Harvesting oats the hard way!

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to farm 100 years ago? We don’t have to wonder anymore because we did it! We also tried to get the tractor stuck in the creek pulling trees out of the fence and I took the longest drive in the semi that I’ve ever done!Watch the video and see for yourself!

[@markwheeler202]

My summer job in 1971 - binding, shocking, and threshing oats.

[@HoggerCaptain]

That looked like a lot of hard work. It must have been really cool to harvest like they did a long time ago. Excellent video, Carl.

[@davidcharles3131]

Remember picking up shocks on a hay wagon and hauling to the thresher. A lot of neighbors working together. Good memories. Thanks for sharing.

[@mohaddock1080]

Thanks Carl, this was a fun video. Glad you took time to spend with your family!!!! 😂😀❤️

[@rustyrelicsfarm2406]

The old ways sure do make you appreciate the newer stuff.

[@stevebiddle8912]

What a throwback video. Reminds me of historic events tied to Farm Progress Shows from the 50’s

[@charleswolf279]

Old enough to remember all of this with the only exception to the equipment as there was a JD A on the belt for the threshing machine which was all owned by the neighbor. Got to drive a Farmall B pulling a wagon while he loaded the bundles. Only got to gather bundles for the shocks as l never could get mine to stand up straight. The next year another neighbor showed up with his JD 4010 and a Massey Harris combine, the end of an era.

[@Simplejack2514]

Wicked cool to step back in time like that..Thank you Carl

[@johnneal7155]

My grandpa and his dad owned a thrashing machine and did custom work for their neighbors. My dad was the tractor guy. What great look back in time.

[@canvids1]

The end part with the thrashing and stuking the grain takes me back/70 years to my young years on the farm and the thrashing of the grain wow thanks.

[@Husker3435]

Great stuff Carl, my grandmother never did call a combine a combine, to her it was and always would be a thrasher. Thx for the journey back in time 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@gail8494]

Interesting to see the thresher. That belt drive was wild. Thanks for the great video.

[@robertthomas5590]

Wow......I enjoyed you including the vintage harvest equipment. Very cool. Thanks

[@chesterarnold5975]

The name combine came about because they combined the two devices together.

[@robruen4567]

This video reminds me of going to Waukon for Threshing Days each year when I was younger.

[@feldtc07]

St. Ansgar is my hometown, I used to work there in grain receiving and working night shift in the mill

[@jerrymiller276]

I'm glad you didn't feel that you needed to work on your vacation!

[@mikeross5927]

I remember my mom telling me about my great grandfather, driving my grandfather's tractor for the first time. Ran the left drive tire up a tree. And the tractor died. He got off and never got on a tractor again.

[@malcolmcolvard9163]

Great video. Actually used a reaper and shocked oats one time many years ago. Good reminder of things from the past.

[@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206]

It really makes you respect the older generation on a whole new level

[@kenrussell5193]

Great video. love to see the new and the old.

[@timprice1742]

Great to see (relatively) old school technology in action, that must clearly still be profitable. BTW There's never a need to apologize for spending time away with family.

[@jamesryan9206]

Carl thank you so for that video very interesting. Doing oats anyway is a dirty dusty job.

[@centralparkcoffeeco.cafeba6634]

Come see this done for 5 days. Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. September 1 to 5, 2022. One of the largest steam shows in the U.S.

[@PenDragonsPig]

The farmer next door (🇬🇧) would do that with wheat. To start with his farmhouse had a thatched roof and our area thatched with straw nor reeds. He made a thing of the thrashing to supply thatchers elsewhere. The farmer on our farm replaced his old slate roof with some pretty new slates (say stone shingles). But the building and some of the farm buildings were listed. So he had to replace the new slates with the old slate n old nails I guess- the workers cottages got the pretty new slates. Old slates, hand split, new slates cut by machine.

[@DarrensTruckzs]

Great video 👍i dont comment alot but i do watch every video an always give them a like with the thumbs up, an have been subscribed since way back when you were knew channel, your content is very enjoyable an your info on what you do is well done an appreciated keep up the great videos .. we all need time off well deserved ! Cheers 💯👍

[@adrianklaver113]

So how do they know you tagged the trailer at the expected source location and did not wait to tag somewhere else? Loved the old machinery clanking away. As you said, to the folks who used to hand scythe the crop and then hand tie it into bundles and then beat the grain out of the bundles the machines must of looked like the be all and end all.

[@dwightl5863]

My Father had the same grain binder as in the video. But ours had a catcher that the bundles would drop into. The guy riding in the seat of binder would pull up on a stirruped pedal with his left foot when the catcher had five bundles in it which would lowered the catcher and leave the bundles in one place for shocking. I was to young to drive the tractor or operate the pedal on the binder at the time. I was disappointed that my Dad had to hire someone to sit on the binder.

[@Josh-of-all-Trades]

We love your videos and can't wait to see them, but also totally understand sometimes you just needs a bit of a vacation from making them. Hey, you can't always be talking to a GoPro, people will start thinking you're crazy.

[@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206]

Most people already know I’m crazy 😂😂

[@willian.direction6740]

Good one Mate nice to see you again and I remember stooking hay as a kid, and remember helping my dad Bag Sow too. We used to cart the hay and store it for the sheep and cows when the grass run out.

[@colmortimer1066]

How do they know the oats were good and clean and all when you put them into the truck? Or even that the truck was clean to start with? It just seems the cable ties are not doing a lot as there are just as many ways to tamper with the oats before you put the ties on, so they may not be doing every much but adding a step...and maybe some extra cost to the process. It is nice you were able to get vacation in, I don't think too many of us viewers would be upset you skipped a week, we know how it is. :)

[@waynejones5239]

I don't about there but some places require a wash ticket for the trailer when you haul food stuff and the sample has to be clean when they take it the elevator just doc's you but there they reject it

[@sallyschmitz8048]

Family first!

[@coyroberts8356]

Thanks 😊

[@tedwazonek7956]

Any Dodge Bro’s Farming hat’s, tee’s, hoodies, merch available?? Another great vid as usual Carl!! 👍🏻 🚜 🙏🏼

[@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206]

Thanks Ted! You can email me and I’ll get you on the next order. [e-mail]

[@cheapolegunguy]

I'll have to live with it?...Okay, but I'm going to have to stare at a cow and a plot of standing corn while your gone. 😀

[@tugboat2739]

Enjoy the videos

[@jimpolk]

Awesome 👍. I've never seen those types of machines. Really cool to see them operate again. Do those guys use those implements all the time?

[@bladewiper]

👍

[@josephklingshirn7818]

You need an escavator to clean the debris out of the creek.

[@EtzEchad]

Did you have to clean the trailer before you loaded oats in it? How much foreign debris to they allow?

[@jimenglehart8284]

Now, that is old timey harvesting! How long did they let the shocks sweat before they were threshed?

[@PRRGG1]

If peeing your pants is cool, consider you Miles Davis.

[@raincoast9010]

Take a chainsaw with vegetable oil in the oil tank and cut all the wood up that is stuck in the fence instead of fighting every piece out of that log jam.

[@jimkavalier2831]

Have you heard, Bank went in and changed ownership of your dad's former place of employment