What a classic film, well done. Our first combine was a Massey Harris super 27 with a ten foot head. Didn't have any hydraulics, you used an electric motor to raise the header.
First combine I was around was a Massey Harris, possibly model 27 or 28. Rode with my Dad and grandfather. First one I operated was a MF 510. Very different conditions, midwest corn and beans, a little wheat. By the time I was running machinery oats were out of the rotation. Never saw big time wheat harvest until much later, never been around beet harvest. Very interesting.
Nice keepsakes to have. It would be good to correct the few minor errors explained by other commenters, if only to have it to pass on to your younger generations. Massey *Ferguson* came along long after the Massey Harris 27 combine.
Hard men making a hard living. No cabs no new shiny equipment. Using what you had and getting it done. That was average equipment for the time period. It is a wonder this nation didn't starve back then. How it managed to make enough food and fiber to feed and cloth everybody.
71+ year old farmer here. What do you mean “nobody is chopping hay”? That ain’t loose hay being stacked at about 1:25 and 2:00 minutes in. Hay isn’t always baled or stacked. Alfalfa and other crops are still being green chopped for cattle feed today. It’s referred to as haylage instead of sileage. Usually stored in open pits. It cures similarly to sileage.
@ Nonsense! Some threshing machines chewed up or “chopped” the hay before being blown out into a pile. Wheat or oat straw was never deliberately burned. It certainly is not considered just a waste product. It was used as supplemental feed and bedding for livestock. Besides being wasteful burning would be extremely dangerous. They didn’t have rural fire districts in those days. I’m a 71+ year old Kansas farmer who grows Wheat among other crops. This ain’t my first rodeo.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
What a classic film, well done. Our first combine was a Massey Harris super 27 with a ten foot head. Didn't have any hydraulics, you used an electric motor to raise the header.
First combine I was around was a Massey Harris, possibly model 27 or 28. Rode with my Dad and grandfather. First one I operated was a MF 510. Very different conditions, midwest corn and beans, a little wheat. By the time I was running machinery oats were out of the rotation. Never saw big time wheat harvest until much later, never been around beet harvest. Very interesting.
Lots of memories. Thanks
Shiny paint on that Super 27 !
Nice keepsakes to have. It would be good to correct the few minor errors explained by other commenters, if only to have it to pass on to your younger generations. Massey *Ferguson* came along long after the Massey Harris 27 combine.
Muy bueno, mi padre tuvo una 410, y una 527.....
7:45 that isn’t a case combine it’s a Minneapolis Moline because of the logo on the grain tank
Hard men making a hard living. No cabs no new shiny equipment. Using what you had and getting it done. That was average equipment for the time period. It is a wonder this nation didn't starve back then. How it managed to make enough food and fiber to feed and cloth everybody.
They're not chopping hay. They are threshing grain
about 1:26 and 2:00 hay
That was threshing, not chopping hay. Tractor is a 20-40case
a man among men
Not chopping hay , that’s grain harvest threshing machine, that’s a straw stack
about 1:26 and 2:00 hay
Nobody is chopping hay
about 1:26 and 2:00 hay
71+ year old farmer here. What do you mean “nobody is chopping hay”? That ain’t loose hay being stacked at about 1:25 and 2:00 minutes in. Hay isn’t always baled or stacked. Alfalfa and other crops are still being green chopped for cattle feed today. It’s referred to as haylage instead of sileage. Usually stored in open pits. It cures similarly to sileage.
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Correct. Not a single scene of chopping hay. These are all threshing scenes. That is straw. A waste product. Most likely burned after all was done.
@ Nonsense! Some threshing machines chewed up or “chopped” the hay before being blown out into a pile. Wheat or oat straw was never deliberately burned. It certainly is not considered just a waste product. It was used as supplemental feed and bedding for livestock. Besides being wasteful burning would be extremely dangerous. They didn’t have rural fire districts in those days. I’m a 71+ year old Kansas farmer who grows Wheat among other crops. This ain’t my first rodeo.
This is baloney
What? What are you talking about?