It is lovely to see such old farm machinery still be used and kept going, to show how Farming has changed from early days of Mechanisation to the kit we see our Farmer using today.
Such an easier life on maintenance with these old girls. Community farming is hard work but better than today’s towns with the way they treat farming. An idealistic society before big greedy companies took over the world. 🌍 😢 Enjoyed this so much Tom ❤
One of my earliest memories is of a threshing machine and traction engine being used by a neighbouring farm. This was in the early 50s, and it only happened the once, but it one of those special memories.
The machinery seen in this video rebuilt this country when Britain was GREAT, It's good to see the old machinery still doing what it was intended for. Iv'e carried a few hession sacks of barley in my time before and after milling to feed the stock. Carry on Farming Tom
Fantastic video ,you can see why it used to take a lot of people at harvest time to getting everything done. I bet the smell of all the old engines was lovely there ❤
Was hoping to of got to the event but a poorly RangeRover has put a stop to it this year. Some lovely old farming machinery to show the history of agriculture. Well done to all involved in putting the event together. 🚜👍
So glad the weather forecast was wrong. Thanks for filming this Tom. Great to see how farming was done in yesteryear. I'm as old as dirt, so when I was a kid they still sheaved the wheat before threshing as you showed in those early machines. As you rightly stated, it used to be much harder work back then.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful video with all of us. I find this old technology quite fascinating. It's hard to imagine what just one of these machines would have meant to a farming community. 👍
Not a computer in sight and the machines are still going strong, quality engineering at its best. Thanks Tom it's good for young un's to see how it used to be done. Ur a dab hand on the drone shots and the weather was on ur side too. Half expected to see Emily on one of the Cats ploughing, Cheers Poth.
As a kid in the 60's I "helped" on binders, balers, ploughing(as soon as my feet could reach the pedals on the grey Fergie) but the machines in this video are nearly all new to me, thanks for posting, very interesting
To have all that history amassed where folks can view (loved the guided tours!). So important that people get to see where it comes from & what it takes, to put food in the market. Thanx !
What a cracking day it turned out to be (despite the crappy forecast) these shows are getting fewer every year great shame. Hadn’t been here for years but was a great day out and always something new and unique to see. Well done to the organisers it a lot of hard work by less and less people on the committee every year I am guessing) it always clashed with “the festival of the plough” at Epworth of which I was on the committee. Sadly no more as we lost the site as well as people willing to get involved, please look after this cracking little show.
The contrast of the ultra modern drone filming machinery from what was the start of the mechanisation of farming, a point not lost on me. As ever brilliant video
What a difference 24hrs makes! Just got back from the show soaked to the bone. Had a chat with a couple of old boys over a brew and cake saying yesterday was a great day for it. Hope you and your lad enjoyed this morning (I was stood at the saw deck but didn’t want to disturb you) hopefully next year will be wall to wall sunshine 🫣🤞
As wonderful as these machines are, you can see why farming in years gone by had a very high accident and mortality rate. The machinery and moving parts are really "in your face". I'm not saying it's easy now but today, you're lucky in more ways than 1. Keep the videos coming Tom, these are a wonderful education.
Loved the video thanks. Those machines were a game changer back in the day. There's still a few in running condition on some of the farms out here in Saskatchewan. Most of the thrashers are now lawn ornaments though. Thanks again for taking the time to make the video. Brings back some memories. :)
Excellent video Tom, it's great seeing all the vintage machinery working. I hope you got more footage you can share.Well done to all the exhibitors for putting all the hard work in to be able to show the machinery 👍
Brilliant event Tom , everything that's working today came from what your seeing there . Farm workers didn't have a very long life, basically the risks from injury or death from the hardest of work. A different breed of men then.
Good stuff Tom, hope you and the misses had a great day out at the event. Thanks for sharing some great videoing with us, always great to see some equipment that helped build one of many nations here in Europe back then. Fred would have been proud :)
It was great to see your video Tom it brought back a lot of memories to when I was a little kid. When the binder came out it seemed as if all the village came out to set the thieves up, fond memories.
great video Tom, we enjoy whatever you upload, it's all good. Enjoyed our afternoon there yesterday, good to see people taking the time to keep all the old stuff up and running, but then I guess it was built to last in "the old days" 🤷♀ Both Jez and I have operated some of the stuff we saw there. Thanks for the chat, really great to meet you 😊 hope you enjoy "my" video 😉
Looks like a good day out! Pity I couldn't make it, but Australia to Stamford would be a bit of a trek -- maybe next year! One thing I liked particularly about this video is that I didn't see anything we still have in active service featured 🤣. It's a weird feeling at an historic field day or an agricultural museum when you see an exhibit and think, "Hang on -- we've got one of those. I was driving it last week 😵💫!"
This is really special to see, thanks for filming it! I remember that we used to have a smaller thresher than this in one of our machine sheds, but has never seen it in use.
Great video, Tom. Was really God seing the old machinery in action. And its a real eye opener comparing how we do things today with modern equipmemt compared to how people worked in the old days great work mate thanks
Love the video Tom, and just a few miles from where I used to live (Wittering) - My mum and sister are Stamfordians and I still love visiting that beautiful town when I get the chance 😀👍
My Dads 1st combine was a Massey 735 bagger, bloody hard work, he use to tell me,3 man crew. 1 driver and 2 bagging the grain, stood on a foot board at the side of the combine
I recall those bagger combines very well, dirty, dusty, hot, but the worst part (for us) was loading up the ten or twelve stone bags onto the trailer from the ground, we used the Fergie sacklifter sometimes.
Great video Tom...love the drone footage, was there myself this afternoon & did spot you wandering around the field...we left earlier than we would have liked unfortunately as we could see the storm clouds heading towards us !!!
Whilst farming still has lots of things that will try and eat you up and spit you out, most nowadays will only do so if you are doing something that really you shouldn’t be doing. That old kit is horrendously dangerous, lots of exposed moving parts that would be easy to get caught in or belts whipping around. So as well as easier farming has become much safer too.
The name 'combine harvester' called a combine as it combined two operations, the cutting, and the thrashing. At the time of invention, actually caused a lot of farm labourers to be out of work. The thrashing machine was not always available at the time of cutting so the crop was stored to be thrashed when the contractor made his visit to the farm. The thrashing before the thrashing machine was done by hand, a dusty almost cruel job to do, kept the farm workers busy for months on end. The romantic idea of farm workers sitting around drinking cider. and being paid in cider, some say it was to keep them drunk and dependent on cider so they would keep working.
Tom Lamb "Fancy youruber type" , Let me explain... My dear brother (said with clenched teeth) took my very aged father to the farming show! So I asked him on the phone if possible could he pick me up a Tom Lamb hat and or T-shirt and keep his eye open for you and perchance get it signed. His reply was "I ain't got time chasing fancy youtuber types about just for you!" (B*****d! said I) . Thus evening while discussing the show and hiw much my father enjoyed it via video call I was treated to some great photos, some of which had you in and or Emily . Both of you were spoken too by said idiot brother momentarily I am told . Any way , looked like a great day , thanks for the video , wish I lived closer so I could have attended.
I'm pretty sure you already know this Tom but going on about hard work on a farm, an acre was measured by how much a horse could plough in a single day, compared to how much you do a day on your own now in a nice warm dry cab with music.
I remember riding on a binder when my dad worked on a farm . I’m now 74 but remember the farm with great affection and stories
It is lovely to see such old farm machinery still be used and kept going, to show how Farming has changed from early days of Mechanisation to the kit we see our Farmer using today.
Such an easier life on maintenance with these old girls. Community farming is hard work but better than today’s towns with the way they treat farming. An idealistic society before big greedy companies took over the world. 🌍 😢
Enjoyed this so much Tom ❤
Thanks for the support
One of my earliest memories is of a threshing machine and traction engine being used by a neighbouring farm. This was in the early 50s, and it only happened the once, but it one of those special memories.
All fertiliser, seed, hay, straw , grain etc had to be hand balled more than once. Yes Tom, we have it easy now 👍
The machinery seen in this video rebuilt this country when Britain was GREAT, It's good to see the old machinery still doing what it was intended for. Iv'e carried a few hession sacks of barley in my time before and after milling to feed the stock. Carry on Farming Tom
Thanks
Fantastic video ,you can see why it used to take a lot of people at harvest time to getting everything done. I bet the smell of all the old engines was lovely there ❤
Great video Tom, always enjoy the Vintage Casterton Working Weekend videos! We are lucky that these machines are still around for us to appreciate!
Was hoping to of got to the event but a poorly RangeRover has put a stop to it this year. Some lovely old farming machinery to show the history of agriculture. Well done to all involved in putting the event together. 🚜👍
My favourite - the combine attachment for the tractor. It's so neat the way it wraps around the tractor...
It sure is!
So glad the weather forecast was wrong. Thanks for filming this Tom. Great to see how farming was done in yesteryear. I'm as old as dirt, so when I was a kid they still sheaved the wheat before threshing as you showed in those early machines. As you rightly stated, it used to be much harder work back then.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful video with all of us. I find this old technology quite fascinating. It's hard to imagine what just one of these machines would have meant to a farming community. 👍
Superb, Fergies & Cats both my faves!
Absolutely brilliant Tom. Wife and I went to the Fylde Farm show. Loads of tractors, traction engines, etc. Nothing was actually farming though.
Great to see you pop into the live this afternoon mate 👍🙂 Lovely oldy worldy farming video, loved it.
Thanks for coming
Not a computer in sight and the machines are still going strong, quality engineering at its best. Thanks Tom it's good for young un's to see how it used to be done. Ur a dab hand on the drone shots and the weather was on ur side too. Half expected to see Emily on one of the Cats ploughing, Cheers Poth.
Thanks for taking us back in time we're plenty of people from the village at a job😂
You got that right!
As a kid in the 60's I "helped" on binders, balers, ploughing(as soon as my feet could reach the pedals on the grey Fergie) but the machines in this video are nearly all new to me, thanks for posting, very interesting
Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely wonderful to watch Tom. You can see where all the modern kit originated from, glad the weather appears to hold off too👍
Many thanks!
To have all that history amassed where folks can view (loved the guided tours!). So important that people get to see where it comes from & what it takes, to put food in the market. Thanx !
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video Tom perfect viewing for a Saturday night. Brilliant to see the old machinery still working
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video lovely to see all the lovely machines and in good order thanks Tom.
Glad you enjoyed it
What a cracking day it turned out to be (despite the crappy forecast) these shows are getting fewer every year great shame. Hadn’t been here for years but was a great day out and always something new and unique to see. Well done to the organisers it a lot of hard work by less and less people on the committee every year I am guessing) it always clashed with “the festival of the plough” at Epworth of which I was on the committee. Sadly no more as we lost the site as well as people willing to get involved, please look after this cracking little show.
We try to but need the support from the public that’s why hopefully TH-cam can promote these sort of things
Good to see the rain taking the weekend off.
well the Saturday was good but glad I'm not there today :-P
It would be nice to see further back. With horses and horse drawn machinery. But nice to see cheers Tom.
The contrast of the ultra modern drone filming machinery from what was the start of the mechanisation of farming, a point not lost on me. As ever brilliant video
Thanks
What a difference 24hrs makes! Just got back from the show soaked to the bone. Had a chat with a couple of old boys over a brew and cake saying yesterday was a great day for it. Hope you and your lad enjoyed this morning (I was stood at the saw deck but didn’t want to disturb you) hopefully next year will be wall to wall sunshine 🫣🤞
As wonderful as these machines are, you can see why farming in years gone by had a very high accident and mortality rate. The machinery and moving parts are really "in your face". I'm not saying it's easy now but today, you're lucky in more ways than 1. Keep the videos coming Tom, these are a wonderful education.
Loved the video thanks. Those machines were a game changer back in the day. There's still a few in running condition on some of the farms out here in Saskatchewan. Most of the thrashers are now lawn ornaments though. Thanks again for taking the time to make the video. Brings back some memories. :)
Excellent video Tom, it's great seeing all the vintage machinery working. I hope you got more footage you can share.Well done to all the exhibitors for putting all the hard work in to be able to show the machinery 👍
More to come!
Amazing how farming has come on over the years great to see the old machines getting a turn great video 👍
Thanks 👍
Love the sofa on the yellow caterpillar !
Brilliant event Tom , everything that's working today came from what your seeing there . Farm workers didn't have a very long life, basically the risks from injury or death from the hardest of work. A different breed of men then.
Good stuff Tom, hope you and the misses had a great day out at the event.
Thanks for sharing some great videoing with us, always great to see some equipment that helped build one of many nations here in Europe back then.
Fred would have been proud :)
It was great to see your video Tom it brought back a lot of memories to when I was a little kid. When the binder came out it seemed as if all the village came out to set the thieves up, fond memories.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great to see some vintage farm machinery, fab stuff Tom.
I love going to these heritage working days and you have captured this one brilliantly in the video. Thanks
Many thanks!
great video Tom, we enjoy whatever you upload, it's all good. Enjoyed our afternoon there yesterday, good to see people taking the time to keep all the old stuff up and running, but then I guess it was built to last in "the old days" 🤷♀ Both Jez and I have operated some of the stuff we saw there. Thanks for the chat, really great to meet you 😊 hope you enjoy "my" video 😉
Thanks, you too!
Good evening Tom, what a cracking video of the old way doing harvest first class
That was a great Sunday morning watch 😊
Looks like a good day out! Pity I couldn't make it, but Australia to Stamford would be a bit of a trek -- maybe next year!
One thing I liked particularly about this video is that I didn't see anything we still have in active service featured 🤣. It's a weird feeling at an historic field day or an agricultural museum when you see an exhibit and think, "Hang on -- we've got one of those. I was driving it last week 😵💫!"
Next time!
it's like watching Fred dibnah ...true genuine engineered power
A nice insight to how things were done my late grandad used to tell me how things were done, it was amazing how they got the work done
Glad you enjoyed it
This is really special to see, thanks for filming it! I remember that we used to have a smaller thresher than this in one of our machine sheds, but has never seen it in use.
Very cool!
Looks like the perfect day out. 🌞
Great video, Tom. Was really God seing the old machinery in action. And its a real eye opener comparing how we do things today with modern equipmemt compared to how people worked in the old days great work mate thanks
Well said!
Amazing video Tom you can see how and where, the machinery has come from early ideas and techniques 👍
Thanks 👍
Only remembered at the end of the vid that the drone doesn't record audio. Awesome job with that Tom 🙌
Yer had to record the machine while I was flying as well
Great video Tom, lovely to see the early machinery, my memories r from the sixties etc.
Many thanks!
Remembered the thrashing machinery as a kid growing up in the UK
It’s very interesting to see the History of farming and the advancement in machinery
Great video Tom, looked like the weather behaved as well. Emily will have to get her plough out to tidy up some of the plots.
Like see the old farm machinery very interesting
Great content! Agriculture technology has come such a long way. Excited for the future
Great stuff Tom, looks like it was a nice day out. I can't imagine how hard farming would have been in the days before machines.
Attended this event a few time.Very nice sausages and burgers cooked by some lovely ladies.oh and home baking.
So good
Fantastic Tom wonderful to see how it was done years ago love the Channel
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video like watching vintage machinery working
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video tom just remember the thrasher and the jones baler with an army of men working
Love the video Tom, and just a few miles from where I used to live (Wittering) - My mum and sister are Stamfordians and I still love visiting that beautiful town when I get the chance 😀👍
Very cool!🆒
My Dads 1st combine was a Massey 735 bagger, bloody hard work, he use to tell me,3 man crew. 1 driver and 2 bagging the grain, stood on a foot board at the side of the combine
I recall those bagger combines very well, dirty, dusty, hot, but the worst part (for us) was loading up the ten or twelve stone bags onto the trailer from the ground, we used the Fergie sacklifter sometimes.
Great video Tom...love the drone footage, was there myself this afternoon & did spot you wandering around the field...we left earlier than we would have liked unfortunately as we could see the storm clouds heading towards us !!!
Thanks for coming
Whilst farming still has lots of things that will try and eat you up and spit you out, most nowadays will only do so if you are doing something that really you shouldn’t be doing.
That old kit is horrendously dangerous, lots of exposed moving parts that would be easy to get caught in or belts whipping around.
So as well as easier farming has become much safer too.
It was a very nice day out I onley found out trough your vids will look forward to next years 😊
Glad you like them!
Really interesting, like a lot people I came here because of the links you put in Colin’s video but stayed for content like this.
Thanks
Tom You made a very good effort to explain everything very well. Theres some interesting machines there. I like the 35 on the combine.
Thanks 👍
Another fantastic video Tom thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
Love this video, your reminding people where their food comes from instead of from Tesco!
So true!
Lovely video!
Another great one Tom .
Interesting video, what is interesting is the basic mechanism have not changed, just got bigger and more efficient.
Correct
Safety features, we don’t need no safety features!
The name 'combine harvester' called a combine as it combined two operations, the cutting, and the thrashing. At the time of invention, actually caused a lot of farm labourers to be out of work. The thrashing machine was not always available at the time of cutting so the crop was stored to be thrashed when the contractor made his visit to the farm. The thrashing before the thrashing machine was done by hand, a dusty almost cruel job to do, kept the farm workers busy for months on end. The romantic idea of farm workers sitting around drinking cider. and being paid in cider, some say it was to keep them drunk and dependent on cider so they would keep working.
Thanks for that
Quality ... Nice one Big Man! ...
peace
Now you are farming today.bloody good video Tom 👌
Thanks 👍
Excellent video - proper kit back when you didn’t need the dealer to fix the machine with a laptop 👍
Absolutely
Go on Tom lamb another epic video thank you 👍🏻
Thanks 👍
Fabulous video Tom, working history you can't beat it. A days work back then would be done in a few short hours today. 👍.
Very interesting video🤩
A great day out and some wonderful old gear being worked. It was good to see you and Emily this morning too.
You too!
Great videoing Tom. Did you persuade anyone to come into the 21st century by fitting the brand new Bale Blaster😂😂😂
The Massey Harris could have done with it, loads of corn trapped around the drive belts and chains
Maybe next year
Good evening, cool machinery 👍 awesome to see. From new Zealand
My favorite would have to be the caterpillar track tractor.
Morning!
So glad I went Saturday and not today, about 10 miles from you in Peterborough and is has been raining since 6am
Yep it’s a wash out
@@Tomlamb980 that is not good news especially for all the exhibitors and the charities are going to miss out on the gate money
Great video nice to see the drone shots of the thrashing tackle.
I cut about 20 acres a year with a binder and thrash for thatching straw in suffolk.
Tom Lamb "Fancy youruber type" , Let me explain... My dear brother (said with clenched teeth) took my very aged father to the farming show! So I asked him on the phone if possible could he pick me up a Tom Lamb hat and or T-shirt and keep his eye open for you and perchance get it signed. His reply was "I ain't got time chasing fancy youtuber types about just for you!" (B*****d! said I) . Thus evening while discussing the show and hiw much my father enjoyed it via video call I was treated to some great photos, some of which had you in and or Emily . Both of you were spoken too by said idiot brother momentarily I am told . Any way , looked like a great day , thanks for the video , wish I lived closer so I could have attended.
I liked the story 😂
that massey harris 21a is great combine i would like one
Brilliant video Tom that's when men were men and that saw is something else a big thank you from Ian
Glad you enjoyed it
Very interesting video Tom
Glad you enjoyed it
That 21a looks newer than the ones Tom uses 😊
Super video, great to see how it used to be done. Really well shot.
Good video 😊
Good to see the old heavy iron, so much knowledge is being lost these days with the rise of technology
I'm pretty sure you already know this Tom but going on about hard work on a farm, an acre was measured by how much a horse could plough in a single day, compared to how much you do a day on your own now in a nice warm dry cab with music.
Thanks
Tom to think that all that manpower is now done in a fraction of the time in a modern combine
I know
This old machinery is fantastic. Built when you had to have a bit of common sense to use it
I love watching the old farming kit out in the field doing it's stuff.. I tried to make my first posting as positive as I could. Cheers....
Well said!
So why was there a plow attached to the steam engine via a large rope/cable towards the end? 10:50 | What purpose did the rope have? :)
That pulls it up an down the field
One day bailers without auto blowers will be shown at these events!
Awesome stuff! I wish i knew about this earlier, it would have been worth a trip. 🙂 Do you do this every year?
Yes
I wouldn’t fancy making many bales, having to hand knot the wire.☹