For Your Nostalgic Viewing Enjoyment

Texasmark1 · Dec 15, 2019

An Oklahoma farmer named Hoeme developed this plow during the 7 year '50's dust bowl and is said to have saved Oklahoma. Sold a couple of thousand. A guy from Amarillo, Tx. bought the rights and produced the original and variants, sold world wide. I noticed a version had coulters mounted in front of the rippers and I assume that was for heavy clays like my soil...slits the soil reducing clods. Wind erosion on the high plains of the area in Tx., Ok., and NM. is a problem today as it was then and is said to be the highest remover of topsoil.

Interesting in the implements, and the tractors pulling them...what about that lineup of 8 (?) Ns....and Oliver, Some Farmalls, I think I saw a JI Case......when folks talk about 10 hp per shank to do some work....and having to weight down to get some traction....dozers are popular in the panhandle, but look at the width of the implements. Silverton is between Lubbock and Amarillo, center of the Tx. Panhandle; high plains, cotton country for sure, soil type is clay to sandy loam to sandy .

Couple of things I noticed: The mess a Moldboard (Bottom) plow makes that you have to bounce over to get leveled, and the field surface after using the chisel (noted at the beginning of the video). The ability of the Hoeme to walk around (most) standing vegetation without clogging. The ability of the Hoeme to open the soil without burying vital top soil nutrients.....for those of us whose top soil is only a few inches thick..........had to give you guys and gals something to talk about. Grin.

I have a 7 shank drag type.

From the Texas Almanac.....enjoy:

https://texasarchive.org/2014_03754

Billy NY · Dec 15, 2019

Click below.
Graham Plow

Texasmark1 · Dec 15, 2019

Well, I guess I got my Silvertons mixed up as there is one in the Tx panhandle, central to the High plains agribusiness in the area, pretty much flat land, BTO operations and cotton country along with sorghum and wheat. I didn't know the reason for the video...explains why so many people were present at the show......interesting the suits and ties out in the field....and the guys in the WHITE coveralls installing the after market sweeps to the shanks on one case.

Thanks for the additional info and correction on the location.

rusty6 · Dec 15, 2019

(quoted from post at 07:47:31 12/15/19) An Oklahoma farmer named Hoeme developed this plow during the 7 year '50's dust bowl and is said to have saved Oklahoma.
I have a 7 shank drag type.

From the Texas Almanac.....enjoy:

https://texasarchive.org/2014_03754

My uncle had a Graham Hoeme cultivator to pull with his Farmall M and later the 730 Case. I don't remember it but think it was painted silver. He replaced it with a John Deere 100.

Smalltowner · Dec 15, 2019

Thanks I enjoyed that. The graham plows were common in the blackland cotton farms in central Texas when I was a kid. Folks pronounced it ?Graham Hamey? and most cotton farmers had one.

fastfarmall · Dec 15, 2019

There was a company in Amarillo, the Amarillo Plow Co,built one too, They had the high clearence and made them for Allis- Chalmers in the 1960's.

JMOR · Dec 15, 2019

(quoted from post at 13:00:49 12/15/19) There was a company in Amarillo, the Amarillo Plow Co,built one too, They had the high clearence and made them for Allis- Chalmers in the 1960's.

bought a 9 shank to pull with my SMTA and cut it back to 7, then 5 before it could be pulled thru oat stubbly well. Those Ford Ns in the video must have been plowing 'prepped' ground to look that easy!

GreenEnvy · Dec 15, 2019

They were popular up here in Montana too. We pulled a 22ft lever lift with a IH TD 14A crawler and 15-17ft with a variety of two wheel drive tractors starting with IH WD-9 up to a 4020.

JMOR · Dec 15, 2019

After I had made the deal & paid, the old timer helping me load it, said, "you know what they call these don't you?" I bit, & he said, "tractor killers!" I soon figures out why.

1948CaseVAI · Dec 15, 2019

It was invented in 1933, after the dustbowl of the 20s, got heavy use in the 50s, too. My grandfather knew Fred Hoeme and said in the 60s that Fred did not get the credit he really deserved. Hooker OK has a nice historical marker dedicated to Fred and the invention. I pulled one over a couple thousand acres of northwest Pawnee County KS in the late 50's and early 60s with a Case LA.

Dean · Dec 15, 2019

Great video, Mark.

Oh, but had there been audio.

All of those 8Ns were early models. If the film speed is correct, they seemed to be pulling third gear, or maybe, second at 2,100 RPM (WOT). Seemed to be set up well, as I could see the draft controls working.

Dean

Dean · Dec 15, 2019

The white coveralls were the first thing that I noticed.

I remember my father wearing a wool felt (business) hat when working outside in the sun. I still have one of them that he wore in the closet upstairs.

Thanks for posting.

Dean

muleman51 · Dec 15, 2019

We had one in the fifties, I think Grampa sold them when he had a Case dealership for a few years. I was pretty small back then, It had two big tall levers to get it out of the ground. It took me and my brother to move the levers, even then it it would almost throw it off the plow, we pulled it with a 55 Massey. I think we only used it on bean ground. I remember trying it on corn stalks later, it made a pretty good dump rake, not made for that much trash.

Texasmark1 · Dec 15, 2019

Would you happen to know why? I doubt wearing it out was a cause. Mine still has the metal name plate and I think the date of mfgr. is on it.

Texasmark1 · Dec 15, 2019

I looked for that but it was at least a season old. Like the High Plains around Amarillo-Lubbock, the soil is mixed from clay to sandy loam to sand....must
be like that in Mo. and were in the sand. They surely were pretty, all lined up nice and neat....wondering if the local dealer did it. Surely had a lot in
stock unless he ordered special for the event.

Did you pickup on that single bottom, flip, mould boad at the start of it.....really sharp looking and they had it setup nicely. My plow is the Graham-
Hoeme, wherever yours and mine fit in the time line.

Texasmark1 · Dec 15, 2019

Thanks. I had my audio off so I didn't catch it if they didn't.

GreenEnvy · Dec 15, 2019

I can't answer your question to Rusty obviously but the 4"x4" frame used on the JD 100 and similar plows were stronger then the "I" beam design of the graham hoeme. The GH frame was prone to twisting in hard pulls with big tractors. And that is what happened to ours. GH plows at auctions most of the time bring scrap value here and but JD 100 series bring anywhere from $50-$100 per foot. They were good plows. I have a Jeoffroy plow too and those are built like the 100.

Texasmark1 · Dec 15, 2019

Thanks for posting the historical marker. I hear the dust storms went all the way to NYC. I was in Altus, Ok. one afternoon when a storm came in from
the NW. It was 1959 or 60 and I was sitting in my newly acquired, '49 Olds V8 Hydro, 2 door sedan....my first car....had a '47 Chebby PU first. I bought
for 65 bucks at a local used car lot. When it passed on, the whole interior of the car was full of dirt/sand and the windows/doors had good seals too.

SVcummins · Dec 15, 2019

John Deere - killefer was building chisel plows in the 1930s John killefer was building rippers before hoeme was in diapers

GreenEnvy · Dec 15, 2019

None of those are the same as the Graham Hoeme. Nice try though.

SVcummins · Dec 15, 2019

Your right the John Deere you pulled a rope and it lifted it out of the ground. The hoeme you had crawl off and use a lever 😀

Traditional Farmer · Dec 15, 2019

You're right they were better.

Gene Davis (Ga.) · Dec 15, 2019

We converted several around here to use the tractor's remote cylinders for lifting.

Texasmark1 · Dec 16, 2019

I agree and they can test your ability to keep the shanks running at the depth you selected.....wanting to go deeper. Buttt, especially with my drag type,
with the long tongue and curved shanks, it will dig into hard clay where a lot of other things I tried won't/wouldn't. I had my 7 shank hooked to my JD
4020 (2wd) one day and decided to see if it would in fact make it grunt....it did. Next time I hit the field, it will be behind my Branson 6530 4wd and we'll
see how gutsy that sucker is.

Texasmark1 · Dec 16, 2019

Mine is hydraulically operated and yes it does appear to be an after market trip to the welding shack.

Texasmark1 · Dec 16, 2019

When I first bought this farm in 1979....bought a piece of ground and have been trying to make a farm of it ever since.....a neighbor loaned me his road grader blade which required 2 persons to operate: One to operate the pulling device, and the other, sitting atop the contraption, operating the levers to determine how is was cutting.....my tenure in the "saddle" was brief.

SVcummins · Dec 17, 2019

Built lighter and a crappy lift lever design instead of staying on the tractor and pulling a rope I?d expect someone who likes foreign tractors as much as you to think that was better 😂😂😂

SVcummins · Dec 17, 2019

The designers of fiat tractors still built equipment that took that many hands to operate at least as late as the early 90s . Ever driven a ?hesston? ?tractor?

rusty6 · Dec 17, 2019

Texasmark, I don't know for sure why my uncle replaced the Graham Hoeme with a John Deere but I guess he wanted something bigger and the John Deere dealer must have had a deal for him. I don't know if the old Graham stood up to the abuse they get in our rocky ground. Had a neighbour with a similar "Jeoffroy" cultivator that eventually had the whole V hitch ripped right off by the 930 Case. Seems to me it was only angle iron.

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