Planting soybeans with the Farmall Super C and John Deere planter (2024)

I decided to try something different and planted soybeans this year. Using the same 1953 Super C that has appeared in many of my other videos and my John Deere Model 18 planter (some might say, "a Deere in the rear"). And through the magic of time lapse photography (or maybe procrastination in getting the video uploaded), the end of the video shows the beans up already.

[@OldRedTractors]

I've got the exact same tractor. I enjoy watching the Super C. Thanks for sharing

[@rustyrelicsranch]

Thanks for watching. I just recently watched your video on rebuilding the touch control box (mine leaks).

[@OldRedTractors]

@@rustyrelicsranch Thank you

[@richardschaffling9882]

Soil looks real good and the tractor looks and sounds great and the planter looks like it did a real good job

[@rustyrelicsranch]

Thank you!

[@jeffmc7946]

Good luck with the soybeans! Farmalls never get boring!

[@rustyrelicsranch]

Thank you!

[@MarkWYoung-ky4uc]

I never get tired of watching those old Farmalls work. RED POWER THEN...RED POWER NOW!

[@rustyrelicsranch]

Thanks!

[@RLGGIBSON]

Great job , you are going to have a good stand on those soybeans .

[@rustyrelicsranch]

Thanks! Now to keep the pests off of them...

[@r.scotthill3082]

I first planted corn with a Farmall 230; a C with numbers in place of the letter. Our 2 row planter was an IH with fast hitch but a much different planting system. It had double disc seed openers and large steel wheels that closed the furrow and set the depth. Another disc placed the fertilizer 2 inches to the side. Your planter looks like a Deere but I never saw one that had a large shovel plow running right ahead of the planting shoe. The covering shovels look as if they were burying the beans 6 inches deep. That must not have been the case because you got a very good stand.

[@rustyrelicsranch]

I believe the differences stem from the soil types and practices employed across the country. Much of the soil in this area is a dark/black gumbo (mine is more sandy) that retains moisture and can be quite sticky. The row crop here is on raised beds and the large shovel sweep is knocking off the dry dirt and taking out any grass and weeds that may be on the row top. I agree that the covering shovels appear to be "burying" the seed, but after the roller packs it, the seed was about 1.5" deep.

[@classicihfarming7691]

Nice little setup. Will those be 36" rows then? We plant beans on 15" spacing with our planter. I wondered if you could have went through and split the rows for more crop?

[@rustyrelicsranch]

Thanks! They're 38" rows. I'm not sure how I would accomplish that, at least with this planter. What planter are you using?

[@Richard31406]

what is the roller attachment?

[@rustyrelicsranch]

It just packs the seedbed behind the planter. Way back when, this was common in this area. Much of the soil here is dark and wet and if you tried to use a pack wheel directly behind the planter, it would just gum up with the sticky dirt. The JD Max-emerge seemed to solve that and the rolling/packing operation became obsolete.

[@Richard31406]

@@rustyrelicsranch Thanks for the info!