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
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.
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.
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....
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.
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
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...
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
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...
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.
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.
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
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
