It's all location dependent - different regions have different soil makeup, and that determines how the soil should be worked. There are areas of Russia/Eurasia, Europe, and Canada that require some extreme deep plowing with HUGE moldboards that till multiple FEET of depth at a time, often pulled by a tractor team or dozer depending on conditions. It's probably most common in areas that have a thick layer of muskeg over the top soil, and I'm sure there's still a lot more tame plowing around the world than there are of these extreme examples, but you get the point. 'TractorSpotter' on here has a number of videos of deep plowing(some other interesting videos too, like tulip harvesting & processing). They aren't quite BTP level, but probably next best on YT.
Spent a lot of time on an 1850 Oliver back in the day , identical plow ! Straight pipe big flame , better than the lights !!! Had to go home and unhook the plow had to use it to grind feed and do chores next day ! Good times !! Thanks for the video !
@@bigtractorpower AMEN ! It was the red painted version 1050 LP gas tractor .Pretty nice rig and good memories pulling 11 shank chisel plow in those cool fall evening hours .
One of my favorite classic tractor brands. 1969 what a year. Mario Andretti won Indy 500, NY Jets J Naemeth won superbowl, NY Mets MLB won world series, Woodstock Music Festival, 2 Americans Moon Landing Sea of Tranquility, Tate-La Bianca Manson Murders. This tractor has been there & done that. Minneapolis Moline Olivers sister brand. Enjoyed This Presentation🚜👍
I stopped many a time and warmed my hands on that nice warm muffler!!! Too many cold 🥶 nights trying to beat freeze 🥶 up!! Thanks for making remember how much I loved watching that blue flame 🔥 come out of my big bad 4020!!
And just to think Scruffy, if the Snowflake Libtards get their way and sue Monsanto/ Bayer into submission we'll be back to farming this way in no time, just bigger.
We (I) plowed w/ a ‘64 U302 diesel, wide front w/ an Allis 4-14 in Northwestern PA in the late 60’s-early 70’s. Beast could work any ground or cover... I so remember the throaty sound, flame shooting exhaust & incredible fuel economy. I sure felt like a big time, proud operator as a 16-24 year old FFA member. Best tractor we ever had on our 150 acre+ dairy farm!
I remember dad pulling a 6 bottom plow with a MM Vista G-1000. Grandpa drove the JD 4010 pulling a 4 bottom. By the time I was old enough to drive, we disced only. I drove a 1900 Oliver with front axle assist. That screemin' Jimmy was so loud. My brother later bought a Oliver 2155 that I occasionally got to drive. No cabs, just a fender radio.
Our last tractor was our biggest, a 1969 2050 Oliver. I pulled six-sixteens with it in our light soil here in Michigan. The tractor easily could have pulled another bottom. First overnight of plowing with it was on a piece of rental property I hadn't worked before. About 2 am I got to thinking why I hadn't seen the hedgerow at the end of the field yet? I shut down the tractor and got off to look around. Turned out I had driven through a gate at the end of the field and hadn't realized it with those dim lights. Got back on the tractor to get back on my side of the hedge row, only to discover the tractor had started to sink in the swamp I had driven into. I'll spare you the details of the next six hours of digging, pulling and cursing. End of tale is I ended up hiring the local BIG wrecker to come pull it out. Guy spent three hours on a Sunday morning before everything was on dry land - and only charged me $60 since he had so much fun playing with his rig.
Another great and informative video. My neighbor still has a G1000 that he bought new. He uses it every spring for plowing. Unique sounding tractor. It's always satisfying to work a tractor under it's own lighting. It's like you're getting away with something being able to work the fields in the absence of light to get it done on time.
@@bigtractorpower there's really something special or nostalgic going on. I have a 1960 Massey Ferguson 85 that my grandfather passed down to me. He purchased it brand new and was ridiculed by other farmers in the community for ever needing a tractor that big. Some years later my neighbor purchased his G1000. He understood the instant he put it to work. To look around the town today and see the size of the equipment is incredible. My grandfather was progressive. I still love to run the old 85 and plan on restoring it for it's 60th birthday. It does everything with ease. Brings back memories of better times too. Thanks again for all the good videos.
@@bigtractorpower Our 1967 Allis Chalmers D21 had duals and a factory installed cab, Rated at 127 hp. The cab was like an oven in the summer, (no AC, just a fan) we would strap the doors open and open the windows as far as we could go. Then in the winter, with the windows and doors closed it was so loud you couldn't hear yourself think! Great memories!
Fender lights on the mighty Mo's were actually pretty darn good for the era. A lot of the "Super" versions (like my U302) had backlit gauges also. Remember when "Indiglo" from Timex watches was all the rage in the 90's? yeah that's what they look like, except 10x brighter. White face gauges with light blue-ish light behind, black numbers- see them better then in the daylight that way. Going into the 70's all the manufacturers got a lot better with lighting, especially on tractors with cabs, but I don't think any of them got better gauge lighting then the MM did all the way up to modern day.
Started plowing when I was six on a white 2-70 with and Oliver four bottom plow. I loved working in the spring when the sun went down. We spring farmed all our ground for sweet corn and green beans. The cannery is long gone now it’s all fall tillage for seed crops. 9460r with auto steer sure gets things done lots quicker.
Is amazing on how far farming has come. I remember nights like that. U can't c a dam thing off to the side of the tractor. Lol. Now 1 tractor can pretty much light up a football field. Awesome video. 👍😇
Good stuff, Dad bought me a second hand GV1 Moline about when I was 11. He had one he bought new in 1960. 85hp I believe, but Dad put a washer under the governor to get another 100revs or so which he reckoned gave him 90hp. This was in about 1976. We still have the old girl in the shed last ran in 2006 or so. Good old hand clutch and you really had to stand on the steering brake to turn corners working round and round, pretty light on the front end, in fact with a heavy load and a twitchy left arm she would pop the front wheels off the ground 😂
The GVI was Moline’s big tractor from 1959-1962 with its 78 pto hp rating. Tractors shifting and steering has come along way. 60 years ago a GVI was a monster in the field.
In my country it was very common to pull a packer and small drill and plant the small grain, wheat oats barley at same time you plowed. Quite often it was very effective in weed reduction often no spraying.
👍👍. This method was common in the Western states like Wyoming to seed wheat. They would run a plow, harrow and drill behind one tractor. No till air seeders greatly changed small grain seeding.
I started farming with cabs and AC and heat. But still had the tractors around that my dad and his brothers worked with. I listened to them tell me stories how they would put wheat bags down the side so some of the engine heat would come on to them. So mane good old stories. Now days we complain if the auto steer is out.
Love the colour and styling (hood and grille) on these MMs and these tractors look huge. Great sounding machine 🎶 If i vin on lottery, then i buy one and ship it to Europe 😀
Great video and I love seeing older iron! I know it's a pretty minor thing but the weights quoted is only a difference of 550lbs and there must be 1000 lbs on the front alone.
It would remind me of fall years ago more if the heat houser was on! I would have froze to death with out it. When’s the last time you saw a heathouser on a tractor? I love those slow turning MM thanks!
Man that takes me back. The smell on a open station tractor turning ground. Loved that smell of the earth and diesel. Would run one all night, then dad would take over about daylight. Sure was tough with cold temps and being dark back then.
Best time of the day to mow board plow is night time spent alot of nights after milking cows plowing away but not witn a minnie mo.. always was a international 1086
Difficult to judge this tractor under load. Need to explain the 5-bottom plow. Was this a 5-14" plow? or 5-16"? or 5-18"? - the cut makes a big difference. What depth was the plow set to cut? Also, the soil composition makes a difference: loam, sandy, peat, silt, chalk, or clay? And even the age of the alfalfa field makes a difference with an older field with larger plant roots resulting in a heavier pull than a one year old alfalfa field.
BTDT ! Got no "fond memories" of life on an open-station tractor either ! Recall crafting a canvas heat shield for 1030 JD to pump all that engine heat back around the operating station !
It’s nostalgia now. I just filmed a tractor with a heated/air conditioned seat that also has a massaging feature @ ua-cam.com/video/b4Yvq9_U6zA/v-deo.html
Can't beat the smell of freshly plowed ground.....watching this brings back so many good memories.....always loved plowing at night
Love seeing that Minneapolis Moline out working - sounds awesome!
I know mold board plowing isn't common anymore but there is something satisfying about watching that soil roll over.
what isn't satisfying is erosion and losing all your topsoil to an awful form of tillage
Yep I guess soil compaction is better alternative then
It's all location dependent - different regions have different soil makeup, and that determines how the soil should be worked.
There are areas of Russia/Eurasia, Europe, and Canada that require some extreme deep plowing with HUGE moldboards that till multiple FEET of depth at a time, often pulled by a tractor team or dozer depending on conditions. It's probably most common in areas that have a thick layer of muskeg over the top soil, and I'm sure there's still a lot more tame plowing around the world than there are of these extreme examples, but you get the point.
'TractorSpotter' on here has a number of videos of deep plowing(some other interesting videos too, like tulip harvesting & processing). They aren't quite BTP level, but probably next best on YT.
@@tctarheelfarmin358 😂 yeah
This is real farming here, No GPS, No High Tech, No DEF. Those were the days of simple farming.
This is farming that grew up on ! Love seeing that Minneapolis Moline - sounds awesome!
No gps no radio no air ride seat jurt a hard workin man and a badass tractor gettiner done yessa
One of the sweetest sounds on earth, the sound of a classic tractor. Thank you.
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Spent a lot of time on an 1850 Oliver back in the day , identical plow ! Straight pipe big flame , better than the lights !!! Had to go home and unhook the plow had to use it to grind feed and do chores next day ! Good times !! Thanks for the video !
Man that brings back some memories from back in the late 70s hearing them machines beller all through the night. Thanks for the ride.
Thank you for sharing the video as I spent most of my high school years on a Minneapolis - Moline G 1050 !
Very cool. Great tractor.
@@bigtractorpower AMEN ! It was the red painted version 1050 LP gas tractor .Pretty nice rig and good memories pulling 11 shank chisel plow in those cool fall evening hours .
Love that big MM power!! Also very cool to see it pulling a MM plow.
This is still probably my favorite Big Tractor Power video!
Very cool. It was filming. It was almost mid night when I left the field.
One of my favorite classic tractor brands. 1969 what a year. Mario Andretti won Indy 500, NY Jets J Naemeth won superbowl, NY Mets MLB won world series, Woodstock Music Festival, 2 Americans Moon Landing Sea of Tranquility, Tate-La Bianca Manson Murders. This tractor has been there & done that. Minneapolis Moline Olivers sister brand. Enjoyed This Presentation🚜👍
I stopped many a time and warmed my hands on that nice warm muffler!!! Too many cold 🥶 nights trying to beat freeze 🥶 up!! Thanks for making remember how much I loved watching that blue flame 🔥 come out of my big bad 4020!!
I did the same thing. Put the gloves over the muffler. Felt so good but didn't last that long.
Super material in all aspects, like that glow in the dark exhaust, thanks for sharing
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It's nice to see them old machines working. It makes you appreciate cabs and GPS.
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Been there done that and all you can smell is diesel and freshly turned soil good memories.
Nice looking Minneapolis Moline and sounds good.
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And just to think Scruffy, if the Snowflake Libtards get their way and sue Monsanto/ Bayer into submission we'll be back to farming this way in no time, just bigger.
We (I) plowed w/ a ‘64 U302 diesel, wide front w/ an Allis 4-14 in Northwestern PA in the late 60’s-early 70’s. Beast could work any ground or cover... I so remember the throaty sound, flame shooting exhaust & incredible fuel economy. I sure felt like a big time, proud operator as a 16-24 year old FFA member.
Best tractor we ever had on our 150 acre+ dairy farm!
Very cool. I hope to film a U302 someday. Solid tractor.
@@bigtractorpower That would be great.
Boy you brought back some sweet memories. Burnin' the midnight oil, freshly turned ground, smell of a good running diesel. MMMM Good.
Great video!! I miss the days when farmers plowed and turned the soil.
This was a great filming opportunity to catch history in action.
I remember dad pulling a 6 bottom plow with a MM Vista G-1000. Grandpa drove the JD 4010 pulling a 4 bottom. By the time I was old enough to drive, we disced only. I drove a 1900 Oliver with front axle assist. That screemin' Jimmy was so loud. My brother later bought a Oliver 2155 that I occasionally got to drive. No cabs, just a fender radio.
Our last tractor was our biggest, a 1969 2050 Oliver. I pulled six-sixteens with it in our light soil here in Michigan. The tractor easily could have pulled another bottom. First overnight of plowing with it was on a piece of rental property I hadn't worked before. About 2 am I got to thinking why I hadn't seen the hedgerow at the end of the field yet? I shut down the tractor and got off to look around. Turned out I had driven through a gate at the end of the field and hadn't realized it with those dim lights. Got back on the tractor to get back on my side of the hedge row, only to discover the tractor had started to sink in the swamp I had driven into. I'll spare you the details of the next six hours of digging, pulling and cursing. End of tale is I ended up hiring the local BIG wrecker to come pull it out. Guy spent three hours on a Sunday morning before everything was on dry land - and only charged me $60 since he had so much fun playing with his rig.
Loved this, thanks! So many memories finishing up in a snowstorm on a G900.
It's simple. I see a Minnie Mo, I like the video!
I've always been fascinated with plowing in the dark.
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Great Video, Love the MMoline G1050 Tractor.
My uncle used one of these for many years. It was a great machine!
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Another great and informative video. My neighbor still has a G1000 that he bought new. He uses it every spring for plowing. Unique sounding tractor. It's always satisfying to work a tractor under it's own lighting. It's like you're getting away with something being able to work the fields in the absence of light to get it done on time.
Very cool on the G1000 still plowing away.
@@bigtractorpower there's really something special or nostalgic going on. I have a 1960 Massey Ferguson 85 that my grandfather passed down to me. He purchased it brand new and was ridiculed by other farmers in the community for ever needing a tractor that big. Some years later my neighbor purchased his G1000. He understood the instant he put it to work. To look around the town today and see the size of the equipment is incredible. My grandfather was progressive. I still love to run the old 85 and plan on restoring it for it's 60th birthday. It does everything with ease. Brings back memories of better times too. Thanks again for all the good videos.
Thank you...Remember helping the neighbors plow at nite with their straight pipe 9600 Ford and 4- 20s
Great setup! Nice plow. Nice tractor! Thanks for sharing!
Spent years on a Allis Chalmers D21 doing exactly this, plowing/discing all day and all night long.
Wow that cool. A D21 is the number one item on my wish list to
Film.
@@bigtractorpower Our 1967 Allis Chalmers D21 had duals and a factory installed cab, Rated at 127 hp. The cab was like an oven in the summer, (no AC, just a fan) we would strap the doors open and open the windows as far as we could go. Then in the winter, with the windows and doors closed it was so loud you couldn't hear yourself think! Great memories!
Fender lights on the mighty Mo's were actually pretty darn good for the era. A lot of the "Super" versions (like my U302) had backlit gauges also. Remember when "Indiglo" from Timex watches was all the rage in the 90's? yeah that's what they look like, except 10x brighter. White face gauges with light blue-ish light behind, black numbers- see them better then in the daylight that way. Going into the 70's all the manufacturers got a lot better with lighting, especially on tractors with cabs, but I don't think any of them got better gauge lighting then the MM did all the way up to modern day.
Started plowing when I was six on a white 2-70 with and Oliver four bottom plow. I loved working in the spring when the sun went down. We spring farmed all our ground for sweet corn and green beans. The cannery is long gone now it’s all fall tillage for seed crops. 9460r with auto steer sure gets things done lots quicker.
I have always loved the Minneapolis Moline tractors i want one
I always liked PLOWIN in the DARK ❤❤❤😊😊😊😊
It is neat seeing plowing at night.
Is amazing on how far farming has come. I remember nights like that. U can't c a dam thing off to the side of the tractor. Lol. Now 1 tractor can pretty much light up a football field. Awesome video. 👍😇
Wow, i liked this video, with great looking tractor and it looked like he was doing a good job turning that soil.
Nice tractor!!
Great video Jason.
Thank you for watching.
Boy I loved the sound of that old girl when the plowing got tuff she got going nice
I spent many hours on a G1000 pulling a 5 bottom 16inchMinneapolis Moline plow. Always had a half cab canvas heat houser. The luxuries.
Very cool. Great tractor.
I've never drove one but I've heard those MM's are a hell of a workhorse
, I love the sound of a big inline diesel
Live the flame coming from the muffler 👍
Good stuff, Dad bought me a second hand GV1 Moline about when I was 11. He had one he bought new in 1960. 85hp I believe, but Dad put a washer under the governor to get another 100revs or so which he reckoned gave him 90hp. This was in about 1976. We still have the old girl in the shed last ran in 2006 or so. Good old hand clutch and you really had to stand on the steering brake to turn corners working round and round, pretty light on the front end, in fact with a heavy load and a twitchy left arm she would pop the front wheels off the ground 😂
The GVI was Moline’s big tractor from 1959-1962 with its 78 pto hp rating. Tractors shifting and steering has come along way. 60 years ago a GVI was a monster in the field.
Great video. Your camera does a nice job of capturing those low light shots. Well done.
😁👍. I filmed this entire video with my iphone. It did much better than my regular camera could have.
It’s working just like the day at rolled off the fact recently line that’s pretty cool I think I would definitely wanna upgrade my lights
Good memories
Who needs headlights when there's a full moon?
Wish I had that G6 I used in the late 1960s
A beautiful thing!
In my country it was very common to pull a packer and small drill and plant the small grain, wheat oats barley at same time you plowed. Quite often it was very effective in weed reduction often no spraying.
👍👍. This method was common in the Western states like Wyoming to seed wheat. They would run a plow, harrow and drill behind one tractor. No till air seeders greatly changed small grain seeding.
I started farming with cabs and AC and heat. But still had the tractors around that my dad and his brothers worked with. I listened to them tell me stories how they would put wheat bags down the side so some of the engine heat would come on to them. So mane good old stories. Now days we complain if the auto steer is out.
Gazza's Stuff I remember disking at night as a young boy, early fall in North Dakota, freezing my butt off, no cab, no nothing.
Love the colour and styling (hood and grille) on these MMs and these tractors look huge.
Great sounding machine 🎶
If i vin on lottery, then i buy one and ship it to Europe 😀
A old moldboard plow will sure do the job
Very cool video
Great video and I love seeing older iron! I know it's a pretty minor thing but the weights quoted is only a difference of 550lbs and there must be 1000 lbs on the front alone.
tractor driver has those yellow fuzzy glove like my grandpa wore
It would remind me of fall years ago more if the heat houser was on! I would have froze to death with out it. When’s the last time you saw a heathouser on a tractor? I love those slow turning MM thanks!
I have not had a chance to film a heat houser but sure would like too.
I remember them days
Thats farming the way I remember.
The. Farmer across from where i grew up had a g1000 with a straight pipe she hummed
A neighbor of my parents has a massey 4880 with a 903 and you can hear that thing purr 2 miles away even with the muffler.
Cool video!
Man that takes me back. The smell on a open station tractor turning ground. Loved that smell of the earth and diesel. Would run one all night, then dad would take over about daylight. Sure was tough with cold temps and being dark back then.
That's some nice dirt.
Best time of the day to mow board plow is night time spent alot of nights after milking cows plowing away but not witn a minnie mo.. always was a international 1086
Difficult to judge this tractor under load. Need to explain the 5-bottom plow. Was this a 5-14" plow? or 5-16"? or 5-18"? - the cut makes a big difference. What depth was the plow set to cut? Also, the soil composition makes a difference: loam, sandy, peat, silt, chalk, or clay? And even the age of the alfalfa field makes a difference with an older field with larger plant roots resulting in a heavier pull than a one year old alfalfa field.
Where’s the heater tarp housing with the faded windshield
Jay Thomas ..”Heat Houser”.
Heat Housers actually worked pretty well until there was a strong tail wind.
My dad made a canvas roof supported by a piece of pile bolted to the lift cover. That helped a lot on the manure spreader tractor.
You forgot to mention the good old heathousers before the cabs l spent many hours on a tractor with a heathousers!!
back in the day i would put many hours on that fender , called buddy seat to day.
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Nothing beats riding on a tractor with someone who teaches you how to do it ovor the years
Ahhh! I can smell it now
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The glow coming out the exhaust means the engine is out of time!
Ño no no and no!!!!!
BTDT ! Got no "fond memories" of life on an open-station tractor either ! Recall crafting a canvas heat shield for 1030 JD to pump all that engine heat back around the operating station !
Poor and cold weather would not be fun. I enjoyed this nice fall evening seeing this classic tillage team looking just like it did 50 years ago.
Done this in corn ground with different equipment
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I'm like everybody else I sure do miss it I'm 66 now 16 years old M International or 3 bottom Oliver plow 316
I presume this has the famous split jug engine by minimo.
Are naiber said he did not need good lights because he went home when it got dark. I enjoyed working at night.
And I thought only fighter jets used afterburners.🤔
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Nothing like night shift.......
Remember fondly or shudder to think about and be glad they don't have to do it this way anymore
It’s nostalgia now. I just filmed a tractor with a heated/air conditioned seat that also has a massaging feature @ ua-cam.com/video/b4Yvq9_U6zA/v-deo.html
Takes a real farmer to do this.I'd have to have a heated,soundproof,cab.(Deere 8530 etc.)