The Wheat Farmer (1974) 

Yes, I have a few more which I will be uploading. I am just redoing the ones already here and then will post up more. I just got new restoration software and learning to drive it. Glad you enjoy these.

Grew up on a farm like that in the Wimmera area of western Victoria. Brough back so many memories, right down to the Chamberlain tractors and the sheep. My dad could have well been that farmer. Thank you so much

Great piece of history. Im old enough to remember using bags and combines. And we have a Case 930 "Comfort King". also the 830.

every time I want a trip down memory lane I watch the wheat farmer 1974. Our family farmed at Mukinbudin until 1973. You can take the boy out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of the boy.

great memories of the farm just down the road from there, ten miles east of Ardith

Mr. Epps; One Way was the Kansas name. We farmed while dad worked at Shaffer Plow Company, "Best Built Plows In The Earth" was the motto. Our plow was a 9 foot swath, you could plow all day and piss across the final days work. Later on I begged my dad to build a frame to carry two of which one was pulled backwards, he refused, they are now referred to as tandem offset disc. Poverty has limited imagination.

So nice to see that old gear back when it was new

great stuff

I like the international 1800 ,short bonnet acco.my father had one of them in the 70s he used to cart rock out of the shoal haven river with,then hay in the late 70s and early 80s.good video.

Thanks for showing this...the farmer is my father, filmed on our farm. I'm also in the video but I'm wondering if the year might be more like 1972.

From that time when the sun was less dangerous and spring came when it was supposed to.

Does not seem all that long ago we bagged next years seed then hand sewed the bags after it had been put through Hannaford's pickling process.

Nice work do you mind if I use a few of these first clips for a windmill documentary I'm doing for school - I'll be sure and give credit. Thanks!

北海道で農家やっています。それにしても、1974年当時のオーストラリアの小麦の栽培風景とは。当時の農業機械は、こんなんだったんだなって、ビックリしますね。

Cool was in my recommend videos in 2021… I used to wear those short shorts in the 70-80s

Curious as to what the Aussies call that implement being used at 4:00. Western wheat belt of USA calls it a one-way because it turns a whole lot better to the left than it does to the right - you can safely only turn one way. Other parts of USA have never seen one or call it any number of things. At any rate they want to blame it for the Dust Bowl of the 30s instead of the only real decent reason for it. A decided lack of rain for some ten years or so. We were still using them to a large extent at the time frame of this video too, today most are using sweeps with a one year fallow for moisture build up primarily. I had a massey super 92 of 64 vintage which has some similarity to the combine used here. Confused because mine was bigger and more modern but this one has some real shiny paint on it - looks new. If I had to guess, I would put this one at latter 50s vintage - anyone know for sure?

3:27 That looks like a bridle draught scarifier, they went in but took some pullin.

Do you have any more of these vids besides the ones on your channel? These are great.

Farmers grow our food and God bless them

この動画のBGMは80年代の秋田県内の天気予報BGMにも使われてましたね。

Fantastic footage! Is it possible to re-use/repurpose with credits or licensing? Who can get in contact with? Thanks

What kind of tractor do you see at 9:55?

Lee Barnes, Do you guys from wheat country ever call one ways "disc tillers". Back here South Carolina we've had a few tiny ones to match our tiny fields and tiny tractors. The largest I had was a six disc Athens. I thought it plowed good but they're famous for throwing so much dirt to the edge of the field that it began to look like a bowl. Harold Epps

anybody recognise the shearer?Looks like Mr Anderson from Bruce Rock

From wheat farmer to weed farmer o how the times have changed

Sure looked like WAY older combines than in the 70s.. we have a 1460 international combine with a 24ft head and air-conditioned cab from the 70s! The combine in this video looked to be from the 50s.

Even by 1974 standards, that was obsolete.

I'm wondering why your tractors were running duels and duel hydraulics but you didn't take advantage of it by using a device for pulling two implements, the name escapes me at the moment but it was a clear advantage back in the 70's when no one could afford the really big equipment nor was it actually available. On a side note, the neighbors told me I was crazed when I told them what I had learned in vo-ag college, minimum tillage, using the same tire track for row crops, burning crop residue to kill weed seed. So I'm still snickering, 50yrs later.

Great, but the music !

you did not need so many acres to survive in farming then. you need to plant at least 10000 acres to survive now it all big machinery now the first time you till the paddock is when you seed lots of herbicide to control weeds

I’m a celiac so ...

That's a crop? Hee hee hee. Maybe if you didn't pound the soil into dust you would get one.

Hate the music.

Australia?