how many acres did you olders guys farm with 806s and 4020s

Gleanerk2 · Nov 28, 2015

How many acers did you older guys farm with a 85 to 100 hp tractor back in the day? Just curious!

Animal · Nov 28, 2015

At that time we were farming five sections irrigated with 5 930 comfort kings and 2 sections of dry farm with a 1200 Case

Tech 7 · Nov 28, 2015

Inlaws sidedressed 3000 acres of corn one year with a 4020 and a 5 tooth applicator.....lots of driving

rrlund · Nov 28, 2015

My uncle farmed 1000 acres with a 4020 and a 4010. There's an old guy in town who farmed a full section (640 acres) in Nebraska with an AC WD45.

casecollectorsc · Nov 28, 2015

4 quarters with a 1030 Case and milk 45 cows and take care of young cattle on both ends of the day.....work 44 hours, sleep 4 during spring planting. Some of it was 12 miles away.....late 70s.

todd hamilton · Nov 28, 2015

Depending on year and extra ground rented our family farmed 500 to 700 acres in the early 70s with a 706 and two 656 internationals all gas. The had a new idea corn picker for the 706 and a model 93 combine. Uncle Mike milked 50 head of Holstein

Tx.Ricefields · Nov 28, 2015

600 acres with a 4020 PS

Bob · Nov 28, 2015

When I was a kid, our 1280 acres were farmed with a GVI Moline and an 830 John Deere.

GreenEnvy · Nov 28, 2015

Back in the day my great grandpa farmed just over 800 acres with his 4020 diesel powershift wheatland. He pulled 15ft duckfoot plow or 17ft depending on the the time of the year or how hard the soil was. This was with sweeps for summerfallowing. He also pulled a 21ft JD FW disc. He traded his 830 in for the 4020 in 1964 and he was 80 years old at the time. Ran it until 1969.

Pair-a-dice farm · Nov 28, 2015

I'm thinking it depends a lot on what you are farming. Back in the 60's a big rice farmer in my area was 4-500 acres. Most that I knew wouldn't attempt to start a year with only 1 tractor. Planting the crop wasn't the problem, harvesting sometimes was a nightmare.

BigMarv1085 · Nov 28, 2015

I went to farm auction in Louisiana and the farmer farmed 20,000 acres with 26 4020's, they all ran and looked new. They auctioned them and all of the equipment that went with them. He replaced them with 10 brand new 4840's.

VicS · Nov 28, 2015

A buddy of mine, farmed 1500 acres with a 4020 with turbo, a 80 and a JD G. He would field cultivate all of it once in the spring with the 4020. Never going to the house to sleep. Slept cross ways, head on one fender feet on the other. Wife carried him food and fuel.

Tony in SD · Nov 28, 2015

We 16 quarters about half pasture/hay and half crop land. We farmed with a MM GB and a MM G708

RandyB(MI) · Nov 28, 2015

Got to remember that back in '60,s and '70,s most farm families had 3-4 or more teen kids so drivers weren't a problem but paying for a "big" tractor like a JD 7520 was out of the question since it would sit idle most of the year. Might better have 3 - 4020,s. Farmers actually "bought" tractors back then. How would you justify a two $ 450,000 combines that sit idle 10 months of the year? Two or three entities here in Cent. MI do it...and re-new every two years. Apparently they can write off the lease payment 100% so it must work.

fixerupper · Nov 28, 2015

In my part of Northwest Iowa a 240 acre farm would be farmed with a 35 to 45 horse tractor for the main tillage. A 25 horse tractor would pull the planter. Our big tractor on our 240 acre farm was a 51A and then a 630 Deere. The planter was pulled with an SC Case.

A neighbor of ours who farmed 320 acres used a Minneapolis U and Deere 60 until 1959 when he traded the U for a 730 gas Deere. In 1969 He traded the 730 for a BIG 4020 diesel power shift. We thought he was nuts for buying such a big tractor to farm 320 acres. The 60 burned up and was replaced with a 620. Back in those days we had 20 acres of hay and 20 acres of oats and possibly 10 acres of pasture so every acre on the farm wasn't tilled every year.

fixerupper · Nov 28, 2015

Why can't we edit anymore?GRRR! Anyway, a farmer with a 4020 could farm a section of land but he would have to spend a lot of hours on it. Our soil doesn't allow us to pull as big of a plow as some can.

LAA · Nov 28, 2015

We farmed 220 acres of row crops and made hay on another 140 acres with a JD 2520 and an Oliver Super 77. A man I worked for in the seventies farmed 1100 acres of rice and 300 acres of cotton with a MM G-1000 and two Case 970's that he traded 4010's for.

chuck from neb · Nov 28, 2015

We farmed 700 acres with a 4020 PS diesel and 3010 plus some custom work in the side

jon f mn · Nov 28, 2015

My brother farmed around 1,000 acres with a case 970 for tillage and an oliver super 88 on a 4 row wide planter, then upgraded to a 930 and 8 row planter. By the time he traded the 970 for a 2290 he was over 1,000 acres.

GreenEnvy · Nov 28, 2015

All depends on how long you want to stay on the tractor. My great grandpa in my earlier post farmed that same ground with a IH W-9. When grandpa took over the whole farm in 1969, he was farming over 2,600 acres with a JD 5020 and great grandpa's 4020. 10 years later he was covering the same acres with a 350 hp Versatile 950 and a JD 4640.

notjustair · Nov 28, 2015

We had a section that was wheat, barley, milo, and sedan for feed. We farmed it all with an IH 856 wheatland. We had a 966 as our loader tractor but the only field work it saw was the rear mounted cultivator for the sedan. Before I went to college we traded that 856 for a 1086. I thought I was in heaven.

farmerwithmutt · Nov 29, 2015

Way back in the day my uncles and dad ran 3 farm's plus custom work . There big tractor was an m they also had a 300 a s c case and a John deere 50 they never ran nights milked (the only cows the women milked were 2 brown swiss that were grandma's house cows she milked them by hand nobody put a machine on them) but there were 3 and they keep it moving. When I started I ran the home farm and some extra all I had was a d 15 Allis I worked nights and then I got real power a 1650 oliver . But I will agree with other people back in the day more people were available and knew how to work.

Donald Lehman · Nov 29, 2015

Pop farmed about 450 acres with a Super 88, 88, 60, OC-4, and a JD 50. He added another 320 acres in 1963 and bought a 4020 in 1964. We milked around 90-100 cows. A 90+ hp. tractor? Wow! We thought we really had something at the time. Doing all the plowing with a single tractor instead of two or three tractors and plows? What a change!

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