Haytime at Owlers Farm, Hebden Bridge - 1977

HAYTIME: 1977, at Owlers Farm, Shackleton Hill, Hebden Bridge. The grass is going to seed, time to cut it. The farmer, Ernest Shaw mows the grass. The sun dries the cut grass and turns it into hay. Ernest uses the Wuffler to fluff up the hay and let air into the rows, to speed up drying. The baler comes out of the shed. Ernest made small rectangular bales.The bales are put onto a trailer and taken to the barns. Some are raised up using the elevator and if the entrance is low enough the bales are just manhandled in through the opening. We see Ernest putting bales through the opening with some help. I made this cine film in the summer of 1977. Music by Chris Zabriskie from You Tube Audio Library. Please feel free to share this.

[@VIVA4EVER2001]

Such fond memories of a wonderful era when life was simple. Happy days long gone

[@Nick-bp7jf]

I have a great feeling of meloncholy watching your videos. They take me back to the long, warm summers. I was a Cragg Vale lad. All our hay was harvested using a contractor. Neville Teal was his name if anyone remembers him. They were great times and i miss them terribly.

[@davidperry9954]

That brings back some great memories it was hard work but you just got on with it and I loved the tea in a bottle it was fantastic I'm 75 now and I've got a fordson power major tractor 👍👍👍👍

[@jpeel2066]

Bamford wuffler always did a good job. Great times we'll never see again. All the best 🇬🇧.

[@bucktis9]

you nevr know history has this thing about repeating

[@rocket78able]

Love the old Bamfords Wuffler rowing up. IH B47 bailer. We had them both on our farm here in New Zealand.

[@davidmclellan5438]

Thanks for letting us see that takes me back to mutch happier day's 😀👍

[@stuartreadman118]

Thanks for the video, it takes me back to when I lived on a farm,

[@kevinberry4949]

I remember using all of those machines, very fond memories

[@paulthompson8467]

Brilliant takes me back to my childhood we had major exactly like this one I even learned how to drive on it

[@davidbrennan3613]

Excellent footage. Video's like this one bring back great memories

[@stephenrice4554]

Great memories of childhood , helping with the hay , the sound of the fordson major , keeping the dogs from getting in the way , they loved the ratting, sandwiches and my first taste of beer , learning how to repair the knotter on the baler , and getting a blocking for getting it wrong . 👍🇬🇧

[@Jolly56Roger]

Yep the good old day when everybody helped each other😊😊

[@kevinmoorse3997]

Loved the video, kinder times for farming

[@user-pq3cc2ef4g]

Good days gone but never forgotten 👍

[@colinmayes9446]

I just enjoyed this video, and I do appreciate that it was very hard work, thank you.

[@irishlad8797]

I just watched a video from Owlers farm from 1977 before this one from 1994 Gone is the little dexter tractor and the mowing machine with the old McCormack baler Thank God someone took this wonderful footage from those days I wonder is Owlers farm still up and running with the same family

[@DavidRoyBall]

Owlers Farm is still a working farm but a different tenant lives there now, a different family.

[@irishlad8797]

@@DavidRoyBall aw that's sad to think the children who played on the bales are gone probably to the cities Time just keeps moving along

[@RideBikes_Walkplaces]

Awesome footage, david!

[@DavidRoyBall]

Thank you.

[@trevorcox3020]

Most enjoyable videos

[@DavidRoyBall]

Thank you.

[@780special]

Good video. Remember the old Bamford wuffler very well. One of my first tractoring jobs on the farm but in our case pulled by a MF35.

[@johnt7232]

Same here from Ireland and if I remember correctly it was driven by little grey Fergie or the 35 but any it was a bastard of a machine always winding the hay around the drum and choking I reckoned at the time it was because the wheels were riding on the swarth the same time as drum was lifting crop it amazes me to see videos wufflers working so well

[@780special]

Yes I remember having to unbung the Wuffler too. They had a bit of a revival secondhand I recall for fluffing up damp rows of straw in wet harvest times . We replaced our Vicon turner and Wuffler with a Haybob eventually,which was a lot more efficient.

[@trevormorgan6611]

@@johnt7232 We had winding problems too. The cause was using a vicon acrobat to turn it, as it tended to wind the hay into ropes. We went back to using an old siderake, a bamlett if my memory serves me right, to turn the hay, which seemed to resolve the winding problem. My biggest gripe was that it was single row, and it seemed to take forever to do a field!

[@leighbradley7057]

Lovely vedio but why is the music like a crime drama..!?