This blog helps me write http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/. For example, it contains photo dumps of field trips with some text so that I can search the photos later. It is not intended to be read by others. But if you find photos organized by geography interesting, then enjoy.
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Video of Crary Tile Plow with 1000hp and 16 tractor tires pulling it to bury a 6-inch line 3-feet deep. At 2:34, did they hit something and had to use the backhoe to dig a hole to find what they hit? There is now weight on the rear tires of the front tractor, I'm surprised he didn't have slippage problems.
The comment was just "CaseIH Quadtrac World record attempt 2012", video. I guess it is the speed plus width because I have seen wider.
Video of four Oil Pull tractors pulling lots of bottoms.
Ford 9n, 2-bottom, two pictures show how rough the field is after it has been plowed.
video of JD 7520 pulling a spring-tooth drag. It dramatically demonstrates turbo-lag. Also shows it folded up for transport. Even unfolding. Being used as primary tillage?
Adam Baker posted Thomas R. CassanWhen the mouldboard is that short and high and with a rolling coulter that big, this IS a breaking plough but it is the bush and bog type, rather than a prairie breaker where the mouldboard would be much longer and turn the furrow much more slowly. You've got a dandy there. I'm guessing it's an Oliver
video of several tractors plowing at a tractor+plow show.
5-bottom plow (An 810 series that was 4-bottom but with the 5th added. A box beam was added in later designs because the 810 design was too weak for 5 bottoms.) john deere production video, 14-bottom reversible plow with slatted mouldboards. another view (solid mouldboards?) 3
Picked this combo up 2 years ago , time to get the plow in working condition now!!
[It looks like a putt-putt can pull a 5-bottom plow. In fact, the model number looks like 30. I've seen putt-putt model numbers as high as 70. But I don't know if bigger numbers mean more horsepower. Sometimes a bigger number just means a more recent model. I am by no means an antique tractor expert.]
Eric Thomposon posted four photos of a JD A pulling a JD #57.
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In this posting of a 2+2, Chris Dieterle and I discuss his 12-bottom plow that he posted a picture of.
Video of Case 600 pulling 4-18's. I had never heard of 18-inch bottoms before. Normally they are 14 or 16.
Video of a John Deere 720 (putt-putt) pulling a 4-bottom plow. Plowing does make a tractor "talk."
Video of a modern, reversible 4-bottom plow moving rather quickly with a John Deere 6920 at quite a few different angles. Lots of white birds finding goodies in the turned soil.
The Magnums are pulling 9 bottoms and the Quadtrac is pulling 14 bottoms. Even though the plow is much wider than the tractor, the Magnums still use the old fashioned style of driving with the right tires in the furrow.
We called this "the drag." I guess the proper name is a spring tooth harrow. Note there are no wheels. When done you would use the levers to pull the teeth above the slide bars and then make a lot of noise as you pulled it down the road.
Screenshot from a 1942 John Deere advertisement video
This is what I remember Grampa's drag looking like. The teeth are raised out of the ground in this photo for transport.
Megan's Market posted, cropped Corn ground is ready to plant. Thought you might like this shot of the old Minnie. Tracy Gifford shared Clint Wilhelm: Nice, had a MM 670 LP. Great tractors. Tracy Gifford: This is an m 5, but it sure gets the job done. Duane Schultz: Tracy Gifford We had a gas M5 years ago, great tractor.
Cam you imagine plowing the family garden with Old Bill? He is a huge animal. Draft animals were made for pulling and plowing---slow, steady work. Jim RipleyI had a uncle who plowed with a horse and later in life a mule. He made extra money plowing gardens. Many of those refused to have there gardens done by tillers or tractors. He was a small man and I would marvel at his ability with his animal.
Matthew Holder posted 1979 International 3588 2+2 Roger BraggNice looking outfit. Where you located? My 6788 wouldn’t pull 8 in my ground. Matthew HolderWilson NC
I selected the photos that showed how they used "armstrong" technology rather than a hydraulic ram back then.
One of eight photos posted by John Gaard [This one caught my eye because I was wondering if the tractor as a "U". Then I noticed that this is a good demonstration of the "armstrong" technology that was used before hydraulic power was added to tractors and their implements.]
Two of the eleven photos shared by John Gaard with the comment: "Very nice plowing conditions in Ohio this year. Sometimes it can be like plowing concrete."
Dennis DeBrulerI especially like the first two because that shows how it was done before they added hydraulic circuits to tractors.
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Vintage Farming posted Turning sod. 1955 70 gas, and two 36 A’s [This 0:47 video has views that let you see how the plow turns over the soil. And why the field needs to dragged afterwords to smooth it out. It also captures the sound of a John Deere putt-putt tractor.]
John Gaard shared more photos of "armstrong" plowing.
We get judged on straightness, trash coverage, furrow confirmation, furrow uniformity, quality of seed bed, the crown, the finish, and neat ins and outs. The Antique and Open class have a 150 point score sheet and a 75 minute time limit to plow the 40’ wide x 260’ long plot. You plow a crown, or plow together, plow three more rounds throwing together, and then you plow against your neighbor throwing out and you finish with a dead furrow.
IH History, p 3
A sickle allowed a farmer to harvest a half acre a day.
By 1830, the cast-iron moldboard plow had already replaced manpower with horsepower for tilling the fields. But harvesting was still using manpower. Wheat can't be harvested until it is ripe. But a ripe wheat plant has a dead stem, called straw, that nature designed to become weak and collapse so that the seeds in the head would fall to the ground. This provides about a 10-day harvest window between when the wheat is ready to harvest and when the winds and rains have knocked down the plants so badly that they can't be harvested. Since a man could cut only about a half acre a day, 19 out of 20 men had to work on the farm to feed those few who could work in a town. Also, towns had to be close to the farmers who supported them because in 1830 farm production was transported to market with horse and wagon.
As long as the wheat was still standing, a scythe allowed a man to cut two acres a day. During the 1700s, the cradle was invented by adding wooden fingers to the blade of the scythe. This allowed the cut grain to be thrown into swaths. This made it easier for others to gather the wheat and bind it into sheaves.
The reaper had a reel and a reciprocating knife driven by the wheels. The platform accumulated the cut wheat so that it could be racked off into a swath and bound into sheaves. This in creased the farmer's productivity so much that families were displaced from farming. Fortunately, the industrial revolution was in progress and families could find jobs in factories or on the railroad as more reapers were sold. And cities began to form in the late 1800s.
Video of a narrow chisel plow (5 chisels) but they are in a row and pulled fast.
Video of 575hp Challenger pulling an 11-shank V-ripper.
Video of Versatile 575 pulling 64-foot chisel plow in a wheat field that was just harvested. Went from three tires to two? Doesn't raise it while turning on the header.
The videos at the bottom indicated this generation of cultivators is even worse than mouldboard planning because they create an even more shallow hard pan. Also, traditional discing is bad because it also creates a hard pan. I notice that both of the farmer You Tube channels have switched from the disc to vertical tillage this year. Even with vertical tillage, some still think no tillage is better. I read an article that five weeds have become resistant to Roundup --- the herbicide that made no-till feasible in the first place. But the article did not indicate the geographic range of the weeds. So it is going to take a lot more work to sort out the history of tillage. Thus this remains a growing reference post.
Another trend that is happening is planting a cover crop in the Fall. Some rye's evidently have very deep roots that help "till" the soil without breaking up the little clumps of dirt that you want in the soil.
Trip 20141013 has what John Deere now calls a cultivator.
I may have some of these videos and other posts, but I'm saving them here in case I don't. Or maybe I just watched them and didn't know where to put them.
Ryan Berens posted Picked this old 8 ft. mechanical lift field cultivator up. Planning on re-doing it. Does anybody have any info on these?Lewis ShallowIt's a John Deere-Van Brunt "CC" Field & Orchard Cultivator. We have one we pull around with our A. Ours originally had the mechanical lift, but someone before put a John Deere kit on it to convert it to hydraulic lift.
Aaron Hadler posted 1941 John Deere B with two row belly cultivators
Mark Moore posted 30 photos of "good stuff:" seed drill, disk, cultivator or drag.
Michael Coriell posted Antique Oliver Horse Drawn Cultivator with Steel Wheels for 2 Horses Early Walk Behind With Steel Beam. [I wonder if the emphasis on steel is that wrought iron was still common back then.]
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