2 cylinder at work today

I was hauling in from the combine today, and seeing it was a nice day and not far away, I decided to use the 70. Here's a few shots of the biggest trip, had to be a good 550 bushels on. Yes, she did start the load in the field. Never underestimate an old John Deere.

Great pictures. Great looking old 70!

Thanks. She runs better than she looks!

No doubt about it.
Those old 2 cylinders have tons of lugging power.
Wish I could have been there to listen to her pull.
Richard, who grew up on a 49 A and still use an 80 year old H.

x2!!

Awesome!

I spent a lot of time on a R when I was young, to hear one run now brings a tear to my eye!

I bet my super C would pull it on the level too? 1st , 2nd & third but maybe not in 4th.

Looks good. I finished corn yesterday with the 105. Tom

Like the others here I love the sound of those 2 cylinder engines at work.

Sama here!

Love it!

Glad you got done.

Looks Good. My only concern would be if I had to make a quick stop with the 550 bu load.

Neat photos. The 70 looks like you take good care of it. Good for you. The 50 in my handle is for my JD 50.

Nice looking tractor. There just werent any of the two cylinder JD tractors around when I was a kid, so I never drove one, and think they sound odd. IH MF/MH AC , Case and Cockshutt were the common brands around us. Just no dealership near by really until early 60s.

In the 60's neighbor pulled a 1 row JD corn chopper with a full wagon of green chopped corn often in mud and never had problems unless the mud got too deep with a JD 70. Not surprised it moved your load of corn.

Not trying to impress anybody! Just doing what she was built for, and still doing it with style.

Curious as to why you have the wagons unload on opposite sides?

Looks good! Nice work 70.

Looks Great I sure miss my two cylinders. I have a 1530D a 4200 cut and Case 830 just not the same though.

Thats some nice equipment youve got there

Thanks for the pictures!

Should be enough of a load to burn any rust off the clutch drive faces and to get it up to operating temp I imagine.....LOL

I have about a dozen wagons, this is the only unmatched pair. For dumping into this pit, it actually works better, as it evens things out. The pit is about 15 feet deep, and holds about 800-900 bushels. It's sort of my wet bin. Otherwise, most of the rest are left hand unload, one set right hand.

Thanks, SV.

Thanks to all for the nice comments.

nice looking 70, and its good to work them some!

Yes, and even with their age, my long time friend, neighbor and farmer always kept his 620 ready on reserve. I worked with him for quite a few years on and off and the 620 was always handy just because it was another tractor, with remotes. I used it with one of the Kilbros gravity wagons he had, fertilizer during spring planting, grain during harvests and hauling hay wagons when we did square bales for customers he had orders from. His son could back a hay wagon with it like no other and I was pretty good at it from my years doing same as a kid way back when. One of the most intimidating tasks I did was haul a full gravity wagon of fertilizer to the top of the hill on rented ground on my side of the road, kept thinking if I stall this thing I am in trouble. Thankfully, I used the appropriate gear, and it pulled that wagon to where it needed to be. One thing about these, the hand clutch direction to engage was opposite of my old caterpillar D7's hand clutch, had to get used to pushing forward to move vs pulling back like on the D7.

He had this 620 since the 60's and used it often throughout the years for as long as I can remember. It was the only loader tractor he had and it did have a factory 3 pt hitch. The loader was removed at some point, but I marveled at this tractor when I saw him still using it in the field after all these years, aside from the late model tractors he did have. He had a pretty good size operation with some nice equipment, but the 620 always found some work at various time of the year.

Sometime later, maybe a year or 2 after he passed, '15 or '16, all of his equipment was sold off, and I sadly remember hearing that 620 come to the intersection of the main road like I had for all the years before. This was it's last trip, heading east going right past me, thinking to myself, that is the last time I'll likely ever see it and or hear it again. He got it from the BTO in this town back then, as they likely upgraded, maybe it went back there?

I have a 420c thats slowly in the process of being rebuilt

love those 2 cly deeres I have 3 60 620 630 I need something to do with them I sold my cows my equipment then most of my land

Looks good doing wagon duty. I'll still take my smooth running engines though. Dad always told about his dad's inlaws had an A or B they used brought it out to dad's place every up hill in the field. Of course that field has some pretty good hills in it. said every power stroke it would go a little and spin a little so we called them go a little spin a little.