Couldn't agree with you more MrEcm51 and thank you whoever took the video for not having music to overshadow the Great Sound of the two-cylinder John Deere's.
First tractor we had was a jd 60. Love that sound, spent many hours listening to it. Used to get home from work and get on the tractor till about 1am to get done plowing.
“ John Deere Green “ Spent many a day in my youth plowing with an gas “ A “ also a gas / distillate “ D “ also Model 70 diesel with gas pony motor start. Also an Oliver Cletrac Perkins diesel four. Those sounds, sights, smells and memories be with me as long as I live. In those times 300 acres took a bit of time to cover. See the sun come up and set from a tractor seat on some days. The old girls ran best in the cool of the evening How those sounds melt the years away. Dear old friends long gone. Why I can see them like it was yesterday.
In the 1950s my dad and his brother drove two Rs together pulling two bottom trailing plows in the Greeley, Colorado area. Heavy soil there. They replaced both of them around 1961 with one 4010 with a 3 point 3 bottom plow. Wow! What a change!
Is the "R" pulling a 4-14 or 4-16? I have heard they can pull 4 to 5 bottom but not sure if that means a 14 if you go to a 5 bottom plow. Our dirt here in central Illinois can be sandy, clay or nice rich black soil so I know I must make considerations for each.
Couldn't agree with you more MrEcm51 and thank you whoever took the video for not having music to overshadow the Great Sound of the two-cylinder John Deere's.
First tractor we had was a jd 60. Love that sound, spent many hours listening to it. Used to get home from work and get on the tractor till about 1am to get done plowing.
Got to love that sound!
“ John Deere Green “
Spent many a day in my youth plowing with an gas “ A “ also a gas / distillate “ D “ also Model 70 diesel with gas pony motor start.
Also an Oliver Cletrac Perkins diesel four.
Those sounds, sights, smells and memories be with me as long as I live.
In those times 300 acres took a bit of time to cover. See the sun come up and set from a tractor seat on some days. The old girls ran best in the cool of the evening
How those sounds melt the years away. Dear old friends long gone. Why I can see them like it was yesterday.
In the 1950s my dad and his brother drove two Rs together pulling two bottom trailing plows in the Greeley, Colorado area. Heavy soil there. They replaced both of them around 1961 with one 4010 with a 3 point 3 bottom plow. Wow! What a change!
I just love to see this.
Thanks! It's a fun hobby!
Nice 👍/ very ez plowing. Soil is loose 👨🌾
You got that right!
Is the "R" pulling a 4-14 or 4-16? I have heard they can pull 4 to 5 bottom but not sure if that means a 14 if you go to a 5 bottom plow. Our dirt here in central Illinois can be sandy, clay or nice rich black soil so I know I must make considerations for each.
I am not sure if these were 14 or 16 bottoms. In soft soil, you might be able to pull 5 14's with an R, but I'd guess 4 is typically the limit.
Thanks for the feedback.
beautiful background for the music of the old poppin johnnys, what part of the country?
South east Idaho, near Preston.
I though it looked familiar.
That A sounds good but the R sounds better. Tbe A is not hardly working but the R is working hard , lovely sound.
The A’s sound good with the correct muffler on them.
What was that tractor far behind the R?
Where is this at?
Northern Utah/South Eastern Idaho in Cache Valley. Between Logan Utah and Preston Idaho.
In that soil the A should be pulling 4 and the R pulling 6 or 8
Must be a 48 or 49 A.
It's a 1948.