Old Threshing Machine

rusty6 · Apr 2, 2021

Walked out in the pasture this afternoon to see if the grass is starting to grow. Did some video of the old Red River Special threshing machine that sits out on
the hill. It turned out a little shaky with the hand held camera.

Threshing machine in pasture

JMOR · Apr 3, 2021

I'm right there with ya....getting old sucks, but I think I still take it (up to a point) over the alternative!

Bruce from Can. · Apr 3, 2021

Go ahead and plant a row of potatoes. It wont hurt if the tops get burnt off by frost. The growing part is under ground, and will just send up more foliage, but the bottom of the plant will continue to develop much the same. Get some of those tasty early potatoes by July maybe. I have planted potatoes on Easter with great success.
We were still threshing grain when I was ten. Our thresher was a New Favourite built here in Ontario. We always put the threshing machine in on the barn floor, and blew the straw up into the mow on top of the hay for bedding for the cattle and pigs that were kept in the stable below. I have great memories of threshing. My dad would thresh grain for two neighbors too. So they came to our place on threshing days to help. My mama would have a big roast beef or roast pork dinner ready at noon. With fresh tomatoes and cucumbers from the garden, pies , cakes and tarts for dessert. Could be 8 men and boys come to eat, always plenty for everyone. My mama was from Saskatchewan, and was right in tune with feeding a threshing crew

farmerjohn · Apr 3, 2021

Nice video, Rusty. Do you ever remember the thresher running or has it always been sitting there to your memory?
I have never helped thrash and dont know much about them but I have always been fascinated with them as a neat looking machine. When I was about 10 my neighbor had one for sale for $20 and I want to buy it but dad wouldnt let me, said we had no place to put it.

rusty6 · Apr 3, 2021

(quoted from post at 05:38:57 04/03/21) Nice video, Rusty. Do you ever remember the thresher running or has it always been sitting there to your memory?
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In my lifetime I remember that thresher moving twice. First time about 1971 my dad moved it out of the yard into the pasture. Next about 2000 I dragged it up the hill in the pasture as the high water levels had made the ground so soft it was sinking into the ground. Should be safe on the hill unless the wind blows it over. (Don't laugh, it has happened in Sask.)

rusty6 · Apr 3, 2021

(quoted from post at 03:02:52 04/03/21) Go ahead and plant a row of potatoes. It wont hurt if the tops get burnt off by frost.

I might just risk a row of them but most figure I"m crazy if I plant even the last week of April
My dad's memories of threshing were very hard work, heat, dust and headaches. He said that joining the army for $1 a day was a pretty attractive option for him and he did so in 1941.
I know he threshed post war when he came back to farm but by 1950 he got a new Case A6 combine.

55 50 Ron · Apr 5, 2021

My Dad had a 22 inch IHC threshing machine. Powered it with a W-30 IHC tractor. I was about age 10 and remember sitting on the tractor and really enjoying the sound of that engine especially when a slug would hit the threshing machine cylinder. Slug is slang for a momentary overload if the bundle pitchers would get uncoordinated. We still have an IHC threshing machine at Farmamerica www.farmamerica.org where I volunteer. Hasn't threshed in 2 or 3 years now. It is stored inside and could thresh again with just minor TLC.

rusty6 · Apr 5, 2021

Good to hear from you Ron. You might remember I ran the Cockshutt 50 on a Case thresher back in the summer of 17 for a short demo. It was certainly no load for the 50 but I don't suppose the pitchers were pushing it too hard with the sheaves in that July heat.

Cockshutt on thresher

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