Reding Family Threshing 1910 2022
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 เม.ย. 2023
- 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.
IN 1957 I DROVE A TEAM FOR MY DAD THRESHING FOR OATS. IN MINNESOTA. SUPER VIDEO AND GOOD MEMORIES,THANKS FOR TAKING US ALONG
Glad you enjoyed it Ken. Thanks for your comment...
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
Thank you for the Welsh POV.
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.
Yes, a different world back then. My father probably would have preferred that life to the more mechanized version of today.
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.
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.
Thank you for posting this wonderful film. Regards from Scotland.
Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it all the way from Scotland.
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.
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.
Very good video! I enjoyed seeing how people worked in the fields back then.
Yes, totally different world in the fields with actual horsepower compared to our present mechanized monsters.
Thank you Joey!! Sure brought back some memories!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
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.
congratulations from France COUNTRY !
Thank you France...
Impressive the whole story the thrasher to the steam engine I'm in awe
Yes, amazing what a job Robin did to refurbish both the threshing machine and the steam tractor.
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....
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....
Thanks for this. A simply wonderful film. God bless you. There is nothing llike working with horses. Regards from Scotland.
Nice to see what my uncle and grandfather had to do back in the day.
Right
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
Great video 👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you seems such a small thing. Pure enjoyment.
Thank you for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed it.
By the way, thank you very much for this interesting and inspiring report.
Thank you for watching and commenting Klaus
Awesome video. Thank you
Thanks for the kind words.
Excellent video, thanks so much for sharing. My grandparents thrashed many years ago.
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent, fantastic. Thanks 😅
Thank you for the compliments. Glad you enjoyed it...
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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
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.
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...
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!
Beautiful
thank you
this is impressive and a hell of a job!!! love it !!
how much does a draft horse harness weigh????
Hey GD: I would guess that J. R.'s harness would weigh between 25-30 lbs but it is awkward weight.
fantastic
Thank you for the kind word...
Will Mr.Reding and his family plan on having another harvest bee in 2024?
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...
Do you ever bale the corn stalks for bedding? Common practice here.
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.
What was it that they were working? Hay, straw, oats, barley, I have zero experience in farming
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.
Was there much grain lost during threshing ?
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.
Good brand Massey Harris.. convert to Massey Ferguson
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
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
tis is how dit it in Europe in the 1960 till 1976