Plowing, Discing, and Planting with the Mighty WD45
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- čas přidán 23. 05. 2023
- My adventures of planting soybeans for only the second time ever! The forecast is dry for the next week, so this could get interesting. Here's hoping! Thanks for watching!
The sound of that WD45 takes me back to when I was a kid! Loved that tractor.
I love that sound, it reminds me of my Grandpa. He bought a new WD45 in 1953 when he started farming on his own, and he never sold it. My uncle has it now. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching!!!
Nice video! I really liked the added bonus of hearing the tractor work instead of music. Good luck with your soybeans.
Thank you Sir! I love hearing old tractors work they make their own music! Thank you for watching!
Spent a lot of days on a WD and WD45 plowing and disking back when I was young, This is music to my ears ! Bandit
Hey, glad you enjoyed it Bandit! Thank you for watching, and thank you too for your videos, I enjoy them too! Hope you have a good one Sir!
@@evanaustin2636 When I was about 9 dad always said when you can reach the peddles on the WD I'll let you run it. Well I got to spend a lot of time on it disking with a 8 foot pull type disk going over 50 acres with dad close by on the Oliver 70 and my uncles on an 8N Ford and Farmall H. The next spring I got to start plowing with the WD and 3x14"s and I was really hooked on plowing and still am ! In high school a boy in the FFA rebuilt a WD45 that would pull 4x14"s in 3 gear ! I had our D15 and 3x16"s and he just walked away from me plowing and to this day I have no idea what he did to that engine in that WD45 to get that much power out of it. Watching you plow and work the ground brought those good old days back to me and its music to my ears hearing the WD bark ! I just got done with crops myself and now I hope to catch up on video's now the work is done and I got some free time ! Bandit
The WD looks cool with the duels, Looking forward to seeing how you do this year. For me, breaking even is a good year, hope it does well for you!
Thanks! I can get by without the duals, but it just looks so mean with them on. And it's a lot more stable on plowed ground too. Breaking even seems to be the goal for me too, anything over that is a bonus! Thanks for watching Rusty!
I watched a video of a guy using old equipment he found and made work. Nothing ran or worked before he started working on it. He literally got year and a half old seed and chemical, a sprayer that was old as jesus 😂 and had a borrowed JD 95 combine. Not sure on the acres, maybe 10-15ish and made a profit of $415 after everything! You got this!!!
Glad I'm not the only nut case out there 🤣🤣 Thank you for watching!
That's a pretty sweet planting outfit, I love the pulley system on the drill.
Thanks! I actually need to change the pulley setup a little bit. It tends to flip over and tangle up the rope then it doesn't work as well. Hope you have a good one friend!
@@evanaustin2636 I have an old Deere Van Brunt grain drill that I'm planning on doing a similar set up with eventually.
@@crestviewfarm5229 Good deal! Geiger farm suggested next time that I pull a cultipacker behind the drill to get better seed to soil contact, so I will probably do that more in the future. I had the drill behind the disc because I needed to make a second pass with the disc and I was trying to save a pass over the field. Needing some rain now, very very dry here.
That whole setup looks so cool!
I love it! Thanks Joe!
45 looks cool with the duals!
Thank you!!! They are a little overkill for what I'm pulling, but they sure do look good! Hope you have a good one
The wd45 is an amazing tractor. I saw a young man on Ozzies Oddities running a wd 45 with duals. 1st time seeing that. 👍👍
That's pretty cool! I love my WD45. My Grandpa said that he ran duals on his WD45 back when it was still his main tractor, but that was long before my time. Not a common setup anymore. Thank you for watching!!!
My dad bought a WD45 with a 10 ft Big K offset in 1963....... It stayed here until sometime in the 80s.......Today we are primarily Green.... with some red, yellow and orange........
My grandpa started farming on his own in 1953 and he bought a new WD45. He said he wanted a John Deere but he couldn't afford one. He later had a lot of green tractors but he never sold his Allis. He passed away 7 years ago my uncle has that tractor now. I like most brands but I wanted a WD45 because of Grandpa. Thank you for watching Sir!
Enjoyed watching you prep the land and planting! 👍🏻wd21 lol
Thank you for watching Scott!!! WD21 🤣🤣 that is a lot of tire on there Hope you have a good weekend friend!
The old AC WD45 did a nice job. I planted an acre of sweet corn last year, hoping to sell it at my cousin's Creamery. The deer and raccoons completely destroyed it. Until I can figure out how to keep them pit guess I'll stick to growing hay. At least I made money off my hay fields.
Thanks Robert! That really stinks about your sweet corn, deer and raccoons are brutal. My grandpa always had electric fences up around his sweet corn and they still got into it. Glad you have good luck with the hay. Thanks for watching Sir!
Kill.the coons and deer eat the meat and sell the pelts, raccoon skins sell decent and so do deer hides
Evan I'm always late anymore, but man that was worth the wait!! That WD WITH duals is epic!!!! Man I have missed this somehow , and that rig is epic!! How did the rain go afterwards? That lifting rope with the pulley, that looks like it works perfect!!!! Man yeah, sorry for being so late my friend!! I love that WD with the duals, in case I haven't said it already 😁😁😁😁🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍👍👍
Thanks Nelson!!! Well, the rain situation is not looking good. It's dry dry dry, and there is no rain predicted for at least the next 10 days 😟😟The pulley with the rope, let's say when it works good it works good, but it likes to flip itself over and tangle the rope up then it doesn't work worth a darn. The rope used to get stuck in the pulley, I fixed that, but now it's this. I need to bolt it solid then I think it will work better. I do love that tractor with duals on 😍😍 not sure how much it needs them but they look awesome so I'll run them!!! No worries Nelson, you're a busy man! Thanks for watching friend! Looking forward to whatever you've got going next too! Hope you have a good Memorial Day
@@evanaustin2636 😁😁😁👍👍
seed to soil contact is critical. You might think of cultipacking behind the drill?? When we used that style of drill, we usually pulled a cultipacker behind.
I could go back over it with the cultipacker, but I wouldn’t be able to do it until tomorrow. That will be 3 days after planting, is that too late? I wouldn’t think that would hurt the beans, but my knowledge is pretty minimal. Thank you Jack for sharing your knowledge with the yahoos like me, i am grateful! Hope you have a good day Sir!!!
@@evanaustin2636 three days is stretching it…you could kill some beans if they’re in the hook stage. Just wait for rain to bring them now 🤷♂️👍🏻
@@GeigerFarm Got it. Thanks Jack
I'm sure you'll be able to spray your beans for grass but with organic the cultipacker is about your worst enemy when it comes to grass and weeds, it will help the soybeans but it also helps the grass grow 😆, I used the cultipacker one year and never looked at it again lol...... it looked to me that you had enough loose soil and moisture that you'll end up with a good stand. 👍
@@GeigerFarm Three days? There’s no way the beans have even swelled up enough to start sprouting. All you have to do is dig down and take a look for yourself and you’ll know for sure.
Cut my teeth on an F 20, then a WC, then a WD 45, then a D 17, then a 190 and then I went off to college, the farm was sold and that was the end of that.
I always thought the F series Farmalls were pretty cool, but I've never been on one. I wish there were still more family farms, but I guess that's how it goes. Thank you for watching!
Go 45 go 😆 that's an awesome setup there Evan! I love seeing the 45 dualed up, and the grain drill behind the disc.....I wasn't expecting that lol. What do you have for a combine?
Thanks Tim! I love how that tractor looks with the duals on, not something you see every day! I started pulling the drill behind the disc a couple years ago because at the time I was racing a rain and I needed to disc again before I could drill, and I actually liked how it worked out, mostly getting rid of my tire tracks in front of the drill. I guess I got lucky that I have an 8 foot disc and an 8 foot drill. For a combine, I've got an Allis All Crop 72. I need to rebuild the sickle I'm hoping to get that done before I cut my little wheat patch. Thanks for watching Tim!
mean looking ol wd45 how did you hook up duals
Thanks! I've got pieces that clamp to the end of the power adjust rails in the main wheels, then j-hooks made of 3/4" all thread, then another piece to hook into the lugs in the dual wheels. I'll do a video about it one of these days. Thanks for watching friend!