First 4 wheel drive i ever drove was a case 1200 no cab with the manual crab steering. My grampa owned it in the 70s and early 80s. Now i farm with a 2021 case ih 310. Farm eqipement has sure come a long way.
This looks like a film reel I saw years ago in school. I believe that the film was shot in Mississippi for the Mid-America Fertilizer Co. & Norchem Liqui-fizer sometime in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The deep ripper with JD fertilizer boxes on it was metering out some kind of dry fertilizer on top of the soil beside the deep ripping shanks (pulled by a 2050 IIRC). The later one with the IH (1586?) pulling a yellow ripper/hipper was just that-- a ripper hipper. It pulls deep-chisel subsoiler type shanks to break the hardpan under the row, and a hipper on the the back (twin or 3-disk gangs to throw the dirt up into beds... pretty common here in the south where most crops are raised on beds). There was a plain hipper being used behind a 3020 (looked like) Deere tractor earlier in the film, and a Lilliston rolling cultivator being pulled by a 620 or 720 (looked like) in the same field to crumble the clods a bit and get the ground ready for planting. Gotta love that squadron hitch on that 4020 that was pulling two 4-row planters-- superfarming back in the day! They didn't even make an 8 row planter-- if you wanted to go bigger, you mounted one of those gangly iron "squadron hitches" on the tractor and pulled two 4-row disks or planters or whatever... Later! OL J R :)
Wish I could get a couple colored folk to help me on my farm, they would likely be thankful to have the job and be more careful, unlike the fellow white guys who think their worth $25/hr and know little to nothing and sometimes don't even show up.
Back then tillage was as much about getting rid of the weeds so you COULD plant as well as breaking up the soil. That, and managing what they called "trash" back then, what we'd call "residue" today. Planters and equipment of that era wasn't designed to handle the harder soil conditions and having the remains of the old crop, plus weeds springing up all over the place, and still do an acceptable job. Machinery of that era was MUCH lighter than contemporary machinery (but better built IMHO) and couldn't penetrate hard ground very well. Coulters and other devices to cut and handle residue hadn't been invented yet, or were in the infant stages and would take a lot more work to get to the modern "no-till" systems in use today. Also, chemical weed control was also very limited, and basically you wanted to start with a clean, weed free field-- you'd have a LOT less work to do later on trying to clean up the crop. Fuel was cheap for tillage, and chemicals were expensive, so if you could do the same job with a disk as with some high-dollar chemical, it just made sense to do so. There was no Roundup, no GMO chemical-tolerant traits, and nowhere near as many choices in herbicides as today. Plus, crops back then didn't yield as much-- the genetics weren't as good, and farmers were happy with yields we'd consider downright disappointing by today's standards... back then if a guy got a bale to the acre on cotton or 70-100 bushels on corn he was thrilled-- today you'd go broke with yields that low! Crops were generally planted thinner (lower populations) and production was lower, and so the demands for water by the crop were somewhat less. Also, this footage was obviously shot in the south-- and southern agriculture is by NO means "all no-till". In fact most of our area is still what we'd consider "conventional till" though there's a LOT fewer passes today than there was when this was shot, and fuel and iron were dirt cheap... LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
Great to see classic tractors in action.
This is a great film. I love to see these John Deere tractors. I have owned and driven tractors like them. They were so simple and dependable.
Great video! Back when a man had to hold a row without gps
First 4 wheel drive i ever drove was a case 1200 no cab with the manual crab steering. My grampa owned it in the 70s and early 80s. Now i farm with a 2021 case ih 310. Farm eqipement has sure come a long way.
Awesome footage
An absolute goldmine!
This looks like a film reel I saw years ago in school. I believe that the film was shot in Mississippi for the Mid-America Fertilizer Co. & Norchem Liqui-fizer sometime in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
+Erik Sandvold Thanks. That helps to figure out era. We use a 494A pulled by a 3020 to plant today. Great staying power of this great equipment.
Reminds me of the good old days when I ate dust all day. Thank God I no-till now.
I really like this film footage. Very accurate.
zero com......top work👌
A good video
I want to go home!!
I love this stuff,real life to me how l became a man!!
Nice..I'd have to have a 12 pack of beer on that Case to over come the misery.
loos good
What type of planter was that that looked like a ripper and the thing that looked like it was making hills
The deep ripper with JD fertilizer boxes on it was metering out some kind of dry fertilizer on top of the soil beside the deep ripping shanks (pulled by a 2050 IIRC). The later one with the IH (1586?) pulling a yellow ripper/hipper was just that-- a ripper hipper. It pulls deep-chisel subsoiler type shanks to break the hardpan under the row, and a hipper on the the back (twin or 3-disk gangs to throw the dirt up into beds... pretty common here in the south where most crops are raised on beds). There was a plain hipper being used behind a 3020 (looked like) Deere tractor earlier in the film, and a Lilliston rolling cultivator being pulled by a 620 or 720 (looked like) in the same field to crumble the clods a bit and get the ground ready for planting.
Gotta love that squadron hitch on that 4020 that was pulling two 4-row planters-- superfarming back in the day! They didn't even make an 8 row planter-- if you wanted to go bigger, you mounted one of those gangly iron "squadron hitches" on the tractor and pulled two 4-row disks or planters or whatever...
Later! OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker it looks to be a IH 1256 or 1456, this videos too early for the 86 series
@@loganbeedy5950 ah ok thanks. Not an IH guy what I've seen of them and dealing with Case IH has assured I'll never be a CIH guy lol
Loved the film. But it want all John Deere equipment, so I doubt it was a John Deere promotional film.
what happened 2 the sound 4 this film 😮😮 OMG 8 9 2O23
This film never had sound.
@@avgeeks that's a sad shame because of alot of the old color films was like that OMG 8 9 2O23
Just think. Probably none of these guys are alive today.
That's a sad thought.
Pound that soil to dust.
And wonder why it never gets any moisture.
Leave it alone and just seed.
Wish I could get a couple colored folk to help me on my farm, they would likely be thankful to have the job and be more careful, unlike the fellow white guys who think their worth $25/hr and know little to nothing and sometimes don't even show up.
Wow!
LOL....Good luck with any of it.
I'm worth $25 an hour. When farmers start paying people what they are worth they will show up.
Loved the film. But it want all John Deere equipment, so I doubt it was a John Deere promotional film.
Pound that soil to dust.
And wonder why it never gets any moisture.
Leave it alone and just seed.
have to remember they did not have the tech we have no round up ready seed or advanced herbicide to get rid of the weeds
Back then tillage was as much about getting rid of the weeds so you COULD plant as well as breaking up the soil. That, and managing what they called "trash" back then, what we'd call "residue" today.
Planters and equipment of that era wasn't designed to handle the harder soil conditions and having the remains of the old crop, plus weeds springing up all over the place, and still do an acceptable job. Machinery of that era was MUCH lighter than contemporary machinery (but better built IMHO) and couldn't penetrate hard ground very well. Coulters and other devices to cut and handle residue hadn't been invented yet, or were in the infant stages and would take a lot more work to get to the modern "no-till" systems in use today.
Also, chemical weed control was also very limited, and basically you wanted to start with a clean, weed free field-- you'd have a LOT less work to do later on trying to clean up the crop. Fuel was cheap for tillage, and chemicals were expensive, so if you could do the same job with a disk as with some high-dollar chemical, it just made sense to do so. There was no Roundup, no GMO chemical-tolerant traits, and nowhere near as many choices in herbicides as today.
Plus, crops back then didn't yield as much-- the genetics weren't as good, and farmers were happy with yields we'd consider downright disappointing by today's standards... back then if a guy got a bale to the acre on cotton or 70-100 bushels on corn he was thrilled-- today you'd go broke with yields that low! Crops were generally planted thinner (lower populations) and production was lower, and so the demands for water by the crop were somewhat less.
Also, this footage was obviously shot in the south-- and southern agriculture is by NO means "all no-till". In fact most of our area is still what we'd consider "conventional till" though there's a LOT fewer passes today than there was when this was shot, and fuel and iron were dirt cheap... LOL:)
Later! OL J R :)