EVOLUTION of the JOHN DEERE 9000 to 9R 4wd Tractor 1997-2020

In this video viewers will follow the evolution of the John Deere 9000 to 9R 4wd tractor design seeing each entry level horse power row crop model produced from 1997-2020 working in the field. Watch for the John Deere 9100, 9120, 9230, 9360R and 9370R. See if you can spot a John Deere 8020, WA-14, 7520, 8630, 8440, 8850 , 8960 and 8770 4wds in the video.

[brandonmorris]

Great tractors! Back in 2010 I had the privilege of running a 9300 with a partial power shift. I was 22 years old at the time and one of the brothers and the partnership I was working for had just suffered from a stroke. He forgot virtually everything. It was sad because he was a very smart man! Graduate of Purdue University majoring in agriculture. And he had turned a 600 acre farm just outside of Indianapolis in 1963. To 2, 800 in 1976. He had engineered a system where they had 3 4 row deere planters on 36 rows they pulled to the field inline and once to the field they would string them side by to make a 12 row. They made 2 of these setups and I'm not sure but I feel like they said they pulled them with 4020's? They use to tell a story about their dad spending 7 hours working on the lights of one of these planters while he should have been. Planting. Got them fixed about 6pm and went into the house to retire for the night without telling any of them bc they were out doing tillage and running the other 12 row setup. Lol. In 1978 they got a 4060 or 4040 and desired a bigger planter. So ray then designed an 18 row on 36in rows that folded up on a single beam. The planter was then turned into a 20 row on 30s in the 90s and they made their own 10 row deere cornhead from an 8 row on 36s. (They were a complicated bunch to say the least) this corn planter resembled the new central fill deere planters minus the rows in the back when it was folded for transport. It was more narrow than a 4640 with duals. I was told case asked to come look at it in the early 80s and took a lot of pics and ended up with something similar? So one day I was doing fall tillage when the new deere mulcher rippers first came out(2700 I think) and noticed ray sitting in his rock garden watching me. So I asked his wife if I could take him for a ride for a bit. She said "that's fine. But not for to long and don't you dare let him drive! " So him and I traveled just far enough his wife couldn't prevent the transfer of us switching spots and in that time I asked him if he felt ok to drive it. Not a single word. Just a 😊! On that note I pushed the clutch in with the ripper in the ground throwing us both forward pretty violently causing ray to laugh at me. The second his butt hit that seat it was amazing to see his entire being come back to life. I asked him all kinds of questions about working dirt which he explained in such great detail. I learned more in that 8hrs of sitting uncomfortably on the stupid jd office setup the 9300 had(I'm 6'6" 240lbs) than I had in 8 years of doing tillage. Sadly rays some rodney had died a 6 weeks earlier from a brain aneurysm right in front of ray and I while we were changing the sickle in a 635. Rodney was only 43. And that was the last time ray ran a tractor. The value of the farm was 13 million dollars at the time if not more. Most of it was zoned Industrial and appraised at $32, 000 an acre. And in the end 13 cousins walked away with 80acres a piece and a little under $100, 000 a piece. They had fought in court for 8 years wanting something they had helped 0 to build and the lawyers took most of the farm. Very sad ending to something that was amazing to have built to that size in the area and time period that he did it in. All of the neighbors had about a 700acre average with 1, 800 acres being the closest and it was mostly leased ground. Raymond had owned 3, 400 of the 3, 800 they farmed. My first 9600 combine ride at 14yrs old I got in with ray(they ran 2 9600s till they got a 9760sts). And ray would light pall mall 100s and hold them close to under his chin bc he liked the way they smoke felt running up his face. Lol. They still owned all of their equipment they purchased through the early 70s parked o their property. Including a 1942 cat d2 that their father had traded 2 vouchers for deere model As for the purchase of the one d2 (bc of war rations farmers couldn't buy to much iron). And there was a pic of ray at 8 years old with old round pilots goggles covered in dirt from working ground by himself. His dad partially traded for the lever steer over the steering wheel so ray could work ground at a young age. Lol. Sorry for the book! Just something special about someone special that needs to be carried on I believe. Hope someone enjoys this.

[harvester]

The 9030s and 9020s had to be my favorites, I loved the body styling

[paulbouwman]

I sure love the sound of the 9100 and 9120.

[captaindee]

Great compilation, great tractors. The revised portion is definitely better.

[itsuper]

Do they use row-crop duels on the 4 wheel drives for the farm that Matt works for?

[jeremymurphy]

It's a shame the torque numbers are more readily available for these machines. I mean, if you want to go gaga over a number, 370 (or whatever the hp may be) is rather low. Gimme then4 digit torque figures, the figures that really pull the 90' planters. Oh, and a dyno uses the torque rating to figure hp so whaddya say, manufacturers? Let's have it.