I'm going to play the pessimistic youtube commenter here "You need to offset the drawbar on the tractor to get the implement closer to the fence, you kids know nothing!" 🤣😂
My dad always told me that plowing a garden once in a while helps the garden. He been gone many years. I try to remember everything he taught me about gardening. I wish I had small tractor with a one bottom plow to do it with.
I've been loving these videos. Hope your eye is healing. I've noticed you been letting dad do the tractor driving and lifting. Good knowing you are taking care of yourself and Senior is participating in your recovery. Thanks for bringing us along. I've plowed many an acre with my dads 3 disc John Deer breaking plow. It did much the same job as a Moboard plow but roller the disc. It also had the wheel lift rope pull. I've worn out a few ropes myself.
That was a real treat to see the subsoiler in action with GREAT camera angles. Hard freezing this winter should mellow out some of the compaction from the tractor tires. Like the old saying about plowing, the worst job of plowing in the Fall is still better than the best job in the Spring.
Senior's spot on - I blow dry my Husky riding mower after nearly every use. Their open frames collect grass clippings with can block the movement of the hydro transmission 'lever' or actuating arm just behind the engine mounting area. My grandpa always made the point it is easier and cheaper to clean your equipment after every use. You also are looking it over every time for indicators of potential problems.
I love those old machines, their simplicity, and the fact a genius designed and built a simple and well working unit. And that nice little “M” just chugging along at an idle with not a care in the world, now tell me how you like the new stuff better, I don’t, this is the oldies I enjoy.
Beautiful fall foliage colors and another great video! On a personal note, my Dad taught me to wipe off the excessive grease from thè zerk when done. He was a neat nut like me and said the excess grease would just collect dust and dirt and get caked up. Just a friendly heads-up so he doesn't give you the stink-eye too. LOL 😅😅😅 Seriously, great content as usual!
It's a little hard to notice at the start, but by about 10:45 it's pretty clear that the soil is getting real broken up by how deep the super M's wheels are sinking into the dirt versus at the very start. Another little idea that could be done to help boost the productivity of the garden plot would be to collect as much saw mill dust and ashes from the wood stove. Mix those together and spread them over before roto-tilling. Kinda like drying and crushing in egg shells. I would suggest shrimp and crab shells if you were closer to the ocean and availability were higher.
Great job 💪 the M just purring along 👌 over here 🏴 usually if we sub soil at this time of year we just leave it open for the winter let the frost into the ground and break the soil up naturally an it also helps drainage if we have a wet winter 🤔 really nice working sub soiler that 💪
Any moisture you get now will be able penetrate deeper in the ground that subsoiler is a really cool tool and I must say you have really nice sandy soil and it doesn’t really stick to the tires 😀🇨🇦
I thought the same thing, then l see him wearing earphones. 😂 That tractor was a beauty, shame he wasn't my neighbor, I'd let him finish up with my International pull-behind disc harrow
Good on ya, Squatch! Great camera placements.... appreciate your going to those lengths for your viewers. The real close ups, if you play them at 0.25x you can see the soil heaving, like a continuous earthquake. Really something to watch. Also Senior is a skilled operator in anything he gets in the seat of!
that sub soil plow really works nice ,I got a garden that needs that treatment bad ,I am going to go on the hunt for one ....the m is running like a fine watch ........
I remember when I was younger a neighbor has a old ground driven sub soiler it was huge it had 4 foot steel wheels on it I bet that the shank would have about 3 feet long with a chain hooked to it with a 6inch steel ball on the end it could make a tractor work in heavy ground
Great camera angles, makes us being live in action! 😂 Have to do something similar to my garden in the spring, turning a piece of lawn into something more useful, probably by hand, Luckily on a much smaller scale... Thx for showing!" 👍👍👍
I don't blame him I'd be doing that too after the wash up can't have any water seeping into the trans and diff areas. The M acted like it was pulling an empty stone boat. No grunting what so ever and smooth never seen a subsoiler work so slick.
Very handy tool. Fun to watch it work up close like that. My brothers wive's family have the modern version of a subsoiler for their farms. Works well as advertised.
Had a old John Deere subsoiler much like your Ih one but converted it to 3 point with a 18 inch cultivator sweep on the point talk about lifting the soil. Wow pulled lack of bear at 24 inches deep.
Nice work, I don’t have to use a subsoiler where I am in Michigan, my fields are all muck. Anywhere from 5' to 30' deep. I pushed a shallow well down for watering crops, first 20' went fast and easy, then had to get through the peat layer. That was hard.
@@squatch253 Wow that many? I had no idea! Maybe not many made it to australia? Here most small implements were TPL type,i guess from Ferguson's domination of the small tractor market. And the larger implements used the big manual levers for lift. IH style lift linkage is rare too. Its a very different vintage scene here.When i watch your tractor show videos i'm amazed at the sheer number and variety of machines
My uncle use to rototill his garden. Got so the carrots were 1 1/2 in in dia and 4 inches long. When I got my tractor I moldboard plowed it 8 inches deep. Problem solved.
This reminds me of the BBC "Wartime Farm" episode where they tried to improvise a subsoiler based on a UK wartime design and completely underestimated the forces involved. If they'd been RUclipsrs they probably would have used the resulting metal pretzel to reengineer their design but it was broadcast so the end result was hardpan 1 farmers 0. How close you're willing to get to that fence directly correlates to how much time you're willing to spend rebuilding it.
Nice vintage equipment exercise 💚 how old is Senior? Im 73, New Hampshire, 1951 JD A with no 5 7foot power sickle mower. My feople still farming since 1930 Hammondsport, New York.Keuka Lake. The onle thing that could make your adventure more exciting for me would be Green &Yellow tools. Farm Safe ✌️
Hi Squatch Hows the eye healing up? Noticed that a few other tubers have had eye injuries recently. Throughout the UK during the war 39-45 were using subsoilers with a bullet style plow bottom to break up pasture so they could plant crops like wheat and barley, It really broke up the hard pan
The M wasn't even slowed down from the working speed Senior set for it. Was that Grandma in the background? Good to see her. Did the garden pass inspection?
Need to procure yourself a mole plow attachment for your subsoiler. It will make a tunnel for the water to break up the hard pan. It will make the tractor work too!
I’ve never seen one of those. The idea is to mix up compacted soil? Sort of like the big chisel plows used in corn country today. I can’t imagine the rocks I’d hit up here😳.
How far apart are you trying to subsoil? On a modern ripper shanks are 24”-30” apart typically. To get that kind of width you would most likely have to drive over the last shank pass thus adding compaction back in.
Just curious. Is there clay in your area ? We had clay, but it took a post digger to find it. Sadly i drive past home, and see it on top. The old style of farming didn't encourage erosion. Thank you.
Fascinating to see a working example of how things were done. Is there a reason the subsoiler has one smooth wheel and one with cleats (grousers?) I apologise if I just asked the stupidest question in the history of stupid questions
In short, to give better traction to lift the implement when pulling the cord. The long answer is a 23 minute video from Toby about 2 months ago called "IH No.2 Sub Soil Ripping Plow Overhaul - I Can't Believe How Little Wear This Implement Has!"
To add to what @sjoerdjohannes4821said, the left side is the only one that does the lifting, so it is the one with the "grousers". The other side is just rolling along. P.S. It is not a stupid question.
At 12:39 , is that a scuff on the paint? I think this would have worked well as an ASMR video, with a follow up version with a voice over to double the viewing figures.
Why? 🤷♂️ said senior used to turn it over with a mold board 35+ yrs ago I imagine any rocks would’ve been found then if there were any, jus’ saying ✌️
@@76RSLT that is true I haven’t 👍 but. Assume they tilling it every spring doubt any rocks would rise to the occasion since spring , but I could be wrong maybe they only garden every other yr or two? 😂 choice farm acreage here in ohio 🤷♂️ ✌️
I'm going to play the pessimistic youtube commenter here "You need to offset the drawbar on the tractor to get the implement closer to the fence, you kids know nothing!" 🤣😂
darn kids!! haha!
Dang kids! Get off my lawn!! 🤪
On that thought we drafted off of the center to avoid excessive differential wear. That equipment needed to last.
...and when the fence gets taken out "you ____ kids never do anything right..."
They don't farm the fence probably mow around edges for hay for cows
I enjoy watching you work with your dad. Lost my dad at 88 years old in 2008 and I still miss working with him.
Excellent video it's nice to see you and senior out doing projects together
My dad always told me that plowing a garden once in a while helps the garden. He been gone many years. I try to remember everything he taught me about gardening. I wish I had small tractor with a one bottom plow to do it with.
It looked like the ground had just the right moisture content for working it up. It was fun watching the M pulling the sub-soiler!
I've been loving these videos. Hope your eye is healing. I've noticed you been letting dad do the tractor driving and lifting. Good knowing you are taking care of yourself and Senior is participating in your recovery. Thanks for bringing us along. I've plowed many an acre with my dads 3 disc John Deer breaking plow. It did much the same job as a Moboard plow but roller the disc. It also had the wheel lift rope pull. I've worn out a few ropes myself.
That was a real treat to see the subsoiler in action with GREAT camera angles. Hard freezing this winter should mellow out some of the compaction from the tractor tires. Like the old saying about plowing, the worst job of plowing in the Fall is still better than the best job in the Spring.
Gorgous opening scenes Toby! Your woodland is taking on a perfect fall. Thanks much for taking us along.
I can't imagine our sod busting forefathers breaking virgin soil with a wooden plow and a mule. Must've been a tough and determined bunch.
Imagine before even the plow and mule! A plow and mule was probably seen as a tremendous improvement.
😝 👍 definitely not the effeminate generation of today 😳 ✌️
69 year old former New York farmer and I swear that I can smell that dirt
Senior's spot on - I blow dry my Husky riding mower after nearly every use. Their open frames collect grass clippings with can block the movement of the hydro transmission 'lever' or actuating arm just behind the engine mounting area. My grandpa always made the point it is easier and cheaper to clean your equipment after every use. You also are looking it over every time for indicators of potential problems.
Clean equipment is easier to inspect and attracts less moisture for corrosion.
The Super M sounds great, looks great. Takes me back to when you two were pulling cylinder liners out of the egg-shaped holes in the short block.
Love the sound of the IH 4 cylinders
I love those old machines, their simplicity, and the fact a genius designed and built a simple and well working unit. And that nice little “M” just chugging along at an idle with not a care in the world, now tell me how you like the new stuff better, I don’t, this is the oldies I enjoy.
Passenger side rear tire is low on air on the nice super M I love it thanks BigAl California
Beautiful fall foliage colors and another great video!
On a personal note, my Dad taught me to wipe off the excessive grease from thè zerk when done. He was a neat nut like me and said the excess grease would just collect dust and dirt and get caked up. Just a friendly heads-up so he doesn't give you the stink-eye too. LOL 😅😅😅
Seriously, great content as usual!
Toby, the super M is running great and the subsoiled did a good job too. Nice to see you and Sr doing another project together.
Still can't get over how smooth that Super M is!
It's a little hard to notice at the start, but by about 10:45 it's pretty clear that the soil is getting real broken up by how deep the super M's wheels are sinking into the dirt versus at the very start.
Another little idea that could be done to help boost the productivity of the garden plot would be to collect as much saw mill dust and ashes from the wood stove. Mix those together and spread them over before roto-tilling. Kinda like drying and crushing in egg shells. I would suggest shrimp and crab shells if you were closer to the ocean and availability were higher.
Senior has been on a Tractor at least once before, great job Senior. 😃
While I miss seeing you out there operating, it’s good to see senior getting some seat time. Hoping for a great report from the doctor on the first!
Great job 💪 the M just purring along 👌 over here 🏴 usually if we sub soil at this time of year we just leave it open for the winter let the frost into the ground and break the soil up naturally an it also helps drainage if we have a wet winter 🤔 really nice working sub soiler that 💪
Any moisture you get now will be able penetrate deeper in the ground that subsoiler is a really cool tool and I must say you have really nice sandy soil and it doesn’t really stick to the tires 😀🇨🇦
Thanks for the video Toby! Nice to see as Rick says the not so Super M out and working again! That sure did a great job. Thanks again Toby
I finally got my dad's old IH B250 diesel out of storage, thanks for motivating me to get on it!
Man, I love the sound of a classic Farmall.
I thought the same thing, then l see him wearing earphones. 😂 That tractor was a beauty, shame he wasn't my neighbor, I'd let him finish up with my International pull-behind disc harrow
Hey Toby,,,,good to see you and Sr. out enjoying a perfect fall day together in the most awesome way possible. Hope thee eye is coming along well.
Y'all do such a good job at everything you touch. It's a rare pleasure to see this in our throw away society.👍
Good on ya, Squatch! Great camera placements.... appreciate your going to those lengths for your viewers. The real close ups, if you play them at 0.25x you can see the soil heaving, like a continuous earthquake. Really something to watch.
Also Senior is a skilled operator in anything he gets in the seat of!
that sub soil plow really works nice ,I got a garden that needs that treatment bad ,I am going to go on the hunt for one ....the m is running like a fine watch ........
I remember when I was younger a neighbor has a old ground driven sub soiler it was huge it had 4 foot steel wheels on it I bet that the shank would have about 3 feet long with a chain hooked to it with a 6inch steel ball on the end it could make a tractor work in heavy ground
Thanks for the video Toby! The M hardly worked up a sweat with the subsoiler. Cheers
The old chisel works very well thanks for sharing.
Great camera angles, makes us being live in action!
😂
Have to do something similar to my garden in the spring, turning a piece of lawn into something more useful, probably by hand, Luckily on a much smaller scale...
Thx for showing!"
👍👍👍
Thanks for a great video. I especially enjoyed the close up of the trip clutch in action.
I don't blame him I'd be doing that too after the wash up can't have any water seeping into the trans and diff areas. The M acted like it was pulling an empty stone boat. No grunting what so ever and smooth never seen a subsoiler work so slick.
Squasht your Dad is top notch on equipment,
I like the sound coming from the diff on that M.
Crisp Autumn day, beautifull Autumn colours, pity we can't smeel the engine working.
Makes me realize I need to get my H put back together and running soon, also need to freshen up my Ferguson and restore my little genius #8 2 bottom
Very handy tool. Fun to watch it work up close like that. My brothers wive's family have the modern version of a subsoiler for their farms. Works well as advertised.
Had a old John Deere subsoiler much like your Ih one but converted it to 3 point with a 18 inch cultivator sweep on the point talk about lifting the soil. Wow pulled lack of bear at 24 inches deep.
Had never seen one that small before….works pretty good
Nice work, I don’t have to use a subsoiler where I am in Michigan, my fields are all muck. Anywhere from 5' to 30' deep. I pushed a shallow well down for watering crops, first 20' went fast and easy, then had to get through the peat layer. That was hard.
Looked like big fun! Will you moldboard plow it in the spring or just rototill?
That is the ripper you had behind your d2 at the tractor show. Denis from Santa Rosa CA
The old super just out for a stroll with that sub soiler!
That trip mechanism is really cool.I dont think i've ever seen anything like it -with a single control action at least.
@@squatch253 Wow that many? I had no idea!
Maybe not many made it to australia? Here most small implements were TPL type,i guess from Ferguson's domination of the small tractor market. And the larger implements used the big manual levers for lift. IH style lift linkage is rare too.
Its a very different vintage scene here.When i watch your tractor show videos i'm amazed at the sheer number and variety of machines
Great Video. The Super M is a Beautiful Machine
Isn’t it amazing how much capital equipment it takes to run a farm? Thank heavens that old stuff still works.
That ought to help the garden. I wish I had done that to my small garden plot i recently moved.
Just some very nice old school action, could just be modern so well did it work
My uncle use to rototill his garden. Got so the carrots were 1 1/2 in in dia and 4 inches long. When I got my tractor I moldboard plowed it 8 inches deep. Problem solved.
Awesome 👌
This reminds me of the BBC "Wartime Farm" episode where they tried to improvise a subsoiler based on a UK wartime design and completely underestimated the forces involved. If they'd been RUclipsrs they probably would have used the resulting metal pretzel to reengineer their design but it was broadcast so the end result was hardpan 1 farmers 0.
How close you're willing to get to that fence directly correlates to how much time you're willing to spend rebuilding it.
Nice vintage equipment exercise 💚 how old is Senior?
Im 73, New Hampshire,
1951 JD A with no 5 7foot power sickle mower. My feople still farming since 1930 Hammondsport, New York.Keuka Lake.
The onle thing that could make your adventure more exciting for me would be Green &Yellow tools.
Farm Safe ✌️
You get a good snow melt down in there and you get some deep water in that soil
Very satisfying to watch.
Nice . I enjoyed watching . Thanks for sharing .
Hi Squatch Hows the eye healing up? Noticed that a few other tubers have had eye injuries recently. Throughout the UK during the war 39-45 were using subsoilers with a bullet style plow bottom to break up pasture so they could plant crops like wheat and barley, It really broke up the hard pan
Very enjoyable to watch, but that Super M may as well have slept in today!😂
Put some wings on that tip and you will get a larger soil fracture area.
The M wasn't even slowed down from the working speed Senior set for it. Was that Grandma in the background? Good to see her. Did the garden pass inspection?
Thanks for the video Toby.
The right tool for the job.
Wow, for a minute there I thought the GoPro bit the bullet. The sub soiler gets happier with excise,oil and grease.
All of us antiques work better and easier with regular exercise!
I'm 73 keep active. You may ache but you won't freeze up.
as someone whose never been around this farm type equipment i'd love a walk thru that explains how that trip mechanism works both for the up and down.
Need to procure yourself a mole plow attachment for your subsoiler. It will make a tunnel for the water to break up the hard pan. It will make the tractor work too!
There were reasons farmers turned their soil and dug down deep. It wasn't to find rocks and roots.
Great video!! Thank you for sharing!!
My dad pulled a 3 bottom plow in good black Iowa soil with his Super M so that sub-soiler is a real easy pull.
So cool to watch. Do you ever metal detect on your property?
You should cover you tractors with old bed sheets or old bed blankets to keep the dust off
I’ve never seen one of those. The idea is to mix up compacted soil? Sort of like the big chisel plows used in corn country today. I can’t imagine the rocks I’d hit up here😳.
Now with more PlowVision. I like it.
Those cleats are working great, even covered in soil. The vertical shots on my big screen make me dizzy. Whee!
Awesome show. Thanks
Please show us how the garden does next year now that the plot has been all broken up.
How far apart are you trying to subsoil? On a modern ripper shanks are 24”-30” apart typically. To get that kind of width you would most likely have to drive over the last shank pass thus adding compaction back in.
Good job.
Just curious. Is there clay in your area ? We had clay, but it took a post digger to find it. Sadly i drive past home, and see it on top.
The old style of farming didn't encourage erosion.
Thank you.
Was the wax and tire shine done off camera? 😂
Max points for Senior there, His ins and outs were of ploughing match standard. Yes I know I spelled plow wrong, it's were I come from👍
Nice episode Squatch
I must say that was a really nice oil can you have.
What's that vibrating sound at the beginning on the super m? My super H makes a similar noise and I'm worried somethings wrong with the transmission
A two shank might make that M think a little bit. 🙂
Hello : You know that you always take good care of a Lady.
You can tell it's the super M cause of the whining hydraulic noises 🙃. But regardless of that the subsoiler is one of the best investments.
I am new to this, what is “ hard pan” and how this sub soiler works ?
Couldn’t use a sub soiled here in western mass. We grow rocks here.
Nice video. What make is the subsoiler?
Sorry, I missed it.@@squatch253
Fascinating to see a working example of how things were done.
Is there a reason the subsoiler has one smooth wheel and one with cleats (grousers?)
I apologise if I just asked the stupidest question in the history of stupid questions
In short, to give better traction to lift the implement when pulling the cord. The long answer is a 23 minute video from Toby about 2 months ago called "IH No.2 Sub Soil Ripping Plow Overhaul - I Can't Believe How Little Wear This Implement Has!"
To add to what @sjoerdjohannes4821said, the left side is the only one that does the lifting, so it is the one with the "grousers". The other side is just rolling along.
P.S. It is not a stupid question.
Thank you both for the replies and not making me feel like an idiot 😁
@@lordcaptainvonthrust3rd : It is a compliment that you notice those details and wondering what is the difference. It is good to be curious.
I agree, that's how we learn.😃@@sjoerdjohannes4821
Are you using an olympyk chainsaw?
At 12:39 , is that a scuff on the paint?
I think this would have worked well as an ASMR video, with a follow up version with a voice over to double the viewing figures.
First of all, I'm kinda surprised you didn't pull up any rocks. Second, what kind of trip mechanisms does that subsoiler have? If any?
Why? 🤷♂️ said senior used to turn it over with a mold board 35+ yrs ago I imagine any rocks would’ve been found then if there were any, jus’ saying ✌️
@@rawbsworld6604 you obviously never farmed rocky ground. The frost pushes them up every year.
@@76RSLT that is true I haven’t 👍 but. Assume they tilling it every spring doubt any rocks would rise to the occasion since spring , but I could be wrong maybe they only garden every other yr or two? 😂 choice farm acreage here in ohio 🤷♂️ ✌️
Yep, frost heaves draw up rocks from Devils den. Had to deal with rocks every year.😃@@76RSLT
Now I want either a super m or a SMTA 😅
Thanks for Squatching!😂
It's getting cold n rainy in ks now play time is over for me
I bet the "M" could handle 4 or 5 ripper shanks. Fun video!