOHN DEERE 8400 Tractor. The video take's viewers back to 1989 to show an early prototype of the John Deere 8400 and talks about the significance of the introduction of the big 8400 in 1995. The video shares the specifications, variations including the 8400T tracked tractor and the original price tag of the tractor. Watch for additional JOHN DEERE tractors including a 4960, 4955, 4850, 4630 and an 8630.
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[@BigCountryFarmer]

We still got one and its running like a champ! Plants every acre we farm and pulls our grain cart. A very good tractor 👍

[@cliffh8486]

That's a beautiful tractor!! I love the high HP series from all brands, the boxcar Magnums as well as the 70 series from New Holland. these were the best years of tractors!!

[@Farmer_Matt]

Hey that's me in the 8410. Great video! I Love this series of tractors. Our 8410 is a good tractor.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. I appreciate Riley sharing the 8410. It’s one of the great John Deere’s.

[@treyinok]

8:38 Someone is heating up their lunch on the engine! 😆 😆 😆 😆

[@terrellfarms1]

Good catch. I missed it.

[@jacobpeters6502]

👍🏻

[@jankotze1959]

Good observation

[@andrewinbody4301]

I didn't see that until you pointed it out.

[@ericr1324]

My dad would heat up his lunch that way but on the 4440

[@sylvesteryoung2514]

My father usually drive those 8000 series tractors including the 8400 tractors when he was alive. He passed away 2 weeks ago from lung cancer.

[@derekweatherford8989]

Anyone notice the can of chili on the 8400 when talking about the decals? Lol

[@codybuchanan6868]

Good way to heat up lunch. lol

[@johnglover5071]

Ya gotta eat!

[@darandeushane9873]

Tough we've had 8300. Now own 8410 and an 8410T. Tougher than nails.

[@micktaylor8599]

Another great video BTP. Its good to see a lot of the old tractors still going strong.

[@scottpykare801]

A big grain farm just up the road from me uses their 8400 to run their grain augers and their 15' batwing rotary mower. It's good to see these workhorses still going strong! 😃👍

[@petermiller5701]

I always liked the Massey Ferguson and John Deere tractors. Though there are other big tractors, like the Internationals, those two seemed to stand out in the field. Their appearance and design were what really drew me to them.

[@Doobie2100]

Best series ever made 8000 series. And the 7810. Great video!!!

[@peterschlater5756]

Fantastic piece of JD history!

[@andrewgraham5151]

I’ve spent hours upon hours in a 8300. Love these tractors.

[@interman7715]

Very nice tractor, thanks BTP.

[@1DirtyMutt]

Can’t imagine planting and getting a good seed bed in all that trash…especially at that speed. Equipment definitely has changed!

[@Zero01k]

It's what no-till planters are designed to do, and that field isn't a trashy as some make it out to be, I've had to plant in worse and got a pretty decent stand.

[@chrisw.4318]

Zero01k Wouldn’t you still spray before planting and knock those weeds down? I’m not a farmer but really enjoy learning about it.

[@randykroells8049]

I only go 4.5mph on a worked field.

[@davidstout5883]

I love the 8400. It could turn on a dime set in on 30 inch spacing. The super stear on the New Holland 8970 set on 30 inch spacing could not turn with the John Deere 8400. We ran them side by side..

[@SimonKL11]

That's a nice tractor and a great history👍

[@deangelopack8405]

Best row crop tractor John Deere ever built

[@SebastianWarth]

Awesome Video Buddy!!

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@oldfarmer3001]

Great video, i spent many hours in a 8300...

[@noelhohberger1188]

I remember when these came out. Now you see them everywhere still

[@timberhills1778]

Awesome tractor 💪

[@carlospinto1973]

Hi BTP nice vídeo. Hope to see the history of other series too 👌🇵🇹

[@LaHaSi4208]

Awesome Engine Sound! 💪😍😍😍👍

[@kennyfett970]

After the 8000 was released, the Magnum wasn’t so cool anymore.

[@jankotze1959]

That is a monster for the time, lovely machine

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@jrmagnum]

The change in decal color from black to yellow numbers was a great way to pick out the earlier models with transmission and engine problems.

[@Man-cv5ws]

JOHN DEERE TRACTORS and EQUIPMENT, volume two 1960-1990, Don Macmillan & Roy Harrington. I think the 8rx really reassembles the last picture in the book. I would love to see a volume 3. Great video love those prototype shots!!!

[@leesteele9290]

I ran a 8400 " Big Foot " with the big metric tires on it when they were first released for a fertilizer plant putting on anhydrous one fall and was amazed at what those tires and power could do , easily out worked articulated tractors of similar horsepower!! The prototype pictures are really cool , far cry from the final answer !!

[@bigtractorpower]

The 8400 was a game changer. Floater singles are cool on a tractor.

The 8,1 Liter, probably the best motor John Deere ever build.

[@jameswest673]

6068 also

[@briandraves937]

We love are 8400. It pulls 5 shank ripper and slurry tanker and disc. And also are packing tractor for bunkers. It's a good number like the 40 series tractor are 4240 and 4440 are amazing tractors aswell

[@jakeadair8292]

This tractor is closest to my heart, grew up on this exact setup

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool.

[@JSMachineWorks]

How did you find those pictures!? That prototype is really interesting

[@Cenlafarmtoys]

Guy Who Farms The Field By My House Used To Have A 8300 with a front mount tank. It was his biggest tractor from 1997 to 2007. He traded it in 2012 for a 2010 8225r.

[@franciscogarciasalvo1715]

I didn't know about that prototype. Here in Argentina, only came the 8200 and 8300 with 200(HP) and 230 (HP). I remember when I was a kid I saw the 8200T been tested in a farm show. Amazing tractor.

[@barleybariden7008]

Great tractors

[@samrugtiv3839]

Well done sod buster thanks a lot. Sam

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@southlakelife]

Very cool. Wasn't that the first Series with the "Command Arm" controls?

[@Drew-in-NoDak]

we have 3 8300 tractors on the farm and they will never leave, #1 by a long shot for reliability

[@Man-cv5ws]

I’d like to see a video about duels when and what tractors really made them common.

[@bigtractorpower]

That would be a good topic.

[@indianahoosier7113]

In January of 2018 I went to a local sell the farmer retired He had a nice 8400 second owner had almost 2600 hrs on it sold for 100,000 .Machinery Pete did a work up on that tractor. Do believe the sell is on KZbin.

[@terrellfarms1]

The 8000 series turned out to be a excellent tractor with a great engine. They were revolutionary at the time. They did not start off on a good foot in 1995 due to transmission issues though. Most guys who really know them will tell you the '97 and newer models are the ones to have. A good friend of mine bought three new ones in 1995 and they were sweet. He swapped them all for CaseIH 8950's two years later. He had two of the three have transmission issues. The transmissions would lock up completely while traveling in road gear. 20 mph to 0 in split second with flat spotted tires. Threw the driver into the windshield. Twice! Him, the dealer, and John Deere did not see eye to eye on their solution to the problems so he switched to CaseIH. His family had been a loyal JD user since the mid 1960's.

[@MRSludgedude]

Yea you got to have the seatbelt on wen that sensor trips. Happens once or twice a day lol. Shut it off and restart it's all good.

[@ThefarmLife.]

My favorite tractor

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@mikescaffo4850]

Sweet machine

[@bigtractorpower]

The 8400 is a cool 90’s tractor.

[@joesteel1261]

Interesting video and history.I remember when those tractors came out.A mechanic at Deere at the time said the 8.1 liter 6 cylinder "Powertech"had been originally been designed for over the road trucks in the early 80's by Deere. Is that true?

[@gregjames5070]

8.1 would have been pretty small for an OTR truck.

[@onionfriend9799]

I believe it was fall 1994 when our Deere dealer got an 8400 demonstrator that they took all around the area. They touted that they were letting people use it free of charge but one of my neighbors ripped his roll plow in half with it. He told em with a straight face he was gonna send Deere the repair bill on his plow 😂

[@379insk]

I have a 1995 8100 that i use constantly. From loader work in the winter to pulling a suspended boom sprayer in summer as well as pto work. Hard to believe its 25 years old. My only beef is why JD engineers couldn't figure out something as simple as a flip up hood! . All in all a beast of a machine. I bought it 10 years ago and probably coukd get more than i paid for it today.

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍. The 95 and 96 black stripe models are on the rare side.

[@sevans1178]

The 8000 series were good tractors. I ran an 8200 for many hours back in the day.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice. I would like to film an 8200 and the 2wd version.

[@stephendekoschak9555]

I’m going to have a 8400 or 8410 done day have a 7800 very nice tractors

[@walterlaubscherjr2011]

Used to drive this tractor and a 8410 when I worked for my cousins running grain cart

[@dustin_vlogs2.081]

Me to

[@peanutsmith1462]

8410 the farmer I worked for he pulled a 8 row kmc ripper with John Deere 8 row planter

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice. The 8410 is a good tractor.

[@dylanlutz8045]

I love the look of these model year tractors.

[@dillonodom29]

8400 was the best damn tractor John Deere ever made.

[@atomicwedgie8176]

The 4020 and 4440 say, "hi".

[@bradenclark6024]

We run the same setup on our farm

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool.

[@cmulli5637]

You should do a history series on the case ih magnum series

[@bigtractorpower]

I plan to. I still need to film a few. This one happened because I filmed the black stripe 8400 and 8400T on the same day. It just all came together.

[@kridder6268]

I’m a not a farmer but I was surprised to see them planting in a field of weeds - with some being pretty high. Wouldn’t these weeds pull nutrients away the soybeans? It’s probably a dumb question for most folks who are watching. But, after watching so many other farming KZbin videos and see how meticulous so many farmers are with their seedbeds I found this practice odd.

[@Zero01k]

If they haven't already applied a pre-burndown to the field, if not they will soon spray it not long after it's planted. There won't be much or no nutrient loss if sprayed in time.

[@kridder6268]

Zero01k Thank You

[@generationll]

It just wasn t the 8400 that was a major design change for JD but the entire 8000 Series tractors.the CaseIH Magnum 8950 matched the 8400 in hp when introduced in 1996,

[@bigtractorpower]

I have not filmed the entire 8000 series yet. So I chose to focus on the 8400 because Hp wise it stood out. Plus I had both decal variations and the 8400T filmed to tell the story. It takes allot of work to get two 8400’s, an 8400T, 8630, 4850, 4960 etc... filmed. There is 4 years worth of filming in this video. In time I hope to do the whole line in one video. Interestingly the 8950 was slated to be the 7350 but became 8950 because 8 was perceived as being bigger after the 8000 came out. I made an 8950 video last December.

[@carlbloomquist708]

The 8410 footage...that's gotta be in Montana somewhere. North of Great Falls on the Missouri River area?

[@bigtractorpower]

Yes.

[@CiRtriX]

And then fendt entered the market with the 926vario 260hp full auto transm.

[@jimmystrain883]

Jason do you know what size tires are on the back of that 8410

[@jimmystrain883]

I ment 8400

[@deangelopack8405]

Most are spec 14.9 r 34 on the front and 18.4 r 46 on the rear.. but I have ran one with 20.8 r 42 9n the rear and 16.9 r 30 on the front

[@eternalthread7846]

The 8400 is when John Deere first started heavily underrating power

[@zakkstorey]

I personally think this is the best Deere so far

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@jameswest673]

Wonder if that prototype tractor is still lurking around some warehouse in Moline Illinois. Looks more like a 7000 prototype

[@bigtractorpower]

If you look at the prototype there is a tire showing in the far left corner of a prototype 7000. It is decaled 4460. More videos like this on the way for the 7800 , tracked Deere’s and the 8850.

[@chrisw.4318]

May be a stupid question, but why is he planting into what looks like straight weeds? I understand no-till and everything, but that seems like it should have been sprayed with Roundup or something to knock all of that down before planting.

[@TheAgrotechnik]

It's interesting, why they re-designed prototype of future 8000 series. They wanted to create better tractor than Case Magnum 7100 series? You're planning to create something about Magnums 2+2 design? As I remember, You have something about Magnum MX 2+2.

[@nycsox987]

Random question not related to the video, but are you aware of when running triple tires became more prominent? Curious to know.

[@bigtractorpower]

Unverferth started promoting triple tires in the early 70’s. Their first sales brochure on triples featured an Allis-Chalmers 220 Landhandler on the cover. Unverferth continued featuring triple tire 2wds and 4wds in the 70’s and 80’s. The first time I saw triples featured on a tractor manufactures sales brochure was the Massey Ferguson 2800 sales brochure in 1977. The Versatile 1150 was the first 4wd in 1979. In the early 1990’s triples were promoted by Case IH on the 9280 4wd and John Deere 8960 in sales brochures. Triples became highly recommended in 1995/1996 by Case IH and John Deere on the new Steiger and 9000 series 4wds.

[@nycsox987]

@@bigtractorpower wow, appreciate the response. Looks like I'll be doing some research this weekend 😁👍

[@danielsalguero1683]

disculpa me pudieras decir la medida de los rodados?

[@vanilakung7563]

You forgot to mention , there was also a JD model 8000 prototype build

[@bigtractorpower]

You mean the 8000T Mike Less filmed?

[@vanilakung7563]

@@bigtractorpower Maeby

[@matteomenthemoleta]

Hello

[@jameswest673]

Still ten times better than the crap they make today.

[@connork4440]

we have a 8300 we had a 8400 but burn up

[@RB-gk1fi]

That was great!! But will there be a similar video for red fans ? Ultimate Case ih tractor of the 1990s the case ih 8950 or somthing like that ? That would be really nice. Its because one of my favorit BTP videos was john deere high horsepower 2wd tractors 1965 - 1999 and since then im wating of an additional video ih / case ih high horsepower 2wd tractors 1965 - 1999 but it never appeared. Would be nice in my opinion

[@firionrazar3797]

Wasn't there a 9l engine on the 8000series (before the 8r's)?

[@tommeiner9983]

There was in the 8030 series.

[@Imrightyourewrong1]

A tractor over 200hp is starting to get pretty big but in perspective 200hp isn't that much. My car has that. But I guess torque and gearing is key

[@bigtractorpower]

Horsepower wise 225 on a row crop tractor was very significant in the 1990’s. The 100 hp Mark was broken in 1965. In 1945 50 hp was a big tractor. Today the big row crop tractors are 400 hp. It is all about weight and torque of the machine. A 200 hp car could not pull a 15ft chisel plow nine inches in the ground at 6 mph.

[@mattwicker4850]

Forgive my ignorance, but did the 7.6L 466 come in the early 8000 series? I was thinking it did but I may have dreamt that.

[@bigtractorpower]

It did on the 8100 for sure. Maybe the 8200 too. I need to look at my sales literature. The 8400 had the 8.1 the whole time.

[@mattwicker4850]

bigtractorpower thanks for your kind reply, hard to get that these days. Good information also, will always watch your videos

[@Bubak777]

8100,8200,8300 with "older" decal from 1995-1996 have 7.6L engine. It is very similar to 7010 series, at least for Europe.

[@connorvelthuis2221]

All 8100, 8200, 8300 tractors from 1995-96 had the 466. All 8400’s have the 8.1 or 496. From 1997 on all 8000 series tractors had the 496.

[@brent9393]

We got 2 late model 8400s. Great tractors.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. 👍👍

[@jokeboy_rblxrblx2006]

First,i have a collection of John deer.

[@danvanninhuys745]

Was that on an organic farm?

[@robertschoenborn8413]

Why do they plant no till? What's the advantage ? I like the look of the 8400 😉

[@chadjustice8560]

So fuel and time cost is the biggest reason for no till.

[@pgrpomorze6522]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥😘😘😘

[@scruffy6151]

💪👍

[@bigtractorpower]

This one was a fun one to film and make.

[@christianhollauer881]

why not tilting before seeding? big mess on this field.

[@IG10705]

It's called no till they can comeback through and spray it to kill the weeds

[@marie-evelegault3213]

Jfu