John Deere 40 Combine Harvester

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Ай бұрын

Welcome back to the way we farm. This week's video is about one of my favorite pieces of equipment that I own. This John Deere 40 combine harvester may no longer be practical for widespread usage, but boy is it fun to use and awesome to watch. Thank you for watching, hope you enjoy, and remember, it's a great day to feed the world!

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@stewartalbert3523 26 күн бұрын

In 1958 i had the misfortune to break two JD 45 combines in one day , boss was proud of me !!

@Thewaywefarm 24 күн бұрын

2 in one day, that’s impressive!

@eladfitz5673 Ай бұрын

It makes me wonder just how proud they were when they got that awesome machine brand new on the farm. The whole family, neighbors and all the children come over to see and watch it working the first time. Can you imagine all the excitement that was going around that day. Thanks for sharing today

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

It had to be a celebration! We will probably say the same someday about our current equipment. Thanks for watching.

@markmortensen4341 Ай бұрын

I’m 67 and grew up on a small farm in Oregon. I did most of the combine work with a JD45 w/10’ head. Dad started sending me to do custom work and e we would do several hundred acres with this for several years! We had some 100 degree summers and it was hot on the open station! I still would love to have those years back again! Thanks for sharing the video👍😄

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

You’re correct, I look back at some of those hard days when I was younger and would like to relive them! Thanks for watching and the comments!

@colewalter6398 Ай бұрын

My dad and grandpa had 45 round backs. In the summer I used to love riding with my dad as he cut the wheat. How I wish I could ride with him just one more time. Thank you for posting this video. It brings back some of the happiest times of my life.

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

No doubt those were great summer days! Glad to bring back memories for you. Thanks for watching.

@jamesgarrett8234 Ай бұрын

Oh the memories of being on an open station combine with my Grandpa during harvest time when I was a youngster on the farm

@John-jg5dh Ай бұрын

My father had a 45e round back with belt pickup head when i was a kid in the late '70s. Just hearing that machine on your video took me back to those wonderful days!👍

@jasonbeecher509 Ай бұрын

People laugh because we gear every piece of equipment on this farm around the 4020s. Very cool combine. Enjoy my friend

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

We still love our 4020 but kinda out grew it. I love all our older equipment, thanks for watching.

@Bravo2uniform Ай бұрын

There’s a lot of good cheap equipment out there. I’d rather have a paid for open station older tractor than debt. This season I will be doing a construction project and I can’t grow anything - so I’m parking my paid for stuff. Debt kills farms.

@HamiltonFamily2023 Ай бұрын

Best way to preserve these old machines is to keep them working! 👍

@kennethswanstrom467 Ай бұрын

My uncle had a Massey 310 combine - fall of 76 I helped him with his corn crop . He milked cows so we put high moisture shelled corn in a Harvestore silo . The 310 had a Chrysler slant 6 and a 2 row corn head - plenty of power and plenty of fresh air ! She was a open platform machine .

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

Those were the days! How fun would it be to shell a couple loads with that machine on a nice fall day.

@herbhouston5378 Ай бұрын

I Was 80 last October and I remember an old Alice Chalmers with a canvas apron and the wooden slats across it. Had a platform on the side where and stood and filled two bags. You filled one bag and then switched to the other bag... and droped the bag to the ground after you tied it closed with a Miller's knot I remember that just like it was yesterday.

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

Now that’s some good memories! It’s amazing how things have changed in your lifetime. My Dad is 79 and he remembers the neighbors thrashing in his barn when he was a little boy. He thought the Allis All Crop was a great improvement over thrashing. I learned to tie a Millers knot as a little boy, luckily it was bagging dairy feed not riding on a dusty combine. Thanks for the great comments.

@frankwurth5375 Ай бұрын

I love watching the old machines at work. Back when we ran that stuff we could make a living farming with the family! I started out with a round back 55 that I paid less than 1K, turn key ready!

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

Thats great! Now every trip to the parts department is $1,000

@Skyrider12 Ай бұрын

We had the exact same one. Grew up on a dairy farm and we bled green mostly. JD 4020 a 2510 and not a Deere but an Oliver 77 row crop my favorite of all! we had tractors every where, Farmalls H and a B that thing was neat. it had the long offset rear axle. and a couple super A's When I seen your 40 it instantly took me back to a much better part of my life and time. Thanks! ps. the 40 looked a lot bigger when I was a kid!

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

Glad you shared your memories with us! I grew up on a small dairy farm as well, didn’t realize at the time how great it was growing up that way. Thanks for watching. More videos of the little combine coming mid summer.

@jeffharper7579 Ай бұрын

I loved my ollie 77 but I moved and nowhere to keep it so I gave it to my friend, he will let me have it back if I get a place to keep it and can move it.

@dennisshull5994 Ай бұрын

The one farm I worked on as a teenager had an early 70's Gleaner combine. It was fun to run and a lot simpler then the modern day combines!

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

Someday I’d like to own an old Gleaner, simple and I love the way they look!

@colinvoss8484 Ай бұрын

I like the old stuff it works better than the new crap.

@OldIronFarmToys-eg8tz Ай бұрын

Cool machine something you don't see everyday

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@davidbrennan3613 Ай бұрын

That john deere combine is an absolute beauty

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@walnutridgefarms3975 Ай бұрын

I've got a 45 that hasn't been run in about 12 years. You're making me want to get it out again!

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

Please let me know if you do!

@chrishammon9627 Ай бұрын

Enjoyed your video as a kid my dad had a 141 round back international later date had a 303 he ran alongside my uncles 203 on my first farm I had a 403 international and I first Johndeere was a 4400 I will remember and enjoyed John Deere combines that friends have had clear up to the 105 edible been As I got along in life I had leased two different 4420s then I bought a 6620 in my last combine before I retired was an 8820 Tytan two with rear wheel assist enjoyed your video very much so thanks for sharing

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

That’s quite the history of combines! We had an 8820 Titian ll with rear wheel assist too, very good machine. Thanks for watching and sharing your farms history.

@johngardiner3790 27 күн бұрын

I had a John Deere model 42 pull type combine. Used it for wheat, soybeans , and sunflowers in southern Maryland

@Thewaywefarm 27 күн бұрын

I’ve always wanted a 42 pull type! I’ve never cut sunflowers. Thanks for watching and the comments.

@LesJorgenson 29 күн бұрын

We had a 1954 CCIL in Saskatchewan. Used it for at least 12 years. It is now in the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon

@Thewaywefarm 29 күн бұрын

That is great it’s in a museum!

@lifeonthefarm6001 Ай бұрын

That’s so nice to see it run, my dad had two ‘55s I can remember riding with him a little when I was a kid, his had cabs on them but no heat or air as well as I can remember.

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

55s are such great machines, I’d love to run one someday. Thanks for watching.

@chadpaider1009 Ай бұрын

My dad had a john deere 55 and my neighbor growing up had a john deere 45. The neighbor did wheat and oats with it. We bought his straw off the field for bedding.

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

I love 55s, guy used to custom combine for my Dad with a 55 corn special. Thanks for watching and sharing.

@Izya_schnipersson Ай бұрын

Не комбайн а мечта!👍👍👍

@zacharymcdowell5410 Ай бұрын

I can remember as a kid, my uncle and granfather running an Allis Chalmers All Crop with a farmall 450 doing oats and a neighbor doing oats and corn with a Gleaner F.

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

My Dad and father in law both had all crops back before I can remember.

@danherrmann8755 Ай бұрын

I remember this being used in the fields.

@johnstine330 Ай бұрын

The first harvest that I was a full time combine driver was on an old C Gleaner. Good old machine. Only put one bearing in all of harvest, on a straw spreder.

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

We have some neighbors that want to bring a few Gleaners this summer to cut wheat with us. Gleaners are great machines, I love the old ones!

@EDBZ28 Ай бұрын

great video Tom! My father always talks about his first memory of my grandfather getting a new combine from Halpin's and it was a JD 40...not sure if it was a round or square...but he still remembers Teddy Halpin riding around one of our fields showing my grandfather how to run it.

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

Can you imagine how exciting that would have been replacing some old pull type with a 40 self propelled! Be a long day trying to beat the weather with a little 40

@EDBZ28 Ай бұрын

Boy I know!

@MichaelDoering-js2gl Ай бұрын

We had a gleaner e open station, worked great. We also had a 2 row corn head for it. We left it parked in the shed for a couple of years when we had too many acres and a bigger combine was hired, A few years turned in to 20 or so years and the shed was not big enough for everything so something had to go. Now that the farm is smaller again, I miss the little combine. You should be wearing a mask. Take care 👍🇨🇦🚜❤️

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

Sorry your Gleaner is gone, I wish I could save them all! We would be wearing a dust mask but we were only doing one bin full. Already excited for harvest 2024.

@basgroeneweg8778 18 күн бұрын

Cant beat the older machinery. Simple and reliable. Bit like people nowadays. Bought a Massey 860 this year and doing great. Same quality sample as the neighbors Lexion for a fraction of the price

@Thewaywefarm 18 күн бұрын

I agree, hard to beat good older equipment! Continued success!

@emanuelmihai554 Ай бұрын

i wish i had one like this here!...

@jeremylange8498 Ай бұрын

I farm in south eastern Minnesota. I swath and combine a good amount of oats mine and custom. I averaged about 180 to 200 acres per year and I do it all with an 800 ten foot John Deere swather and an f2 gleaner combine. Great vid

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

That’s a lot of acres to cover with an F2! Thanks you.

@noehueber6602 Ай бұрын

Hello everyone great vidéo Tom

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

Thank you for being a loyal follower!

@daleladd2359 10 күн бұрын

We had a JD40 ran it several years back in 1970s. I thought it was a big improvement over TheJD 30 pull type sack tie combine. I eat and breathe a lot of dust back in the days. I don’t think I could stand it today at 71 years old. How are we still living after all that dusty conditions we were working in back then.

@Thewaywefarm 9 күн бұрын

My Dad is 79 and still working with my brother every day, can’t imagine all the dust he’s consumed in all those years of dairy farming! Thanks for watching.

@soggybottom23 Ай бұрын

we had two john deere 45's over the years of farming. I shelled a lot of corn two rows at a time!

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

I love 45s, wish our neighbor never sold his. 2 row shelling beat handling ear corn I’m sure.

@soggybottom23 Ай бұрын

@@Thewaywefarm we picked A LOT also. mainly used the combine to open up fields and then picked with an old cockshutt 40 and new idea one row!

@soggybottom23 Ай бұрын

@@Thewaywefarm thank you for subscribing! im still trying to figure out how to upload videos so it might be a bit

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

@@soggybottom23 I still have a one row New Idea, pick a little every year with it.

@williammartin5988 Ай бұрын

Morning I have one exactly like that sitting in the barn .

@tumbleweed4185 Ай бұрын

My first combining job was at age 13 in 1977 on my grandfather's round back JD 95 with a 16' head in Arriba, CO.

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

I bet you were the coolest kid in your class, I would have been!

@coenbroosh Ай бұрын

We had a Arbos combine. It was built in Italy. Had a Ford 6 cil diesel. Grandpa bought it new in 1967? Arbos was taken over by White but went bankrupt. A few years ago the Chinese started building tractors under the Arbos name

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

I never heard of that brand. I might have to do a little research about them. Thanks for the comments!

@paulthegreat3521 Ай бұрын

I love this video ❤

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@theholeinthewater9452 Ай бұрын

MH 90 Special, MH82, JD 55 High Tank, and JD55 Low Tank Square Back with adjustable reel speed and best machine of the bunch. A guy wanted a 55, came to check it out, we took it to the field ahead of a rain, started raining on a half-mile stretch, kept sprinkling, mudded through various wet spots with weeds coming up (really wet Kansas June harvest) we made it out and on way back to barn he asked if I'd take $500 less than I was asking. I replied that "you just saw what it can do.......waited.....he said he'd take it) Ah the good old days.

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

That’s a great story! Those were some classic machines! Thanks for the comments.

@TomSmith-me7ph Ай бұрын

We used to go around the corn field twice with the grain drill so we could combine the oats off and open the corn field.

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

That’s a great idea, never seen that done around here. Thanks for sharing.

@ponga782 Ай бұрын

I would love to find a small combine like this.. very difficult to find in texas..

@glennspreeman1634 29 күн бұрын

i ffinished wearing 3 '55's doing beans for neighbors. You coupd see the muffler glow orange at night.

@Thewaywefarm 29 күн бұрын

That’s great! Love them combines!

@scottgates6384 Ай бұрын

I have a square back 40 combine!

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

That’s great! I’ve only seen 2 square back 40s. What state are you in?

@scrambler69-xk3kv 28 күн бұрын

So nice, I would never sell it. Do you have any idea as to the year of manufacture? Thank you for allowing us the pleasure of seeing it.

@Thewaywefarm 28 күн бұрын

It’s a 1960 model year, thanks for watching!

@alanstrong55 Ай бұрын

Good old wheat. Makesxa few bucks. Just not enough.

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

So true, especially this year!

@bip4all Ай бұрын

Please pardon my ignorance, honestly learning about farming. In the section where you have multiple combines going: I see 2 large combines harvesting corn. What looks like a 4020 pulling a single row corn combine. What's the JD 40 doing in front with what looks like a grain header?

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

The 40 was combining soybeans, it was just to make a cool video. Normally we use the biggest combine for soybeans but that day the soybeans were too wet to cut too many. Thanks for the questions.

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

Good morning, what state would that be in? We bought another one from Ohio but it’s kinda rough.

@ScottWink-sz6zo Ай бұрын

Grow up with a 40 my dad bought new

@danthurman9076 Ай бұрын

503 IH Diesel

@darrenbock4953 Ай бұрын

Had a Massey Ferguson 410 combine

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

There weren’t very many Massey Ferguson combines around here. Thanks for sharing.

@MrTGleaner Ай бұрын

I got a little Gleaner T3 made in 1954 I restored a few years ago. I'd love to put it up against your 40 in any crop! Mines got a 10 foot header an a FORD 172 Red Tiger Engine on her.

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

I’m not sure I’ve seen a T3 before, I’m going to check it out on the web! Thanks

@MrTGleaner Ай бұрын

Very little on the web about them. Little over 500 T3’s an T2’s were built by the Gleaner Baldwin Harvest Corporation in 1954 and that was it. Allis Chalmers bought Gleaner in 1955 an shut it down. The T’s were the competition to the Allis “All-Crop 100” and Allis had too much invested to shut the All-Crops down. Once Allis shut down the All-Crops 10 years later they brought back the Gleaner T into production and changed its name to the model E. The Gleaner T was ten times better machine then the All-Crop 100.

@MrTGleaner Ай бұрын

Before Allis bought Gleaner Gleaners were painted in Ford Red an sold through Ford tractor dealers. That is why Gleaner T combines were outfitted with the same engines as the Ford Jubilee tractors at the time. Some Ford representatives were actually headed to go buy Gleaner but they had blown a tire on the way there and the Allis Reps past them. If it wasn’t for the blown tire Gleaner were be under New Holland today not AGCO.

@Thewaywefarm Ай бұрын

@@MrTGleaner Thanks for that information, very interesting.