Country Farming: Innovations of the Modern Tractor (1955-1959) | British Pathé

[@ColinMill1]

I'm still using our 1963 Massey Ferguson 35x. Still does a good days work and will undoubtedly see me out. Tractors back then may have been basic but they were built to last.

[@Mr.Safety.]

We still use our massey ferguson 65! Its had so much done to it ovet the years but you just cant beat them, and certainly cant fix em like a new tractor

[@michaelpjeffries1521]

It will for generations to come. Daniel Massey thought enslaving machines was better option than other people. He was a tinkerer who recognized the need, his descendents recognized the business side.

[@kerrysupporter]

I’m still on a 35x

[@radharcanna]

What a marvellous film. How tractors and farm machinery have grown in size since then. Very well dressed farmers back then!

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

Great video from a great era.. So good that all this have been captured for future generations. Thanks for uploading to your channel

[@craigcorrigan9353]

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[@craigcorrigan9353]

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[@annalorree]

I grew up on a farm in California, USA with very similar equipment and farm work. I do think that as fewer people are needed to work in agriculture, we lose something of our respective nation’s souls. A strong countryside is the heart of a heathy nation, and the work of the farmer is essential to all people’s survival.

[@andrewmellon5072]

I couldn't agree more. Small to medium farms, where all the family helps produce very good stable citizens, essential in a democracy. Here in Ireland this has changed with smaller family's and everyone working off farm.

[@ristopyykkonen8719]

Nuffield still runs 17.09.2022 same Job in Finland! beautiful video.

[@alisdairmclean8605]

Tosin hyvää trakori!

[@nigelbeaumont1109]

Can’t believe it’s not Pissing Down!!! Wonderful Video when times were way better than current.

[@joemalone9380]

really enjoyed that huge fork on the loader. saw a horse drawn version on here somewhere

[@harrybell5202]

Harry Ferguson a true Ulster man

[@Rich77UK]

2:19 that trailer is probably still being used today, and those brakes, so proudly memtioned, have probably never been serviced since this film was made!

[@HrLBolle]

those are some sharp looking Nuffields

[@davidcollingwood1262]

Brilliant video

[@JRattheranch]

I wonder what they'd make of the farming world today? Fascinating to see and remember how it used to be! A tractor with 30 HP? Wow! 🤔🤭🤭

[@ravnodinson]

And these geezers wore suit jackets out in the field.

[@JRattheranch]

@@ravnodinson 🤣🤣🤣 They certainly did! I remember it well! I learned to plough on a prewar Fordson tvo and the farmer had a jacket and 👔 tie, would you believe! 🤣🤣🤣

[@djdaz72]

What a great video

[@davepayne586]

i used to plow with one. good tractors

[@richardbrochetti9526]

missing the old days

[@mathieudelarue3086]

Ahh, nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.

[@michaelball4683]

plus ça change

[@garyburchgb]

The early days of intensive farming. If only they knew what is known now about the products and methods they used.

[@totaltwit]

I winced at the weedkiller section, application and the chap under the spray. When was parquat banned? I remember the smell of the weedkiller tank, we had the blue one too.

[@bertroost1675]

@@totaltwitExcept for that (weedkillers and such) I kind of wish we went back to simple smaller farms and local production.

[@Truerealism747]

​@@bertroost1675it will come the large ones will colla😮e when they go vegan and small ones will cater for the rest

[@andyelliott8027]

Spraying the cattle and the grass they're eating with weedkiller. The innocence of those days !

[@JonathanEngblom]

Imagine that today 😂 we have learnt stuff since then.

[@andyelliott8027]

@@JonathanEngblom How many people have died because of ignorance like this?

[@scottpecora371]

I was thinking OMG! That should keep the cows in good health!

[@scottpecora371]

Even with the addition of all the new machines, how are labor-intensive things still were.

[@ေစာလှထွန်းထွန်း]

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[@selahaddintoklu6734]

O günlerin en iyi traktörleri. Hidrolik sisteminin olması çok önemlidir. Bilgiler için teşekkürler.İzmir/TÜRKİYE

[@happytoaster1]

I thought the guy was going to get burried when he stood behind his trailer and opened it.

[@johnwanjala4311]

Good video

[@ivormcfadzean325]

Aye good days remember them well.

[@davidshultz4986]

Wish we could go back I'm only 33 I love old times

[@cdjhyoung]

The only folks that want to live this way again are the ones that never lived this life. See the guy hauling straw bales away from the baler? 60-75 lbs each, and he will do this from first light until the sun goes down, for weeks on end. That is a lot of manual labor, and that isn't the hardest task he'll be challenged with. Those old tractors ran rough across the fields. Twelve hours in that seat made your back so sore you could barely get off the tractor. I grew up in the 1960's on a farm that used 1950's style equipment in the US. There was a lot of hard dirty work and long hours of it. I had adventures I still talk about today, like having a skunk be baled and kicked on to the hay wagon my brother and I were loading. That was fun. Not. Plowing over night to beat the rain, only to drive out of the field and get the rig stuck up to the axle in a swamp on Sunday morning. That was fun extracting too. Simpler times do not mean better times. Much that we do with machine used to be done with human hands. Much slower, more inaccurate and far less production. Farming like this barely produced enough crops to feed the farm family and the hired help, let alone leave enough to sell for profit.

[@apebass2215]

​@@cdjhyoung at least people still knew what men and women are. You worked hard but one wage could buy a house and support a family.

[@cdjhyoung]

@@apebass2215 People still no who men and women are, stop reading that rubbish. Sure, one income could support a family. Then the Republicans busted the unions, driving down wages. Then we got Reagan nomics where making the rich richer was suppose to make everyone better off. Turns out we only made the rich richer. If you want some form of the good old days, stop supporting a political party that spends its time setting one part of the country against another part. And no, that isn't the democrats. Support unions. Join one or start one. If the owner of the business you work for doesn't bring you your paycheck every week, shake your hand and thank you for your contributions to the company and ask about your wife, then you need to have a union to represent your interests to the powers running the company. Films like this look great, until you remember the disease, the bigotry and racism, the denial of equal rights to women, people of color or the folks that worship the wrong god. If you were male, white, protestant and already middle class, this was a great time to live. But for everyone else, things got better.

[@Truerealism747]

You can get the old machine snluke ourselves

[@Pinzpilot101]

I did the same tractor work as these older men...I was 10 years old???

[@davidhorn6008]

2.00 Clean overall and polished shoes. Is this going to be a comedy show?

[@cdjhyoung]

Such a different farming philosophy between the Brits and Americans in this era. I found it unusual that they would still be using a stationary thresher for grain. Those would have been disappearing in the US 20 years earlier. The way they were storing hay, no baler, out door in the elements storage. In rainy England I would have thought farmers would have been early adopters of storing hay in barns. The tractor horsepower being so low also got my attention. American tractors were growing quickly to be twice this horsepower, some as much as 80 horsepower. Field tillage speed is relatively low as reflected in the declared 1 acre per hour plowing speed, The three bottom plow would be able to plow 1/3 acre per hour per mile per hour. That means that tractor was going only about 3 mph, 2/3 the speed of most North American tractors. I'm sure a lot of these differences can be attributed to the post war economy and the small sizes of farms and fields being the norm in England.

[@andyelliott8027]

Yes, don't forget that 11 of America's 50 states are bigger than the entire UK.

[@BenStevenson-c4z]

The Good Old Days 🚜

[@davedavis4269]

This when Britain was still Britain. 😢

[@richardhaywood9474]

Do you mean that there’s not much farming going on there now?

[@freebornjohn2687]

If its not still Britain what is it? Did it fly off the globe and in to space?

[@Truerealism747]

@@freebornjohn2687 yes think it did

[@ravnodinson]

Ah yes, when brave men fought dragons to save the princess. King Arthur would be sad to see Britain today.

[@James-kd7dc]

​@@freebornjohn2687 why don't you take a stroll around London and see how British it looks. Not very eh.

[@conradsmith2441]

I wonder what herbicide they were spraying? ...

[@oliveringram3056]

What ever do you mean sir, health and safety, never heard of it.

[@poilochien]

what is the area ?

[@patmays7344]

I don’t think the Nuffield was as good as the Massey Fergie. . Or the fordson major or dexta?

[@TheWoodlandhoBo]

Spraying with the cattle still in the field 🙈

[@garethjudd5840]

Ever increasing population? In the 1950s, 2 billion. Today 7.6 billion. 😳

[@patmays7344]

He’s not very good at operating that front shovel, supposedly built to the tractor. He has not been working this addition for very long?

[@3Mudbone1]

Those two farmers were smoking a bowl behind the barn.

[@bertroost1675]

A bowl of manure

[@ladygardener100]

Nowadays lounging and all the rest of it is not worthwhile, it's all minimal cultivation.

[@pierremchughes9917]

Agricultural mechanisation.....the true reason for WW1