Horse-drawn Sorghum Mill Restoration - The FHC Show, ep 29

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In this latest episode #29 of The Farm Hand's Companion Show, Pa Mac shows how he and some friends rebuilt an early 20th century Goldens' New Model #3 sorghum mill. He also shows how to mount the sweep pole that draft animals like mules or horses pull to power the sorghum press. Now Pa Mac's ready for to keep alive the southern tradition of raising, pressing, and cooking sorghum molasses on the small farm or homestead.
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@BackToReality 3 года назад

While watching your videos, I often feel like that kid, listening to stories of old. Thanks, as always.

@consideringorthodoxy5495 3 года назад

Fancy seeing you here.

@jerbear7952 Год назад

Why are you listening to stories? There is a cow to milk, a tractor to drive...kids today

@phillipsmith2443 10 месяцев назад

I got my grandfathers old press after his passing. I plan to restore it this winter and the good Lord willing I'll be planting Sorghum in the spring.

@alexberry3804 4 месяца назад

It's a crime this channel doesn't have a million subs

@TheBereangirl 3 года назад

What a treat! I'm sitting here in the specialist office -- don't wanna be here -- and giggling like a little school girl with tears in my eyes...why? Because of the beauty I've seen here, art and science resurrecting the past and making a dream come true!-- come what may, I can't wait to see you press some cain! Thanks PaMac, for calming me down with your awesome video, as always! I hope you find a good mule, too.💗

@DeepSouthHomestead 3 года назад

I restored the same mill on my channel. We use it to make syrup every year. Have a playlist of using it. Great job on restoring a piece of history.

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

Hey there, Deep South Homestead, so good to hear from you. I very much appreciate your channel...especially the cane mill restoration. Great job documenting that. Please keep up your great work!

@nicovan7319 3 года назад

instablaster.

@GoldensCastIron Год назад

The new model 3 was one of our most popular can mills at the turn of the 20th century. This one is a fine restoration, down to the red and yellow paint scheme. Nice job!

@onebackzach 3 года назад

I really appreciate you sharing your project with us. It's such a pleasure to get an old, rusty, esoteric tool or piece of equipment and learn about how it works when you take it apart, fix it, and put it back together. It's even better when you finally get to figure out how to use it and see it in action. I felt a little bit of that with this video, and I appreciate it. Your illustrations are also wonderful and I enjoy the personal touch it adds.

@splatbabylon 3 года назад

I say it every time, and can’t say it enough. This is THE BEST content on RU-vid. Wholesome, entertaining, educational, FUNNY. Love ya Pa. keep it up!!!

@raycycleit8311 3 года назад

Yes! Stuff we need more of..❤🙂

@miraclefarm1927 3 года назад

Thank you for taking us step by step through the restoration process. We made sorghum molasses this past season for the first time in years and lover it. Excited to see you doing the same thing. Blessings

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

Thank you, Miracle Farm. And keep up your great videos!

@johnproctor5292 3 года назад

I really enjoyed this video. My father-in-law has a similar roller mill. Every Thanksgiving we spend about two days squeezing sugar cane and boiling syrup in an 80 gallon kettle instead of an evaporation table. It's probably my favorite event of the year. People stop in just to watch, talk, and reminisce about the "good ol' days".

@happilyretiredmark2964 3 года назад

I kept waiting for the PaMac humor but you gave the old mill the reverence it deserved and gave us the process while keeping us in humor suspense this time. I'm already looking forward to juice squezzin time!!! Best channel on RU-vid!!! You are the Man!!

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

I'd say you're the Man, there, Mark. Thanks as always for watching

@lawrencehp1 3 года назад

Great job as always Pa Mac. The level of detail in capturing this piece of history is appreciated. Those are some fine craftsmen you enlisted.

@xzanderain 3 года назад

Must say i allways enjoy every video you put out. Its amazing to see all these innovative ideas for basic farming that have been virtually lost be brought back to life on your channel.

@surgicalshooter911 3 года назад

When I was a small boy living on a dirt road in Burke County, Georgia I would watch my old neighbor Mr.Bee Poole work his mule and mill to press the sugar cane, he would always give me a small piece to chew on. One day I was walking by and there was an old Sears Suburban riding mower attached to the mill in place of the mule with its steering tied moving slowly around the beaten down circular path, when I asked Mr. Bee why the change?, he replied with “THE MULE DIED BOY! THE MULE DIED.......! THE CANE HAS STILL GOT TO BE PRESSED....!” LOL! One of my best memories of growing up on the farm. 😂👍 CLJ4

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

Now that's a good story, surgicalshooter911! Thanks for letting us in on that one

@darionconversi9528 3 года назад

I never knew just how interested I could be in sorghum of all things! Thanks again Pa Mac!

@raycycleit8311 3 года назад

Thank you for the opportunity to participate in your project. The video turned out great.

@ciphercode2298 3 года назад

Fine restoration. You'll get many years of happy use from it and then pass it down to your youngins.

@wanqiaoyi 3 года назад

how wonderful to have good skilled friends to help each other out on a worthwhile project like this. hope you are all enjoying some sweet sorghum together. thanks for sharing

@hikerx9366 3 года назад

I think so much like you but am still on the journey of making it a reality. I watched an old episode from the Walton's where Ben tied up old blue and sold sorghum mill at the house and made molasses to sell for additional income for the family. I was hooked once I seen that. You are truly living the life I've always dreamed of...hope the next upload will be showing us the whole mill in operation from start to finish with the molasses production. Thanks so much and God Bless my freind.

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

I appreciate that, Hiker X. The Waltons...one of my favorite "escape" shows of yesteryear.

@deborahdanhauer8525 3 года назад

Talk about a man whose lucky in his friends! Here's hoping your mill is a great success for you and your community.❤😊

@Newfive 3 года назад

Thanks... video was calming after this past week... little downhome farm is just what I needed to get my morals back inline... :)

@tj21bem 3 года назад

Three skilled men are on a mission to restore an antique sorghum mill while a young lad (future Pa MacBryce) watches & learns.

@TheRedhawke 3 года назад

When I was young boy my dad would take us to the syrup mill and my brother and me would feed the mill all day and he helped do the cooking. We got a cut of the syrup at the end. We lived in East Texas and it was called Ribbon Cane syrup at that time and location. I really enjoyed your video, it brought back a lot of memories.

@JamesJohnson-yh1oh 3 года назад

Elizabeth says, Land's sake, I just noticed and watched the interview on VOC? from 2019. Loved hearing your voice, your accent, your thoughts, goals, and family!!! It was absolutely wonderful!

@ippychay 3 года назад

I'm really impressed with the production quality of this video. Your content has really improved. The layout, animations and music really make for a professional looking product. It's really good to see.

@freewillfarms2059 3 года назад

I had a chance to go to the Parker homestead festival in North East Arkansas . There i meet a gentleman who was a member of sorghum syrup making association.

@raycycleit8311 3 года назад

Love Parker homestead!

@hootnannyhomestead8338 3 года назад

My mom tells me the story about how my great grandparents had to wait till sorghum harvest was done before they could leave to go get married. They needed the mule to pull the press. But as soon as the last turn was over he got on that mule and rode to her house picked great granny up and on into town to get hitched. Every time my mom tells me that story all I can think is.....Poor mule!!! Lol ~Nanny~

@marciajenkins819 3 года назад

I remember visiting my great-grandparents in Columbus, Ga. many times as a child. The restoration looked great.

@TheCraftyCrowShow 3 года назад

Enjoyed your video as always. I get excited every time I get a notification you’ve put out a new one. Keep up the excellent work, and I can’t wait to see that mill in action!

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

Thanks, Crafty Crow. I'll be showin the mill in action next

@TheCraftyCrowShow 3 года назад

@@farmhandscompanion awesome, I’ll be anxiously waiting. I’ve got to go see this done a couple of times here in Kentucky, and I love that smell of the cane juice cooking. Can’t mistake it for anything else

@olddawgdreaming5715 3 года назад

Thanks so much for sharing with us, this walk back in history and regions was awesome and much enjoyed. 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻

@LVFFarmVlogs 3 года назад

Time to start "Raising" some cane!!! Beautiful restoration

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

Good thinkin', Northern Wisconsin farming! Thanks for watchin' and commentin'!

@RosaStringWorks 3 года назад

Nice job

@rogerhuber3133 3 года назад

Awesome! Now we need to see you hook up a mule and start pressing!

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

That's right, Roger. (But I have a little surprise in that regard.) Thanks for watchin', my friend!

@jivejunior8753 3 года назад

You have no idea how much I love this show.

@IveysFamilyFactotum 3 года назад

Always awesome watching the old tools of yester year come back to life. Great work y'all.

@willmegehee 3 года назад

Isn't it great how the simple things in life are just so grand?! I can't wait to see your cooker build!

@mhpjii 3 года назад

Wonderful. I especially like the second-from-the-right stick figure in the last illustration.

@bogdanalmar6033 3 года назад

Super robota 💪! Czekam na testy. Pozdrowienia z Polski!🇵🇱

@jamesrochon2195 3 года назад

Pa Mac, I have literally spent the last week recovering from Covid and studying sorghum and sorghum mills. I love your new video and your passion for restoring your old mill. I’m thinking about building my own from ones used in India.

@LittleJordanFarm 3 года назад

Very exciting...happy you have it..God bless

@kevinwilliams8662 3 года назад

Enjoyed the show

@jasonthetalker7253 3 года назад

Thank you for these videos

@bobbynash282 3 года назад

Man oh man im a happy man. Thank you my friend. This is gonna be good.

@keithinthemountains6450 3 года назад

Great Job !!! You have very talented friends but I also say you are very talented and smart !!! It would make a great video of you going to look at some mules for your mill looking forward to more videos soon I hope !

@joshv6722 3 года назад

I’m still loving your videos after all these years. Gosh how long do you take to edit your videos? Must take forever! Your a patient man Pa Mac.

@jorgemrivera5973 3 года назад

I really love what you do thanks....

@GrizzlyGroundswell 3 года назад

Thanks I needed that!

@driggerss 3 года назад

Another great project!

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

Thank you so much, driggerss!

@barlotardy 3 года назад

Thanks for giving me a few minutes of escape from this awful city I'm stuck in.

@Ken43952 3 года назад

Another great video!!

@jerrystout3032 Год назад

Outstanding job!!!😇,

@JcUDE 3 года назад

Beautiful job. I'm so proud of you being able to do, make, and build the way your Daddy did. Blessing to you and thank you for the beautiful fun videos that you do.

@royholt6980 3 года назад

love your shows

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

Thank you, Roy!

@jeffreyarmstrong2800 3 года назад

What a wonderful video. Thank you sharing all of the old ways!

@alanbloodworth2653 3 года назад

Great job!

@TheRedneckprepper 3 года назад

O Gary i wired his house , him n Judy are good people ! tellm Tony said HI ! now where are ya going to find cane ? A very fine job sir !

@lanevotapka4012 3 года назад

This is great! I love it when someone restores a neat old tool or machine

@brianphilbrook5262 3 года назад

Wow that is cool nice work

@newkekarmyreee4788 3 года назад

Thank you sir. That was a sympathetic restoration. Beautiful.

@mythco.3461 2 года назад

I live about an hour from Columbus, cool

@Betterhose 3 года назад

I can't wait to see it in action.

@jclaudii 3 года назад

Nice restoration and great video. Now I need to find some sorghum cane to start growing and bring to you next fall! I love the many uses of a red coffee can ;)

@LanceSheppard 3 года назад

Congratulations Pa Mac. Looks like that mill will be able to be used another 100+ years. I was just telling my wife we ought to figure out a use for the kids 2 mini donkeys, I think I might have found a useful purpose for them! (Although they might lack the appropriate equine power) thanks for the video. As always God bless you and yours. Happy new year!

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

Actually, Lance, I believe those donkeys could turn a mill just fine. (Even our neighborhood kids operated it when my milk cow got tired.)

@LanceSheppard 3 года назад

@@farmhandscompanion after I build my forge I'm gonna look for one 😀

@TexFarmer 3 года назад

This was fantastic. I enjoy all your videos but this one really made me want to get working on some of my own restoration projects that have been sitting, just waiting for some inspiration. You've given me that inspiration and I thank you.

@brandonarnold9915 3 года назад

Thanks for the vid! I always enjoy watching.

@patriots1needed 3 года назад

What a great job. Thank you for sharing.

@tropifiori 3 года назад

That’s a great project. Keith Rucker at Vintage Machinery (RU-vid) also did a video on Cane Presses.

@steveholbrook4729 3 года назад

Cool

@stevehairston9940 3 года назад

Pa Mac, I sure hope this is just part 1 of your brand new used sorghum mill. I really wanna see it action. There's a preacher down here in Gun Barrel City, Texas that raises and trains working mules. I can put you in touch with him if you like.

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

Hey Steve! Yes, in the next show we'll work some sorghum up. And yes, I always want to get to know more mule people (they're gettin hard to find). Just email me through my website or our FHC FB page. Thank you for watching the show, Steve

@nsynergy2313 3 года назад

MARANATHA!

@johngallagher2313 3 года назад

Very interesting. I am looking forward to watching you press some cane. I have to wonder who could have given this a thumbs down???

@kevintulak9987 3 года назад

I am intrigue-afied to see you use this mill. Are you growing your own sorghum to use in the mill? It is wonderful to see old things brought back to life (especially as I am quickly becoming an old thing myself). Thanks for sharing.

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

Yes we are. I'll be showing more details in the next show. Thanks for watching, Kevin

@ciphercode2298 3 года назад

For anyone who is interested I found an all American made sourgam press in current production at grainmaker.com. its pricey,but its hand cranked and looks well built. Would probably last a lifetime. They also sell other products that may be of some interest too.

@williamchristopher1560 3 года назад

Ya still gotta have/make a pan and set it up fer boilin the sap juice into syrup. Then ya gotta grow the crop to squeeze it.

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

Very right, William. Stay tuned...

@aserta 3 года назад

Shame about the chipped casting, but then again, it gives the machine character. Nice to see it brought to life. :)

@dpgoodall 3 года назад

Pa Mac, have you heard of the artist Tyler Childers? Give his latest album, A Long Violent History, a listen. His music on that album reminds me so much of the music you create for background on this channel. Both are very good! I think you’ll enjoy it

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

Sure will, Daniel. I'm glad you enjoyed the music, and thanks so much for commentin'

@royholt6980 3 года назад

LOVE YOUR HOMESTEAD VIDEOS I HAVE CANE MILL JUST LIKE YOURS I MAKE SUGAR CANE SYURP OLD GA FARMER

@alzathoth 3 года назад

How about a flour mill next? ;)

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

Good idea. Some day. Thanks for watchin', alzathoth

@awldune 3 года назад

Everybody loves a good restoration project :) 10:45 pouring molten metal on a mandrill would be very cruel: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandrill :P Apparently this is a common alternative spelling of mandrel, though. Won't lots of oil/grease end up in the molasses? Or does it skim off when you evaporate the juice?

@farmhandscompanion 3 года назад

The bottom plate is molded in such a way that it traps grease and oil into little channels that are separate from the sorghum flow. Before use, it gets washed out with soapy water, too; and during the off season oiled with vegetable oil to keep from rusting. Thanks for asking, awldune!