A tip for filling bags on your own. Cut the bottom out of a bucket like the one you’re using to fill the hopper. Then insert it into the bag and start filling.
Oats was my favorite crop to grow, We used to clean our own seed as well, grandpa refused to buy seed he didn't have to. The grain seperator he had was originally ordered from a farming catalog in the 1930's by his mother. I wish I could have saved it. After grandpa was moved to the nursing home and the family became divided my drunken uncle used it and never put it away. Last I seen it was left to rot in the dirt alongside one of the sheds. Some day my brother and I have the goal to have a small, self sustaining beef farm. Growing our own oats and corn for seed and making the hay. We plan on doing many things like how grandpa taught us, because they worked so well and were much more affordable than modern methods.
A guy about 25 miles away cleans my seed oats for me. He has an old, rather big, cleaning unit on the back of a 1970's Chevy flatbed truck. The cleaning unit is run by a large lawnmower engine. He and his dad used to come to the farm to clean our seed, but his dad has passed away and there aren't that many people in our area that used his service, so it is no longer worth his while to get registration, inspection, and insurance for the truck. But as long as I'm willing to take my seed oats to his farm, he'll continue cleaning it.
Tying bags: an alternative we used is bunch up the sack, hold a pig tail of the cord with your pinky, wrap the bag three times, feed the other end either straight or a loop through the loop where your pinky was, pull tight. Then later the same tug on the end to free open the binding later. I've got that in muscle memory from forty years ago, along with the 'truckers tie down' for a rope to hold a load of hay on a wagon or pickup -- I still use that one all the time (thanks Dad). Now I'm looking up local fanning mills, lol.
Your seed cleaner sounded just like an old puut puut John Deere.......LOL. Also, GREAT seeing a father and his two sons working together on a farm. This is something that is missing in today's world. Family !
Awesome video, glad to see that old equipment still in good use. Born and raised in Italy, I remember holding the bags for mom as dad and grandpa sifted the oats by hand, they planted quite of bit, so it could be fed mostly for horses, mules and slop for pigs. We fed the 6 cows only hay.... good days gone by. Cherish the time with mom, dad and brothers. Thank you for being farmers, glad to see the nice weather for you, it's 70° in Independence, Ohio. I enjoy all your videos, I'm dissabled from a major surgery gone bad... they bring me smiles. Love the symphony of the cow bells, beautiful rolling hills farm. Stay healthy and safe, God Bless you all
Boy does that bring back memories. I used to fill the fan for my dad when he fanned soybeans for seed beans. Quite a job for a 7 year old but I wouldn't trade those days for anything. Great way to learn a work ethic!
Thank your family for the wonderful memories of our family did things when we farmed simple and not just as my dad said “you don’t farm the ground anymore you are running over it”. That was in the mid 60’s when we farmed 300 with cattle and hogs.
I watch another farm video, called Raven Farms, and he uses one of theese. He has the chute to bag it in sacks. Interesting to another one. Great video!
Great video guy's, brings me back to when I was small. MY grandpa used to do that with wheat, he didn't believe on getting anything from the store. He made his own floor and things and grandma would make the bread. I'm 65 now and I wish it was like the old days again. If people would know about them days back then, they say lets go back, it was so much better,
We use to do that on that on the farm too. Surprise people still do that. Fan will take care of the weed seeds and takes out the light seeds that may not be as good. We would run a really small grain elevator from the cleaner back into a gravity wagon.
Looks fun. This is when farming is fun. Now it's to corporate and stressful not to say farming in general is not stressful but you know what I mean lol. I miss it
good one ,thank you ,just helping my brother with a cleaner for trefoil rye seperation , now trefoil brash muck cleaning , i was a press brake ,sheet metal worker rolling cones and square to rounds at alvan blanch seed equipment but went self employed after kidney cancer , great video Freds Fabrications , Eastleach Downs Organic farm UK
Have one just like it in the shed. Manufactured sometime in the late teens and 20s. We use to plant our own oats and barley seed. Every year we would buy 10 bu. of certified oats and/or 6 bu.of barley to plant, and keep it in separate bins,that would be next year’s seed. Dad always had neighbors who would by the surplus seed. 40s and 50s dad would plant 35 acres of small grains, mostly oats. Very few years we didn’t make 100 bu. an acre from our year off seed.
the old seed cleaner work much better than the new one and will last 100 years.we use to by seed from small farms and seed from them were much better had no weed seed and trash. the seed we got from the seed stores were loaded with trash and weed seed like it had never been cleaned. take care, be safe and well.
There is a technique to tying the bags; I remember my dad showing me how to do it hold it with my pinkie as you wrapped it. Cleaned a lot of oats with the fanning mill. We had a bag holder; you could find one of those. Basically just a tall ‘X’ frame and the bag hooked over the top corners.
I remember helping my grandpa clean oats with a fanning mill! I also used to mix timithy, red clover, and alfalfa seed by hand in a metal wash tub. Great memories. Keep the videos coming.
I like your videos because you are a small scale farm and don't use massive new machinery costing mega money. It's like this simple old machine that was designed to do a job a long time ago and it still does that job. there's no waste and you use everything. All of your machinery is yesterdays stuff but it all does what you need. it's like that old single furrow horse plough that you have there, When they're gone to the scrap they are gone. Here in the uk there are the odd one or two painted up and outside of country bars as momentos of a bygone era. love the videos from the UK.
That looked exactly like our place when I was a kid...we cleaned wheat and clover...quite a bit...did some Timothy one time that got way too late for hay...I was little, holding the sacks open for Dad to fill was my job.
Nice to see how you guys clean your own seed 👍 last fall I also bought a old grain cleaner to clean my own seed ( for tritical buckwheat and some other crops) the cleaner I bought is from 1930, stil works perfectly.
Great video once again. Brings back memories for me as well. There’s so much history in those old granary buildings. Looks like you may have a surplus of ear corn this year hey?
The cleaning of the oats was a neat thing. It keeps the foundations of where we came from in tact. But what demo I loved the best so far was the bell making. First thanks for doing it for the viewers and me. Here is a tip. Next time you build a bell lay out the top the thickness of the sides. You will have to make a small cut between the top piece and the sides. When you fold the metal into shape the sides and the fron will fall into place as will the top. You did a good job and thanks again.
I watched your video on cleaning oats and I loved the old grain cleaner. And I enjoy seeing the cows I was raised on a Holstein dairy farm. Maybe some time this winter you can make a burlap bag stand to hold the bag while you scoop. You and your dad are always making things easier that's what farming is all about. I grain farm now only and work a full time job but I miss the cows and the dairy. Hopefully mother naturally treats you better than it has me here in Central Ohio.
I had a Clipper fanning mill that was mostly with a metal frame. The clean grain came out of short auger. I'd mount the mill on a hay rack, pull it up next to the grain bin and fill the mill with a 11 foot x 4 inch auger. The clean grain went directly into the drill. When one side was full, I simply turned the drill around and filled the other side. My fields were close, so I could do that. I never handled the grain!
The "special" meant it had the bagging elevator. I have a No. 2B and No. 2B special but my elevator got taken off also. I use it to clean cover crop rye and food plot seed for several coworkers. The A T. Fetterel company that made those cleaners is still in business. The make a steel version of that same cleaner. If you need screens or want a new factory drive belt they still sell them for the old 2B's.
Do you still have the elevator ? I did rebuild mine, and im try to get one elevator, but it is difficult to find one . If you still have it, will you consider selling the elevator?
@@oscargutierrez3042 I have it, i think. The belt is old and would likely need replacing. I am near Dubuque, Iowa. I would probably give it away if someone could use it.
Nice seed cleaning machine man and if I can give you an idea I would have it set up to where the clean seed falls threw a tube into the bag at the bottom so your not having to constantly shove the oats into the bag when the bag gets full put another sack under there and keep on a moving
Great video, brings back a lot of memories. My grandpa had the old hand crank model. And like your dad said it was geared down so you didnt have to crank it very fast to get the fan going.
Yes my grandfather taught me that ,how to tie the bag like you did . And I wish I could have gotten one of those cleaners, but the couple I've seen were missing quite a few parts 😕.
Great family project for a sunny spring day; thanks for sharing. The oats looked clean in the bin but it’s amazing how much weed seed that fanning mill separates. We run a very similar process with ours and cleaned about 60 bushels this year. Do you ever introduce new seed stock to take advantage of advanced genetics?
We had a cleaner just like it. Spent a lot of days cleaning soybean and wheat seed. The "newer " one dad got eventually had an elevator on it that your dad mentioned. We would either grind the screenings into our hog feed or give them to our neighbor for his chickens.
What is the name of the oats and how often do you get new certified or registered seed? We also always set our Clipper in the door of the granary blowing out with the wind carrying the light stuff away so it would not blow any weed seed back into the clean grain. We had a granary with an upstairs where we kept our wheat and oats and the downstairs bins had 4 or 5 different soybeans. We cleaned oats, wheat and soybeans every early spring. We put a 3"x12' auger that carried the seed to gravity boxes after our farm grew but before that we bagged it the same way you do. And for the lower bins we had a another auger, 3"x10' we would set up to auger from the bins and out the door to the wagons. We used bushel baskets for the beans and a sqaure wash tub for oats to fill the drill. Cleaning beans was such a dirty dusty job.
When you save seed and clean- sort what you plant you are also selecting for your farm's environment. You get the most successful genetics. Custom seed for you conditions. What could be better? You don't know where that store bought seed came from for sure. Those old-timers knew their stuff!
I used a bigger seed cleaner where I worked I could clean an bag about 10 or 15 ton a day doing wheat or rye we all so cleaned oats for horses an shelled corn
We had a fanning mill like that, if it was the same name only we had the elevator that came from the bottom of the machine and we hooked burlap bags on to be filled with the clean grain. I should know because that was my job when I was 15 or younger.
A tip for filling bags on your own. Cut the bottom out of a bucket like the one you’re using to fill the hopper. Then insert it into the bag and start filling.
Those old machines are fun to watch
I really enjoyed your video. Lots and lots of memories. Thank You
Oats was my favorite crop to grow, We used to clean our own seed as well, grandpa refused to buy seed he didn't have to. The grain seperator he had was originally ordered from a farming catalog in the 1930's by his mother. I wish I could have saved it. After grandpa was moved to the nursing home and the family became divided my drunken uncle used it and never put it away. Last I seen it was left to rot in the dirt alongside one of the sheds. Some day my brother and I have the goal to have a small, self sustaining beef farm. Growing our own oats and corn for seed and making the hay. We plan on doing many things like how grandpa taught us, because they worked so well and were much more affordable than modern methods.
Hope you achieve your goal. Just keep going
@@mountainfarmersa887 thank you, that's what we are doing. Videos like this one help keep the spark alive.
A guy about 25 miles away cleans my seed oats for me. He has an old, rather big, cleaning unit on the back of a 1970's Chevy flatbed truck. The cleaning unit is run by a large lawnmower engine. He and his dad used to come to the farm to clean our seed, but his dad has passed away and there aren't that many people in our area that used his service, so it is no longer worth his while to get registration, inspection, and insurance for the truck. But as long as I'm willing to take my seed oats to his farm, he'll continue cleaning it.
Tying bags: an alternative we used is bunch up the sack, hold a pig tail of the cord with your pinky, wrap the bag three times, feed the other end either straight or a loop through the loop where your pinky was, pull tight. Then later the same tug on the end to free open the binding later. I've got that in muscle memory from forty years ago, along with the 'truckers tie down' for a rope to hold a load of hay on a wagon or pickup -- I still use that one all the time (thanks Dad). Now I'm looking up local fanning mills, lol.
Good guys! Bigger is not necessary better. Enjoyed
Your seed cleaner sounded just like an old puut puut John Deere.......LOL. Also, GREAT seeing a father and his two sons working together on a farm. This is something that is missing in today's world. Family !
very cool to see old machines doing great work I have no 6 mcormick hammer mill still hammering away
Thank you!
Another very informative excellent video.
Awesome video, glad to see that old equipment still in good use. Born and raised in Italy, I remember holding the bags for mom as dad and grandpa sifted the oats by hand, they planted quite of bit, so it could be fed mostly for horses, mules and slop for pigs. We fed the 6 cows only hay.... good days gone by. Cherish the time with mom, dad and brothers.
Thank you for being farmers, glad to see the nice weather for you, it's 70° in Independence, Ohio. I enjoy all your videos, I'm dissabled from a major surgery gone bad... they bring me smiles. Love the symphony of the cow bells, beautiful rolling hills farm. Stay healthy and safe, God Bless you all
That so cool seeing it operate!!!!!!!!
very good and wholesome video, i watch you, the veggie boys, peterson brothers, farming fixing fab. keep up the good work!
Thank you
Thank you so much for showing that! I love that nothing goes to waste. That is how farming should be.
Nice detailed video showing the cleaning process.
Years ago we planted oats in the garden the roll it bake in oven makes great oatmeal porage
Thank you all for the nice comments! We read all of them, sorry that I don't have the time to respond to all of them!
Boy does that bring back memories. I used to fill the fan for my dad when he fanned soybeans for seed beans. Quite a job for a 7 year old but I wouldn't trade those days for anything. Great way to learn a work ethic!
That was the most beautiful Oats that I've ever seen. You might want to consider selling the rest as seed oats.
I remember we had a one fanning mill in our barn I remember never using it All our mother cats used it lol Another great video Thanks
This was really a quality video. Well explained, shot and edited.
The music was the cherry on top ♡.
A perfect end to a perfect day.
Thanks
Thank you!
Thank your family for the wonderful memories of our family did things when we farmed simple and not just as my dad said “you don’t farm the ground anymore you are running over it”. That was in the mid 60’s when we farmed 300 with cattle and hogs.
Thank you David!
Watching your family work together reminds me of a 1300 proverb. More helpers make a task easier. Wishing all farmers good crops this year!! Thanks 😊.
Thanks. Nice to see the old tools still getting it done.
Awesome video guys! Great explanations as usual excellent editing and music.
awesome the old girl is still working.
I watch another farm video, called Raven Farms, and he uses one of theese. He has the chute to bag it in sacks. Interesting to another one. Great video!
Great video guy's, brings me back to when I was small. MY grandpa used to do that with wheat, he didn't believe on getting anything from the store. He made his own floor and things and grandma would make the bread. I'm 65 now and I wish it was like the old days again. If people would know about them days back then, they say lets go back, it was so much better,
We use to do that on that on the farm too. Surprise people still do that. Fan will take care of the weed seeds and takes out the light seeds that may not be as good.
We would run a really small grain elevator from the cleaner back into a gravity wagon.
Looks fun. This is when farming is fun. Now it's to corporate and stressful not to say farming in general is not stressful but you know what I mean lol. I miss it
good one ,thank you ,just helping my brother with a cleaner for trefoil rye seperation , now trefoil brash muck cleaning , i was a press brake ,sheet metal worker rolling cones and square to rounds at alvan blanch seed equipment but went self employed after kidney cancer , great video Freds Fabrications , Eastleach Downs Organic farm UK
Have one just like it in the shed. Manufactured sometime in the late teens and 20s. We use to plant our own oats and barley seed. Every year we would buy 10 bu. of certified oats and/or 6 bu.of barley to plant, and keep it in separate bins,that would be next year’s seed. Dad always had neighbors who would by the surplus seed. 40s and 50s dad would plant 35 acres of small grains, mostly oats. Very few years we didn’t make 100 bu. an acre from our year off seed.
the old seed cleaner work much better than the new one and will last 100 years.we use to by seed from small farms and seed from them were much better had no weed seed and trash. the seed we got from the seed stores were loaded with trash and weed seed like it had never been cleaned. take care, be safe and well.
Betcha they didn't have compressed air (much less a skid-steer to lift it...) when that cleaner was built! Enjoy your videos. Please keep 'em up!
It's a right of spring by me. Now it's about getting on the fields to get really started.
Nice job guy's. Anice day too boot!
There is a technique to tying the bags; I remember my dad showing me how to do it hold it with my pinkie as you wrapped it. Cleaned a lot of oats with the fanning mill. We had a bag holder; you could find one of those. Basically just a tall ‘X’ frame and the bag hooked over the top corners.
It's called a miller's knot
I always tie them left hand. Sometimes it drives my family nuts. 😂
Very interesting.
I remember helping my grandpa clean oats with a fanning mill! I also used to mix timithy, red clover, and alfalfa seed by hand in a metal wash tub. Great memories. Keep the videos coming.
Same here. Grandad was born in 1886, lots of old equipment.
Nice video learned something new thanks guys
Thanks for watching
I like your videos because you are a small scale farm and don't use massive new machinery costing mega money. It's like this simple old machine that was designed to do a job a long time ago and it still does that job. there's no waste and you use everything. All of your machinery is yesterdays stuff but it all does what you need. it's like that old single furrow horse plough that you have there, When they're gone to the scrap they are gone. Here in the uk there are the odd one or two painted up and outside of country bars as momentos of a bygone era. love the videos from the UK.
That looked exactly like our place when I was a kid...we cleaned wheat and clover...quite a bit...did some Timothy one time that got way too late for hay...I was little, holding the sacks open for Dad to fill was my job.
Nice to see how you guys clean your own seed 👍 last fall I also bought a old grain cleaner to clean my own seed ( for tritical buckwheat and some other crops) the cleaner I bought is from 1930, stil works perfectly.
It's really enjoyable to see family working together
Excellent producing your own seed in today's market may not seem much but it is. Great work see you then.
This is really cool to watch! I love these videos, shows that small farm techniques are still alive and work!
Thank you!
Excellent video! Enjoyed it. I have been paying to have my oats cleaned.
Great video once again. Brings back memories for me as well. There’s so much history in those old granary buildings. Looks like you may have a surplus of ear corn this year hey?
The cleaning of the oats was a neat thing. It keeps the foundations of where we came from in tact. But what demo I loved the best so far was the bell making. First thanks for doing it for the viewers and me. Here is a tip. Next time you build a bell lay out the top the thickness of the sides. You will have to make a small cut between the top piece and the sides. When you fold the metal into shape the sides and the fron will fall into place as will the top. You did a good job and thanks again.
I remember dad using one of these cleaner to clean seed wheat that he was going to plant
We got 6 acres of oats in already. 23 left to put in then corn and beans. We used to clean the seed but now just buy oat seed
I liked the demonstration on how to tie a sack with a miller's knot. Someone might have learned something.
I watched your video on cleaning oats and I loved the old grain cleaner. And I enjoy seeing the cows I was raised on a Holstein dairy farm. Maybe some time this winter you can make a burlap bag stand to hold the bag while you scoop. You and your dad are always making things easier that's what farming is all about. I grain farm now only and work a full time job but I miss the cows and the dairy. Hopefully mother naturally treats you better than it has me here in Central Ohio.
Loved the germination test. I never did that on the farm, wish I had a few years. Great video!!!
I had a Clipper fanning mill that was mostly with a metal frame. The clean grain came out of short auger. I'd mount the mill on a hay rack, pull it up next to the grain bin and fill the mill with a 11 foot x 4 inch auger. The clean grain went directly into the drill. When one side was full, I simply turned the drill around and filled the other side. My fields were close, so I could do that.
I never handled the grain!
Interesting stuff man
Great video, when we were farming, we used to clean our oats. Hated the job, very dusty
Good video. Like the information and good camera angles and views. Thanks.
The "special" meant it had the bagging elevator. I have a No. 2B and No. 2B special but my elevator got taken off also. I use it to clean cover crop rye and food plot seed for several coworkers. The A T. Fetterel company that made those cleaners is still in business. The make a steel version of that same cleaner. If you need screens or want a new factory drive belt they still sell them for the old 2B's.
Do you still have the elevator ? I did rebuild mine, and im try to get one elevator, but it is difficult to find one . If you still have it, will you consider selling the elevator?
@@oscargutierrez3042 I have it, i think. The belt is old and would likely need replacing. I am near Dubuque, Iowa. I would probably give it away if someone could use it.
This is awesome nice to see you guys still using the old equipment. You need to find yourself a hit and miss engine for it
We havethe same grain cleaner in our shed sat for 25 yrs or so
Its a good time to grow oats low inputs high prices right now wish I had 10A to do this year
Nice seed cleaning machine man and if I can give you an idea I would have it set up to where the clean seed falls threw a tube into the bag at the bottom so your not having to constantly shove the oats into the bag when the bag gets full put another sack under there and keep on a moving
Thank you!
@@GierokFarms yep
Great video, brings back a lot of memories. My grandpa had the old hand crank model. And like your dad said it was geared down so you didnt have to crank it very fast to get the fan going.
Not Millers knit tying bags . Loved this brought memories thanks
It’s interesting to see how manny older methods you guys still use.
Along with the family teamwork, this is why they are still in business. New isn't always better, unless you are the bank or the equipment company.
My dad had one very similar
Yes my grandfather taught me that ,how to tie the bag like you did . And I wish I could have gotten one of those cleaners, but the couple I've seen were missing quite a few parts 😕.
Great family project for a sunny spring day; thanks for sharing. The oats looked clean in the bin but it’s amazing how much weed seed that fanning mill separates. We run a very similar process with ours and cleaned about 60 bushels this year. Do you ever introduce new seed stock to take advantage of advanced genetics?
We had a cleaner just like it. Spent a lot of days cleaning soybean and wheat seed. The "newer " one dad got eventually had an elevator on it that your dad mentioned. We would either grind the screenings into our hog feed or give them to our neighbor for his chickens.
Way cool video of 3 of the boys going old school.
Really nicely done video. You go guys!
does your dad remember the old corn sheller, we got one to husk walnuts.... lol it worked great!!!!
What is the name of the oats and how often do you get new certified or registered seed? We also always set our Clipper in the door of the granary blowing out with the wind carrying the light stuff away so it would not blow any weed seed back into the clean grain. We had a granary with an upstairs where we kept our wheat and oats and the downstairs bins had 4 or 5 different soybeans. We cleaned oats, wheat and soybeans every early spring. We put a 3"x12' auger that carried the seed to gravity boxes after our farm grew but before that we bagged it the same way you do. And for the lower bins we had a another auger, 3"x10' we would set up to auger from the bins and out the door to the wagons. We used bushel baskets for the beans and a sqaure wash tub for oats to fill the drill. Cleaning beans was such a dirty dusty job.
When you save seed and clean- sort what you plant you are also selecting for your farm's environment. You get the most successful genetics. Custom seed for you conditions. What could be better? You don't know where that store bought seed came from for sure. Those old-timers knew their stuff!
Nice to see you do that
Just wondering how you made out bucket training the brown swiss heifer calf you showed us
I used a bigger seed cleaner where I worked I could clean an bag about 10 or 15 ton a day doing wheat or rye we all so cleaned oats for horses an shelled corn
That was interesting. Thanks!
We had a fanning mill like that, if it was the same name only we had the elevator that came from the bottom of the machine and we hooked burlap bags on to be filled with the clean grain. I should know because that was my job when I was 15 or younger.
For my garden seed I use a damp paper towel in a coffee mug for the germination test and let it sit in the kitchen window. Thanks
That fanning mill and I share the same birth location. :)
Great and simple way to clean the grain. What if you put the machine on the porch and funnel the clean grain straight into a bag, no need to shovel.
When you feed your cleanings to cows weed seeds will go rite through the cow and be spread over farm by manure
Boy I sure could use a bag of screening right now for my egg factory chickens that is
We have one of those in my barn. Didn't know what it was!!! Figured it was cotton or something.
We had a clipper seed cleaner that my grand dad had to clean wheat and soybean but, it was larger than yours.
We have one and it has crank and 4 screens
I do mobile custom seed cleaning in Southwest Wisconsin. My machine is a lil bigger though. 600bph. If you ever have quite a bit to clean, look me up.
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Any direction on where to purchase a seed cleaner like this? I'm having a heck of a time trying to find a good wheat cleaner like this.
Dad could tie what was called the “millers knot”. I don’t remember how to do it anymore. 😢🤔🙁
You reap what you sow! Those old Clipper seed cleaners last forever it seems.
Yes, that is the original belt
I have the double bagger one
Myn has a crank lol u have a deluxe model haha
lol
@@GierokFarms lol when u think ur in the middle ages by urself u find utube and alot of people still use the try true way simple easy lasts lol
Because mine has the same belti dont have the screens for mine
I watched a documentary where this old boy out west was cleaning seed for others. One of the big seed companies was trying to destroy him.
Because mine has the same belt
Maybe it was powered by a little hit and miss engine via the belt