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Ed the wine farmer

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My son showed up tonight with a JD 620. Original paint, power P S, front loader; everything works. It is a nice tractor. No dents or rust. He wants to put in about 150 AC of corn. Any input or info would be welcome. Ed
 
The 620 will be a bit thrsty when worked hard. I used a 50, 60 & 720 on my dad's farm growing up. I remember being in the "saddle" of one of those 2 cylinders for days at a time... not a fun job, and my pain threshold was somewhere around 3- 4 hours... after that I was generally miserable. I remember my mother telling me to change my clothes after a day on the 60.. before supper time...as I smelled like unburned hydrocarbons. I'd find something newer that uses diesel. My collection of 2 cylinders now sit in the shed. I take them out for our annual family reunion..where they pull a wagon full of my grandchildren.
 
We used a 51 A on 240 acres all through the fifties and then a 630 all through the 60's. Maybe 200 of it was row crop at the most. Rest was oats/hay/pasture. Took a lot of hours to get it done but that's the way it was back then. I wouldn't say the Deere's were exceptionally thirsty or uncomfortable compared to other brands of the day. Jim
 
My great grandpa did 80 acres with an AC WC with maybe 24+- hp. All trip lever or drag equipment.

You can do it, just don't be in a hurry. I still have all of the equipment. I have a little area 2-3 acres I play with it now and then, thats plenty. I still wonder how my G-grandpa plowed/disced/planted 80 acres at that pace. He must have been a very patient man. Since he had originally started with horses, I am sure he thought he was in heaven on the WC!

Rick
 
That tractor is a 48 max pto hp tractor but it will do the work of a new tractor of 20 more hp. Easily handle a 6 row planter of the 12XX series design, hydrolicks may not be enough for a 7000 series but power wise would handle it. If curently in crops other than sod he should be OK as in old corn stalks a 11' disk behind it would make quick work of preparing the soil, sod that he would have to break would be different as it does not have enough power for a chisel and moldboard even tho they were rated as a 3-4 plow tractor 3-14" would be best and that would take a long time to plow that much ground.
 
I have one was my fathers. He bought it new while still in high school. We farmed many years with it. Pulled a 3-16 oliver plow, 12ft kewanee disk w/cultipacker, and have the JD45 loader. I still use it to feed round bales to this day, I made a spear for the loader added a 2spool hyd valve and cyl to tilt the spear.
 
I am retired from teaching. I grew up on this farm which has been in the family since 1847. Back in the "60 s" there was not much money in farming, so I went to college. I have been growing "vegies" for the past few years for farm Mkt.and on farm sales. I have a 1948 JD M and a 1948 8n. The son"s business is down due to the economy - so why not grow corn. Thanks for the info. Keep it coming, We have the land, so why not farm it Ed
 

Depends on your soil...and the actual condition of the tractor engine..
I have pulled 4x16" (F-145 Semi) with my Freshly overhauled 630, but would NOT recommend that for regular use..really too much..
4x14" or 3x16" should be a nice match for it..with 3x16" being the preferred, since you will end up plowing corn fodder down..
In my ground anyway, I am sure 3x16" in 3rd would be the norm without over-loading it and that is moving right along..
Rear wheel weights and maybe an improvised front weight are always a Plus, for a Fully Mounted plow..
I had my 630 weighted front and rear when I had the 4x16 on it..Really made her BARK..!!!
I have decided to shorten one F-145 semi, to 3x16 semi..
I have a really nice 4x16 F-145 I am not going to use and would let go..
Central Ohio here..
Ron..
 
In my area of NWIA we pulled 4X14's with a 630 for a little over ten years but a 730 in front of that plow would have been a better match. Plowing old alfalfa in 1st gear is BORING!!! Jim
 
Will work just fine. Wear ear plugs and install the 30 series muffler.
Fuel economy is perfectly acceptable for a gasser, even good actually.
Just ensure the engine is sound, the carb is set lean for efficiency instead rich for max power. Checking the timing at slow and fast idle to prove the advance is working.
 
Ed,

This can be done but I would recommend a good no-till used planter and not try to till that much land with a 620. Either a 4x30 or a 6x30 row depending what he is planning on harvesting it with and perhaps look into having your spraying custom applied. Your crop will be planted in a much more timely fashion. Hope this helps
 
In the late 70's we farmed 120 acres with a JD 50. 2/14 plow, 8 ft disk,
two row planter, single row picker and one gravity box.
We cultivated instead of spraying then, probably not the best choice now.
It can be done, but as others said it takes a lot of time.
I would think he could find a happy medium between then and now.
 
Interesting comments about how much tractor a person 'needs' for 150 acres. 1948, Dad had a '39 WC and a Model C on 200 acres, then bought another 160 acres. '51, traded the C for a second WC with mounted corn picker. Mixed farm, oats, corn, hay, pasture. Sold the 160 in '54, bought another 40 in '57?, bought another 320 in 61, so total of 560 acres. Then we had a WD45, a WC, and my newly purchased Model C, later a WD was added. Granted, had more hay ground than corn and beans, but everything got a workout with just the two of us. Timeliness is more of an issue these days, along with the concept of farming full-time, or on evenings and weekends. Farming on my own these 40 years, I spent more late hours than I ever did growing up. Heck, the only dependable lights back then were on the new WD45!
 
It's quite different now, for me anyway. Back then, half the farm was in hay, one quarter in oats, one quarter in corn. One quarter of our acres were plowed down in the fall. That was the old corn stubble and stalks. That ground would be worked with either a spring tooth or disc or both in the early spring (April) and put into oats with grass seed (alfalfa, etc). Then we'd be hauling manure on our new corn ground (one quarter of our ground) and that would be plowed in mid to late May and planted to corn. Then, we'd be cultivating corn and putting up hay for the rest of the summer 'till the oats were ripe. We were busy all year but we didn't have to get the entire farm plowed, worked and planted in a week. And, we didn't have enough money to own a fleet of tractors although we ended up with three. A '36 WC, a '49 WD and a '59 D17. Now, the smallest tractor I own has 16 more horsepower than the D17.
 
(quoted from post at 00:41:23 11/24/12) My son showed up tonight with a JD 620. Original paint, power P S, front loader; everything works. It is a nice tractor. No dents or rust. He wants to put in about 150 AC of corn. Any input or info would be welcome. Ed
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Ed, as many have mentioned, it can be done. I would probably plan on 2 weeks to get the corn planted, not counting any tillage that would need to be done up front.
What part of the country are you located in? Is the ground sod right now?
 
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