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tom upton

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Attached pics show how we used to thrash back in the late 50's, 60's and even into the 70's. I have never heard of anyone else thrashing this way. Anyone on here done it like this or heard tell of anyone doing it similar? So I am pretty sure its because Dad had invested a lot of money into new Dion harvester, wagons etc and had a kind of partnership on the Dion thrashing machine with my uncle Harold Meyers ? Unfortunately I don't have a good pic of the machine as its in on the barn floor. I am sure that by the time the grain had went thru the harvester and then the blower to blow it into the thrashing machine there wasn't much thrashing left for the machine to do! Dad claimed there was very little grain loss, and he did it like this for two decades, so I guess it worked well for him. Worst part to me was forking loose straw out of the mow down to the barn floor then down the hay chutes then bedding up all the pens. When I'd complain Dads answer was usually forking a bit of straw in the winter is a lot easier than stook thrashing.
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sorry not sure why its posting pics multiple times?
 
I never thought of it being done that way. Were the knives removed from the chopper? I would think the thresher would have a hard time separating the grain from the straw if the straw was chopped up too fine. I can see where the straw would be hard to handle with a pitchfork getting it out of the mow when it is chopped into shorter stems. Maybe you used a sileage fork?
 
Yes. I knew several farmers who did it that way.They were farmers who already had a chopper with the hay pickup and chopped their hay. We baled our hay and the chopper we had was for corn. So we got a John Deere 12A pull behind combine. Used a tractor pulled Kory grain wagon and a Ford F6 truck to bring the grain in where it was elevated into the grain bins. Then we baled the straw. I never actually saw anyone do it that way but remeber my dad talking to several neighbors who did.
 
i thought them things were forage harvesters. everything is thrown out behind in a wagon, seed mixed with the straw. so are you saying at stuff is then run through a thrashing machine? that would sure seam like a pile of work to me. all we ever used was a binder then stook then haul to thrashing machine. last year was 1972 was once we got super 92 combine. did it a few times since for the novilty of it.
 
Yes Dad must have removed knives, as I dont remember straw being all that fine. We had a fork that was about 2 feet wide to move it around
with once it was out of the mow. Getting it out of the mow I am pretty sure we used what Dad called a dung fork. 4 or 5 Tines. When I think
back it must have been a good chunk of chore time just bedding up the cattle. Back then I would much rather be out in the barn in the
winter time than in the house anyway! There is something pretty neat about the ambience of a stable full of content cattle. I am sure there
are a lot of people on the board that know what I mean.
 
My grandfather's brothers used to do this in the later 50s-60s. They had a chopper (IH) with a hay head from about 1955 on, and had a threshing machine, so they made it work. No bundles to pitch this way!

My grandfather on the other hand, had a 12A combine and cut his oats/wheat that way.
 
I find it interesting the size of the wagons in the fleet and the diversity of power in the pictures. The picture at the barn reminded me of a story Pa told about silo filling. It seems that uncle Genes model 50 was having a tough time pushing the heavier loads on the silo filler. He borrowed a WC with a snappy governor to try on the filler and that little power pumpkin did the job.
 
Few years ago while I was on a trip down to Mennonite county, around Elmira. Those fellas were busy thrashing this very same way. They all had open station New Holland tractors, around 100 hp. Pulling the harvester through the field picking up swathed grain, and blowing it into wagons. While other tractors ferried full or empty wagons back and forth to the barn. The threshing machine was on the barn floor. And they unloaded the self unloading wagons into a box type hay elevator, which delivered the crop to the feeder table on the threshing machine. It would make perfect chopped straw for a dairy barn with a liquid manure system, and that is what this farm had.
 
must have been small amount done like that. dad and his brother used to stook for a month straight for all the farmers around here. then thrashed for them . get done at one farmer and move to the next farmer. we used to have one heck of a straw pile for the pigs and cows. in winter that was out tobogan hill also.
 
Our neighbors did that til around 2000 some time. Not real sure when they quit, but it was well after 1990. They had the thresher out in a field and brought the wagons to it. Not sure how they got the straw in the barn, but that was across the old from the thrasher.
 
No I can assure you that is swathed grain. I personally had a hand in swathing, and picking up the grain. I wont tell you how old I was when Dad schooled me on running the Oliver and forage harvester as you probably wont believe that either!
 
pretty sure my uncles W4 on the wagon, and a W6 belted up to the thrashing machine. CA Allis that I still have, and of course the Oliver 88 diesel on the forage harvester
 
OK I can clear this up a little bit. My FIL cousins by Green Bay WI, would swath the grain and then pick it up with a field chopper that only had two knives in it. They would haul the wagons to the barn and then run the material through a threshing machine blowing the straw into the barn and storing the grain later. Similar maybe, but I witnessed it back around 1982. Saved square baling labor.
 
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