What a cute kid...I laughed like hell when he spun the tires, like dad

"When your 9 you gotta learn how to drive pickups, that's all there is to it!"

Those tractors are surprisingly strong. We cleaned up major damage and large trees after Hurricane Katrina and the Ford 8 only had one fuel leak develop after 4 hard weeks of 7 days a week work. Awesome little work horse . Just watch the PTO !!

The time you spend with your sons is priceless. It’s all that matters in the end.

Would love to see a guy doing some upgrades on the tractor.

Be careful using that Derek. If that’s a fixed PTO adapter you really need an overrunning clutch. These are famous for people pushing in the clutch to stop and the momentum of the mower spinning keeps driving the tractor since the PTO is driven off the rear end. Lots of 8n Fords went over the hill cuz they were mowing with a rotary mower and no overrunning clutch.

My first visit to Vice Grip Lodge. Huge fan of VGG. This channel will be just as fun, informative and humorous. Well done Derek!

I love the fact your kids seem to be getting raised the right way like we were in the 80s / 90s. I was born in 80, and I remember learning to drive on the old dodge pickup in the field. And I remember helping dad hook up the brush-hog to the tractor, good times!

The gt 500 moves so elegant. Like a swan.

Love how yall are raising your kids. Those boys are gonna be some of the best of their generation.

I enjoy seeing old tractors being reconditioned and put back to work. Greatly enjoy both "Garage" and "Lodge". Seeing your whole family partcipate in your many projects is heart-warming and a top-notch example of what family life was meant to be.

I love seeing these old tractors still being put to use. The sound especially is just something you don't get anymore.

Well, I never thought I'd ever spend my own time watching someone cut grass, but, there you have it.

The joy that rushes through me when a new Lodge video pops up, is the same as when a new Garage video pops up. 👌🏽

I think I would enjoy watching you do anything. Thank you so much.

That old chevy is so sweet. Thank you soooooooo much for the hard work you put in for us. Everyone have a great day!!

"When you're 9 you gotta learn to drive pickups..." Thumbs up just for that. '-)

Great job driving Bently!

I really miss that. My Dad had an old ford tractor. We mowed with it, moved dirt with it, and cleared snow with it. Everyone should get to do that. I'm working on that for my adult sons , and the kids I get to be grandpa to.

9 year old driving a pickup truck. Karen: "Someone call DHS!" Normal people: "Love it! Keep raising those kids right!"

Brings back great memories, dad was a collector of 2, 8, an 9N's, he would buy them cheap, broken down, an non running, then have them purring like a kitty in a couple days.

To answer your question Derek, we definitely need more of this sweet, sweet tractor action.

Nice. I have a 52 Ford 8n, with the 72" finish mower. And I mow my 3 acre field with it. Just awesome 👌, glad I'm not the only one.

Love seeing those old tractors in use....and it explains why every old farmer that I talk to is missing at least one finger...

The old Saab still sitting outside man that’s a cool little car it be nice to see more on that for sure

wow bently looked like an old hand drivin that pick'emup truck!!! my stepdad had an int'l scout he let me play with when i was around 8 or 9...puttin thru stubblefields and such, man good memories!!! lawn looked great, man!!! I enjoy everything you put up...good stuff best on utube

Just brought my newborn son home yesterday, a guy can’t wait to be getting him funny shirts and teaching him stuff like you do. Your videos really got me through a tough week last week with him in the NICU, just thought a feller oughta know that

I ran an 8N in the summers of 78-81 when I was a lad, bush/brush hogging. I absolutely loved it and the N series tractors. Your videos are magic !!

My favorite part of the video is where you "inspect" the belts, like there was any way in the wide world of sports you were going to replace anything short of frayed rubber bands. Just send 'er!

Bentley..."Cooler Version of Dad". Love that kid !

Yes, keep it coming on the tractor. My Dad sold his 68, so now I’m searching for another one similar in my area. They’re great machines

Always enjoy some tractor time, my father had Ford 8n when I was young and I remember driving it around the feed yard and cleaning up the corals when the cattle were sold off.

Anyone else have Ben Stein in their head taking roll call when you look at the name on the mower deck?

"Oh yeah... tenant burned the yard down. Huhh"... just another day at the lodge 🧑‍🚒

I love these old Ford tractors! Please do some more videos on this one.

I would watch you read that GT500 service manual to a dead opossum. Keep the videos coming no matter what it is!

Derek: "The only thing I trust on this is that the seat's uncomfortable." 😀 Well, a feller's got a GT500. That's a racing tractor, so you sacrifice a little comfort for performance. 😀

"Giver some throttle dude" are words I remember hearing from my father when I was about 9. It ended in the Atlantic. The only thing the old man was real tore up about, was the soggy egg salad sandwiches mother had made up for him. The old boy LOVES mothers egg salad sandwiches.

Absolutely love those old Ford N series/Fordson/Golden Jubilee/etc tractors!

This so reminded me of my childhood. You are truly a blessed man. What a wonderful family you have. These are the memories that stick with a child for life. There is nothing better than doing things as a family. You just don't realize this while it is happening, but they are memories that come back to you as you get older, and you miss them and start wishing that you could have the "old times" back. The kids grow up too fast. They are very lucky to have a father and mother who care so much about them and does everything in their power to bring them up right and makes memories like this. My hat off to you Derek!!

Watching you let your son move the truck made my heart smile. Love his shirt!

We wanna see whatever a fellas got. Thank you for making another channel. Even though it's twice the work for you.

This is more enjoyable and relaxing content than anything found on TV.

It warms a guy’s heart to see the young guy driving the pickup on the property 😁

I remember the feeling of driving my dad's square body Chevy as a little boy. It had a 4 speed. It was tough to clutch but man I felt like a grown man driving that thing! It's good to see a boy learning to drive a square body. He's gonna grow up to be a proper man. That's an awesome childhood memory to have. Teach him donuts and power slides! That's how you really learn to drive. Take an old Chevy down to the mud pit and get sideways then you really know how to drive.

We live in crowded polluted air Mesa Az where it's currently 110 out with about 20% humidity. In the 90's we had a chance to buy my wife's family farm in Southern Illinois. There was 85 acres left of it. Barns full of old goodies and equipment plus a three story log house with a huge hand built fireplace using rocks tilled from the soil. The 2 acre lake was really cool but the humidity and the harsh winters made us walk away. I see you on your farm and wonder sometimes if we made a mistake. The farm is still in her family but after we turned them down one of her cousins bought it just recently. It is located about 20 miles away from Carmi Illinois. Right along the Wabash river near Kentucky & Indiana. Great video Derek. Spending time with your kids is great.

Great video! I love those old tractors. I've got a Ford 600 that was my only tractor for 16 years on a farm in Kentucky. Worth its weight in gold, I'd say. Moved it back up north to Connecticut with me and she did a fine job bush hogging around the old pastures. I picked up a Case 480CK loader to help the old girl out, and they make a fine pair! I'd love to see more old tractor "how to's" if you get the time. I love the cooler version of you on these videos, as well. Keep up the good work, Dad! I really like all the different content that you share on this channel. Well done!

Love the old tractor! Growing up on the farm we had a similar one, learned to drive it as soon as my feet could touch the peddles. Love to see the old girl fixed up and see your boys using it for many years to come

Gotta say, my heart swelled with pride seeing Bentley behind the wheel of the truck. It's nice to see that there are still glimpses out there of the America I knew as a kid. It's one of the big reasons I watch both of these channels - they're positively dripping with Americana.

Many reasons why I keep coming back. The two this episode are tractors and yard fires. 😂

Thanks derrick. We live by Rochester MN and love old tractors. Feller might go to the little log house tractor show in Hastings this weekend.

Granddad had a Massey Ferguson that's a lot like the Ford 8N. Your videos are bringing back a lot of good memories. Thanks! And I love that SAAB.

On my brother's 8n you had to use a Sprague Clutch on the PTO so when you pushed the clutch the enertia from the mower blades wouldn't drive you thru a fence.

The vid brought back a lot of memories for me. Helping my now deceased uncle with basic maintenance on his brush hog & 8N tractor so he could mow the acreage on the back lot of his property in the late 80s. And later learning how to drive a pickup and fork truck with my dad. Good times! :) BTW, I need to know where you got Bently's shirt. I need one for my son!

A feller really is liking on the GT5hunnert mowing mowchine. Glad you took the air filter off the exhaust finally, I love these vidjoes. Less editing, just raw content. Love both of her channels

I was about eight when I learned to drive on my Grandpas farm in an old Chevy pick up with a floor shift. They put me in a pasture and said that they didn't care about the truck very much but to make sure to stay away from the fences. What a blast. I am new to your channels and I am really enjoying the content, which is right in my wheel house or perhaps more accurately I should say was. now that I am getting older. What I like most is the wonderful interaction between you, your pretty bride and your adorable boys. I know the older ones won't appreciate the adorable part...but they are. Nicely done.

You do whatever cranks your turns there Derek, we're here to watch you and the fam. I think a bunch a guys and gals would be happy watch you string a trimmer or even read a manuel if you wanted to it would still be great. Enjoy your week ma friend.

You, sir, have earned yourself an additional subscriber. Exactly the content I'm looking for when I come to KZfaq, a perfect blend of sketchy and this'll work. On another note, I've been looking for the "sketchy but works" part of 9n tractors and haven't found it while searching for 9n tractors. However, this time I searched for "finish mower tractor" and got more than I'd ever dreamed of getting

Of course, Derek, we want to see any thing you want to show us. Ur channel is great and even if we don't really learn any thing, we love watching you interacting with your family. Thanks for the ride, God Bless and stay safe.

What an awesome father you are Derek. Your crazy funny entertainment.

Reminded me of when I used to mow our patch with a 1 cylinder "Poppin Jonnie" wasn't a fast tractor but it could "pull the hinges off of hell" if you put the chains in the right place.

Just beautiful! "aint that America?" Thank you.

I grew up driving my grandfather’s 1948 Ford tractor. We ran a woods finish mower, snow blade, and post hole digger for years and years. Good memories. Thanks for the video Derek

I can't speak for anyone else but I would like to see more tractor repair/usage videos. I even enjoyed Jessica's cake baking video.

A guy's loving the new channel and content over on the other switcharoo garage channel too Derek. Calms the old nerves in these times we live in, kicking back and getting absorbed in these.

Reminds me of cutting the family 14 acres. What a way to spend a day. Load my pockets full of peaches from our 36, then go to town.

Every time I see that Corvair I get excited. Lol I saw one I wanted in high school over 30 yrs ago and still want one.

That Minneapolis Moline Jet Star in the background at 0:35 would work good on that mower!

Under the axle by each rear tire should be a pin that you can hook anti sway bars to the 3 point lift arms. Keeps the implement from moving left and right and contacting the tires. I second an over run clutch as well.

I'm larnin to be a lawn farmer. Tracters, hitches, blades and droughts. All the good stuff.

My grandpa in Missouri had an old Ford 800 I used to help him bail hay with and bush hog quite a bit, this brings back some memories!

brings back lots of memories growing up on our farm here in aussie ..ty we had the kinda of the same set up .. we had a gray massey ferguson ..TEA model was so cool and fun ty great video

A guy would love to see more tractorage! Retiring from the the military in a few months, and gonna be a farmer.

Love that Going to Town Truck...What a way to learn to drive...

Keep the tractor videos coming man. I come from a farming family here in NC I can relate to all the baling twine fixes you mentioned about your grandfather because my pawpaw does the exact same thing. I really enjoy these videos because they're so relatable and funny because what's better than farming with vice grip garage i mean it really grows on a guy

love the farm videos, almost as much as the vehicle recues. keep 'em coming.

More tractor stuff! Brings back memories of being a tractor driver on an apple orchard around 1984.

There are few things in this world as rewarding as working around the farm with yr kiddo along. Cheers for being a family feller. It's great to see!

loving the new channel, perfect timing too, we just bought a home on 30 acres, so got a lot to learn about being a land owner!

3 minutes... love this channel... gonna be a late lunch lol

Invest in a overriding clutch on that pto! We have a brush hog for our 8n and those blades turn into a giant flywheel

I grew up with Ford 2N,8N, 9N then a 35 Massey Ferguson. Dad finally bought a 50 Ferguson which was the first one we owned with 'live power'. I hated having to stop to lift a plow. His brother baled hay (square bales)on many steep fields with a 35 MF. People told him he was crazy, but it got the job done.

Love that your boy is driving various veeehickles around your property! I learned to drive in the early '70s on an International Harvester B414 Diesel tractor when I was barely 9yrs old. Drove an IH/Farmall Super M and the farm pickup too. Gives a young guy a big advantage when getting a license a little later in life, as well as learning how to use mechanical powered veeehickles.

I absolutely want to see a feller work on his funny lookin Mustang. Sounds like she ain't runnin on all 8 cylinders. Must be one of them SVO models. Probably not.

Keep the farm/tractor content coming. Reminds me of working with my dad on a similar rig back in the 1950's. I was about 9-10 also driving a '47 chevy p/u on the ranch.

I love the GT500, any upgrades would gladly be watched. She does good work, to! The mower was a wise choice, nicely bought, Derek! All in all, another great episode of the Lodge!

I Got to say the tractor stuf was good.but honestly See I g the 9 year old moving the truck around like a lil pro...... Made my heart happy. Good on you for getting him started young. Lucky kiddo right there man. I love it.

I'm digging the farm tractor and lawn tractor content on this channel. I'd love to eventually snag up a couple small farm tractors but my budget and space constraints limit me to lawn tractors at the moment. I've got an older John Deere 240 that I use to drag stuff around the property and a real old Wheel Horse Raider 12 that I'm working on.

Cooler version than Dad T shirt....eventually, isn't that always the truth?

Damm Derick , am in a lodge Now ?? Too many cold snacks 😜😜 Wow !! , Bentley is driving his truck ! He's growing up so fast .. following your footsteps Dad !!! You should be proud !

About 30 years ago I had a 60" Ford finish mower on the back of a Satoh tractor. Satoh was a re-badged Misubishi. I got all my parts from a Mitsubishi dealer. It was about the size of a Ford 8N - about 20 hp IIRC. I never used it it heavy stuff - that's more brush hog work. It did a wonderful job on my yard. No lack of power. Note - I put a bass boat kill switch on the tractor - spliced into a coil wire (neg I think) - it's been a long time. The switch had a lanyard that I could hook to my belt. I wanted the kill switch in the event I got pulled off the tractor by a tree limb - or something. I was in a desolate area and this was before cell phones. tractors have governors - being dragged off and into the PTO would be a bad ending.

Landlord: hey tennant I noticed the grass is kinda high? Tennant: yeah, ill take care of it...

"When you're 9, you gotta learn to drive a pickup, that's all there is to it...." How true. Now, if his Dad was NOT a famous KZfaqr, you could inform Bentey "Now listen, DON'T TELL MOM!!!".... but alas, only 42 thousand people saw that sh&t.... Ooops.... heh heh heh....

Dang Bentley tooling around the yard in dad's truck was wholesome as all get out and American as baseball, apple pie and a 68 GT500. Kind of brings a fella back to his old man stopping on a deserted farm road ( now engulfed by suburbia) almost 50 years ago and telling his kid sitting in the shotgun seat to slide on over and give him his first taste behind the wheel of a beat up 64 Ford pick em up.

LMAO!! I'm a trucker and this reminds me of all the times I've unloaded things from my flatbed semi in sketchy ways. That was awesome watching the unload!!

Lengthen the top bar when cutting, the mower deck will ride on all 4 wheels and float across the ground. Tighten it like you have it when you need higher lift to maintenance your mower. Love the old tractor and the lodge videos!

I would definitely love to see the old ford get some more TLC!

YES!! I would love to watch do the repairs on the tractor!

Life long ford man here but that Monte Carlo looked nice what I saw , brings back memories of my 16-18 years. long time ago .love your channel never miss an episode your fan and follower here in Monroe n.c.

I had a “beaver” 3 cylinder diesel tractor with a pull behind finish mower and it worked awesome. A good project for this channel would be to find and rebuild a “Gilson” industrial/commercial 18 hp hydrostatic tractor. It’s just the size of a big riding mower but it’s got a hydraulic pump under the seat. It’s hydrostatic drive. It’s got a pto shaft out the back of it. The one I had was a I believe late 80’s model. It had a rear mount pto drive rototiller with hydraulic lift. It had a 48 inch belt drive mowing deck with hydraulic lift. It had a 48 inch belt drive snow blower with hydraulic lift. And it had a 48 inch push blade with hydraulic lift. It had a 18hp horizontal shaft Briggs n Stratton. It had 75 pound rear wheel weights and tire chains. I have never ever seen another one like it here in Maine. I ended up loosing the motor ( valve guides) and sold the attachments. I kept the tractor and I plan on making a wood splitter with the hydraulic pump. So anyways if you could ever find one in decent shape they are definitely worth looking at. As always WORK SAFE 😎😎🇺🇸🇺🇸