Back in the year 2000 I found a John Deere 3300, bought it and brought it home to the little farm. since then I've been farming right at 24 Acres of soybeans with it. I started running this combine without a clue, fortunately for me there was a local farmer who had had experience with The 4400 and he was currently running a 7700. his knowledge was invaluable. we were friends so he did not mind helping me and teaching me. turns out the 3300 was one of those machines, once you knew what it was supposed to sound like it was easy to dial in. I have experienced years of mill tickets with no dockage for foreign matter as well as damaged crop. For my small operation I would have to say this is the perfect machine. I've been running into situations where certain parts are no longer available and I've had to go to the local junkyard for replacements and currently that's my only concern with my 3300 combine. Thanks for the informative video I enjoyed watching it.
I saw a 3300 that was still running here a few years ago. I forgot how small they were, or else had gotten use to the big machines. I never ran any of the self propelled combines. Instead, I combined small grains with a pull type #30. And picked ear corn with a #227 mounted on our Model "A". Those modern cabs would of been nice back when, out picking in December.
You've done a great job with this video...a lot of in-depth & detailed information. My father owned at one time a 1979 4400...it was basically a 4420, minus the painted black cab and hyd. auger. I learned how to combine on that machine at age 13; it was a great combine. I've always heard the 3300s had a poor reputation...very low capacity machines. I honestly never was too fond of the looks of these combines, especially the squared cabs...I think Deere made HUGE strides coming out with the Titan combines in 1979....refined, curved cabs and nicer looking decals...also i always loved that "new style" unload auger and how it folds out. Some guys will argue that the titans came out in 1985, but I was taught that the Titan namesake was given out when the 20 series were introduced in 1979. I look forward to what you'd teach us on them. Merry Christmas
Another awesome video Locust Motor Works! Love your professional voice in your videos, you should seriously consider making advertisements for companies, you are very talented!
My second wheat harvest run was the summer of 1975. The crew ran the 6600 (2) and the Turbo 7700 (2), all hydrostatic drive. Good information here on how these developed from the previous generation.
Love these videos, keep up the good work, also in 78 the last year the 6600 and 7700 had hydraulic latching on the unload auger so you didn't have to get out of the cab.
We bought in 1970 a New Generation 4400 with a 292 gasoline engine and 3 row 344 corn head and 213 grain platform. We had a lot of trouble with the engine overheating. For some reason the belt alignment was not set right at the factory and we could not keep a belt on the machine. I wrote a letter to John Deere and the result was Deere sent a team of engineers to redesign the cooling system on that machine. They completely changed the air intake design and fixed the belt problem. I have never seen another New Generation air intake and air exhaust like it. It was designed to pull air in from the top of the engine by building an air plenum with a screen on top that could be tilted down to clean. It was a cab machine. No air conditioning. We ran that machine until 1976 when we bought a 6600. It had the 329 diesel and the posi- torque transmission. A major step up. Also bought a 454 row crop head for soybeans. Also a 444 corn head and a 216 platform. In soybeans the 454 would out pick in a days time the 216. Good times..
One more thing to add about this series combines, at least the 4400, it was probably the last series that you could operate by the seat of your pants. That machine just talked to you, when everything was good it just felt right, sounded right. you could be half off in lala land and you'd suddenly just know, this isn't right, no warning lights needed. I can honestly say I never plugged that machine once I understood how to set it. The most I'd do is set off the feeder house slip clutch clutch, slap the off switch, build up rpm and then bump the feeder house clutch and pull the oats through. That and my uncle showed me that the beater drive belt was the most important one on the machine, if it broke all hell broke loose. . So every two or three years i replaced it, cheap piece of mind
In 1989 I bought 4 7700 combines . The dealer had 4 of them and offered them at 20000 for them all. Or 10000 for my pick of the litter . All had 20 foot heads . I sold 1 for 10000 . Burned 1 down and traded the other 2 off on a couple . 7720 s in 1996 . I think I got my moneys worth .
I spent August of 1984 in a 7700 cutting alfalfa for seed. It was a big upgrade from the 95 I learned in. The outfit I was working for had a lot of 7700’s (30?) and had just got some 8820’s. The seasoned operators got those. All of the fields were full sections and we always ran in teams of five combines. Usually one team per section. There was no need for grain carts because a down and back got you about 3/4 tank and took at least two hours. We didn’t have gps or any kind of speedometer so they taught us how to count the revolutions of the reel to help with going too fast and plugging the return elevator. I learned a lot that summer.
A lot simpler times for harvest, never heard of counting the reel revolutions to determine speed but it makes sense . Thank you for sharing and watching.
Speed was super critical in the alfalfa and we had no other way. Reel speed wasn’t adjustable the way it is today. I never asked but it seemed like it was definitely tied to ground speed. @@LocustMotorWorks
I was at a college class where a JD rep was talking about the Hydro on the 6600. Deere was very proud of the hydro, and rightly so. There was a problem with it that they changed for the 20 series. They had problems with hydro overheating. He would say most of the time he would see failures with the paint burnt off.
Had a 4400, good machine for my small Ohio farm. However when i was looking for a combine i knew i wanted a 4400 but it had to have factory air as my major crop to run was oats and I damn well had to have air conditioning, period!. The biggest improvement was the rotary screen! the older ones were rolling fire bombs, a friend of mine ran clover with a flat side gasser, constantly fought engine fires. I ran my later model rotary screen machine till 2015 when it finally caught fire running oats, have never figured out how it started, smelled smoke so I pulled it out on hay ground and by the time I shut it off there was fire in the cleaning fan. It was a goner before the fire dept got there but it served me well for twenty years with minimal repairs. Not bad for a machine that I bought for 5000 dollars My neighbor had a 3300, good little machine but SLOW
In ‘79 my dad bought a used 7700 gas. Had to hire it overhauled right during harvest in the 80’s. I’m surprised our farm survived. In ‘89 I found 466 from a 6620 and dropped in it….. made a big difference.
Great video! Keep up the good work not a deer guy but I love listening to history of the combines. Do you only do green paint or will you do other brands and show the history of them?
I own and harvest small operations with the JD 4400, 6600 and 7700 Turbo combine, the 4400 and the 6600 are JD 329 diesel and the 7700 turbo runs the JD 404 turbo, I use JD 215,216 rigid headers
We farm with a 1971 4400 and a late 80's 4420. The 4400 started its life with a 292 industrial GMC gas engine. Engine blew up, replaced with a reman 292 gas. In 1996 an ambitious project was undertaken with the 4400, replacing the 2nd dying 292 gas engine, with a 329 diesel from an early 6600. Pre-Hydrostatic 6600 used 329's, hydro's and sidehills used N/A 404. We bought a parts 4400 and a 6600 the had its gut destroyed by a rock, but a recently overhauled 329 diesel. Over the course of the winter of '96 we created the best version of the 4400 we had ever had. Still in use to this day. The 4420 and 4400 both run a 15' grain table, one rigid one flex, and a 443 corn head. Only difference between them is the hydraulic cylinder for the auger and air conditioning on the 4420.
I had a 1972 model 7700 hydrostatic with a 22 foot header and a 1976 (basic model) with a 16 foot header. It had a gear driven transmission. If also had been converted to run on propane. I bought it used 1 year old. Both were good combined I farmed heavy black land in the Delta region of Arkansas.
Man, I can't imagine operating a combine without a cab. What a dirty, noisy job that would be. At the end of the day you would be completely covered with dust and half deaf. Bake in the sun doing oats and wheat, freeze doing corn. Farmers back in the day must have been tougher than me.
Anything about JI Case quitting combines and selling their parents and engineering to JD in the early 70s? That's a big chunk of why the new generation had so many changes
I had a 105 and now I have a 6600 . The 105 was a easier machine work on ,had the 404 engine ,the 6600 is ok but just hard to work on.105 would put it to shame.
back in the late 80s early 90s my dads uncle acquired a surplus 502 winston cup motor from a wrecked winston cup car that after designing a MASSIVE radiator that was driven off the straw chopper to keep it cool they dropped it into a 7700 and straight piped it and it could be heard on the oposite end of the county 10 miles away
I had to look hard, and laugh a little, but at 5:14 in the video there's a brochure clipping of two farmers. Those farmers are brothers John and Charles Gangstad. I knew both of them. And my mom used to work for John's wife Ella at the local florist. Small world.
My dad had a 1970 6601 John Deere Pull Type Combine, the worst combine ever built, never harvested one day without a breakdown, 3 years was enough he traded on a 760 MF.
The hydraulically folding auger was a joke. They couldn't be folded while combining like a turret auger and the hydraulic cylinder used was so small it didn't have enough power to fold it after a few years. Also the reverse flow fan didn't work and the motors ran hot on the early models. Deere got away from that after a few years.
Hey guys awesome videos. But Deere never used Chrysler or Ford engines. 59 and 60 they used gm diesel or Detroit diesel more popular name. Combine was Chevrolet 292. Sorry fiat ram and ford lover’s if Deere outsourced an engine it was General Motors. Now days they are a couple Cummins being used. No problem for the correction. I’m good like that.
I'd much rather have a real reliable combine and that would be a MASSEY FERGUSON like in the video that UA-cam had the other day there must have been 15 or 20 MASSEY FERGUSONS HARVESTING SOYBEANS THAT VIDEO WAS A CLASS ACT ...
Back in the year 2000 I found a John Deere 3300, bought it and brought it home to the little farm. since then I've been farming right at 24 Acres of soybeans with it. I started running this combine without a clue, fortunately for me there was a local farmer who had had experience with The 4400 and he was currently running a 7700. his knowledge was invaluable. we were friends so he did not mind helping me and teaching me. turns out the 3300 was one of those machines, once you knew what it was supposed to sound like it was easy to dial in. I have experienced years of mill tickets with no dockage for foreign matter as well as damaged crop. For my small operation I would have to say this is the perfect machine. I've been running into situations where certain parts are no longer available and I've had to go to the local junkyard for replacements and currently that's my only concern with my 3300 combine. Thanks for the informative video I enjoyed watching it.
Thanks for watching👍🏻👍🏻
I saw a 3300 that was still running here a few years ago. I forgot how small they were, or else had gotten use to the big machines. I never ran any of the self propelled combines. Instead, I combined small grains with a pull type #30. And picked ear corn with a #227 mounted on our Model "A". Those modern cabs would of been nice back when, out picking in December.
i could watch these info videos for hours
Thanks for watching! Really appreciate it👍🏻👍🏻
You've done a great job with this video...a lot of in-depth & detailed information. My father owned at one time a 1979 4400...it was basically a 4420, minus the painted black cab and hyd. auger. I learned how to combine on that machine at age 13; it was a great combine. I've always heard the 3300s had a poor reputation...very low capacity machines. I honestly never was too fond of the looks of these combines, especially the squared cabs...I think Deere made HUGE strides coming out with the Titan combines in 1979....refined, curved cabs and nicer looking decals...also i always loved that "new style" unload auger and how it folds out. Some guys will argue that the titans came out in 1985, but I was taught that the Titan namesake was given out when the 20 series were introduced in 1979. I look forward to what you'd teach us on them. Merry Christmas
Thanks for watching👍🏻 have a merry Christmas
❤❤❤❤ your video and the history on John Deere and keep up the good work, and thanks again. 🦌🦌
Thanks for watching👍👍
Glad I could help with the series Locust. Also for the rest of you viewers, there is LOTS more to come. So stay tuned!
Another awesome video Locust Motor Works! Love your professional voice in your videos, you should seriously consider making advertisements for companies, you are very talented!
great article, i built these machines from 1973 to 2011. assembled from 73 to 80. then got into welding, brought back many memories.
That’s awesome!👍🏻👍🏻 thank you for watching
My second wheat harvest run was the summer of 1975. The crew ran the 6600 (2) and the Turbo 7700 (2), all hydrostatic drive. Good information here on how these developed from the previous generation.
Sweet video and in depth about the yearly changes! Do the 20 series next or the pull types.
I just got a Case IH ad on a John Deere video lol. Thanks for another video!
Sounds like case ih must be trying to convert some John Deere guys with there ads😂 thanks for watching👍🏻👍🏻
Love these videos, keep up the good work, also in 78 the last year the 6600 and 7700 had hydraulic latching on the unload auger so you didn't have to get out of the cab.
awesome video man! love these type of vids
Glad you enjoyed!
Merry Christmas to you and your family, awesome videos
Thanks for watching👍🏻 have a merry Christmas
So many memories...thx for this.
We bought in 1970 a New Generation 4400 with a 292 gasoline engine and 3 row 344 corn head and 213 grain platform. We had a lot of trouble with the engine overheating. For some reason the belt alignment was not set right at the factory and we could not keep a belt on the machine. I wrote a letter to John Deere and the result was Deere sent a team of engineers to redesign the cooling system on that machine. They completely changed the air intake design and fixed the belt problem. I have never seen another New Generation air intake and air exhaust like it. It was designed to pull air in from the top of the engine by building an air plenum with a screen on top that could be tilted down to clean. It was a cab machine. No air conditioning. We ran that machine until 1976 when we bought a 6600. It had the 329 diesel and the posi- torque transmission. A major step up. Also bought a 454 row crop head for soybeans. Also a 444 corn head and a 216 platform. In soybeans the 454 would out pick in a days time the 216. Good times..
Great videos! Keep them coming, love what you guys are doing!
Really appreciate that. Thank you for watching!
Still running a 6602 and 6622 in the pnw
One more thing to add about this series combines, at least the 4400, it was probably the last series that you could operate by the seat of your pants. That machine just talked to you, when everything was good it just felt right, sounded right. you could be half off in lala land and you'd suddenly just know, this isn't right, no warning lights needed. I can honestly say I never plugged that machine once I understood how to set it. The most I'd do is set off the feeder house slip clutch clutch, slap the off switch, build up rpm and then bump the feeder house clutch and pull the oats through. That and my uncle showed me that the beater drive belt was the most important one on the machine, if it broke all hell broke loose. . So every two or three years i replaced it, cheap piece of mind
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Merry Christmas to you too. Thank you for watching
In 1989 I bought 4 7700 combines . The dealer had 4 of them and offered them at 20000 for them all. Or 10000 for my pick of the litter . All had 20 foot heads . I sold 1 for 10000 . Burned 1 down and traded the other 2 off on a couple . 7720 s in 1996 . I think I got my moneys worth .
Sounds like you came out on the good end of that deal. Thanks for watching👍
I remember helping the neighbor combining oats with a 3300, the viedo brings back good memories. Nothing Runs Like A Deere
I have a 79 4400 with 213 flex head an 443 corn head an still use it good video
Thank you for watching👍🏻👍🏻
Let’s go!!!! Merry Christmas 🎉
Merry Christmas to you too. Thanks for watching👍👍
Keep up the great work... Merry Christmas, 🎄🎄🎄 Tim
Have a Merry Christmas Tim, thanks for watching👍🏻👍🏻
I spent August of 1984 in a 7700 cutting alfalfa for seed. It was a big upgrade from the 95 I learned in. The outfit I was working for had a lot of 7700’s (30?) and had just got some 8820’s. The seasoned operators got those.
All of the fields were full sections and we always ran in teams of five combines. Usually one team per section. There was no need for grain carts because a down and back got you about 3/4 tank and took at least two hours. We didn’t have gps or any kind of speedometer so they taught us how to count the revolutions of the reel to help with going too fast and plugging the return elevator. I learned a lot that summer.
A lot simpler times for harvest, never heard of counting the reel revolutions to determine speed but it makes sense . Thank you for sharing and watching.
Speed was super critical in the alfalfa and we had no other way. Reel speed wasn’t adjustable the way it is today. I never asked but it seemed like it was definitely tied to ground speed. @@LocustMotorWorks
Such a great serie of videos!! Loving it
Thanks for watching👍🏻👍🏻 glad your enjoying it
I was at a college class where a JD rep was talking about the Hydro on the 6600. Deere was very proud of the hydro, and rightly so. There was a problem with it that they changed for the 20 series. They had problems with hydro overheating. He would say most of the time he would see failures with the paint burnt off.
Had a 4400, good machine for my small Ohio farm. However when i was looking for a combine i knew i wanted a 4400 but it had to have factory air as my major crop to run was oats and I damn well had to have air conditioning, period!. The biggest improvement was the rotary screen! the older ones were rolling fire bombs, a friend of mine ran clover with a flat side gasser, constantly fought engine fires. I ran my later model rotary screen machine till 2015 when it finally caught fire running oats, have never figured out how it started, smelled smoke so I pulled it out on hay ground and by the time I shut it off there was fire in the cleaning fan. It was a goner before the fire dept got there but it served me well for twenty years with minimal repairs. Not bad for a machine that I bought for 5000 dollars
My neighbor had a 3300, good little machine but SLOW
Great videos love them double 0s combines
Flat screen ran hot
Thanks for watching!👍🏻👍🏻
We had a 6600 but I didn’t realize how many features changed on these combines over the years!
Very cool video. Merry Christmas
Thanks for watching👍🏻 Merry Christmas to you as well
In ‘79 my dad bought a used 7700 gas. Had to hire it overhauled right during harvest in the 80’s. I’m surprised our farm survived. In ‘89 I found 466 from a 6620 and dropped in it….. made a big difference.
Big transfer tank. Like the size of the whole pickup box.
Great video! Keep up the good work not a deer guy but I love listening to history of the combines. Do you only do green paint or will you do other brands and show the history of them?
Thank you, so far ive only done John Deere, im not to knowledgeable with other brands but am thinking in the future to expand to them.
Merry Christmas and keep up the great work!!
Thanks for watching👍🏻 have a merry Christmas!
@@LocustMotorWorks you do the same!!
I own and harvest small operations with the JD 4400, 6600 and 7700 Turbo combine, the 4400 and the 6600 are JD 329 diesel and the 7700 turbo runs the JD 404 turbo, I use JD 215,216 rigid headers
We farm with a 1971 4400 and a late 80's 4420. The 4400 started its life with a 292 industrial GMC gas engine. Engine blew up, replaced with a reman 292 gas. In 1996 an ambitious project was undertaken with the 4400, replacing the 2nd dying 292 gas engine, with a 329 diesel from an early 6600. Pre-Hydrostatic 6600 used 329's, hydro's and sidehills used N/A 404. We bought a parts 4400 and a 6600 the had its gut destroyed by a rock, but a recently overhauled 329 diesel. Over the course of the winter of '96 we created the best version of the 4400 we had ever had. Still in use to this day. The 4420 and 4400 both run a 15' grain table, one rigid one flex, and a 443 corn head. Only difference between them is the hydraulic cylinder for the auger and air conditioning on the 4420.
4420 built 1980-1984
I had a 1972 model 7700 hydrostatic with a 22 foot header and a 1976 (basic model) with a 16 foot header. It had a gear driven transmission. If also had been converted to run on propane. I bought it used 1 year old. Both were good combined I farmed heavy black land in the Delta region of Arkansas.
Never heard of one of those combines being converted to propane but that’s super cool👍🏻thanks for watching
Man, I can't imagine operating a combine without a cab. What a dirty, noisy job that would be. At the end of the day you would be completely covered with dust and half deaf. Bake in the sun doing oats and wheat, freeze doing corn. Farmers back in the day must have been tougher than me.
I drove a 72 mdl 4400 gas burner, then had a 76 mdl 4400 diesel, then 78 mdl 6600 with the 404 diesel motor
Anything about JI Case quitting combines and selling their parents and engineering to JD in the early 70s? That's a big chunk of why the new generation had so many changes
The 292-in gas engine on the early machines was made by Chevrolet, not Chrysler
your correct, I misspoke. Thanks for watching👍👍
Thought it was a 292 GM engine? Merry Christmas.
My friends was a 292 chevy
Yes the 292 was built by GM.
@@matthewkabanuk443 I used to have a 701 uni with a 292, damn gutsy bullet proof engine,
I had a 105 and now I have a 6600 . The 105 was a easier machine work on ,had the 404 engine ,the 6600 is ok but just hard to work on.105 would put it to shame.
back in the late 80s early 90s my dads uncle acquired a surplus 502 winston cup motor from a wrecked winston cup car that after designing a MASSIVE radiator that was driven off the straw chopper to keep it cool they dropped it into a 7700 and straight piped it and it could be heard on the oposite end of the county 10 miles away
Can you please make a video of the john model 40 and the model M
We had a 6600 Hydrostatic drive back in the day.
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I had to look hard, and laugh a little, but at 5:14 in the video there's a brochure clipping of two farmers. Those farmers are brothers John and Charles Gangstad. I knew both of them. And my mom used to work for John's wife Ella at the local florist. Small world.
That is crazy! Definitely is a small world, thanks for watching and sharing👍🏻
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I still run a 1974 model 3300
When I started farming in 2023 I bought a 7700. It was a powerful machine but overly complicated and I got rid of it 2 years later.
Side hill was king in mid-west.
We own a 78 6600 with hydraulic rear wheel drive and a 79 4400
The 292 in the 4400 was not a Chrysler, it’s a GM.
I own a 3300
Where is the 360 pull type.
My dad had a 1970 6601 John Deere Pull Type Combine, the worst combine ever built, never harvested one day without a breakdown, 3 years was enough he traded on a 760 MF.
Had a new 4400, 1974. Think the 292 gas was GM. Not Chrysler. Case used the Chrysler slant 6
Yes it was the 292 by gm I misspoke in the video
The hydraulically folding auger was a joke. They couldn't be folded while combining like a turret auger and the hydraulic cylinder used was so small it didn't have enough power to fold it after a few years. Also the reverse flow fan didn't work and the motors ran hot on the early models. Deere got away from that after a few years.
That’s because it still had a manual locking mechanism. Later the 6600 and 7700 got a hydraulic lock.
@@matthewkabanuk443 We had an early 7700 and had a late version. Neither one went into the unloading position without help.
Don’t quote me on it but I’m pretty sure the 4400 had a gm engine
Yes it did, I just misspoke while making the video and didn’t catch it in editing. Thanks for watching👍🏻
just a fyi deere didn't use a chrysler engine it was chevy 292.
your correct, I misspoke. Thanks for watching👍👍
99% sure the 292 is Chevrolet
your correct, I misspoke. Thanks for watching👍👍
Hey guys awesome videos. But Deere never used Chrysler or Ford engines. 59 and 60 they used gm diesel or Detroit diesel more popular name. Combine was Chevrolet 292. Sorry fiat ram and ford lover’s if Deere outsourced an engine it was General Motors. Now days they are a couple Cummins being used. No problem for the correction. I’m good like that.
Ya I just misspoke and didn’t catch it when editing the video. Thanks for watching👍🏻
292 Chevy never chyrsler.
The bicycle chain on the variable speed cylinder, still gives me nightmares
I'd much rather have a real reliable combine and that would be a MASSEY FERGUSON like in the video that UA-cam had the other day there must have been 15 or 20 MASSEY FERGUSONS HARVESTING SOYBEANS THAT VIDEO WAS A CLASS ACT ...