Reding Family Threshing 1910 2022

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  • The Full version of Reding Family Threshing with Robin's rebuilt Minneapolis thresher and George White Steamer. Ever since Zeno Reding moved from Switzerland, via Minnesota, to Irricana the Reding family has been involved in agriculture in Alberta. Horses, threshing machines, steam tractors and hard working men and women have participated in harvesting the grain on this farm, grain that helped feed a hungry world. This video shows how much time, effort and real live horsepower it took, and still takes, to put on a Reding Family Threshing.

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  • @kenbettygregor3900
    @kenbettygregor3900 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    IN 1957 I DROVE A TEAM FOR MY DAD THRESHING FOR OATS. IN MINNESOTA. SUPER VIDEO AND GOOD MEMORIES,THANKS FOR TAKING US ALONG

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad you enjoyed it Ken. Thanks for your comment...

  • @jeffatkins6890
    @jeffatkins6890 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Watching from Wales , I’m 73 this year born farming and it’s great to see my grandads way of life ,only horses on the farm and I had the benefit of living this way

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for the Welsh POV.

    • @BRI33NOR
      @BRI33NOR หลายเดือนก่อน

      Born on a farm in 1941. Petrol was short as needed for the war effort etc. The old Fordson was left in the shed and the horses brought out of semi retirement. So I grew up similar to the video, horses did almost everything. Contractor came round at threshing time with his big steam engine etc. ( MAN named Jarvis Swingler I believe). He went from farm to farm as did some of the work men. Us kids ran to meet and follow him as he blew the steam whistle before arriving. Big stacks of sheaves, beautifully thatched. We ran after and killed a lot of rats as the stacks got smaller. Great simple life back then, for us kids anyway. Thanks for the memories.

  • @SweenyGonzales
    @SweenyGonzales 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I am an artist in Montana, and I am currently developing a few paintings from old black and white photos of threshing and other farming activities I've found in antiques shops. Your video contains a wealth of knowledge for the paintings I am going to do. Thank you for preserving and sharing these old ways.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thanks SG. It is important to preserve these memories isn't it. Glad you are doing the same so thank you back.

  • @JulianSchmechel-ys7cg
    @JulianSchmechel-ys7cg ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for posting this wonderful film. Regards from Scotland.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว

      Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it all the way from Scotland.

  • @redwow
    @redwow ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm 85 and experienced all of this as a kid. Didn't think of it so much as a youngster but it was valuable.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, a different world back then. My father probably would have preferred that life to the more mechanized version of today.

  • @gwenlockwood1865
    @gwenlockwood1865 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you Joey!! Sure brought back some memories!!!

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad you enjoyed it

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I have been working with horses for 60 years and I still enjoy it despite some things are harder for me now, so I understand the joy and satisfaction you are getting out of it. And , of course, being able to use all that old machinery successfully must be rewarding , too. The old way of farming involved more people, was harder physical labor, but built community among participants, not like the solitary work of nowadays.

  • @cementer7665
    @cementer7665 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a very informative, and well put together video. Everyone involved needs to be congratulated and thanked for their time and effort in getting the machines in running order, and then putting on the demonstrations.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, Robin and J. R. sure put a lot of time and effort into preserving this earlier, and very important stage of agriculture in western North America. Thank you for your praise and we hope to put out an entire series this spring, summer and fall from putting in the seed to harvesting with the Redings' horse drawn equipment.

  • @worldcooking
    @worldcooking ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Very good video! I enjoyed seeing how people worked in the fields back then.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, totally different world in the fields with actual horsepower compared to our present mechanized monsters.

  • @caroldave4037
    @caroldave4037 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hi from uk this is the best vid ive seen in awhile regarding farm machinery amazing i was a sheep n cattle farmer north england but find crop stuff very intresting a lot different to the 'welkers ' 😂👍👍👍 my father was the generation that used horses for everything....

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you Carol and Dave. I know the time of working horses was my father's favourite time as well. He could name all the horse's stalls in the big home place barn....

    • @JulianSchmechel-ys7cg
      @JulianSchmechel-ys7cg ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for this. A simply wonderful film. God bless you. There is nothing llike working with horses. Regards from Scotland.

  • @annalorree
    @annalorree 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I grew up on a small family dairy farm. We used tractors, but the techniques were like farming around the WW-2 era in the United States. Self-powered hay baler (and old New Holland baler with a Wisconsin engine), no self loaders for hay. Yes, we used milking machines, but they were applied manually. It was a good way to be a child, learning to be independent, working with your hands, working in nature.

  • @bobogilvie4472
    @bobogilvie4472 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nice to see what my uncle and grandfather had to do back in the day.

    • @nazarshahzad015
      @nazarshahzad015 ปีที่แล้ว

      Right

    • @lorrainecharvet9972
      @lorrainecharvet9972 ปีที่แล้ว

      We had an old thrasher machine like this for thrashing Blue Grass . We used tractors instead of horses. When they were bailing the straw it caught a spark and we had a huge fire. I think this was around 1958

  • @deancampfield4703
    @deancampfield4703 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Impressive the whole story the thrasher to the steam engine I'm in awe

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, amazing what a job Robin did to refurbish both the threshing machine and the steam tractor.

  • @johnthompson4162
    @johnthompson4162 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    First, Robin here better not be dead. This is a great video. Catch up on the rest lateras well as this one. Always wanted to know, can you thresh corn shocks??? A north Iowan wants to know??? Robin looks to be someone I'd like to meet. John T.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey John. Robin is alive and pretty well. His back bothers some but he's put a seeder together that you can see hopefully in a month or two on Farmboy1950...

  • @pierreterry4116
    @pierreterry4116 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    congratulations from France COUNTRY !

  • @atticuskilby515
    @atticuskilby515 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent video, thanks so much for sharing. My grandparents thrashed many years ago.

  • @MormonAll
    @MormonAll ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you seems such a small thing. Pure enjoyment.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed it.

  • @leonardconlon9319
    @leonardconlon9319 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome video. Thank you

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for the kind words.

  • @klauskarbaumer6302
    @klauskarbaumer6302 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    By the way, thank you very much for this interesting and inspiring report.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for watching and commenting Klaus

  • @GuillaumeD1985
    @GuillaumeD1985 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    this is impressive and a hell of a job!!! love it !!
    how much does a draft horse harness weigh????

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey GD: I would guess that J. R.'s harness would weigh between 25-30 lbs but it is awkward weight.

  • @conorgraafpietermaritzburg3720
    @conorgraafpietermaritzburg3720 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent, fantastic. Thanks 😅

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for the compliments. Glad you enjoyed it...

  • @williammatzek4660
    @williammatzek4660 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dad told me this! He was ridding with his brother, pushing a go devil on a John Deere A. They slid the go devil under a shock of wheat. The shock started rattling loud enough you could hear it over the A John Deere at an idle. Dad was born in 1923. Passed in 2018.

  • @hughperkins707
    @hughperkins707 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video 👍👍

  • @garlandhenry6792
    @garlandhenry6792 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing!!!!!!!!!!

  • @markissboi3583
    @markissboi3583 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    aussie 1970s after i left schoool i probably did one last big sheep droves 2,500 head on a 17.5 horse the sheep go in every broken fence & railway line
    the pay was crap but it was ok till i went to the city got some history down young big homestead also tractor driving etc

  • @randyrobinson8751
    @randyrobinson8751 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We got too "stook" loaders at Western Minnesota steam threshers reunion

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Super that you have had that opportunity that few others get to experience nowadays...

    • @randyrobinson8751
      @randyrobinson8751 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@FarmBoy-1950 ones operational, other needs help

  • @nazarshahzad015
    @nazarshahzad015 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful

  • @charlesandrews-z5f
    @charlesandrews-z5f ปีที่แล้ว +1

    fantastic

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for the kind word...

  • @vancedoering3577
    @vancedoering3577 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Will Mr.Reding and his family plan on having another harvest bee in 2024?

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They had wanted to thresh again this past fall but it was too dry and the crop was so short they wouldn't have had decent bundles. If we get more rain maybe they will this coming fall. Hope this answers your question...

  • @eldongarner787
    @eldongarner787 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What is used tie the bundles?

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      A lighter form of sisal twine that we called binder twine. Very hard to find any more according to Robin Reding.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Good question...

  • @davidgrossman5104
    @davidgrossman5104 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Was there much grain lost during threshing ?

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am sure it depended upon who was running the threshing machine. If it was someone who knew how to set it correctly it wouldn't have been any worse than a combine that was set properly, and vice versa; if not set properly it would have thrown grain over like an improperly set combine. Hope this helps.

  • @bruceprentice6441
    @bruceprentice6441 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do you ever bale the corn stalks for bedding? Common practice here.

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว

      Not a lot of corn grown in Southern Alberta Bruce. Our neighbour grew some to winter graze but only one year. Not sure if anyone bales the corn stocks but we do bale wheat, barley and oat straw.

  • @jerrysponagle3881
    @jerrysponagle3881 ปีที่แล้ว

    What was it that they were working? Hay, straw, oats, barley, I have zero experience in farming

    • @FarmBoy-1950
      @FarmBoy-1950  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They were threshing oats Jerry. And that was a bucket of freshly threshed oats that J. R. fed to his team after removing their harness.

  • @jessemarch4528
    @jessemarch4528 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pan Bóg dał człowiekowi rozum żeby go używał,możesz używać Twój rozum ażeby pracować na ziemi z koñmi które ciągną twoje maszyny,dlaczego nie używasz Twego rozumu ażeby oracować używając traktor lub kombajn,miałbyś lżejszą pracę i więcej czasu dla Twoj Rodziny i Boga na modlitwę,nie rozumię.Na bardzo małej farmie miało by to sam's,ale na dużej więcej ciężkiej pracy,utrzymać stado koni tylko poto aby mieć zwierzęta pociągowe strasznie dużo pracy

  • @richardmiller3919
    @richardmiller3919 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good brand Massey Harris.. convert to Massey Ferguson

  • @marciogoncalves8821
    @marciogoncalves8821 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Difícil um trabalhando no pesado,,, e uma equipe de parasitas dos democratas tramando em como tirar mais ainda desses que derramam suor nas lavouras e outros trabalhos

  • @robertneven7563
    @robertneven7563 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    tis is how dit it in Europe in the 1960 till 1976