Vintage Farming Ireland- Threshing Oats - Irish Farming Documentary - Videos of Irish Farming Life
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- Once the corn stack had been built and a thresher was available to thresh the corn it was threshing time. In the 1950s threshers went from farm to farm separating the grain from the straw. In this video we show the thresher at work, showing how the stack of corn is fed into the thresher. This video should provide a short lesson on how farming was carried out in Irish farms a generation ago.
This clip was taken from our one hour long film Farming Down the Years - The Corn Harvest in Ireland in the 1950s.
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Thanks- another great video. My 5 year old loves watching too. Glad she will have these memories of her people and their way of life. Love the accents too.
Awe thats great to hear, glad ye are enjoying our videos, Chris
Not the narrator but in the case of the farmers I did find the accent hard to catch but my dad came from the south. I can follow most accents from the south unless they are talking to each other, then they speed up and the accents get stronger. It wasn't till I was much older that I realised that most of the kids I was in school with probably couldn't understand but half the words my parish priest spoke. As well as priest he was also a teacher in an RC secondary school. He was from Cork and they do tend to speak a bit quickly.
I've noticed before with the narrator he pronounces film as "Filum." This makes me smile inside as it was how my Dad pronounced the word. Not to mock nor belittle anyone but as a celebration of my Father and where I come from I tend to say filum amongst those who know me
It was the year 49 ,I walked down the yard a young boy of nine to the smell of tvo and the sound of the old engine whine. The little fordson n looked dwarfed at the scene as she drove the big belt to the threshing machine. The thresher was pink and the pulleys we're they seemed play hide and seek as round they sped . The little fordson n would splutter and miss a beat as she would stall,as we played in chaff like snow in the fall. The straw it was golden as it fell to the ground. We watched as men stood around admiring a stack they just made, some drinking porter and some lemonade. This is a true story l was that boy in glenroe co Limerick. Liam Kelly kilkee co Clare Ireland .🚜🚜🚜🚙👈👍
Great little story Liam, Thanks for sharing it.. All the best, Chris
Respect to the guy who’s chosen to do this work wearing a shirt, jumper and jacket. Old skool workwear!
Thanks for a fun video. I’m a bit surprised the chaff was not fed to cows, sheep etc as it must have contained feed value itself as well as grain.
No feed value. That's why you separate the "corn" in this case, from the chaff.
A1!
Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video
we had large barns where the threshing was done with flails..there were two double doors opposite each other so the wind blowing through removed the chaff..a board was placed across the doorway to hold the corn back...called the threshold...which we still call the doorway today...our job as a kid was to chase the rats as they came out with a big stick and beat them one...and on the baler we threaded two wires in which were tied to hold them together,....
That is very interesting to the origin of threshold. I'm 100% smarter now.
Thresh was used in all country houses with stone floors as the stones would get dangerously slippery with winter mud tracked in. The thresh would slowly get pushed out the doorway by foot traffic if a 'thresh-hold' was not employed.
So that's where " threshold " came from. The stuff you learn.
Could the barley be threashed as it it was being cut????
Today's soft entitled youngsters wouldn't last ten minutes at such real work as that. In the early days of Fergie tractors, my grandfather, who sold them, usually went out to the farm to familiarise the farmer with all aspects of operating his new machine. It was not like today where such transactions are often done on-line and by telephone!
Looks like those terriers had their work cut out for themselves!
Yeah they were hard at work there alrite... Thanks for the commenting, Chris
why are you calling that corn? youre thrashing oats
Wheat, oats, barley, rye etc are all known by the collective noun, “corn”.
Corn is used to describe "oats" in some counties such as Donegal. The Irish (Gaelic) for oats is coirce.
Health and safety non existent in those days, .......................
why are they saying it's corn?
Corn was historically a generic term for "grain". What you think of corn 🌽 is called "maize" in much of the rest of the world.
how could you even make it through an hour working around this machine without losing an arm..
My uncle lost his Arm on my dad's Thresher in 1960! My father was so traumatised by seeing his brother mutilated that he sold all his gear soon afterwards.
Looks a very dangerous business.