I'm 73 years old and a few of my earliest memories revolve around the threshing machine, sitting on the barn floor of my grandparents farm. It was run by a long, wide belt that was powered by a large pulley on the tractor. I remember Dad feeding the sheaves into the front of it and my grandfather and uncle bagging the grain from a side chute. The threshing machine was set up right beside the granary and the bags were emptied into the grain bins. The straw was blown out the back by a large, round chute that blew the straw into the straw mall. When they took a break and shut off the machine us kids would be sent to the top of the straw pile to stamp it down. It was more fun than work for us! This was all back in the late 50's as my grandfather passed away in 1957 and my uncle took over the farm and things were never quite the same after that. One of my earliest memories was my older brother and I carrying the water pail from the hand dug well to the fields for the thirsty adults who were cutting corn and stacking it into shocks.
I remember my Grandfather telling me all about the harvest in the old days. He died in 2009 at 93. He was so awesome I wish I could have plugged a wire into his head to mine and downloaded all that knowledge.
My grandfather was born in 1906. He used to tell stories of threshing in the valleys of Humboldt County, California near Maple Creek. First with a stationary steam engine at a nearby lumber mill, and later with early tractors running flat belts. Even my father, born 1948, still gets a little misty eyed when he hears an old 2 cylinder “Johnny Popper”, reminding him of farming out in those hills.
This video is absolutely fantastic. I remember one year, must have been is first or second grade, we planted spring wheat in a small test plot near our house. Hand broadcasted and raked in. I cut a good amount of it with a sickle hook, loaded it into the Radio Flyer wagon, and brought to to the slab out front of our shop. In our shop, I found a wooden box with a fairly large mesh screen on the bottom of it - it must have been for classifying rock by size in a gradation, but the holes looked about the right size for grains of wheat. I clapped and rubbed the heads of a few stalks of wheat at a time between my hands over that box, and then picked it up and shook it to make the grain and some chaff fall through onto the concrete slab. I picked up the grain and chaff, and each time I felt the wind blow, I chucked a handful of it up over a cardboard box, and used the wind to winnow it. I didn't get the cleanest sample in the world, or a large quantity, but looking back, it was a great learning experience. To think that I now own my very own combine, and that experience helped me to understand some of the principles behind the operation of that combine. One of my first dates with my girlfriend was when I took her to our local threshing show about an decade ago, and scooped some freshly threshed wheat as it came out of the thresher, and we snacked on it together. We've gotten to where we go to somewhere between 6 and 10 threshing shows per year, and make it a tradition to do that same thing. Rough and Tumble hasn't been crossed off our list yet, but someday we'll make it there. I've been very blessed the past few years, having been able to attend a couple different steam schools, volunteer at our local show, and last year, brought some of my family's equipment to a threshing show for the first time. I am very blessed to have the passion but not need to depend on it for my whole income. Thank you for posting this video. I could watch it a dozen times and not get tired of it. A great watch with the family, especially for kids who are coming of enough age to grasp the concepts demonstrated through the technological advancements shown in this video. Thank you so much for posting it!
I don´t know why, but that high quality historical document brings me a different way of looking a slice of bread. Making me hungry, i take a pause and go pick up a bowl of Corn Flakes. So easy today. From the grocery store to my bowl. Can you imagine what those pioneers would say about our easy life ? They cut their hands with those straws, broke their back, baked in the sun, cryied like baby when rain destroyed grain. No harvest insurance in those days. Yep, we´re so lucky. Thanks to all these hard workers. Maybe we should work with Amish for a week (if we survive) to know what the word work really means.
Great video. Watched it with wet eyes. I remember the horse drawn binder and the steam engine powering the threshing machine. Next, the binder was was converted to a swather by disabling the bundle tie system and it was pulled by our MD H with Dad driving from the binder seat. That swathing was for the first combine which was a MD 122C pull type. Not long after that, when I was age 13, Dad was seriously injured and I started running the Massey 27 combine. Ran combines for the next eight years. It's those memories that caused the wet eyes as I watched this video. Thanks.
In 1978 bought a Allis Chalmers AC-66 combine for $300 at auction. Used it for five years for oats and alfalfa seed. AC-45 tractor powered the operation. I was thrilled. The old man at the elevator where I sold my oats asked me if i had an old AC? Asked him how he knew, and he said the new combines weren't as clean. Gave me $.25 more a bushel as he didn't have to clean them. I was a young sprout of thirty. Great memories.
How different to what I remember as a child of the fifties. 1 neighbour had a threshing machine and an old MDeering on steel tractor and would haul the thrasher from farm to farm at about 2 or 3 mph. At our neighbour"s barn they would set up so the grain was augered straight up to the grain bin and the straw was blown straight into the straw mow. It was hell on earth up in the straw mow forking the loose straw into the corners and edges of the mow so you could get all the straw in the barn ! Thank you for this vid, brings back a lot of memories although slightly different to what I knew !
Good day from Ontario. I remember when bindering , we would have some shieves loose My great uncle took some stems of grain twisted it together & used it to tie shieves with it Y dad said in late 20'-30's they barn thresh. Brought grain & stored it in barn & thrash it in winter Boy it is too bad that they did not have a scour kleen, that would have cleaned small seeds Thanks very interesting.
I have been to Rough and Tumble's August event a number of times and have loved it every time. All of the things they show in this video that are from Rough and Tumble can be seen every year. There are threshing demonstrations where they step through time just like this video did, and someone explains to the crowd what is happening. If you are in any way close to Kinzers, PA (east of Lancaster) make an effort to get there. In addition to all this threshing and farming equipment, there are hundreds of small (hit and miss) engines, many operating, an enormous engine once used to pressurize a gas line, a working machine shop from the early 1900s, a small, real, steam train ride, an outdoor area with operating antique construction equipment, an operating sawmill, a big flea market, a great food court run by Amish, local food vendors, You can easily spend a whole day there, and I often do.
I was able to go to the Rough & Tumble event this past August . I live in Armstrong County Pa. About a 4 or 5 hour drive. It was worth every minute of it. I really enjoyed the show and I hope to get back this year.
Back in the 1990's I owned and operated a tractor trailer, traveled all over the country trying to find good paying loads. There was (maybe still there?) a great old fashioned dining car restaurant just east of Lancaster on the north side of the road. Great food and good people and if you were a good driver there was room to park your rig outback. I never heard of the show until now or I would have been there.
Wonderful documentary. My husband actually operated that last combine while employed on a grain property on the darling Downs Queensland Australia in the early 70s
The combined harvester/ thresher was one hell of an improvement over the reaper/ binder and the stationary thresher. Although I love the nostalgia of the old days and the way the threshing bees brought the family community together, once the compact combine was invented there was no turning back.
Ross I was told the corn special combine was a heavier built machine. In 1959 the Hercules engine blew on dad's pull type Baldwin. The next spring dad bought a new 1959 45 combine. In 1969 dad bought a 1959 95. For several yrs we run both combines. In 1979 dad bought a 1969 95. All 3 were good combines. Mike's Buhler, Kansas mite have some of your combine parts.
In Ireland we have the innishannon steam rally before it changed location it was the Upton steam rally, the best steam rally in Europe is the great Dorset steam rally.
Excellent program everyone. I remember the threshing machine, as my father was one of the last people to use it in the early 1960's in Saskatchewan Canada. He used a WD40 tractor to run the machine. We did grind out own flour as well. Thank you
My gg grandfather died on top of a hay wagon stacking hay. His son got stabbed by a barn hay hook and died. My grandfather sold more Allis Chalmers combines starting in the 1930s at Lennon, Michigan than anyone. The goal was to get rid of horses and old steam harvesters. I harvested wheat and corn with a cab on a John Deere 95 combine. Wow, farming evolved within 50 years.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Very enjoyable seeing 👀those work horses pulling the loaded wheat wagon/harvesting devices. 😉.. Far as manual hand sickles go-??? OH my aching back-!!! 😵. Viewing this presentation from the comfort of my computer room. Along the " Space Coast " 🚀of Florida 🐊🐊. Nothing quite like a juicy Florida navel orange 🍊🍊-!!!😋😋. Wishing viewers/farmers a safe/healthy/prosperous ( 2024 )🌈🎉😉..
Could do without the hideous rendition of Bringing in the Sheves but otherwise brought back memories of when the huge thresher came to our farm for 'our turn' -- sliding down the straw stacks (and getting swatted for it) and all the food my mother had to make. I have used a scythe and it is hard work. Miss the farm every day.
Muy buen video, hay mucho que rescatar aqui , para que no se pierda , en estos precisos dias al borde de una 3ra. guerra mundial , habrá que volver alo análogo❤👍👍👍
The Jerusalem temple was set on the threshing floor of the Jebusite, who was a pre-Israli or Palastinian precursor. So even before Solomon's temple, the ancient one the moon worshipers were present.
Gotta love Henry Ford. Of Course he would come up with the implement attachment to a Model T, being a farmer in the beginning and of the old school mindset waste nothing.
Unfortunately I just missed the threshing as I was born too late but I’ve been told that the stack when it was threshed that rats would be flying everywhere when they got to the bottom of the stack.
Well done. I'm from the age of pull combines. Being young and bulletproof I would be all around all that that now in my old age something that can catch loose clothes and kill you.
Had enough banjo/bluegrass picking by a minute and a half into the program. Consider limiting presentations to Video, Sound, and Narration. Adding background music breaks the rule of three by adding an additional, or fourth, distracting component. If video is replaced with stills underscore with appropriate sound from video you have. Video, Natural Sound and Narrative is enough. Remember that some people may not share your personal taste in music.
I hardly noticed the music, I found the content too interesting to be distracted. There are too many rules, relax. I am fascinated by the lives of the people and the equipment that was developed to make their lives easier.
I did this in England when I was a kid growing up the local Thatcher in our village had to get his thatching straw for roofing with a thrash and tackle so the straw wasn’t damaged my dad and two brothers helped him out every year it was hard but satisfying work and you should have seen the people from the city stop for pictures made feel like we were in a zoo lol then the news cameras would show up my dad farmed and owned a pub in Gt Ashfield in Suffolk I would not give up my up bringing at all we farmed the old fashioned way I remember chopping sugar beet with a hoe by hand when they were ready we pulled them up by hand and knocked them together week later we topped them with a hook and pitched them in the old tumble I will never forget them days my dad was 2nd world war navy tuff as nails and just as mean we had the farm and pub and dad worked as a lineman for the electric company and he did that till he retired those where the days ❤
We dont neeed no stinking OSHA around here. ROFL, I remember my grand dad having the summer crew come over to thresh the straw and then do the same with the corn sheller crew.
I'm 73 years old and a few of my earliest memories revolve around the threshing machine, sitting on the barn floor of my grandparents farm. It was run by a long, wide belt that was powered by a large pulley on the tractor. I remember Dad feeding the sheaves into the front of it and my grandfather and uncle bagging the grain from a side chute. The threshing machine was set up right beside the granary and the bags were emptied into the grain bins. The straw was blown out the back by a large, round chute that blew the straw into the straw mall. When they took a break and shut off the machine us kids would be sent to the top of the straw pile to stamp it down. It was more fun than work for us! This was all back in the late 50's as my grandfather passed away in 1957 and my uncle took over the farm and things were never quite the same after that. One of my earliest memories was my older brother and I carrying the water pail from the hand dug well to the fields for the thirsty adults who were cutting corn and stacking it into shocks.
Bro my grandpa has like the same story that sounds so cool
The good ole days
Nice story.
I remember my Grandfather telling me all about the harvest in the old days. He died in 2009 at 93. He was so awesome I wish I could have plugged a wire into his head to mine and downloaded all that knowledge.
My grandfather was born in 1906. He used to tell stories of threshing in the valleys of Humboldt County, California near Maple Creek. First with a stationary steam engine at a nearby lumber mill, and later with early tractors running flat belts. Even my father, born 1948, still gets a little misty eyed when he hears an old 2 cylinder “Johnny Popper”, reminding him of farming out in those hills.
I am 31 years old and I proud to say I grew up with a threshing ring. Being Amish had its perks!
This video is absolutely fantastic. I remember one year, must have been is first or second grade, we planted spring wheat in a small test plot near our house. Hand broadcasted and raked in. I cut a good amount of it with a sickle hook, loaded it into the Radio Flyer wagon, and brought to to the slab out front of our shop. In our shop, I found a wooden box with a fairly large mesh screen on the bottom of it - it must have been for classifying rock by size in a gradation, but the holes looked about the right size for grains of wheat. I clapped and rubbed the heads of a few stalks of wheat at a time between my hands over that box, and then picked it up and shook it to make the grain and some chaff fall through onto the concrete slab. I picked up the grain and chaff, and each time I felt the wind blow, I chucked a handful of it up over a cardboard box, and used the wind to winnow it.
I didn't get the cleanest sample in the world, or a large quantity, but looking back, it was a great learning experience. To think that I now own my very own combine, and that experience helped me to understand some of the principles behind the operation of that combine.
One of my first dates with my girlfriend was when I took her to our local threshing show about an decade ago, and scooped some freshly threshed wheat as it came out of the thresher, and we snacked on it together. We've gotten to where we go to somewhere between 6 and 10 threshing shows per year, and make it a tradition to do that same thing. Rough and Tumble hasn't been crossed off our list yet, but someday we'll make it there.
I've been very blessed the past few years, having been able to attend a couple different steam schools, volunteer at our local show, and last year, brought some of my family's equipment to a threshing show for the first time. I am very blessed to have the passion but not need to depend on it for my whole income.
Thank you for posting this video. I could watch it a dozen times and not get tired of it. A great watch with the family, especially for kids who are coming of enough age to grasp the concepts demonstrated through the technological advancements shown in this video. Thank you so much for posting it!
I can feel the peacefulness of your farm through the screen
I don´t know why, but that high quality historical document brings me a different way of looking a slice of bread. Making me hungry, i take a pause and go pick up a bowl of Corn Flakes. So easy today. From the grocery store to my bowl. Can you imagine what those pioneers would say about our easy life ? They cut their hands with those straws, broke their back, baked in the sun, cryied like baby when rain destroyed grain. No harvest insurance in those days.
Yep, we´re so lucky. Thanks to all these hard workers. Maybe we should work with Amish for a week
(if we survive) to know what the word work really means.
Great video. Watched it with wet eyes. I remember the horse drawn binder and the steam engine powering the threshing machine. Next, the binder was was converted to a swather by disabling the bundle tie system and it was pulled by our MD H with Dad driving from the binder seat. That swathing was for the first combine which was a MD 122C pull type. Not long after that, when I was age 13, Dad was seriously injured and I started running the Massey 27 combine. Ran combines for the next eight years. It's those memories that caused the wet eyes as I watched this video. Thanks.
You know, I was thinking how dangerous all those pulleys were and if farmers got hurt by them. Hope your dad was ok after his injury.
❤Yup....I am blinking away my blurred eyes... so much history of my family and myself such a small part of it.
In 1978 bought a Allis Chalmers AC-66 combine for $300 at auction. Used it for five years for oats and alfalfa seed.
AC-45 tractor powered the operation.
I was thrilled. The old man at the elevator where I sold my oats asked me if i had an old AC? Asked him how he knew, and he said the new combines weren't as clean. Gave me $.25 more a bushel as he didn't have to clean them. I was a young sprout of thirty.
Great memories.
Thanks for the show. Man and machine.
How different to what I remember as a child of the fifties. 1 neighbour had a threshing machine and an old MDeering on steel tractor and would haul the thrasher from farm to farm at about 2 or 3 mph. At our neighbour"s barn they would set up so the grain was augered straight up to the grain bin and the straw was blown straight into the straw mow. It was hell on earth up in the straw mow forking the loose straw into the corners and edges of the mow so you could get all the straw in the barn ! Thank you for this vid, brings back a lot of memories although slightly different to what I knew !
Good day from Ontario. I remember when bindering , we would have some shieves loose My great uncle took
some stems of grain twisted it together & used it to tie shieves with it
Y dad said in late 20'-30's they barn thresh. Brought grain & stored it in barn & thrash it in winter
Boy it is too bad that they did not have a scour kleen, that would have cleaned small seeds
Thanks very interesting.
I have been to Rough and Tumble's August event a number of times and have loved it every time. All of the things they show in this video that are from Rough and Tumble can be seen every year. There are threshing demonstrations where they step through time just like this video did, and someone explains to the crowd what is happening. If you are in any way close to Kinzers, PA (east of Lancaster) make an effort to get there. In addition to all this threshing and farming equipment, there are hundreds of small (hit and miss) engines, many operating, an enormous engine once used to pressurize a gas line, a working machine shop from the early 1900s, a small, real, steam train ride, an outdoor area with operating antique construction equipment, an operating sawmill, a big flea market, a great food court run by Amish, local food vendors, You can easily spend a whole day there, and I often do.
I was able to go to the Rough & Tumble event this past August . I live in Armstrong County Pa. About a 4 or 5 hour drive. It was worth every minute of it. I really enjoyed the show and I hope to get back this year.
Back in the 1990's I owned and operated a tractor trailer, traveled all over the country trying to find good paying loads. There was (maybe still there?) a great old fashioned dining car restaurant just east of Lancaster on the north side of the road. Great food and good people and if you were a good driver there was room to park your rig outback. I never heard of the show until now or I would have been there.
My father bought a pull type combine back in 1975 for the harvesting of clover seeds.
Excellent program. One can see why farming was so dangerous 100 years ago.
Wonderful documentary. My husband actually operated that last combine while employed on a grain property on the darling Downs Queensland Australia in the early 70s
The combined harvester/ thresher was one hell of an improvement over the reaper/ binder and the stationary thresher. Although I love the nostalgia of the old days and the way the threshing bees brought the family community together, once the compact combine was invented there was no turning back.
Your dedication to organic farming is inspiring. 🌱
Amazing documentary. Thank you for sharing. I love this stuff.
Excellent video, well explained
Ross I was told the corn special combine was a heavier built machine. In 1959 the Hercules engine blew on dad's pull type Baldwin. The next spring dad bought a new 1959 45 combine. In 1969 dad bought a 1959 95. For several yrs we run both combines. In 1979 dad bought a 1969 95. All 3 were good combines. Mike's Buhler, Kansas mite have some of your combine parts.
In Ireland we have the innishannon steam rally before it changed location it was the Upton steam rally, the best steam rally in Europe is the great Dorset steam rally.
well pruduced video and thanks to the guys who did the work
Excellent program everyone. I remember the threshing machine, as my father was one of the last people to use it in the early 1960's in Saskatchewan Canada. He used a WD40 tractor to run the machine. We did grind out own flour as well. Thank you
Really interesting to watch!
at 11:27 the two white horse that is my grandfather with his team if percherons ike and ezzy years ago
Your grandfather is my second cousin. Say Hi for me.
The horses were beautiful. Your grandpa looks Amish.
@@england670 haha thanks! yup thoughs are his everyday clothes!
Nice video
My gg grandfather died on top of a hay wagon stacking hay. His son got stabbed by a barn hay hook and died. My grandfather sold more Allis Chalmers combines starting in the 1930s at Lennon, Michigan than anyone. The goal was to get rid of horses and old steam harvesters. I harvested wheat and corn with a cab on a John Deere 95 combine. Wow, farming evolved within 50 years.
As I'm watching this video I thought how dangerous these machines were. That's sad about your GG & his son.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Very enjoyable seeing 👀those work horses pulling the loaded wheat wagon/harvesting devices. 😉.. Far as manual hand sickles go-??? OH my aching back-!!! 😵. Viewing this presentation from the comfort of my computer room. Along the " Space Coast " 🚀of Florida 🐊🐊. Nothing quite like a juicy Florida navel orange 🍊🍊-!!!😋😋. Wishing viewers/farmers a safe/healthy/prosperous ( 2024 )🌈🎉😉..
Could do without the hideous rendition of Bringing in the Sheves but otherwise brought back memories of when the huge thresher came to our farm for 'our turn' -- sliding down the straw stacks (and getting swatted for it) and all the food my mother had to make. I have used a scythe and it is hard work. Miss the farm every day.
Muy buen video, hay mucho que rescatar aqui , para que no se pierda , en estos precisos dias al borde de una 3ra. guerra mundial , habrá que volver alo análogo❤👍👍👍
Hay balers in New Zealand use sisal, or plastic twine to tie the bales.
And, in New Zealand, we used jute wheat bags. Now there are a lot of plastic ones used, I guess.
Is there any question why farming was the most dangerous occupation?
The Jerusalem temple was set on the threshing floor of the Jebusite, who was a pre-Israli or Palastinian precursor. So even before Solomon's temple, the ancient one the moon worshipers were present.
Gotta love Henry Ford. Of Course he would come up with the implement attachment to a Model T, being a farmer in the beginning and of the old school mindset waste nothing.
The usurers took over at about 30minutes into this nice video.
And now, mampower is displaced from industry and now retail.
Hence our plan.
👍
This is fascinating as I knew nothing about harvesting hay
Unfortunately I just missed the threshing as I was born too late but I’ve been told that the stack when it was threshed that rats would be flying everywhere when they got to the bottom of the stack.
Well done. I'm from the age of pull combines. Being young and bulletproof I would be all around all that that now in my old age something that can catch loose clothes and kill you.
So thankful you didn't spell it "thrashing".
Wonderful video, lose the music please.
Had enough banjo/bluegrass picking by a minute and a half into the program. Consider limiting presentations to Video, Sound, and Narration. Adding background music breaks the rule of three by adding an additional, or fourth, distracting component. If video is replaced with stills underscore with appropriate sound from video you have. Video, Natural Sound and Narrative is enough. Remember that some people may not share your personal taste in music.
I hardly noticed the music, I found the content too interesting to be distracted. There are too many rules, relax.
I am fascinated by the lives of the people and the equipment that was developed to make their lives easier.
LoL,,,,,, Im done farming,,,,,,,
Please make a playlist of all of these videos please. This is just amazing
I did this in England when I was a kid growing up the local Thatcher in our village had to get his thatching straw for roofing with a thrash and tackle so the straw wasn’t damaged my dad and two brothers helped him out every year it was hard but satisfying work and you should have seen the people from the city stop for pictures made feel like we were in a zoo lol then the news cameras would show up my dad farmed and owned a pub in Gt Ashfield in Suffolk I would not give up my up bringing at all we farmed the old fashioned way I remember chopping sugar beet with a hoe by hand when they were ready we pulled them up by hand and knocked them together week later we topped them with a hook and pitched them in the old tumble I will never forget them days my dad was 2nd world war navy tuff as nails and just as mean we had the farm and pub and dad worked as a lineman for the electric company and he did that till he retired those where the days ❤
We dont neeed no stinking OSHA around here. ROFL, I remember my grand dad having the summer crew come over to thresh the straw and then do the same with the corn sheller crew.
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