Some vintage 8mm farming related movies

Got motivated today to upload some old 8mm home movies that might be of interest here.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmdNgid7VmFQerRoJtjFVTA/videos

These are from 8mm home movies made either by my late Dad or a late uncle of my Mom back when.

Ted Lange Case model steam engine ~1958.
Silo filling, and picking corn ~1963.

I didn't spend much effort to clean these up, etc other than add some titles.

Very cool I bet those jobs made the
Minny talk pretty good.

Very nice job by the camera operators. The usual home movie was typically very jerky because the camera was moved too much and too fast. That is definitely not the situation here. These are very professionally done.

Huge thanks for posting these.

Where in ND are you? I grew up in Towner County

Looked like the weather was a little cool when picking corn by the way they were dressed. Reminds me of 1969 when we bought a new
JD 2-row Model 38 chopper and we were doing a lot of custom chopping. Some mornings the feed/corn would be covered in frost when we
started chopping. Of course, no cab on tractor (JD 5010). Never chopped in wagons, just small wheat trucks with extended sides and
a swing out end gate. All was put in bunker silos.
Great movies.

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Really great movies, thanks for sharing them with us

Thanks Jeff. I enjoy those old movies. Post some more. RB

Is the engine that Jason now runs? I be known Jason for
many years. His shop is a trip back in time.

Im gonna bet a Nicole that all-crop forage wagon is a Dokken built in Sunburg. Id be curious to know what corner of Kandiyohi the farm is in. Very nice and I will agree on the quality of filming.

Gotta love auto correct db...
Absolutely Fantastic videos Jeff!
I can't recall the Sunburg company, waiting for info from a friend outside of town. He has said that Sunburg isn't exactly hell but you can see it from there. ;-)
Skindelien from Sunburg! He replied. First were wooden boxes.
Have to admit, these dumb phones can be handy.

After a bit of study I found this but cannot go any further on either of my old browsers.
[Search domain srperspective.com] https://www.srperspective.com post inventive-mind-behind-the-dokken-box
On a search for Dokken silage boxes
"Not all factory workers are treated by the boss's wife to egg coffee and homemade cakes, cookies and other sweets for their morning and afternoon lunch, 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. breaks. But so it was for the maximum of 30 employees of Dokken Machine Works in Benson. Neil Dokken, contributed photo The birthplace of the once great-in-demand Dokken Box, Dokken Machine Works, was the culmination of ..."
Ooh, egg coffee. Mmmm. Bullet mufflers on the MM's. Drool. Unique mufflers!

The Koubsky's had Dokken rear unload boxes and good (whining) Oliver tractors for filling silo around here.
That silage was packed so tight in the back of the box when ya opened the doors.
Gosh, those fellows made such a mess unloading that box.
Just a kid, the less mess I made on the ground, the less I had to pick up with a silage fork to throw into the hopper. It did happen tho.

Driving thru Stearns county last month I slowed down, turned the radio off, opened the windows and didn't hear the gluuue! of the chopper's cutter/fan. Seemed a constant reminder of chopping back then. Odd. I wonder if the blowers are as quiet nowadays too.

This post was edited by Duey C on 10/08/2021 at 08:53 pm.

I think that was a Gehl brand Chopper, made in West Bend Wisc !!!When i was in 4-H, our leader showed movies of them chopping corn,they also had a UB Minneapolis,on the chopper,It showed him standing on the back wheel,and the corn was as tall as he could reach about 10-12 foot tall, must of been in 1958! That was in LaMoure County North Dakota!

Brought back some memories.

Thanks!

Thanks for the kind words!

The chopper, blower, and forage wagons were jointly owned/shared amongst I think 4 neighbors originally. By the early 80s, only my Dad and one other neighbor left as the other 2 retired. In the end, Dad was the only left and he had it all.

Not sure about the brand of chopper. Assumed it was a NH only since there was a NH 717 that replaced it in the early 70s and Dad used until he retired. I don't know what brand of blower that was. The one I remember in the 70s and after was a Allis Chalmers. The one in the film and that Allis were belt drive. Dad later found an identical Allis at auction in the late 80s that was PTO instead and used that one. Could be a Dokken box. There were 2 (maybe 3 earlier) similar "power wagons". I know for sure one of them was a Schwartz but not so much the other one. They had all been repainted over the years and any decals painted over.

The Moline tractors were Dads. The Z pulling wagons is still on the farm. That H on the forage wagon would have been one of the neighbors. Not sure which as all of them were Red.

The harvest films were made by my Dad. Farm in SE Kandiyohi county by Lake Lillian. That steam tractor was I believe shot by a uncle of my Mom's from Ohio that was visiting my grandparents north of Hector. He gave my Dad a reel of 8mm clips in the early 80s of family visits (grandma's sisters and Mom's cousins, etc). He and grandpa must have gone to Hector to see this tractor behind Ted Lange's shop on main street. Its great if this tractor still exists and in the Lange family!

Wish I had a lot more of these sorts of films. Probably have a couple of my maternal grandpa's place in the early 60s but not sure anything else Dad did. He was usually too busy to document farm work so most are of weddings, kids birthdays, etc. There are some short ones I made (same camera) in HS in the early 80s of shelling corn and swathing oats. I could have sworn I had them scanned in but can't seem to find the files right now.

Thanks for sharing., brings back many memories, as children we used to ride in the front of the wagon under the corner of the false front. Dad bought
the same NH chopper in 1953 but it had a V4 Wisconsin motor on it, I could never determine the model number. He bought chopper, NH silage blower
with auger feeder and two running gears and two sets of hardware to build rear unloading wagon boxes. He had cut timber in our wood lot the winter
before and traded it for dry lumber for the wagon boxes. I was 4 years old and learned to drive nails into the wagon box floor. He used to do about a
dozen neighbors corn each year. Later he bought a third wagon to use at farms that the corn fields we a distantance from the silo. In 1957 he replaced
the NH chopper with a PTO driven IH #15 but didnt replace the wagons and blower until the 1970s with self unloading wagons and JD silage blower.

The engine still exists. I shared the video with Jason and he
said that must have been right after grandpa finished it
because the rubber lugs arent bolted to the wheels. He was
glad to see the video. Jason exhibits that engine at Rollag and
Albany every year.

The engine still exists. I shared the video with Jason and he
said that must have been right after grandpa finished it
because the rubber lugs arent bolted to the wheels. He was
glad to see the video. Jason exhibits that engine at Rollag and
Albany every year.

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Great to know!!

I expect our grandpa's knew each other in some way. My maternal grandpa farmed north of Hector for many years from the '40s-'60s. He grew up in the area (Hector HS class of '26) and his Dad (g-grandpa) lived in the area and had a hog breeding farm in the early 1900s.

I added a couple more old films today.