Classic Harvesting at Little Ellingham

The harvest field at little Ellingham show takes you on a journey from the binder through to 1960's combines. If you like your combines you wont want to miss this video.
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[@zerofull6936]

The soul has been squeezed out of rural life.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Well, it is very different for sure!

[@christopherjohnson6890]

Wow, such memories are coming back. In the summer of 1975/ 76 I would to to my local farm in Hickling and ride on the grain tank of a Class Matador. I'd be up there for hours at a time! I was only aged 6....... Back in the day, things were very different to today. I'd leave home and as long as I was home for Tea, mum and dad didn't mind.. Once again, thanks.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Lovely memories.

[@anthonybernstein9698]

Where are all the kids. I was born in 1943 and harvesting meant work for all the kids. It took me down memory lane, standing up the sheaves, then coming back to load the trailers, sometimes trailers were taken for storage to be threshed, but we were the backbone of the harvest. I remember hay rakeing driving a tractor at 8 years old, going up and down. This was kids work as it put an extra pair of hands to do the harder work.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks for sharing your memories. I'm not old enough to remember the binder but I can remember being put to work at harvest when I was really too young. It was always enjoyable helping my Dad and Grandad.

[@wilkoone9155]

The main problem with the binder was the use of Plant Growth Regulator on the wheat, back in the day the wheat would have been twice as tall allowing for the straw to lie better on the canvas belt. I remember working on a Class Matador with a bagger instead of a grain tank. Filling 16 stone bags was heavy work for a 17yo in 1963. Great video.

[@henrytomlinson3634]

Hi, one of the varieties of wheat, which was long straw, was called swedish iron, I remember my Dad telling me that the straw was tremendous lengh. We had a 726 Massey Harris combine converted to a 12 cwt bulker that had a Morris Commercial engine 4 cilender. the one in the vido has the Austin Sheerline 6 cilender. The 726 combine that we had was the first combine that lucas ever lit, I drive it from age 10 to 17, Happy days ❤ all the best from Henry Central UK

[@wilkoone9155]

@@henrytomlinson3634 I used to own a Lely with a 18' folding header in the early 80s, hardly a vintage combine but an interesting machine nevertheless. It had a fabulous turbo charged Perkins engine which made a wonderful noise!

[@andyg2959]

Great video thankyou .

[@nevillewalker6299]

Brings back memories although those pitching the sheeves would have got a b''''ing because you always tried to turn each one butt out to help the loader. Plus the combine is scheating as the real classic would have been a bagger with 2 1/4cwt railway sacks.

[@allanrobson7242]

What an excellent video, brought back a lot of memories, I can remember being on a massey combine tying string round the hessian sacks to keep the grain in. Then tripping the wooden floor to allow the sacks to slide off onto the ground to be collected and taken to the dryer.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad to hear you enjoyed the video. Thanks.

[@denishoulan1491]

My uncle who farmed in Worcestershire, had a Claas Matador in the late sixties early seventies.

[@lionelmarytravels6003]

Wonderful memories for me. I used many of those combines throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s. First one ever drove was a Class Matador Standard. I think it had a 10 foot cut, but it got the job done. On a farm in the early 60s we had Massey Harris, although it wasn't my job to drive that one. I used a B45 baler on that same farm, although I never really understood how the knotters worked. Just drove with my fingers crossed! Next farm had Ransome Cavaliers with a 14 foot header. Really dusty machines with engine low down beneath the driving seat. These had a tendency to collect dust on the manifold and smoulder with the heat. After a few years they were changed for two New Holland machines with 15 foot headers and eventually, cabs. Happy Days.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks for sharing your memories. My first combine driving experience was a Claas Matador Giant in my early teens.

[@davidbrennan3613]

Class video, the men who designed these machines were truly gifted

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks. They certainly were.

[@paulthompson8467]

Very enjoyable video 👍

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thank you 👍

[@donbennington677]

I think the binder needed more forward speed as the sails were giving the standing corn a bashing. The bands were too near the heads in the sheaves too. Just saying, my dad would have when I was a child in the field. Good to see it all, thanks.

[@petergardner2334]

thats a good video any video with combines is a good video

[@robertallen3441]

Great to see the 'old uns' at work. Spent nearly 30 years mending the red 'uns until 2002. Worked on all the 60's onwards models and one 788 that an old boy used to run. As for the 20 baler, well i've walked a few miles behind them watching the knotters!!!! Hope the 400 didnt overheat with the rotary screen not turning @ 22:40

[@DG-ne8iq]

In France, it was the first harvester I ever saw with such a dust extraction system. Who was the first to apply for the patent?

[@DG-ne8iq]

In France, it was the first harvester I ever saw with such a dust extraction system. Who was the first to apply for the patent?

[@noelstractors-firewood57]

Great video. I sure like watching. Thanks a lot. I’ve never seen a square bailer being pulled so fast. Have a great day. Our plough match got rained out on Saturday. But got three plough sessions in on Friday thou. No prizes for me this year. Hehe.

[@09amusement]

Looked like a light crop for a high capacity baler. But was bunching up on the feed intake at times.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks.

[@zerofull6936]

The land doesn't need more larger machinery, rather it wants more families living and working it.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

You are right but for the fact that small farms don't make money. Very sad.

[@zerofull6936]

@@Casterton-Vintage You are correct , yet food prices have never been higher??

[@stanleybaker8707]

They sure love there ford tractors 🚜 over in the UK 🇬🇧😊😊😊😊.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

They were the No1 tractor in the UK years ago.

[@stanleybaker8707]

What are the number one tractors now?

[@alanjackson4646]

@@Casterton-VintageMany were built at the Ford factory in Dagenham and exported all over the World. AJ

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Deere I think@@stanleybaker8707

[@lorddraper]

Grandfather had a 4610 I learnt how to drive in it

[@raydemos1181]

I am not a farmer but it seems to me the vintage machines are more durable and better made than todays ones

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Designed when bigger was better and safety margins were much bigger too!

[@raymondjohnson6129]

Ransomes combine was a 902. The 801 was smaller and had engine on top

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks. I was undecided between 801 and 902 and couldn't find good info in the net.

[@bobpaterson1845]

801 was severely under powered even being just an 8ft cut ☹️

[@bobpaterson1845]

Good video 👍 nice selection of binders combines an balers and of course there tractors 😁👍

[@tomnapier681]

the old matador standard wow I remember the one coming here in 1975 harvested a lot of acres and had a chance to upgrade to a Mercator 75 with a cab and ac harvested a lot of acres with that and moved up to a mega 204 I remember altering the wind in the matador and got a wheat sample like it was graded grain never been that successful since all machines are still here the mercator will be sold with the 14 ft front and pick up front had a good run with the brand

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad to hear the video brought back memories.

[@tomnapier681]

@@Casterton-Vintage yes swan oats no cab extremely itchy when thinking about it you almost start to itch

[@cinelumacher]

Che meraviglia!! Ma dove si svolge questo evento?? Mi piacerebbe troppo poterlo vedere dal vivo una volta......

[@Casterton-Vintage]

The event is held at Little Ellingham in England

[@eddiewatts7792]

Great to see them at work but running without PTO guards isnt acceptable even on old machines

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I agree.

[@alanjackson4646]

I’m sure that on the MF 400 we had the drum with the yellow swirl rotated. Can Anyone tell me what it was please ? Thanks AJ

[@Casterton-Vintage]

That is the air inlet for the radiator and it should be rotating on the one in the video but maybe the belt is broken.

[@clarencetrice4442]

yep I didn't see a hay wagon be hind the hay baler U 😮😮 know what that means don't people are going 2 have 2 pick up all of that by then put on a hay wagon all I can say is I sure hope it's good and dry just like card board then it will save your back 😊😊 OMG 9 13 2O23

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Very true.

[@rsouthgate5109]

It’s not growth regulators it’s new varieties being much shorter

[@user-mz3sj7do4b]

MF 65 with loader baling, may have been better had he actually dropped the pick up initially, and cover your PTO so it's stationary, bloody dangerous, some of these drivers would be useless at harvest as they are happy to miss cutting so much standing crop, wild oats not withstanding !

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I couldn't help noticing the way the driver was riding his foot on the clutch pedal. The thrust race will soon get tired if that!

[@user-mz3sj7do4b]

@@Casterton-Vintage I think his foot was on the foot guard, not the clutch pedal

[@Casterton-Vintage]

@@user-mz3sj7do4b To be fair, it was on the foot rest for a lot of the time. Great to see the baler working. We had two of these in the 70's

[@user-mz3sj7do4b]

@@Casterton-Vintage Yes I know, this what I said ! I never suggested it was on the clutch pedal.

[@brianmarshall1637]

I think no kids is because of health an safety.

[@09amusement]

Just a shame couldn't find a McCormick 10/20 or 15/30 tractor with pto to power the binder.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Yes, that would have been very nice to see.

[@09amusement]

@@Casterton-Vintage sadly the spark ignition petrol/ Parrafin machines are becoming more and more scarce on the British rally field. Both my machines are spark igniting engines. Straight petrol Ferguson and P/P Standard Fordson. People today don't have the patience WHEN they bugger about!

[@Casterton-Vintage]

@@09amusement If you enjoy the older tractors you need to visit Casterton Vintage Working Event on 169th and 17th of September.

[@09amusement]

@@Casterton-Vintage I'd love to, however I take my two tractors to the 1940's weekend on the North Norfolk Railway. The 1945 Standard Fordson being a wartime spec model attracts lots of attention. The grey Ferguson, which tows the trailer transporting the Fordson just creeps into the era being a 1949 model. Last time I visited Casterton I met the great Ron Knight. Your dear Father I believe.