ANTIQUE Horse Drawn HAY MAKING Equipment at Work - Big Spring Farm Lancaster County's AMISH LAND

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@dougstull4392 4 ай бұрын

I went to the same living history demonstration several years ago and it was great! I saw old hay making equipment in use that I had only seen setting idle in fields and barns. The Swiss Pioneers have a great club and membership.

@garyhammond2213 2 ай бұрын

When I was a young boy, I would sit between my great-grandfather's legs on a single horse hay rake and deliver the hay to the barn. He was born in 1882 and never drove a car. We also would deliver vegetables to the locals via a horse and buggy. The good old days! My mother also got around by horse and buggy. We had a small farm in Rhode Island.

@scottschmidt4872 2 ай бұрын

Awesome memories!

@rolandemartin854 11 күн бұрын

In many ways, I wish we could go back to those much simpler and more relaxed times!!

@samuelbyler 17 күн бұрын

Nice work, there's some Amish involved, but the men and women running the show are Mennonite, real nice working unity

@LancoAmish 17 күн бұрын

@@samuelbyler ,thanks for watching. Yes, the event is put on by mostly Mennonite.

@the_Falcon_fall 4 ай бұрын

Each video surpasses the previous one. Great job Thanks!

@AAdams-nd1pj 3 ай бұрын

This brings up memories, not all pleasant. SE Ohio in the late ‘50’s early ‘60’s , we had a neighbor that still farmed with horses, and put up “loose” , (unbaled) hay. My dad always “volunteered” my help to put it in the barn. Waist high Timothy, raked into huge windrows with the dump rake and loaded onto the wagon with a pull behind “hay loader”. My job was to move the hay around the wagon to get a nice level load. That long stemmed Timothy pouring off the loader would get all knotted up and almost impossible to move around. Sometimes I would just get covered up and he would stop the horses until I caught up. Much preferred square bales

@rolandemartin854 2 ай бұрын

It's not common to see women working in the fields, but there are some that still do and can do the work of a man without missing a lick. Then there is the other side. My Mother and Dad were farmers, but don't know of but one time that my Mother was ever on a piece of machinery. I was the youngest of four boys and also had two older sisters. We all worked in fields at various jobs.

@rolandemartin854 11 күн бұрын

on the other side of the story. We used to stack loose hay right out in the middle of the alfalfa fields using a horse drawn staker (my job) my oldest brother on the stack moving hay around and Dad bringing hay to the stacker with a homemade buck rake on our old Case tractor. Just to make it fun I would try to time my dumping the hay on the stack so I could bury my brother

@klauskarbaumer6302 4 ай бұрын

Great to see somebody using the scythe. In our neck of the woods(or fields) I seem to be the only one still mowing a lot with it. And the gentleman even shows how to peen it. All the gentlemen are using an Austrian style scythe. I have four of them and love them. But the horse-drawn mower surely made it easier to mow larger areas.

@johngroll9186 3 ай бұрын

Keeping the antique stuff this working, you have to love the Amish!!!

@trailrider0194 4 ай бұрын

This is how things were done back when work was hard and people were honest!

@annalorree Ай бұрын

My grandfather was born in 1906, this is what making hay looked like in our area when he was in his 20s, except they would have used a horse-drawn sickle bar mower. That mower would have been adapted to pull behind the first tractors when they arrived, as was the draw rake. By the 1940s, purpose-built tractor hay implements appeared.

@joshuatreiss3452 Ай бұрын

Mine in 1934. It’s possible he used some of these techniques and equipment as a kid

@garyhammond2213 2 ай бұрын

That's an interesting tedder. I've never seen one before. We turned our hay with a pitchfork. Small farm.

@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550 3 ай бұрын

You know it’s old when Amish have ‘old fashioned’ days!!!

@klauskarbaumer6302 4 ай бұрын

I also really like it in this video that women are represented. They have always played a big role in agriculture and still do. And how nice it was when everybody worked together, not the lonely enterprise it is today with one person on the tractor doing it all, the mowing, the raking, the baling, the hauling.

@SeattlePioneer 2 ай бұрын

Yes, but ONE PERSON! The reduction in labor is dramatic, just as you describe. I make my own apple cider straight from apples, but even then I use a KitchenAid mixer to shred the apples to be crushed for juice. That saves a lot of hard labor by itself, but even then there is a LOT of physical labor to pick the apples, clean the apples cut and inspect the apples, then crushed, squeezed, the juice then sieved of debris and packaged, the spent apples hauled off to be composted. I'm always impressed by how much physical labor is required to produce food ---reduced primarily by mechanization. That mechanization just as you describe, dramatically reduces the labor needed to produce food, and thus reduce the cost of food. And you could go back to 1835, before Cyrus McCormick's harvester, and imagine all the physical labor that went into growing, harvesting, threshing and winnowing wheat! Really hard for us to imagine.

@klauskarbaumer6302 2 ай бұрын

@@SeattlePioneer I make my own hard cider, 75 gallons every year, but I do have a crusher and a hydraulic press. I have farmed with horses for many years, am in my 62nd year of owning and working with horses, sure, a lot of physical work, but mostly enjoyable and keeps us relatively fit. I find there can be a middle ground between backbreaking labor and total mechanization; our society has gone too far in one direction, and apart from the environmental cost it increasingly leads to avoidable health and social problems.

@SeattlePioneer 2 ай бұрын

@@klauskarbaumer6302 Thanks for your comment. I have a hand crank cider press that makes about a gallon at a time. I used to get apples from a tree on public property on a street end, but that was pulled out to build sidewalks recently. One of the motivations for me is that I'm a frugal person and I hate to see wastem, especially the wast of food. So picking apples that otherwise would be wasted was something I found satisfying, but once you have a bunch of apples, the question is ----- what do you DO with them?! I found making cider used apples efficiently, since it took about eight pounds of apples for mwe to make a gallon of cider.. There are other apple trees around, but none I can pick easily. So I may be out of the cider business. Composting the pomace was about all I could do with it. I always figured that cattle, pigs or chickens would probably love it. This fall I raked up a bunch of acorns and have been feeding them to the squirrels, one at a time.

@jamesducey2685 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing these wonderful seens.

@farangesan5427 4 ай бұрын

very nice video like me much, I like much love much Amish people have a life style like me much. thanks for video, have a good happy life all Amish people. with love.

@paulruhl8614 4 ай бұрын

I believe the baler to be one of first w/ automatic knotters ,thus a great improvement to haymaking. Prior to that were hand tye.

@dennisnsharleneparker9797 Ай бұрын

I've put in quite a few hours on a scythe during my high school years. That was back when I had a waist line.

@rolandemartin854 11 күн бұрын

I'm 84 and remember my Dad bringing home a scythe that he bought at an auction. Took me a while, but finally learned how to use it

@dennisnsharleneparker9797 10 күн бұрын

@@rolandemartin854 I remember an old Polish fellow who was used to sharpening a scythe with a hammer on an anvil. They had different steel in the old country and he was surprised and confused when chunks of metal would break off from the edge. I carried a 6"stone with a wooden handle.

@rolandemartin854 10 күн бұрын

@@dennisnsharleneparker9797 As long as it has been, I think that my Dad just used a regular file on ours. We didn't have a regular lawn mower so he used the scythe to trim around the yard.

@ДимаДругой 3 ай бұрын

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@Zeke-yv3nw 4 ай бұрын

Its amazing at all the technology that has changed in farming but the knotters on that old baler are the same as what is used today. Atleast for the most part.

@SeattlePioneer 2 ай бұрын

The method devised by Cyrus McCormick to cut and stack wheat and grain in 1835 are almost identical to the methods mused today, and on virtually every mechanical harvester for nearly 200 years! And he hand forged the parts of his mechanical harvester with his skills as a blacksmith! And then there was the notable invention of the horse drawn MANURE SPREADER circa 1875! Almost the same as many engine driven manure spreaders today. Imagine what a boon that was to farmers! Before, that black gold had to be spread off the back of a wagon by two men throwing it out to the side, with another man driving the horse. And today the tractor has a hydraulic lifter to load the manure, so that men don't need to do that burdensome lifting. SPECTACULAR!

@rolandemartin854 10 күн бұрын

Asa boy I remember our using an old New Holland square baler. Always had problem with the knotter and the timer would go off. would get bales twice normal length

@katisme5137 4 ай бұрын

I am not American but I am curious. Do Amish people vote in US elections?

@LancoAmish 4 ай бұрын

@@katisme5137, some do and the numbers are increasing especially among the Lancaster County PA Amish.

@katisme5137 4 ай бұрын

@@LancoAmish ty

@adrianbew9641 4 ай бұрын

The standing baler was very inefficient and would of burnt more fuel than modern balers.😢

@SeattlePioneer 2 ай бұрын

Yes, but imagine what the bailer replaced ---- loading loose hay, with several people pictured doing that in the video. Then hauling the loose hay to a barn where it was unloaded and lifted into a barn where it was stored loose. By contrast, the square bale packs hay far more densely and efficiently, into bales that a man can lift and move efficiently, using all the muscle a man can bring to bear on the task. And then we have the round baler, which bales hay in ways that can be moved efficiently by a tractor ---- more efficient than the square bale designed to be moved by a man.

@Bernie5172 3 ай бұрын

Cutting hay like that just cant be any good for the back

@SeattlePioneer 2 ай бұрын

Hard physical labor using all the power a man can bring to bear on the task for hours at a time all day long. But consider that the scythe replaced the scycle, which required stoop labor all day long for a man to cut a handful of grass or grain at a time. The scythe was a dramatic improvement in efficiency and was, I suppose, far easier on the back than a sicycle. (I can't get spell check to spell scycle correctly for me no matter how many different tried I use!)