I remember those days. As a young kid my dad made us walk behind the tractor to uncover any plants that got covered up. We spent days in the garden doing this. Seeing you do this really brings back memories. Thank you Laura farms for bringing back memories of the old days. May God bless you all.
Grew up in the 50's on a dairy farm in NY. That is how we did our farming. An open station in the blazing sun working our tails off. Spent 5 to 7 hours a day in the fields doing exactly that. It was fun and hard work. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
My youth was the same story in Central Ohio. 8 to 10 hours trying to keep the tractor on-line. That's when I learned that there was such a thig as sun poisoning.
grew up in Dutch farm country in the 1980s. Farmers there would have drooled seeing that Deere, they were still using 1940s era tractors donated through the Marshall plan in 1985!
@Laura Farms you have probably already figured this out but on your wide front 4020 there is a bolt on the top of the Axel housing on each side of the tractor. If your wheel spacing is set up correctly for your 30 inch rows that bolt will travel directly over the center of the row. If you get tired leaning to your right then lean to your left for awhile. It's the old man's guide to cultivating. No auto steer required 👍
It was hard to tell from the video, but it looked like they had hammered on it so much the end was flared out, almost like accidentally creating a rivet.
@@kmbbmj5857 I thought the threaded side looked bent. If I have to hammer from the threaded side, I leave the nut on just at the edge where the threads begin. Smooth flat surface and usually you won't damage the threads.
When I started to watch this video I was only a little bit hungry. Now all I can think about is a plate of sweet corn, slathered in butter, and chopping down on it. One problem, I don't have any sweet corn around. And what a great video! Close ups of the process of caring for equipment, just for helping us audience people to appreciate everything. Laura, Grant (and company), your work is great.
If you go on an adventure with Laura, you be surprised what you can find. - I do admire Laura and Grant using old equipment for their farm, rather than spending thousands on new equipment they can't afford. - you have a very good employee who seems he knows what he is doing, he is the sort that you can leave alone, and he will get on and do a good job. Love to you all from Mike. ❤
They use top end equipment for their farm. This is a special plot made as part of an educational series on how to get started in farming. They bought and refurbished old used equipment to show how to get started.
You kids crack me up with your auto steer and air conditioned tractor cabs! I was a weekend farmer, farming my granddads Missouri farm. My uncle gave me Zero training, just told me to go hook up that cultivator and get out there and cultivate those 160 acres of soy beans. No umbrella, no auto steer, no air conditioning and a warm jug of cloudy well water. All this was after milking of course. The year was 1972 and I was 11. Could barely push the clutch all the way down on that IH 560. Don't get me started on combining fescue with that old IH combine with Zero training from my old crotchety uncle! I still don't talk to him. Your channel makes me nostalgic. Enjoy these days you young Wilsons.
Yup. I grew with my dad using my grandfather's Allis Chalmers D15. Then, my Grandfather got some bigger Allis Chalmers tractors (4400?). But, I've used old Internationals with no a/c and John Deeres (with air conditioned cabs). Air Conditioning does make it easier to spend hours in a field, though I've only helped rake hay with the John Deeres.
my dad started me on our 97 massey that had a hand clutch because i was too short to reach the pedals!! it was our big tractor at the time!!! have fun remembering
You need to cut the end off the pieces you removed that are plated on the square tubes and weld them on the other existing tubes because that’s part part of the structure to strengthen the remaining square tubes and keeps weather out and dirt buildup inside the frame. 😊
They can do that later as they couldn't get into that plot because of heavy rains and as it rains the corn grows and they needed to get the weeding done.
@@beesbo1856 Agree. They could have also put the weeder back in the shop after the job outdoors was finished and welded it then. If I had a shop as big as theirs, I would be in it if I was not outside farming. It depends on their drive and determination. They don't have children to take care of but maybe they have a nighttime TV/UA-cam Habit.
Done cultivating back in the day with a 2 row on a 1938 B John Deere. It had no hydraulics. You lift it in and out of the dirt with manual lever. With no weed control we would cultivate 3-4 times a season starting when the corn was 2" tall until knee high. First time through was done in low gear, 2 miles per hrs. That's like 1 acre per hrs. The second time thru would could speed up a little and the 3 and 4th time you went 6- 7 mi. per hrs. 80 acres of corn cultivating was 7 weeks full time work for 1 person. But it was so much faster than horses because you didn't have to rest the tractor when you got to the end of the rows. A single farmer never had more than 80 acres of corn as the guys that still used horses had to pick the corn by hand and unloaded their wagons by hand. By the way, those horses were auto steer especially at the end of the day when they were going home. Enjoy watch your videos. Thankyou for sharing.
I do remember cultivating corn in the sixties with four row cultivator. Dad says we will know in the fall if you dozed off! 😆 yikes ! My brothers were sorta sloppy about cultivating as they were raking hay all over the place, so I did a lot of it! Girl Power! You go Laura! I am now 69.
We ran 6 row equipment in the 50’s through the 80’s as far as needing to cultivate. Dad called it “cultivator blight” and no it would usually not grow once partly cut off with the cultivator-no matter how much I tried to stand it back up and wish it worked. I am 74 and still cultivate my sweet corn.
I live in NW Ohio and my family has been raising sweet corn the same way for the past 50 years exept we grow almost 20 acers of it. With almost the same tractor to, except ours is a power shift 4020. Awesome video!
How do you harvest the sweet corn there? In South Georgia we use a mule train and by hand. The mule train is the machine that allows the corn to get from field to truck then to cooler. All corn is picked,packed,boxes counted,and stacked by hand to a truck. 840 boxes per truck. Each box has 48 ears
nice to se you young farmers use older equipment like our forefathers did, this will make you appreciate the new tech farming the younger generation have been spoiled with.
Laura, you are adventurous, bright, and might be the most lovely You Tuber on record! Your videos are educational and refreshing and I hope you continue producing and sharing in excellent health for many years. Bless you. Signed 81 year old Peter Vichi in north Idaho.
That one nightmare bolt! The one that your usual curse words just can’t describe. The one that still gives you a cold chill. Everyone has one. I would bet that you get as many helpful hints as you have subscribers! I was right there with you at every attempt. Maybe this time…? Knowing when to call-it and move forward shows the wisdom of your family’s heritage. Good for You!! Thanks for sharing.
Tractor front end. I have had to make row adjustments on some old tractors. First thing is a ton of PB blaster in the pin hole closest to the one with the stuck pin. Next try to get the pin to turn in the hole. Next try to get the sliding axle to move independently from the main axle. It is very possible that a bridge or shoulder could have developed on the pin. If that is the case, you need to get the parts moving independently from one another before you can work the pin out.
Pretty certain with the three of you together, you would without any doubts pull off big fields of this, its an awesome series of videos, and it makes me happy to see these older machines back in use as good as they where in the older times, good work all of you!
Hi I love watching you and Grant farm. I'm 72 now and to see young people work like you guys gives me hope for the future . I hope you won't mind me saying, I watch you lifting really heavy stuff. I did too most of my life. Now both my hips are shot. My Dad used to warn me ,but I didn't listen. Please think about it. Thanks for the entertainment and education
A lot of this is from old injuries or hereditary. Did you play football ? Wrestling ? Bingo.... primary issues leading to life long issues ! I was a distance runner from age 14 till age 50. Qualified to run the Boston marathon twice. My father always told me......If you dont quit that running your going to need new knees by the age of 40 ( he had both knees replace at age 60 ) I also milked cows for 45 years. To this date ??? No knee hip or back problems and Im age 70. In fact...last year I worked as a hauler for a lumber yard....often unloaded dry wall ( by hand ) at delivery spots. Primary....... dont abuse the body at an early age !
Now that's real farming when you have to drive down the rows without autosteer. Fully approve! I've been there, in the late 50's and 60's and it wasn't easy. Now you have an idea of how difficult it might be to go from hobby farming sweet corn to maybe doing more acreage and selling it.
It is amazing the youtubers who are rehabbing the tractors that I could only dream about when I was a teenager because they cost so much. Now these tractors are being being cleaned up as well as their super implements because they get the job done in a wonderfully economical fashion as long as your within 640 acres or so.
After welding in the same place so many times the metal get crystallized and looses a lot of its good properties. This can lead to an unsafe situation by pulling on it very much more. You could work at heating the bolt with a Rose Bud tip on a Gas Torch set up, Oxy Acetylene. The Rose Bud gives a nice big frame front which is good for spreading heat and not blowing the metal away like a Cutting Torch can. Let the bolt cool a bit. Then if you can get an Air Hammer you can use that to "hit" the bolt really quickly. The heat can cause the rust to weaken and the Air Hammer work like an Impact Wrench and shock the bolt loose. Then again you might wind up drilling out the bolt from both sides due to the length. You won't have to drill the whole diameter of the bolt. Be sure to use lots of cooling fluid when drilling cause the bit will get really hot then dull very quick.
Old.. I started on a farmall Cub. Never did have a cab. Wintertime we had a Heethouser to get some warmth feeding cattle. I so enjoyed your thoughts about the “old days”. Got a chuckle out of it, you grandpa is looking down and shacking his head, kids…. Keep up the great work, I’m living through you and the boys.
I learnt to drive on a Fergie TEA in the sixties. When i was around ten i was allowed to drive the "big" tractors , i spent many happy days planting , cultivating , bailing etc. The modern tractors and harvesters just feel so detached from the land . I'm so pleased you have invested the time and effort to experience what it was like back in the day.
@jvc110u about as good as them rigging their equipment to shut down so that only a tech can fix it. Supreme Court keeps pushing that case back cuz if farmers win it, John deere will fk over the auto industry something bad 😅
Laura, Great to see that you are getting a lot of rain, keeping the wells off is a big money saver. Watching you use a somewhat older cultivator brought back many memories to me of spending many days on my dads Farmall H with a two row cultivator that mounted on the tractor, my dad had a four row that mounted on his Farmall Super M. He farmed about 400 acres of row crops, mostly corn. Back in the day, i.e. late 1950s we would go over the ground 4 times before we planted and then another 5 times, counting planting before we were ready to start the wells for summer irrigation. We would (1) chop stalks, (2) disc (3) plow (the H would pull a two bottom 16 inch mowboard plow and the M would pull a 3 bottom 16 inch plough) (4) harrow (5) plant, we had a 4 row planter,(6) when the corn was about 4 inches tall we would rotary hoe, (7) first cultivation, (8) second cultivation (9) third cultivation which was when we ridged the corn rows so we could run irrigation water between the rows and (10) we would apply liquid ammonia nitrate. Then pull the irrigation ditch at the high end of the field and we were ready to start wells around early July. Quite a bit different than what you do today. In our spare time, we raised 40 head of cows that provided us with calves that we feed and sold for beef and also 10 t0 15 sows hogs that provided us with around 100-125 pigs that we also fattened and sold on the meat market. We kept pretty busy. All of our tractors were completely "open", now AC and no heater in the winter. In the summer I had a killer tan like yours. A different life than now but one that I would not trade for anything. Rex Schimmer Formerly Box 254, Hiway 34, Grand Island
I'm a newcomer to your channel but I'm captivated! I'm a huge saltwater fishing youtuber follower as well as a van lifer follower but your channel popped up on my feed and I hit the play button. I've been hooked ever since! great content!
Worked as a farm hand back in the late 70's to mid 80's in southeast Iowa. You cultivating brought back a lot of memories. Thank you! And my boss lives about a block away from me now, as we are both retired and have been living in the city since retirement. Using a JD 3010 and a 6 row cultivator, I could cultivate just at 100 acres a day. Took me 11 days to cultivate the just over 1000 acres we had planted in corn and beans. Of course, the corn wasn't *that* tall and I could go faster than a snails pace like you were. I have had 4 different jobs since then, but farming was the best job I ever had, not the best paying, but the best job. Doing something different every day, outside, inside. The cattle needed fed, the hogs needed fed, pits needed pumped out in the winter, cow pooh needed spread out on the fields in the winter, cows calving late winter early spring. Lots to do. I was full time. Take care
Another implement brought back to life by your restoration team ( Grant, Gage and you ). I truly appreciate you guys cleaning out a grove of unused equipment that would probably never be recycled. You seem to truly enjoy tinkering, and then using old equipment. What’s next?
Maybe go way back in time and get a big horse, mule or a Clydesdale would be perfect and a plow and steer that plow by hand. I've tried it and it was not straight rows.
Y'all make me feel old 🙂When I was growing up I spent many hours driving JD 720 tractors across many fields. We lusted after the new modern 4020s in vain.
You guys are having too much fun. Using your old farm kit / lifting / hauling cutting / banging / wrenching. All in aid of a family giant sweet corn boil & brisket broil come harvest time. Love it.
Great job, Laura! That's the way I cultivated back in the 60's. I would also stand up some of the time. I used a 4020 for tillage, but cultivated with a JD 2010, all out in the open with no cabs. Those were the days. Thanks for bringing back great memories!😊❤
Good morning Sunshine! I enjoyed this episode a lot you guys. It was fun watcing you battle the 'ol girl and getting he out in the field with the revamped cultivator. The cultivator did an awesome job and all three of you did a great job doing it old school. Thanks for letting me hang out with y'all today. Have a great week!! Larry, Central Valley, Ca.
I'm located in Southeast Georgia, have worked all over the country as a certified TIG welder, fabricator, fitter. Ya know, from what I've found out, if you ever get a bolt removed, the best thing I've done is to use some anti-sieze. And if you need to get the bolt out from a straight through hole, get a heavy duty C-Clamp, such as an Armstrong brand, or an adjustable Bessey Clamp. You can weld a bolt that has been ground down on the circumstance then weld to a small piece of 1/4" or 3/8" bar, then place it on one end of the clamp, then on the other end of the C-Clamp, use a socket (like a 1/2" drive for a ratchet, with the open end towards the bolt you're trying to remove, so the bolt coming out, which was broken off on the tractor front end) so it can go inside the socket, and you'll still be able to tighten the C-Clamp. If you don't have a heavy duty Bessey Clamp, they can save lots of time when using them. This is basically the same thing as a bearing press, only it is portable.
Just left California and moved to Oklahoma. I've never seen those kinds of windy thunderstorms before, where lightning is like 3x/second. Or even no wind, no rain, but very thunderous... I actually quite love it. It's soothing to me for unknown reasons.
Hello! Greetings from Nicaragua. I admire your work and effort to see the fruit of your labor. Here in our country we can only dream. God bless you and your great nation.
Just noticing the main bar had welded end caps, but you did not replace the end caps once it was shortened. I believe end caps will help lengthen the long bar life and also add strength to it. thanks!
Even though new farmers may be a bit spoiled with A/C & auto-steer, your many, many, many, many, many videos show the looooong days/nights of hard work it takes to farm! Plus, the many hours it takes to maintain so much equipment week by week by week! Thank you for all you do to grow the USA! See what I did there? ❤❤❤❤❤
When I was working on farms a John Deere 8630 was a big tractor and a 4020 was still pulling planters. I hated planting season for only one reason because the 4020 would get hooked to planter and I’d have to use an old gutless Allis XT 190 to grind feed! With your bolt when in doubt drill through the center as large as you can and trim saws all blades to fit. Slice it a couple times from inside
When I lived in New Jersey we had Silver Queen sweet corn and it was oh so good!!! I hope tour crop comes out plentiful and tasty!!! Just starting to drool a little thinking about that corn!! YUMM!!!
Ya the bolt you tried to remove is most likely a tapered bolt have to heat outer housing then press or tap bolt out to reinstall reverse process have fun
I grew up on the south plains of west Texas, and I was in the 8th grade when we moved up to 6 rows from 4 rows all on 40in row settings. We were stepping up to the big boys. I miss that 4020 and all we did with it. Those were some good times. 🚜🇺🇸🚜👍
It relieves the hydraulic load (back pressure?) on the hydraulic pump, allowing the starter to more easily turn over the engine. I'm going to bet that her grandpa Curt taught her to do that.
I love hearing Laura talk about cultivating in the old days. My Dad cultivated our corn with a Farmall Cub tractor. As a teenager, Maud and I would bust out the corn middles. Maud was our old mule😊 that was the old days! I’m 81 now.
Ran those 4020s in the 60s. Laughed when you were worrying about lifting that simple 8 row cultivator . We ran 6 row double 40” rows. 20’ but 12 full size planters. Each box was about the size of a full sack of seed. Handled easily with weights on the front.
Hello from Arkansas I just recently found your channel and I have to say I'm loving it you are an impressive young woman I was raised on a cattle ranch but when I got my own cattle operation I started planting corn soybeans and wheat to feed my herd and the rest of my animals . I use a combination of John deere and international tractors and even a couple Oliver's all my equipment is 40 years old and older . I only plant 50 acres and run cattle on the rest i rent hay ground from family who dont farm I'm glad to see someone your age staying on the farm. You are the future. Keep up the good work and the videos
Laura You did GREAT!!!!!!! I was proud of you!!!!!! Good Driving and good work team you ALL put a lot of work in to get the tractor and implements in shape. I like that you are mixing in OLD school!!!
Loved the video. The fight with the bolt was good, but you seem to have gotten stuck on one way to solve the issue. It can be drilled out and replaced with a new one.
I grew up on a 2000-acre grain farm and I spent many a summer in the 1970s running a cultivator 10-12 hours a day for weeks to get over all our corn and beans. Open cab JD and obviously no auto-steer. My career path took me to Engineering and working for a major car company, but farming skills and experiences (mostly equipment repair and maintenance) served me well.
Old Days, I remember back when the first farmer in the area to get a dual wheel tractor was the main topic of discussion in the church parking lot after services. 😂😎✌️
So funny. I’m pretty sure I hear the hydraulics leaking down on the old tractor. Love that thing. That rain storm was an absolute blessing. So glad y’all’s corn got it! You and Grant are a blessing to each other. Love to see spouses work together like this. Gage is a good dude! Hard working and sharp fella. Glad you found both nuts! Haha. Great content!!!
Tip that thing back, girl!!! The sweeps aren't going in the ground, and you're running the bar too low. And set the three-point controls to depth, not load. It's the lever on the side by your right foot. D, not L.
Also I remember scuffling corn when I was a teenager and we went through the corn fairly quickly to throw more soil around the corn plants.......BUT, that was more than 50 years ago, AND the corn would have been quite a bit shorter. Good luck!! Good work. Great videos every time!!!!!
I remember those days. As a young kid my dad made us walk behind the tractor to uncover any plants that got covered up. We spent days in the garden doing this. Seeing you do this really brings back memories. Thank you Laura farms for bringing back memories of the old days. May God bless you all.
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Grew up in the 50's on a dairy farm in NY. That is how we did our farming. An open station in the blazing sun working our tails off. Spent 5 to 7 hours a day in the fields doing exactly that. It was fun and hard work. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Need to put an umbrella on that tractor.
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My youth was the same story in Central Ohio. 8 to 10 hours trying to keep the tractor on-line. That's when I learned that there was such a thig as sun poisoning.
grew up in Dutch farm country in the 1980s. Farmers there would have drooled seeing that Deere, they were still using 1940s era tractors donated through the Marshall plan in 1985!
But......did you wear short shorts.....sleeveless shirts ? Or cover up ?
@Laura Farms you have probably already figured this out but on your wide front 4020 there is a bolt on the top of the Axel housing on each side of the tractor. If your wheel spacing is set up correctly for your 30 inch rows that bolt will travel directly over the center of the row. If you get tired leaning to your right then lean to your left for awhile. It's the old man's guide to cultivating. No auto steer required 👍
This is for my sweet corn,,,,,,lol!!!!!!! Thanks! Have a great day!!!
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Drill out the bolt or use heat then rapidly cool it down and use copper grease on both so they dont sieze up.
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Yes drill it out. It will relieve some pressure on the bolt.
It was hard to tell from the video, but it looked like they had hammered on it so much the end was flared out, almost like accidentally creating a rivet.
@@kmbbmj5857 I thought the threaded side looked bent. If I have to hammer from the threaded side, I leave the nut on just at the edge where the threads begin. Smooth flat surface and usually you won't damage the threads.
Good idea.
Remember to weld on end caps to the spar to keep things and water out so it lasts longer, as the old ends were.
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I was going to say this, also the endcaps add some strength.But most importantly end caps keep the wasps from nesting in your equipment!
@@AncientMechanic64 and the mice that Laura fears!
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100 percent agree.
When I started to watch this video I was only a little bit hungry. Now all I can think about is a plate of sweet corn, slathered in butter, and chopping down on it. One problem, I don't have any sweet corn around. And what a great video! Close ups of the process of caring for equipment, just for helping us audience people to appreciate everything. Laura, Grant (and company), your work is great.
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Modern sweet corn is perfect without adding butter or anything else for that matter. Try Glacial or Eden, two of the very best white varieties.
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If you go on an adventure with Laura, you be surprised what you can find. - I do admire Laura and Grant using old equipment for their farm, rather than spending thousands on new equipment they can't afford. - you have a very good employee who seems he knows what he is doing, he is the sort that you can leave alone, and he will get on and do a good job.
Love to you all from Mike. ❤
They use top end equipment for their farm. This is a special plot made as part of an educational series on how to get started in farming. They bought and refurbished old used equipment to show how to get started.
Would you not be better taking the loader off you can always put it back on if required.
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@@ThomasYoung-j8t the loader helps with balance .
Especially if they don’t buy John Deere Mexican stuff
You kids crack me up with your auto steer and air conditioned tractor cabs! I was a weekend farmer, farming my granddads Missouri farm. My uncle gave me Zero training, just told me to go hook up that cultivator and get out there and cultivate those 160 acres of soy beans. No umbrella, no auto steer, no air conditioning and a warm jug of cloudy well water. All this was after milking of course. The year was 1972 and I was 11. Could barely push the clutch all the way down on that IH 560. Don't get me started on combining fescue with that old IH combine with Zero training from my old crotchety uncle! I still don't talk to him. Your channel makes me nostalgic. Enjoy these days you young Wilsons.
Unc probably learned you how to work
Yup. I grew with my dad using my grandfather's Allis Chalmers D15. Then, my Grandfather got some bigger Allis Chalmers tractors (4400?). But, I've used old Internationals with no a/c and John Deeres (with air conditioned cabs). Air Conditioning does make it easier to spend hours in a field, though I've only helped rake hay with the John Deeres.
My uncles main tractor was Farmall 560. Love hearing that 6cyl working hard. Memories
my dad started me on our 97 massey that had a hand clutch because i was too short to reach the pedals!! it was our big tractor at the time!!! have fun remembering
You need to cut the end off the pieces you removed
that are plated on the square tubes and weld them on the other existing tubes because that’s part part of the structure to strengthen the remaining square tubes and keeps weather out and dirt buildup inside the frame. 😊
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They can do that later as they couldn't get into that plot because of heavy rains and as it rains the corn grows and they needed to get the weeding done.
@@scuss2 could have welded it on while it was raining.
@@beesbo1856 Agree. They could have also put the weeder back in the shop after the job outdoors was finished and welded it then. If I had a shop as big as theirs, I would be in it if I was not outside farming. It depends on their drive and determination. They don't have children to take care of but maybe they have a nighttime TV/UA-cam Habit.
Done cultivating back in the day with a 2 row on a 1938 B John Deere. It had no hydraulics. You lift it in and out of the dirt with manual lever. With no weed control we would cultivate 3-4 times a season starting when the corn was 2" tall until knee high. First time through was done in low gear, 2 miles per hrs. That's like 1 acre per hrs. The second time thru would could speed up a little and the 3 and 4th time you went 6- 7 mi. per hrs. 80 acres of corn cultivating was 7 weeks full time work for 1 person. But it was so much faster than horses because you didn't have to rest the tractor when you got to the end of the rows. A single farmer never had more than 80 acres of corn as the guys that still used horses had to pick the corn by hand and unloaded their wagons by hand. By the way, those horses were auto steer especially at the end of the day when they were going home. Enjoy watch your videos. Thankyou for sharing.
some of us lived thru those 'old' days you're talking about...it doesn't feel old!
I do remember cultivating corn in the sixties with four row cultivator. Dad says we will know in the fall if you dozed off! 😆 yikes ! My brothers were sorta sloppy about cultivating as they were raking hay all over the place, so I did a lot of it! Girl Power! You go Laura! I am now 69.
We ran 6 row equipment in the 50’s through the 80’s as far as needing to cultivate. Dad called it “cultivator blight” and no it would usually not grow once partly cut off with the cultivator-no matter how much I tried to stand it back up and wish it worked. I am 74 and still cultivate my sweet corn.
I live in NW Ohio and my family has been raising sweet corn the same way for the past 50 years exept we grow almost 20 acers of it. With almost the same tractor to, except ours is a power shift 4020. Awesome video!
My dad grew up on a farm near Okolona. Are you anywhere near there?
@@jedbench5887 ..I grew up on the family farm near Delta , Ohio.
How do you harvest the sweet corn there? In South Georgia we use a mule train and by hand. The mule train is the machine that allows the corn to get from field to truck then to cooler. All corn is picked,packed,boxes counted,and stacked by hand to a truck. 840 boxes per truck. Each box has 48 ears
nice to se you young farmers use older equipment like our forefathers did, this will make you appreciate the new tech farming the younger generation have been spoiled with.
Laura, you are adventurous, bright, and might be the most lovely You Tuber on record! Your videos are educational and refreshing and I hope you continue producing and sharing in excellent health for many years. Bless you.
Signed 81 year old Peter Vichi in north Idaho.
That one nightmare bolt! The one that your usual curse words just can’t describe. The one that still gives you a cold chill. Everyone has one. I would bet that you get as many helpful hints as you have subscribers!
I was right there with you at every attempt.
Maybe this time…?
Knowing when to call-it and move forward shows the wisdom of your family’s heritage.
Good for You!!
Thanks for sharing.
Tractor front end.
I have had to make row adjustments on some old tractors. First thing is a ton of PB blaster in the pin hole closest to the one with the stuck pin. Next try to get the pin to turn in the hole. Next try to get the sliding axle to move independently from the main axle. It is very possible that a bridge or shoulder could have developed on the pin. If that is the case, you need to get the parts moving independently from one another before you can work the pin out.
Pretty certain with the three of you together, you would without any doubts pull off big fields of this, its an awesome series of videos, and it makes me happy to see these older machines back in use as good as they where in the older times, good work all of you!
Heartfelt thanks for the recent video, your unwavering dedication sets a high standard.
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So much better than punching a clock everyday. love watching your journey.....
Air hammer works wonders . Makes life so much better. Happy trails.
@@davemyers3953 Yup, as a mechanic I fully agree. Air hammer would be the tool of choice here.
Hi I love watching you and Grant farm. I'm 72 now and to see young people work
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future . I hope you won't mind me saying, I watch you lifting really heavy stuff. I did too most of my life. Now both my hips are shot. My Dad used to warn me ,but I didn't listen. Please think about it. Thanks for the entertainment and education
A lot of this is from old injuries or hereditary. Did you play football ? Wrestling ? Bingo.... primary issues leading to life long issues ! I was a distance runner from age 14 till age 50. Qualified to run the Boston marathon twice. My father always told me......If you dont quit that running your going to need new knees by the age of 40 ( he had both knees replace at age 60 ) I also milked cows for 45 years. To this date ??? No knee hip or back problems and Im age 70. In fact...last year I worked as a hauler for a lumber yard....often unloaded dry wall ( by hand ) at delivery spots. Primary....... dont abuse the body at an early age !
Now that's real farming when you have to drive down the rows without autosteer. Fully approve! I've been there, in the late 50's and 60's and it wasn't easy. Now you have an idea of how difficult it might be to go from hobby farming sweet corn to maybe doing more acreage and selling it.
Drill the center out of that pin, then try to knock it out. Oh, and grind off the areas that you have mushroomed by pounding steel on steel.
It is amazing the youtubers who are rehabbing the tractors that I could only dream about when I was a teenager because they cost so much. Now these tractors are being being cleaned up as well as their super implements because they get the job done in a wonderfully economical fashion as long as your within 640 acres or so.
After welding in the same place so many times the metal get crystallized and looses a lot of its good properties. This can lead to an unsafe situation by pulling on it very much more.
You could work at heating the bolt with a Rose Bud tip on a Gas Torch set up, Oxy Acetylene. The Rose Bud gives a nice big frame front which is good for spreading heat and not blowing the metal away like a Cutting Torch can.
Let the bolt cool a bit. Then if you can get an Air Hammer you can use that to "hit" the bolt really quickly. The heat can cause the rust to weaken and the Air Hammer work like an Impact Wrench and shock the bolt loose.
Then again you might wind up drilling out the bolt from both sides due to the length. You won't have to drill the whole diameter of the bolt. Be sure to use lots of cooling fluid when drilling cause the bit will get really hot then dull very quick.
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Old.. I started on a farmall Cub. Never did have a cab. Wintertime we had a Heethouser to get some warmth feeding cattle. I so enjoyed your thoughts about the “old days”. Got a chuckle out of it, you grandpa is looking down and shacking his head, kids…. Keep up the great work, I’m living through you and the boys.
I learnt to drive on a Fergie TEA in the sixties. When i was around ten i was allowed to drive the "big" tractors , i spent many happy days planting , cultivating , bailing etc. The modern tractors and harvesters just feel so detached from the land . I'm so pleased you have invested the time and effort to experience what it was like back in the day.
That is a very simple cultivator design which made it much easier overall. Nice. I am 70 yo last time I cultivated any corn I was 19.
6 rows wow! I've planted and cultivated many a row one row at a time on a Farmall 140, still have that tractor, love it.
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Love old school farming! Reminds me of my youth!
Did you know that John Deere has gone woke? How do you feel about this?
@jvc110u about as good as them rigging their equipment to shut down so that only a tech can fix it. Supreme Court keeps pushing that case back cuz if farmers win it, John deere will fk over the auto industry something bad 😅
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Laura,
Great to see that you are getting a lot of rain, keeping the wells off is a big money saver. Watching you use a somewhat older cultivator brought back many memories to me of spending many days on my dads Farmall H with a two row cultivator that mounted on the tractor, my dad had a four row that mounted on his Farmall Super M. He farmed about 400 acres of row crops, mostly corn. Back in the day, i.e. late 1950s we would go over the ground 4 times before we planted and then another 5 times, counting planting before we were ready to start the wells for summer irrigation.
We would (1) chop stalks, (2) disc (3) plow (the H would pull a two bottom 16 inch mowboard plow and the M would pull a 3 bottom 16 inch plough) (4) harrow (5) plant, we had a 4 row planter,(6) when the corn was about 4 inches tall we would rotary hoe, (7) first cultivation, (8) second cultivation (9) third cultivation which was when we ridged the corn rows so we could run irrigation water between the rows and (10) we would apply liquid ammonia nitrate. Then pull the irrigation ditch at the high end of the field and we were ready to start wells around early July.
Quite a bit different than what you do today. In our spare time, we raised 40 head of cows that provided us with calves that we feed and sold for beef and also 10 t0 15 sows hogs that provided us with around 100-125 pigs that we also fattened and sold on the meat market. We kept pretty busy.
All of our tractors were completely "open", now AC and no heater in the winter. In the summer I had a killer tan like yours.
A different life than now but one that I would not trade for anything.
Rex Schimmer
Formerly Box 254, Hiway 34, Grand Island
I'm a newcomer to your channel but I'm captivated! I'm a huge saltwater fishing youtuber follower as well as a van lifer follower but your channel popped up on my feed and I hit the play button. I've been hooked ever since! great content!
This comment means the world, thank you for being here !!
Worked as a farm hand back in the late 70's to mid 80's in southeast Iowa. You cultivating brought back a lot of memories. Thank you! And my boss lives about a block away from me now, as we are both retired and have been living in the city since retirement. Using a JD 3010 and a 6 row cultivator, I could cultivate just at 100 acres a day. Took me 11 days to cultivate the just over 1000 acres we had planted in corn and beans. Of course, the corn wasn't *that* tall and I could go faster than a snails pace like you were.
I have had 4 different jobs since then, but farming was the best job I ever had, not the best paying, but the best job. Doing something different every day, outside, inside. The cattle needed fed, the hogs needed fed, pits needed pumped out in the winter, cow pooh needed spread out on the fields in the winter, cows calving late winter early spring. Lots to do. I was full time. Take care
Nothing better than a beautiful Nebraska farm girl with gorgeous eyes telling the story! Just PERFECT 👍👌😊
Keep a handle on it buddy.
No better JD than a 4020….. such a versatile tractor!
Six row cultivator is three times what we used back in the 60s and 70s. Some rear mounted, some front mounted.
Hi Your vidos bring back memories I bought a 2510 & 3 bottom plow fall of 1966 for $5400 . Don't stop making Vidos of farming God Bless
Another implement brought back to life by your restoration team ( Grant, Gage and you ). I truly appreciate you guys cleaning out a grove of unused equipment that would probably never be recycled.
You seem to truly enjoy tinkering, and then using old equipment. What’s next?
Maybe go way back in time and get a big horse, mule or a Clydesdale would be perfect and a plow and steer that plow by hand. I've tried it and it was not straight rows.
Canadian product- Moovit- have used it extensively restoring a 70 yr old car…never broke a bolt! Best penetrant that I have used !
Y'all make me feel old 🙂When I was growing up I spent many hours driving JD 720 tractors across many fields. We lusted after the new modern 4020s in vain.
You guys are having too much fun. Using your old farm kit / lifting / hauling cutting / banging / wrenching. All in aid of a family giant sweet corn boil & brisket broil come harvest time. Love it.
If you would lengthen the top link on the cultivator the shovels would go in a little deeper and get more of weeds and the roots.
Great job, Laura! That's the way I cultivated back in the 60's. I would also stand up some of the time. I used a 4020 for tillage, but cultivated with a JD 2010, all out in the open with no cabs. Those were the days. Thanks for bringing back great memories!😊❤
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Good morning Sunshine! I enjoyed this episode a lot you guys. It was fun watcing you battle the 'ol girl and getting he out in the field with the revamped cultivator. The cultivator did an awesome job and all three of you did a great job doing it old school. Thanks for letting me hang out with y'all today. Have a great week!! Larry, Central Valley, Ca.
I remember in antiquity, tractors had a large umbrella for the driver to sit out of direct sun shine.
The chrome stack on that John Deere is worth the price of admission. You HAVE to use that tractor!
I'm located in Southeast Georgia, have worked all over the country as a certified TIG welder, fabricator, fitter. Ya know, from what I've found out, if you ever get a bolt removed, the best thing I've done is to use some anti-sieze. And if you need to get the bolt out from a straight through hole, get a heavy duty C-Clamp, such as an Armstrong brand, or an adjustable Bessey Clamp. You can weld a bolt that has been ground down on the circumstance then weld to a small piece of 1/4" or 3/8" bar, then place it on one end of the clamp, then on the other end of the C-Clamp, use a socket (like a 1/2" drive for a ratchet, with the open end towards the bolt you're trying to remove, so the bolt coming out, which was broken off on the tractor front end) so it can go inside the socket, and you'll still be able to tighten the C-Clamp. If you don't have a heavy duty Bessey Clamp, they can save lots of time when using them. This is basically the same thing as a bearing press, only it is portable.
Just left California and moved to Oklahoma. I've never seen those kinds of windy thunderstorms before, where lightning is like 3x/second. Or even no wind, no rain, but very thunderous... I actually quite love it. It's soothing to me for unknown reasons.
7/10/24 Great job guys ! God Bless our farmers.
Beautiful young woman with a passion for good soil and nature, the fact that she's a farm girl is an added bonus. 🚜 💕
Hello! Greetings from Nicaragua. I admire your work and effort to see the fruit of your labor. Here in our country we can only dream. God bless you and your great nation.
Just noticing the main bar had welded end caps, but you did not replace the end caps once it was shortened. I believe end caps will help lengthen the long bar life and also add strength to it. thanks!
I used to do 2500 acres every year with a six row. No guidance no A/C, no nothing. Long hypnotizing days.
You people are just like the farmers i knew back in the day. I'm 63 . Make stuff work. Thanks and good luck.
Thanks for sharing your life and your ideas and your farm with us!
Love those weather video's !!!!
Even though new farmers may be a bit spoiled with A/C & auto-steer, your many, many, many, many, many videos show the looooong days/nights of hard work it takes to farm! Plus, the many hours it takes to maintain so much equipment week by week by week! Thank you for all you do to grow the USA! See what I did there?
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When I was working on farms a John Deere 8630 was a big tractor and a 4020 was still pulling planters. I hated planting season for only one reason because the 4020 would get hooked to planter and I’d have to use an old gutless Allis XT 190 to grind feed! With your bolt when in doubt drill through the center as large as you can and trim saws all blades to fit. Slice it a couple times from inside
I remember being in the fields 14-16 hours a day during cultivating season.
When I lived in New Jersey we had Silver Queen sweet corn and it was oh so good!!! I hope tour crop comes out plentiful and tasty!!! Just starting to drool a little thinking about that corn!! YUMM!!!
Great to see grant and gauge on camera more and more
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I used a JD 4020 when I worked on a farm in Idaho putting myself through college - this brought back fond memories, thanks!
Laura I give you and Grant an A+ on that job and GAGE
Never underestimate "matured" machinery. I raised and harvested popcorn with a rebuilt 1939 John Deere "B" tractor. That clutch bar is a bitch.
Laura is the child of the corn! She who walks behind the rows!
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Ya the bolt you tried to remove is most likely a tapered bolt have to heat outer housing then press or tap bolt out to reinstall reverse process have fun
I grew up on the south plains of west Texas, and I was in the 8th grade when we moved up to 6 rows from 4 rows all on 40in
row settings. We were stepping up to the big boys. I miss that 4020 and all we did with it. Those were some good times. 🚜🇺🇸🚜👍
The old machinery and tractor still does the job....Good to see you using older machinery...well done...Stay safe you all and see you on the next one
Couldn't help but notice the wild hemp that was growing in front of the diesel 4020 :)
it's in every ditch and fence row in this state, 0 thc
Water hemp, it's a literal weed.
I work for a trucking company out of Omaha Nebraska how weird to be watching this pretty good so far . Definitely a must watch channel.
I'm praying for a great harvest
Definitely COOL!! I could spend a day doing that! I love old tractors and harvesters. Thank you sharing this with us.
Just curious...why do you work the steering back and forth when trying to start the 148?
@@steveb9151 Wondering the same thing.
Same here…😊
It relieves the hydraulic load (back pressure?) on the hydraulic pump, allowing the starter to more easily turn over the engine. I'm going to bet that her grandpa Curt taught her to do that.
That is what I have heard.
I love hearing Laura talk about cultivating in the old days. My Dad cultivated our corn with a Farmall Cub tractor. As a teenager, Maud and I would bust out the corn middles. Maud was our old mule😊 that was the old days! I’m 81 now.
HI LAURA. 😊
So many greetings from Italy. You are very good ❤
Ran those 4020s in the 60s. Laughed when you were worrying about lifting that simple 8 row cultivator . We ran 6 row double 40” rows. 20’ but 12 full size planters. Each box was about the size of a full sack of seed. Handled easily with weights on the front.
It's nice to see such a positive attitude when it comes to working and getting things done 🤘
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Hello from Arkansas I just recently found your channel and I have to say I'm loving it you are an impressive young woman I was raised on a cattle ranch but when I got my own cattle operation I started planting corn soybeans and wheat to feed my herd and the rest of my animals . I use a combination of John deere and international tractors and even a couple Oliver's all my equipment is 40 years old and older . I only plant 50 acres and run cattle on the rest i rent hay ground from family who dont farm I'm glad to see someone your age staying on the farm. You are the future. Keep up the good work and the videos
LOVE LOVE LOVE the longer videos!
Laura You did GREAT!!!!!!! I was proud of you!!!!!! Good Driving and good work team you ALL put a lot of work in to get the tractor and implements in shape. I like that you are mixing in OLD school!!!
Laura's looking buff tossing chains around.
Wild weather! Great work on the videos guys!! Always pleasure watching what you guys are up to. Thank you for sharing your time! All of guys.
Loved the laid back cultivating tune.. Much love and Thanks so much for Sharing
Loved the video. The fight with the bolt was good, but you seem to have gotten stuck on one way to solve the issue. It can be drilled out and replaced with a new one.
My uncle had a 4020 growing up, AND I was also born in 1965, so there’s that. Cool tractor, always liked it! Great video!
Cool clip of the storm!!😎👍
I grew up on a 2000-acre grain farm and I spent many a summer in the 1970s running a cultivator 10-12 hours a day for weeks to get over all our corn and beans. Open cab JD and obviously no auto-steer. My career path took me to Engineering and working for a major car company, but farming skills and experiences (mostly equipment repair and maintenance) served me well.
Old Days, I remember back when the first farmer in the area to get a dual wheel tractor was the main topic of discussion in the church parking lot after services. 😂😎✌️
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I am really glad to see Laura keeping Grant and Gage motivated and moving in the right direction! Love your content, and looking forward to more 👍
Seriously.......Who wouldn't stop at Laura Farms Fresh Market along Interstate 80 in South Central Nebraska?
I think it is awesome that you are fixing up old equipment like this and giving it a second or third life.
Next try it with mule or horse system
So funny. I’m pretty sure I hear the hydraulics leaking down on the old tractor. Love that thing.
That rain storm was an absolute blessing. So glad y’all’s corn got it!
You and Grant are a blessing to each other. Love to see spouses work together like this.
Gage is a good dude! Hard working and sharp fella. Glad you found both nuts! Haha. Great content!!!
Ain’t it funny how large scale equipment back then is now being used to farm dinky little sweet corn patches
This was the first time I've heard of a cultivator as cute. Thank you for sharing.👍
Sweet corn made sweeter with Laura 😊
She should plant some "Silver Queen"...Delicious and Sweet!😊
I’m 65 yrs old and back in the 70’s I spent many an hour cultivating soybeans with a 6 row cultivator on a 1968 JD 4020.
Tip that thing back, girl!!! The sweeps aren't going in the ground, and you're running the bar too low. And set the three-point controls to depth, not load. It's the lever on the side by your right foot. D, not L.
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Is grant now a employee of Laura Farms
Also I remember scuffling corn when I was a teenager and we went through the corn fairly quickly to throw more soil around the corn plants.......BUT, that was more than 50 years ago, AND the corn would have been quite a bit shorter. Good luck!! Good work. Great videos every time!!!!!