I recently acquired a John Deere 430 Utility with attached Oliver loader. To get the tractor home, however, we had to remove the bucket and box scraper (so they are not in the video).
The 430 isn't running and is missing a hood--but I thought it'd be fun to do a quick video comparing some of the visual differences of the two tractors.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6axuxT4ozXE
I needed to warm the engine up on the G to circulate some newly added coolant (they don't have a pump, so you have to get them hot for it to circulate). We received a lot of snow last night, but it warmed up some and was getting wet by the time I took this.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_JDHGDDGVM
Over the winter I picked up a 1960 John Deere 630 with an attached loader (with bucket), box scraper, and tire chains. However, the exhaust manifold had a crack in it, and as such water was able to get into it and rand down the cylinders into the block. The cylinders were seized, and the oil pan was full of ice.
Getting the tractor out and home was also quite the ordeal. The transmission was full of water and was locked up. We had to melt that out to get the axles to turn. The tires were also frozen down to the ground, as was the heater. The bucket was frozen with the tip into the ground, which had sunken in about three inches and was quite frozen. To get it out we had to put the space heater onto it for a few hours, which allowed it to heat up enough to melt out the ice.
Overall, it's been a fun little project & I can't wait to use it some this summer!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKo815AoG2M
Here's some video footage of a Farmall Super M and John Deere Model A driving through a field. The first half is drone footage, while the second half is footage from the tractor. I wanted to capture the different perspectives of operating the two machines. The Farmall is still being worked on, which is why the sheet metal is still missing from the machine.
Shot with a DJI Phantom and an iPhone XS. Compiled on Ubuntu Linux using KDEnlive.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSkDLoeLqZU
We had this old generator that we used to use back when dad had the dairy and the power would go out. I have an upcoming need for 240 out to the barn, so I thought I'd give this a try and see if the A would be able to run it. Seemed to run the old thing just fine!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shof9EgwmeM
I recently acquired a new project tractor, a 59 John Deere 630. This is a video of the first real time it was taken out for a drive across the dry farm.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVw-Ifpoul4