RARE JOHN DEERE 4440 - Birth of SCRAPENSTEIN
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- I don't know if this counts as field work, but we are back in the field. I introduce scrapenstein, a trench closer, to the channel and how I built it. We end up hooking it to a rare John Deere 4440 to close up some tile trenches from last falls project.
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It's super gratifying when you build something and it works how you want it to. I built a v-plow for my tractor, not much for looks but it works like it should.
I vote this video as BEST COLD 🥶 START of this spring(so far)!!!
Donuts and 4440 action, yes!
I am with you on the blueberry donuts.
#BringThemBack
Great job welding Ben and building
Got a wild hair😂😂👍that’s the FARMER in ya young man. Thanks Ben
Beautiful Cold Starts!
Hello 👋 Bandit and Molly
That old 4440 is a solid tractor! Simple, easy to work on. Before all the electronic BS on the newer models. I've spent many hours in a 4450 with a 20' bush hog mowing corn and cotton stalks. That 4 wheel drive saved me several times!
Nice job Ben!
Thank you!
Great video Ben
Hell yeah. Can't beat making something on the cheap with scrap you have laying around.
I thought it was pretty ingenious. It works and with a few tweaks it will do what you want. I say it’s a win. No need to spend big money if you can build it cheaper
Thanks Donald!
Loved your video keep them coming!!! Better than tv!!
Thanks!
That's what you call a cold start them old johndeeres are pretty sweet tractors !!!
I start up like that tractor on cold mornings.
Hello 👋 Wayne and Andrew
A great way to get equipment and you are making it work for you. I think you will be able to adjust it to how you need it and it will be a great piece of equipment that you have designed and built all yourself. Keep making the great videos and have a blessed rest of the week. God bless you all this season.
My uncle had one of these when o was like 8 years old. Was definitely a favorite of mine. Not many front assist tractors around in that day
Spring is just around the corner, good to hear the diesel belching power & screaming let's go! Good Golly, where is the Beautiful Northern Iowa Miss Molly, the flower of an Iowa Spring!
Nothing beats a good cold start in a video! The sound brings back memories and I can almost smell it! LOL
Starting an old JD tractor with an old International Harvester battery charger. I love it. That's pretty cool! Keep up the videos Ben, I really enjoy them.
here in Colorado we irrigate things like alfalfa. if we flood irrigate. we build little hills like that in the field. we use some thing like the back gang of a tammon disc. we also use them to close our ditches we use to irrigate out of. that looks like it works well.
I’ve seen versions of those being used.
Good stuff Ben👍👍👍
2 ideas.
1. Have one blade shorter and set to push towards the longer. Which levels.
2. What if you mount in front.
With a pivot point at 1/3 hydraulic forward of that. pressure against blade go towards closed versus open
Then behind tractor you could roll barrel or tire onto the 3 point to compact and level it.
Second time was pretty good
Looks like you had a great idea that needed a little more tweaking. Looks good Ben
Gotta love how those old John Deere’s start. Of course it helps that I grew up with 4430’s and 4440’s. Looks like your scrap trench filler works pretty good.
Great videos man. Had an idea for your scrapper. If you wanted to you could swap your hydraulic cylinders out for some cat 1 or 2 top links so you still got some adjustability but also don’t have to worry about it moving when you don’t want it to. Then use your cylinders to fix you hydraulic lift drag coming off your front beam to behind your grader blades so you could drag a little extra dirt to your larger holes when you needed to. Wouldn’t take much scrap tubing and either a piece of c-channel or angle iron and a 2x12 board on top to make a good drag. Those cylinders look to have plenty of travel to pick up and lower a drag too. Just a thought.
Very good idea. Thank you.
Good job you might want consider a roller behind the closer would add weight to the closer and push the high spot down Just a suggestion
Thanks Larry!
You need to connect the blades with a chain so you can manually adjust it
That’s a good idea!
Place the hydraulic where you placed the bar
Or drill holes in that angle iron you welded on and use a pin if possible.
works and loks good Ben maybe just level it with the tractor as you would a 3 point disk
I think it is level when it’s on the ground other than riding up.
You could add some weights on the blades to help keep them in proper contact with the ground Everybody needs a Blue Heeler
Mannnnnnnnnnn that 4440 is pretty mint. Maybe you should use that bar at the back of the closer and put some weights on that
That’s a good idea!
The old 4840 I use to drive was easier to start while working the steering wheel back and forth to relieve pump pressure helping the engine turn over faster.
Correct!
The best way to keep the older deere starting go get the 50 series cables from deere and put 12 volt batteries in it i found it will start much better hold on when you price the cables they are high
Didn’t know people do that. Thanks for the tip!
If I remember correct....the 40 series just uses 2 6 volts in series to make 12 so all you need to do is make some cables to hook up to 12v in parallel. Assume way cheaper than Deere. Just a thought
I miss the Casey's blueberry donuts too, especially the ones that had the cream cheese frosting. Been a long time since I've seen one of those.
Go to the scrap pile, find an old tractor tire and set that on your trench closer
Ben make one side fixed and put the cylinder between the to blades so you can open and close down the one side
That’s a good option.
good job man nothing wrong with fabricate things to save money Ben
That is working pretty well you could eliminate the hydraulic and use the cylinders on another project
I’m thinking of something along those lines as well.
Quite the piece of equipment!!! Like the new hat too!!👌🏼
Didn’t expect to see yourself in a video today did ya!?
@@iowANFarmer nope!! I sure didn’t, and I sure do miss it!! Your having to much fun without me!!☹️
Here's you a quick thought Ben four your scraper blade. How's about taking two pieces of angle iron and weld each piece to the outside of each blade straight up and down. Then take you either another piece of angle iron or flat bar. Whichever you have lying around and make sure that it is longer then the peace you have welded on now. Drill you two holes on the top of the angle iron that you welded on the blades. Then drill you several holes on the piece that you put on top of the angle iron or flat bar. Make sure the holes are big enough to put you a pen through them. Then that way you can spread the blades out or bring them in closer. Also I think I heard you say that you wanted to put weight back there. Take you a couple of suitcase weights like is on the front of the tractor and hang them off of that. So another words you'll have to use angle iron for the top so that way you can lift the weights off and adjust your blades how wide or how narrow you want them. That's just kind of an ideal that come into my head. Let me know what you think about it and see if you understand what I was saying. Thanks for the wonderful videos you're doing a great job you and the whole family
good stuff
Experiment time. Do things start better while filming or not filming? That ditch filler is awesome. Plasma cutter worth the money or don’t get one?
Hell Ben, there’s no way everything starts up for me either!!!
Never does
Ben maybe if the blades were offset so the first blade took the dirt all the way across the trench and the second blade then rolled the dirt back to the center would help make it a little better.
Contact Hesston Kansas and see if they will give you a demo!!
Scrapenstein saved a few buck's. Glad it works for ya.
Chain would be a good way to do it weld chain to end of one blade then a plate with a slot cut in it to the other blade and almost infinite adjustment available
Very good idea.
What year is the 4440?.........Our German Built 4240S is a 1982 year and it has Mechanical Front Wheel Drive......And 4640 guts in the engine......
Farmyard engineering is the best………
I watch for tire poppers also
First time watching. Actually looking at buying a 453 acre hay farm that yields about 3 tons per acre per year.
Just curious how many acres you have in hay and what your gross profit is per ton. Also, do you do any other cash crops or livestock?
Welcome to the Channel. You’ve got some great questions but I do not share financials on the channel.
But I can tell you this. Different hay yields differently and it depends on the weather. Price comes to demand, quality and packaging.
I have a theory on why the tractor wouldn't start. The camera was taking too much juice if it starts without the camera but not with the camera that's my opinion. Lol
Best solution would be to “fill it up with rocks”😉
Wheel roll your trenches once then flatten out your backfill attachment by adjusting your top rod, then relabel trenches. Otherwise you will have low spots in your fiends
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Why not weld a heavy drag chain over the back end of the blades and that way it will smooth it out some.
Not a bad idea!
Farmer knowhow and can.
What would happen if after you pull the scrapinstein down the tile line you drove over it with the tracks or the rear tire of the 4440
Not sure
Kroner is a very god baller 1290 big pack 1800 to 2000 pd bales check one lonely farmer he has 2 or 3 of them god bless
What's your tile spacing there? 25?
These are on 20’
The only way to close tile lines no bumps ever. Just drive both sides of the plow track with a large tractor. No bumps no valleys
Instead of welding that cross piece in place, why not drill a hole in each blade top and weld a bot sticking up? Then you can drill a few holes in the angle iron so you can change the setting as you need.
To help you out when u were trying to start that John Deere shake your steering wheel back and fourth a d it will help you
Make a roller on the back so it gets rolled down
Why don’t you drill some holes in the two pieces of iron and put a pin in it so you can adjust it where you need it🤔
is that the ole larson farm tractor
It isn’t. Been around here for a long time.
At the 9min mark in the video insert (Greta) “how dare you”
Lol
Plus your tractor needs injector work by the way it starts
Dude you need three cylinders. Two that adjust the lead edge in or out & one at the closing to pull it close or open as you need it.
Why didn’t you just ask us dudes in the first place? 😂
Intro music?
Nobody wanted the FWA 4440s because it broke down all the time. 2wd was the way to go on them.
Better watchout hanging out around those green tractors, they may grow on you. Hope your drinking a mountain dew too...lol. Show us some of the deer you have killed
🙃 giggles
Maybe someday!
And you saved a $2000+ tire
Should have gave it some paint would have looked much better
Dogs are the best, places that do not stock blueberry donuts are not.
I don’t think you can sell them the same way Amish use-arm muscle. To. Feed
I will tell you one thing get a hold of Wesley one lonely farmer RUclipsr lotta knowledge on square baler big square baler
He sure is! It impresses me!
You could have achieved a better result by turning your center link back a few rounds.
I think it needs tips trimmed off too.
#krone
First Krone vote