To shock well. Take 2 bundles, hold heads together, jam butts into the ground. Then add 1 bundle on each end of the row to have 4 in a row. Then put 3 on each side of the row of 4, 2 in close, then the 3rd between and outside of the first 2. That gives a shock of 10: 4 in a row, 3 on each side. You want the shock to be as tight as possible with the bundles leaning in (wider at the bottom for stability). Cap it by bolding a bundle under the string, butts in your stomach, break the stalks down between the heads and the stiing and spread them left and right. Put that on top of the 10 with the heads facing east. Make another cap and have the heads on that one backing west, into the prevailing weather. Total, 12 per shock.

Yes i do i did this bzck in 1966 so nice to see you guys doing this Bill

More than one operator suffered bad injury when cleaning clogged cutter bars in front on these machines when they were horse drawn and something scared the horses.

Fantastic video, I just love this type of Farming, great job fellow's

That binder needs some serious adjustments, those hand levers are for more than handy things to hang onto! Your knotter seems to be working properly but it needs more tension in the twine for a tighter sheave. Those sheaves are a joke, it would be next to impossible to stook any of them properly.

How do binder make knot ?

I rode a WD-45 pulling one. It had the knotter disconnected and bundle carrier removed; converted into a winrower for oats. I was 4 (?). This is the first time I've seen one work that's complete. Wish you would have shown some of the knotter working from underneath. Great video though!

Going awfully slow

So awesome to see one going! Thank you. My grampa was talking the other day (on the phone) - about operating one of these back in the day. He has bone cancer and has been an invalid confined in his chair for over two years. I sent my Gramma this video on her cell phone so she could show him. A really special moment, especially due to the pandemic and economic challenges not having been home to the farm in over 2 years. Thank you ☺️

This is so cool. Ive grown up farming all my life and up here is Saskatchewan Canada you see the skeletons of these everywhere but I always wanted to see one work and never had the chance. THANK YOU 😊

Wild Ginger Farm, clearly that is a ground drive machine as there is no PTO shaft from the tractor evident.

Lordy feed that thresher with oats

Is this wheel driven or PTO?

It doesn't look like it's binding. The wheat looks all loose. Does it hace twine?

It doesn't look like it's binding. The wheat looks all loose. Does it hace twine?

Go on boy, get that wheat threshed.

Shoot fire, that's a stationary picker, I ain't ever seen anything like that, We picked our corn from the field, don't use a corn binder and run it through a rig like that. I know in Ind. they shocked their corn and picked from the shock so they maybe would have used something like this but not in our neck of the woods. Thanks for sharing the video, it was right interesting.

@maxandlevi Funny you should mention that--we had a Case RC that Dad drove from the binder seat like that. As you may know, the Case had a hand clutch so he had to push the clutch in to start the tractor moving then go around and get on the binder seat, but he could stop it by pulling a rope tied to the clutch lever. We've still got the RC-don't know what happened to the binder-maybe scrapped?

@maxandlevi Funny you should mention that--we had a Case RC that Dad drove from the binder seat like that. As you may know, the Case had a hand clutch so he had to push the clutch in to start the tractor moving then go around and get on the binder seat, but he could stop it by pulling a rope tied to the clutch lever.

@maxandlevi Funny you should mention that--we had Case RC that Dad drove from the binder seat like that. As you may know, the Case had a hand clutch so he had to push the clutch in to start the tractor moving then go around and get on the binder seat, but he could stop it by pulling a rope tied to the clutch lever.

@Johndeerepinkss if your in the new england area would love to get a hold of old farm equipment

Still works as good as it ever did. Now you need three good horses to pull it.

The real word is STOOK.. not shock....3 on each side ...and if it is wheat,there is a cap that goes on top..depending on the length of the straw there could be more bundles used..

Its an A model, you can see the letter at 0:22.

Great memories. Thanks. We had a Farmall H on the front and long steering wheel shaft to the tractor to the tractor steering wheel. I believe a rope and pulley operated the clutch. I was too young to operate equipment at that time but I remember those bundles coming off the binder.

Why are they cutting the binder twine off the bundles? I am just curious, because it looks like the twine cutter is working pretty well. We thresh rice with a Keck-Gonnerman and our problem is the rice stalks are so hybrid. They are so thick and tough you have to feed the thresher really slow or the feeder just stops because it gets overloaded with the thick straw. Luckily the K-G has a governor to stop the feeder until the cylinder and concaves get clear again, then it starts back up.

Its an A look at the stacks.

Nice old Iron! Take Care, John

Nice video I love it great job!

sounds awful deep. to deep to be the bark of a model b. deeper than my neighbors model 60 which is equivelent to a model A. so it must b a model G. cool video!