40 year search for John Deere NF 4030

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  • @douglasmayherjr.5733
    @douglasmayherjr.5733 8 днів тому

    Pretty neat story on to 4030. I have never seen one in real life. Thanks for sharing, Bill.

  • @beuford_v
    @beuford_v Рік тому +1

    Thanks for the video and the story. That's a nice looking outfit. I was lucky enough to buy the 4030 my grandma bought new in 73. Mines a wide front soundguard diesel with a quadrange.

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому +1

      Yeah, the 4030 is a good tractor, we have another one that is like yours. Thanks for the comment.

    • @beuford_v
      @beuford_v Рік тому

      You're welcome. Thanks for taking the time to reply. You've gained a subscriber

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      @@beuford_v Thanks much!

  • @ronzezulka6646
    @ronzezulka6646 Рік тому +6

    Great story on the 4030. Excellent job on the fenders.

  • @MusicandTractors
    @MusicandTractors Рік тому +5

    I really enjoyed the story on how you got the 4030. If only these tractors could talk, the stories they would tell. I agree with you that cab was hideous.

  • @kylekennett7034
    @kylekennett7034 8 місяців тому

    Good job on the fenders Bill as always thanks for the video!

  • @jamesday2562
    @jamesday2562 Рік тому +2

    I love the NF tractors too I have a 2010 and 3020 both have the NF their just such a joy to farm with I enjoy all Ur videos and hope U can continue to make them and I especially enjoy the Bible msgs they lift me up when I’m feeling a little down so thank you for letting me enjoy Ur company and brother hood in Jesus

  • @jeffferanec4526
    @jeffferanec4526 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for sharing Ur story, that is a sharp looking tractor my friend!

  • @rockingtbrand5450
    @rockingtbrand5450 Рік тому +1

    Great story friend neat ol tractor!
    I love my 4040 great tractor I drug out of pasture left for dead lol. My son, father in law and I fixed it up it’s one our favorite pieces of equipment

  • @joutdoorsmen23
    @joutdoorsmen23 Рік тому +2

    Awesome backstory, i just can’t get over how much I enjoy you two channels keep up the good work and God Bless

  • @alexwhitaker5144
    @alexwhitaker5144 Рік тому +1

    I too have a open station 4030. It was my big tractor for many years. I will be 6ft under before I sell that tractor.

  • @stevenarnold3935
    @stevenarnold3935 Рік тому

    You're a man humble man with many talents and knowledge.

  • @matthewheinze1231
    @matthewheinze1231 Рік тому

    That's a rare one! Good find and glad you can use it.

  • @jimmyjohn837
    @jimmyjohn837 Рік тому

    I'm glad you have the 4030 tricycle. To me it is the last classic tractor built so far. I love your tractors especially the two cylinder ones. You don't know how much joy your channel brings to me. Thanks for sharing your collection and your use of them with us. Have a Blessed day.

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      Great to hear from you Jimmy John! So glad you are enjoying the channel, stay tuned for more.

  • @Thewaywefarm
    @Thewaywefarm Рік тому +1

    Great story on the 4030! I would love the R and the 4030! Keep up the great work!

  • @digginfarmer5104
    @digginfarmer5104 Рік тому +3

    Amazing how sometimes if it’s meant to be it will be.. I did a similar thing with a 1486 a local guy had I always wanted. found it years later going through a farm auction and was able to get it bought it won’t get away this time… haha… thanks for sharing

  • @nathanalmond8280
    @nathanalmond8280 Рік тому

    Those hi-lift jacks are handy but they are dangerous. Glad you didn't get hurt worse or loose your eye. Neat story about your 4030. Hope you are able to get the other one someday. I like a tricycle front end for doing a lot of things. I don't have any big tractors with them now but maybe someday. Cutting hay and planting and cultivating they are hard to beat. I know a fellow with a 1066 narrow front. Neat tractor. Hope you get your tank cleaned out. Good to know someone who can do it. When you fool with the old tractors sometimes you need it done. Take care and I hope you get to feeling better soon. Don't get overheated.

  • @Moorefarmalls
    @Moorefarmalls Рік тому +3

    Love your content.. I've done the same with stuff like you did with those fenders... other people would look at and say throw that junk away and when I'm finished restoring it they be like there no way that the same piece lol

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      Yeah, a little bit of extra effort and some skill, you can get great results.

  • @iowa2cylinders198
    @iowa2cylinders198 Рік тому

    Another great story buddy love the videos

  • @davidschollenberger6871
    @davidschollenberger6871 Рік тому

    I only drove one tractor with a narrow front was a 3020 good job on the fenders so we’re not the only ones that turn the steering wheel when starting a tractor

  • @briannelson4493
    @briannelson4493 Рік тому

    I bought a 4030 no cab and wide front in 1979 it had 882 hrs on it I had to rebuild the engine at 1325 hrs. I recognize that engine and don’t want another one.

  • @montybolinger6383
    @montybolinger6383 Рік тому +1

    I had a 76 4030 SGB diesel wide front with quad range. Loved that tractor was a great planting tractor with a 6 row 7100 mounted planter. Could make them rows straight for "the" day without GPS.

  • @georgedeppner418
    @georgedeppner418 Рік тому

    Great story Bill

  • @burtzorn4059
    @burtzorn4059 Рік тому

    I'd love to have a 4030 like that
    I like the quad range, that's what I cut my teeth on.
    They sure are great tractors.
    My first boss had a 4230 loader tractor, 4430 , 4640 and
    A 8630 . All were quad range.
    Also had a great 4320 the pride of the farm.

  • @janmayes6578
    @janmayes6578 8 місяців тому

    Came close to buying a 4030 sound guard narrow front in 1985 at a dealer in salisbury nc. Never saw another one.

  • @martinwaddell
    @martinwaddell 3 місяці тому

    Nice story

  • @richardharris7714
    @richardharris7714 Рік тому

    Stay safe and cool my friend

  • @RoadRunnergarage8570
    @RoadRunnergarage8570 11 днів тому

    Cool 😎 story!!

  • @davekelley8520
    @davekelley8520 Рік тому

    Periodically we add atf to the fuel seams to help with the rust and crap in the fuel. Our ford tractor injector pump was all gummed up we filled the pump body with atf and added it to the fuel and its running much better still 2 years later

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      Yeah, thanks for reminding me, ATF is a great diesel fuel system cleaner, l have used it in the past but it's been a while. l'll have to dump some in my tanks.

  • @banditfarmer1900
    @banditfarmer1900 Рік тому

    I've only seen a couple of the 30 series tractors that had a narrow front under them, Kind of a rare bird for sure ! I had a chance to buy a 2-105 White new open station and that was narrow front and a gas too , Dad talked me out of buying it and I still kick myself for not spending the $8500 and buying it ! You did a good job on the fenders, Making sheet metal look good that was broken like that well I tip my hat to you sir ! Bandit

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      Hey Bandit! l feel for ya on missing out on the White, l've regretted not buying things way more than wishing l hadn't bought something.

    • @banditfarmer1900
      @banditfarmer1900 Рік тому

      @@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 There was only a couple of things I really wished I would have gone ahead and bought, The White was one of them the other was in 1980 a Ford dealer had a new unsold 1979 Ford 3/4 ton 4x4 , 360 4 speed PS PB no radio but it was still a brand new truck and they wanted it gone ! I could have gotten it for $1800 out the door ! I wanted it so bad but mom and dad said NO ! A year later they got me to buy a 71 Nova for $1700 ! LOL I told them I would have been better off with the New Ford truck for $100 more ! LOL Well you live and learn but now if I want something I buy it and dont look back ! The past few years I've come acrossed several pieces of equipment that were bought new and had little use on them and I got them cheap enough it was about scrap price ! Got a JD 4400 gas combine with a 213 flex head with 1100 original hours on it for $1000 ! I might not be a big fan of them but at that price I can learn to like it ! Put all new belts on it and have had 3 trouble free harvests with it and I can used to this ! LOL That never happens ! Bandit

  • @timmywade1313
    @timmywade1313 Рік тому +1

    They call them handyman jacks here in West TN where's your mower curtain? Wipe New will clean your plexiglass

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      Hey Timmy! I bought the cutter used, curtain and framework was in rough shape, it was causing problems when l would cut my tall orchard grass or rye so l finally got rid of it. Cuts much better now. Wipe new huh? l'll give it a try, thanks. Hey, find me a farm out there will ya, been tryin' to move out there for a while.

  • @cesmith4566
    @cesmith4566 Рік тому

    Back in about 2002 I saw a 4040 narrow front , sincro range at an auction, the local mechanic said that this man traded in a 4020 narrow for it. Back then it seem to bring 15k needless to say I didn't by it

  • @wandapadgett9492
    @wandapadgett9492 Рік тому

    Mr. Bill haye you triad a fuel filter for a chain saw you will have to file it to fit the hole in your fuel tank. We have a super a Farmall with that prodlum it will. Help good video

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      Hey ,thanks for the idea. We got the tank cleaned out and it's working fine for now.

  • @yvonnejohnson1557
    @yvonnejohnson1557 Рік тому

    Seans like brake downs always far out in the Field s never fails with no cel phone replay on burt an early. Lol like your video s. From gary

  • @joshruka4650
    @joshruka4650 Рік тому

    I wonder if that front pedistal mount the same as 20 series or if they actually cast one for the 30 series. Narrow front was definitely going to the wayside by that time. Cool tractor for sure.

  • @derrickzenner9300
    @derrickzenner9300 Рік тому

    I didnt know that they were available without an adjustable steering wheel. Neat tractor.

  • @hobert497
    @hobert497 Рік тому

    A great tractor to have...

  • @jasonbeecher509
    @jasonbeecher509 Рік тому

    It's the governor ring in the pump. A 4030 fender or 2 poast rops is on my bucket list syncro or quadrange. Convertible

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      Hey Jason! The way l was describing the issue l know it would sound like the governor ring gone bad and plugging the return line, but it is actually fuel not being able to get thru the line coming out of the tank. Had to blow back thru it to get the fuel to flow. Thanks for watching, and for your comment.

    • @jasonbeecher509
      @jasonbeecher509 Рік тому

      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226 we've done lots of pumps for the governor ring being deteriated

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      @@jasonbeecher509 Yeah, todays diesel is toxic to those gov. rings, we upgrade to new design.

    • @jasonbeecher509
      @jasonbeecher509 Рік тому

      @@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 I did one on a 1206 for a good friend of mine. I used the ring

  • @terryhawkins4295
    @terryhawkins4295 Рік тому

    Ive always heard those jacks called handy man jacks. Gota be dam careful with em for sure. Cool tractor, i own 2 tractors and there both narrow fronts

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      The narrow fronts are more maneuverable in tite spaces, l've got a lot of 'em on this farm.

  • @kimculver1038
    @kimculver1038 Рік тому

    We put a strainer screen fromA sprayer boom nozzle on the stand pipe in the tank seems to fit tight and stays on pipe. Helps to clean fuel temp fix

  • @OnePieceatatimeranch
    @OnePieceatatimeranch Рік тому

    I've seen a couple 4430's with sound gard cabs and narrow front. They were both synchro range

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      I think it looks strange to have a narrow front with a "sound hard can", l'm assuming that is "redspeak" for sound guard cab. 😆

    • @OnePieceatatimeranch
      @OnePieceatatimeranch Рік тому

      @@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 😂😂😂 Dang phone changed it

    • @OnePieceatatimeranch
      @OnePieceatatimeranch Рік тому

      I have run them all. Grew up on 4010,4020,4430 and 4440 and two 1086's and Oliver 1800/1850. White 2-105

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      @@OnePieceatatimeranch Sounds like you had a well rounded up bringing.

  • @peteverhelst2088
    @peteverhelst2088 Рік тому

    Those jacks, if I’m not mistaken are called a jack- all.

  • @dougpersell8776
    @dougpersell8776 Рік тому

    There was a guy farming below our place he had a 3010 narrow front . I thought that was really a big tractor for a narrow front at the time.

  • @MorganOtt-ne1qj
    @MorganOtt-ne1qj Рік тому

    I hate "hi lift" jacks! They are designed to cause pain. I wasn't hit in the face by one, just a 2000 pound bull. But I think the smokey haze we are breathing may be instigating "summer colds", because I am clogged up as well. God Bless and keep at it!

  • @r.scotthill3082
    @r.scotthill3082 Рік тому

    That's what we called them "killer jacks".

  • @inadunham4034
    @inadunham4034 Рік тому

    Great to see a tiny bit older equipment. I come from farm and Dad was bit old school so my summer job was mowing alfalfa with team of horses. Could have sold tickets back then. Dad was a Case tractor guy. Keep up your good work!!
    Question, have you always farmed?

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      We still had our team of Percheron work horses when I was a kid, Dad would use them to plow the garden in the spring. I was too young to have ever driven them myself. Our first tractor was an SC Case, though they did have a Cleatrac crawler before that. Yes l have always farmed, do I seem like a new comer to farming?

  • @corydriver7634
    @corydriver7634 Рік тому

    I’d bet if you got in touch with somebody local that has a 3D printer, they could get the dimensions on those plastic fender handles and make a new set for you.

  • @yvonnejohnson1557
    @yvonnejohnson1557 Рік тому

    We had a 4020 wide front that was a Pullen mule. Iam a jd man my self.from gary

  • @MorganOtt-ne1qj
    @MorganOtt-ne1qj Рік тому

    Neither Year Around nor Hinson made good looking cabs. Windows, a roof, and a blower that MIGHT make some heat were what they offered. The shape of that cab looks like a Hinson

  • @3069mark
    @3069mark Рік тому

    Hi Bill. Just found your channel awhile back and have watched several of your older videos and now this one and really like your channel. I also found your tractor pulling channel and really like it too. Reminds me of the tractor pulls at our county fair in Iowa when I was a young boy. They don't even have tractor pulls at that fair anymore. I grew up on a row crop farm in Iowa in the 60's and early 70's and we ran all John Deere equipment. You're in Southern Maryland, correct?

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому +1

      Glad you're enjoying things! Yes, we are in Maryland, but we are trying to move to Tennessee.

    • @3069mark
      @3069mark Рік тому

      @@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 -- That sounds like a big job to up and move like that when you have that farm there in MD. Would you farm in TN too if you moved there? BTW, I don't live in Iowa anymore. Moved to Arkansas in 2005. So if you moved to TN then we would be neighbors cause AR is nextdoor to TN.

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому +1

      @@3069mark It would be a huge job, but Maryland is getting more toxic to farmers and freedom. We need to leave. Yes l would still farm.

    • @3069mark
      @3069mark Рік тому

      @@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 -- I hear ya about the toxicity and the tyranny. I think it's just about everywhere anymore but some places are much worse than others. Our government has been infiltrated by the enemies of freedom. That's because we weren't paying attention. Maybe we could turn things back but it would be a huge job and take a lot of people (the vast majority of Americans) who really care enough to be involved. However I don't think that is going to happen because our nation has been dumbed down so badly and that we are now in the end times and the next event is The Rapture. I pray that God opens the doors for you and makes the transition an easy one for you to move to TN. God Bless you and yours!

  • @meandthemrs7403
    @meandthemrs7403 Рік тому

    I was 11 in 1976. Those fenders were probably kid seats. Don't know how else they could have gotten that bad.

  • @williamspates1015
    @williamspates1015 Рік тому

    Definitely don't see very many 30 series narrow fronts I would love to find a 4430 narrow front quad range that would be a nice one to have. Friend of mine has 4030 but wide front nice tractors

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому +1

      My dream is a 4230 NF quad range.[ Don't tell anybody, l'm thinking about buying a junker and building one]

    • @williamspates1015
      @williamspates1015 Рік тому

      @@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 that would be a nice tractor

    • @stevenarnold3935
      @stevenarnold3935 Рік тому

      @@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 if you do take us on the journey with you.

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      @@stevenarnold3935 If l do, l will!

  • @bugbomb8048
    @bugbomb8048 11 місяців тому

    With your love and knowledge of tractor pulling in general…. How hard or feasible would it be to put together a pulling series/group of just the N series fords and the Fergusons ? Seeing how they can almost be found in every backyard in this country and the only real use is to run a brush hog these days. They can be hauled with a minivan and a single axle 6x12 trailer that is in every front and backyard in this country as well. And of course if the group already owned a modern style sled just for these little but popular size tractors…. Please let me know your professional and unprofessional opinion on this ….. thank you

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  11 місяців тому

      Well, l don't think you're going to find enough people interested in participating in a pulling series like that. We offer classes for that size tractor at our pulls and can't get more than 1 or2 to show up.

    • @bugbomb8048
      @bugbomb8048 11 місяців тому

      @@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 thank you…. That’s what I wanted to know…

  • @williammatzek4660
    @williammatzek4660 Рік тому

    I thought the 4020 was the last tricycle front tractor John Deere made!

  • @Florida239
    @Florida239 Рік тому +5

    Those bumper jacks have killed more men then the smallpox

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому +1

      Yeah, they are dangerous.

    • @jpoppinga8417
      @jpoppinga8417 Рік тому

      Only when people don't maintain them. I.E. a little oil goes a long way.

    • @LloydTrisler-hq2fo
      @LloydTrisler-hq2fo Рік тому

      We called handy man jacks here on Louisiana better know as window makers and some guys was extra dangerous with them !! Those jacks and the old split rims hurt lots men !!

  • @Florida239
    @Florida239 Рік тому +1

    What’s your opinion on Massey Ferguson I was raised on em ifs my
    Favorite tractor never really had John deere

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому +5

      If you were raised on 'em and like 'em, does anybody else's opinion really matter?

    • @robertfoote3255
      @robertfoote3255 Рік тому

      Use what you have and be the best you can with it.
      Color don't matter to the man.....he can see your soul.

    • @Florida239
      @Florida239 Рік тому

      @@robertfoote3255 I was just curious of someone’s opinion I don’t think you can beat Perkins diesels we had neighbors run John Deere and international and they was always broke down we jut ran Massey and never had issues just making conversation have a good one

    • @robertfoote3255
      @robertfoote3255 Рік тому +1

      @@Florida239 we had a Massey 165. It was a good tractor.
      My uncle ruined it....but that's a different story.
      The 3020D is still going 55 years later.
      Keep your toes in the dirt.

    • @Florida239
      @Florida239 Рік тому

      @@robertfoote3255 we had a 150
      Three 165 two 175 and 185 and still use everyone to this day I think their best tractors bolted together our neighbors never had luck with green or the other red have a good one appsalutely keep farming we are losing farms everyday to this lunatic government

  • @ethanmorton7122
    @ethanmorton7122 Рік тому

    need some suitcase weights!

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      lt's an early one, those weights came on it new, l'd like to switch to suitcase also, but the boys want to keep it like it is. We have that discussion from time to time.

  • @shawnmarvin6348
    @shawnmarvin6348 Рік тому

    I'm just wondering if there's not some type of additive for diesel that may help with that situation?

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      I add 2 stroke oil to it but not in large enough quantities to stop rust.

  • @vondinkinsvon8919
    @vondinkinsvon8919 Рік тому

    They make a cover for that machine

  • @tractortalkwithgary1271
    @tractortalkwithgary1271 Рік тому

    Those high lift jacks have killed and maimed more people than even tricycle tractors have.

  • @johngardiner3790
    @johngardiner3790 Рік тому

    Haven't heard anyone mention patuxent implement or a c young for many years. Bill now you should know who I am.

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      I'm pretty thick headed sometimes but I've got my suspicions.

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      I guess I should say l figure your some kin to the dealer that sold this 4030.

    • @johngardiner3790
      @johngardiner3790 Рік тому

      @@so.md.dirtfarmer2226 you got it. That 4030 was sold to a customer about 6 miles west of LaPlata. He also had a little country store / tavern where blue dog saloon is today. Plus I was an original member of southern MD tractor pullets.

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому +1

      @@johngardiner3790 Yeah, l suspected from the beginning that maybe your middle name started with an R, 'cause l don't know you by John. Hey, there must be another NF 4030 down there 'cause the search we did on the serial # says Mar. 24,74 sale date, Carrols Garage "responsible dealer", you guys were the selling dealer, to a man in Owings, Md. who's family l bought it from. Interestingly it was this guy we bought the R from. Good to hear from you, you still owe me a 414 HaHa.

  • @paulbrooks2024
    @paulbrooks2024 Рік тому

    Don't for get that combine ,it needs it too

  • @timmywade1313
    @timmywade1313 Рік тому

    That ultra low sulfur diesel rusts fuel tanks new tractors have plastic tanks

  • @richardharris7714
    @richardharris7714 Рік тому +1

    You could use a Dermatology for your skin

  • @weedeatnogreweo7574
    @weedeatnogreweo7574 Рік тому

    Foxtail:
    Don't cut it so they can poop on it
    Cut it so they can eat it and poop it
    Makes good hay

    • @so.md.dirtfarmer2226
      @so.md.dirtfarmer2226  Рік тому

      I put it in the manger first, then on the floor. The one piece with more weeds than grass might go strait to bedding, they'll still pick over it.