Thank you everyone for your suggestions on the PTO shaft! I have looked at several options and even talked to John Deere parts Department. Apparently the PTO shaft is VERY specific to THIS UNIT. We may have to replace the whole PTO assembly if we can't find a half that will fit. I'm detaching the second half of the pto shaft and bringing it in to John Deere to see if they can make something to work! Fingers crossed!

If every women could have your looks ,drive, confidence , love in your heart America would be a wonderful place to live. God bless you and your family. I have much respect for you.

OMG I just love visiting a salvage yard , The stories and possibilities are endless, I'd encourage all KZfaq to do some salvage yard tours !!! GREAT JOB Farm Girl !!!

It’s kind of a sad place when you realize all those machines were once someone’s pride and joy.

I am the daughter of the owners of this “junk yard” as you put it. I commented years ago, but just remembered this video again. This is an actual business that was started by my grandpa back in the 60s. He saw the need for local farmers that needed a better alternative to buying brand new parts- so he began going to auctions to purchase parts tractors. My dad and uncle took over the business after my grandpa passed away in the early 2000s. They retired two years ago, and so the business was ceased. We had a huge equipment auction, and now all the “jewelry” is gone. Glad this video is around to remind us of what the place looked like for decades.

LOL The Rock separator you called them the three next to each other they're actually potato harvesters hun we had one even older than that steel wheels on it really cool the wedge digs into the ground they roll up on there all the dirt falls through in the potatoes fall on the ground on top of the dirt and then you go pick up them like we did unless you got something to put them in behind it

At the 7:00 mark, we used those to dig up horseradish roots. The dirt fell between the grates and the roots were dropped out the rear staying on top of the soil. Then a farm hand...,me, would come buy carrying a large round basket collecting the roots and dumping the baskets into a collection cart of truck. They could also be used for potatoes, beets etc where you have a raised row and you need to dig the harvest out to expose it. These worked great on small family farms. The farm I worked at as a teenager planted roughly 3-4 acres of horseradish along with other veggies. Next to working tobacco, horseradish was very dirty work from planting to harvesting.

Farmers are some of the smartest people I have ever met. They may not hold a Ph.D. in farming or land management. But they have more ingenuity, more common sense, they understand how machines work, and how plants and animals grow. More than any college graduate ever will!

Susanne, When I see these old farm equipment salvage yards it makes me sad for the hundreds of family farms gone. Like the idea of you arranging a tour. God Bless.....

Keep doing the farm junk yard Suzanne, I love it. It's amazing and thought provoking to see yesterday's farm equipment compared to today's current tech....?

I would absolutely love seeing that place! Thanks for the video!

Interesting to see your take on the yard :) The owners know every piece of equipment in the yard... they probably thought you wanted the individual history of every piece, which is impossible to know since most equipment is bought at auctions. The stainless steel piece is a lime spreader. The three pieces you guessed were rock pickers are potato diggers. If you brought the other half of your pto shaft, they can see exactly what you need to replace it much cheaper than John Deere.

I have the GREATEST respect for the Farmers who feed us, I am a retired Trucker who delivered many loads of Fertilizer to Farms in Ohio, most folks don't even think of equipment wear and tear on Farms, and, associated costs, all paid out of modest to little profits, God bless you young Lady Farmer!! Mad Mike the Trucker

Suzanne, thanks for the adventure. I love those bone yards. Another great video. I'm sure there are more in your area. God bless.

Happy Birthday. You have found a very well organized Tractor/Farm Equipment graveyard. Wish I had been with you...doesn't everyone! That is a pair of 1960's Allis Chalmers one row cultivators. Often used for cultivating tobacco in my area. Those are not Rock Pickers, but Potato Diggers. Some had Baggers behind so potatoes could be bagged as they were dug. Picking potatoes off the ground was not my best work! 13:40 was a 2 row Corn Picker. It was normally mounted on a tricycle type tractor with one big front wheel. The tractors are organized by Brand - Case, Allis Chalmers, John Deere, etc. Lots of old Farmall parts for Erik. For your spare wheels there is much to measure. Take off the wheel you want a spare for and put some cardboard behind it and trace out the Centre and all Bolt holes. Turn it upside down and measure the Back Spacing, how far the wheel flange is from the inside to the tire (depth). Note tire size which will also give you Rim size. Last number. Take that or those wheels with you to carefully compare. On automotive tires, there is often an oval with 4 numbers. 0413 would mean the tire was made 4th week of 2013. You will need to know the exact length of the PTO shaft (it may have rolled into the ditch?) Spline size- count the splines on the tractor and implement. A Drive shaft Shop could make you one if they knew the requirements. Truck and 4x4 Driveline shops. There are many different Spline sizes but they are also standard. Perhaps you could borrow one and take it to a shop to be copied or get a drawing from JD with dimensions of what you need. I am sure an Tour with knowledgeable guide would be of great interest to many viewers. Take your wheels with you and he can help pick the correct one. Clearance is very important. Take photos of the original placement.

Guided tour!! I already see a lot of memories!!! Great idea!! This old farm boy already sees many memories. My grandfathers farm still has an Allis Chalmers "G" rear engine cultivating tractor.

Thanks for sharing love that old stuff.

You are so fortunate to have the access to this "graveyard". I see tires that I could use also, amongst many other things.

May sound funny, but years ago, we were cutting hay with a JD 1209, and broke the yoke on the tractor side of the pto shaft. Didn't have time to track down a new shaft, so looked locally, at a tractor salvage place, and a tractor side shaft for a New Holland flail spreader actually fit it perfectly, the shaft shield was different, but it worked.

We had one of those rear engined AC tractors back in the late 50's and early 60's, when I was kid. Spent a lot of hours in the seat of one of those. My dad radiator hose clamped wood blocks to the pedals so I could reach them better when I was little. It was AC's attempt to make an impact in the garden tractor market. There were a host of implements that mounted between you and the front axle hanging from the framework above. We had a mower deck and a garden tiller attachments. Both worked but when the mower cut, it threw the grass up and forward meaning you were always driving into floating grass clippings. You do good work with your channel young lady...

If you want to see some old farm machinery in action you should go the the Buckley Old Engine Show. The show runs August 15 - 18. They have just about everything there, old gas tractors, steam engines, hit and miss engines. The show grounds are just outside Buckley MI just off M-37, about 10 miles south of Traverse City

Difference in tires is not just the tread because they can look alike but still be different the ply rating is the biggest difference 4 ply 6 ply and so on and that translates to load capability and thickness of the tire. Fertilizer spreader with self contained hydraulic system. And then potato lifters. Steiger tractors were built by farmers. I have my dads 1950 B JD sitting in my driveway and every so often take it for a drive and people go out of their way just to see it and especially old retired farmers wave and give thumbs up, and kids love it too!

Thanks for the ride a long Suze! i could spend hours there looking around :)

Every family needs a farmer.

Neat seeing all that older stuff. Thats huge.

The old show Green Acres....I could see Oliver Douglas looking for parts for his Hoyt Clagswell tractor that Mr.Haney conned him into buying …..lol.....!!

The Crawler Tractors you looked at had steel tracks but the bolted wood boards to them for more floatation in the muck

Please go back there would love to see more of the antique iron love old farm tractors

My son bought a buzz saw for his Massey at the Reuter’s auction recently. We walked around and checked it out too. They have a lot of stuff that’s for sure. That tire area is pretty big.

Neat "field" trip, thanks for taking us along. I would think a lot of equipment that doesn't sell at auction wind up here.

Love this video and the old Farming stuff that my Grandpa farm love the see more

Girl, PTO's are meant to be universal for multiple implements. Look up your baler's specific PTO attachment, get the dimensions and you can pretty much find any other make of farm implement's PTO and use it...

Only WTFarm girl can make a visit to the bone yard just as entertaining as a visit to a fancy art museum. Let the tour begin. Very interesting Suzanne loved every minute of it. See you on the Red carpet for your award winning video.

Thanks for your time and your post enjoyed and be careful

That would be awesome to have a tour of the place. That is some cool old tractors.

there are two Reuters near here. The are Case IH MF JVC dealers . Trivia. During WWII rubber was rationed. Especially tires. Many farmers switched back to steel lugs to save the hassle of finding a replacement tire if one went bad while they needed it. Also there were steel drives back then also. They recycled every bit of iron and steel aluminun copper that they could locate.. That machinery was running during the war years or else it would have been converted to bombs bullets ships or tanks. casual observation

The music is perfect ! Great Job gotta watch it 3 times

You might want to try Worthington Ag Parts in St. Johns Michigan... They are connected to the WWW all over the US... They could probably find you a PTO shaft...

6:16 is a fertilizer spreader for a tractor with no hydraulics, tank is a hyd tank and pump attaches directly to pto on tractor. Little wheel on back is a ground drive for some function (my guess is spinners)

Great video!!!! I love spending time in places like this.

Yes I'd be interested in watching video with history lesson of old equipment

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Love the old equipment/tractors

You and Eric would have a field day at this place. Keep up the good work and have a great weekend

I love the way you point to different pieces in your videos. I do believe you are the best. Love your truck! Dammit girl!

First Tractor is an Allis chalmers G- vegetable garden tractor...

Makes you wonder if the owner even knows what he has out there. At 14:45, that long square piece was the drawbar for the haybine parked behind it.. The PTO shaft usually ran above or below the drawbar. The combine head, was actually a two row pull type corn picker. I grew up with those implements.

The stainless tub unit is a fertilizer spreader. the tank on the front is a hydraulic oil tank,the pump is a PTO driven hydraulic pump so the spreader can be ran independent of the tractor hydraulics.The "rock pickers" are potato diggers. The little AC tractors are late 40's to early 50;'s truck patch tractors. Implements mounted forward of the operator. Had a 1 bottom plow,disc,planters,and cultivators for them. For precise cultivating they were/are one of the best designs ever built.A company has come out with a modern mechanical over hydraulic derivative and with a plow,disc,planter,and cultivator that's over 40 grand.Can't remember the name though and at their price point it's doubtful they will be around long.Problem with old tractors and implements is mainly parts availability,especially for the implements. Easy enough to get an old tractor running and all pretty for a parade or to be a barn queen but not so easy to get it reliable enough and matched to implements for heavy farm work.Mainly just money pits.For real work it's best to stay with mid to late 1970's and up that accept universal and not model specific implements.

Those at 7:08 are old Pull-Type Potato Diggers. You see them on Craigslist now & Then. Very popular for Small Farming & Gardens

I like the old junk yards. I never knew what i was going to find. That blue machine is probably a potato digger. When i was younger i helped pick up potatoes after they were dug. They use to use a John Deere version. It funny how the smaller old equipment is not useful on larger farms. That was all they had at the time. It getting harder to find those smaller implements. There should be other yards in the mid west that are larger that may have what your looking for. Shipping gets expensive. Sounds like a road trip lol. Hope things get better. Now to mail Monday.

Saw a couple of potato pickers in there. The ones with the bar chains. So dirt falls off, potatoes stay on the belt until they get picked off and bagged/boxed for moving.

We just built a complete shaft unit for our Bermuda grass Sprig digger out of spare parts we had on hand for the peanut combine had to order the 1 3/8 yoke to go on digger gearbox from a guy in Oregon $80.00, changed the Tractor yoke from 1000 to 540...... Your rock sorter is a potatoe digger.......

Great place, cool to see a history of land management in and around your area. For me there would be to many projects.

We have quite a few used farm parts places up here..some catalog everything they have..and some places just go look what they have...

Wow, never thought I'd see a tour of this place on KZfaq. That's my family business. Wish I would have been there to talk to you that day.

History is always a good thing!!!

A great looking young girl enjoying looking at old farm equipment, I don’t think it can get any better than that. I’m sure a lot of us older guys enjoyed that walk down memory lane

Just gonna say your husband is a very lucky man. I just bought my grandparents farm and when I talk any where close to the way you did my wife falls asleep: )

The old tractors are MY hobby! Those Allis Chalmers you walked by are pretty highly sought after - The Model G is pretty hard to find. Your enthusiasm was great! I wish my wife felt the same way about my antique tractors. Ha ha.. It's more like.... "ANOTHER one?!...." Ha ha

got to see buddy browns video and then noticed sweet a woman with a farm channel i follow a few other farm channels as its a really cool industry nobody knows anything about except "there are tractors and silos with some animals" very cool showing those old tractors hope u are getting slammin yields this year

Thank you!!!!

Lovely lady who loves farming and great junk yards...….what could be better …!!

Thank God i,m far away from these places cause i,m seeing a lot of projects!

SOOOOOO COOL!!! I would have said Yes on the walk through! Very interesting! Maybe find a 80 or 90 year old farmer, probably tell you everything about the old stuff. Measure your shaft, doesn't have to be JD or a even a baler shaft.

If I ever come to michigan to meet you we need to go to this place lol as I love all the vintage stuff

Junkyards are great places whether they be tractor stuff, automobile or anything else. I don't know about Michigan but here in Georgia you would have to keep your eyes open for snakes. Great video Suzanne!

its sad to think this equipment once had owners that worked hard to buy this tractor for making a lively hood from but definitely fascinating to see so much that hasn't been restored or recycleled

Very cool I like old tractor's .

,,,,man oh man if those tractors could take what story`s they would have to tell,,,thanks for sharing,,i enjoyed watching,,,

Great that you showed us around, thank you

NAPA auto parts stores usually have PTO shafts. Take the half that you still have to your local NAPA store and they can rig you up with a new shaft.

Wow!! A person could spend hours in there looking around. Yup seeing the old John Deere tractor's was a walk down memory lane. I liked the old patatoe diggers. People are always looking to buy those. Another video of there would be great. Thank you.

Loved it I could tell you almost what every thing is in thay lot.

I Love these places!!!!

Cool video, thats the biggest tractor junkyard I've ever seen 😁

I could spend days in that place just looking around

Look at all the quality things to look at. I could spend hours there.

yes that would be a great video about all those old tractors;;;;;

if you're interested in old equipment and there operations go to a threeshree. Check out rantoul Illinois or rollag minnesotta . Rollag featured one year homemade tractor they also have a village and original homesteads . Two interesting one was a washing machine with attachment to make butter and horse drawn trolley

I Love Reuters!!! First stop for anything new or used.

I think its awesome that the violinist walked along with you😊

Cool place. I was there a few years ago looking for parts.

Nice tour or the graveyard, definintly did see a som intresting stuff there. And i am dang happy i own a lathe and a milling mashine so i can make or modify parts to fit hwen they are not redily avalable

The best video on KZfaq love every minute, more please please

Throughout the years I got to be very good at finding the hard to find parts I also enjoy the treasure hunt but I found out the best time to find these things is at the end of the day if not them junk yards will keep you there all day

coming back to the graveyard would be awesome

Woah Grant, Mi?! Crazy I keep finding all these Michigan people. I'm probably 45 mins from there!

Thanks for sharing

I would love to see a very in depth video on each and every and how many machines of chapter machines are there on that property that would be an awesome history lesson for some of us

That was pretty cool Suzanne! You do not see junk yards like that too often!

well kept salvage yard...sweet spot...rare

GREAT IDEA love it have fun

The AC tractor's are cultivators and the convaer things might of been for sorting potatoes out of the dirt and loading them maybe. Sure is a lot of usable parts and equipment. Looked like you could of got a spare tire for your bailer pretty easy. 😊 I think wandering around a salvage yard with you would be fun .😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

♥️ to hear the history

If you want an antique tractor junkyard you should go to the one in Mishawaka Indiana he has an old school bus with wooden rims there as well

Admittedly, that all looks pretty cool

I remember going to the junk yard on Long Island to keep our cars running .

Tractor Graveyard Heaven

Yes a walk through would be great

They had an IH cab tractor and a white cab flatbed truck to look at - just a whole bunch of antique tractors and newer equipment also - a graveyard of tractors and old/newer equipment