1992 JD 4960 Tractor with 14 Hours - Sat Outside for 20 Years
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Machinery Pete visits Rushville, OH to interview Ryan Young and learn the story behind the 1992 John Deere 4960 he and his dad Joe bought last year...with only 14 hours on it! The tractor had sat outside for 20 years and had trees growing up around it
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Love this story.
Love to hear y’all go to church
Love to hear you say
GRANDPA
Reminds me of my grandpa
Hey was a great man.
Miss him. 😢
My grandfather had one. It was my absolutely favorite tractor to use when I was a kid.
I used a 4955 for years... the 60 series was the first year they relocated the exhaust to the cab corner for better vision. Pulled like an animal! : ) great tractors.
Strange story but it does happen. At the John Deere Expo years ago there was a "70" gas with no hours on it. Paint still on exhaust manifold, cylinder hanging on it that never had hoses. The dealer brought it out and the guy backed it into the shed. Batteries died, JD said they wouldn't replace them it was up to the battery manufacture. The guy got ticked and it was never started again. If I remember right it still hadn't been started when it was at the Expo. Nice find on the 4960.
Ryan, you are so lucky! That thing is brand new!
That is such a gorgeous Deere! All the 4000 series tractors I've run have had only 2 remotes so seein 4 levers is quite a sight!
I grew up driving the 4840 series with my dad in the late 70s and early 80s and I loved every minute of it and miss those days so much
That engine sounds really good. Surprised that it wasn't rusted up inside from condensation.
Beautiful tractor!
What a neat story. I have friend who picked up a 4455 2wd Power Shift from an auction. It had between 800-900 hours on it. Came out of Ohio too.....was owned by a guy that owned a Deere dealer and play farmed like 300 acres. It was stored inside its whole life and was breath taking. Perfect paint, interior, and no fading. I've been Deere tech my whole life and worked for him on the side. So when he told me he bought it and it was coming for a winter inspection I was looking for a pretty paint job buy me disaster. The inspection cost more than the petty couple of things it needed. We used it for the planter clinic hooked to his new 1770 planter and you couldn't tell which one was newer. It has the same sweet life now. Only plants corn and if needed a couple standby gravity wagons to dump on in harvest if the semi gets delayed.
Are you ready to sell the 4455 yet?
I'm a old IH fan and collect them on my farm. I never got into John Deere too much but it is a beautiful tractor. Good find. I like driving my neighbors 4960. Very nice tractor.
Wow! What a find! In the early 90's when I first started pullin wrenchs at a local repair shop in Nance county Nebraska, had this old farmer, a local guy who would come into the shop once a year, to get his tractors checked out had a ''79" IH 986 with 50 actual hrs on it, no joke still smelled new inside the tractor still had the dealership tags hangin inside it,plastic on the seat, I still remember that ole boy sayin don't scuff my paint!!! He was a very picky,persistant man, But one of the nicer ole fellers that you'da ever met! Also had an early '82' 4450 MFWD JD, 120hrs on it, same way plastic on the seat cardboard on the floor the whole ball of wax, At that time this ole boy was about 77 or 78 years old,owned 320 acres& the ground was rented out! Same as here, bought the 2 tractors retired,&put them in the shed never ran them, except bring them into town once a year to have oil changed&greased, I still remember when that ole boy passed away in the late 90's tractors still looked the same&brought a whore house price on his farm sale that year in January, people just couldn't believe it! There out there Guys! If you look hard enough you can find'em! Amazing! Thanks Pete for sharing this story on this JD 4960, it was much appreciated!
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We have the same year 4960 and love it👍
I live near Rushville and have never heard this story. Amazing!
I am happy this machine is being used....nothing sadder than a machine rotting in a field
Awesome find. Great story.
Stories that you hear and find hard to believe. Yet, some are true!! Wow! What a find!
Good to see that it was saved from rusting away, now it can do what it was made to do, work.
i worked these 4960 lots of power and ride really well
nice job Pete. It's great to hear these stories. I grew up on a JD Mod. 60. Thanks for sharing Ryan. I'm sure the old man needed to buy equipment for a tax write off and didn't sell because he didn't want to have to pay the taxes. I understand that concept. It just gets harder to do that in these times.
That's a good looking tractor. Ryan did a great job getting that tractor back to working shape. Really is a shame that sat out there like that all those years.
I own a 1969 2520 Hi Crop with 4100 hrs true. 2nd. owner. Have owned it since 83. Nice tractor, think I might keep it......
I live in North central Iowa. Have seen this happen a few other times before. Farmer retires and rents his land out. Instead of a farm sale were he would give a huge chuck of money to the IRS, he just keeps it. Some times selling off a few pieces of equipment several years later at a much lower income tax rate.
thats amazing ... greats to the owner he got himself an awesome tractor ....
I Drove A 4850 for years on the farm.. Good tractor
Had one, damn good tractor and great horsepower
Wow....I am getting old. 1992 does NOT seem like that long ago, here talking like it was ancient times...seems like yesterday.
1992, I was just finishing 25 years of Naval service, time it do fly
Your old, 72 don't seem that long ago to me until I realize my children are 40s and late 30s.
wow that tractor reminds me of my 1952 international super ai witch sat in a barn for 15 years and fired right up when I worked on it amazingly it still had the old v print tires
That is a beautiful tractor
What a great find.
Almost the exact same design as the 4560 I drove (Though of course, what I drove was no where NEAR the condition this 4960 is in, then again, this 4560 I drove is used in the business of pumping manure pits, so it's pretty dirty, but it also had 4 hydraulics on it)
Awesome find, I just can't believe someone would spend $76k on a new tractor and say the heck with farming and letting it set outside for 20 years after not even breaking it in
old man, had money, stuck in his ways, Done it his way
The owner and I unloaded this tractor off the trailer and put it in the shop. Where it sat for about 2 years moving it in and out as we need the shop the tractor never was hooked to anything it only had about 9 hours when we unloaded it. I was the one who parked the tractor outside the owner would not use it because it had Goodyear tires on it. (he read that they made a vibration ) we were harvesting corn and the combine broke and we had to put it in the shop to work on it I move the 4960 to the area beside the shop. The owner said to leave it outside as he was tired of us moving it to use the shop. the last time I remember it was started was in fall of 1997 I moved it down the drive way and parked back where you found it. The locked up 4020 was locked up when I stated to work there and the owners said it had a burnt piston form turning up the pump. The owner was a good mechanic and took real good care of his tractors. He lost a couple of the farm fields that he rented and his sister want to sell the home farm we farmed up until 1997 when he parked all of the equipment.
Incredible that an $89,000 tractor (in 1992 dollars) was left to rust away just because the owner hated Goodyear tires. How idiotic.
jason9022 you clearly are a dumbass
There are some real eccentric folks in rural areas, all over the country, not just here in Ohio.
What's wrong with ohio farmers
jason9022 Baloney.....farmers always like to con everyone into thinking they don’t know much...works real good on the ‘citiots’ ...you don’t get to own a multimillion dollar operation by being stupid...if ya think that, your the one that is stupid......an ole, dumb former dairy farmer/retired.. here
How can someone leave such a beaut like that outside?!
Also it would have cost a fortune in 1991.
Great story! You should do an update on it. Thanks!
Nice find. AND THANK YOU FARMERS !!!!!!
When tractors didn't have epa shit all over them. And farmers could actually work on them .
thats why they put the EPA crap on them, so they will break more and nobody can fix them
Exactly fuckin true
My grandpa got a 40yr old volvo 650 backhoe and hes been restoring it since july and he is working on fixing the cab soon
mike cubes the manufacture had nothing to do with putting that crap on motors so they could profit on repairs. What are you? Stupid? Emissions became mandatory for all manufactures
Short thro 50 if all this emission shit was designed to save us why are there so many modern machines including white goods ecetera in landfill? Properly maintained & solidly built equipment keeps going for years have a think about it!
Wow! Great find!
We had a local farmer that bought a bunch of new equipment, then quit farming and decided to shed them for 25 years without starting them ever. So when they got basically nothing with no hours he was upset but not having hours isn't a great thing. You will be rebuilding much of it.
On my farm I owned 4 JD 3020's, Those things drive like sports cars. My brother still has the 71 model we bought new. We had a 4440 and two 4250 four wheel drives. Unfortunate circumstances caused us to loose those and the entire farm. Twelve years ago I worked on a farm for a while. This man did things in twos. When he needed new tractors he bought two and just kept the old ones. He had two 4020s, two 4850 four wheel drive and two 4960 four wheel drive and his new toy was a 8400.
The 4850s handled just like my 4250s and were a dream to drive. The 4960s were plastic pieces of crap, at least the cabs and seats were. On one 4960 I had to buy my own seventy dollar crows foot wrench so I could keep re-tightening the outlet fitting on the main hydraulic pump. The 8400 was annoying to drive, the throttle and gear shift did not immediately do anything, the tractor would take a few seconds to decide if it wanted to do what you told it.
James Methvin you could always go back to a draft horse
Out in North Dakota we leave all the equipment outside in the field it last worked. Barns are many miles away, and aren’t big enough to hold it all anyways.
I've got a 1955 johndeere 420u with 980 hours on it. It kind of surprised me considering it is actually still used for little tasks
Couple of weeks ago I was looking at a Ford/ New Holland 7840. 1997 year with only 780 hrs & barn stored in England
That was quite a treasure to find and have.
Old JD from 1992 are very good Tractors
sure seems calm for a guy who lives in rushville!
great story. wish they would have said what it took to get it running. my experience with machines that sit arent good. for one condensation had to build up in all the internals unless who ever parked it started it once in a while. And not to bust on green too much i havnt seen one that doesnt leak oil somwhere. good thing theres crazy jd collectors out there.
Wished I could hear what the guy was saying.
You have one of the most interesting jobs I can imagine
It is sad that fine of a tractor would sit outside for one day not years. That was the daddy rabbit for the second generation John Deeres. Glad to see that it has a good home now.
Jeff Sartain t
thanks
Most farm tractors are stored outside their whole lives anyway
Amazing story!
i wanna know why I can never find anything like this
These 4960's have power! Only thing is there's not enough lights, the fender lights get covered with mud or dust in minutes.
I would like to see a video of him getting it started after all that time
Probably new fluids, new filters, and new batteries and cranked her over!
That was the last series of nice looking deeres in my opinion. After this they put more flat metal down the sides, then they started all the space ship curvy hood nonsense. amazing find with those hours. Judgeing by what other JD are going for at auction once they get a bit older, maybe he should put it in the shed for another ten years. Prolly worth 100 grand then to some collector haha.(see petes vid about a 50K 4020)
The new owner seems a nice fella.
Would have liked to see it start up and idle and listen to it maybe drive a little bit
Beautiful tractor.
Ryan speaks well.
Excellent interview!
Nice, thanks for sharing!
Not much into tractors, but that right there is COOL!
Must be nice to have the money to buy a great piece of equipment and literally park this VIRTUALLY BRAND NEW tractor and there it sat for 20yrs. WOW. The best part IT'S A DEERE! It could've sat there for 20 more years! Bet it probably still would've started even with the 20yr old Diesel in it!
A lot of farmers that inherit “old money farms” have to spend so much money to keep from paying taxes. I’m not sure how it works just know some ol boys that buy brand new tractors every year because if they they didn’t they would have to pay more in taxes than what the equipment cost. Kinda interesting I’m just wondering if this is what happen.
amazing story
Haha! Our 4955 looks nothing like this, but she's still running after a rebuild!
Our mid 1970's Ford 4500 backhoe has 770 hrs on it.
I have a 1566 with 1060 hours that sat outside 30 years
Just interested in what all you had to do to get it running? Did it fire right up? I know this is no-one's business but what did you have to give for it? (don't expect an answer but curious?) I would LOVE to know what all it took?? Thank You!
I knew an old farmer that had every car and truck that he had owned his complete life. Had them parked out in the woods. They were all rusted down to nothing and big limbs had fallen on them my two favorites was a 32 Chevrolet pickup I think was a 32. And a 40 chevy coupe. Mostly have been destroyed by the elements way beyond being restored now. You didnt bother him about buying them either. Negotiations for the purchase was not on the table.
para mi estaba en estado de abandono ha sido recuperado y le están dando uso para lo que fue creado para trabajar en el campo agricola.-
wow what a find!!
that would be a dream come true
man what a find
Im just speachless
My first John Deere AR
Awesome JD the only way to go
fendt...................
Look's like it got a good home now.
There's a 4850 here, same story no hours, used it one time and sat since new.
Email me more info on that 4850 if you can Dusty: greg@machinerypete.com
@@machinerypete I'll ask him again, last time he really wasn't ready to sell it because "He paid a lot of money for it, when he bought it" and lost his land lease. He also has two 8630's I believe are close to the same story 👍 I will let you know
Great Story!
YES GOOD TRACTOR💪
I think the original owner must have had something very tragic happen which caused him to just stop everything. I've never known anyone to just leave all the equipment outside and not sell anything after its done being used
I kinda feel bad for the owner... maybe wife or close family died suddenly right after buying it and that tractor was somehow significant in his memory. That's the only reason I could think you would buy a tractor like that, stop farming, then leave it to sit. It had to be priceless to forfeit so much resale... fascinating
I do that ..once I work very hard for something and I dont get the price I want for it and everyone keep coming back with lower price because.. it's been seating for a while now.. I bring the torch out and cut it in pieces and when I say pieces I pull it appart and cut everything in half.. engine block .. crank .. every piston. I did it to a old OLIVER 1850 ... to a BMW 540i 1995 M-sport and two quad.. now when someone want something from me they pay my price.
I don't think that's all the uncommon. I've seen similar situations
hotgab328
You're a tool.
hotgab328:
I need to see pictures.....
WOW... All I can say is what everyone wants to know... How much did the new owners pay for the tractor??? It doesn't really matter what the original owner paid ($72K back in 1992), only matters what they paid for it in 2012. Love to see that bad boy go on the auction block. You could almost guarantee it would set a new record as well!
Looks great
Very cool!!! and Interesting!!
What a story!!
Very good.
the first tractor I drove is still going. 1938 model B general purpose.
I cut my teeth on a 52 John Deere B. Discing... Next year I got on the G plowing. 3 14s .. I still love to turn over the dirt...
The g had a 3 gear with high low lever.. Giving you 6 gears
I could get the sled on the road moving and in 5th gear. And then match every thing up pull out the clutch and kick the hi lo with my foot and not grind a gear rolling. 6th gear pulling sled with railroad iron runners and 2 discs on it. Smoke rolling off the runners on the tar road. I was big stuff.?ha ha. 14 hrs old. That sled was neatest thing for putting up hay. Easy to throw bales on.
wicked awesome
here in Europe it common to spec your tractor whit 4 hydralics and always mudgards!. And i know deere brought back to te US a greate nummber of 4960 for some reasone. maby this was one of those EU spec 4960. you can se it if t´he vechicle model on the serial plate is 4955. becuse we never got 4960 here. only updated 4960. but deere switched the numbers when they got to the US.
Weird. Im originally from Rushville, IN. Never looked into other "Rushvilles".
Unbelievable!!! That's something to see.
My guess would be he bought it with an insurance policy that if something happened to his source of income the insurance would make the payments on it until it was paid off or able to make money with it. The old farmer couldn't sell it or use it but it was being paid off surely but slowly.
shit i put more than 14 hours on my kubota just yesterday.
sounds real good!!
Such a sexy tractor such a young tractor I WANT IT
I guese i missed it , but how much did he pick this 4960 up for ? Great find & great tractor...
Nothing runs like a deere
Nothing smells like a john
Sure it didn’t roll the hours back? If I’m currect those may have the manual hour counter still and once they hit 10,000 they roll back to 0???
Most - if not all - of the 4960's have the digital dash panels
There's a big difference between a tractor with 14 hours and one with 10,014. If a person can't tell the difference without looking at an hour meter that person shouldn't be buying tractors.
I have a very old international that counts the hours it's been going. (and yes I know this tractor we are looking at is a john deere) but what im getting at is the timer never rolled over for me even after 80,000 hours she's still counting.