FAAFA - Plowing of the Past 1962

8mm video of a group coming together to plow for an injuried neighbor in 1962. Converted to DVD in 2007.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Antique
• Farming
• Tractor
• Plow
• Plowing
• 1962
• John
• Deere
• Case
• IH
• Oliver
• AC

[143PAPAW]

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.

[fcarp1685]

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]

@boruff68 for sure good multi-tasking lol, looks like he was having fun!

[boruff68]

@deleuze3 I would have been RIGHT THERE TOO !!!!

[boruff68]

@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]

@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!!!!

[122redbird]

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.

[farmallboy8989]

i wish our country was still like this where the comunity comes together to help someone out

[deleuze3]

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.

[ZackVDH]

@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.

[fcarp1685]

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.

[markhkromer]

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