Laura, you talk about the good old days of the 70's and I think of the good old days of the 50's. Of course, I'm 75 years old and watched my granddad farm with an Allis-Chalmers model B and a hay cutter that was 5 feet across and combine that had a 4 head cutter bar. Good to see you're keeping the "old" stuff running and remembering your heritage. Thank you.
Lol, I am from Western Pennsylvania where much of this kind of equipment is still in use. We are not as large a farms or or is flat a ground most places is what you people have out there. That I can remember our neighbors buying a brand new 6600 1977 and thinking that why a 13 ft grain head that's huge will never ever have anything around this community any bigger than that
Just watched my Granddaughter’s wedding three days ago. She was grinning like a mule eating briars and laughing through the whole thing. Laura’s first pass in the combine immediately reminded me of the joy my Granddaughter was experiencing. When you get as much joy and fulfillment as Laura does from her profession, you are officially beating the system. Farm on, Laura and Grant!
Agreed! Laura isn't like one other "popular" youtube farmer who always disses on his deceased grandpa at every opportunity as a "hoarder". I finally got tired of that disrespect and it becoming more of a home improvement channel and unsubscribed.
Hello! I am from South Georgia. I work for a local John Deere Dealer and I believe that the circuit breaker is a 30 amp breaker. The part number is AR49352. You have probably already got the problem fixed but if not I figured I would help out a little. Also I am 41 and I remember as a kid growing up in the 80's and 90's running a 6600, 6620, and a 7720. It was great. It was just my Dad and Grandpa and my self when I could finally reach the foot pedals of the tractors and combines.
I just love the look on your face, Laura, when you were driving the combine. It was a look of pure joy and amazement. Your pure love of farming is why I keep coming back. Thank you.
It's awesome that you honour your heritage by rejuvenating these vintage machines. I won't call them antiques because I'm 63, and they're younger than me. You should feel very proud of what you do.
Absolutely one of the best videos you have done !!!! Your Grandfather would be really proud of the 3 of you ! And its nice now the kids of today can see how hard it was to put food on the table not only for the farmers but also the country and the world!!!!! My self and my family REALLY take my hat of to you and all farmers out there. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mad respect for that man. He’s probably forgotten more about farming than most people know. Made me kinda sad to see him sell it but know you two will give it the love it needs.
Just a little note, I was on my uncle's farm back in the late 40's and early 50's. He had a dairy farm and we milked between 40 and 50 head of cattle. I remember our corn fields. We used a picker that just cut the corn and blew it into a wagon. We then brought it down to the silo and had a chopper/blower that blew the copped corn into an upright silo. The chopper ran off the tractor via a long belt. What fun. He never did get a combine, he just stayed with what he knew. I am now 86 years old and I have found a couple of channels that remind me of the old days. Yours is one and I am enjoying them very much. Your old equipment brings back many memories. Of course my uncle didn't have much use for John Deere or Farmall equipment. He was a Massy-Harris tractor guy. Have a wonderful day and God Bless
If you are interested, there is a channel called Gierok Farms that has an old corn picker they have been using for their last couple videos. Sounds like they are using a set up today similar to what you had back then.
Quite fascinating! I’m 66 and lived out in the country with lots of neighbors farming all around. Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s I remember equipment just like this. No farmers had semis. All of them had grain trucks just like yours. I can remember one neighbor having a combine almost just like yours, but with NO CAB. Harvesting soybeans was brutal for him.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. This was so fun to watch and way more advanced than the method we used. I grew up on a small farm in central Minnesota. In the early 1960's we used a true corn "picker", not a combine. The picker delivered the whole ear of corn to an attached wagon. The whole ear was then transported to our corn crib for storage or to the grain elevator near by. On are best years we could hit 100 bushels to the acre and then we thought we hit a gold mine!
Grant and Laura, its so kind of you to help that ole farmer recollect his memories of his productivity years!! It’s touching to hear him apologize for what he might consider slight damage and neglect!
Thank you Laura. Although I am a Brit farmer, that noise and rattle experience took me right back to my first cabless 15ft combine at age 13 in the mid '70s.Thanks for rekindling the memories and your georgously infectious smile! All the best from the other side of the pond.
Fun episode. No a/c, no gps and no computers. I’m 78 and remember the farmer next door mowing hay with a team of horses. I remember seeing him asleep and the horses would mow to the end of the row and wait for him to wake up.
works today, broken and non-functional tomorrow, even in late 40's, I rely upon electronical/computer trash far too much... I have to think very hard and over complex things. then I take an short time out and come back 300% busting chops and sending all the rest off...
My wife is the Senior Administrator for an adult continuing education nonprofit in Oak Ridge, TN. They provide non-credit learning opportunities for seniors. Oak Ridge, think Oak Ridge National Labs, Y12, etc. She comes home with the most fascinating stories from her "old people". The farmer selling the combine had great stories to tell. I am glad you captured them. You don't have to be famous or rich to have a valuable story to tell about your life.
my dad told stories of a n old man who came into the gas station dad worked at and told stories about when he was young and rode down into " Indian Territory" later to be known as Oklahoma wish we could document ALL of those interesting pieces of HIStORY!!!!!
What a super fun video. You guys are modern day farmers using old farm equipment. The old time farmers sure had to deal with a lot of problems but they certainly new how to deal with them. God bless all our farmers and thanks for all the memories.
Back in the day when all they needed was the a good wrench and screw driver with the replacement part.. Now you need one of them mini computers to find out what is wrong...
Wow! Brought a tear to these old eyes. Great memories blossomed sending great feelings of joy to this old heart. I’m so glad you are creating videos of the old equipment from yesteryear. Keep it going kiddos. A smile to the face of this old fart is another day filled with a happy heart and God’s blessings!
You and Grant are not only very cool, also very unique. You guys are going to a lot of trouble other channels wouldn't dream of. very cool and many thanks to keeping it historically real.
Young lady, You are and have took me back to the good old days .I love farming back in those days. In my younger years. It bought tears to heart eyes. Tears of joy .
Thank you Grant and Laura, I like your farm video's. I am an old time farmer from South Africa. I started farming in 1984 with my dad on a farm about (130km) +/-75miles north of Pretoria. We used a John Deere 940 combine (German made) with a 4 row sunflower head on it. No graincart, we make use of 2 x 10 ton trailors and delivered the sunflower at the local coöp. About 5 to 15 miles on the public roads. Willem Wierenga South Africa
I’m sure ur grandpa is with u spiritually right now and is very happy watching u both harvest the way he did in his time. God bless and keep up the awesome videos
England Calling. Guys what you are doing is simply wonderful, I lived in the US for neary 5yrs, my first visit to the US was in 1974. The US Farmer has my highest respect, I'm sure your family are incredibly proud of you project and your hard work. Keep on Trucking / Farming Br Peter
One of the many reasons I continue to watch your videos is how you always go back in time and appreciate the history of farming. From the old equipment to how things were done even before machinery. Not to mention all the different countries you have been to too show us how different or the same as what we do here in America. Keep educating not just yourselves but us viewers as well.
You definitely brought back some great memories! As a newly wed couple, on a large beef and grain farm, we had a John Deere 6600 and a GMC grain/cattle truck for hauling. That was the modern equipment of the day back then. It was a good and simpler life. Thanks for the memories!
Beautiful! The history is amazing. Love the tribute to generations and equipment from days gone by. Thank you for posting and sharing this. The smile and look of amazement on Laura's face at @45:04 is lovely!
Preserving the ways, and the equipment, is so respectfull to the past. And it will make you appreciate autosteer, hydraulics, air suspension, navigation, aircondition etc etc MUCH MUCH more :-)
The much more would include a Hydro-drive in the combine, more than likely that 6600 was gear driven I think some of the late model XXOO SERIES JD came with the option with a Hydro, but maybe just the 7700. Can’t imagine what a pain of opening a corn field with a gear driven combine and having to shift from forward to reverse taking off the headlands
Hi Laura, Grant and Gage When changing tires on trucks with cast spoke wheels the “tabs” are called dogs. Obtaining the proper alignment is important. To check this simple place a block on the ground next to the tire and then rotate the tire to verify the wheel is on straight. Loosening the dogs and moving the wheel on the spokes will help to get the proper alignment.
Laura, I am 71 years old. I went to college at Washington State University in Pullman which is in the heart of the Palouse country which is the wheat growing capital of Eastern Washington. I was in school from 1973 to 1976. That was right at the beginning of the use of the kind of combines similar to what you feature in todays video. Just ten years earlier than that wheat farmers in the Palouse were using crawler tractors with pull behind combines. Wheat farmers in the 70's in the Palouse would have never believed what kind of machines would be in use today. The wheat farmers of the '70's were grateful to finally have air conditioned cabs. The machine dealers back when I was in school were selling John Deeres, Steigers, Gleaners, Internationals and others just to name a few. The average wheat farm in the Palouse in those days was about 1500 to 2000 acres. And most of that was made of rolling hills that were challenging to plant, let alone harvest. Lots of Stearman biplanes and Grumman Ag-Cats and Ag-Wagons were still in use for spraying. All of them were using big radial engines. No turboprops back then.
Nope, coolest, most badass style of truck wheels ever made. Yes, this is proper equipment. It's so great you guys are collecting, fixing, and using this mechanical gold from the best decades.
We had a truck just like that one. Even new it was about that reliable. Never worked with that color combine. Ours were always Red. We dumped directly to a truck. We didn't have the 'karts'. REALLY enjoyed this video! Thank you. You are talking about my college years. I would come home as often as possible to help with harvest and plowing. Brings back many memories.
I've watched your video and began to see the life that I had plowing our fields with a two bottom plow that you had to pull a rope at the end of the field to get it to go in the ground and pull again at the other end to get it to come out of the ground. Planted with a two row planter and harvested with a one row corn picker. Then shoveled the ears off the wagon into a corn crib. I'm 83 and can remember those days so clearly. Thanks for bringing back those memories. Love your videos.
Laura, good to see that you are looking back to what has brought us to todays farming. Also a tribute to our farmers of years gone by. Kudos to you and Grant to take on this project.
This episode may be one of my favorite. It brings back so many memories of when my dad owned and operated his one man farm equipment repair shop just west of Seward Nebraska in the mid 60s and 70s. I was in my teens back then and me and my 3 brothers would help out with tearing down engines, driving tractors to and from local farms to his shop for repair. You got it right about the frustration farmers experienced back then. Loved watching you and Grant operating that old combine and truck! Looking forward to watching more videos of your adventures with newly acquired vintage equipment. Thank you!
The wheels on the "new" green truck are 'split rim' wheels. The were affectionately known as "suicide rims", because they were notorious for exploding off the tire during reassembly after a repair or replacement of the tire. Please be cautious when working on the tires. I would highly recommend replacing the old suicide rims with modern ones for safety.
My first combine was a 1973. It was about 6 years old when I bought it. Running that made me really appreciate the newer stuff. I have just retired from farming and have more time to enjoy your adventures.
t's so awesome that you two have the heart and desire to get this old equipment and put it to use again. It's wonderful that you could walk in your grandparents footsteps and get a true feel for the grit and caliber of people it took to farm back then. Larry, Central Valley, Ca.
I appreciate the love and respect you and Grant show for the history of our ancestors. I'm a 54 year old guy that appreciates the automation and technology but loves a look at the lives of our grandparents and great grandparents. Thank you so much.
I lived what you're doing today!❤ This is why you're REALLY in touch with your grandparents' days of hard, non efficient farming methods! We used a lot of elbow grease, and long days were at hand! To be done harvesting by CHRISTMAS was a goal! Weather also slowed us down! One look inside the shop of the gentleman you got the combine from shows the tools and parts of 1972 era farming! Thankful we remain for those good ole days!!!❤❤
I’m 65. I still feel the 60s was the “ golden age”-farmers rotated crops, were diverse, they used green manure crops, and left rows of grain by the fencerows for the pheasants. Family dairies were everywhere. I miss those days!
I am sure there are many great farmers out there that still use this same exact model combine, one of the most popular from JD ever!! The farms around me in the 70's and 80's, we were all mostly 4 row corn heads and an IH 715 or 815. When I attended Iowa State in 75-77, my roommate worked on the ISU dairy farm, near campus, and on Saturdays when they were combining corn nearby in Ames, I would go out there and drove some on a 4 row JD combine, was the best back then!! This was without a doubt, your best video yet!!!
Grant and Laura thank you so very much for this video it was really amazing there is something about the two of you that really makes this video special it is your love and passion for each other and all the time you make for us to see it you’re family is truly blessed gramps is smiling down at you all and that face you made when you started driving is priceless love 💕 to your family from your friends in Canada 🇨🇦
That look of pure joy upon Laura's face as she started harvesting with that old combine was priceless! Love it! Laura's sunny persona is one of the main reasons why I watch her channel every week. Grant was grinning too! Note there is no plastic on those old machines? They still worked and the corn in the tank was really clean too! That sheet metal with the rust holes can be replaced or patched up.
Hi Laura and Grant. Absolutely so cool seeing the old technology working. I remember my Dad and I, in the late 1960a and 1970s, working on our Dodge Dart and Plymouth Fury III with the then engine technology of adjusting points in a distributor to greasing various parts of the drive trains to whatever else needed to be done. Seeing the combine and the classic Chevy truck really gives credence to what your grandfathers did. I am sure they are looking down from heaven and giving you both a standing ovation. Well done!!
What a great video you 3! - I'm truly amazed that the equipment you recently bought, actually worked after many years sitting outside in the grass. A testament to the toughness of the old machinery. And thank you to all the great comments from older farmers remembering those days well past, toiling their days in the fields without A/C! A lovely trip down memory lane for many and all! Now we know what you guys will be doing this coming winter in the workshop! - Repairing and replacing old worn out machinery and combine parts, cutting out rust and rewelding in new plate, greasing 1000s of moving parts, fixing coolant leaks, replacing belts, hoses and bearings and filters. All to get ready for summer next year with some original paint oxidation removed and polished up, and new paint applied where needed. Cheers from an old city boy in New Zealand, David. 💛💚❤🐭🐈⬛
Awesome Job I remember back in the 70's this is the equipment I drove. what a vast different from then to now. I Had a verry scary Experian's in a truck like that. I was haling chicken manure, when going about 60mph up a climbing lane and lost a set of dules off the right side of the truck. What a ride I had. It took me over a couple hundred feet to get it stopped. I had to look at that drag mark in the blacktop for years as a reminder. What a great video and a walk down memory lane. At 67 I do a lot of that lately, LOL. Thanks for your videos have a blessed week and see you on the next one. 🤠
Agree, I’m also 81. The corn picker was my dad an I throwing the corn to the middle isle and coming back along with our Allis Chalmers WD45 and wagon and picking it up.😀
What an amazing trip back in time! At my age of 78, you brought back some wonderful memories of my days on the farm in Genoa, NE! It is such fun to watch the sparkle in your eyes when you get those older, well-built, mechanical implements running and working well. Thank you for the memories!!
That is HILARIOUS!!!! My uncle was using brand new John Deere harvesters and combines. IN THE 70’s-80’s-90’s! We are in Iowa so no wonder! There is assembly in Waterloo, Iowa so no wonder! I love it! We spent so much time out on their farm!
Laura. The smile on your face when you drove the used combine for the first time was priceless. So glad for you guys and thanks for the awesome video guys. 🙂
You are all such a joy to watch. As you described “the olden days” we laughed as we graduated in 1972. All my uncles were farmers but daddy was a construction superintendent but we grew up around farming and love to follow you in your day to day lives. Thank you!
Yes that's how we did it back in the Golden years of yesteryear and I am so happy to have been a part of the hard working American Farmer and you kids are very very spoiled today but I'm thankful for all of the neat equipment you have at your disposal for today
🚜 Bringing old-school farming back to life! Seeing the 70s equipment in action brings back so many memories of my grandpa on his farm. Thank you for honoring the legacy of all those hardworking farmers! 💪❤
Thank you for creating this video. I absolutely loved it. It brings back so many great memories from my childhood in the 80s when I helped my grandpa harvest wheat and barley with equipment of the same vintage.
Who this video brings back memories. Especially the grain trucks. I was born in 1972, started driving the tractors by 9 years old. We had three grain trucks very similar to this one. Our two main tractors were JD 4840’s and we had two MF 760’s and one 860 combine. One year in the eighties our dad overhauled the combines and tractors, including a new paint job. He had left over paint so he painted the cabs of the grain trucks green and the beds red. When I turned 15, I was moved to driving the trucks during harvest season and loved it, despite not having a/c. One of our carts was a PTO and the other was hydraulic driven both with fixed augers.
Love videos like this. There is actually quite a few younger farmers still using equipment like this just trying to get their start without having a huge overhead
Wow! What a way to honor your grandpa's. It sure brings back many memories of the time I spent on the deck of the open platform combine my grandfather had as I was growing up.
Grant, Laura, Gage - as others have said, that is ABSOLUTELY your best video ever!!! I love the equipment history. Maybe you can start an agri-tourism sideline business and have visitors come and PAY YOU to watch and experience what you have!!! EXCELLENT, AND WELL DONE!!!
That is so wonderful to see you bringing life back to these wonderful machines. My dad farmed in the 60s and 70s. I was pretty much his right hand man. My brothers weren't into farming, although my oldest brother did take over when my dad died in 77. My grandparents were farmers also, as well as my dads two brothers. I am grateful for the 30 years of farm life I had, and the opportunity to farm along side my dad for many years.
I was born in 1971 so I grew up seeing this generation of farming equipment in everyday use. It was slightly different in the UK market but I can easily relate to it and I admire what you're doing to keep it going.
Grant and Laura. Go to the store and get a bunch of cans of free all. It is amazing. It's like pb blaster on steroids. I know that O'Reilly auto parts carries it. Will help all the sticky and stuck parts move again.
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Same here waking up every 14th of each month to 210,000 dollars it’s a blessing to I and my family… I can now retire knowing that I have a steady income❤️Big gratitude to Ms Evelyn Vera
Laura, you talk about the good old days of the 70's and I think of the good old days of the 50's. Of course, I'm 75 years old and watched my granddad farm with an Allis-Chalmers model B and a hay cutter that was 5 feet across and combine that had a 4 head cutter bar. Good to see you're keeping the "old" stuff running and remembering your heritage. Thank you.
My 60 year old bones ached when she said "Good Old Days"...lol
Old days are all relative !
The good old days where before 1900.
Lol, I am from Western Pennsylvania where much of this kind of equipment is still in use. We are not as large a farms or or is flat a ground most places is what you people have out there. That I can remember our neighbors buying a brand new 6600 1977 and thinking that why a 13 ft grain head that's huge will never ever have anything around this community any bigger than that
The good old days for me was the 50s
Just watched my Granddaughter’s wedding three days ago. She was grinning like a mule eating briars and laughing through the whole thing. Laura’s first pass in the combine immediately reminded me of the joy my Granddaughter was experiencing. When you get as much joy and fulfillment as Laura does from her profession, you are officially beating the system. Farm on, Laura and Grant!
I love how you honor both SENIOR EQUIPMENT and THOSE SENIOR FARMERS before you. WELL DONE ON EVERY LEVEL.
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Agreed! Laura isn't like one other "popular" youtube farmer who always disses on his deceased grandpa at every opportunity as a "hoarder". I finally got tired of that disrespect and it becoming more of a home improvement channel and unsubscribed.
I remember driving a 7700, am I that old??
Hello! I am from South Georgia. I work for a local John Deere Dealer and I believe that the circuit breaker is a 30 amp breaker. The part number is AR49352. You have probably already got the problem fixed but if not I figured I would help out a little. Also I am 41 and I remember as a kid growing up in the 80's and 90's running a 6600, 6620, and a 7720. It was great. It was just my Dad and Grandpa and my self when I could finally reach the foot pedals of the tractors and combines.
I just love the look on your face, Laura, when you were driving the combine. It was a look of pure joy and amazement. Your pure love of farming is why I keep coming back. Thank you.
That look wouldn’t be there combing in the winter
@@Thefinalex-z1v I'm not so sure. You might not see it because of face covering but I'll bet the smile would be there.
@@roger80465 hardly she ain’t tough enough to do this with out all the modern equipment
@@Thefinalex-z1v we'll agree to disagree
@@roger80465 I dont agree to that.
It's awesome that you honour your heritage by rejuvenating these vintage machines. I won't call them antiques because I'm 63, and they're younger than me. You should feel very proud of what you do.
Absolutely one of the best videos you have done !!!! Your Grandfather would be really proud of the 3 of you ! And its nice now the kids of today can see how hard it was to put food on the table not only for the farmers but also the country and the world!!!!! My self and my family REALLY take my hat of to you and all farmers out there. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mad respect for that man. He’s probably forgotten more about farming than most people know. Made me kinda sad to see him sell it but know you two will give it the love it needs.
Just a little note, I was on my uncle's farm back in the late 40's and early 50's. He had a dairy farm and we milked between 40 and 50 head of cattle. I remember our corn fields. We used a picker that just cut the corn and blew it into a wagon. We then brought it down to the silo and had a chopper/blower that blew the copped corn into an upright silo. The chopper ran off the tractor via a long belt. What fun. He never did get a combine, he just stayed with what he knew. I am now 86 years old and I have found a couple of channels that remind me of the old days. Yours is one and I am enjoying them very much. Your old equipment brings back many memories. Of course my uncle didn't have much use for John Deere or Farmall equipment. He was a Massy-Harris tractor guy. Have a wonderful day and God Bless
If you are interested, there is a channel called Gierok Farms that has an old corn picker they have been using for their last couple videos. Sounds like they are using a set up today similar to what you had back then.
Quite fascinating! I’m 66 and lived out in the country with lots of neighbors farming all around. Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s I remember equipment just like this. No farmers had semis. All of them had grain trucks just like yours.
I can remember one neighbor having a combine almost just like yours, but with NO CAB. Harvesting soybeans was brutal for him.
@@JohnBradley-ut2qi Funny my DAd put me in the wagon and I had to dodge the corn. I was only 5 yrs old.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. This was so fun to watch and way more advanced than the method we used.
I grew up on a small farm in central Minnesota. In the early 1960's we used a true corn "picker", not a combine.
The picker delivered the whole ear of corn to an attached wagon. The whole ear was then transported to our corn crib for storage or to the grain elevator near by.
On are best years we could hit 100 bushels to the acre and then we thought we hit a gold mine!
The smile on your face when first driving combine just says it all .
This! That smile said it all
Grant and Laura, its so kind of you to help that ole farmer recollect his memories of his productivity years!! It’s touching to hear him apologize for what he might consider slight damage and neglect!
Thank you Laura. Although I am a Brit farmer, that noise and rattle experience took me right back to my first cabless 15ft combine at age 13 in the mid '70s.Thanks for rekindling the memories and your georgously infectious smile! All the best from the other side of the pond.
Fun episode. No a/c, no gps and no computers. I’m 78 and remember the farmer next door mowing hay with a team of horses. I remember seeing him asleep and the horses would mow to the end of the row and wait for him to wake up.
works today, broken and non-functional tomorrow, even in late 40's, I rely upon electronical/computer trash far too much... I have to think very hard and over complex things. then I take an short time out and come back 300% busting chops and sending all the rest off...
I would of checked the fuel filter.
My wife is the Senior Administrator for an adult continuing education nonprofit in Oak Ridge, TN. They provide non-credit learning opportunities for seniors. Oak Ridge, think Oak Ridge National Labs, Y12, etc. She comes home with the most fascinating stories from her "old people". The farmer selling the combine had great stories to tell. I am glad you captured them. You don't have to be famous or rich to have a valuable story to tell about your life.
my dad told stories of a n old man who came into the gas station dad worked at and told stories about when he was young and rode down into " Indian Territory" later to be known as Oklahoma wish we could document ALL of those interesting pieces of HIStORY!!!!!
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Thank you for paying tribute to all the farmers who came before.. Working everyday to really benefit all
What a super fun video. You guys are modern day farmers using old farm equipment. The old time farmers sure had to deal with a lot of problems but they certainly new how to deal with them. God bless all our farmers and thanks for all the memories.
Back in the day when all they needed was the a good wrench and screw driver with the replacement part.. Now you need one of them mini computers to find out what is wrong...
Wow! Brought a tear to these old eyes. Great memories blossomed sending great feelings of joy to this old heart. I’m so glad you are creating videos of the old equipment from yesteryear. Keep it going kiddos. A smile to the face of this old fart is another day filled with a happy heart and God’s blessings!
You and Grant are not only very cool, also very unique. You guys are going to a lot of trouble other channels wouldn't dream of. very cool and many thanks to keeping it historically real.
Young lady, You are and have took me back to the good old days .I love farming back in those days. In my younger years. It bought tears to heart eyes. Tears of joy .
Hands down one of the best videos you 3 have released. So cool 🍻🍁
Loved the expression on Laura's face when the combine started moving while she was driving that alone was worth the effort. Congratulations!!!
Thank you Grant and Laura,
I like your farm video's. I am an old time farmer from South Africa. I started farming in 1984 with my dad on a farm about (130km) +/-75miles north of Pretoria. We used a John Deere 940 combine (German made) with a 4 row sunflower head on it. No graincart, we make use of 2 x 10 ton trailors and delivered the sunflower at the local coöp. About 5 to 15 miles on the public roads.
Willem Wierenga South Africa
I’m sure ur grandpa is with u spiritually right now and is very happy watching u both harvest the way he did in his time. God bless and keep up the awesome videos
Best video yet Laura and Grant. Thank you for paying tribute to the past. Such a treasure. ❤
Thanks for showing respect to this Farmer you talking to a legend
Growing up on a farm in the 50s and 60s you've brought back lots of memories!!
😊I worked for Grant's grandfather in late 70's early 80's. Remember trucks and pile of corn south of house. Thanks for memories.
I'm tearing up a little, seeing all of this equipment run again. Thanks for making a home for these old beasts. I love them all!
England Calling.
Guys what you are doing is simply wonderful, I lived in the US for neary 5yrs, my first visit to the US was in 1974.
The US Farmer has my highest respect, I'm sure your family are incredibly proud of you project and your hard work.
Keep on Trucking / Farming
Br Peter
One of the many reasons I continue to watch your videos is how you always go back in time and appreciate the history of farming. From the old equipment to how things were done even before machinery. Not to mention all the different countries you have been to too show us how different or the same as what we do here in America. Keep educating not just yourselves but us viewers as well.
You definitely brought back some great memories! As a newly wed couple, on a large beef and grain farm, we had a John Deere 6600 and a GMC grain/cattle truck for hauling. That was the modern equipment of the day back then. It was a good and simpler life. Thanks for the memories!
Seeing both of your faces light up operating old equipment like kids playing with new challenging toys is wonderful to see.
Beautiful! The history is amazing. Love the tribute to generations and equipment from days gone by. Thank you for posting and sharing this. The smile and look of amazement on Laura's face at @45:04 is lovely!
Preserving the ways, and the equipment, is so respectfull to the past.
And it will make you appreciate autosteer, hydraulics, air suspension, navigation, aircondition etc etc MUCH MUCH more :-)
The much more would include a Hydro-drive in the combine, more than likely that 6600 was gear driven I think some of the late model XXOO SERIES JD came with the option with a Hydro, but maybe just the 7700. Can’t imagine what a pain of opening a corn field with a gear driven combine and having to shift from forward to reverse taking off the headlands
Hi Laura, Grant and Gage
When changing tires on trucks with cast spoke wheels the “tabs” are called dogs. Obtaining the proper alignment is important. To check this simple place a block on the ground next to the tire and then rotate the tire to verify the wheel is on straight. Loosening the dogs and moving the wheel on the spokes will help to get the proper alignment.
Laura, I am 71 years old. I went to college at Washington State University in Pullman which is in the heart of the Palouse country which is the wheat growing capital of Eastern Washington. I was in school from 1973 to 1976. That was right at the beginning of the use of the kind of combines similar to what you feature in todays video. Just ten years earlier than that wheat farmers in the Palouse were using crawler tractors with pull behind combines. Wheat farmers in the 70's in the Palouse would have never believed what kind of machines would be in use today. The wheat farmers of the '70's were grateful to finally have air conditioned cabs. The machine dealers back when I was in school were selling John Deeres, Steigers, Gleaners, Internationals and others just to name a few. The average wheat farm in the Palouse in those days was about 1500 to 2000 acres. And most of that was made of rolling hills that were challenging to plant, let alone harvest. Lots of Stearman biplanes and Grumman Ag-Cats and Ag-Wagons were still in use for spraying. All of them were using big radial engines. No turboprops back then.
Love the fact that you guys are going old school. Keeps ya humble and thankful for the modern "easy" way of doing things.
Nope, coolest, most badass style of truck wheels ever made. Yes, this is proper equipment. It's so great you guys are collecting, fixing, and using this mechanical gold from the best decades.
I remember those JD 6600 Combines. They were the Cadillac of Combines back in the 70’s! I enjoyed this video! Thank you Grant, Gage and Laura!
We had a truck just like that one. Even new it was about that reliable. Never worked with that color combine. Ours were always Red. We dumped directly to a truck. We didn't have the 'karts'. REALLY enjoyed this video! Thank you. You are talking about my college years. I would come home as often as possible to help with harvest and plowing. Brings back many memories.
I've watched your video and began to see the life that I had plowing our fields with a two bottom plow that you had to pull a rope at the end of the field to get it to go in the ground and pull again at the other end to get it to come out of the ground. Planted with a two row planter and harvested with a one row corn picker. Then shoveled the ears off the wagon into a corn crib. I'm 83 and can remember those days so clearly. Thanks for bringing back those memories. Love your videos.
Thanks!
Laura, good to see that you are looking back to what has brought us to todays farming. Also a tribute to our farmers of years gone by. Kudos to you and Grant to take on this project.
This episode may be one of my favorite. It brings back so many memories of when my dad owned and operated his one man farm equipment repair shop just west of Seward Nebraska in the mid 60s and 70s. I was in my teens back then and me and my 3 brothers would help out with tearing down engines, driving tractors to and from local farms to his shop for repair. You got it right about the frustration farmers experienced back then. Loved watching you and Grant operating that old combine and truck! Looking forward to watching more videos of your adventures with newly acquired vintage equipment. Thank you!
WOW, I could just image the smell of his workshop! I can remember going with my father to the elevator back in 1963 when I was like 4 years old.
The wheels on the "new" green truck are 'split rim' wheels. The were affectionately known as "suicide rims", because they were notorious for exploding off the tire during reassembly after a repair or replacement of the tire.
Please be cautious when working on the tires. I would highly recommend replacing the old suicide rims with modern ones for safety.
I was thinking they where called that or death rims... Anyways not a good name for a key part to keep the wheels on the car/truck..lol
1970's good old day😅 how time flies
@nigelshaw3743 Yes sir... The good OLD days... "the year of our Lord,... nineteen hundred and seventy!" *spittin' out Chaw of tobacca*
My first combine was a 1973. It was about 6 years old when I bought it. Running that made me really appreciate the newer stuff. I have just retired from farming and have more time to enjoy your adventures.
t's so awesome that you two have the heart and desire to get this old equipment and put it to use again. It's wonderful that you could walk in your grandparents footsteps and get a true feel for the grit and caliber of people it took to farm back then. Larry, Central Valley, Ca.
I love this series! Your respect for the past and your elders shows what quality people you all are. Thank you!
I appreciate the love and respect you and Grant show for the history of our ancestors. I'm a 54 year old guy that appreciates the automation and technology but loves a look at the lives of our grandparents and great grandparents. Thank you so much.
My parents who were farmers would have never dreamed of equipment like this. They just used a hay wagon, pitch forks, and a horse to pull it.
I still farm with old equipment. 1980’s baby😎😎
Long live the 80's baby's last decade before the computers and net became part of life!
Me too....Whole herd of 40 year old tractors.. Planted my corn with a old jd 7000..Corn didnt care what planted it.
I lived what you're doing today!❤
This is why you're REALLY in touch with your grandparents' days of hard, non efficient farming methods! We used a lot of elbow grease, and long days were at hand! To be done harvesting by CHRISTMAS was a goal! Weather also slowed us down!
One look inside the shop of the gentleman you got the combine from shows the tools and parts of 1972 era farming!
Thankful we remain for those good ole days!!!❤❤
I’m 65. I still feel the 60s was the “ golden age”-farmers rotated crops, were diverse, they used green manure crops, and left rows of grain by the fencerows for the pheasants. Family dairies were everywhere. I miss those days!
This is a great post! Love the old pictures of the past ..
Thanks Laura, for sharing this with us all!!😊
I am sure there are many great farmers out there that still use this same exact model combine, one of the most popular from JD ever!! The farms around me in the 70's and 80's, we were all mostly 4 row corn heads and an IH 715 or 815. When I attended Iowa State in 75-77, my roommate worked on the ISU dairy farm, near campus, and on Saturdays when they were combining corn nearby in Ames, I would go out there and drove some on a 4 row JD combine, was the best back then!! This was without a doubt, your best video yet!!!
Grant and Laura thank you so very much for this video it was really amazing there is something about the two of you that really makes this video special it is your love and passion for each other and all the time you make for us to see it you’re family is truly blessed gramps is smiling down at you all and that face you made when you started driving is priceless love 💕 to your family from your friends in Canada 🇨🇦
That look of pure joy upon Laura's face as she started harvesting with that old combine was priceless! Love it! Laura's sunny persona is one of the main reasons why I watch her channel every week. Grant was grinning too! Note there is no plastic on those old machines? They still worked and the corn in the tank was really clean too! That sheet metal with the rust holes can be replaced or patched up.
Guaranteed both your grandfathers were watching and dancing a jig of joy seeing what you both have done. 100% cool!!
Hi Laura and Grant. Absolutely so cool seeing the old technology working. I remember my Dad and I, in the late 1960a and 1970s, working on our Dodge Dart and Plymouth Fury III with the then engine technology of adjusting points in a distributor to greasing various parts of the drive trains to whatever else needed to be done. Seeing the combine and the classic Chevy truck really gives credence to what your grandfathers did. I am sure they are looking down from heaven and giving you both a standing ovation. Well done!!
The expression on her face when she gets the combine moving makes me smile too!
What a great video you 3! - I'm truly amazed that the equipment you recently bought, actually worked after many years sitting outside in the grass. A testament to the toughness of the old machinery. And thank you to all the great comments from older farmers remembering those days well past, toiling their days in the fields without A/C! A lovely trip down memory lane for many and all! Now we know what you guys will be doing this coming winter in the workshop! - Repairing and replacing old worn out machinery and combine parts, cutting out rust and rewelding in new plate, greasing 1000s of moving parts, fixing coolant leaks, replacing belts, hoses and bearings and filters. All to get ready for summer next year with some original paint oxidation removed and polished up, and new paint applied where needed. Cheers from an old city boy in New Zealand, David. 💛💚❤🐭🐈⬛
Laura your smile says it all. You look so excited and like a kid. I can tell you are having SO much fun.
Awesome Job
I remember back in the 70's this is the equipment I drove. what a vast different from then to now.
I Had a verry scary Experian's in a truck like that. I was haling chicken manure, when going about 60mph up a climbing lane and lost a set of dules off the right side of the truck. What a ride I had. It took me over a couple hundred feet to get it stopped. I had to look at that drag mark in the blacktop for years as a reminder.
What a great video and a walk down memory lane. At 67 I do a lot of that lately, LOL.
Thanks for your videos have a blessed week and see you on the next one. 🤠
To me, at 81 years od, the glory days of farming were the 40's and 50's. Thank god for farmers.
Agree, I’m also 81. The corn picker was my dad an I throwing the corn to the middle isle and coming back along with our Allis Chalmers WD45 and wagon and picking it up.😀
What an amazing trip back in time! At my age of 78, you brought back some wonderful memories of my days on the farm in Genoa, NE! It is such fun to watch the sparkle in your eyes when you get those older, well-built, mechanical implements running and working well. Thank you for the memories!!
Real tractor had two cylinders and cabs were yellow umbrellas
You two just make me smile! You're the best.
This is your best content yet. Please keep going with this type of video
I remember the 70's not sure it's far enough back for the "Good Old Days" but I think what you are doing is great.
EMP Proof farming equipment. Always good to have a backup. I love it.
I think its awesome your bringing the old equipment back to life
This was 1 of your best yet. A+. Love the longer format, more please.
That is HILARIOUS!!!! My uncle was using brand new John Deere harvesters and combines. IN THE 70’s-80’s-90’s! We are in Iowa so no wonder! There is assembly in Waterloo, Iowa so no wonder! I love it! We spent so much time out on their farm!
Laura. The smile on your face when you drove the used combine for the first time was priceless. So glad for you guys and thanks for the awesome video guys. 🙂
There's something to be said for the old stuff. Park new equipment in the trees for 45 years and see what it does.
Good morning
It's so nice of you to share this
You take so much pride in what you do and the ways things were done
Thank you
You are all such a joy to watch. As you described “the olden days” we laughed as we graduated in 1972. All my uncles were farmers but daddy was a construction superintendent but we grew up around farming and love to follow you in your day to day lives. Thank you!
Yes that's how we did it back in the Golden years of yesteryear and I am so happy to have been a part of the hard working American Farmer and you kids are very very spoiled today but I'm thankful for all of the neat equipment you have at your disposal for today
🚜 Bringing old-school farming back to life! Seeing the 70s equipment in action brings back so many memories of my grandpa on his farm. Thank you for honoring the legacy of all those hardworking farmers! 💪❤
Thank you for creating this video. I absolutely loved it. It brings back so many great memories from my childhood in the 80s when I helped my grandpa harvest wheat and barley with equipment of the same vintage.
Who this video brings back memories. Especially the grain trucks. I was born in 1972, started driving the tractors by 9 years old. We had three grain trucks very similar to this one. Our two main tractors were JD 4840’s and we had two MF 760’s and one 860 combine. One year in the eighties our dad overhauled the combines and tractors, including a new paint job. He had left over paint so he painted the cabs of the grain trucks green and the beds red. When I turned 15, I was moved to driving the trucks during harvest season and loved it, despite not having a/c. One of our carts was a PTO and the other was hydraulic driven both with fixed augers.
Brings back helping my grandparents in the early to mid 70's
Love videos like this. There is actually quite a few younger farmers still using equipment like this just trying to get their start without having a huge overhead
I'm 60 and remember watching these old farm machines working in the fields.....
"Get that hammer Grant", and Grant hands him a wrench!! Now that's funny.
Anybody that has ever worked on a farm or a ranch knows that that is called a 'crescent hammer'. ;-)
Wow! What a way to honor your grandpa's. It sure brings back many memories of the time I spent on the deck of the open platform combine my grandfather had as I was growing up.
I bet your Grandfathers were looking down with huge smiles on their faces.
One of my favorite videos yet......and I have been here since the early days....!!!
Her grace is unmatched.
Although, Grace is pretty cool too.
:D
Grant, Laura, Gage - as others have said, that is ABSOLUTELY your best video ever!!! I love the equipment history. Maybe you can start an agri-tourism sideline business and have visitors come and PAY YOU to watch and experience what you have!!! EXCELLENT, AND WELL DONE!!!
@@richardpedersen9189 if you build it, they will come.
you need to remember that this stuff was top of the line in 1970
That is so wonderful to see you bringing life back to these wonderful machines. My dad farmed in the 60s and 70s. I was pretty much his right hand man. My brothers weren't into farming, although my oldest brother did take over when my dad died in 77. My grandparents were farmers also, as well as my dads two brothers. I am grateful for the 30 years of farm life I had, and the opportunity to farm along side my dad for many years.
She's a vision, can’t believe it.
I was born in 1971 so I grew up seeing this generation of farming equipment in everyday use. It was slightly different in the UK market but I can easily relate to it and I admire what you're doing to keep it going.
34.50 These rims were called "widow makers", be very careful with them when changing the tires.
This is by far one of my favorite videos you have done! Looks like a lot of fun and takes me back to my youth with this “old” equipment. Thanks.
Grant and Laura. Go to the store and get a bunch of cans of free all. It is amazing. It's like pb blaster on steroids. I know that O'Reilly auto parts carries it. Will help all the sticky and stuck parts move again.
Love seeing all the old equipment. That stuff was built to last. With a little TLC it will last another 50 years.
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