'Nothing like the smell of a newly ploughed field (in the morning)'

I just turned 75 and quit farming 25 years ago after my wife passed. I was just commenting the other day, I would give anything to be sitting in an open tractor plowing and smelling the fresh plowed ground in the spring. The simple pleasures most people never get to enjoy. I was blessed, even in times of discouragement, to be able to enjoy farm life growing up and as an adult. I miss it to this day. I do, once in a while, get to help my daughter and son in law do a little something, but it is quite a commute a thousand miles away. Sadly, a rare occasion.

I'm 62 and for forty years have been in corporate, suit and tie but I grew up around farming/ranching and I did lots of plowing. We used, what I thought was old wore out equipment at the time. We had a 1949 M Farmall, 1956 Ferguson 35 and later added a 1968 JD 3020. What I remember the most is the smell of fresh plowed ground and and the charge I got out of being 10 years old and not being old enough to drive a car but old enough to run a piece of equipment that could make all that change happen. At 16, my dad counted on me to go out to the farm by myself with a tool kit and get'er done. That's why I love watching these tractor videos. I learned lots of skills that I use everyday in big corporate but I still like going back to our old farm a few times a year and cranking up those old tractors, yep, we still got'm and they still run and I still like to drive them.

I love plowing. I could smell the dirt from here,lol. Some of those roots were tough. Turned out real nice though. See you soon.

You do a great setup for your plows most always good cover of trash!Some stuff is hard to bury plowing was always my favorite thing to do.

It sure needed plowed for sure. I can’t believe all the tree roots that’s got to be a bigger. Thanks for your time videoing and sharing it. Love to hear the 310 work!!

loved watching you plow so satisfying! i used to sell plough parts for ransomes dowdeswell overum knvernland and kuhn!

Much better with the weight up front. You do a good job setting your plows up. Thanks for the ride along Ethan. Take care. Fred.

Brought back a lot of fond memories of plowing in my younger years. Liked how you gave us different camera angles. Loved the sound of the tractor, the sight of the earth being turned, and could smell the fresh turned earth in my mind. Great video. Really enjoy watching what you do and your commentary on what you're doing.

Plowing has always been my favorite. My dad would quit so he could go to bed for work and I would keep going. When I got too close to my grandma's house late at night she would flash the lights in the kitchen and I knew I woke her up and it was time to quit.

i personally prefer the hydraulic reset . gentler firmer operation imo. enjoyed the video to the end 👍👍👍👍

Field turned out nice Turned some big roots up Good job.

Nice job looks good

When you get done with your posing, go and get a gallon of Plow Cout for those movboars to keep them from rusting. I used to use it on all my equipment to hold down the rust. I liked to plow, learned with 1944 A and 2/14 in the middle 50's. Finished up with 65 4020 turbo(140 hp) and 5/16 1990. Like your videos!

Oliver Is Doing A Great Job. Never Seen None Down Here In Southwest Georgia. We Started Out With International Then Dealer Closed Down Went To Massey Ferguson Then That Dealerships Closed And Using Case IH. We Bottom Plow All Our Peanut Ground Every Year 😊

Can't beat the way an oliver plow works nothing but the best plowes made

When I was young I plowed with a 550 and three twelves, incredible fun!!

Lilly is a good looking dog. Great camera angles. Putting the camera at the back so a guy can see it work was cool

I love hearing her talk, That ground did plow hard. But it did work up nicely. It seems that the rear bottom is set lighter then the 4 in front of it? I have never been around that type of reset. Whenever there was one on a sale here like that nobody wanted it n most probably went to scrap... As always great video thanks for sharing!

There is satisfaction when a field is plowed and complete. The 1955 sounds great and you did a great job of setting that up. Thank you for taking us along!

Ethan it looks like you got that plow setup just the way it needs to work. Those darn routes sure make it a hassle the weights on the front end of the tractor sure helped. I enjoyed watching the dirt get rolled over when I was a kid I like watching that. Thanks Michael

Really looks nice. Hard ground. Now when it rains that water will soak in good all winter and be stored up for next season.

That would be a great place to look for arrowheads after a rain. Sweet plowing.

Turn that dirt young man, I can smell it now…lol. Used to be one of my favorite jobs, keep crushin it OFB and stay safe, like the little Aussie, quite the companion for Teeter🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Good job 👍

Plowing is a lost ART! Great video

From The Looks Of Things You Need To Bottom Plow This A Couple Of Years In A Row....😊😊

Ethan if you want to pull a red plow the IH 720 is a spring reset and it’s a easy pulling plow we got one and it works like a dream

Hard to call it work when it's so damn fun! Good video, enjoyed it.

Did a nice job with the adjustments and extra weight. Made the old girl grunt a little when you hit the clay knobs. Summer plowing can be a challenge to even keep the plow in the ground at times.

O K your plow doing pretty good job; however, if you were going to plow a lot of acres should determine the "line of draft" and make tractor to fit the plow. You can GOOGLE "line of draft" to see how to measure the plow and to set up the plow hitch pull point. When set up properly the tractor will track in a straight line. To test your set up let loose of the wheel if front end pulls to the right or left your line of draft is not correct your tractor is fighting the plow. I spent 28 years with a major world wide farm equipment company instructing dealers and distributors on plow set up plus may other subject matters. Two other aspects I did not mention which are plow level front to back and from side to side. The set up is the same if in furrow or on land. Hope this helps.

Hey Eathan sure got that plow dialed in. My father bought a blow sand farm here in Iowa plowed under sweet clover and other cover crops for years and ended up with loamy sand not blow sand long story short ended up one of the best farms in the county. Keep turning that organic matter under will help your sand and clay soil. Your viewer from Iowa.

Great job as always man. The shots from on board the plow looking forward was great. And the results speak for themselves.

That plow is doing a beautiful job

Shes still got her snort. Great video.

Great video, funny how the differences in soil in such a small area. Here in my area you go from clay knobs to sandy loam real quick. Looked the sky many times breaking ground, hydraulic reset is the way to go. My plow has an accumulator reservoir. Thanks for taking the time to post…

Looking good buddy be safe out there your buddy from Nebraska

from this angle of the arm chair supervisor. I have to say that you did a fine job of turning the ground over

Plow is definitely setup correctly. Plowed up nice except for the darn roots!!

Nice smooth job Farm Boy!

Thanks for another great video.

Wow, that was some tough ground!

Was just at a tractor pull last night the next county over. Had a 990GM, an 1850D, and an 1855D. I was really excited to hear some 310T sound and then the driver proceeded to disappoint massively by having a very big muffler on top of a Cummins conversion.

I love plowing so much that I had to watch this one again, lol.

Nice even job!!

Field looks good Ethan

Love this rig.

Did you think of the next time you need to change the hitch, maybe using some drift pins to align the holes? When I worked in the steel mill working structural steel, we would use drift pins to align the holes in the steel connections. Just a thought. Always enjoy your videos on working on the equipment. Thanks

I have a 575 I pull behind my 4020 I really like it

Great soil there

That ground sure looks good

Reruns better than nothing thank Ethan

I think you did yourself a favor with that ground. It was pretty compact and hard. It can’t do anything but make it better.

Advice from the old plow guys: Paint your Shares with grease before storing. When you.go back to plowing they will Scour much better when they arent rusty.

You're giving me the bug to go pull our 6-18 out of the weeds and trees. Great instructions kiddo!

that tractor showed no remorse ploughing defo needed decompacting looks good

We used the anti wheely bar when plowing the clay hills south of mishawaka. They also worked by pushing the front of the plow in the ground stopping the tractor as well. I didn’t like the looks of them.

Good job plowing.. I suck at it

Have you seen Stanley ? This is new, i've never rode on the plow before. I've always been on the tractor.

Awesome

Maybe they burned stumps or brush there when they put the powerline through..

I would love to see the 4-150 with a plow behind it

As dry as it is around here, if the plow did go in the ground, it would be stuck there until it rained again. Mostly clay and what my grandpa called black gumbo around here. Ground is so hard right now plowing is out of the question.

Good call to roll it over.

Getting practice in for the tractor pulls

I’m looking at a 1750 and it has fuel tank fenders and it has under 10000 hours on it and it’s was the 22 1750 built

I have a five bottom spring rest min moe plow I might want to get rid of if that is something you might be interested in

I did the same thing hooking a tree root. What gear do you plow in? With my 1955 and my old 4 bottom I was in 3rd some spots and 2nd in tougher spots.

Do you also fill the fuel tank fenders on that old beast?

Hate to see all that expensive equipment sitting outside and constantly exposed to the weather.

Can you find a 546 spring reset in your area it would match the 1955? It crumbled up real nice moisture was good

You have got a broken weld to your right from where you're working on that first beam that welld's cracked and it's broken away from the mainframe Let me know if I was right?

Dang.Busting up that field is a little hard.

I would never call you lazy! It's easy to call someone lazy when you're sittin on your ass watchin a video.

Hello explain to me why you plow your wheat field instead of just running a set of spikes over your field?

Will you be at the Mid Michigan old gas tractor show in Oakley Mi. this month?

Put a little slickum on that draw bar

If you are leaving the plows, discs and such you should grease the surfaces

The USDA has been leaning towards non-aggressive soil management

So is the injection pump better now ? Field looks good

Was this the field that you cleared the central overgrown hedge and fence remains? Looks good after ploughing .

I'm guessing ur too far north to no-till beans in the wheat stubble? Common practice here in Ky.

If you don't mind me asking did you get diesel in your motor oil injection pump seals are bad

Hey I'm just a dairy farmer but never been around Oliver tractors just out of curiosity how much difference is there really between the 55 and the t I'm just curious the only dealers we ever had around our farms is case inter. and Deere could you do a side by side comparison maybe in the future if not I understand it's time consuming thanks

What’s the percent calcium in the base saturation for that field? And parts per million?

How far are you willing to travel to get a white 508 plow. There is one for sale in Ontario Canada

Where do you order your plow wear parts from? Shoup? AGCO?

Looks like you just need more weight. Old girl has plenty of horses!!!!

Check your tire pressure.

How deep do you plow?

4020

I'm mad at u u need to get your 3 link hook up if u pictures of it I can u pictures of what I'm talking about .