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.
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