John Deere 40 Combine Harvester

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  • čas přidán 20. 04. 2024
  • Welcome back to the way we farm. This week's video is about one of my favorite pieces of equipment that I own. This John Deere 40 combine harvester may no longer be practical for widespread usage, but boy is it fun to use and awesome to watch. Thank you for watching, hope you enjoy, and remember, it's a great day to feed the world!

Komentáře • 109

  • @stewartalbert3523
    @stewartalbert3523 Před 2 měsíci +8

    In 1958 i had the misfortune to break two JD 45 combines in one day , boss was proud of me !!

  • @markmortensen4341
    @markmortensen4341 Před 3 měsíci +13

    I’m 67 and grew up on a small farm in Oregon. I did most of the combine work with a JD45 w/10’ head. Dad started sending me to do custom work and e we would do several hundred acres with this for several years! We had some 100 degree summers and it was hot on the open station! I still would love to have those years back again! Thanks for sharing the video👍😄

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci +2

      You’re correct, I look back at some of those hard days when I was younger and would like to relive them! Thanks for watching and the comments!

  • @eladfitz5673
    @eladfitz5673 Před 3 měsíci +12

    It makes me wonder just how proud they were when they got that awesome machine brand new on the farm. The whole family, neighbors and all the children come over to see and watch it working the first time. Can you imagine all the excitement that was going around that day. Thanks for sharing today

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci +1

      It had to be a celebration! We will probably say the same someday about our current equipment. Thanks for watching.

  • @colewalter6398
    @colewalter6398 Před 2 měsíci +5

    My dad and grandpa had 45 round backs. In the summer I used to love riding with my dad as he cut the wheat. How I wish I could ride with him just one more time. Thank you for posting this video. It brings back some of the happiest times of my life.

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 2 měsíci +1

      No doubt those were great summer days! Glad to bring back memories for you. Thanks for watching.

  • @herbhouston5378
    @herbhouston5378 Před 3 měsíci +5

    I Was 80 last October and I remember an old Alice Chalmers with a canvas apron and the wooden slats across it. Had a platform on the side where and stood and filled two bags. You filled one bag and then switched to the other bag... and droped the bag to the ground after you tied it closed with a Miller's knot
    I remember that just like it was yesterday.

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci

      Now that’s some good memories! It’s amazing how things have changed in your lifetime. My Dad is 79 and he remembers the neighbors thrashing in his barn when he was a little boy. He thought the Allis All Crop was a great improvement over thrashing. I learned to tie a Millers knot as a little boy, luckily it was bagging dairy feed not riding on a dusty combine. Thanks for the great comments.

  • @jasonbeecher509
    @jasonbeecher509 Před 3 měsíci +10

    People laugh because we gear every piece of equipment on this farm around the 4020s. Very cool combine. Enjoy my friend

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci +2

      We still love our 4020 but kinda out grew it. I love all our older equipment, thanks for watching.

    • @Bravo2uniform
      @Bravo2uniform Před 2 měsíci +1

      There’s a lot of good cheap equipment out there. I’d rather have a paid for open station older tractor than debt. This season I will be doing a construction project and I can’t grow anything - so I’m parking my paid for stuff. Debt kills farms.

  • @kennethswanstrom467
    @kennethswanstrom467 Před 3 měsíci +3

    My uncle had a Massey 310 combine - fall of 76 I helped him with his corn crop . He milked cows so we put high moisture shelled corn in a Harvestore silo .
    The 310 had a Chrysler slant 6 and a 2 row corn head - plenty of power and plenty of fresh air ! She was a open platform machine .

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci +3

      Those were the days! How fun would it be to shell a couple loads with that machine on a nice fall day.

  • @HamiltonFamily2023
    @HamiltonFamily2023 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Best way to preserve these old machines is to keep them working! 👍

  • @jamesgarrett8234
    @jamesgarrett8234 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Oh the memories of being on an open station combine with my Grandpa during harvest time when I was a youngster on the farm

  • @John-jg5dh
    @John-jg5dh Před 3 měsíci +2

    My father had a 45e round back with belt pickup head when i was a kid in the late '70s. Just hearing that machine on your video took me back to those wonderful days!👍

  • @frankwurth5375
    @frankwurth5375 Před 3 měsíci +2

    I love watching the old machines at work. Back when we ran that stuff we could make a living farming with the family! I started out with a round back 55 that I paid less than 1K, turn key ready!

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci

      Thats great! Now every trip to the parts department is $1,000

  • @landemorse7084
    @landemorse7084 Před 28 dny +1

    Nice video we had 2 JD 45's then made a big jump to a JD 105 amazing machines.Thanks for your video.

  • @chadpaider1009
    @chadpaider1009 Před 3 měsíci +3

    My dad had a john deere 55 and my neighbor growing up had a john deere 45. The neighbor did wheat and oats with it. We bought his straw off the field for bedding.

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci

      I love 55s, guy used to custom combine for my Dad with a 55 corn special. Thanks for watching and sharing.

  • @LesJorgenson
    @LesJorgenson Před 2 měsíci +1

    We had a 1954 CCIL in Saskatchewan. Used it for at least 12 years. It is now in the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon

  • @Skyrider12
    @Skyrider12 Před 2 měsíci +3

    We had the exact same one. Grew up on a dairy farm and we bled green mostly. JD 4020 a 2510 and not a Deere but an Oliver 77 row crop my favorite of all! we had tractors every where, Farmalls H and a B that thing was neat. it had the long offset rear axle. and a couple super A's When I seen your 40 it instantly took me back to a much better part of my life and time. Thanks! ps. the 40 looked a lot bigger when I was a kid!

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 2 měsíci

      Glad you shared your memories with us! I grew up on a small dairy farm as well, didn’t realize at the time how great it was growing up that way. Thanks for watching. More videos of the little combine coming mid summer.

    • @jeffharper7579
      @jeffharper7579 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I loved my ollie 77 but I moved and nowhere to keep it so I gave it to my friend, he will let me have it back if I get a place to keep it and can move it.

  • @johngardiner3790
    @johngardiner3790 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I had a John Deere model 42 pull type combine. Used it for wheat, soybeans , and sunflowers in southern Maryland

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 2 měsíci

      I’ve always wanted a 42 pull type! I’ve never cut sunflowers. Thanks for watching and the comments.

  • @zacharymcdowell5410
    @zacharymcdowell5410 Před 3 měsíci +2

    I can remember as a kid, my uncle and granfather running an Allis Chalmers All Crop with a farmall 450 doing oats and a neighbor doing oats and corn with a Gleaner F.

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci

      My Dad and father in law both had all crops back before I can remember.

  • @dennisshull5994
    @dennisshull5994 Před 3 měsíci +1

    The one farm I worked on as a teenager had an early 70's Gleaner combine. It was fun to run and a lot simpler then the modern day combines!

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci

      Someday I’d like to own an old Gleaner, simple and I love the way they look!

  • @colinvoss8484
    @colinvoss8484 Před 3 měsíci +2

    I like the old stuff it works better than the new crap.

  • @johnstine330
    @johnstine330 Před 3 měsíci +1

    The first harvest that I was a full time combine driver was on an old C Gleaner. Good old machine. Only put one bearing in all of harvest, on a straw spreder.

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci

      We have some neighbors that want to bring a few Gleaners this summer to cut wheat with us. Gleaners are great machines, I love the old ones!

  • @chrishammon9627
    @chrishammon9627 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Enjoyed your video as a kid my dad had a 141 round back international later date had a 303 he ran alongside my uncles 203 on my first farm I had a 403 international and I first Johndeere was a 4400 I will remember and enjoyed John Deere combines that friends have had clear up to the 105 edible been As I got along in life I had leased two different 4420s then I bought a 6620 in my last combine before I retired was an 8820 Tytan two with rear wheel assist enjoyed your video very much so thanks for sharing

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci

      That’s quite the history of combines! We had an 8820 Titian ll with rear wheel assist too, very good machine. Thanks for watching and sharing your farms history.

  • @OldIronFarmToys-eg8tz
    @OldIronFarmToys-eg8tz Před 3 měsíci +4

    Cool machine something you don't see everyday

  • @lifeonthefarm6001
    @lifeonthefarm6001 Před 3 měsíci +1

    That’s so nice to see it run, my dad had two ‘55s I can remember riding with him a little when I was a kid, his had cabs on them but no heat or air as well as I can remember.

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci +1

      55s are such great machines, I’d love to run one someday. Thanks for watching.

  • @walnutridgefarms3975
    @walnutridgefarms3975 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I've got a 45 that hasn't been run in about 12 years. You're making me want to get it out again!

  • @coenbroosh
    @coenbroosh Před 3 měsíci +1

    We had a Arbos combine. It was built in Italy. Had a Ford 6 cil diesel. Grandpa bought it new in 1967? Arbos was taken over by White but went bankrupt. A few years ago the Chinese started building tractors under the Arbos name

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci +1

      I never heard of that brand. I might have to do a little research about them. Thanks for the comments!

  • @tumbleweed4185
    @tumbleweed4185 Před 2 měsíci +1

    My first combining job was at age 13 in 1977 on my grandfather's round back JD 95 with a 16' head in Arriba, CO.

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 2 měsíci +1

      I bet you were the coolest kid in your class, I would have been!

  • @davidbrennan3613
    @davidbrennan3613 Před 3 měsíci +3

    That john deere combine is an absolute beauty

  • @joesharp4547
    @joesharp4547 Před 19 dny +1

    I grew up around IH combines. Starting with a 121 and the last one was a 403. These new machines are amazing but it's ironic that they can't cut when the computor quits, lol.

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 19 dny

      @@joesharp4547 Those old IH combines are very cool. You are correct, one sensor fails and you are done for the day!

  • @soggybottom23
    @soggybottom23 Před 3 měsíci +2

    we had two john deere 45's over the years of farming. I shelled a lot of corn two rows at a time!

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci +2

      I love 45s, wish our neighbor never sold his. 2 row shelling beat handling ear corn I’m sure.

    • @soggybottom23
      @soggybottom23 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@Thewaywefarm we picked A LOT also. mainly used the combine to open up fields and then picked with an old cockshutt 40 and new idea one row!

    • @soggybottom23
      @soggybottom23 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@Thewaywefarm thank you for subscribing! im still trying to figure out how to upload videos so it might be a bit

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@soggybottom23 I still have a one row New Idea, pick a little every year with it.

  • @danherrmann8755
    @danherrmann8755 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I remember this being used in the fields.

  • @EDBZ28
    @EDBZ28 Před 3 měsíci +1

    great video Tom! My father always talks about his first memory of my grandfather getting a new combine from Halpin's and it was a JD 40...not sure if it was a round or square...but he still remembers Teddy Halpin riding around one of our fields showing my grandfather how to run it.

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci

      Can you imagine how exciting that would have been replacing some old pull type with a 40 self propelled! Be a long day trying to beat the weather with a little 40

    • @EDBZ28
      @EDBZ28 Před 3 měsíci

      Boy I know!

  • @MichaelDoering-js2gl
    @MichaelDoering-js2gl Před 3 měsíci +1

    We had a gleaner e open station, worked great. We also had a 2 row corn head for it. We left it parked in the shed for a couple of years when we had too many acres and a bigger combine was hired, A few years turned in to 20 or so years and the shed was not big enough for everything so something had to go. Now that the farm is smaller again, I miss the little combine. You should be wearing a mask. Take care 👍🇨🇦🚜❤️

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci +1

      Sorry your Gleaner is gone, I wish I could save them all! We would be wearing a dust mask but we were only doing one bin full. Already excited for harvest 2024.

  • @basgroeneweg8778
    @basgroeneweg8778 Před 2 měsíci

    Cant beat the older machinery. Simple and reliable. Bit like people nowadays.
    Bought a Massey 860 this year and doing great. Same quality sample as the neighbors Lexion for a fraction of the price

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 2 měsíci

      I agree, hard to beat good older equipment! Continued success!

  • @daleladd2359
    @daleladd2359 Před měsícem +1

    We had a JD40 ran it several years back in 1970s. I thought it was a big improvement over TheJD 30 pull type sack tie combine. I eat and breathe a lot of dust back in the days. I don’t think I could stand it today at 71 years old. How are we still living after all that dusty conditions we were working in back then.

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před měsícem

      My Dad is 79 and still working with my brother every day, can’t imagine all the dust he’s consumed in all those years of dairy farming! Thanks for watching.

  • @theholeinthewater9452
    @theholeinthewater9452 Před 3 měsíci +1

    MH 90 Special, MH82, JD 55 High Tank, and JD55 Low Tank Square Back with adjustable reel speed and best machine of the bunch. A guy wanted a 55, came to check it out, we took it to the field ahead of a rain, started raining on a half-mile stretch, kept sprinkling, mudded through various wet spots with weeds coming up (really wet Kansas June harvest) we made it out and on way back to barn he asked if I'd take $500 less than I was asking. I replied that "you just saw what it can do.......waited.....he said he'd take it) Ah the good old days.

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci

      That’s a great story! Those were some classic machines! Thanks for the comments.

  • @williammartin5988
    @williammartin5988 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Morning I have one exactly like that sitting in the barn .

  • @Izya_schnipersson
    @Izya_schnipersson Před 2 měsíci +1

    Не комбайн а мечта!👍👍👍

  • @jeremylange8498
    @jeremylange8498 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I farm in south eastern Minnesota. I swath and combine a good amount of oats mine and custom. I averaged about 180 to 200 acres per year and I do it all with an 800 ten foot John Deere swather and an f2 gleaner combine. Great vid

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci +1

      That’s a lot of acres to cover with an F2! Thanks you.

  • @noehueber6602
    @noehueber6602 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Hello everyone great vidéo Tom

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci

      Thank you for being a loyal follower!

  • @TomSmith-me7ph
    @TomSmith-me7ph Před 3 měsíci +1

    We used to go around the corn field twice with the grain drill so we could combine the oats off and open the corn field.

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci

      That’s a great idea, never seen that done around here. Thanks for sharing.

  • @emanuelmihai554
    @emanuelmihai554 Před 2 měsíci +1

    i wish i had one like this here!...

  • @paulthegreat3521
    @paulthegreat3521 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I love this video ❤

  • @glennspreeman1634
    @glennspreeman1634 Před 2 měsíci +1

    i ffinished wearing 3 '55's doing beans for neighbors. You coupd see the muffler glow orange at night.

  • @ponga782
    @ponga782 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I would love to find a small combine like this.. very difficult to find in texas..

  • @Thewaywefarm
    @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci +1

    Good morning, what state would that be in? We bought another one from Ohio but it’s kinda rough.

  • @scottgates6384
    @scottgates6384 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I have a square back 40 combine!

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 2 měsíci

      That’s great! I’ve only seen 2 square back 40s. What state are you in?

  • @bip4all
    @bip4all Před 2 měsíci +1

    Please pardon my ignorance, honestly learning about farming.
    In the section where you have multiple combines going:
    I see 2 large combines harvesting corn. What looks like a 4020 pulling a single row corn combine.
    What's the JD 40 doing in front with what looks like a grain header?

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 2 měsíci +1

      The 40 was combining soybeans, it was just to make a cool video. Normally we use the biggest combine for soybeans but that day the soybeans were too wet to cut too many. Thanks for the questions.

  • @scrambler69-xk3kv
    @scrambler69-xk3kv Před 2 měsíci +1

    So nice, I would never sell it. Do you have any idea as to the year of manufacture? Thank you for allowing us the pleasure of seeing it.

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 2 měsíci

      It’s a 1960 model year, thanks for watching!

  • @alanstrong55
    @alanstrong55 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Good old wheat. Makesxa few bucks. Just not enough.

  • @ScottWink-sz6zo
    @ScottWink-sz6zo Před 2 měsíci

    Grow up with a 40 my dad bought new

  • @MrTGleaner
    @MrTGleaner Před 3 měsíci +1

    I got a little Gleaner T3 made in 1954 I restored a few years ago. I'd love to put it up against your 40 in any crop! Mines got a 10 foot header an a FORD 172 Red Tiger Engine on her.

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci

      I’m not sure I’ve seen a T3 before, I’m going to check it out on the web! Thanks

    • @MrTGleaner
      @MrTGleaner Před 3 měsíci

      Very little on the web about them. Little over 500 T3’s an T2’s were built by the Gleaner Baldwin Harvest Corporation in 1954 and that was it.
      Allis Chalmers bought Gleaner in 1955 an shut it down. The T’s were the competition to the Allis “All-Crop 100” and Allis had too much invested to shut the All-Crops down. Once Allis shut down the All-Crops 10 years later they brought back the Gleaner T into production and changed its name to the model E. The Gleaner T was ten times better machine then the All-Crop 100.

    • @MrTGleaner
      @MrTGleaner Před 3 měsíci +1

      Before Allis bought Gleaner Gleaners were painted in Ford Red an sold through Ford tractor dealers. That is why Gleaner T combines were outfitted with the same engines as the Ford Jubilee tractors at the time. Some Ford representatives were actually headed to go buy Gleaner but they had blown a tire on the way there and the Allis Reps past them. If it wasn’t for the blown tire Gleaner were be under New Holland today not AGCO.

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci

      @@MrTGleaner Thanks for that information, very interesting.

  • @darrenbock4953
    @darrenbock4953 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Had a Massey Ferguson 410 combine

    • @Thewaywefarm
      @Thewaywefarm  Před 3 měsíci +1

      There weren’t very many Massey Ferguson combines around here. Thanks for sharing.

  • @danthurman9076
    @danthurman9076 Před 3 měsíci +1

    503 IH Diesel

  • @carloscollipal5971
    @carloscollipal5971 Před měsícem +1

    hola, donde es? en que pais es? Hello were is it? in wat conutry?

  • @petergardner2334
    @petergardner2334 Před 2 měsíci +1

    amassey 788 allis gleaner super a

  • @LoeschDavid-xv6tc
    @LoeschDavid-xv6tc Před 3 měsíci +1

    Not as homely as the x9