Oh WOW, flashback Deluxe.! On our walnut harvesting business farm. My father, and Granpa used tha very same rig you USUALLY DO. The M deluxe, and that ADAMS, On the gravel tracks around the horse barn, and Butler brand aluminum metal barn. Flattening the ruts out each spring. Then that Adam's, complete with lichens abounding was our JUNGLE JIM the rest of the year. Aye-aye Captain pirates off the port quarter. Lates '50's Early '60's.THANK YOU TWO, for these memories.!.!.! . Both of them were gone before my 10th birthday.
Modern hydraulics are great, but I love the old mechanical stuff. The operators had to have arms and legs of steel back in the day. Senior looks good on it! Great old machine; thanks for sharing.
Hey guys I was really empresses with your video thanks for demonstrating each function of the old grader , thanks for showing the H when it was almost spinning and I loved listening to her pull hard she was running like a champ, and thanks for show how you and your dad are in cinq operating the grader and the H , and thanks for showing the finished product it looks awesome! You guys sure know how to make a video 👌I hope you guys keep the old iron alive! Take care guys!!
I want to thank you so much for this video. My Dad told me how his dad would help to build some of the roads in the Blue Hill's in Rusk Co. Wi. back in the teens and early 1920s. This was building roads not fix them. I won't bore you with too much detail but this machine sounds like what they might have used back then. First, they had to cut trees and pick lots of rocks and boulders. They used teams of horses and lots of labor. my Grandfather also had a farm to work. My dad said his Dad was the hardest working man he ever knew.
The JD Adams graders built for the Canadian market were manufactured in the small town of Paris, Ontario where my grandpa farmed for many years, I showed him this video and he says he can remember them testing graders similar to yours on his road years ago, (he's now 88). Thanks for sharing
I am a true fan not only do you fix & restore the old cool equipment but you use it & show how it's used& works! I am so glad i stumbled across your channel. GO H POWER!!!
This grader brings back memories of my early childhood. We lived on US highway 41 in middle Ga., and the highway dept. Used one of these pulled by a small Cat to pull the ditches. Seeing old iron being used today is priceless. You and your Dad do an awesome job with old iron. Keep up the good work.
I remember as a kid we use to borrow a Grader similar to that. Spent a lot of time on it. You are lucky to have his piece of equipment. Thanks for bringing back some memories. Very good video.
A caterpillar 16M grader with Trimble GPS will be my office this season. But . . . I started on one of these, very similar, in the late 70s and 80s. Great work, enjoyed this.
That old Adams Road King grader would look nice restored to it's original colours. The restoration would make a great project to video. Stay Safe from the UK.
I remember having a grader much like the one in this video when we were kids. My Grandpa owned it and used it on the dirt roads of our small neighborhood. Our neighbors would usually help and take turns pulling it around with their trucks and tractors.
It's great to see vintage machinery like this still in action, built to do what it's supposed to do. Love that 'ol farmall closewheel tractor too, a real classic! I'm no way an expert on farm machinery but I think the closewheel tractors are/were ideal for ploughing (plowing - yea we spell it weird lol) potato ridges - grow plenty of them here in the cambrideshire fens in the UK!
Another good one. I’ll watch that really old equipment all day long. That grader is in remarkable shape for its age. You and Senior made a good team which is good cause that’s not a one man operation (even in horse drawn days, there would have been a driver and an operator). It made road just like a champ. I’m impressed. 😎👍👏
Ran one of these as a younger lad, also pulled by an H. I had never ran a grader before , I learned fast. We did a very large gravel parking lot, pushing some rather large windrows of rock. The H with double wheel weights on the back and some on the front really got one hell of a work out. But we got the job done and it looked great. I remember being one worn out puppy by the end of the day. Guy on the H would not stop or slow down, some superstition he had about daylight burning or something, I didn't understand. Great video of how it was done.
Senior and you work very well together. Wasn't so when my brothers operated an ancient Austin Leaning Wheel that had been passed around within the family for about 50 years. Well worn as it was, it worn out good humor fairly quickly and always resulted in an inevitable fist fight. It still sits in a pasture near where it shed it's front wheels sixty years ago.
You guys have some of the coolest old machinery I have ever seen. It is so nice to see machinery that was made for horses still able to be use, and be effective at that! Thanks again for taking all the time to put these videos together to share.
That fine piece of "ancient" equipment did a great job! I bet it was someone's pride and joy when it was new. I also bet it was something to see in those colors with a team in front.
Great memories! I was gifted a 10-wheel (big!) Adams motor road grader for my 10th birthday. Made by 'Model', I had lusted for it for quite a while. It was totally orange. Big bucks, in 1948 (> $15.00)!
thanks... that brings back memories.. we had a cat 15 tow behind with pneumatic tires that we got from Ventura county in the late 50s.. towed it behind our cat Twenty.. most of the time the Twenty and the 15 grader were my jungle jim equipment. the 15 was loaned out decades ago and traded hands several times. it is now on display in somebodies front yard surrounded by a fence to keep everybody off it.. the poor Twenty has been sitting outside most of its life. needed to be split to do some clutch work. then the engine seized.. the early 60s hansa yellow machine enamel just glowing in the mile high sun.. daring you to touch it.. it was Lead based paint..
Do you have an old garden scuffler for doing between the rows of a garden? I remember my sister and brothers pulling that thing by hand sometimes for fun. Back then all farm families grew a big garden and all the potatoes needed for the winter. Watching your Mom with the maple syrup brought back memories of my Mother canning everything for the winter. Love when you show some of the country scenery. I left the farm in the '70's. Chose a different path but have fond memories of the country now.
been there, done that, 1955,56 I pulled a grader with a John Deere Lindeman, it took a couple days to grade all the ranch roads...ranch owner operated grader, he knew all about those
I really enjoy your videos, especially enjoy you showing the old stuff. I have a John Deere lawn tractor that's only 3 years old, but I also mow with a '55 Allis Chalmers B and Woods belly mower, plus at the farm I use a "53 John Deere 40 (retired to light duty now), a "62 Massey Super 90 diesel, and just added a "73 Ford 4000SU diesel. I could tell by the rain cap on the H that it was barely working pulling your grader. Also, I was very impressed by the skill your dad possesses to be able to work that old grader expertly and make it look easy. Very nice video, and I love your channel. Thanks for keeping it family friendly too.
That "iron" may be old but, they worked and still work far better than some of today's iron does. Kinda wished I had one of those here on the farm. Great to see the "H" running. Great video, cheers :)
Positively fabulous! I am so interested in old equipment. I have a Super H and 3 different trip plows I plan to fix up to use and possibly sell one or two of the plows sometime.
Is good job, your father is good with the old grader. I propose, if you want, that it would be better if you pass also the roller to compact the terrain, Good movie
Another good example of multigenerational cooperation by Team Squatch. The old grader sure does a better job than my 8' long 10" H-beam behind my A-C WD-45. I tow the H-beam, from a short 3-point platform, at an angle which pulls material to the center and then I straighten and lift the H-beam to let it just kiss the center on the last pass. If I keep on top of grading, it does a fair job while providing some play time on Allis. :-)
Thanks for tagging along?? Well..thank YOU for giving us something to watch...snowing as i speak in Minneapolis..supposed to get 3-6" and the wind is howling out of the north at 35-45mph...THANK YOU SQUATCH253 AND S.R.
You guys have the most interesting channel. I love how when the usual fascinating machines are down for projects, you can fall back on even older, somehow more interesting machines!
Now that is impressive to watch. I live in a small community in the Yukon, we have a touristy setup which at its center has several old machines, one looks fairly similar to that Adams. When the snow clears off (still 2 feet out here) Ill document the set.
Tha "Old Iron" just goes and goes and goes. Made back in the days when time wasnt soooo important. The blade does a 100% better job than any box or rear blade will ever do.
Actually saw one these graders drawn by horses leveling a parking lot in Watertown, South Dakota in 1982. Cannot remember how many horses in the team. Nice job crowning the road.
Awsome video love watching that old equipment seen several of those old graders but that's the first time i got to see one in action great video keep them coming
Oh WOW, flashback Deluxe.! On our walnut harvesting business farm. My father, and Granpa used tha very same rig you USUALLY DO. The M deluxe, and that ADAMS, On the gravel tracks around the horse barn, and Butler brand aluminum metal barn. Flattening the ruts out each spring. Then that Adam's, complete with lichens abounding was our JUNGLE JIM the rest of the year. Aye-aye Captain pirates off the port quarter. Lates '50's Early '60's.THANK YOU TWO, for these memories.!.!.! . Both of them were gone before my 10th birthday.
I have to say the Thing I like most about your channels is the relationship and your father have.
it's pretty amazing to see, especially for those of us who never had that :)
You have some really cool rusty relics. Those old graders are neat looking. Thanks for maintaining them and saving our history! 🇺🇸🚜👍
What a great video! It's a pleasure to see the old machines running and doing their jobs! Hats off to you guys.
So many childhood memories playing on that grader avoiding work.
The old H purrs right along as if she hasn't sat more than a day. Gotta love them old girls!
@@squatch253 all in good time. Let's get one of the other three back together first!
My dad had an IH dealership so I love seeing the old farmall's in action..brings back many memories from my childhood
JR, seniority is a rank, isn't it? The Senior is the one who knows how to maneuver the grader! Nice, keep going.
Modern hydraulics are great, but I love the old mechanical stuff. The operators had to have arms and legs of steel back in the day. Senior looks good on it! Great old machine; thanks for sharing.
Nice tease..."leaves two starting engines for future projects". A damn trifecta.
That's an awesome grader. I sure wish the grader operators i work with knew the importance of having a crown in the road
Hey guys I was really empresses with your video thanks for demonstrating each function of the old grader , thanks for showing the H when it was almost spinning and I loved listening to her pull hard she was running like a champ, and thanks for show how you and your dad are in cinq operating the grader and the H , and thanks for showing the finished product it looks awesome! You guys sure know how to make a video 👌I hope you guys keep the old iron alive! Take care guys!!
I want to thank you so much for this video. My Dad told me how his dad would help to build some of the roads in the Blue Hill's in Rusk Co. Wi. back in the teens and early 1920s. This was building roads not fix them. I won't bore you with too much detail but this machine sounds like what they might have used back then. First, they had to cut trees and pick lots of rocks and boulders. They used teams of horses and lots of labor. my Grandfather also had a farm to work. My dad said his Dad was the hardest working man he ever knew.
This film of the old grader has a cool factor of -50°c......love it!
The JD Adams graders built for the Canadian market were manufactured in the small town of Paris, Ontario where my grandpa farmed for many years, I showed him this video and he says he can remember them testing graders similar to yours on his road years ago, (he's now 88). Thanks for sharing
I am a true fan not only do you fix & restore the old cool equipment but you use it & show how it's used& works! I am so glad i stumbled across your channel. GO H POWER!!!
Toby, watching you and Senior operate that equipment is like seeing a time capsule in real life. Just wonderful!
This grader brings back memories of my early childhood. We lived on US highway 41 in middle Ga., and the highway dept. Used one of these pulled by a small Cat to pull the ditches.
Seeing old iron being used today is priceless. You and your Dad do an awesome job with old iron. Keep up the good work.
I remember as a kid we use to borrow a Grader similar to that. Spent a lot of time on it. You are lucky to have his piece of equipment. Thanks for bringing back some memories. Very good video.
A caterpillar 16M grader with Trimble GPS will be my office this season.
But . . .
I started on one of these, very similar, in the late 70s and 80s.
Great work, enjoyed this.
Ole H is sure singing a tune!
That old Adams Road King grader would look nice restored to it's original colours. The restoration would make a great project to video. Stay Safe from the UK.
She's Old and Rickety and STILL DOING THE JOB!!
Who needs the good old days?,You guys got the good stuff!
Glad to see your video. I just bought an old grader and enjoyed seeing your video before venturing out with mine.
Looks like Dad is quite enjoying himself up on his perch....
Yeah, and doing a damn fine job of grading. That's not as easy as he makes it look. He can just about comb your hair with that thing.
Senior did a first class job on the grader. The result was excellent.
Boy Squatch the old school horse drawn equipment sure gets the job done, with a little help from the H. NICE!!!
I remember having a grader much like the one in this video when we were kids. My Grandpa owned it and used it on the dirt roads of our small neighborhood. Our neighbors would usually help and take turns pulling it around with their trucks and tractors.
It's great to see vintage machinery like this still in action, built to do what it's supposed to do. Love that 'ol farmall closewheel tractor too, a real classic! I'm no way an expert on farm machinery but I think the closewheel tractors are/were ideal for ploughing (plowing - yea we spell it weird lol) potato ridges - grow plenty of them here in the cambrideshire fens in the UK!
Another good one. I’ll watch that really old equipment all day long. That grader is in remarkable shape for its age. You and Senior made a good team which is good cause that’s not a one man operation (even in horse drawn days, there would have been a driver and an operator). It made road just like a champ. I’m impressed. 😎👍👏
Ran one of these as a younger lad, also pulled by an H. I had never ran a grader before , I learned fast. We did a very large gravel parking lot, pushing some rather large windrows of rock. The H with double wheel weights on the back and some on the front really got one hell of a work out. But we got the job done and it looked great. I remember being one worn out puppy by the end of the day. Guy on the H would not stop or slow down, some superstition he had about daylight burning or something, I didn't understand. Great video of how it was done.
Senior and you work very well together. Wasn't so when my brothers operated an ancient Austin Leaning Wheel that had been passed around within the family for about 50 years. Well worn as it was, it worn out good humor fairly quickly and always resulted in an inevitable fist fight. It still sits in a pasture near where it shed it's front wheels sixty years ago.
The A team does it again
Nice job men
You guys have some of the coolest old machinery I have ever seen. It is so nice to see machinery that was made for horses still able to be use, and be effective at that! Thanks again for taking all the time to put these videos together to share.
Glad you're getting some use out of that grader. Glad it's not someone's lawn ornament!
Good to see the old machinery still capable of doing what it was built for. I was wondering what the "leaning wheel" was all about...very ingenious!
That's a really neat old grader and Sr operates it well. Good job guys.
That fine piece of "ancient" equipment did a great job! I bet it was someone's pride and joy when it was new. I also bet it was something to see in those colors with a team in front.
Jimmy Carter was the president the last time I saw an old grader that worked
You're on the verge of living in a museum, just waiting to see the steam engine kit brought out! Thanks Modern Man.
Good video. Great to see the old tech grader get 'er done! Haha. Thanks for the video.
Great video. Since I started watching your channel I've got a new appreciation for "old iron ".👍
bet that wrench/hammer is a rare tool and hard to find...great to see these machines working, and work well indeed...
If he were to lose that wrench, he would just make another.
Great memories! I was gifted a 10-wheel (big!) Adams motor road grader for my 10th birthday. Made by 'Model', I had lusted for it for quite a while. It was totally orange. Big bucks, in 1948 (> $15.00)!
Very impressive that equipment that old - both the H and the grader - are still useful tools and not just collectors' items.
Now that's some sweet old iron and it's working excellently
As a kid I seen the county grading the gravel road past our house with a old machine like that! It did a great job!
a fun day listening to old tractor do its thing.
What an Easter treat! I never understood why the wheels had that pivot on a grader, now I do! Happy Easter.
thanks... that brings back memories.. we had a cat 15 tow behind with pneumatic tires that we got from Ventura county in the late 50s.. towed it behind our cat Twenty.. most of the time the Twenty and the 15 grader were my jungle jim equipment. the 15 was loaned out decades ago and traded hands several times. it is now on display in somebodies front yard surrounded by a fence to keep everybody off it.. the poor Twenty has been sitting outside most of its life. needed to be split to do some clutch work. then the engine seized.. the early 60s hansa yellow machine enamel just glowing in the mile high sun.. daring you to touch it.. it was Lead based paint..
Glad to see you Dad and you keeping your "social distancing" buy one guy on the tractor and one guy on the blade. Communication was BIG back then.
That old Adams Grader still does an amazing job, I guess the Operators skill has something to do with that. Great video
That's just neat as heck. Love them old implements.
Do you have an old garden scuffler for doing between the rows of a garden? I remember my sister and brothers pulling that thing by hand sometimes for fun. Back then all farm families grew a big garden and all the potatoes needed for the winter. Watching your Mom with the maple syrup brought back memories of my Mother canning everything for the winter. Love when you show some of the country scenery. I left the farm in the '70's. Chose a different path but have fond memories of the country now.
been there, done that, 1955,56 I pulled a grader with a John Deere Lindeman, it took a couple days to grade all the ranch roads...ranch owner operated grader, he knew all about those
That thing looks like it did a great job. I think your Dad may have had a little experience operating it before.........
I really enjoy your videos, especially enjoy you showing the old stuff. I have a John Deere lawn tractor that's only 3 years old, but I also mow with a '55 Allis Chalmers B and Woods belly mower, plus at the farm I use a "53 John Deere 40 (retired to light duty now), a "62 Massey Super 90 diesel, and just added a "73 Ford 4000SU diesel. I could tell by the rain cap on the H that it was barely working pulling your grader. Also, I was very impressed by the skill your dad possesses to be able to work that old grader expertly and make it look easy.
Very nice video, and I love your channel. Thanks for keeping it family friendly too.
How cool is this? Now you just need one of those old rollers you were showing us at the tractor show!
Toby , awesome video love that old machinery.
Great to see old equipment still active and effective. Good Engineering of original horse drawn implements.
Excellent job. You did a better job with the old Adams than the guy's that are getting paid for it and running new machines in our area.
😊😊😊👍👍👍👍💖
That "iron" may be old but, they worked and still work far better than some of today's iron does. Kinda wished I had one of those here on the farm. Great to see the "H" running. Great video, cheers :)
Nice to see that old equipment still doing the work and there’s some skill in the operator as well top job.
The H pulled it just fine good to see that grader in action !
That old grader is such a well thought out piece of equipment an obviously with an experienced hand at the controls 👍👍 an the H did really well💪💪
Positively fabulous! I am so interested in old equipment. I have a Super H and 3 different trip plows I plan to fix up to use and possibly sell one or two of the plows sometime.
Is good job, your father is good with the old grader. I propose, if you want, that it would be better if you pass also the roller to compact the terrain, Good movie
Love watching old iron work!!! Thanks for sharing....
Good to see Sr out too! :)
That was fantastic! You 2 make a good grader operator.
Thanks for the video it was the coolest I've seen so far
Awesome set-up. Looking good 👍
Very cool. Really nice piece of land you've got there. Thanks for posting.
Great pics of old metal doing the job, as they were made for!!
The Masters and their machine’s, I do remember these on our country roads, Nova Scotia, Canada
That's awesome. I've never seen one of those. Don't have to worry about any hydraulic lines breaking there :)
Another good example of multigenerational cooperation by Team Squatch. The old grader sure does a better job than my 8' long 10" H-beam behind my A-C WD-45. I tow the H-beam, from a short 3-point platform, at an angle which pulls material to the center and then I straighten and lift the H-beam to let it just kiss the center on the last pass. If I keep on top of grading, it does a fair job while providing some play time on Allis. :-)
My Dad and Grandpa both worked at the Adams plant in Indianapolis. I think it closed about 40 years ago.
Wow that tow behind.....I'd a awsome piece of old equipment...let's do a refresh of that next!!!!
Thanks for tagging along?? Well..thank YOU for giving us something to watch...snowing as i speak in Minneapolis..supposed to get 3-6" and the wind is howling out of the north at 35-45mph...THANK YOU SQUATCH253 AND S.R.
You guys have the most interesting channel. I love how when the usual fascinating machines are down for projects, you can fall back on even older, somehow more interesting machines!
Awesome! Thank you for sharing along with explanations on how it all works.
Who the hell gives a thumps down? Brilliant video. Awesome.
Now that is impressive to watch. I live in a small community in the Yukon, we have a touristy setup which at its center has several old machines, one looks fairly similar to that Adams. When the snow clears off (still 2 feet out here) Ill document the set.
Tha "Old Iron" just goes and goes and goes. Made back in the days when time wasnt soooo important. The blade does a 100% better job than any box or rear blade will ever do.
The H did a good job, front wheels never came off the ground, could use a couple more wheel weights .
Actually saw one these graders drawn by horses leveling a parking lot in Watertown, South Dakota in 1982. Cannot remember how many horses in the team. Nice job crowning the road.
Looks like Sr knows how to run that like a pro.....nice job guys
Very cool, never saw any equipment like this before
Great to see this really old bit of machinery pressed back into service. Don’t make them like that any more!
4:10 "Every tool has a hammer side." Eric O., South Main Auto Repair
Another great channel (SMA) and always entertaining.
Awsome video love watching that old equipment seen several of those old graders but that's the first time i got to see one in action great video keep them coming
Awesome job guys
There's nothing on the market that can do that job today in a pull type grader
Father and son did some work on the road, playing around. "We had some fun"!
wow great old machine love that stuff thanks !!
I’ve pulled a No. 11 Adams road grader with a B John Deere a lot. They work very well for 100 plus year old technology.
Thanks for the demo, I always wondered how those old graders worked.
Happy Easter. Love the videos. Keep them coming
Loved that old grader . Where ever did find that. Enjoyed watching that. Thanks for sharing