HI JIM- OUR NEIGHBOUR-WAS A TEMPLATE MAKER FOR INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER IN HAMILTON ONTARIO. DAD USED TO HAVE A CREW TO GO FROM FARM TO FARM AT THRESHING TIME IN HOLLAND 7 WAGONS PULLED BY A 30CM LANSBULLDOG TRACTOR
I'm 71 now and my first tractor driving was when I was 5 years old driving my uncle Bill's John Deere B loading bundles for the thrashing machine. I believe the machine was owned by the local farmers together. Thrashing " bees" were a neighborhood affair with all them getting together and moving from farm to farm. The wives prepared what seemed like a feast each day feeding us all. The machine is a marvel with all the moving parts and belts. I don't remember the belt being that long but in the situation they are in its probably that long to keep the power source on some what level ground with the thresher in the barn. Brings back a lot of good memories of a simpler time. Enjoy you videos . Thanks
Exactly what my grandfather had done in the 40's and 50's when I was a child by his neighbors on threshing day for oats, wheat, buckheat......what a treat to watch again
Buckwheat? That stuff was a weed. We planted it once and had a time getting it under control in our field the next year. Never forget my dad complaining about Buckwheat. Also, we lived in Michigan. Godspeed. Eaglegards...
Jim, It is a pleasure to have you explan things to us viewers. I find your farning method very interestin or sure. The Amish have the simple plan to farming. Work hard and long hours which so many Non Amish refuse to do. Have a blessed day. 😇
1902 -- McCormick, Deering Harvester Company, Plano Manufacturing Company, Champion Line and Milwaukee Harvester Company joined forces to create International Harvester Company. The newly-formed conglomerate offered a larger variety of farm machines.
More modern than what we used to have!! Our thresher was all wood bolted to an iron frame. I can't remember the name but it was bolted into the barn floor. we just used our old tractor with a fly wheel on the side, to run the belt!! So many memories Jim, thank you
Hi Jim, the engine is a Deutz (pronounced Doytz) is a German Air cooled diesel very popular with the Amish community,, I had the opportunity to help my uncle with his binder and thrasher 60 years ago, brings back fond memories, as always love your videos.
Big days those Amish work, fascinating to watch. Can see why they didn't want to shift it and set it up at your place. Must have been big nice oats. Neighbours rarely work together like this in Australia, not these days. Time was you didn't buy an implement that the neighbour had, and all the machinery was loaned about. Thanks for sharing all this old-time style farming, so pleased it is kept alive. Greetings from Australia.
NEW SUBSCRIBER. Our family farm in Michigan worked horses in the early 50s. My old neighbor always said, "With everyone buying tractors, who's going to buy the oates?" Historical, I think it was 1954 before tractor numbers over took horse numbers on USA farms. My neighbor bought a bag of rolled oates last week and for the first time he saw an expiration date on the bag. We always ate our noon meal at 12 sharp. Great video 👍. Eaglegards...
I was born in 1932 and as a youngster, I helped harvest oats and wheat in the late 40's with very similar equipment. And that included a bank barn like the Amish have there. Yes, I also remember how dusty it was. That was the harvesting equipment that preceded today's combine and the dust stays out in the field.
I can remember back when my Dad and lots of our neighbors threshed our Oats many years ago, I can't imagine doing it barefoot though. Thanks for Sharing. 🇺🇸
My grandfather owned a thrashing machine and went from farm to farm thrashing oats, wheat and buckwheat. I would go with him and when I was younger my job was to tend the blower horn. If he was thrashing outside I could control the horn with ropes form the machine but when inside the barn I would place the horn on the highest barn beam and climb up and straddle the pipe/horn and could do a better job spreading the straw evenly in the barn. No dust masks then just a handkerchief and I would be covered with dust when I came down for lunch. The lunches were always ham, chicken, beef and lots of potatoes, beans and corn plus many pies and cakes for desert. Hard work made for a big appetite and no OSHA then so not always the safest operation.
Jim what a lot to consume when it comes to sharing wisdom. Love this mechanical thrasher, so much to learn even at my age, haha, Thank you Jim for bringing us along to see and be in awe of what you go through to harvest your fruit of your labor. GOD Bless always.
I once lived near an Amish community of farms. They would move the thrasher from farm to farm pulled by 2 teams. It was huge on steel wheels. I could hear them coming from a quarter mile away on the blacktop road.
I remember the meals we would have while threshing or combining for the farmers that came to the farm. Few farmers had their own threshers or combines back then and would have to hire someone to come do it. New potatoes and several vegetables from the garden, a chicken or other meat, iced tea, lemonade, milk and coffee and of course cake and several pies. The wives had to work as hard as the farmers to prepare all that food and it was a matter of pride to lay out a good meal. How the farmers were able to work after that meal is amazing to me but they needed a lot of calories for the hard work they were doing. They had a lot of ice water and switchel out in the fields. Many of the farmers chewed tobacco because they couldn't smoke while working and it helped with a dry mouth from the dust. I remember the ragweed because I was allergic and it caused nosebleeds.
That oat dust is fierce. I have hay fever anyway and working in all of that dust and ragweed pollen, I'd be awake all night. A good vented dust mask goes a long way to help one breath easier.
@@GreenThumb121 It is an occupational hazard for farm horses older than 6 years to get the heaves from inhaling particles they are allergic to. Most farmers with horses are aware of it and will call a vet if they suspect it. Not much you can do to protect for it. Dust on a farm is a fact of life for both the farmer and the horses. I have spots on my lungs that probably are the result of growing up on a farm. Luckily they are benign and don't affect my breathing.
Jim didn't mention it but the grain was measured by weight not volume and there was an adjustment for the different crops. Oats 34 lb, barley 48 lb, flax and corn 56 lb, wheat, peas and beans 60 lb.
Yes, that's why the first number wheel on the right side of the face of the talley, when looking at it, reads in "units". The unit count is changed by adjusting the counterweight on the arm coming off the weigh hopper.
Nice video Jim. The rural museum here in King Ferry NY has a thresher. They run it during their wheat harvest festival in early August if you ever wanted to go for a ride to see another one working.
This is indeed a Master piece antique thresher unit which is a Treasure by virtue of its original state and its perfect performance. It is rare to see such machine in its fine working condition. Thank you for sharing......
Loved the IH thresher. My grandfather retired from IH after many years. Last position was in dept that designed and built prototypes of future models of various implements & tractors. Very proud.
I remember my Dad & my uncles using an old 1920's McCormick Deering just like that over 40 years ago. They had an old Cockshutt tractor driving it & my cousins & I were on forking detail, while dad drove the horses. Good memories even if it was hard work.
I have a thrasher just like that one there good machines ! it was my dad's so it's been in my family for years the wrighten on the side tells you the size of the machine that one is a 22inch wide cylinder and I think it's a 36 inch wide separator can't quite remember my thrasher is on rubber tires in stead of steel! nice video!!!
I grew up on antique tractors and machinery. Our oldest is a grain drill from the 1930s. I found the book for it, spmhows how to hitch it to 2, 3, or 4 horses to pull it. All my tractors date from 1949-1980s. I've been intetested in horse-drawn machinery and pioneer living my whole life. I am perfectly at home at a threshing bee. It makes me happy to be amongst living history and seeing working stuff that people love and still use.
First thanks for sharing the videos of the oat harvest (threshing). I see the McCormick Deering International Harvester question has been answered. Please note that there were McCormick Deering Binders also plus McCormick Deering Tractors. My Dad owned a 10-20 McCormick Deering when I was growing up. He had also owned a 15-30 McCormick Deering both with steel wheels and lugs. Most farmers were part of a threshing ring where the thresher often times was owned jointly and the power source was also jointly owned or in some instances the thresher was owned by one farmer and the power source by another. In the early years the power source was steam and even in the most early years it was horse driven. Most generally there was an operator who stood atop the thresher to make sure every thing ran smoothly and to oil the machine. There was at least one man who stacked the straw if the threshing was done outside. Some larger threshers could take bundles from both sides of the machine. You always pitch the bundle into the machine head first. Some guys would bale the straw from the stack later and most of those balers were wire tied balers. So a person was hired to poke the wires and tie them. I learned much of what I have written from my grandfather, uncles, and other farmers plus by attending thresherees since I was in my teens. Again thanks for the videos and for all who have commented.
Not picking Jim my friend, the power plant / engine looks to be a Deutz BF 4L913 air cooled diesel engine. Oh and my memory was shook loose , I helped my neighbor Abe with thrashing wheat a few times, (I did all with the others, load the wagons drove the horses, unload, fed the thrasher, and bagged wheat) it was a learning experience of what my Dad did on our farm, Dad was the 4th generation, I was the 5th generation on our farm. thank you so much Jim, for your videos, it brings back wonderful memories of my pass on the farm.
Boy that remind me of my younger days. This was a machine was running with a stream machine, I can still hear that stream machine working, tap-tap-pow over and over for the days lol, we had horses and oxens working on the farm. Between tending the stawberry field and logging.
I remember the last time I saw a threshing machine working,I was 7 or 8 it was powerer from an old at that time fordson on iron wheels ,my Dad and Grandpa were hauling the shooks to it with an 8n and the oats were being bagged up,straw was going in too a pile at front of a baler we would haul our share home to the barn later,The bags of oats were being stacked on my dads truck to go elevator about 40 miles away. Back then that was a n allday trip ! Keep up the Great Memories for me !!
Oh the memories. When I was a kid in the 1940s I remember my Uncle John having thrashers in to do his oats. He was in the bee. The owner of the trashing machine powered his with a steam tractor. He ran that thing the same way an engineer runs a locomotive. The tractor was also self propelled so it pulled the trashing machine. Actually, these machines are stationary when in use, as opposed to a combine, that harvests the crops in the field.
I would watch your videos all day if I could! They are so interesting and full of information, especially for someone who has never worked a farm. Thank you for your wonderful posts and I look forward to seeing more! I'm looking forward to seeing Lady's foal!
In our barn the item you saw for bringing in the hay were called slings. We used this system as log as we used loose hay.You would lay one set on the bottom of the rack, hanging the connectors on the back and front. When you had half a load you would place a second set. When the end were connected and you pulled up on them{using a pulley system) they would wrap around the loose hay lifting the hay and then pulling it into storage on a steel track.
My parents had a very similar barn. There were double doors on both sides of the barn they could open to blow the chaff away. They could dump the grain on the barn floor and had planks across the doors to keep the grain in. We had a trap door to fork the straw and hay to the lower level to the cows. I remember we hired a neighbor to do threshing. He had two of the McCormick threshers. I remember them using them in 1952 and the big piles of straw. The straw could be blown up into the barn. 1956 was about the last year I recall them using them in the neighborhood. Tractor drawn combines came into use in following years. There was a small granary room off the barn floor totally sealed to keep mice and rats out. It had a ceiling built over it to store hay or other equipment.
This video was very interesting. Brought back memories of when I was a child in the late 50's and watched my great uncle use his thrasher. I also used to help my Grandfather in thr 60's make loose hay and load the hay in the barn with slings and pulley system.
When I was a kid scooped many a bushel leveling in the crib, not threshing just leveling in the overhead bins. Oat dust will stove you up in no time, don't forget your "kerchief" as gramp would say. Jim, if you haven't already, you should look into going to the Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. It's worthwhile. Thanks for your vids!
I have been to the Old Threshers Reunion and it is an interesting and educational show. There are several thresherees held in the Midwest. The Mt. Pleasant show begins the Thursday before Labor Day. Visit their website for more details and the opportunity to purchase tickets. They have grandstand entertainment which is included in the admission price.
The thresher is an all steel model made between 1925 and 1956 it is a 22x 38 inch. They came with a chopper for the straw which is usually just the blower paddles. These machines are just a semi mobile combine. The Deutz engine is 91 horsepower. The black stuff on the pulley is most likely molasses it dries up some but stays sticky that keeps the belt from slipping. I use it on my drill press and lathe in the shop.
My grandfather owned and operated one of the very first steam powered thrashing machines in Iowa, West Union about 1905. He thrashed the wheat, barley and oats for all the nearby farmers.
Jim this was a very interesting video. the Amish are a very clever group of people and very resourceful. I wish they were more open so we can learn more about how they do things differently than the rest of us that use technology in our daily working lives and also at rest too. Thank them for letting us see how they do things. It was very enlightening to see. They work very hard too.
Great video Jim Back in the sixtys we barn thrashed .we took the stuke chopper out and used a elevator to put the grain in from a forage wagon.how was the dust up in the mow?it's very dirty but as you Amish friends said it makes great bedding. Brings back some great memories. Thanks again.
The old threshers were pretty much relegated, to the scrap iron pile, after the tractor drawn combine came around. My Grandpa had one, and I did get see it work, a couple of times, when I was a kid. I'm not old enough to have been around, when they used horses. This was in the late 50s and early 60s. I can't tell you for sure, when IH bought out Mcormick Deering, but it was sometime between the late 20s and the end of WWII. We had an M tractor, that was new, in about 1950. It had the IH logo on the upper front grill and Mcormick on the lower sides of the hood.
Watching all that dust makes my asthma kick up. Glad I chose cleaning floors for a living rather than farming. You get a day off once and a while when you clean floors
Jim, Your Oats harvesting/thrashing videos took me back perhaps 60 years on my grandfather's farm in PA where I grew up. His thrasher was made in Pottstown, PA if I remember correctly and was not on wheels like in your video. It was stationary on the barn floor and the thrasher was partially wooden. He was using an Oliver 60 by this time rather than horses so ran the thrasher off the pulley of the Oliver and used the Oliver to pull the binder also. Thanks for sharing!
I was blessed to see a non Amish farmer in western MD, about 70 years ago, use a threshing machine in my youth. My Dad told me about going from farm to farm & all the food the wives would prepare to feed the hungry workers. 👍💪
Just about every state has tractor shows the bigger ones have these on display and on certain hours they will be running you should go to some in your area and if not many of the farmers on TH-cam go to these shows every year all you need is to watch
We have lots of Amish over the mountain from us and I always heard they didn't treat their horses to good especially the ones for their buggies. I'm not trying to bash them but when I saw them pull the wagon up that came to mind. I won't ask the question but your horses seem to know how much you care for them and seem happy and very well taken care of. No offence to nobody it's not my place to judge on second information. Take care and stay safe. Loved the video and watching it done this way!
Thank you! It is a privilage to be able to peer into darkness, darkness of the hidden. It is only because you have earned trust that we are allowed to view what is hidden to most.
Hi watching you ran the old equipment is great. I am an active member of The New Zealand Vintage machinery club. We have a Case tin mill of a similar age as the Mccormick deering one you are using. I have a collection of Mccormick deering tractors. 1937 F 12 .1935 W 12 1936 Fair way 12 and a 1926 15/30 . I have received a 1930 Sunshine header. Powered by a motor but horse drawn or a tractor pulled. We are currently working on it and have it going for our big display of Vintage machinery in early November.
That way of putting hay into a barn is the exact same set up that my neighbor used when I was about 10-12 years old (early 1960's). I have tried to explain to people how it worked but you have to pretty much see it to understand it. We lived in North Idaho.
In 1902McCormick, Deering Harvester Company, Plano Manufacturing Company, Champion Line and Milwaukee Harvester Company joined forces to create International Harvester Company. The newly-formed conglomerate offered a larger variety of farm machines.
I really enjoyed seeing this video and I appreciate you climbing up high end of the barn or the rafters I should say, in order to get some of the excellent views of the thrashing of your oats!! That was a very impressive you as well as very impressive video of how the Amish do things! Also excellent yield on your oats❣️❣️😊 I think anytime we have an opportunity to learn how other people do things, whether it’s nationality or cultures, I’ll personally love learning from it so thank you for making the video and I would love to see more in the future. I also saw your team of horses watch more smoothly together than the Amish team but I don’t want to be critical of theirs… Maybe it’s because they were pulling it’s such a steep uphill they were having trouble I don’t know. I think you may have mentioned this earlier on the video.
PS - I think you were VERY generous in your dealings with the Amish in terms of not only allowing them to have all the oats and that you would buy your oats from somebody else but also let him have all of the stock from the oats. I think you’re a very kind man and that was the kind of dealing my father would’ve done. This is one of the reasons I have started watching your videos more and more!!!
Very interesting stuff. I recently attended a threshing show near where I live. (Central Minnesota) I enjoyed watching them set everything up and eventually running some corn through it. They used a 37’ John Deere model B to power it.
I love watching the videos of how the Amish work in your area. I don't know if they have changed from the time I live in Indiana but it's alot different from them. If you ever get the chance you should go see how they do things.
Each church district has different rules regarding daily living and agricultural practices. Some groups within the Old Order Amish are more conservative than others.
Well that was interesting. Bet yr glad it's done. Thank God you had nice weather.Now you can pay more attention to Duke n Earl❤️ we just love seeing them little fellow's. 😸🔆👍
International Harvester was formed from the 1902 merger of McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and Deering Harvester Company and three smaller manufactures. My grandfather had a slightly larger threshing machine, for harvesting a 1/2 section planted in wheat. He had the threshing machine, but would make a deal to get the tractor to power at harvest.
Good video Jim very interesting, my Papaw told me once that when he fed oats to the horse they would soak the bundle in the creek before giving them to the animal. Does that make sense to you or am I possibly mistaken.
Very interesting process. As you stated the dust is something else. The moving belts terrify me because working at a tertiary hospital I saw a never ending stream of kids with degloved hands usually caused by trying to catch something rolling under a moving exercise Walker. Besides the child’s distress the parents were a mess for ever. Anyway I suppose it worries me that you lads are so close to these things. Just make sure you take care. Love your informative clips always such a treat.
children of farmers grow up with the danger trouble is dads and mums now a days dont know about machanary to learn the kids. serve them right parents fault.
Since the grain was dirty, I suspect the owner had set the separator to include some chaff and weed seeds as feed supplement. The machine can be set to produce a sample as clean as a modern combine does.
HI JIM- OUR NEIGHBOUR-WAS A TEMPLATE MAKER FOR INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER IN HAMILTON ONTARIO. DAD USED TO HAVE A CREW TO GO FROM FARM TO FARM AT THRESHING TIME IN HOLLAND 7 WAGONS PULLED BY A 30CM LANSBULLDOG TRACTOR
I'm 71 now and my first tractor driving was when I was 5 years old driving my uncle Bill's John Deere B loading bundles for the thrashing machine. I believe the machine was owned by the local farmers together. Thrashing " bees" were a neighborhood affair with all them getting together and moving from farm to farm. The wives prepared what seemed like a feast each day feeding us all. The machine is a marvel with all the moving parts and belts. I don't remember the belt being that long but in the situation they are in its probably that long to keep the power source on some what level ground with the thresher in the barn. Brings back a lot of good memories of a simpler time. Enjoy you videos . Thanks
Less chance of fire in the barn.
Exactly what my grandfather had done in the 40's and 50's when I was a child by his neighbors on threshing day for oats, wheat, buckheat......what a treat to watch again
Buckwheat? That stuff was a weed. We planted it once and had a time getting it under control in our field the next year. Never forget my dad complaining about Buckwheat. Also, we lived in Michigan. Godspeed. Eaglegards...
@@fastsetinthewest Buckwheat greens ...when they are young and tender are better than any spinach I've ever had.
@@richardgreen5602 Thanks.
Jim, It is a pleasure to have you explan things to us viewers.
I find your farning method very interestin or sure. The Amish have the simple plan to farming. Work hard and long hours which so many Non Amish refuse to do.
Have a blessed day.
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1902 -- McCormick, Deering Harvester Company, Plano Manufacturing Company, Champion Line and Milwaukee Harvester Company joined forces to create International Harvester Company. The newly-formed conglomerate offered a larger variety of farm machines.
Interesting, thanks for sharing
More modern than what we used to have!! Our thresher was all wood bolted to an iron frame. I can't remember the name but it was bolted into the barn floor. we just used our old tractor with a fly wheel on the side, to run the belt!! So many memories Jim, thank you
We had a keystone no#1 thresher with straw carrier
Jim Cour. I think the name may have been McCormick -Deering.
Thanks again to the Amish for educating some of us! Loved it.
Hi Jim, the engine is a Deutz (pronounced Doytz) is a German Air cooled diesel very popular with the Amish community,, I had the opportunity to help my uncle with his binder and thrasher 60 years ago, brings back fond memories, as always love your videos.
thats what i thought is was to, we had an 8006deutz when i was a kid, great tractors!
Yeah - The bellhousing has a Detroit Diesel marker plate on it but that has to be a Deutz 6 cylinder air cooled diesel
I sure am glad that Pete allowed you to video the operations! And if course that his bishop gives permission. It's really interesting.
What makes you think the bishop gave him permission????
Big days those Amish work, fascinating to watch. Can see why they didn't want to shift it and set it up at your place. Must have been big nice oats. Neighbours rarely work together like this in Australia, not these days. Time was you didn't buy an implement that the neighbour had, and all the machinery was loaned about. Thanks for sharing all this old-time style farming, so pleased it is kept alive. Greetings from Australia.
Hi Louise, yes it is great when neighbors work together.
NEW SUBSCRIBER. Our family farm in Michigan worked horses in the early 50s. My old neighbor always said, "With everyone buying tractors, who's going to buy the oates?" Historical, I think it was 1954 before tractor numbers over took horse numbers on USA farms. My neighbor bought a bag of rolled oates last week and for the first time he saw an expiration date on the bag.
We always ate our noon meal at 12 sharp.
Great video 👍. Eaglegards...
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I was born in 1932 and as a youngster, I helped harvest oats and wheat in the late 40's with very similar equipment. And that included a bank barn like the Amish have there. Yes, I also remember how dusty it was. That was the harvesting equipment that preceded today's combine and the dust stays out in the field.
I can remember back when my Dad and lots of our neighbors threshed our Oats many years ago, I can't imagine doing it barefoot though. Thanks for Sharing. 🇺🇸
My grandfather owned a thrashing machine and went from farm to farm thrashing oats, wheat and buckwheat. I would go with him and when I was younger my job was to tend the blower horn. If he was thrashing outside I could control the horn with ropes form the machine but when inside the barn I would place the horn on the highest barn beam and climb up and straddle the pipe/horn and could do a better job spreading the straw evenly in the barn. No dust masks then just a handkerchief and I would be covered with dust when I came down for lunch. The lunches were always ham, chicken, beef and lots of potatoes, beans and corn plus many pies and cakes for desert. Hard work made for a big appetite and no OSHA then so not always the safest operation.
Jim what a lot to consume when it comes to sharing wisdom. Love this mechanical thrasher, so much to learn even at my age, haha, Thank you Jim for bringing us along to see and be in awe of what you go through to harvest your fruit of your labor. GOD Bless always.
Enjoy ed the thrasher video hadn't seen one working since my dad took me to a neighbors back in late 50s
Thank you Jim for sharing with us just one of your busy days of farming. Brings back wonderful memories for me.
There are many Amish farms where I live (near Cooperstown, NY) and wondered the process after field work is done. Much thanks!
I once lived near an Amish community of farms. They would move the thrasher from farm to farm pulled by 2 teams. It was huge on steel wheels. I could hear them coming from a quarter mile away on the blacktop road.
I remember the meals we would have while threshing or combining for the farmers that came to the farm. Few farmers had their own threshers or combines back then and would have to hire someone to come do it. New potatoes and several vegetables from the garden, a chicken or other meat, iced tea, lemonade, milk and coffee and of course cake and several pies. The wives had to work as hard as the farmers to prepare all that food and it was a matter of pride to lay out a good meal. How the farmers were able to work after that meal is amazing to me but they needed a lot of calories for the hard work they were doing. They had a lot of ice water and switchel out in the fields. Many of the farmers chewed tobacco because they couldn't smoke while working and it helped with a dry mouth from the dust. I remember the ragweed because I was allergic and it caused nosebleeds.
Sounds like a good time
That oat dust is fierce. I have hay fever anyway and working in all of that dust and ragweed pollen, I'd be awake all night. A good vented dust mask goes a long way to help one breath easier.
The horses shouldn’t have to endure all that dust!
@@GreenThumb121 It is an occupational hazard for farm horses older than 6 years to get the heaves from inhaling particles they are allergic to. Most farmers with horses are aware of it and will call a vet if they suspect it. Not much you can do to protect for it. Dust on a farm is a fact of life for both the farmer and the horses. I have spots on my lungs that probably are the result of growing up on a farm. Luckily they are benign and don't affect my breathing.
Jim didn't mention it but the grain was measured by weight not volume and there was an adjustment for the different crops. Oats 34 lb, barley 48 lb, flax and corn 56 lb, wheat, peas and beans 60 lb.
Yes, that's why the first number wheel on the right side of the face of the talley, when looking at it, reads in "units". The unit count is changed by adjusting the counterweight on the arm coming off the weigh hopper.
Nice video Jim. The rural museum here in King Ferry NY has a thresher. They run it during their wheat harvest festival in early August if you ever wanted to go for a ride to see another one working.
This is indeed a Master piece antique thresher unit which is a Treasure by virtue of its original state and its perfect performance. It is rare to see such machine in its fine working condition. Thank you for sharing......
Loved the IH thresher.
My grandfather retired from IH after many years. Last position was in dept that designed and built prototypes of future models of various implements & tractors.
Very proud.
Did he work at the Farm Equipment Research & Engineering Center (FEREC) in Burr Oak?
I remember my Dad & my uncles using an old 1920's McCormick Deering just like that over 40 years ago. They had an old Cockshutt tractor driving it & my cousins & I were on forking detail, while dad drove the horses. Good memories even if it was hard work.
I have a thrasher just like that one there good machines ! it was my dad's so it's been in my family for years the wrighten on the side tells you the size of the machine that one is a 22inch wide cylinder and I think it's a 36 inch wide separator can't quite remember my thrasher is on rubber tires in stead of steel! nice video!!!
Never saw a thresher in action before. Thank you for sharing.
Good evening from the North Norfolk coast UK thank you for a very interesting vlog. Keep safe and well best wishes Carol and Sue
It’s good that Kim got some help with the threshing everyone have a good evening
I grew up on antique tractors and machinery. Our oldest is a grain drill from the 1930s. I found the book for it, spmhows how to hitch it to 2, 3, or 4 horses to pull it. All my tractors date from 1949-1980s. I've been intetested in horse-drawn machinery and pioneer living my whole life. I am perfectly at home at a threshing bee. It makes me happy to be amongst living history and seeing working stuff that people love and still use.
I just discovered this channel and now I'm addicted to it! ☺️💜🙏👍👍
This is so awesome and educational for all ages,,,what a wonderful video and capture of details by you...thank you
First thanks for sharing the videos of the oat harvest (threshing). I see the McCormick Deering International Harvester question has been answered. Please note that there were McCormick Deering Binders also plus McCormick Deering Tractors. My Dad owned a 10-20 McCormick Deering when I was growing up. He had also owned a 15-30 McCormick Deering both with steel wheels and lugs. Most farmers were part of a threshing ring where the thresher often times was owned jointly and the power source was also jointly owned or in some instances the thresher was owned by one farmer and the power source by another. In the early years the power source was steam and even in the most early years it was horse driven. Most generally there was an operator who stood atop the thresher to make sure every thing ran smoothly and to oil the machine. There was at least one man who stacked the straw if the threshing was done outside. Some larger threshers could take bundles from both sides of the machine. You always pitch the bundle into the machine head first. Some guys would bale the straw from the stack later and most of those balers were wire tied balers. So a person was hired to poke the wires and tie them. I learned much of what I have written from my grandfather, uncles, and other farmers plus by attending thresherees since I was in my teens. Again thanks for the videos and for all who have commented.
Not picking Jim my friend, the power plant / engine looks to be a Deutz BF 4L913 air cooled diesel engine. Oh and my memory was shook loose , I helped my neighbor Abe with thrashing wheat a few times, (I did all with the others, load the wagons drove the horses, unload, fed the thrasher, and bagged wheat) it was a learning experience of what my Dad did on our farm, Dad was the 4th generation, I was the 5th generation on our farm. thank you so much Jim, for your videos, it brings back wonderful memories of my pass on the farm.
Very possible, I’m not much of an engine guy
Boy that remind me of my younger days. This was a machine was running with a stream machine, I can still hear that stream machine working, tap-tap-pow over and over for the days lol, we had horses and oxens working on the farm. Between tending the stawberry field and logging.
I remember the last time I saw a threshing machine working,I was 7 or 8 it was powerer from an old at that time fordson on iron wheels ,my Dad and Grandpa were hauling the shooks to it with an 8n and the oats were being bagged up,straw was going in too a pile at front of a baler we would haul our share home to the barn later,The bags of oats were being stacked on my dads truck to go elevator about 40 miles away. Back then that was a
n allday trip ! Keep up the Great Memories for me !!
Thanks for watching!
Oh the memories. When I was a kid in the 1940s I remember my Uncle John having thrashers in to do his oats. He was in the bee. The owner of the trashing machine powered his with a steam tractor. He ran that thing the same way an engineer runs a locomotive. The tractor was also self propelled so it pulled the trashing machine. Actually, these machines are stationary when in use, as opposed to a combine, that harvests the crops in the field.
I would watch your videos all day if I could! They are so interesting and full of information, especially for someone who has never worked a farm. Thank you for your wonderful posts and I look forward to seeing more! I'm looking forward to seeing Lady's foal!
Hi Jim, the Amish are really interesting people. Working very hard with all that old staff. Farm on, Andreas
In our barn the item you saw for bringing in the hay were called slings. We used this system as log as we used loose hay.You would lay one set on the bottom of the rack, hanging the connectors on the back and front. When you had half a load you would place a second set. When the end were connected and you pulled up on them{using a pulley system) they would wrap around the loose hay lifting the hay and then pulling it into storage on a steel track.
My parents had a very similar barn. There were double doors on both sides of the barn they could open to blow the chaff away. They could dump the grain on the barn floor and had planks across the doors to keep the grain in. We had a trap door to fork the straw and hay to the lower level to the cows. I remember we hired a neighbor to do threshing. He had two of the McCormick threshers. I remember them using them in 1952 and the big piles of straw. The straw could be blown up into the barn. 1956 was about the last year I recall them using them in the neighborhood. Tractor drawn combines came into use in following years. There was a small granary room off the barn floor totally sealed to keep mice and rats out. It had a ceiling built over it to store hay or other equipment.
This video was very interesting. Brought back memories of when I was a child in the late 50's and watched my great uncle use his thrasher. I also used to help my Grandfather in thr 60's make loose hay and load the hay in the barn with slings and pulley system.
When I was a kid scooped many a bushel leveling in the crib, not threshing just leveling in the overhead bins. Oat dust will stove you up in no time, don't forget your "kerchief" as gramp would say. Jim, if you haven't already, you should look into going to the Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. It's worthwhile. Thanks for your vids!
Amen on going to Mt Pleasant Ole Tharshers it's well worth the Trip, I live here in Awesome Southeast Iowa :-)
I have been to the Old Threshers Reunion and it is an interesting and educational show. There are several thresherees held in the Midwest. The Mt. Pleasant show begins the Thursday before Labor Day. Visit their website for more details and the opportunity to purchase tickets. They have grandstand entertainment which is included in the admission price.
Thanks for letting me see a thrasher operate. Grandpa told stories about threshing grain, before tractors.
The thresher is an all steel model made between 1925 and 1956 it is a 22x 38 inch. They came with a chopper for the straw which is usually just the blower paddles. These machines are just a semi mobile combine.
The Deutz engine is 91 horsepower.
The black stuff on the pulley is most likely molasses it dries up some but stays sticky that keeps the belt from slipping. I use it on my drill press and lathe in the shop.
Hi Jim. I love to watch the Amish work. Thanks a lot for the video !!!
My grandfather owned and operated one of the very first steam powered thrashing machines in Iowa, West Union about 1905. He thrashed the wheat, barley and oats for all the nearby farmers.
All that brings back childhood memories. I even still remember steam engines to run the thrashers, which were big mostly wooden contraptions.
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Jim this was a very interesting video. the Amish are a very clever group of people and very resourceful. I wish they were more open so we can learn more about how they do things differently than the rest of us that use technology in our daily working lives and also at rest too. Thank them for letting us see how they do things. It was very enlightening to see. They work very hard too.
Loved watching this series of videos. 💕. Thank you for taking us along! You did a great job explaining how it worked.
As long as your happy with the deal, that is the main thing.! Thanks for sharing with thumbs up.!
Great video Jim. I’ve never seen one of those thrashers run and found it real interesting. Quite a piece of equipment for the times.
Very Interesting To Watch ! But im a old Country boy my self & i like seeing how every one else does things ! Thanks
Hi Jim, That was very informative, plus it’s cool watching the vintage equipment being used!!
Very interesting video , amazing talent at work , very hard working days & total team effort ! Stay safe everyone ! Thank you !
Great video Jim
Back in the sixtys we barn thrashed .we took the stuke chopper out and used a elevator to put the grain in from a forage wagon.how was the dust up in the mow?it's very dirty but as you Amish friends said it makes great bedding. Brings back some great memories. Thanks again.
Very interesting and informative. Been over twenty years since I've seen this done and that was at the fall fairs.
Good one.Nice to see the old thresher in action again.
Great timberwork. Wonderful carpenter work in that barn.
so very interesting. Thank you for sharing and thanks to your Amish Friends for allowing the video.
This brings back memories of when I live with the Amish miss it and love it
The old threshers were pretty much relegated, to the scrap iron pile, after the tractor drawn combine came around. My Grandpa had one, and I did get see it work, a couple of times, when I was a kid. I'm not old enough to have been around, when they used horses. This was in the late 50s and early 60s. I can't tell you for sure, when IH bought out Mcormick Deering, but it was sometime between the late 20s and the end of WWII. We had an M tractor, that was new, in about 1950. It had the IH logo on the upper front grill and Mcormick on the lower sides of the hood.
Another great video really enjoyed it, this took me way back to my childhood very dusty work, but I enjoyed it.
Watching all that dust makes my asthma kick up. Glad I chose cleaning floors for a living rather than farming. You get a day off once and a while when you clean floors
Thanks for sharing. Was Amazing to watch.,..
Jim, Your Oats harvesting/thrashing videos took me back perhaps 60 years on my grandfather's farm in PA where I grew up. His thrasher was made in Pottstown, PA if I remember correctly and was not on wheels like in your video. It was stationary on the barn floor and the thrasher was partially wooden. He was using an Oliver 60 by this time rather than horses so ran the thrasher off the pulley of the Oliver and used the Oliver to pull the binder also. Thanks for sharing!
I was blessed to see a non Amish farmer in western MD, about 70 years ago, use a threshing machine in my youth. My Dad told me about going from farm to farm & all the food the wives would prepare to feed the hungry workers. 👍💪
Ellis-Keystone made threshing machines in Pottstown. They and Heebner & Sons in Lansdale made a lot of barn threshers.
Not being a farn boy, I learn with each vidio you post.
I have seen lots of these in old Fields just parked rusting away I never knew what they were let alone seeing one working thank you!!
Just about every state has tractor shows the bigger ones have these on display and on certain hours they will be running you should go to some in your area and if not many of the farmers on TH-cam go to these shows every year all you need is to watch
These videos are the coolest there is
What a great job on the series!! Very good!!!!!! I imagine making that video was a lot of work , thanks for sharing
We have lots of Amish over the mountain from us and I always heard they didn't treat their horses to good especially the ones for their buggies. I'm not trying to bash them but when I saw them pull the wagon up that came to mind. I won't ask the question but your horses seem to know how much you care for them and seem happy and very well taken care of. No offence to nobody it's not my place to judge on second information. Take care and stay safe. Loved the video and watching it done this way!
my thoughts exactly.
I thought the same thing too. I'd want to be one of Jim's horses.
Thank you! It is a privilage to be able to peer into darkness, darkness of the hidden. It is only because you have earned trust that we are allowed to view what is hidden to most.
Hi watching you ran the old equipment is great. I am an active member of The New Zealand Vintage machinery club.
We have a Case tin mill of a similar age as the Mccormick deering one you are using.
I have a collection of Mccormick deering tractors. 1937 F 12 .1935 W 12 1936 Fair way 12 and a 1926 15/30 . I have received a 1930 Sunshine header. Powered by a motor but horse drawn or a tractor pulled. We are currently working on it and have it going for our big display of Vintage machinery in early November.
Hi, and thanks for sharing, sounds like you have a lot of nice equipment there. The word vintage is so much nicer than old, haha
That way of putting hay into a barn is the exact same set up that my neighbor used when I was about 10-12 years old (early 1960's). I have tried to explain to people how it worked but you have to pretty much see it to understand it. We lived in North Idaho.
Another wonderful video. Excellent explanation. Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Very nice to watch and thanks for sharing. Have a nice safe day. God bless.
Extremely interesting. Thank You.
In 1902McCormick, Deering Harvester Company, Plano Manufacturing Company, Champion Line and Milwaukee Harvester Company joined forces to create International Harvester Company. The newly-formed conglomerate offered a larger variety of farm machines.
Heard my father speak of these type of threshing machines many times. Thanks for sharing.
Some hard working people, got to love them.
Use to help my uncle do this in a open field and than hauled the straw to the barn on wagons.Good memories
Great video Jim!
Thank's for sharing Jim that was a great video I learned alot keep the videos coming
Thank you i have never seen a machine like that before it was very interesting great v
Very interesting Jim. Thank you
Merci pour cette intéressante vidéo j'ai connus les batteuses jusqu'en 1964 en Suisse après on a acheté une moissoneuse batteuse Glaeson Albert
what a fine video. learned something new today.
I really enjoyed seeing this video and I appreciate you climbing up high end of the barn or the rafters I should say, in order to get some of the excellent views of the thrashing of your oats!! That was a very impressive you as well as very impressive video of how the Amish do things! Also excellent yield on your oats❣️❣️😊
I think anytime we have an opportunity to learn how other people do things, whether it’s nationality or cultures, I’ll personally love learning from it so thank you for making the video and I would love to see more in the future. I also saw your team of horses watch more smoothly together than the Amish team but I don’t want to be critical of theirs… Maybe it’s because they were pulling it’s such a steep uphill they were having trouble I don’t know. I think you may have mentioned this earlier on the video.
PS - I think you were VERY generous in your dealings with the Amish in terms of not only allowing them to have all the oats and that you would buy your oats from somebody else but also let him have all of the stock from the oats. I think you’re a very kind man and that was the kind of dealing my father would’ve done. This is one of the reasons I have started watching your videos more and more!!!
Very interesting stuff. I recently attended a threshing show near where I live. (Central Minnesota) I enjoyed watching them set everything up and eventually running some corn through it. They used a 37’ John Deere model B to power it.
Glad to hear those types of shows are going on!
I love watching the videos of how the Amish work in your area. I don't know if they have changed from the time I live in Indiana but it's alot different from them. If you ever get the chance you should go see how they do things.
Each church district has different rules regarding daily living and agricultural practices. Some groups within the Old Order Amish are more conservative than others.
Well that was interesting. Bet yr glad it's done. Thank God you had nice weather.Now you can pay more attention to Duke n Earl❤️ we just love seeing them little fellow's. 😸🔆👍
I remember my Grandpa running and i helping when in was young we did lots of loose hay and straw in haybarn
Thanks for sharing very interesting video like seen how this eqip works the tecnology has can very far!
My grandmothers brother died when a steam powered thresher exploded in 1918 very cool to see the process
Sorry to hear that.
I wonder whot exploded the steam engine or the thresher
International Harvester was formed from the 1902 merger of McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and Deering Harvester Company and three smaller manufactures. My grandfather had a slightly larger threshing machine, for harvesting a 1/2 section planted in wheat. He had the threshing machine, but would make a deal to get the tractor to power at harvest.
Good video Jim very interesting, my Papaw told me once that when he fed oats to the horse they would soak the bundle in the creek before giving them to the animal. Does that make sense to you or am I possibly mistaken.
Makes perfect sense. Soaking breaks down the lectins on the seed coat which makes the oats much more digestible. Your Papaw knew what he was doing.
Like Tom says, but also rids the oats of dust to prevent the horses breathing in and developing heaves.
Very interesting process. As you stated the dust is something else. The moving belts terrify me because working at a tertiary hospital I saw a never ending stream of kids with degloved hands usually caused by trying to catch something rolling under a moving exercise Walker. Besides the child’s distress the parents were a mess for ever. Anyway I suppose it worries me that you lads are so close to these things. Just make sure you take care. Love your informative clips always such a treat.
children of farmers grow up with the danger trouble is dads and mums now a days dont know about machanary to learn the kids. serve them right parents fault.
Really interesting. I never saw a thrasher used in a barn. My grandfather and uncle as well as the neighbors used it n the field.
Since the grain was dirty, I suspect the owner had set the separator to include some chaff and weed seeds as feed supplement. The machine can be set to produce a sample as clean as a modern combine does.
Had the overwhelming urge to blow my nose!