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.
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
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!!
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.
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.
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
DAD used to cut grain farmers crops in 1930s with a crew of 10, this kind of binder. He had extra wagons to take the grain off in sacs. Dad let the crew get the binders and threshing to end. It was Dad's crew- at the end the grain went in sacs. Dad would fill the sacs, heave one under his left arm, one over his shoulder. then another under his right arm, and a sac in each arm. To make each farmer happy, when their crop was done in a day, This binder was good for us kids in stocking the grain to dry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Memories for sure. My daddy's brother Elmer had a thrashing machine and a grain binder. He was a tractor mechanic during the week and during season would run the thrasher on weekends. One year Uncle Lonnie used the binder for wheat so I visited with my older cousins and got to help stook wheat sheaves, carrying water. I was 5yo and Uncle Lonnie didn't want me in the way. A couple weeks later grandaddy took me to the thrashing on a Saturday. Uncle Lonnie and his boys were there with their wheat and a lot of others too. It was quite a gathering. The thrasher was driven by a big John Deere with a long wide belt. It was hot, dusty and loud. I wasn't allowed out of grandaddy's 46 Chevy pickup. The men forked the bundles from trucks and wagons into the thrasher. Out came sacks of grain, straw and dust. After it was all done they loaded their grass sacks of grain and we all went to the Trading Center where there was a winnowing machine to clean the grain. I was 8-9 before I saw a Gleaner combine pulled by a Ford tractor owned Wayne Barton. Thanks for sharing
I suppose that is the difference between a threshing machine and a separator. We called them all threshing machines even though it clearly said separator on the side of most that I have seen. All that I observed cleaned the grain of chaff and weed seeds quite efficiently if the operator was good at making adjustments for the crop and dryness of the material. Further cleaning was only done for grain to seed or mill into flour or meal for human consumption.
@@wssides : You are correct. Grain used for animal feed needed no further cleaning than the "thresher" (my folks called it thrasher). But hardly anybody I knew fed grain except corn to animals. My pa had a grist mill run by a little "one lung" engine. He sieved the wheat and if it weren't clean he wouldn't run it. Most everybody saved seed for the next crop and it had to be clean to run through the drill so the "separator" was a busy place. The only broadcast seeding I've ever seen or done was cover crop, pasture grass and some hay fields. Last hay field I put in ~30yago was broadcast orchard grass and clair timothy for horse feed and it was awesome. I still have the old wood box wood spoke wheel grain drill that was in my daddy's family from the 40s. It's mostly rotten and the spouts are rusted away but it's a treasure for me. Nice to hear from you. Blessings to you and yours.
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.
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!!!
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.
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..
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.
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
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.
For several years I was the one operating the binder as my Grandfather pulled it with his tractor. Then the neighbors would come over and pick up the bundles and take them to the Threshing machine for processing. He then would thake the threshing machine to the neighbors and thresh their grain. What an awesome video to relive this experience.
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
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.
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!
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!
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..!
When I was 6 yrs old in 1943 my grandfather had 20 acres of wheat harvested this way. I will never forget the way the crew worked together to cut, shock and thresh the wheat. The threshing machine was placed near one edge of the field and the grain was augered into a truck bed that had high side boards, as this was happening the straw was shot over the fence and piled in the pasture. But the best part of the day was the lunch that all the farm wives put together on a long table. Good memories.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tell the dear Amish friend thank you so very much for bringing his most fabulous machine and showing us how it works..Blessings to you all from South Alabama.
Collision of technology, watching horse drawn haverster, filmed on a drone, watching it on my phone. This is a great video, thanks for being respectful to "Pete".
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.🇬🇧😀❤️
The consistency is entirely in the foot and coordination of the operator. He also has to adjust the reel height and position of the twine on the bundle with the changing crop height.
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.
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 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!
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
I did my apprenticeship on farm machinery from 1979 to 1983, I did a lot of repairs on my Uncles binder and some on my dad's. the most temperamental machines made. Its good to see this one as its ground drive. Rarely seen in action in Australia now.
This video brought back lots of memories from when I was young. We hitched our binder to a tractor and either Opa or Oma sat on the binder. I got to drive the tractor. Our thrasher was set upstairs in the barn. There was a barn hill and our team of horses pulled the loads up the hill and into the barn next to the thrasher. What a dusty place that was when the thrasher was running. The Oats went directly into the grainery and the straw was blown into the straw mow.
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.
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
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
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?
Wow, as a seventy year old, this took me back to my childhood on my grandfathers Croft here in Scotland, when the children and women would set up the stools. Great 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.
Brought back a lot of old memories. As a young boy I drove a tractor which pulled the binder that my father was running. He could adjust the height of the cutting bar, the height of the reel and the location on the bundle where he wanted it tied with the twine -- among other adjustments that he could make. We stacked the bundles in what we called a shock. The shock usually contained about 10 bundles. The process of putting the bundles into shocks was called shocking -- and it was very hard and hot work.
I worked on my grandparents farm in Southwest Virginia in the late 1940's and early 1950's helping to build "shocks" after the grain was cut and bundled by a horse-drawn binder identical to this one. To prevent trampling on the grain before the first round with the binder, the first round around the perimeter would be cut by hand using a cradle. The ccradle-cut bundles would be tied by hand using a dozen or so stems of the cut grain. Great memories from my childhood. Thank you for this great video.
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!
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.
Never really know how much ground you farm until you get a birds eye view..Another excellent video Jim ...And this for the 11 people with the thumbs down, go find another channel..
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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.
I’ve seen those machines sitting on places….but this the first time I’ve seen one work.
Thank you.
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
That was really cool to watch. That old cutter still on the job. Quite the feet
Thanks for letting us join the fun.
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!
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What a treat to watch! Thanks to all involved!
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.
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
DAD used to cut grain farmers crops in 1930s with a crew of 10, this kind of binder. He had extra wagons to take the grain off in sacs. Dad let the crew get the binders and threshing to end.
It was Dad's crew- at the end the grain went in sacs. Dad would fill the sacs, heave one under his left arm, one over his shoulder. then another under his right arm, and a sac in each arm.
To make each farmer happy, when their crop was done in a day, This binder was good for us kids in stocking the grain to dry.
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.
Good video Jim, really cool that the Amish neighbour helps out
and that you respect his privacy
You do a very nice job narrating the action and interspersing a story too.
Thank you very much!
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.
I never saw this done before. Amazing machine a 100 years old still doing the job. we only improve what the old timers invented.
That field is a thing of beauty from the air the old machinery was built to last and easy to repair
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!
I have been waiting on this video it was great thank's for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
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!
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!
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
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.
Memories for sure. My daddy's brother Elmer had a thrashing machine and a grain binder. He was a tractor mechanic during the week and during season would run the thrasher on weekends. One year Uncle Lonnie used the binder for wheat so I visited with my older cousins and got to help stook wheat sheaves, carrying water. I was 5yo and Uncle Lonnie didn't want me in the way. A couple weeks later grandaddy took me to the thrashing on a Saturday. Uncle Lonnie and his boys were there with their wheat and a lot of others too. It was quite a gathering. The thrasher was driven by a big John Deere with a long wide belt. It was hot, dusty and loud. I wasn't allowed out of grandaddy's 46 Chevy pickup. The men forked the bundles from trucks and wagons into the thrasher. Out came sacks of grain, straw and dust. After it was all done they loaded their grass sacks of grain and we all went to the Trading Center where there was a winnowing machine to clean the grain. I was 8-9 before I saw a Gleaner combine pulled by a Ford tractor owned Wayne Barton. Thanks for sharing
I suppose that is the difference between a threshing machine and a separator. We called them all threshing machines even though it clearly said separator on the side of most that I have seen. All that I observed cleaned the grain of chaff and weed seeds quite efficiently if the operator was good at making adjustments for the crop and dryness of the material. Further cleaning was only done for grain to seed or mill into flour or meal for human consumption.
@@wssides : You are correct. Grain used for animal feed needed no further cleaning than the "thresher" (my folks called it thrasher). But hardly anybody I knew fed grain except corn to animals. My pa had a grist mill run by a little "one lung" engine. He sieved the wheat and if it weren't clean he wouldn't run it. Most everybody saved seed for the next crop and it had to be clean to run through the drill so the "separator" was a busy place. The only broadcast seeding I've ever seen or done was cover crop, pasture grass and some hay fields. Last hay field I put in ~30yago was broadcast orchard grass and clair timothy for horse feed and it was awesome. I still have the old wood box wood spoke wheel grain drill that was in my daddy's family from the 40s. It's mostly rotten and the spouts are rusted away but it's a treasure for me. Nice to hear from you. Blessings to you and yours.
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
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
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
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!
your wife is very right i loved watching that machine do its work.
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.
I like listening to the Amish talk in there native language .lots of Amish here in southern Indiana.
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.
You are a very blessed man
Good one.Nice to see the binder in action again.It’s good too have good neighbours like the Amish.
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.
Watching the aerial shoots was almost a religious experience. Nice video.
Glad you enjoyed it
For several years I was the one operating the binder as my Grandfather pulled it with his tractor. Then the neighbors would come over and pick up the bundles and take them to the Threshing machine for processing. He then would thake the threshing machine to the neighbors and thresh their grain. What an awesome video to relive this experience.
Coolest thing ever!! Thanks, Abby, Jim and Pete and sons!
First time I have ever seen oats harvested that way! That was great!
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
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.
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
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
how this brings back memories of how my farther and grand father farmed, today i am 77
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..!
When I was 6 yrs old in 1943 my grandfather had 20 acres of wheat harvested this way. I will never forget the way the crew worked together to cut, shock and thresh the wheat. The threshing machine was placed near one edge of the field and the grain was augered into a truck bed that had high side boards, as this was happening the straw was shot over the fence and piled in the pasture. But the best part of the day was the lunch that all the farm wives put together on a long table. Good memories.
Thanks for sharing, we have had a lot of people sharing similar memories from years ago
Fascinating to see the old machinery and working with the Amish, thoroughly enjoyed your video. Thank you for sharing. ❤️🇬🇧
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
Hie Jim, may GOD bless you. 70 years ago I was stooking grain for my uncle .Thanks for the wonderful memories.
Great video, your drone shots were the best. My, how wonderful your farm looks, just breath taking! ;-)
Glad you enjoyed it
As usual Your Lady is doing a super job at getting the videos.
Glad you like them!
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.
Nice to ser this old machine working! My grandfather used a similer sort. But he used three horses.
Absolutely fascinating technology. It’s like a live history lesson 👍🇦🇺
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.
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
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
Tell the dear Amish friend thank you so very much for bringing his most fabulous machine and showing us how it works..Blessings to you all from South Alabama.
Thats a lot of work , shocking them oats. Brings back memories of my youth. Thanks Jim 🇺🇸
Collision of technology, watching horse drawn haverster, filmed on a drone, watching it on my phone. This is a great video, thanks for being respectful to "Pete".
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!
Pretty impressive how consistent it was dropping those shocks in the field
The consistency is entirely in the foot and coordination of the operator. He also has to adjust the reel height and position of the twine on the bundle with the changing crop height.
I have been lucky to know some Amish and Mennonite people. They are honest and hardworking and willing to help you out
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
Absolutely brilliant! Been looking forward to this video all day and it did not disappoint. Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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
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!
That is called RESPECT .
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!
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
I did my apprenticeship on farm machinery from 1979 to 1983, I did a lot of repairs on my Uncles binder and some on my dad's. the most temperamental machines made. Its good to see this one as its ground drive. Rarely seen in action in Australia now.
They sure do have a lot of moving parts
So cool!!! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
This video brought back lots of memories from when I was young. We hitched our binder to a tractor and either Opa or Oma sat on the binder. I got to drive the tractor. Our thrasher was set upstairs in the barn. There was a barn hill and our team of horses pulled the loads up the hill and into the barn next to the thrasher. What a dusty place that was when the thrasher was running. The Oats went directly into the grainery and the straw was blown into the straw mow.
Thanks for sharing the memories
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,!
The drone footage was fantastic. Good job all!
Great having friends such as that, God blesses you!
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
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
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?
I was driving through Lancaster, PA and was fascinated when I saw a team of three horses working a field.
Wow, as a seventy year old, this took me back to my childhood on my grandfathers Croft here in Scotland, when the children and women would set up the stools. Great memories.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
You have a beautiful farm Jim
Thank you Jim - I really loved to watch you doing the cutting "old style". Happy trails...
Glad you enjoyed it
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
Brought back a lot of old memories. As a young boy I drove a tractor which pulled the binder that my father was running. He could adjust the height of the cutting bar, the height of the reel and the location on the bundle where he wanted it tied with the twine -- among other adjustments that he could make. We stacked the bundles in what we called a shock. The shock usually contained about 10 bundles. The process of putting the bundles into shocks was called shocking -- and it was very hard and hot work.
Yes, thanks for sharing the memories
Really good drone video! Love the perspective it gives on the work being done.
I worked on my grandparents farm in Southwest Virginia in the late 1940's and early 1950's helping to build "shocks" after the grain was cut and bundled by a horse-drawn binder identical to this one. To prevent trampling on the grain before the first round with the binder, the first round around the perimeter would be cut by hand using a cradle. The ccradle-cut bundles would be tied by hand using a dozen or so stems of the cut grain.
Great memories from my childhood. Thank you for this great video.
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!
That looks so satisfying,I'm not ageing to grazfully old times old memeroies ,love that team lady and bill
Thank you for the great video 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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.
Never really know how much ground you farm until you get a birds eye view..Another excellent video Jim ...And this for the 11 people with the thumbs down, go find another channel..
Glad you enjoyed it
Very cool old machine. Abby did a great job with the drone.
Thanks 👍
Been looking forward to this . Thanks for sharing!
Hope you enjoy it!
Loved watching this . There's a peacefulness to what you do and share with your audience . Thank you .
I'm enjoying watching some of the older videos that I've missed from a year 2 years ago very interesting thank you
Absolutely beautiful farm you folks are blessed to have!
Hi Jim,
I grew up in Upstate NY on a small farm. We had two great draft horses, Doll and Babe. What a wonderful beginning and place to grow up.
I say this with respect and admiration, what a Rube Goldberg contraption.