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McCormick-Deering Number 5 Side Delivery Rake
A neighbor was selling an IH (McCormick-Deering branded) Number 5 side delivery rake. I don’t really need the rake, but part of restoring old tractors is having matching implements and equipment. I have a good amount of John Deere implements, but I don’t have a lot from IH and some of the other brands I…
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John Deere 420U vs 430U
In this post I compare some of the differences between the John Deere 420 Utility and the John Deere 430 Utility. The 430 has an Oliver loader, but I tried to focus on the mechanical differences between the machines. The 420 and 430 were John Deere two-cylinder tractors, manufactured in Debuque, Iowa. What makes them…
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Spring Disking with the 5020
In this video we are disking with the John Deere 5020. The tractor has been gone all winter to a shop, so it was nice to have it back & be able to do some work with it. In this video we’re pulling a John Deere BW disk. The field was plowed in the fall,…
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John Deere 430 Utility with Loader Restoration and First Drive
Over the winter I picked up a 1960 John Deere 430 with an attached loader (with bucket), box scraper, and tire chains. However, the exhaust manifold had a crack in it, and as such water was able to get into it and rand down the cylinders into the block. The cylinders were seized, and the…