FarmBoy1950
FarmBoy1950
  • 12
  • 201 952
Rocking P Ranch Horses
Horses have been a staple of the Rocking P Ranch ever since Rod McLeay began raising Clydesdale and Clyde-Thoroughbred cross horses in the early 20th century. They supplied cavalry and artillery mounts during WWI and the actual horsepower to 'fuel' Alberta's early agricultural development. Now the Blades' family raise top Quarterhorses that work well either on the ranch or in the rodeo arena, sometimes both. The raising and training of these horses falls to the competent hands of Blake, Monica and Stran Schlosser with ready assistance from the rest of the Blades' family. We see the results of their training displayed in the corrals as the entire family, friends and neighbors heel, brand and process calves during a late May branding bee.
มุมมอง: 3 391

วีดีโอ

Mothers
มุมมอง 79ปีที่แล้ว
Mothers play a major role in all of our lives, and in this Caleb & Me story our Old Timer introduces us to three different mothers. Since he is eight years old at the time of the tale the Old Timer's own mother plays a crucial part and since he's telling the story to his two little granddaughters his wife Emeline has to be involved but the main focus of the story is his Ayrshire milk cow Daisy....
Winter of '49
มุมมอง 128ปีที่แล้ว
This is an audio selection from my Caleb & Me collection of short stories. It is the first of a series: a tall tale told by our Oldtimer to his granddaughters about how he and his family and his faithful dog Caleb survived the brutal 'Winter of '49'. As their food, firewood and vital chewing tobacco begin to dwindle sacrifices must be made by all and sundry. They are finally saved by - well I c...
Rocking P Ranch: The Buffalo (Bison)
มุมมอง 361ปีที่แล้ว
For decades the Blades family's Rocking P ranch has used buffalo, bison, in their grazing program. Although much more challenging to handle, especially in tight quarters like corrals and sorting pens, these bearded grazers have unique and useful qualities. The buffalo utilize higher ground, the tops of the ranch's Eastern Slopes hillsides. But if a buffalo lifts its tail, Mac Blades knows from ...
Reding Family Threshing 1910 2022
มุมมอง 104Kปีที่แล้ว
The Full version of Reding Family Threshing with Robin's rebuilt Minneapolis thresher and George White Steamer. Ever since Zeno Reding moved from Switzerland, via Minnesota, to Irricana the Reding family has been involved in agriculture in Alberta. Horses, threshing machines, steam tractors and hard working men and women have participated in harvesting the grain on this farm, grain that helped ...
Hotcakes to High Stakes: The Chuckwagon Story
มุมมอง 4.8Kปีที่แล้ว
This year the Calgary Stampede celebrates the 100th anniversary of chuckwagon racing! This is the full story of the open range cowboys home away from home, their mobile kitchen, the chuckwagon. In 1923 the last of the old chuckwagons left the range to rumble around the Calgary Stampede racetrack for the first Rangeland Derby, the world famous chuckwagon race! Originally driven by actual range c...
Reding Family Threshing: rebuilding the old equipment
มุมมอง 14Kปีที่แล้ว
Robin Reding took 25 years to rebuild his Minneapolis threshing machine from the bottom up. There are few people who know more than Robin about the intricacies of running a threshing machine. He also rebuilt his George White steam tractor and both machines play a pivotal role in the 2022 Reding Family Threshing Bee. Horses pull the unique Stewart Stook Loader to fill numerous bundle racks with ...
Hotcakes to High Stakes: The Modern Chuckwagon Race
มุมมอง 15Kปีที่แล้ว
Chuckwagon racing adapts to a new world with a tighter barrel pattern and better tracks and racing conditions with new rules and regulations to make the race safer for man and horse. From racing at the Calgary Stampede to driving across country to the smaller WPCA and CPCA shows, drivers and outriders tell their own stories about their favorite horses and some of their wild and wooly experience...
Reding Family Threshing: The Draft Horses
มุมมอง 22Kปีที่แล้ว
Draft horses played a huge role in the settling of Canada's prairie agricultural land base. They pulled the plows, cultivators, seeders, mowers, hay rakes, binders and bundle racks. Horse power in its basic form acquired its strength from the land itself, a truly organic form of propulsion. And horses even supplied an equine form of GPS in that once a team understood what was expected of them t...
The First Rangeland Derby 1923
มุมมอง 8Kปีที่แล้ว
100 years ago the open range chuckwagon rumbled onto the Calgary Stampede racetrack. The 100th anniversary of chuckwagon racing in 2023! The old Open Range chuckwagon moves from being the cowboys' mobile kitchen for trail drives and roundups to a four horse racing vehicle on the Calgary Stampede racetrack. In 1923 Guy Weadick organized the very first Rangeland Derby with horses, cowhands and ch...
Reding Family Threshing: the stook loader
มุมมอง 12Kปีที่แล้ว
What a labor saving device for a threshing crew! A stookloader could take the place of a half dozen bundle pitchers and reduce the number of wagons and horses required to harvest a grain field. The Reding family employs two stookloaders each pulled by four horses to supply a steady stream of bundles for their Minneapolis threshing machine.
Open Range Chuckwagon
มุมมอง 19Kปีที่แล้ว
The open range chuckwagon not only served as mobile camp kitchen for trail drives, spring and fall roundups but was basically a range cowboy's home away from home. On trail drives and roundups the chuckwagon carried provisions enough to feed a dozen men. Cowboys would proudly proclaim: "I follow the Bar U, the Lazy H or the Rocking P wagon." They had passionate loyalty to their outfit, represen...

ความคิดเห็น

  • @Taxpayeroftherepublic
    @Taxpayeroftherepublic 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    What state are you in ?

  • @paulnicholson1906
    @paulnicholson1906 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Dow makes a materiel UCON 50 HB that works as an antifoam/antipriming agent. It only takes a very small amount. It works by being soluble in the water at low temperatures then when at boiler temps it comes out of solution and acts as an antifoam. You can also use a silicone antifoam but I think the UCON is the preferred.

  • @friedrichseifert6221
    @friedrichseifert6221 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good old times.

  • @williammatzek4660
    @williammatzek4660 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dad told me this! He was ridding with his brother, pushing a go devil on a John Deere A. They slid the go devil under a shock of wheat. The shock started rattling loud enough you could hear it over the A John Deere at an idle. Dad was born in 1923. Passed in 2018.

  • @vancedoering3577
    @vancedoering3577 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Will Mr.Reding and his family plan on having another harvest bee in 2024?

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They had wanted to thresh again this past fall but it was too dry and the crop was so short they wouldn't have had decent bundles. If we get more rain maybe they will this coming fall. Hope this answers your question...

  • @kenbettygregor3900
    @kenbettygregor3900 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    IN 1957 I DROVE A TEAM FOR MY DAD THRESHING FOR OATS. IN MINNESOTA. SUPER VIDEO AND GOOD MEMORIES,THANKS FOR TAKING US ALONG

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad you enjoyed it Ken. Thanks for your comment...

  • @annalorree
    @annalorree 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I grew up on a small family dairy farm. We used tractors, but the techniques were like farming around the WW-2 era in the United States. Self-powered hay baler (and old New Holland baler with a Wisconsin engine), no self loaders for hay. Yes, we used milking machines, but they were applied manually. It was a good way to be a child, learning to be independent, working with your hands, working in nature.

  • @davidgrossman5104
    @davidgrossman5104 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Was there much grain lost during threshing ?

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am sure it depended upon who was running the threshing machine. If it was someone who knew how to set it correctly it wouldn't have been any worse than a combine that was set properly, and vice versa; if not set properly it would have thrown grain over like an improperly set combine. Hope this helps.

  • @davidkimmel4216
    @davidkimmel4216 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks

  • @gwenlockwood1865
    @gwenlockwood1865 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you Joey!! Sure brought back some memories!!!

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad you enjoyed it

  • @jacobyoder4166
    @jacobyoder4166 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We used to thresh oats with threshing machines. My father in law taught me to use used motor oil for belt dressing. Use sparingly and let it soak in before giving it a load. It works great and is not hard on the belt like belt dressing. It's good for the belt. Former Amish man.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for sharing

  • @hughperkins707
    @hughperkins707 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video 👍👍

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad you enjoyed it

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The physical work is pretty much gone today with all the modern machinery, but so is the companionship that used to exist in agricultural work.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, took a lot more folks as well as horses to produce our grain back then.

  • @atticuskilby515
    @atticuskilby515 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent video, thanks so much for sharing. My grandparents thrashed many years ago.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad you enjoyed it

  • @MormonAll
    @MormonAll 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you seems such a small thing. Pure enjoyment.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed it.

  • @nmelkhunter1
    @nmelkhunter1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video and equally great still photos. I’ve always wanted to visit Alberta, see the Oilers play in Edmonton (Let’s go Oilers!) see the Calgary Stampede, get to know some ranchers there, and maybe see some Bighorn sheep. Thank you for sharing. Well done! 🍻

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the video and hope you make it out here some time.

  • @JulianSchmechel-ys7cg
    @JulianSchmechel-ys7cg ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for posting this wonderful film. Regards from Scotland.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it all the way from Scotland.

  • @stevescoville8465
    @stevescoville8465 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where is this ranch?

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Rocking P Ranch is west of Nanton, Alberta Canada Steve.

  • @richardmiller3919
    @richardmiller3919 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good brand Massey Harris.. convert to Massey Ferguson

  • @kensterling5217
    @kensterling5217 ปีที่แล้ว

    The reason some used Longhorns was because they would eat the rough that other cows wouldn't eat.

  • @jerrysponagle3881
    @jerrysponagle3881 ปีที่แล้ว

    What was it that they were working? Hay, straw, oats, barley, I have zero experience in farming

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 ปีที่แล้ว

      They were threshing oats Jerry. And that was a bucket of freshly threshed oats that J. R. fed to his team after removing their harness.

  • @jeffatkins6890
    @jeffatkins6890 ปีที่แล้ว

    Watching from Wales , I’m 73 this year born farming and it’s great to see my grandads way of life ,only horses on the farm and I had the benefit of living this way

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for the Welsh POV.

  • @HuntinginLebanon94
    @HuntinginLebanon94 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello good videos and channel😀😀

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for the kind words.

  • @deancampfield4703
    @deancampfield4703 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I was younger there was a steam engine just sitting in the field and I asked my buddy what is up with that. He said grandpa and the neighbors brought the feed to the engine not the engine to the feed

  • @deancampfield4703
    @deancampfield4703 ปีที่แล้ว

    Impressive the whole story the thrasher to the steam engine I'm in awe

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, amazing what a job Robin did to refurbish both the threshing machine and the steam tractor.

  • @garlandhenry6792
    @garlandhenry6792 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing!!!!!!!!!!

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!

  • @bruceprentice6441
    @bruceprentice6441 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do you ever bale the corn stalks for bedding? Common practice here.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not a lot of corn grown in Southern Alberta Bruce. Our neighbour grew some to winter graze but only one year. Not sure if anyone bales the corn stocks but we do bale wheat, barley and oat straw.

  • @cementer7665
    @cementer7665 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a very informative, and well put together video. Everyone involved needs to be congratulated and thanked for their time and effort in getting the machines in running order, and then putting on the demonstrations.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, Robin and J. R. sure put a lot of time and effort into preserving this earlier, and very important stage of agriculture in western North America. Thank you for your praise and we hope to put out an entire series this spring, summer and fall from putting in the seed to harvesting with the Redings' horse drawn equipment.

  • @marciogoncalves8821
    @marciogoncalves8821 ปีที่แล้ว

    Difícil um trabalhando no pesado,,, e uma equipe de parasitas dos democratas tramando em como tirar mais ainda desses que derramam suor nas lavouras e outros trabalhos

  • @markissboi3583
    @markissboi3583 ปีที่แล้ว

    aussie 1970s after i left schoool i probably did one last big sheep droves 2,500 head on a 17.5 horse the sheep go in every broken fence & railway line the pay was crap but it was ok till i went to the city got some history down young big homestead also tractor driving etc

  • @timothygunckel7162
    @timothygunckel7162 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you...

  • @conorgraafpietermaritzburg3720
    @conorgraafpietermaritzburg3720 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent, fantastic. Thanks 😅

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for the compliments. Glad you enjoyed it...

  • @worldcooking
    @worldcooking ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good video! I enjoyed seeing how people worked in the fields back then.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, totally different world in the fields with actual horsepower compared to our present mechanized monsters.

  • @jessemarch4528
    @jessemarch4528 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pan Bóg dał człowiekowi rozum żeby go używał,możesz używać Twój rozum ażeby pracować na ziemi z koñmi które ciągną twoje maszyny,dlaczego nie używasz Twego rozumu ażeby oracować używając traktor lub kombajn,miałbyś lżejszą pracę i więcej czasu dla Twoj Rodziny i Boga na modlitwę,nie rozumię.Na bardzo małej farmie miało by to sam's,ale na dużej więcej ciężkiej pracy,utrzymać stado koni tylko poto aby mieć zwierzęta pociągowe strasznie dużo pracy

  • @davidandrews2306
    @davidandrews2306 ปีที่แล้ว

    horse suck

  • @thepubliceye
    @thepubliceye ปีที่แล้ว

    It is a good thing that not very many farmers think like you.😊

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Like J. R. you mean?

    • @thepubliceye
      @thepubliceye 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes but it was just a joke@@FarmBoy-1950

  • @errolskjaveland9708
    @errolskjaveland9708 ปีที่แล้ว

    The way people are going to back to

  • @barrymclaughlin2877
    @barrymclaughlin2877 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi I am Barry McLaughlin from Manitoba and I have been looking for some stookloaders as I am going back in to farming with horses as I did when I farmed with my dad years ago, would you be able to point me in the right direction thankyou Barry

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi Barry: I myself wouldn't be of much help although Robin and J. R. do have one older version they are not using right now. You should be able to find something much closer, though one would think, since they were built there.

  • @user-vk2fp8ue6o
    @user-vk2fp8ue6o ปีที่แล้ว

    fantastic

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for the kind word...

  • @mushethecowboycook9353
    @mushethecowboycook9353 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the video from a fellow cowboy on TH-cam @ MushE The Cowboy Cook

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for the kind words Mush...

  • @redwow
    @redwow ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm 85 and experienced all of this as a kid. Didn't think of it so much as a youngster but it was valuable.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, a different world back then. My father probably would have preferred that life to the more mechanized version of today.

  • @sewardcorson5483
    @sewardcorson5483 ปีที่แล้ว

    th-cam.com/video/XlpimgXMIag/w-d-xo.html

  • @leonardconlon9319
    @leonardconlon9319 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome video. Thank you

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for the kind words.

  • @robertneven7563
    @robertneven7563 ปีที่แล้ว

    tis is how dit it in Europe in the 1960 till 1976

  • @charleydaniels6563
    @charleydaniels6563 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I was a kid I asked my dad what those were. his dad had one in 29 I think he said grampa payed 200. for and worked it until 1936 we still have it sitting on the farm

  • @nazarshahzad015
    @nazarshahzad015 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      thank you

  • @gordondeitz7838
    @gordondeitz7838 ปีที่แล้ว

    We consummate underaceivers figured out how to live and live well..

  • @caroldave4037
    @caroldave4037 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi from uk this is the best vid ive seen in awhile regarding farm machinery amazing i was a sheep n cattle farmer north england but find crop stuff very intresting a lot different to the 'welkers ' 😂👍👍👍 my father was the generation that used horses for everything....

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you Carol and Dave. I know the time of working horses was my father's favourite time as well. He could name all the horse's stalls in the big home place barn....

    • @JulianSchmechel-ys7cg
      @JulianSchmechel-ys7cg ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for this. A simply wonderful film. God bless you. There is nothing llike working with horses. Regards from Scotland.

  • @johnthompson4162
    @johnthompson4162 ปีที่แล้ว

    First, Robin here better not be dead. This is a great video. Catch up on the rest lateras well as this one. Always wanted to know, can you thresh corn shocks??? A north Iowan wants to know??? Robin looks to be someone I'd like to meet. John T.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey John. Robin is alive and pretty well. His back bothers some but he's put a seeder together that you can see hopefully in a month or two on Farmboy1950...

  • @bobogilvie4472
    @bobogilvie4472 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice to see what my uncle and grandfather had to do back in the day.

    • @nazarshahzad015
      @nazarshahzad015 ปีที่แล้ว

      Right

    • @lorrainecharvet9972
      @lorrainecharvet9972 ปีที่แล้ว

      We had an old thrasher machine like this for thrashing Blue Grass . We used tractors instead of horses. When they were bailing the straw it caught a spark and we had a huge fire. I think this was around 1958