Good job, have fun

Good job!!

One of the main reasons I like and watch your channel is that you farm with older equipment. I think it's pretty cool how you maintain and use the Oliver tractors and equipment. Keep your videos coming.

Did you ever notice, a plate planter plant's just as good as an air/plate less planter does. A Monitor would be nice, but you know it's planting unless something really goes wrong with the drive unit on the row. Our JD 495A has Monitor rods through the seed covers that go down as seed is used up, pretty simple if you ask me! Plus you are right we paid $200.00 for our 459A 40 years ago & it still plants just as good as the day we first used it. Old Engineering works every time! As long as parts are still a round run them till you can't!!!

Works for sickle sections, might as well for here

My best fiends father farms with older equipment too and he'll take that over the new stuff all day long and my buddy been telling his day to sell all of the older to get newer but he tells him its payed for they have a couple old Oliver tractors and a white. love watching your channel because of the that you are keeping your family tradition in farming alive. keep up the work.

Thank you for saving the past and using the equipment the way its ment to be.

probably said it before but im glad you'r back making videos man. quarantine would suck if we didn't have your content. thanks again for the videos my good friend.

One of the things I really enjoy about your channel is the older equipment. That is all I have ever been around. We always bought our equipment used in their “ work clothes “ as you would say. I am a firm believer that they don’t make things like they used to!! Seems like all the new stuff they make today Id made of throw away parts. I like shit that last just like the equipment you run. And I can guarantee none of the arm chair frames that make negative comments could even spell planter when they were 16 years old!. Good for you, keep doing what you do and I’ll keep watching you do it!. Thanks for the videos

I just found your channel, love the videos! I actually have a 540 myself that I use on my 6 acres, rebuilt it from the ground up 4 years ago, it does a great job! On that note, would you have a seed box and fertilizer lid you would consider parting with? I've got one seed box that cracked up bad, and I'm missing a fertilizer lid. I'm just north of you a bit, I'm on the south side of Holland

Really good video. I still use a 1970 model ac plate planter . Maintained old stuff will do a good job!

Thank you and all the great farm channels on KZfaq for this honest forum that provides some sense of normalcy to those of us under lockdown. I’m sure I would go crazy without you!

Love the old machines keep up the great videos its great to see

Great video cool planter i love old iron

Saw your video on your new to you combine looks pretty nice. You and your Dad will whip that thing into shape looking forward to see some of the repairs.

Going out on my own planting my first field of soybeans this year. enjoy watching your videos!

Pay no attention to the assholes, just keep doing what you do. We’re glad you’re back.

Great video. I’m new. Love the old and true machines.

Last I checked the goal in farming is make the most amount of profit with the least amount invested. I see nothing wrong at all with your planter! I envy anyone who manages there money! A new white planter I doubt will make you any more money per acre and if it did you still have the high dollar planter to pay for. Glad your back! :)

We farm with all older equipment as well. You can get the same yields spending a lot less. Thanks for the video.

The oliver 540 was the best thought out planter around in the late 60’s. Fiberglass boxes, disk openers, and gauge wheels, all considered in the design. But I hear that a Deere 494a still plants corn more accurately.

The 55 looks good hooked to the planter!

What is the book that you recommended for growing corn and beans in Indiana? I remember you said it was from Purdue but I don’t remember the title.

👍 ... good spoken ! The right mentalety, just do it your way. Curious and waiting for the combine .

Like you said Farm Boy, its paid for and paid for itself. I bought a 6 narrow 7000 deere several years ago and it does me just fine.

Planting is right around the corner! I’d take a 50 year old planter than a brand new one any day. Less computer bullshit on the older ones! Have a good one

good for you it is your life and you do what you want and no one has the right to tell you different. Great video I enjoy you keeping the old stuff working.

Cant complain about the results that planter has given. Older equipment is the easiest to work on and in my opinion is the way to go

Correct me if I'm wrong here but, my grand dad used to have a 1/2" punch with a hollow grind. He'd used that in those hard to reach area's for rivets. Couldn't you do the same? Here's the thing that many fail to understand with old equipment vs new... it's works far better than that of the new stuff. Today's equipment, needs all that fancy computers and touch screens to work. The "REAL" equipment, just needs an operator on the tractor that knows what they're doing. Don't let the idiots get to ya, they just want attention from you. That or completely jealous that your equipment still functions and theirs don't. Can't wait to see the planter planting, grew up with this stuff, just brings back good memories. Great video, cheers :)

Enjoy your videos man ! You are impressive bro love it

Those people putting you down, ignore it!! I like you're channel. I never been around Oliver equipment or tractors, I find it interesting. But I'm old j.i. case guy.

Nothing wrong with your equipment. It does its job and you seem happy with it so fuck them lol. Good video

I've quite often used 1/4 bolts with nyloc nuts instead of rivets. Both work well but when time to service again just zip em apart with cordless and ur there. Whatever works. I'd love to build an 8 row out of two #56 IH 4 row planters.

Better watching these kind of channels with the older equipment that takes skill to keep them maintained and field ready vs buying new equipment every year. Millenial farmer is one channel that comes to mind...lol

Your not the only one that still uses an old plate planter, we got a Deutz Allis planter 6 row, that get's used for corn or replant beans and don't have a problem with it

What does it matter to the haters out there? They are jealous and have NOTHING going on. Love the channel. Thanks for sharing.

I use an ih 56 corn planter

My hat is off to you. You are doing what I should have done forty years ago. Do not let the blowhards get you down, they are jealous a holes

Ive thought about putting three four row planters together (John Deere 7200 style). You can get old four row planters dirt cheap.

Cool videos man! Keep them coming.

I like the old equipment. It's got more character than all of the new plastic electrical junk they make today. Newest tractor we have is a 67 jd 4020. When all of the electronic junk fails this old stuff will keep on going for years and you'll be ahead even though it might go a little slower overall. Thanks for the video and don't let the KZfaq trolls have their way. I love these videos!

Is junkyard special going on grain drill duty this year? Lol Could you use 1/4” bolts and locknuts on those coulters? Seems to be working ok on my 620 drill so far.

Well In my lifetime what you got..... would have been miles ahead of some of the planters we have used to plant corn....I thought I had died and went to heaven when I managed to buy an old almost worn out first edition 492 John Deere plate less planter.... with monitor.....

So just a question on putting those rivets in would an air hammer be more sufficient in getting them tighter or would it most likely break the casting my planter has rivets on the colters as well and I need to replace my bearings pretty bad.

Hey if you like it and it works all the better. Best equipment out there is still, the stuff that's paid for. Like the old Oliver and Whites.

Not all of us can afford the new stuff . I understand the old stuff because that’s what I was raised on , so what you said should get the point across. Well maybe. Hey we enjoy you using the old stuff . Probably last longer than this new computerized stuff anyway. Later

I would much rather use the older equipment myself because 50 years ago they built the stuff to last and not to throw away and by new every 5 years. Not to mention if you have any mechanical ability at all they are easy to maintain and work on if you have to

Thanks for the vid

Nothing wrong with old equipment every one has to start at the bottom to get to the top. When i started my custom hay operation i had a m and h farmall 2 sickle mowers and a old new idea side delivery rake and wore out super 78 nh baler i i did 250ac of hay my first yr with that equipment then bought my 460 and a better rake and just kept updating still got a long ways to go before i can can get that shiny stuff but paint dont make equipment work any better

Keep it up. What happened to the 8 row? I’m looking forward to planting videos

I agree with @Monty Bussard completely. Also i love the end of the video.

I farm 200 acres and nothing I own was built after 1970

Yeah I get shit from people about my old equipment to. I just say it’s paid for and like you said I can get just as good yield with my old junk as you can with your 100K planter!

www.tractorhouse.com/listings/farm-equipment/for-sale/192710557/white-5100 . go to that link, looks like a good straight planter for a pretty good price in my opinion.

Could you put some of those tine bar units off that 8 row onto the 540? I remembered you saying something about not having to work up the field in front of it with them on

You sound like lord muck

I may have missed it in a video but I was wondering how many acres you are farming now?

Farm with what you like. Don't matter what others think. If you can make it work more power to you. We don't use "chain oil" any more. We have switched to a dry chain and cable lubricant(moly type?). We use John Deere but you could probably find a similar product elsewhere if you like. It doesn't gum with dust and it seems like the chains stay happy. And we've stopped buying Agco bearings because of the chinese bearings you can get the same bearing most of the time in a Timkin or SKF if you go to a bearing speciality shop. Don't care what you do, just food for thought.

Going to get the old square baler out this year in field?

The 55 would look good pulling the planter if it could handle it

Are you going to plant a bit with 55. That would be cool.

How hard is it for you to find parts for all you're stuff. I'm 15 right now and used to watch you're videos back 3 and 4 years ago and that kinda got me hooked on oliver along with seeing my neighbor's 1655. I would like to in the future kinda get the same set up you got as far as equipment and what not but I have heard problems with finding parts for oliver and I wanna know if that's true or not

Just curious, have you ever considered getting a bigger planter?

Learn to skip right over the unproductive comments. Those people if they watch your channel and still don’t understand what you do are not worth addressing. What is your plan for a 6 row planter? Will you convert the 8 row to a 6?

What happened to the 8 row

Do you use the fertilizer boxes when you plant?

G'day mate

Love your videos keep up the good work and the haters kind something else to do. It doesn't matter what you use if it's payed off then it's making you money

No computers to go bad and you don’t have to pay the Agco mechanic $110 an hour plus the service call

It does the job so why change. Upgrade to something bigger if you want to down the track. Keep up the good work mate.

What is the width of your drill?

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Looks like farming the way you want to me. Screw arm chair farming!!!

Personally I love all your equipment and the way you do things, all the jealous A,holes will always be spewing Their mouth manure because they are mentally challenged! Don’t get me wrong I have my share of problems but I don’t blame others for my faults. Don’t let the arsholes get you down!

I have more respect with you using older equipment then guys running the space shuttles they have today. I'm guessing you want to keep things as original as possible but why not use bolts instead of the rivets. I've done it, lot easier and never had any issues.