THE DAY HAS ARRIVED! The Amish Come to Cut Oats with a Horse Drawn Grain Binder
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- The day has finally arrived for the Amish to come and cut our oats. They are using a horse drawn grain binder to cut and bind the oats. See how the amish farm with horses, and the old fashioned way to harvest oats. Stay tuned for future videos to see the rest of the process!
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Jim what a nice treat to see how blessed we are with man working along side with technology from over a hundred years ago and see how we have progressed, I am also blessed to see how the Amish are so willing to lend a hand and only ask that you keep their privacy in tact. I would like to think they are giving GOD the Glory rather then themselves. Thank you all for your sharing this great time of harvest.
brings back some good, and hard work memories!! I was young but could still stack the sheathes. I loved the smell of the oats and it was not so tough on the arms as the hay was. I am really happy to see the equipment and please thank "Pete" for us all!! I really like how you respect his religious beliefs. It is so important!! Think of how good this old world could be if we all practiced respect for others!!
Thanks for sharing, we will pass it along to Pete!
👍🏻 Agree!
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What a treat to watch! Thanks to all involved!
I have been waiting on this video it was great thank's for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
Fascinating to see the old machinery and working with the Amish, thoroughly enjoyed your video. Thank you for sharing. ❤️🇬🇧
Always amazes that someone actually figured out how to make such a machine and that it is still working after all these years.
The old machine really brought back good memories. Really good teamwork . The oats looks good. They will dry before you know it.
Yes they will be!
The drone viewpoint really helps to give an overall perspective that you couldn't get otherwise, like where the buildings are in relation to the fields.
yes, it gives a different view of the world, that's for sure
When they throw the emp we are going to use this equipment to survive
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim you need 10 horses get done lot faster
This is exactly the grain binder we used on our South Dakota farm when I was a boy. (Age 98 now). Note: The power to operate this machine is created by the large, cleated "Bull Wheel" so no motor is required. What you call STOOKS we called SHOCKS. I put up a lot of shocks in my day.
Coolest thing ever!! Thanks, Abby, Jim and Pete and sons!
Loved this video. It took me back to when i was a student at Agricultural college. We did all our work in the traditional way, and I was stooking in the same way.
Our Thrasher was belt driven from an old TVO tractor, and I could hold my own with the it's of my age!
I'm now 80yrs old -still working my own land - I',m an English woman..
Thanks for sharing!Good for you! Keep it up!
I never saw this done before. Amazing machine a 100 years old still doing the job. we only improve what the old timers invented.
Must be regional differences. Here in Midwest they are shocks and threshing machine spelled with an e. But then you never see them any more where we are
That very interesting to watch! Thank you! And it seems like you need some practice on your piles. Those young boys could have showed me a dozen times and I still wouldn't get it. Theyare very hard working folks
You are right!
Great video, your drone shots were the best. My, how wonderful your farm looks, just breath taking! ;-)
Glad you enjoyed it
How wonderful it is to be able to see this. Thank you Jim for making it happen, please thank "Pete" for us, we are blessed to see this and it not being in a painting or photograph for a change. Marvelous stuff. Everyone involved in making this has done a very special thing indeed.
Our pleasure!
Gesegnet die Menschen die auf solch schönen Farmen mit so wunderbaren Tieren in allem noch natürlich und nachhaltig leben dürfen
Danke dafür das wir wenigstens zuschauen dürfen
Lg aus Deutschland
Danke fürs Zuschauen
what an awesome video, my uncles were all wheat farmers in eastern montana, dad immigrated from germany via odessa, i have photo of them harvesting with horses. talk about a work ethic, we have lost a or lot of our heritage. thanks to abbey for the awesome drone shots.
Glad you enjoyed it
What a contrast, a grain binder pulled by horses filmed by a drone. These videos are soothing and peaceful. Those shocks neatly lined up in the field are beautiful.
Absolutely brilliant! Been looking forward to this video all day and it did not disappoint. Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Took a trip to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania a few years ago just about this time and there was a binder in the corner of almost all the oats fields that we saw. It had rained and they had to quit cutting for a bit and left their machines in the field. There were oats shocks all over the place. Seems like a lot of work but they get it done and don’t have hundreds of thousands of dollars invested. Makes you wonder who is better off.
An extremely interesting video!! Really like how you explained how the binder worked plus how to make a stook or shock of the oats. I never hear of it referred to as a stook. I always hear it referred to as a shock. I learned something new!!!
I bet only a small per cent of people today know the difference between sheaves and a shock or stook of grain. A hundred years ago their would be a significantly greater per cent.
Best use of the drone ever!!!!
Hi, in Northern England, where I grew up and worked in the fields, we called the sheaves " shevs" and we would be " stooking the shevs of oats" in my local dialect.🇬🇧😀❤️
Hello, it's interesting how things are termed in different areas, but mean the same thing. Thanks for sharing and for watching
Glad you enjoyed it!
You do a very nice job narrating the action and interspersing a story too.
Thank you very much!
Great video Jim, the oat field looks good. Nice to see that old machine work very interesting. Nobody here in WV around my home raise oats anymore but years ago they did. I guess oats left my area with the horse
We used to call it shocking maybe it was a Amish term of calling it when I was a young kid used to help Amish farmers set up a lot of wheat and oats like that brings back a lot of memories
I’ve seen those machines sitting on places….but this the first time I’ve seen one work.
Thank you.
So l just want to take a moment and say thank you. I appreciate how much work actually goes into making these videos when he works with the Amish. not showing their face. it's amazing. still thank you for making the videos for us. We do appreciate you all.
You are welcome, and thanks so much for watching and for your support!
Nice to ser this old machine working! My grandfather used a similer sort. But he used three horses.
Thanks for the explanation of using 2 vs. 4 horses at a time. My grandad had used Percheron teams about 1909 and made some of the harnesses himself w/ the help of HIS father. It would be interesting if you showed a video on the harnesses you use and what each part does/ is for.
Thanks again!
Good one.Nice to see the binder in action again.It’s good too have good neighbours like the Amish.
Absolutely fascinating technology. It’s like a live history lesson 👍🇦🇺
This is absolutely amazing! You are so blessed to have the equipment and the horses to do this. Bless Pete for helping you do this job. Thank you Jim, and please thank Pete, I know the Amish don’t like to be photographed or recorded and I respect that. What a fantastic video! Thanks again Jim for sharing with us! Love from Florida and may the Lord keep you all healthy and safe.
Thanks BJ, and you as well
So cool!!! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Been looking forward to this . Thanks for sharing!
Hope you enjoy it!
Oh now you are bringing back real old memoirs back in the late 40's as a young lad of 8 to 10 years old I used to follow the old binder and stouk those sheaves .
They pulled the machine with a tractor and then when they came to pick them up with wagons I used to drive the horses the wagon was full then a man would take
over the team to take the load to the thrasher. Wow real old stuff for me thanks a lot.
Thanks for sharing the memories!
Another very interesting video! Thanks a lot! Looking curiously forward to the threshing video :-)
Good video Jim, really cool that the Amish neighbour helps out
and that you respect his privacy
Amazing to see that machine. The person that invented it was very smart getting all the different functions needed to work. Never seen oats being worked. Can't wait to watch the thrashing. Is the oats used to feed your animals?
Well this is very special ! A total picture. Brenda is correct about how interesting this is. This may have never been recorded before. Looking forward to next step. Thanks to you and your neighbors for sharing.
Really good drone video! Love the perspective it gives on the work being done.
This brings back many, many memories - all of them good. The fondest ones include helping Dad get the binder ready to use, then making the sheaves, and running it through the thrashing machine. Your channel is refreshing amongst the many options out there.
That sure brought back a lot memories looked forward to oat harvest as my dad had the threshing machine we would go to the neighbors to do there’s as well that was fun times and farm moms would fix a lunch that was just the best
Glad it brought back good memories
I was just a little kid when my dad pointed out a stook out in a farmers field. That was the last time I had ever seen one. Over 50 years ago. I bet that was quite the machine back then.
Have done my share in stooking pitching loading unloading to the thresher working in the grain bin making straw stakes all hard work ,but it helped shape my work ethic.
You are a very blessed man
The farm is a testament to thoughtful sustaining farming practices. The machinery of the forbears is a testament to clever design. Such a joy to watch the farm in action with the lads and horses. Thankyou
Thanks for watching
I like listening to the Amish talk in there native language .lots of Amish here in southern Indiana.
This is how I remember my grandfather who farmed only with horses in Alleghany county NY on the farm in Wirt Township, Richburg NY. The threshing machine would be parked next to the barn with the oat, wheat and other grain bundles brought to it. It was a big day where neighbors would come to help and big lunch was served by the women. I and my brother would watch and help as children and teens. What great memories!
Thanks for sharing
That was really cool to watch. That old cutter still on the job. Quite the feet
Thanks for letting us join the fun.
Good evening Jim,Hard work but what a WONDERFUL life you have.Thankyou for taking the time to make this video and sharing it with us.....and a big thankyou to your friends for the help they give you,lovely people. All the very best 🌱🌱🌱💕🇬🇧 Hi Brenda how's your flower/ vegetable garden going! I'm gathering a lot of my vegetables now the time has come.So a lot of pickling and freezing going on.lt was a very slow start to the season but everything has caught up,my greenhouse is full of tomatoes,cucumbers and chillies....mid to mild ones l add,can't be done with very hot chillies...oh noooo 🌶🔥 enjoyed the drone footage,thankyou Abbey x
Thanks for watching Joyce, the garden is growing well since we have had a lot of rain, lots to harvest.
Watching the aerial shoots was almost a religious experience. Nice video.
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice video. Very interesting......amazing that those machines still operate..., Thank you for showing it.....
Thanks for watching
What a fantastic video that really is some machine , how many hours in total do the horses work in a day? Thank you again for this it’s been wonderful to watch
it varies so much from day to day and job to job
your wife is very right i loved watching that machine do its work.
I'm allways amazed how efficient my Amish friends get things done without modern equipment. The kids are so talented at everything they do. I like to watch them saw n the boy's tailing the mill never miss a beat. Looking forward to seeing the thrashing machine run.
That field is a thing of beauty from the air the old machinery was built to last and easy to repair
Thank Pete for letting you show this. It has meant a lot to me. My mom is 89 yrs old and has told me so many stories of helping her dad farm this way. He raised oats and the stooking was just as she described doing. This has given real visuals to all the things she told me. I know granddad was raising oats for horse feed. Can the same oats be processed (on the farm) for people oatmeal?
Will do, thanks for sharing the memories
Good memories of when I was much younger I cut, shocked and thrashed many fields of oats and wheat. We used a tractor to pull the combine but other than that nothing has changed. My grandfather owned the thrashing machine and he would go from farm to farm doing the thrashing and I would travel with him on many of the jobs. Hard work but I enjoyed every day of doing it and working with my uncles and grandfather. Life was much simpler then and few worries when my head finally hit the pillow. Thankful that I had the opportunity to experience the good times.
Thanks for sharing the memories
Great video! How kind of you to keep "Pete's" identity confidential. Loved seeing the old equipment. And the fact that you changed teams of horses is admirable. I really like the drone photos of your beautiful, orderly fields -- good job Abby (or was it Brenda?)! And by the way, I always like your music too.
Thanks for watching, Elizabeth and for your comments
Well done all of you involved in this video,. So wonderful to see these horse drawn old machines still doing the task they were made for a century on. Thanks again and I look forward to the threshing.
My papa would measure the moisture content by biting a few grains with his teeth, same way with corn, Sonya bean and canola..! Each one was different of course.! He started out with the Clydesdale's that his dad left him before they got into using Belgians. They never had Percheron's though ! My grandmother loved working them just the same.! She had 16 kids, 8 boys and 8 girls.! I miss them both but they into their 90's..! Everything is different now as you well know..! Love your show as it sure brings back memories them. Thank you all for that, from Niagara Falls Canada..!
You have a beautiful farm Jim
Thanks Jim for a wonderful video. As I always say, you are making history with these videos.
It’s incredible the engineering and workmanship that went into creating that grain binder.
That field you are in looks massive from the air. It’s got to be 100 acres in total.
You and your horses must have walked thousands of miles over the years working in it.
Brenda is like a gazelle keeping up with you running the camera.
Brenda should be in the Olympics.
Thanks for watching,!
Very interesting. Tell "Pete" I said thanks for allowing us to see the action. I spent a week in Amish country around Lancaster PA this summer and I find them so interesting. I so admire their work ethic. They keep their farms and property in just perfect condition. I am sure they must be really good neighbors to have. I wish I knew more about their customs and ways. Thanks for the video Jim.
Lancaster is beautiful , and they do an amazing job
Jim, I have just come across your channel and was delighted to see this video - I have an Albion 5A binder that had been converted to tractor. It has been cosmetically restored but I think probably too badly worn to work very well, I show it behind one of my Allis Chalmers. I just remember my Grandfather cutting with a binder but here ( UK ) it was usual to put the stooks into a "rick" ( or stack ) and then would have been threshed in February or March when the thresher came. You would sent a pair of horses to the previous farm to help bring the thresher to your farm. Looking forward to following your channel Jim.
Gave me a hearty laugh when you were fanning the bundle for the top cap. Those Amish boys did a good job building the shocks and fanning the caps.
The use of 'stooks' versus 'shocks' is also a real 'tell' on the region you're in.
Your sheaves/bundles were also really big. Seems that the binder could be set to make skinnier sheaves, which would help drying with all that green material.
Looking forward to when you pitch the shocks up in the wagon and thresh them in a couple of weeks.
You'll have plenty of straw for winter bedding, that's for sure.
Thoroughly enjoyed the video. Thank you for stroll down memory lane.
What an interesting video! I love watching you work your fields "the old way" using the horses, and being a city gal have never seen hay cut up close or oats cut period. With your wonderful camera person (hello!!) running back and forth and side to side, it's amazing to see how the oats are cut, shuffled through the machine, bound and dumped off. It's so cool! And relaxing to watch, although I'm sure it's hot, hard work for all the workers, two-legged and four-legged. Please give the boys a carrot and scratch on the withers from me. Thanks again for a wonderful, informative video.
Thanks for watching Susan
Simply amazing! Fantastic job as it’s enjoyable to see how thing’s we’re done in the old days! Thank and everyone should be proud of them selves!
Looking forward to seeing the next part
Loved watching this . There's a peacefulness to what you do and share with your audience . Thank you .
Thank you for the great video 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Amazing ,we learned a lot today,thank God for cloud cover most of the time,,and thanks Abby..
As usual Your Lady is doing a super job at getting the videos.
Glad you like them!
Absolutely beautiful farm you folks are blessed to have!
If it wasn’t for the Amish or some old collectors these machines would be scraped already.very interesting video
Great video Jim & family! Thank you to Pete and his boys for allowing us to watch the process and the machinery. I respect their privacy and admire their life and work ethic. That machine was awesome. I see farming channels with all modern machines, and they all have to be worked on. You have a beautiful farm, and I love that your horses get to eat the oats. They always look so shiny💙
Thanks Kim
What a WONDERFUL Video! Abby, you are gifted videographer. and you and your sister have beautiful singing voices... Jim and Brenda, no one could ask for a better life style. GOD definitely likes what you are doing!
I'm sure glad you had help with the stooking. What a big job and the field looked well measured and beautiful.
Yes, we are too! thanks for watching
What a cool video seeing how all these old machines work! Crazy to think how they have been around for so long! What thought must have gone into inventing them! And those views! Such a beautiful place you live! Thanks for the video!
Yes, they have been around for quite some time and are very interesting machines
I have been lucky to know some Amish and Mennonite people. They are honest and hardworking and willing to help you out
Wow havent seen that done since I was 7 or 8. What a great memory to have at these sad times. Also I remember the thrashing machine. My cousin and I use to help doing odd jobs at that time of season. Is your rows a 1000 feet long.
Job well done!!! The drone video gives us another view of the beauty of God's handiwork.
Really interesting to me. I would enjoy seeing a closeup of the knotter operating, and a close look at the twine and knot on a bundle. Thanks for sharing.
Lovely! You couldn't have had a better day n help for this job! Beautiful from above to see the end result's. 🐎🤗👍
Lovely video. Fascinating machine. Thanks
Thanks for watching
This is fascinating stuff I tell you. I am so happy to see how things used to be done and now I know how all those groups of grain are done in all the Amish fields here in Michigan. I’m never to old to learn something new!!!:):):)
Right!
same here in uk grandpa on binder me on tractor fordson standard cutting the headlands into straight lines ready for the combines. now fields are square and straight i was 12 1955. also our farmer had the third massey from canada came in 3 boxes on rail way plus a rep from canada to see how it performed.
That looks so satisfying,I'm not ageing to grazfully old times old memeroies ,love that team lady and bill
I'm enjoying watching some of the older videos that I've missed from a year 2 years ago very interesting thank you
That was a beautiful site that filed with all those piles. Just how GOD wants the land to be treated. Thank you for being such a great steward of the land. GOD BLESS YOU and your family!!!
Thanks
Very interesting video liked watching it learned more on farming! Drone footage was great! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing !
what a lovely video Jim, I always feel like Im going to work with you and the horses. Look forward to the threshing. Also what great neighbours you have. Clearly you guys have a great community
That is just amazing how it works I don't understand how when in comes down after being bundled and tired how it stays on the long part before it drops the bundle love watching
Enjoyed the video of the grain binder & your concise description of the various components & how they function. It's amazing to watch old equipment of long ago, working & showcasing man's early ingenuity! Thank Peter and his boys for their contribution as they were silent & invisible! Thank the videographer for a well done on the ground and in the air & the choice of music!
Please, look each horse in the eyes & give them a big hug and tell them it's from Papa, they know of my spirit!
Thank you for a peaceful evening!
Thanks, will try to do that
I always enjoy the pioneer building at our state fair watching the thrashing machine I watched it do wheat don't believe I've ever seen oats go through a thrasher so ill be excited to see that.
This is fascinating to watch! I think the old timers in my area called it shocked they would shock wheat and oats. Stook? Must be the Dutch word I guess? Thank you for showing this!
Do you have a place to store the oat straw as it is blown out of the thrasher or just in a straw stack in the yard? My horses and cattle would continue munching on oat straw when used for bedding.
Thats a lot of work , shocking them oats. Brings back memories of my youth. Thanks Jim 🇺🇸
Jim, thanks the video was really interesting to watch thanks for sharing
To think this would have been done with scythe's by hand!
Great drone work Abby!
Before binders there was a specialized scythe called a grain cradle. A long sweep of the scythe would collect a bundle which was 'tied' with a couple handsfull of the grain. The tying was demonstrated to me when I was just a kid and I'm 81 now. So many memories.
We called it Thrashing and our oats were taller as we planted Buck-Oats.