JD Calendar April 68

rusty6 · Dec 29, 2018

I've been posting a few 50 year old calendar pages on another forum so in case anybody here is interested, here is one of my favourites from April John Deere calendar. A 4020 pulling a surflex tiller (disker) working down wheat stubble in Sask.

Wheat47 · Dec 29, 2018

Hey, I know what that is!!
One of those used to follow me around.
Dad's was a 12 foot. I think it's still sitting over the hill
at the other farm. Used to pull it with an IH WD-9 or MD.
What ever wasn't busy doing something else.

shaun wallace · Dec 29, 2018

All the oneways here in west tx are long gone. We use big sweep rigs now.

rusty6 · Dec 29, 2018

(quoted from post at 19:53:48 12/29/18) All the oneways here in west tx are long gone. We use big sweep rigs now.

You won't find many in Sask. now either. Except on my farm.

paul · Dec 29, 2018

In my dirt you might be able to pull 1/3 of that with 100 hp. Not that such a tillage machine was ever used here....

Love to see different stuff.

As I said over there, I didn?t even know they made a wheatland version of 4020, never saw such a thing and there are 4020s around every corner still here.

Paul

rusty6 · Dec 29, 2018

(quoted from post at 22:08:46 12/29/18) In my dirt you might be able to pull 1/3 of that with 100 hp. Not that such a tillage machine was ever used here....

Love to see different stuff.

As I said over there, I didn?t even know they made a wheatland version of 4020, never saw such a thing and there are 4020s around every corner still here.

Paul

They are around every corner here too and 99.9% of them are wheatland style. Big fenders and no 3 point hitch because what use would we have for one here in the 1960s. All drawn equipment in the big fields. Need the big fenders to keep some of the dust off the operator. That is about a 16 foot one way disker and in all honesty any good 4020 could pull two of them without working hard.

GreenEnvy · Dec 30, 2018

They are called disk tillers. I'd bet you a 4020 that I could pull that setup in your soil. Tractors half the size of a 4020 like a JD D or IH W9 made off with 12ft tillers around here. They don't pull that hard and are a shallow implement. You have to remember even though that disk and 4020 is cutting a wide swath, the disk is only one straight gang. Say its 16ft wide like Rusty says. Cut the disk in half and put on gang behind the other then its really no different then a 8ft regular disk.

paul · Dec 30, 2018

In the 1960s they would be running the NI corn picker, the silage chopper, the feed mill, manure spreader, maybe an early snow blower with the pto. Small mixed crop
and livestock farms around here back then, maybe 200 acres was average, hogs or cattle and a fair number of small dairy still.

Early 1970s everyone gave up on anything bladed for tillage around here, too much wet clay, we figured out it packed, not tilled finally. If you have some loam or sand,
whole different story.

Nice stuff, thanks.

Paul

jddrawbar · Dec 30, 2018

I've heard them called several different terms, disc plow, one ways, etc. and Rusty is
right, they pull easy. I've seen photos of super heavy plows with only 3-4 blades working
deep (12"). They show up around here at auctions and usually sell for scrape price.

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