are any of these fine men still living,,if so please shake their hand and say well done!Fantastic generation of americans,,wish we had men like that now running this country.
Did my share of plowing on a Farmall M and I can just imagine how it felt to be on the team that day (I would have been 9 years old at the time!) Bless 'em for getting together--great to see all the tractors too.
I work on one of the big modern farms and gotta tell you this kind of thing sure wouldnt happen on our farm these days. Workers are treated poorly by us and payed far less than they should. Love seeing all the old classics out there working! Hopefully farming gets back to a more personal level sometime in our lifetimes. By far this is my favorite youtube video thanks for posting and God Bless.
i have watched this before and i still touches me. i real like the end where the they are done with the days work and talking wish i could hear what they where talking about
i would also like to say about the kid on the ford we had a 800 and let me tell you on them cold days the felt real real good on you 'er feet and you are right the kidd knew what he was doing on that ol ford great video
@TheTractormaster The song is "Down Home" by Alabama from 1991. I'm even younger than that of smgussey, and I wish I had been able to see what life was really like back then. I'm sure that somewhere someone still does something like this, but it's a heap of a lot less common than what it used to be because now, if you want to make it in farming, you pretty much have to hire a few employees. Too bad those days are gone.
watch that kid on the 900 Ford. His feet are on the transmission cuz they won't reach the step plates! And see him turn around at the end of the field? He's done that before.
He absolutely is wheeling a 180 with the left hand and working the hydraulic lever with the right and puts that 900 RIGHT back in the row lining the disk up!!!!
This still happens but not often.I came home from work one afternoon when my Dad was sick to find 5 nieghbour tractors working ground 4 years ago.After my uncles barn fire in 83 the nieghbourhoos got together to clean up.The new barn used 2X 6's on edge for the mow floor.10 guys came for 3 days to drive over a ton of spikes in it.Even in the 90's when I tried farming myself I couldn't have done it if it weren't for a couple of friends that I worked together with.We traded work and shared wagons
wonderful video--i wish it was clearer, but it just kinda puts goose bumps on me watching this. all the various brands and so many of them. when so many got together at one time, it really was just a bunch of fun--made people feel good. i know lots of people today wouldn't understand what i'm talking about, but it's their loss. thanks for sharing.
i have saved this vid. and i think that this copy should be sent to obama and ask what is wrong with this picture?? this is a icon of america and why we can't produce our own things?? thanks to our goverment once again!! ps and greed. wow!! really got us to where we are!! god bless the farmer!!
Reminds me in a way of my childhood. When I was 11 we had a huge barn fire and lost 30 dairy cows along with the entire dairy barn so the neighbors helped us with the crops and took in the rest of our herd while we got a new barn built. It just goes to show us what good neighbors do for one another.
Bloody good video. The only thing I can think of to say is that americans weren't the only ones to do something like this. That great country to the north of you was also a great one for helping your neighbour in times of trouble. Just the same, congrats to the person who put it together.
Great Video, seeing it makes me miss my Father and his whole generation, I still have his 1939 John Deere G and of course millions of dollars worth of memories.
tough to find this kind of thing today as 2 to 3 farmers likely replaced all of these. I counted 43 tractors at the end and I probably missed some. The dog eat dog mentality has about taken the farming sector over too. But this spirit is still out there in places. I can remember when you didn't have to be sick for this to happen. We just helped one another as needed. Can't get that in a classroom.
Its been at least 45 years since my family farmed! i still see pictures like this at my grandmas house. For my family farming is over but i love the country and finally got courage enough to plunge to bring it back! Not many acres but i gotta start somewhere! Great vid it really touched me!
That is a lost generation, they knew their neighbor would have done the same for them. It shows the spirit that built the communities and made this country what it is today. I know of several times the neighbors pulled together to help one of their own. It really did happen in backroads America.
Anymore, atleast in my area most farmers would rather see you go out of business, than lend a hand. Us smalltime guys still stick toghether pretty well.
Well, people still help each other today, including on the farm (although advanced technologies often render such help superfluous). As long as we look for the good in each other and do not succumb to despair, we shall be every bit as great as our ancestors...
This truly is the way it should be now what a great bunch of people this should make all the people involved very proud it's too bad you can't find this spirit these days
Great video and awesome music selection! I'd love to get my old Ford 900 out for a day like that. As a young person watching this video makes me realize this is truly the America I wish I could have grown up in. God Bless!
@fcarp1685 To FCARP: You gotta love that boy on that 900!!!! Did you see him at the end of the row raing the hydraulics AND doing a 180 and planting it it back in,AND waving to the camera with his feet on the transmission case ???? TOO MUCH
This was a great video. Seeing these old tractors in their prime was awesome! I used to plow with a Farmall M and 3 bottom plow and we use to plant with a AC WD45 and a 4 row planter. I saw both of these in the video, ours were lost when our barn burnt down. I wish I could go back to the 50's and 60's when America worked hard and before the Woodstock generation messed everything up. It was great to see neighbors helping neighbors.
Every day I thank the loard that this still goes on here, rarley will you see a new tractor in the field. It makes me very mad to see the kids of today texting away on their fancy phones and the companies tht make them saying its impossible to live without. Trash all technology and go back to the simpler life is what I say. I look back at all the years I have sepnt behind the heat houser on our Allis Chalmers WD45 plowing, and then look at what we have today and think, was that all for nothing?
a beautful film of the way people used to be!!!! i have watched this vidio so many times and i think that more folks should watch it because of the times facing all of us!! thanks again for sharing this film!!!!!
Those were the days people helped one another because they truly cared. Now if there is a "good neighbor day" most show up in hopes of renting the land when it becomes available. Used to be gentlemen farmers. Now the competition is intense. Milo, IA one farmer killed another over land. Not as it should be anymore.
That still goes on today where we live. Not many of our kids would get out there without a cab and radio though. I didn't see a single Oliver in the bunch though which surprised me.
Nice video and thanks for sharing it. Lots of new tractors then. Probably lots of the tractors and plows are long gone now and maybee some of the operators that day have passed on.
I certainly respect the men in the video for their actions toward thier fellow man, but I also LOVE the original footage of the tractors in their prime.
I just sat and thought that guy on the 4010 had a brand new tractor! How cool is that?
That 730 could have been 4 years old at the most. I'd give my big toe for a 4 year old 730 LOL.
I remember a similar scene in 1964 or 65 when my grandfather was on his deathbed> i do wish this had been in better light . my old eyes can barely see anything.=(
I would have been 5 years old when this video was made. I remember as a kid farming with a John Deere A, B and an old MT. That's all we had back then. The newest tractor was a 1957 A.
Wonderful history to capture! Does anybody know what state this was in? There's a Farminton, Minnesota not that far from me and the land would be about like this. But I expect most states have a Farmington. B²
I am a fairly young person (26) and this video still brought tears to my eyes. It is wonderful to re-live those days when neighbors would come and help out a friend in need and expect nothing in return. Thank you for sharing it with everyone!
What a wonderful video !! Thanks so much for sharing ... and I want this to be a lesson to me as well !! gdtractor
gdtractor 1 week ago
are any of these fine men still living,,if so please shake their hand and say well done!Fantastic generation of americans,,wish we had men like that now running this country.
122redbird 7 months ago
i wish our country was still like this where the comunity comes together to help someone out
farmallboy8989 9 months ago
Did my share of plowing on a Farmall M and I can just imagine how it felt to be on the team that day (I would have been 9 years old at the time!) Bless 'em for getting together--great to see all the tractors too.
deleuze3 10 months ago
@deleuze3 I would have been RIGHT THERE TOO !!!!
boruff68 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
I work on one of the big modern farms and gotta tell you this kind of thing sure wouldnt happen on our farm these days. Workers are treated poorly by us and payed far less than they should. Love seeing all the old classics out there working! Hopefully farming gets back to a more personal level sometime in our lifetimes. By far this is my favorite youtube video thanks for posting and God Bless.
fcarp1685 11 months ago 2
i have watched this before and i still touches me. i real like the end where the they are done with the days work and talking wish i could hear what they where talking about
i would also like to say about the kid on the ford we had a 800 and let me tell you on them cold days the felt real real good on you 'er feet and you are right the kidd knew what he was doing on that ol ford great video
markhkromer 1 year ago
hey whats the name of the first song ?
TheTractormaster 1 year ago
@TheTractormaster The song is "Down Home" by Alabama from 1991. I'm even younger than that of smgussey, and I wish I had been able to see what life was really like back then. I'm sure that somewhere someone still does something like this, but it's a heap of a lot less common than what it used to be because now, if you want to make it in farming, you pretty much have to hire a few employees. Too bad those days are gone.
ZackVDH 11 months ago
watch that kid on the 900 Ford. His feet are on the transmission cuz they won't reach the step plates! And see him turn around at the end of the field? He's done that before.
NebraskaCowman 1 year ago 3
@NebraskaCowman NO DOUBT !!!!
He absolutely is wheeling a 180 with the left hand and working the hydraulic lever with the right and puts that 900 RIGHT back in the row lining the disk up!!!!
boruff68 5 months ago in playlist boruff68's Favorited Videos
This still happens but not often.I came home from work one afternoon when my Dad was sick to find 5 nieghbour tractors working ground 4 years ago.After my uncles barn fire in 83 the nieghbourhoos got together to clean up.The new barn used 2X 6's on edge for the mow floor.10 guys came for 3 days to drive over a ton of spikes in it.Even in the 90's when I tried farming myself I couldn't have done it if it weren't for a couple of friends that I worked together with.We traded work and shared wagons
colinanderson2009 1 year ago
wonderful video--i wish it was clearer, but it just kinda puts goose bumps on me watching this. all the various brands and so many of them. when so many got together at one time, it really was just a bunch of fun--made people feel good. i know lots of people today wouldn't understand what i'm talking about, but it's their loss. thanks for sharing.
luckyran3 1 year ago
i have saved this vid. and i think that this copy should be sent to obama and ask what is wrong with this picture?? this is a icon of america and why we can't produce our own things?? thanks to our goverment once again!! ps and greed. wow!! really got us to where we are!! god bless the farmer!!
lawnking168 1 year ago 3
@lawnking168 still the land of the free. sorry he cant stop you from farming.
moosiem60 1 year ago
amazing. that is something anyone would have done back then and something noone would do today. i wish we could go back to the way things used to be
tractorguy58 1 year ago
Reminds me in a way of my childhood. When I was 11 we had a huge barn fire and lost 30 dairy cows along with the entire dairy barn so the neighbors helped us with the crops and took in the rest of our herd while we got a new barn built. It just goes to show us what good neighbors do for one another.
Fullern90 1 year ago
one of THE best videos on the internet!
Great to see all the brands of tractors...America at its best!
Mike in Iowa
bentonbee1 1 year ago
Simple goodness. I like to to view this from time to time. It helps me to realize what we are really put on this planet for....
earlyhemidave 1 year ago
Bloody good video. The only thing I can think of to say is that americans weren't the only ones to do something like this. That great country to the north of you was also a great one for helping your neighbour in times of trouble. Just the same, congrats to the person who put it together.
derehamcentre 1 year ago
NEIGHBOUR!
mmmbeachlover 1 year ago
Great Video, seeing it makes me miss my Father and his whole generation, I still have his 1939 John Deere G and of course millions of dollars worth of memories.
kennedy6644 1 year ago
Great vid,...thanks for posting
OneBigDoofus 1 year ago
I would love to have a copy of this on dvd!
richjd630 1 year ago
tough to find this kind of thing today as 2 to 3 farmers likely replaced all of these. I counted 43 tractors at the end and I probably missed some. The dog eat dog mentality has about taken the farming sector over too. But this spirit is still out there in places. I can remember when you didn't have to be sick for this to happen. We just helped one another as needed. Can't get that in a classroom.
thegreenerthemeaner 1 year ago
not too many sights as awesome as watching a plow flipping soil.
ohiofarmer 2 years ago
Its been at least 45 years since my family farmed! i still see pictures like this at my grandmas house. For my family farming is over but i love the country and finally got courage enough to plunge to bring it back! Not many acres but i gotta start somewhere! Great vid it really touched me!
wetstackindiesel 2 years ago
I`m really glad that plowing bees are starting to get big again. Alot o young guys like me too!
82Hellbilly 2 years ago
allis chalmers are the best
19mg94 2 years ago 2
@19mg94 allis chalmers 160
soon to have a 200, 210, 220, and a D-21
indy498 1 year ago
@indy498 we have a 220 and a D21
19mg94 1 year ago
That is a lost generation, they knew their neighbor would have done the same for them. It shows the spirit that built the communities and made this country what it is today. I know of several times the neighbors pulled together to help one of their own. It really did happen in backroads America.
143PAPAW 2 years ago 16
@143PAPAW I miss it too. Wish It could still be that way. Some of this "Modern Technology" isnt as good as they say it is. We need to slow down.
JRCollinsfan 2 years ago
I agree, tractors shoulda never been bigger than 100 hp!
82Hellbilly 2 years ago
Anymore, atleast in my area most farmers would rather see you go out of business, than lend a hand. Us smalltime guys still stick toghether pretty well.
82Hellbilly 2 years ago
awesome video. its hard to believe that your watching a video of these tractors when the were pretty much brand new, simply amazing!
jakebrake05 2 years ago 3
Well, people still help each other today, including on the farm (although advanced technologies often render such help superfluous). As long as we look for the good in each other and do not succumb to despair, we shall be every bit as great as our ancestors...
LouisGodena 2 years ago
amazone hoow people used to help each other back them, those days back then look so great, that would of bean a great time to live in
ih966man 2 years ago
I remember those tractors and the great guys who farmed then, I sure do miss them.
ilikerokons 2 years ago
Hi I loved the video from a time when people helped each other.
henry3598 2 years ago
This truly is the way it should be now what a great bunch of people this should make all the people involved very proud it's too bad you can't find this spirit these days
musclecarpower 2 years ago 3
what was the first tractor?
indy498 2 years ago
Great video and awesome music selection! I'd love to get my old Ford 900 out for a day like that. As a young person watching this video makes me realize this is truly the America I wish I could have grown up in. God Bless!
fcarp1685 2 years ago 6
@fcarp1685 To FCARP: You gotta love that boy on that 900!!!! Did you see him at the end of the row raing the hydraulics AND doing a 180 and planting it it back in,AND waving to the camera with his feet on the transmission case ???? TOO MUCH
boruff68 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@boruff68 for sure good multi-tasking lol, looks like he was having fun!
fcarp1685 1 month ago
This was a great video. Seeing these old tractors in their prime was awesome! I used to plow with a Farmall M and 3 bottom plow and we use to plant with a AC WD45 and a 4 row planter. I saw both of these in the video, ours were lost when our barn burnt down. I wish I could go back to the 50's and 60's when America worked hard and before the Woodstock generation messed everything up. It was great to see neighbors helping neighbors.
guns851 2 years ago
Every day I thank the loard that this still goes on here, rarley will you see a new tractor in the field. It makes me very mad to see the kids of today texting away on their fancy phones and the companies tht make them saying its impossible to live without. Trash all technology and go back to the simpler life is what I say. I look back at all the years I have sepnt behind the heat houser on our Allis Chalmers WD45 plowing, and then look at what we have today and think, was that all for nothing?
JRCollinsfan 2 years ago
saw lots of John deeres and internationals, few cases, and A/C. Maybe one Minneapolis Moline; but didn't see one Oliver.
seancarm 2 years ago
and they were all narrow fronts
indy498 2 years ago
wonderful video, i love this old tractors, love this charity,
greetings from germany..
alloberta 2 years ago
I must say that I stood and applauded this video!!!
Thanks for posting it
bofts 3 years ago
a beautful film of the way people used to be!!!! i have watched this vidio so many times and i think that more folks should watch it because of the times facing all of us!! thanks again for sharing this film!!!!!
lawnking168 3 years ago
putt,putt,putt,putt,putt,putt,putt,putt,putt,putt
rotoclip 3 years ago
Good times, good times...
TerminatorFRA 3 years ago
wow that was really cool i love it!!!!!!
ACD19farmboy 3 years ago
and the award go's to FAAFA01!
rotoclip 3 years ago
i'll bet the flag's on the tractor's were concidered the slow moving vehicle emblem's of the time.america needs small farm's.
rotoclip 3 years ago
The hair on the back of neck stands up when I watch this. thank you its wonderful
mlasare 3 years ago
Those were the days people helped one another because they truly cared. Now if there is a "good neighbor day" most show up in hopes of renting the land when it becomes available. Used to be gentlemen farmers. Now the competition is intense. Milo, IA one farmer killed another over land. Not as it should be anymore.
redlinefarms 3 years ago
Love the footage of those glorious old tractors!
I have replayed the video 3 times to try and identify the various tractors models.
They were all the tricycle style tractors which are simply not made anymore.
Very interesting to see those tractors hard at work in their heyday!
Regards from OzzInter in Australia
OzzInter 3 years ago
Very nicely done!
deeredude1 3 years ago
Is the Larry Melhouse the ag teacher at Avon HS in 1964?
curless 3 years ago
Great video, whats the song?
WatchThisYall88 3 years ago
i'll bet it was the best crop the farmer ever had.
rotoclip 3 years ago
That still goes on today where we live. Not many of our kids would get out there without a cab and radio though. I didn't see a single Oliver in the bunch though which surprised me.
farkfamilyfarm 3 years ago
This is amazing to bad you wouldn't see anything like this today. What are the songs on this?
jakey756 3 years ago
Nice video and thanks for sharing it. Lots of new tractors then. Probably lots of the tractors and plows are long gone now and maybee some of the operators that day have passed on.
danred806 3 years ago
Thats a beautifull sight of some good people, doing a good thing, for another in need.
Thats the way it was, and the way it still should be.
Bless them all for being the kind of people I look up to.
Thanks for sharing.
HemiHotRod 3 years ago 2
Lexington Illinois Salutes You !
HemiHotRod 3 years ago
Wow, what a great video!!
csa85 4 years ago
great video
ptokish 4 years ago
Brought back fond memories of working the dirt. I sure do miss those days
deerblaster1 4 years ago 2
I certainly respect the men in the video for their actions toward thier fellow man, but I also LOVE the original footage of the tractors in their prime.
I just sat and thought that guy on the 4010 had a brand new tractor! How cool is that?
That 730 could have been 4 years old at the most. I'd give my big toe for a 4 year old 730 LOL.
Thanks for sharing!!
farmalldeereman 4 years ago 3
I remember a similar scene in 1964 or 65 when my grandfather was on his deathbed> i do wish this had been in better light . my old eyes can barely see anything.=(
tim52160 4 years ago 2
Nice video means a lot to us older guys!!
Jrcaseman 4 years ago 3
That it does, Mr. Jrcaseman, That it does.
I would have been 5 years old when this video was made. I remember as a kid farming with a John Deere A, B and an old MT. That's all we had back then. The newest tractor was a 1957 A.
Tenolin 2 years ago
Farmington IL
farmerbill71 4 years ago 3
Wonderful history to capture! Does anybody know what state this was in? There's a Farminton, Minnesota not that far from me and the land would be about like this. But I expect most states have a Farmington. B²
aabbgghl 4 years ago 3
Nice work!!
Sean19419N 4 years ago 3
I am a fairly young person (26) and this video still brought tears to my eyes. It is wonderful to re-live those days when neighbors would come and help out a friend in need and expect nothing in return. Thank you for sharing it with everyone!
smgussey 4 years ago 9
very cool!
jakebrake05 4 years ago 3