That is some stiff ground. Reminds me of my teen years plowing with a Case 1030 and 4 bottoms in the clay we had in western PA. Always enjoyed plowing. Thanks for the video
Yes me to, was that the “ Comfort King” square fender 1030? Before that i was plowing 4 bottoms with a Jonny popper 720 man those were the day’s :) in north western Okla.
Best video in a long time! The Oliver went to work like no other wanna bees!’ It really sounds tough pick that front end up and walk on her back feet!! Really Really enjoyed it thanks so much for sharing! Anything like me I bet you really enjoyed it also. That is such a great example what the 1955’s are made of. Good Job!!!
I’m not convinced with all the no till fad. I can see it being beneficial in some ground like no till beans double crop for example. But here on our farm it’s been no tilled for about 6 years. Each year our crops seem to be fighting more and more weeds. Fields are uneven as can be. Herbicide isn’t working as good because of resistance. I’m a firm believer in the every 3 year reset and plowing the corn stalks under. We currently lease out the grain and I do the hay. I plowed a 2.5 acre field last fall and seeded grass hay into it. Not a single weed came back. Can’t say the same for the no till field next to it. Sorry for the rant. Nothing is more satisfying than a plowing video.
My grandfather always said you have to roll some of the material under and give the roots something to work towards. He also had some hard pan ground that could stop stop a plow or chisel plow if you didn't at least work it once a year. I've seen a 8200 Deere struggle with 6 shanks in certain areas of his field.
There was a video of a mega-farm in Australia that went completely no-till. They saw yields drop off after 5 years and went to a 4-year cycle of turning the fields over. I love turning that sod under. Something very primal and satisfying about it.
the powers that be have people particularly cereal and corngrowers convinced that not ploughing keeps the carbon in the ground. i personally think that's baloney. as far as weeds goes you will always have trouble with them.. about yields, the plant has to fight harder to grow where no till is practiced. this is because the ground gets too compacted.
I used to do a lot of work like that with a 588 but i had a 1466 IH on and usually i could get the paint to bubble off the hood from being so hot . Green grass makes it easy to spin the tractor out which is less stress on drivelines at least
Before I even watch this I wanna say that looks like a nightmare for a moldboard. Regardless of the outcome I'm sure you will be able to handle it. Best of luck and thanks for the video !!!
About like plowing an asphalt Parkin lot lol, we leased some land to a sod company one time and when went to put it back into row crop it was all my 4840 wanted with a 6 bottom full rack of weight on the front and front tires were still in the air more than they were on the ground. The worst were the the haul roads where they hauled the sod out, 5 shank ripper on a 8650 deere and you couldn’t run it length wise it would just spin out of try to snuff it so you had to go back and forth across it. I bought out every tractor supply in a 30 mile radius of 3/4x 6” grade 8 bolts for shear pins
Sometimes, you just gotta plow,Like that hard ass ground. Cant even fathom how tough it was for the pioneers plowing up praire grass that had been stomped on for a million years by herds of buffalo.
The 55 wanted to do some cloud watching! We plowed up our hay ground of 11 years and it pulled pretty hard, but i would believe them if they told you 18 to 20 years on that ground you're on. Great plow video nonetheless!!!
Long day of plowing hard ground would leave a person wore out. The grass turned over and covered good considering soil hard and dry. Enjoyed the video.
Like trying to plow concrete. When dad farmed, we had a 4240 pulling a White with four 18s, ripping up the hay fields in the spring made her work. Spreading the pit manure on beforehand made it even more difficult. That 4240 was an oddball, had 18.4-34s on the rear, so the front end rode high.........
@@Oliver66FarmBoy we were the 2nd owner, the first used it to cultivate corn and as a snowplow tractor in the winter, it was well taken care of. It became our big horse, plowing and running a forage harvester, freeing up our 4020 for lighter work. We figure it was ordered with 18.4-38s, which were changed to 18.4-34s at some point..........
If it's been a hay field for 12 years it will do it good to be mold boarded & a change of crop. Looks like good ground for some 110 day corn. Oats is actually what come to mind while watching you plow. Like the snort of the old Oliver.
How did the hydraulic resets work on that tough ground? Some bottoms at the end of the video would half trip. Crazy hard ground. Good job working the old iron. High fuel consumption mode. So jealous but living through you. I would give my left nut to moldboard again. I used that exact some plow on an iH 806.
“Web soil survey “. Is a USDA web site that lets you make a polygon “area of interest” to find acres from satellite pics. Interesting site to play with.
If you have ever used those things to measure fields , like he says it's hard. The shadows from the trees sometimes make it hard to tell exactly where a field stops and starts. And sometimes the photo is years old and you are not sure how the branches may hang into the field changing the acreage if you have to cheat in from what you measured.
I hope you get a disking or field cultivator over it before a heavy rain. Or you might not get anything planted this spring don't know about your ground but our soils in east Arkansas north Mississippi river delta was one reason we never plowed in the spring time you could easily prevent field work for a month or two.
Front end gettin a little light at 2:00 , 1955 sure looks & sounds good ! Now don't take this the wrong way but this video would make a great advertisement for No-Till . " wink " Keep up the good work ! We are still getting rain and pretty wet in south Indiana .
Not really. Doubt you would have even got a no till planter in the ground. Had to quit planting beans for my boss the other day because even with the down pressure springs maxed out the ground was so hard the row units wouldn’t penetrate the ground.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy Only one way to find out ? First time I saw it was back in the early 1980's when Grand Dad rolled in a fresh cut fescue hay field and planted corn in it . We have been minimum / no-till to today . Sounds like you folks are pretty dry now ?
Some of the old hay feilds I've plowed sounded like your cutin tops of baseball bats, hear the snapping in ground Lol! I bet the old girl got thirsty on that job!🤣😎
Gooollyy that is some right dirt. Making the 1955 work for it on that. Not always fun hanging the front end up in the air. I always wince when I do it n come back down, those poor front spindles
Got that 55 pawing. Wonder you didn't break something. It needs a good subsoiling in two directions. As far as the soil being dry that grass is sucking the moisture up. I have seen it before. Work it a while and it will mellow up.
Been tryin to get my uncle to plow up his pastures for a very long time now. The one where he used to run his cows is probably 35-40 or even more years old. I’m almost concerned with how hard it’s gonna plow up when It eventually gets done lol. He is an old farmer stuck in his old ways and if you haven’t worked with one of those it is a bitch to try to get them to do stuff even if it benefits them. At least he’s not grumpy😂😂
Nothing sounds better than a straight pipe Turbo engine pulling a plow 👍 I had a D21 Allis I pulled 5-18s she would blow smoke 30ft in the Air but pull it knee deep.
That brought back memories of plowing with a 2-150 an a 6 bottom adjustable plow we had. The hay ground was hard an i remember looking at the sky with the front end up but it sure was fun with the 150 I loved that old tractor.
Could have but the sprayer isn’t out or ready, roundup is hard to get, and quadruple the price of what it was last year if you can get it so it made no sense to burn it down if I was going to roll it over anyhow.
think you might be going a bit deep with that plough. i imagine that is a 5 maybe 6 furrow plough leaving a 6 foot wide strip after it. it would be quite a pull for the 1950. just an observation
I don’t do hay for starters and unless you need the hay if you take a cutting off first you just threw away a bunch of free biomass and fertilizer. It’s better for the ground to plow it all in.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy We take first off cause it doesn't plug the plow up and we need the hay for the animals. I see where you are coming from in your setup not trying to say our way is the only way.
Boy she plowed hard...after plowing with a front wheel assist I'd never want to go back to a 2wd tractor. Takes some skill to keep your lands straight especially in hard ground like that when you cant steer unless you brake. Lol
With all of that green manure you need to get it disked asap. That green manure need to go through a heat from decay or you pose the risk of soil being hot enough to cause seeding burn.
If you had used the top hitch on the three point linkage it would have stopped the front of the tractor rearing up like a bucking bronco,extremely dangerous that's why the 3 point hitch was invented
I had a 4020 John Deere and a 5-14 plow and I was young and that plow would load that 4020 really well I hit a hard spot and I stalled the tractor with the front end of the tractor in the air. Tractor engine died and I was worried about how I was going to get the tires back down without breaking something on the tractor that tractor had a fantastic clutch it held the tractor at almost 40 degree angle.
So hard land for plowing. Remove one row to spear tractor for long time. It will take a litle longer time to do your job but yout machine will be thankful for that
That is some stiff ground. Reminds me of my teen years plowing with a Case 1030 and 4 bottoms in the clay we had in western PA. Always enjoyed plowing. Thanks for the video
You guys must have some stiff ground. Here a 1030 would be pretty comfortable with 5-16s.
Yes me to, was that the “ Comfort King” square fender 1030? Before that i was plowing 4 bottoms with a Jonny popper 720 man those were the day’s :) in north western Okla.
55 handled that hard ass ground well. Had her strutting to the sky a couple times. Thanks for the update Ethan. Take care. Fred
I like watching moldboard plows being used. Reminds of my grandfather out in field preparing the fields for spring planting.
Best video in a long time! The Oliver went to work like no other wanna bees!’ It really sounds tough pick that front end up and walk on her back feet!! Really Really enjoyed it thanks so much for sharing! Anything like me I bet you really enjoyed it also. That is such a great example what the 1955’s are made of. Good Job!!!
I couldn’t wait for that field to be over. That was the most miserable plowing I have ever done. I was probably more worried out than the tractor.
There is something therapeutic with watching this. Thanks!
Loved the video made that Oliver work or put it through its pacing plus made it bark real nice when you hit hard spots
Man that 1955 sounds so sweet. Love the sound of those turbo Olivers.
Thanks.
Only tractor that sounds better is an AC. My 190 xt series 3 whistles like a bird
I’m not convinced with all the no till fad. I can see it being beneficial in some ground like no till beans double crop for example. But here on our farm it’s been no tilled for about 6 years. Each year our crops seem to be fighting more and more weeds. Fields are uneven as can be. Herbicide isn’t working as good because of resistance. I’m a firm believer in the every 3 year reset and plowing the corn stalks under. We currently lease out the grain and I do the hay. I plowed a 2.5 acre field last fall and seeded grass hay into it. Not a single weed came back. Can’t say the same for the no till field next to it. Sorry for the rant. Nothing is more satisfying than a plowing video.
I don’t care what anybody says. Not all ground will respond well to no till.
My grandfather always said you have to roll some of the material under and give the roots something to work towards. He also had some hard pan ground that could stop stop a plow or chisel plow if you didn't at least work it once a year. I've seen a 8200 Deere struggle with 6 shanks in certain areas of his field.
There was a video of a mega-farm in Australia that went completely no-till. They saw yields drop off after 5 years and went to a 4-year cycle of turning the fields over. I love turning that sod under. Something very primal and satisfying about it.
herbicides are killing us for sure...
the powers that be have people particularly cereal and corngrowers convinced that not ploughing keeps the carbon in the ground. i personally think that's baloney. as far as weeds goes you will always have trouble with them.. about yields, the plant has to fight harder to grow where no till is practiced. this is because the ground gets too compacted.
The 55 had to work hard on that one. Enjoyed watching. I always hated plowing really hard ground but enjoyed looking at it when done.
Wow buddy That is a hard field It would be nice when it's done be safe out there your buddy from Nebraska
I used to do a lot of work like that with a 588 but i had a 1466 IH on and usually i could get the paint to bubble off the hood from being so hot . Green grass makes it easy to spin the tractor out which is less stress on drivelines at least
IH could have don’t a better job of shielding that turbo. Every one from the 806 up has the paint burnt off the hood in that spot.
The 806 had a naturally aspirated D- 361.
Before I even watch this I wanna say that looks like a nightmare for a moldboard. Regardless of the outcome I'm sure you will be able to handle it. Best of luck and thanks for the video !!!
If it would have had a half inch of rain on it before hand it would have been a different situation entirely.
Your tractor and plow setup looks like a perfect match. Stiff ground and turned it over just right.
Love watching plowing, haven’t been seen it done up here in many many years. Alberta, Canada.
About like plowing an asphalt Parkin lot lol, we leased some land to a sod company one time and when went to put it back into row crop it was all my 4840 wanted with a 6 bottom full rack of weight on the front and front tires were still in the air more than they were on the ground. The worst were the the haul roads where they hauled the sod out, 5 shank ripper on a 8650 deere and you couldn’t run it length wise it would just spin out of try to snuff it so you had to go back and forth across it. I bought out every tractor supply in a 30 mile radius of 3/4x 6” grade 8 bolts for shear pins
I would have preferred the asphalt.
Nice brother. Always nice picking ground up!
Thanks
Sometimes, you just gotta plow,Like that hard ass ground. Cant even fathom how tough it was for the pioneers plowing up praire grass that had been stomped on for a million years by herds of buffalo.
But I thought that's what there all trying for by No till healthier less compact soil🤷🏻♂️🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣
That t runs awesome, great job young fella
Great 1955 views. Always neat to see plowing.
I should have got better video but I was getting so frustrated with how that plow job was going that I just wanted to get it over with.
The 55 wanted to do some cloud watching! We plowed up our hay ground of 11 years and it pulled pretty hard, but i would believe them if they told you 18 to 20 years on that ground you're on. Great plow video nonetheless!!!
That gave the old girl a great workout. Love watching the ground roll for sure. She sounded great under a load.
She wasn’t happy with me.
Moldboards are the best to watch, satisfying transformation.
Didn't see many rocks, soil looked mint.
That field has everything from blow sand to peat muck all packed into one place. Going to be interesting to see what comes of it.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy I saw several different colors of brown in ten feet.
Great video keep up the great work
All I can say is WOW that looked HARD and DRY. When you got those new fields, i thought maybe you'd have roots and rocks. but just WOW.
I wasn’t expecting that.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy My cousin hit an old house foundation plowing a new field, he broke the main beam. But i can't recall anything like you have there.
Man, that was some rough plowing. That was like riding a bucking bronco. Lol I love the smell of fresh plowed ground.
Me to.
I can't believe how smooth the camera view is from the plow!
Long day of plowing hard ground would leave a person wore out. The grass turned over and covered good considering soil hard and dry. Enjoyed the video.
Some spots rolled better than others.
Hard ground like that sure would have set those new rings on the 1950-T good
Damn she pulled hard! Got the job done though. Thanks for the ride.
Thanks
I think every farm should have an Oliver. Awesome tractor!
Like trying to plow concrete. When dad farmed, we had a 4240 pulling a White with four 18s, ripping up the hay fields in the spring made her work. Spreading the pit manure on beforehand made it even more difficult. That 4240 was an oddball, had 18.4-34s on the rear, so the front end rode high.........
Bet that looked funny.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy we were the 2nd owner, the first used it to cultivate corn and as a snowplow tractor in the winter, it was well taken care of. It became our big horse, plowing and running a forage harvester, freeing up our 4020 for lighter work. We figure it was ordered with 18.4-38s, which were changed to 18.4-34s at some point..........
That disk ride will be interesting.
Great stuff 👍👍👍👍
If it's been a hay field for 12 years it will do it good to be mold boarded & a change of crop. Looks like good ground for some 110 day corn. Oats is actually what come to mind while watching you plow. Like the snort of the old Oliver.
How did the hydraulic resets work on that tough ground? Some bottoms at the end of the video would half trip. Crazy hard ground. Good job working the old iron. High fuel consumption mode. So jealous but living through you. I would give my left nut to moldboard again. I used that exact some plow on an iH 806.
I was 100 pounds over rated system pressure and they still didn’t like it.
“Web soil survey “. Is a USDA web site that lets you make a polygon “area of interest” to find acres from satellite pics. Interesting site to play with.
I know. I’ve been using it since college.
If you have ever used those things to measure fields , like he says it's hard. The shadows from the trees sometimes make it hard to tell exactly where a field stops and starts. And sometimes the photo is years old and you are not sure how the branches may hang into the field changing the acreage if you have to cheat in from what you measured.
Doing a great job turning that sod under. 👍👍👍
What do you plan on planting on these fields?
Field has stubby working👍👍👍👍🚜
Thanks for the ride
Lights are pretty good on that 55.
She really sings when the plow hits the ground.
When can y'all get your first cutting of hay in up there?
I hope you get a disking or field cultivator over it before a heavy rain.
Or you might not get anything planted this spring don't know about your ground but our soils in east Arkansas north Mississippi river delta was one reason we never plowed in the spring time you could easily prevent field work for a month or two.
Always love seeing the 55 come out to play!
Front end gettin a little light at 2:00 , 1955 sure looks & sounds good ! Now don't take this the wrong way but this video would make a great advertisement for No-Till . " wink "
Keep up the good work ! We are still getting rain and pretty wet in south Indiana .
Not really. Doubt you would have even got a no till planter in the ground. Had to quit planting beans for my boss the other day because even with the down pressure springs maxed out the ground was so hard the row units wouldn’t penetrate the ground.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy Only one way to find out ? First time I saw it was back in the early 1980's when Grand Dad rolled in a fresh cut fescue hay field and planted corn in it . We have been minimum / no-till to today . Sounds like you folks are pretty dry now ?
Was the reason the tractor was being pushed around because of the dirt being so hard?
Some of the old hay feilds I've plowed sounded like your cutin tops of baseball bats, hear the snapping in ground Lol! I bet the old girl got thirsty on that job!🤣😎
She burned way more than what I normally do plowing.
Hope this field yields well for you.
Cutting off a few slices. Tough go. Turned out pretty good.
Let's see big green turn some dirt,love it
That one field that a role over plow would be nice
That was a rough one.
That was some tough ground!
Yep
That reminded me of a big tractor power vidoe just listen to the ole girl do her thing. And there's something very satisfying about plowing
Yep
Your 1955 is a nice sounding machine
Thanks.
Gooollyy that is some right dirt. Making the 1955 work for it on that. Not always fun hanging the front end up in the air. I always wince when I do it n come back down, those poor front spindles
I try to feature the clutch to set it down gentle. On that sod though it would just loose traction and come down on its own.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy 1955 have diff lock? Kinda acted like it does but you dang good job with how it was working
It's a good idea to your plowing after it's rained a bit, the soil is softer and turns easier. Plowing when it's dry is hard on everything
When it’s the third week of may and the field is going to corn you don’t have the luxury of waiting.
Got that 55 pawing. Wonder you didn't break something. It needs a good subsoiling in two directions. As far as the soil being dry that grass is sucking the moisture up. I have seen it before. Work it a while and it will mellow up.
20 year old hay field is going to be a little tight. Really needs some wheat or rye thrown at it.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy that makes me scared to think of some of the hayfields my great uncle bales. They’ve been in hay longer than that and all heavy clay
Love to see that Oliver power
4 or 5 suitcase weights would have done the trick I think. Good job and good video.
Is that normal for white smoke or what ever coming out of under the right side of the motor??
Yea that’s the crank case vent.
Slap some front weights on that old girl! Great video Ethan, that’s some hard ground
I had front weight on it. Just not enough.
Been tryin to get my uncle to plow up his pastures for a very long time now. The one where he used to run his cows is probably 35-40 or even more years old. I’m almost concerned with how hard it’s gonna plow up when It eventually gets done lol. He is an old farmer stuck in his old ways and if you haven’t worked with one of those it is a bitch to try to get them to do stuff even if it benefits them. At least he’s not grumpy😂😂
Those might need ripped first.
The plow did a good job turning and hiding most of the grass - can you imagine the first farmers plowing this land with horses - Thanks for sharing
That’s why fields grew one acre at a time. That was all the more they could break and put into production at a time.
Damn that plowed hard.
Good video
Man you gave that some stick ! ,
How much Fuel did you burn ? And how's your neck feel? well done .you earned a hot meal ,
Nothing sounds better than a straight pipe Turbo engine pulling a plow 👍 I had a D21 Allis I pulled 5-18s she would blow smoke 30ft in the Air but pull it knee deep.
I would pay to see a D21 plow
@@d17spud I wish I still had mine I was a good tractor
@@terryhobdy5727 The D21 is legendary, it was considered the first muscle tractor 🚜
Damn didn't think you were going pulling
That brought back memories of plowing with a 2-150 an a 6 bottom adjustable plow we had. The hay ground was hard an i remember looking at the sky with the front end up but it sure was fun with the 150 I loved that old tractor.
It’s an accomplishment to get the front end of one of those heavy bastards off the ground.
You got that right. We didn't have any weight on the front on that one. We had a full set on a 2-135 but it didn't pull the plow very good. Very slow.
Looks like pretty hard ground
I always loved plowing! She was some solid ground had her bucking abit!
So cool
A few years age I plowed 40 acres that had been in pasture for 80 years that was hard ground
I’ll bet
That's gonna grow some decent corn 🌽 or beans 🫘
The 1955 is a Beast!
Can see a couple different soil varations
Like you stated after my first comment the ground is dry and hard.
I always hated plowing a hay field ground was always so hard.
I should have waited for a rain.
Could you have sprayed it with Roundup first?
Just wondering.
Could have but the sprayer isn’t out or ready, roundup is hard to get, and quadruple the price of what it was last year if you can get it so it made no sense to burn it down if I was going to roll it over anyhow.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy I agree, disc it down and done.
think you might be going a bit deep with that plough. i imagine that is a 5 maybe 6 furrow plough leaving a 6 foot wide strip after it. it would be quite a pull for the 1950. just an observation
Just for the future we always take first cutting off before we plow under an old hay field.
I don’t do hay for starters and unless you need the hay if you take a cutting off first you just threw away a bunch of free biomass and fertilizer. It’s better for the ground to plow it all in.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy
We take first off cause it doesn't plug the plow up and we need the hay for the animals. I see where you are coming from in your setup not trying to say our way is the only way.
Why didn’t you no till into it and saved the money in diesel ?
Because I actually want it to produce a decent crop.
I always loved to plow at night when we was farming
Me to
DAMN😳with my luck, I’d have bit the tip of my tongue off at 13:34
Smokin"""
Should of put the big White on the plow... That ground was pulling hard.
That plow won’t fit.
no telling how many years its been since it was plowed and a hay field always plows haed
Surprised to see you plowing without weights up front.
There were weights on the front…. Clearly visible.
Boy she plowed hard...after plowing with a front wheel assist I'd never want to go back to a 2wd tractor. Takes some skill to keep your lands straight especially in hard ground like that when you cant steer unless you brake. Lol
I could have used front wheel assist out there.
Wheelie plowing
Sod ground high corn yields !!!
Hopefully.
I used to love plowing, however that didn't look like it was much fun.
It wasn’t.
Looks like a lot of blowby with the 310
It’s not that bad.
With all of that green manure you need to get it disked asap. That green manure need to go through a heat from decay or you pose the risk of soil being hot enough to cause seeding burn.
That’s not how that works.
HELL yEA
If you had used the top hitch on the three point linkage it would have stopped the front of the tractor rearing up like a bucking bronco,extremely dangerous that's why the 3 point hitch was invented
Semi-mounted plows don't have a top link
I had a 4020 John Deere and a 5-14 plow and I was young and that plow would load that 4020 really well
I hit a hard spot and I stalled the tractor with the front end of the tractor in the air. Tractor engine died and I was worried about how I
was going to get the tires back down without breaking something on the tractor that tractor had a fantastic clutch it held the tractor at almost 40 degree angle.
So hard land for plowing. Remove one row to spear tractor for long time. It will take a litle longer time to do your job but yout machine will be thankful for that
Man dear the old girl would be sucking fuel on that job 😳