The Official Farming Thread...

[Bill G]

All this talk of planting with computers makes me think about the not so "good ole days". Anyone ever planted with a John Deere 999?

 

[jakethesnake]

Ol gearwrench. Very satisfied for the cash

 

[JimBear]

View attachment 458295Ol gearwrench. Very satisfied for the cash

Gear wrench seems to make decent stuff, I have 3-4 of their ratchets & some wrenches.

 

[JimBear]

All this talk of planting with computers makes me think about the not so "good ole days". Anyone ever planted with a John Deere 999?

I don’t recall the number, but it had round seed hoppers, round plates for different sized corn & a stem with a flat base & a flag out the top show you could tell your seed level.

Maybe a 493 or some such thing.

I planted in some spots with grandads JD 40 & his 2 row 3 point planter, no idea of the number on it.

 

[jakethesnake]

Planted a lot with allis charmers 333. I’d run one today if I had the correct plates. Great soybean machine

 

[Bill G]

I don’t recall the number, but it had round seed hoppers, round plates for different sized corn & a stem with a flat base & a flag out the top show you could tell your seed level.

Maybe a 493 or some such thing.

I planted in some spots with grandads JD 40 & his 2 row 3 point planter, no idea of the number on it.

This is a google pic of a Deere 999. We still have ours but she is in much worse shape. Grandpa used horses and planted with it. In those days it was a wire planter. Then when he bought a new Ford 9N is was converted to 3 point but someone still had to ride on it to drop the drags. As a kid we used it to plant a small amount of sweet corn.



Then was the Deere 490 which was a 4 row "rope drop". You had a rope strung up to the tractor that you pulled to lift and drop it. It was getting so worn it had trouble dropping drags so you either had to get off or have someone at each end. That one went to scrap



Next was a Deere 495. It was still planting went it went to the auction.

 

[Bill G]

Planted a lot with allis charmers 333. I’d run one today if I had the correct plates. Great soybean machine

My cousin planted with Allis planters until he got sick around 1987

 

[jakethesnake]

My cousin planted with Allis planters until he got sick around 1987

Never had much allis equipment but everyone around here had a 333. We set ours up on 15” rows and added 2 boxes to make it a 13 row. Had no till cutters up on the front bar. She was tough. Used to tie a pole with chains dangling off it to the weight rack and you’d dangle the chain over the last row you planted. Worked just fine honestly

 

[jakethesnake]

planted some corn. By some I mean very little. Liquid fertilizer pump took a *s-word. Gotta try to find one. It’s a John blue piston pump

 

[Wilhelm]

planted some corn. By some I mean very little. Liquid fertilizer pump took a *s-word. Gotta try to find one. It’s a John blue piston pump

Every 2-stroke engine is a piston pump.
Got any old doorstop saws You could hook up?

 

[Wilhelm]

Little Wild sitting nice and firm.
Comes out once or twice a day, but all wound up like on fast forward.
She is extremely cautious returning to her nest, goes very slowly towards it keeps looking into all directions.



She padded her nest with feathers, nice & cosy.

 

[jblnut]

Brought home this one owner 1941 Minneapolis Moline RTU the other day. 30 years ago I helped the original owners son fix it up into the condition it is in now. The original owners grandson was going through photos and there was a little boy in a bunch of them that they didn’t know. They put two and two together and realized it was me and called up and asked if I wanted to purchase it. That was an easy decision!

 

[jakethesnake]

Fuel delivery….

 

[jblnut]

Early start yesterday. Gonna start planting Monday !! If all goes well we should be done in 10-11 days


Late night as well. Hammered out almost 250 acres of bean ground. Roughly 400 more then I hook the field cultivator on and can get literally twice the amount done per hour. We disc where there are lots of rocks and field cultivate where there are less. Or where corn will go that I won’t be taking the straw off for bedding.

 

[jakethesnake]

I just don’t understand why this hateful little truck doesn’t like to start sometimes

 

[Bill G]

View attachment 458536Fuel delivery….

When I run out......I have to walk home. Damn fuel gauge.

 

[jakethesnake]

When I run out......I have to walk home. Damn fuel gauge.

Yeah. Helps if someone would look at the fuel gauge. Not that I’ve never forgot. But My fuel truck was in the tire shop and yeah. Luckily I was at the shop fixing the spreader I’d destroyed or it would’ve been a pain

 

[Bill G]

View attachment 458934I just don’t understand why this hateful little truck doesn’t like to start sometimes

Stop peaking under my hood

 

[jakethesnake]

Had to hold that bucket there for 20 minutes or so though

 

[Bill G]

Anyone that says they have never ran out of fuel has never driven anything that needed fuel or is a damn liar.