Cutting Oats with a Scythe & Threshing the Corn -- Harvest Old Ireland

In this short video we show the harvest being cut with a scythe and tied into stooks. These stooks are then built into a hut which will later be threshed. This video also shows the thresher at work, taking the stooks from the hut, cleaning the earns of corn from the straw.
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[@ShalomMichael]

Proof positive of the importance of keeping your tools sharp. That is one effective scythe.

[@oldgoatsgarden4897]

Very nice video. My grandfather had a thresher and did custom work from the early 1930s untill his death in 1964. I have many pictures of him threshing at his father in laws farm, mainly oats and rye, the main two grain crops for the area. I can still remember a few of the neighbors using stationary threshers rather than combination harvesters and have spent many a day in the field pitching bundles. Videos like this bring back many a memory.

[@listairgin]

Another fantastic video, thank you so very much. 👌👍

[@patodwyer721]

That's an excellent piece of history. What a change in those people's lifetime, some might argue not for the best. They done hard physical work and it didn't appear to do them any harm. Perhaps they were better times.

[@johncourtneidge]

Thank-you!

[@garden_hooligan]

Thank you for posting

[@AnimalNan]

I love your videos.. Memories of home from over here in Canada.

[@cottagemommy5116]

What a beautiful time to be alive!

[@DriftPirateD]

Excellent video!

[@jamesmaloney3913]

Wonderful. I remember local old men doing it. I remember my father doing it when I was about 9 in what is now law but then he also had potatoes different veg my mother had he plot for rhubarb, cabbage shi lots etc etc etc

[@jiggsbaker1211]

Very interesting. I was born in 1936

[@jpp9876]

In Europe grains are called corn. What Americans call corn they use the word maize.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

In the UK and Ireland, specifically. Corn in American, Canadian and Australian English is an ellipsis for "Indian corn", i.e. the corn the maize ("Indian" being the term for a native American/Mexican/Canadian, in the time) plant gives.

[@wonsVAA]

Sooo beautiful

[@dantheman7370]

Hardy auld bugger👍

[@hoshiarsingh6523]

Very beautiful. Like north Indian Jats.

[@martinhambleton5076]

That's a Ford Ferguson 9n carrying the shieves I think?

[@juanmanuelmolinapalma2657]

Why do you calle this grain corn? It looks more like barley to me

[@Frithgar]

Over here in the UK and Ireland all grain is referred to as corn, what you call corn is usually referred to as maize, sometimes as sweetcorn.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

Corn in US, CA and AU English is an ellipsis for "Indian corn", Indian being an old-fashioned term for a native American and corn meaning grain.

[@szymongorczynski7621]

What year was this filmed?

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

About 2008 I believe...

[@szymongorczynski7621]

@@VideosofIrishFarmingLife And Mr Kilpatrick was still scything at 95! Wow! I'm assuming he's gone now, I can only hope to be as fit and healthy as him at that age.

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

@@szymongorczynski7621 I think do.. We have loads of footage of him from the 1990s with him and the sons farming oats and a great interview with him chatting about contract farming in the 1950s and 60s.. Will get it uploaded at some stage...

[@szymongorczynski7621]

@@VideosofIrishFarmingLife Excellent! Do you have any footage from round Co Fermanagh?

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

@@szymongorczynski7621 Would be mainly Derry and Antrim that our footage is from unfortunately

[@eacravey]

Maybe I don't have enough knowledge but I thought they were cutting grain not corn. Am I wrong? I have seen corn grown many times and it is tall green stalky stuff. Maybe it is a language thing. I would like to know what they are cutting/preparing, thanks

[@michaelcullum53]

Presumably you're in the US, over here in the UK corn and grain both refer to cereal crops, wheat, barley, oats etc. What you think of as corn (the tall green stuff) is known as either maize or sweetcorn to us.

[@joemcknight6304]

@@michaelcullum53 As an American I learned that while visiting the UK in 2018

[@jimanderson7648]

corn is a grain too. u r right thats not corn they're cutting it oats

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

@@jimanderson7648 Corn in US, CA and AU English is an ellipsis for "Indian corn", Indian being an old-fashioned term for a native American and corn meaning grain.

[@ericfermin8347]

What in god's name are they saying? Is this a SNL skit?

[@ajrwilde14]

Irish English

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

Corn in US, CA and AU English is an ellipsis for "Indian corn", Indian being an old-fashioned term for a native American and corn meaning grain.
The narrator's language is very understandable. Hughie's is a bit thicker.