This video is of the first time really running the 47. The other videos show it running briefly, only to discover some problem or another. The last time I had it running, a C clip was missing in the back of the fan shaft, which caused the fan to go flying into the radiator, which was the cause for the teardown (as shown in the video). That time running was the first time that it was properly timed and with its rebuilt mag, so being able to up the RPMs for the first time was more then it could handle. There's still a LOT to be done, but as you can see it is running and slowly getting there... This was probably the first time that tractor has been moving this much under its own power in at least 30-40 years. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbGbn7QTSLM
This video is of my uncle and I creating a land roller. Unfortunately I forgot to start the GoPro earlier. A land roller is used to push rocks down into rocky soil.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HJuggV9_8o
Cultivating alfalfa with a John Deere 4230, spring tooth (danish harrow) and a compactor roller. We have lots of rocks in the area, so the roller pushes them down into the ground a bit to help from having to replace so many teeth when cutting the alfalfa.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DixLcKy8S8w
In this video I give a brief comparison of the John Deere 430 Utility against the John Deere 420 Utility. The 430 has an Oliver loader, but I tried to focus on the mechanical differences between the machines.
The 420 and 430 were John Deere two-cylinder tractors, manufactured in Debuque, Iowa. What makes them unique over the Moline tractors is the vertical two-cylinder engine and foot clutch. The Moline tractors had a horizontal two-cylinder engine with a hand clutch (among other factory-specific differences).
The video was taken on a beautiful spring day in Star Valley, Wyoming.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlkRJ4mlB5A
It's been a while since I've posted a video, so I thought that raking the grain hay (mixture of oats, peas, and beardless barley) would be a fun opportunity/excuse to get one of the old tractors out and shoot some footage.
The B (in its day) was a great haying tractor. I know the B spent many hours pulling various styles of hay rakes. However, with our modern equipment, we use different styles & larger rakes. So, I only used this for enough of the field to get some good footage. With our modern swather (windrower), we cut the rows really wide to increase drying time. This makes it harder to stratal the row, and also makes it so the tractor has to drive on it. If we had the rows not so wide, the tractor could go across it all better and also combine them into one row also, which is better for our large square baler (they take in a large amount of hay to be able to make a properly formed bale).
Anyway, the tractor used here in a 1949 John Deere BW all-fuel. Although they made a good amount of BW machines, the majority of those in the late-style design were gasoline only configurations. This tractor is the all-fuel engine, meaning it could be started on gasoline, then switched over to burning most common cheaper fuels at the time (hence the name all-fuel).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryOeb2CXHvE
We're finally into first crop (yes, most of you are probably done with second or third), and I thought it would be fun to use the newly acquired IH rake with an IH tractor. Where I have had the F30 out lately, I thought it'd be a fun one to use for the video.
The tractor is a 1936 Farmall F30, and the rake is an International McCormick rake.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJDMs5G7LHE
Spreading fertilizer onto newly planted barley with a John Deere 630. Also, at the very end, the wind picked up and blew the wheel line. I happened to have caught it on camera.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_SsGpl70CM