Country Farming: Innovations of the Modern Tractor (1955-1959) | British Pathé

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  • @ColinMill1
    @ColinMill1 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I'm still using our 1963 Massey Ferguson 35x. Still does a good days work and will undoubtedly see me out. Tractors back then may have been basic but they were built to last.

    • @Mr.Safety.
      @Mr.Safety. ปีที่แล้ว +5

      We still use our massey ferguson 65! Its had so much done to it ovet the years but you just cant beat them, and certainly cant fix em like a new tractor

    • @michaelpjeffries1521
      @michaelpjeffries1521 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It will for generations to come. Daniel Massey thought enslaving machines was better option than other people. He was a tinkerer who recognized the need, his descendents recognized the business side.

    • @kerrysupporter
      @kerrysupporter 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I’m still on a 35x

  • @radharcanna
    @radharcanna 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    What a marvellous film. How tractors and farm machinery have grown in size since then. Very well dressed farmers back then!

  • @annalorree
    @annalorree 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I grew up on a farm in California, USA with very similar equipment and farm work. I do think that as fewer people are needed to work in agriculture, we lose something of our respective nation’s souls. A strong countryside is the heart of a heathy nation, and the work of the farmer is essential to all people’s survival.

    • @andrewmellon5072
      @andrewmellon5072 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I couldn't agree more. Small to medium farms, where all the family helps produce very good stable citizens, essential in a democracy. Here in Ireland this has changed with smaller family's and everyone working off farm.

  • @ristopyykkonen8719
    @ristopyykkonen8719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Nuffield still runs 17.09.2022 same Job in Finland! beautiful video.

  • @VideosofIrishFarmingLife
    @VideosofIrishFarmingLife 5 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    Great video from a great era.. So good that all this have been captured for future generations. Thanks for uploading to your channel

    • @craigcorrigan9353
      @craigcorrigan9353 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love your channel

    • @craigcorrigan9353
      @craigcorrigan9353 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      when will you bring out a new video

    • @romankrekora7726
      @romankrekora7726 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @nigelbeaumont1109
    @nigelbeaumont1109 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Can’t believe it’s not Pissing Down!!! Wonderful Video when times were way better than current.

  • @harrybell5202
    @harrybell5202 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Harry Ferguson a true Ulster man

  • @joemalone9380
    @joemalone9380 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    really enjoyed that huge fork on the loader. saw a horse drawn version on here somewhere

  • @HrLBolle
    @HrLBolle ปีที่แล้ว +1

    those are some sharp looking Nuffields

  • @davidcollingwood1262
    @davidcollingwood1262 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Brilliant video

  • @richardbrochetti9526
    @richardbrochetti9526 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    missing the old days

  • @JRattheranch
    @JRattheranch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I wonder what they'd make of the farming world today? Fascinating to see and remember how it used to be! A tractor with 30 HP? Wow! 🤔🤭🤭

    • @ravnodinson
      @ravnodinson ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And these geezers wore suit jackets out in the field.

    • @JRattheranch
      @JRattheranch ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ravnodinson 🤣🤣🤣 They certainly did! I remember it well! I learned to plough on a prewar Fordson tvo and the farmer had a jacket and 👔 tie, would you believe! 🤣🤣🤣

  • @andyelliott8027
    @andyelliott8027 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Spraying the cattle and the grass they're eating with weedkiller. The innocence of those days !

    • @JonathanEngblom
      @JonathanEngblom ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Imagine that today 😂 we have learnt stuff since then.

    • @andyelliott8027
      @andyelliott8027 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JonathanEngblom How many people have died because of ignorance like this?

    • @scottpecora371
      @scottpecora371 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was thinking OMG! That should keep the cows in good health!

    • @scottpecora371
      @scottpecora371 ปีที่แล้ว

      Even with the addition of all the new machines, how are labor-intensive things still were.

    • @ေစာလှထွန်းထွန်း
      @ေစာလှထွန်းထွန်း ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@scottpecora371😊

  • @ivormcfadzean325
    @ivormcfadzean325 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Aye good days remember them well.

  • @happytoaster1
    @happytoaster1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I thought the guy was going to get burried when he stood behind his trailer and opened it.

  • @mathieudelarue3086
    @mathieudelarue3086 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Ahh, nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.

  • @djdaz72
    @djdaz72 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a great video

  • @selahaddintoklu6734
    @selahaddintoklu6734 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    O günlerin en iyi traktörleri. Hidrolik sisteminin olması çok önemlidir. Bilgiler için teşekkürler.İzmir/TÜRKİYE

  • @johnwanjala4311
    @johnwanjala4311 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Good video

  • @davepayne586
    @davepayne586 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i used to plow with one. good tractors

  • @garyburchgb
    @garyburchgb ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The early days of intensive farming. If only they knew what is known now about the products and methods they used.

    • @totaltwit
      @totaltwit ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I winced at the weedkiller section, application and the chap under the spray. When was parquat banned? I remember the smell of the weedkiller tank, we had the blue one too.

    • @bertroost1675
      @bertroost1675 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@totaltwitExcept for that (weedkillers and such) I kind of wish we went back to simple smaller farms and local production.

    • @Truerealism747
      @Truerealism747 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@bertroost1675it will come the large ones will colla😮e when they go vegan and small ones will cater for the rest

  • @BenStevenson-c4z
    @BenStevenson-c4z 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Good Old Days 🚜

  • @davidshultz4986
    @davidshultz4986 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wish we could go back I'm only 33 I love old times

    • @cdjhyoung
      @cdjhyoung ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The only folks that want to live this way again are the ones that never lived this life. See the guy hauling straw bales away from the baler? 60-75 lbs each, and he will do this from first light until the sun goes down, for weeks on end. That is a lot of manual labor, and that isn't the hardest task he'll be challenged with. Those old tractors ran rough across the fields. Twelve hours in that seat made your back so sore you could barely get off the tractor. I grew up in the 1960's on a farm that used 1950's style equipment in the US. There was a lot of hard dirty work and long hours of it. I had adventures I still talk about today, like having a skunk be baled and kicked on to the hay wagon my brother and I were loading. That was fun. Not. Plowing over night to beat the rain, only to drive out of the field and get the rig stuck up to the axle in a swamp on Sunday morning. That was fun extracting too.
      Simpler times do not mean better times. Much that we do with machine used to be done with human hands. Much slower, more inaccurate and far less production. Farming like this barely produced enough crops to feed the farm family and the hired help, let alone leave enough to sell for profit.

    • @apebass2215
      @apebass2215 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@cdjhyoung at least people still knew what men and women are. You worked hard but one wage could buy a house and support a family.

    • @cdjhyoung
      @cdjhyoung ปีที่แล้ว

      @@apebass2215 People still no who men and women are, stop reading that rubbish. Sure, one income could support a family. Then the Republicans busted the unions, driving down wages. Then we got Reagan nomics where making the rich richer was suppose to make everyone better off. Turns out we only made the rich richer. If you want some form of the good old days, stop supporting a political party that spends its time setting one part of the country against another part. And no, that isn't the democrats. Support unions. Join one or start one. If the owner of the business you work for doesn't bring you your paycheck every week, shake your hand and thank you for your contributions to the company and ask about your wife, then you need to have a union to represent your interests to the powers running the company.
      Films like this look great, until you remember the disease, the bigotry and racism, the denial of equal rights to women, people of color or the folks that worship the wrong god. If you were male, white, protestant and already middle class, this was a great time to live. But for everyone else, things got better.

    • @Truerealism747
      @Truerealism747 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You can get the old machine snluke ourselves

  • @Pinzpilot101
    @Pinzpilot101 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I did the same tractor work as these older men...I was 10 years old???

  • @davidhorn6008
    @davidhorn6008 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2.00 Clean overall and polished shoes. Is this going to be a comedy show?

  • @davedavis4269
    @davedavis4269 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This when Britain was still Britain. 😢

    • @richardhaywood9474
      @richardhaywood9474 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Do you mean that there’s not much farming going on there now?

    • @freebornjohn2687
      @freebornjohn2687 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If its not still Britain what is it? Did it fly off the globe and in to space?

    • @Truerealism747
      @Truerealism747 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@freebornjohn2687 yes think it did

    • @ravnodinson
      @ravnodinson ปีที่แล้ว

      Ah yes, when brave men fought dragons to save the princess. King Arthur would be sad to see Britain today.

    • @James-kd7dc
      @James-kd7dc ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@freebornjohn2687 why don't you take a stroll around London and see how British it looks. Not very eh.

  • @poilochien
    @poilochien 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    what is the area ?

  • @cdjhyoung
    @cdjhyoung ปีที่แล้ว

    Such a different farming philosophy between the Brits and Americans in this era. I found it unusual that they would still be using a stationary thresher for grain. Those would have been disappearing in the US 20 years earlier. The way they were storing hay, no baler, out door in the elements storage. In rainy England I would have thought farmers would have been early adopters of storing hay in barns. The tractor horsepower being so low also got my attention. American tractors were growing quickly to be twice this horsepower, some as much as 80 horsepower. Field tillage speed is relatively low as reflected in the declared 1 acre per hour plowing speed, The three bottom plow would be able to plow 1/3 acre per hour per mile per hour. That means that tractor was going only about 3 mph, 2/3 the speed of most North American tractors. I'm sure a lot of these differences can be attributed to the post war economy and the small sizes of farms and fields being the norm in England.

    • @andyelliott8027
      @andyelliott8027 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, don't forget that 11 of America's 50 states are bigger than the entire UK.

  • @oliveringram3056
    @oliveringram3056 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What ever do you mean sir, health and safety, never heard of it.

  • @conradsmith2441
    @conradsmith2441 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wonder what herbicide they were spraying? ...

  • @garethjudd5840
    @garethjudd5840 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ever increasing population? In the 1950s, 2 billion. Today 7.6 billion. 😳

  • @3Mudbone1
    @3Mudbone1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Those two farmers were smoking a bowl behind the barn.

  • @ladygardener100
    @ladygardener100 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nowadays lounging and all the rest of it is not worthwhile, it's all minimal cultivation.

  • @pierremchughes9917
    @pierremchughes9917 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Agricultural mechanisation.....the true reason for WW1