EINKORN WHEAT-Threshed the OLD WAY-Antique STEAM TRACTOR and THRESHER Lancaster County's Amish Land

Using a steam tractor and an antique thresher we watch as the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County thresh one of the most ancient grains grown by man...Einkorn Wheat. The wheat has been bound into sheaves in the field and is being collected on wagons. From there it will it will be brought to the thresher to be threshed and gathered to be ground later into Einkorn wheat flour.

[@larrytucker5950]

As a young man i have thrashed wheat this way, good memories

[@johnburgess5534]

Wow, steam, horses, threshers, sunshine……it doesn’t get better viewing than this. Thanks from a cloudy UK.

[@fabriziopelissa]

Ricordo immagini come queste quando ero bambino, emozionante e commovente, in italia è tutto finito, ormai siamo barbari,
Grazie per questi filmati che apprezzo e guardo molto volentieri.
Non abbandonate mai la vostra Identità,Iddio vi benedica.
Grazie.

[@ericdelf]

I remember this as a kid in1945 on Bullens farm at Willingham, just south of Hulver, nearly 80 years ago.

[@7392318]

Honestly, I think I saw this tractor in Intercourse a few years back, pulling a cart of baled hay. Incredible.

[@johncourtneidge]

Thank-you. I would have liked more views of the output side.

[@MrUnknown-wf1xf]

So cool to see old farm equipment still running, old ways of farming done impressive

[@goatfarmmb]

awesome video as always, nice to see them old Steam Traction engines still being used, hard to tell what brand it is looks like a Waterloo. If it is those Engines where made by the Waterloo Manufacturing Company up here in Canada

[@LancoAmish]

It is a Waterloo. Or parts of one! 🙂

[@joegotz1971]

These men remind me of my grandfather who bought his farm in 1939. He is the man I got my work ethic from. He also taught me the farmers handkerchief which I still sometimes use today, as long as no one is looking. His farm is now part of Mercer County Park.

[@fredhaines575]

THANKS FOR SHARING

[@jamesoliver6625]

Amish? Or Mennonite. The steam power doesn't compute..

[@LancoAmish]

These are Amish farmers.

[@jamesoliver6625]

@@LancoAmish I thought the Amish eschewed any mechanized power and only the Mennonite variant would use it? Hmmm?

[@LancoAmish]

@@jamesoliver6625 , I believe every Amish group today uses engines of some sort. Amish in Lancaster County we’re using steam tractors to steam tobacco beds 75 years ago.

[@jamesoliver6625]

@@LancoAmish From the doctrinal perspective, of the River Bretheren/Anabaptist movement in European the split by Menno Simons from the sect and his followers was displayed by the Amish rejection of the modern appliances and the Menno-ites indifference to that restriction. That's why Amish using steam was/is incongruent to me.

[@LancoAmish]

Amman (Amish) split from the Swiss Brethren mainly over the issue of church discipline within the "Mennonite" church especially when it came to the ban of members that were guilty of breaking ethical rules of the church. Amman wanted stricter enforcement of the ban. He and those members who sided with him left. There may have been members that broke rules of the church of whatever sort and Amman wanted stricter discipline of those members but it wasn't the rules that led to the split it was the irreconcilable differences between the leaders about the use of the ban on members. There are Old Order Mennonites today that "shun" more modernity than most all of the Amish...Reidenbach Mennonites for one. To put it simply, it wasn't the rules of the church nor modernity that led to Amman leaving...it was the implementation of the ban, or lack thereof, that led to him and his followers leaving. @@jamesoliver6625

[@johngroll9186]

Perhaps they should consider the services of a custom combiner.

[@GeorgeRosinski]

The good old days. As a young whipper snapper it was my job to work the blower to level the straw in the hay mow as we blew straw in the barn. Got pretty dirty dusty as well
But I'd do it again if I had the chance
Memories back in the days

[@vernonearl]

How were they driving the baler? I could see there was no engine on the baler, but I couldn't see if they were using a forecart with an engine.

[@kavingoucher9231]

that would be interesting to see.

[@goatfarmmb]

the way it looks to me is that it ran off from the thresher threw a gear box added to it that normally would of ran the straw stacker (blower)

[@vernonearl]

@@goatfarmmb That could be possible. Those Amish guys are good at improvising. I don't know how long the drivetrain on the thresher can hold up to the strain put on it by the baler.

[@jeffreymartin9558]

The baler doesn't drive any harder than the blower.

[@LancoAmish]

There was no power cart attached either. I’m pretty certain it was run from the thresher somehow.

[@NancieLinscombe]

Is there any place to purchase their einkorn flour?

[@LancoAmish]

Thanks for watching. There is a small shop right down the road from where this was threshed. Lamparter Road in Georgetown very close to Greentree Hardware.
Here are a couple links to shops that are online. This may or may not be the same wheat you see being threshed here but is organically grown in the area still. Both of these shops are within 5 miles or so of this field.
dutchmeadowsfarm.com/store/product/5-lb-all-purpose-flour
millersbiofarm.com/store/product/all-purpose-einkorn-flour

[@bentonbee1]

@@LancoAmish how did they get the hills off the einkorn? I understand a threshing machine won’t get it all off and it takes another machine?

[@joegotz1971]

I wish I had half the patience that these people have.

[@TVPiles]

I am surprised about the steam engine, if somebody had asked me I would have bet that it was threshed with the traditional "Dreschflegel".

[@LancoAmish]

Thanks for watching!!

[@richardsummers9009]

I enjoy your videos 😊❤...

[@Spinman1969]

Wow those are green bundles!

[@michaelniemann6110]

Working like that you won't need to go to the gym. Thanks for the video.

[@LancoAmish]

Thank you for watching and commenting. Both are greatly appreciated.

[@peteredelhofer6852]

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[@gustyattaway6419]

thank you

[@raywhite1442]

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[@МайклСалынин]

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