I just watched the video and I could hear how accomplished and happy you were to have grown the Red Clawson wheat just as your forefathers once did. The pride you take and the determination you have to reach your goals is a lesson a lot of folks should learn. I am very happy for your achievement and I hope you reach your one bushel target!! 🧡
@@vincentperratore4395 Seeing someone else working hard in this heat and high humidity, taking pride in the job they're doing, may have that effect on some folks. I was praying that he was drinking enough water and staying hydrated the whole time. Justro is one of a kind and I understand the meaning and pride he has in that wheat crop.
Love your channel. Keeping the old time ways alive are very important in today's world. My Pap raised a family thru the depression and always told us kids 'save your money cause hard times will come again".
I broke out into a sweat just watching you swing that scythe! I'm afraid that's more work that most people are willing to put forth in today's culture...looks like wheat will remain expensive and in high demand! Well done Justro, you make that look quite simple! Thanks for sharing this valuable lesson in wheat production, look forward to the thrashing process! Blessings to all at Metcalf Mills.
As the old saying goes, practice makes perfect, the longer you worked the better you got. I know you wanted to save all the seed you could, but milling some for some delicious bread would be awful good.Thanks Justro, Family and Friends for bringing us The Wheat Harvest,God Bless and have a Good Evening 🙂.
Justro, as you were tyin bundles, my minds eye left the wheat field and went into the arena, grabbin 3 calf feet, wrapping and tyin your piggin string, throwin your hands in the air for your time. Haha You straddled that bundle, commenced to tyin, and I was waitin for you to throw your hands up. Crazy..haha Maybe this ole granny needs a nap.... haha
How peaceful the sound of that scythe & the view was beautiful ! Have to admit that window of sky you have of those dark clouds rolling across made me nervous..dont want that seed wet !! How cool Billy showed up to help load !!
I can just imagine wheat gathering with that cutter on acres of ground years ago. wow. thanks for showing us that way of getting wheat in. God bless all of you.
You harvrsting the wheat with the scythe was brilliant. My father used the scythe to cut oats and my mother sheaved (bundled) it like you did Justro. You are telling thr story of bread from sowing harvesting milling and baking. People need to know and appreciate such things. All the best from Paddy in Ireland.
Watching this brought the story of Naomi, Ruth and Boaz to life for me. How Boaz told his workers to leave extra in the fields for Ruth to glean. I don’t think my minds eye could see it as clearly until now. How every little piece was precious and meant life for some. Thank you once again.
For a first time doing it you did a amazing job! You are showing the world what was done and how hard it really was before we had tractors and such. You should be extremely proud of yourself.
I truly admire your persistence and tenacity. I'm sure that took a lot of strength and hard work to harvest all of that Red Clausen. I know you are super proud of your accomplishment. That bread is gonna be amazing! Let me get my butter ready!🤣🤣❤
That wheat cutting tool worked pretty good, and the way you tied it off worked good to. We may have to do thing's manually the way thing's are going, ya never know. I am really looking forward to that other wheat you done a video on, the way you described it was interesting. GOD bless ya Justro, and them girl's to, oh, and aunt Ruby to.
The whole process is amazing, from growing that wheat, to using the tool, to tying off the bundles. You should be proud-that you know how to do it and you did it! Keeping the old ways. Nice of Mr. Danny to let you use that tool. Glad you were willing to show us how it all works. I’m from up north and we don’t routinely see this. Thank you, Justro. Have a great afternoon everyone.
I LOVE everything about this! Keeping your family’s wheat going, using the antique tool/ bunching method, and saving the seed for next year. You did a great job and should be proud.
Hello Justro I appreciate you a sharing that video of your wheat harvest I found it very interesting ,really appreciate the knowledge and information you’ve shared Thanks and God Bless
Fantastic! Way to go Justro and congratulations on the harvest. I sure enjoyed seeing Billy working for a change, ha! ha! You guys are making it happen. Have a good 4th and be blessed!
Justrow, I am so proud of you for growing your family’s wheat. So fascinating to watch. The cradle seems very sharp. I learn so much from you and look forward to your next video. Thank you for taking the time and all your hard work. God bless you. 🌾🌾🌾🕊
So fascinating! So nice to see how things worked years ago. Looks like you got the hang of it; ALL of it. Great exercise! Haha! **love your hat! I can’t imagine working with the wheat with NO GLOVES!!! Ouch! You’ve got a great channel that’s well diversified. God bless you & your girls!
Harvesting wheat looks like my kind of fun 😊 One summer, I mowed a small hay field with my push mower and bagged it up in old tobacco seed bags. The goats loved eating the hay as much as I loved making it 😂
Great job! Raise your food for the family and get your workout at the same time! It is all done without the reliance on fuel we think we can’t live without. It is time for us to get back to “the good old days”. Keep up the good work showing us how things can be done the old fashioned way.
Growing food is work but the kind I enjoy. I hope you get some of the best bread out of a portion of this or is it going to be just for seed. I guess I want to enjoy vicariously the rewards from your labor. I wanted to take a few swings just to get the feel of it. You seem to enjoy working and it made it nice when Billy stopped by.
Tying that bundle up like that is the way my father showed me forty years ago. You've got it right. Stand the bundles up (and keep the crows out of it). That's a nice field of good wheat seed.
Thanks, I have tried to cut weeds with a scythe without much luck. Very cool to see this step to harvest grain. Might you show the rest of the process to get the grain to the mill?
I'm green with envy. We had a cradle sickle hung in our barn in my youth. I got it down a couple of times to cut weeds. I knew what it did, but I'd never seen it used. It didn't work too good cutting weeds. We were using a Yankee Clipper Massey Harris combine during those times to harvest our white winter wheat which is primarily used in pastries. We'd bale the straw. It was bright yellow shiny straw. Stay the course. Thanks for sharing old times. Eaglegards...
So happy for you! Glad to see it being grown somewhere other than the Midwest… I hope to make bread with it one day and see it growing all in the hollers around here.
Im glad your red clawson wheat is finally finished. You are such a hard worker but make it look easy. You make me want to run out and give it a go. So much fun to watch. Thanks for sharing friend.
I planted a small square of spring wheat in my garden this year just for fun. Had to go out everyday and pinch off stink bugs and grasshoppers. I don’t spray anything on the garden.
We're so happy and proud of you Justro. You have done it thank you. Well have to try it. Got the room. Again great video and so glad you didn't get the storm. Have a great one love uns. I'm excited as I was for you when you met your grist mill challenge. 👍❤
Excellent video. As of 10 minutes in, haven't laughed once! 😁. I let some grain, that came up in my mulch, mature one year. It was fun. I used hedge shears, which made it a lot of work. I can really appreciate the cradle you used! Fascinating video. Added it to my Growing Carbs (private playlist) so I can find it later and watch again. From what I have observed, we can grow Winter wheat here. So, planting time would be in a few months.
Definitely shows the harvest and you are separating the wheat from the chaff. Watching you brings the biblical stories to life in todays time because you are using the old ways. Watch you do this is so comforting. Knowing that you are really going back to the old ways. I really enjoy watching your channel. You are real unfortunately so many of the other channels have gotten too big and lost touch with the part that drew people to begin with. Thank you
Nifty little tying technique for the bundles. As I watched you I was trying to envision anything that would make it easier ergonomically. But I couldn’t see anything obvious that would improve on the way you did it - especially after you got into a rhythm. You must have been very pleased and satisfied to grow and harvest this Red Clawson wheat that was grown by your family generations ago. As to planting locations, hillside planting will give it a ‘fog drain’, similar to planting grapes to reduce downy and powdery mildew. Preferably a south facing slope with rows parallel to the slope. Just a hunch from my grape growing days. The good Lord has answered your prayers with His blessings.
Your knowledge and skill and your desire to keep the old ways is invaluable, especially in this day and time. It was very satisfying to watch the process of wheat harvesting... you make it seem perfectly doable for anyone! I'm glad Billy stopped to help you some... I'm sure that made the work go faster. Thank you so much for including us and sharing with us the realization of one of your dreams 😊
It was obvious on the second run that you had found your stride.. smooth, easier swings. It would have to be that way years ago to last for acres. Like a golf swing- on the first you had your hooks and slices, but the second- right down the middle so to speak. I had never seen this done by hand- in the 60’s, combines were already being used.. Great Job!
I like that rake. I can't plant big enough stands to really use one but I sure see how handy it is. Thanks for sharing. I'll try that twisty tie, I kind of do that but your way is better.
I love the skills that you present in your videos. My elderly neighbor grew up cutting wheat and hay with a American style scythe, he taught me how use it. I started buying scythes at garage sales and estate sales and even bought a 36” wheat scythe just as your using in Gatlinburg Tenn years ago. We can’t do wheat down here along the Gulf Coast except a very few varieties . I hope to some restoration videos on them.
I have a scythe. I've never swung it.. lol. I harvested my tiny barley crop with a tobacco hook. Danged stuff didn't grow but a foot tall, so it was hard on my old back. The heads were less than stellar and I haven't threshed it yet. Hubby has yet to build me the thresher. I expect to get a few pounds of barley seed to plant a decent crop for next season. I've developed an enormous amount of respect for those hard working farmers of yesteryear who harvested , threshed and winnowed their entire field by hand.
You sure are working that scythe, Justro! I'm watching this video AND the fireworks battle of the farms of Arden. Best of both worlds! Proud of ya and appreciate you, brother. God bless and Happy Independence Day!
Great job , I've been waiting to see you do this seeing the way our families would have harvested the grain the old way I really enjoyed the video, Thanks Justro .
Can't wait to find out the end yield of flour so you have an idea of what you need to make it through a year. Also need to know when to plant the summer wheat and when to plant the winter wheat so you can plan on two harvest's a year in case something happens to one of them
That was super cool to watch, Justro! Thanks for sharing it with us. Great job! I’m still workin on getting the hang of sharpening my old scythe. You made quick work of that wheat and I bet it’s super tasty.
Really enjoying your channel! Just found you. I am in Ashe County NC, not sure where you are but I assume you are in NC. But learning somethings. Just hoed my garden like you showed in an older video.
We enjoy the videos! How did you store the bundles after collecting them out of the field? Have you thrashed the seed out? This would be great to see! Thanks for what you are doing!
My father used to cut our grass with a scythe and a sickle. Even though he sharpened the blade every time he felt any resistance he could be done faster than he could get out and fuel up the lawnmower. We children would gather up the hay to make dens. Happy memories.
Liked the video wish we had you tube when I was young I would have been a rocket motor scientist or a brain surgeon had to stick with flooring install for fifty. Years
Justro that was awesome job. That cradle looked like some monster from the past at first lol. But when you got the hang of it it was like walking through the park. That was neat the way to tie up the stalks but I think we all got plenty if hat string around now. I can't wait to see you finish processing it and grind some. Will your new mill be able to make flour out if this wheat .oh and how do you store it because it probably starts to lose protein once you grind I think. Awesome to get Billy helping. Keep up the good work and God bless you all
Another great video, you are about my favorite TH-camr to watch. I was gifted a cradle like yours about 3 years ago, am planning on fixing it this fall, needs a couple of the fingers replaced and the whole cradle tightened up. I may try to get some of that seed and get it planted this fall. Where is the best place to get it. Keep up the good work.
Justin you are putting my mothers stories into visual form? Her dad was born in 1896, I know he grew some wheat for their use but don't know much about it. Also grew oats, think that was only for horse feed?? Think she called the little bundles stooks and several put together was a shock.
I really enjoyed this video, but then I like all of them And, I get so excited every time you post a new one. The sound of the creek by the wheat field was so pretty. I was also happy to see that Billy came to help you. How close does he live to you?
Thank u for the video and the lesson how to use the sticks to make nots for bundling the wheat. It will be nice to see the next step to the process. Do u let it dry? How long ? How do I know is dry? Then after what’s next. Do u hulled it? How do u hulled? Then do u grind it and how do grids it. After grinding what do u so do u make bread or what other things u can make wirh it it. And also how and where do store it. How long does it last in storage? How much does one plant in order to last a season? The process from beginning to end is very valuable because now we need to know how to do everything step so that we can be self sufficient just like u.
Continuing the video...... you are missing a piece of equipment, I have no idea what it was called but mom said it was shaped like a capital L. Two of them just alike and they were held together with a number of dowel rod type things, ?wire?? metal bracing?? Well anyway, as your row of cut wheat is laying there you skid this L shaped gathering contraption down through there like pushing a shopping cart and your wheat will start to roll up on it self. When you get the size that suits you, tilt the front up and back it up (here I don't remember if you tied it on the thing or dumped it off for a 2nd person to tie). Hope that helps.... mom passed on or I would ask her for you.
I just watched the video and I could hear how accomplished and happy you were to have grown the Red Clawson wheat just as your forefathers once did. The pride you take and the determination you have to reach your goals is a lesson a lot of folks should learn. I am very happy for your achievement and I hope you reach your one bushel target!! 🧡
Thank you Sandy!! I appreciate that!
Thar may be true, I'm sure, but I'm getting sleepy just watching him!
@@vincentperratore4395 Seeing someone else working hard in this heat and high humidity, taking pride in the job they're doing, may have that effect on some folks. I was praying that he was drinking enough water and staying hydrated the whole time. Justro is one of a kind and I understand the meaning and pride he has in that wheat crop.
I am glad that PIMP Billy stopped by to help Justro. Good friends and good neighbors are rare nowadays.
I’m glad too. That’s for sure Sandy
Just kept hearing, Bringing in the Sheaves while watching you. I get a living history lesson with every video…thanks so much
I was feeling that too. Thank you
Love the creek sound. All the birds and animals. You are blessed! 🤠
I am thankful. Glad you enjoyed
Love your channel. Keeping the old time ways alive are very important in today's world. My Pap raised a family thru the depression and always told us kids 'save your money cause hard times will come again".
Thank you for sharing this with us
I broke out into a sweat just watching you swing that scythe! I'm afraid that's more work that most people are willing to put forth in today's culture...looks like wheat will remain expensive and in high demand! Well done Justro, you make that look quite simple! Thanks for sharing this valuable lesson in wheat production, look forward to the thrashing process! Blessings to all at Metcalf Mills.
Thank you for sharing this with us! There has to be a “want to”.
Blessings to you too
Thanks for the detailed tie off. You crack me up your broke to work but not broke to the cradle. You made it look easy.
Aw thanks Ellen🙂
As the old saying goes, practice makes perfect, the longer you worked the better you got. I know you wanted to save all the seed you could, but milling some for some delicious bread would be awful good.Thanks Justro, Family and Friends for bringing us The Wheat Harvest,God Bless and have a Good Evening 🙂.
Thank you Donald! Maybe a little bit, maybe🙂
God bless and you too
Justro, as you were tyin bundles, my minds eye left the wheat field and went into the arena, grabbin 3 calf feet, wrapping and tyin your piggin string, throwin your hands in the air for your time. Haha You straddled that bundle, commenced to tyin, and I was waitin for you to throw your hands up. Crazy..haha Maybe this ole granny needs a nap.... haha
Ha ha ha! That’s too funny! Thank you🙂
How peaceful the sound of that scythe & the view was beautiful ! Have to admit that window of sky you have of those dark clouds rolling across made me nervous..dont want that seed wet !! How cool Billy showed up to help load !!
Glad you enjoyed Sherry! 🙂
I can just imagine wheat gathering with that cutter on acres of ground years ago. wow. thanks for showing us that way of getting wheat in. God bless all of you.
So glad you enjoyed! God bless you as wel
Ok, I logged out and back in and now I have a like button.
That’s strange..
My shoulders and back hurt just watching you from my bath lol
You need to live a little…🤣
You harvrsting the wheat with the scythe was brilliant. My father used the scythe to cut oats and my mother sheaved (bundled) it like
you did Justro.
You are telling thr story of bread from sowing harvesting milling
and baking.
People need to know and appreciate
such things.
All the best from Paddy in Ireland.
Thank you Paddy! So much for sharing this with us. I appreciate you. Your friend, Justin
That was fun to watch. That's a work out. It was good to see Billy in your video. I hope you show the process of turning it into flower.🌻
Glad you enjoyed! I plan to do that🙂
Such an exciting harvest. A blessing.
It sure is! Thank you
Watching this brought the story of Naomi, Ruth and Boaz to life for me. How Boaz told his workers to leave extra in the fields for Ruth to glean. I don’t think my minds eye could see it as clearly until now. How every little piece was precious and meant life for some. Thank you once again.
Thank you for sharing this with us ❤️
Wow, this was fun to watch. What a slick invention!!!
It sure is!! I love using one
For a first time doing it you did a amazing job! You are showing the world what was done and how hard it really was before we had tractors and such.
You should be extremely proud of yourself.
Aw thank you so much! 🙂
Thank y'all so very much. Y'all taught me a lot today. Blessings to all y'all and Billy and Danny, julie
Glad you enjoyed! Thank you!
I think that bundle is called a sheef & when they are gathered together later & stood up to dry they are called a shock
Yeah there is a few names for them
The Amish here near me have a flat cap on top of the wheat shocks. They are in the fields now actually and everyone is harvesting. Love the video!
Thank you for sharing this with us. Glad you enjoyed!
I truly admire your persistence and tenacity. I'm sure that took a lot of strength and hard work to harvest all of that Red Clausen. I know you are super proud of your accomplishment. That bread is gonna be amazing! Let me get my butter ready!🤣🤣❤
Aw thank you Sonya. Hopefully have a crop next year!!
Thank you Justin I learned something today you are such a blessing to me and a great teacher
Aw thank you so much!
Another GREAT, INTERESTING video. Thanks!!
Glad you enjoyed
I absolutely love how your going back, and sharing your history and some of the old fashioned ways! I’m an old soul, thanks for the videos!
So glad that you are enjoying it Crystal!!
Wow that was really interesting. Thanks, Justro.
Glad you enjoyed!
That wheat cutting tool worked pretty good, and the way you tied it off worked good to. We may have to do thing's manually the way thing's are going, ya never know. I am really looking forward to that other wheat you done a video on, the way you described it was interesting. GOD bless ya Justro, and them girl's to, oh, and aunt Ruby to.
Thank you so much! I appreciate you.
God bless you as well ❤️
The whole process is amazing, from growing that wheat, to using the tool, to tying off the bundles. You should be proud-that you know how to do it and you did it! Keeping the old ways. Nice of Mr. Danny to let you use that tool. Glad you were willing to show us how it all works. I’m from up north and we don’t routinely see this. Thank you, Justro. Have a great afternoon everyone.
Thank you so much! You too!
Truely hard work, like thee old days. My hat goes off to u.🤙💛
I LOVE everything about this! Keeping your family’s wheat going, using the antique tool/ bunching method, and saving the seed for next year. You did a great job and should be proud.
Thank you so much for the kind compliments
Hello Justro I appreciate you a sharing that video of your wheat harvest I found it very interesting ,really appreciate the knowledge and information you’ve shared Thanks and God Bless
Glad to hear that you enjoyed! Thank you and God bless!
That is an amazing tool. Very interesting.
Glad you enjoyed!
Congratulations on a nice harvest.
Thank you! 🙂
This is awesome!! Keep up with this awesome skill , so it’s not lost
Thank you!
Fantastic! Way to go Justro and congratulations on the harvest. I sure enjoyed seeing Billy working for a change, ha! ha! You guys are making it happen. Have a good 4th and be blessed!
Thanks Rick! Lol!
I hope you realize how blessed you are. You have an amazing life and lifestyle. One that I envy you for. Wish you ALL the best. Keep up the good work.
Aw thank you so much
This is pretty amazing! Thank you I have never seen this before.
Thank you Lee.
Justrow, I am so proud of you for growing your family’s wheat. So fascinating to watch. The cradle seems very sharp. I learn so much from you and look forward to your next video. Thank you for taking the time and all your hard work. God bless you. 🌾🌾🌾🕊
Aw thank you so much. I am glad to hear that. I hope that I can help in some way. God bless you too❤️🙂
That was amazing and just man power !
It was very enjoyable
So fascinating! So nice to see how things worked years ago. Looks like you got the hang of it; ALL of it. Great exercise! Haha! **love your hat! I can’t imagine working with the wheat with NO GLOVES!!! Ouch! You’ve got a great channel that’s well diversified. God bless you & your girls!
That's awesome! I've got quite a few friends here in East Texas that are experimenting with growing wheat.
That’s wonderful!!!
Harvesting wheat looks like my kind of fun 😊 One summer, I mowed a small hay field with my push mower and bagged it up in old tobacco seed bags. The goats loved eating the hay as much as I loved making it 😂
Thank you for sharing this with us Lisa
Great job! Raise your food for the family and get your workout at the same time! It is all done without the reliance on fuel we think we can’t live without. It is time for us to get back to “the good old days”. Keep up the good work showing us how things can be done the old fashioned way.
Aw thank you so much Penny!!
I love this channel here! That’s awesome
Thank you!!
Growing food is work but the kind I enjoy. I hope you get some of the best bread out of a portion of this or is it going to be just for seed. I guess I want to enjoy vicariously the rewards from your labor. I wanted to take a few swings just to get the feel of it. You seem to enjoy working and it made it nice when Billy stopped by.
Just seed. Hopefully a crop next year. It was fun. Thanks Sandra!
Tying that bundle up like that is the way my father showed me forty years ago. You've got it right. Stand the bundles up (and keep the crows out of it).
That's a nice field of good wheat seed.
Thank you for sharing this with us!
Thanks, I have tried to cut weeds with a scythe without much luck. Very cool to see this step to harvest grain. Might you show the rest of the process to get the grain to the mill?
Yes I sure will. I will do something on scything sometime. Thank you!
Quite the image of dividing the wheat from the tares at harvest. Super easy to differentiate at that time.
Thank you!
I'm green with envy. We had a cradle sickle hung in our barn in my youth. I got it down a couple of times to cut weeds. I knew what it did, but I'd never seen it used. It didn't work too good cutting weeds. We were using a Yankee Clipper Massey Harris combine during those times to harvest our white winter wheat which is primarily used in pastries. We'd bale the straw. It was bright yellow shiny straw. Stay the course. Thanks for sharing old times. Eaglegards...
Thank you for sharing this with us!!
So happy for you! Glad to see it being grown somewhere other than the Midwest… I hope to make bread with it one day and see it growing all in the hollers around here.
Aw that would be great! Thanks SL!🙂
Im glad your red clawson wheat is finally finished. You are such a hard worker but make it look easy. You make me want to run out and give it a go. So much fun to watch. Thanks for sharing friend.
Aw you should! Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed
Nice to see how it all use to be done. Happy 4th to you and your family. Take care.
Thank you, and you too!!
I planted a small square of spring wheat in my garden this year just for fun. Had to go out everyday and pinch off stink bugs and grasshoppers. I don’t spray anything on the garden.
Thank you
We're so happy and proud of you Justro. You have done it thank you. Well have to try it. Got the room. Again great video and so glad you didn't get the storm. Have a great one love uns. I'm excited as I was for you when you met your grist mill challenge. 👍❤
Aw thank you so much!!!❤️
Excellent video. As of 10 minutes in, haven't laughed once! 😁.
I let some grain, that came up in my mulch, mature one year. It was fun. I used hedge shears, which made it a lot of work. I can really appreciate the cradle you used! Fascinating video.
Added it to my Growing Carbs (private playlist) so I can find it later and watch again.
From what I have observed, we can grow Winter wheat here. So, planting time would be in a few months.
Thank you for sharing this with us!
Fascinating to see. Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝
Glad you enjoyed!!
Definitely shows the harvest and you are separating the wheat from the chaff. Watching you brings the biblical stories to life in todays time because you are using the old ways.
Watch you do this is so comforting. Knowing that you are really going back to the old ways. I really enjoy watching your channel. You are real unfortunately so many of the other channels have gotten too big and lost touch with the part that drew people to begin with. Thank you
Thank you so much for this. I am glad that you enjoy. I hear that. 😐
@@metcalfmills5679 God bless you for sharing this with us and teaching us what is possible.
Nifty little tying technique for the bundles. As I watched you I was trying to envision anything that would make it easier ergonomically. But I couldn’t see anything obvious that would improve on the way you did it - especially after you got into a rhythm.
You must have been very pleased and satisfied to grow and harvest this Red Clawson wheat that was grown by your family generations ago.
As to planting locations, hillside planting will give it a ‘fog drain’, similar to planting grapes to reduce downy and powdery mildew. Preferably a south facing slope with rows parallel to the slope. Just a hunch from my grape growing days.
The good Lord has answered your prayers with His blessings.
Thank you for sharing this with us! Yes he sure has!
Your knowledge and skill and your desire to keep the old ways is invaluable, especially in this day and time. It was very satisfying to watch the process of wheat harvesting... you make it seem perfectly doable for anyone!
I'm glad Billy stopped to help you some... I'm sure that made the work go faster.
Thank you so much for including us and sharing with us the realization of one of your dreams 😊
Aw thank you Sunny. It was good to have Billy for sure. It was a pleasure to share. Thank you
The Great Valley of East Tennessee at one time was known as the Bread Basket of the South because of the wheat, rye, and oats that were grown here..
Thank you for sharing this with us ❤️
What a cool video thanks. It was fun to watch
Glad you enjoyed it!
It was obvious on the second run that you had found your stride.. smooth, easier swings. It would have to be that way years ago to last for acres.
Like a golf swing- on the first you had your hooks and slices, but the second- right down the middle so to speak.
I had never seen this done by hand- in the 60’s, combines were already being used..
Great Job!
Sounds like it! Thank you🙂
Ahhhhh...so you are The Wheat Ninja now, huh? Very impressive! :)
I’m a white belt..
Thanks MEM!!
@@metcalfmills5679 You are a joy, Bro. LOL
I like that rake. I can't plant big enough stands to really use one but I sure see how handy it is. Thanks for sharing. I'll try that twisty tie, I kind of do that but your way is better.
Thank you, I hope it helps!
I love the skills that you present in your videos. My elderly neighbor grew up cutting wheat and hay with a American style scythe, he taught me how use it. I started buying scythes at garage sales and estate sales and even bought a 36” wheat scythe just as your using in Gatlinburg Tenn years ago. We can’t do wheat down here along the Gulf Coast except a very few varieties . I hope to some restoration videos on them.
Thank you for sharing this with us!! I appreciate you watching
I have a scythe. I've never swung it.. lol. I harvested my tiny barley crop with a tobacco hook. Danged stuff didn't grow but a foot tall, so it was hard on my old back. The heads were less than stellar and I haven't threshed it yet. Hubby has yet to build me the thresher. I expect to get a few pounds of barley seed to plant a decent crop for next season. I've developed an enormous amount of respect for those hard working farmers of yesteryear who harvested , threshed and winnowed their entire field by hand.
Thank you for sharing this with us!
You sure are working that scythe, Justro! I'm watching this video AND the fireworks battle of the farms of Arden. Best of both worlds!
Proud of ya and appreciate you, brother.
God bless and Happy Independence Day!
Thank you Kenneth! Glad you enjoyed brother!
Thats really cool and you should be proud. Good job!
Thank you so much
Well done!!
Aw thanks JM
Great job , I've been waiting to see you do this seeing the way our families would have harvested the grain the old way I really enjoyed the video, Thanks Justro .
Glad you enjoyed Ricky!
Can't wait to find out the end yield of flour so you have an idea of what you need to make it through a year. Also need to know when to plant the summer wheat and when to plant the winter wheat so you can plan on two harvest's a year in case something happens to one of them
I will talk more about this later. This crop is all for seed. Thank you!
VERY VERY COOL!!!
Aw thank you LR
That's so neat! Great job! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
Amazing!! Love seeing that.
Thank you!!
That was super cool to watch, Justro! Thanks for sharing it with us. Great job! I’m still workin on getting the hang of sharpening my old scythe. You made quick work of that wheat and I bet it’s super tasty.
Thank you Tracy! I won’t know until next year🙂
Please praise you sincerely
Thank you
Really enjoying your channel! Just found you. I am in Ashe County NC, not sure where you are but I assume you are in NC. But learning somethings. Just hoed my garden like you showed in an older video.
Hey! Glad you are here. I’m down in Madison. I know a little about Ashe Co. Thanks April
Very informative Justin! Thank you for sharing!
Glad that you enjoyed!!
We enjoy the videos! How did you store the bundles after collecting them out of the field? Have you thrashed the seed out? This would be great to see! Thanks for what you are doing!
I store them in a dry place away from varmints. I hope to do a video. Thank you
My father used to cut our grass with a scythe and a sickle. Even though he sharpened the blade every time he felt any resistance he could be done faster than he could get out and fuel up the lawnmower. We children would gather up the hay to make dens. Happy memories.
Thank you for sharing this with us!!
You always seem to do good at all you do. Good job
Aw thank you
I agree, and it's not fair
this was a great video
Thank you Tracy!
You about done hit me upside the head with that thing! Next time set me back a foot or two further.
Ha ha! Watch it Lee!!!
Liked the video wish we had you tube when I was young I would have been a rocket motor scientist or a brain surgeon had to stick with flooring install for fifty. Years
I heard that. Thanks for sharing
It would take a lot of hard work with a mule and plow to raise 40 Acker of wheat and get it harvested. I enjoyed the video showing how it was done.
Thank you, it sure would
Justro that was awesome job. That cradle looked like some monster from the past at first lol. But when you got the hang of it it was like walking through the park. That was neat the way to tie up the stalks but I think we all got plenty if hat string around now. I can't wait to see you finish processing it and grind some. Will your new mill be able to make flour out if this wheat .oh and how do you store it because it probably starts to lose protein once you grind I think. Awesome to get Billy helping. Keep up the good work and God bless you all
Thank you so much! We are going to find out how it mills. God bless you too!
You did a great job Justro...you should be proud! I love the way the wheat stock you put together kind of looks like a straw man...lol
Lol! Thank you!!
Another great video, you are about my favorite TH-camr to watch. I was gifted a cradle like yours about 3 years ago, am planning on fixing it this fall, needs a couple of the fingers replaced and the whole cradle tightened up. I may try to get some of that seed and get it planted this fall. Where is the best place to get it. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Samuel! I hope that you do that. I got this from Great Lakes Staple Seeds
Justin you are putting my mothers stories into visual form? Her dad was born in 1896, I know he grew some wheat for their use but don't know much about it. Also grew oats, think that was only for horse feed?? Think she called the little bundles stooks and several put together was a shock.
Thank you for sharing this with us!!
As someone from Colorado I wish I had the moisture to do small scale farming like this. Also wish I had more than 1/10 acre of land haha
I hear you. Hope it happens if it is what you want 🙏🏻❤️
really enjoy seeing the old ways! Fascinating! Think you might be hurting tomorrow?
No, I didn’t have enough to make that happen..
Easier than some of the things I do..
Thank you!
@@metcalfmills5679 Looking forward to see how much grain you get!
I really enjoyed this video, but then I like all of them And, I get so excited every time you post a new one. The sound of the creek by the wheat field was so pretty. I was also happy to see that Billy came to help you. How close does he live to you?
Thank you Brenda. Glad that you enjoy. He lives about a half mile
Every man women and child should watch this video. I love it. You are amazing. Did you plant Einkorn this year?
Aw thank you so much! I did not. Did you?
@@metcalfmills5679 I have quite a supply of flour this year. So no I did not.
Great channel just subscribed. How did the thrashing go and was the wheat moldy or good??
Haven’t threshed yet, but it will be on here when I do. It will be just for seed. Thank you!
Thank u for the video and the lesson how to use the sticks to make nots for bundling the wheat. It will be nice to see the next step to the process. Do u let it dry? How long ? How do I know is dry? Then after what’s next. Do u hulled it? How do u hulled? Then do u grind it and how do grids it. After grinding what do u so do u make bread or what other things u can make wirh it it. And also how and where do store it. How long does it last in storage? How much does one plant in order to last a season? The process from beginning to end is very valuable because now we need to know how to do everything step so that we can be self sufficient just like u.
Too much for here, E-mail me- justcalf@gmail.com
Thank you
Ok thank u I will
I have that tool. I’m hanging it in my house. Lol!
That Great!!
Just amazing job, well done. How much grain do you think this will yield?
I hope a bushel. Thank you!!
Continuing the video...... you are missing a piece of equipment, I have no idea what it was called but mom said it was shaped like a capital L. Two of them just alike and they were held together with a number of dowel rod type things, ?wire?? metal bracing?? Well anyway, as your row of cut wheat is laying there you skid this L shaped gathering contraption down through there like pushing a shopping cart and your wheat will start to roll up on it self. When you get the size that suits you, tilt the front up and back it up (here I don't remember if you tied it on the thing or dumped it off for a 2nd person to tie). Hope that helps.... mom passed on or I would ask her for you.
Thank you for sharing this with us!!
How long does the wheat have to dry before you can replant for next year. Great job by the way
I will let it dry for a few weeks and then thresh it. Maybe go in the freezer until time to plant. Thanks Danny!
Very interesting. I’ve never seen this done, it looks like it would tire a man out after a few hours of mowing.
Would have to pace your self for sure. But it is a comfortable rhythm…