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This video focuses on my father, Deane Gunderson, and some of his row crop farming developments in the 1970s. It also includes a few scenes of other people in the rural neighborhood between Rolfe and Pocahontas in NW Iowa. Deane was a third generation Iowan from that area. He received degrees in mechanical and agricultural engineering from Iowa State College (now University) circa 1940. He then worked for John Deere Company in Waterloo before he and his family moved back to the Rolfe area. In my perspective, one of his more renowned projects was coupling two 4-row cornplanters together to make an 8-row planter that cross-checked the corn in the early 1950s. Unfortunately, I did not begin to take home movies until the late 1960s. This YouTube posting is an edited, digital version of those movies. One of Dad's friends, and also a friend of mine, Emily Anderson of Story City, but formerly of Rolfe, created the music for this piece that was originally shown at Dad's 90th birthday party in 2009.
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Wonderful thank you....The farmers are the back bone of this country!!!!!!!
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Shovelling seed into the drills, and rope trip markers was already old farming in the 70's. But neat to see anyway.
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My Grandparents were also farmers in the 1970s in NW Iowa. A different world in farming then. :)
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Grew up in the area all though I don't know your family. Nice video thanks.
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Back when times were better and simpler.
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Outstanding video
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This is back when farming was work as I remember it. Too bad all the small farmers were choked out of business in the 80s.
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Kinda looks like 2 4020s
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@maxnewellmz8025656 Thanks for your interest. I apologize for the delay, but I had a hard time finding the "approval" button. I am not sure of the models, but I believe my father, who created the tandem tractor didn't have a lot of choices for a big and versatile tractor in the 1970s. This way, he could have a heavy tractor and two small tractors to use for various field crop tasks.
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what two tractors are combined at 2:07? thats a pretty cool machine but why didn't he just buy a 7020 or something