Harvest!

jamstra · Mar 10, 2019

Clearing out and sorting thousands of photographs, mainly slides, from 50+ years. What a task. Came upon this stackyard from 1970, on my grandfather's (later to be my own) farm in Scotland. Carting and stacking oats, for threshing out later during the winter. Looking back, the amount of labour required to get even this far through harvest is unthinkable today. Tractor related because my MF 135 is in the picture, as a 'youngster' of three years old! Jim

37chief · Mar 10, 2019

Great to find old family photos, and know about them. I have so many old pictures, I have no idea who the are. That same thing was probably done with horses before that tractor came along. Stan

jamstra · Mar 10, 2019

It was indeed, Stan - should have some old B&Ws of those days too, somewhere! Jim

SweetFeet · Mar 10, 2019

Wonderful photo, Jamstra.

For certain, everything involved much more physical labor a generation or two back (and previous to that). It's no wonder people were leaner.

Paul from MI · Mar 10, 2019

Good dog too. Must have been used to riding on a wagon load of sheaves.

Bob Bancroft · Mar 10, 2019

Quite a contrast between all the hand labor and the modern high power electric tower in the background.

jamstra · Mar 10, 2019

Bob, these 'modern' towers went up in the 1950s, 20 years before the photo was taken! 132Kv line.

JohnV2000 · Mar 10, 2019

I love the picture

db4600 · Mar 10, 2019

How many loads in a stack? It?s been many years since I?ve built a stack, but pressed I think I could pull it off.

pete 23 · Mar 10, 2019

We had a neighbor that stack threshed in the 40's. I believe he did it because he did not want to belong to a threshing run where one guy owned the threshing machine and about 6 or eight neighbors had the bundle teams and grain hauler. He would hire the threshing machine later in the fall. Never made much sense to us kids.

Paul from MI · Mar 10, 2019

Good dog too. Must have been used to riding on a wagon load of sheaves.

jamstra · Mar 11, 2019

We had our own threshing mill built into the barn (10hp electic motor) - so the next stage was to cart the sheaves from the outside stacks into the barn (held about a stack and a half at a time) for threshing out 'on a wet day'. Labour, labour and more labour! Jim

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