Vintage Reaper Binder Bringing The Crops In

[@groseillegrowa3659]

Excellent ... thank you, Harry, for sharing this with us ... I love the old machinery ...

[@icespeckledhens]

I remember my tractor driving days, early combines and Jones Balers but then you had to hand load the bales onto a trailer. The first few rows of bales alright but when you and to throw them up to get to the top, especially if the bales were wet it was back breaking after a days of it. I do not think the modern tractor drivers know they are born! thanks I enjoyed the video James

[@paulculbert1281]

Thanks so much for sharing Harry. We had the remains of one of these in our "bone yard" on the farm I grew up on but I never saw it operate. Now I have! Cheers from Canada!

[@deezynar]

Excellent. Thanks, Harry. My dad would have loved to see this video. He grew up in the Midwestern, U.S. farm country, and worked with a variety of farming machines when he was a kid in the 1930's. I think that machine was similar to what his family used. He always enjoyed any chance to get around them whenever he could in his later years. He moved us here to the arid Southwest part of the country to pursue better work opportunities in the mining industry, but he never lost his interest, and love of farming machinery.

[@harryrogers]

He Deezynar...you are welcome.

[@terrybennett8692]

Such an interesting film,it must have been wonderful to see these at harvest time.Some times i just wish we could turn the clock back.Thanks for the video Harry...

[@harryrogers]

Terry Bennett Thanks Terry

[@barthamburg4351]

Wow what a great video. Thank you we're sharing it.

[@harryrogers]

Here is a link to my film on threshing wheat by steam power:kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmexhmOJj5x_gJY

[@deedubya3884]

I remember seeing the smaller stacks of oats and the huge haystacks locally when i was a kid. In my late forties now so it wasnt all that long ago considering how old this type of machinery is.

[@danpapworth6430]

"The binder is an attractive instrument. Especially as seen from a little distance, its gently turning 'sails noiselessly paddling back the lake of corn. At close quarters the ingenuity of the thing is fascinating. To cut at that rate is in itself an achievement; but also to take up convenient portions of what is being cut, and bind it, and then chuck out the bound sheaf - that is something remarkable. Yes, one feels, the cutting was a straightforward invention perhaps, and the elevating of it upward on a moving canvas; but to have it tied firmly into separate parts and then flicked out - how accomplish that with robot fingers?" - John Stewart Collis, The Worm Forgives the Plough (London: Charles Knight & Co Ltd, 1974), p.134

[@harryrogers]

Thanks Dan

[@TheAdaaamski]

Can’t beat the rattle of a Major!

[@eamonhannon1103]

Great video . It would be good to include a history of these machines in the video. When was the Reaper and Binder first introduced . Who invented it ? Which companies manufactured them ? Over what period were they used ? I am from Ireland and I remember them being used by farmers in Ireland in the 1960's . Also the Trasher . Trashing was a special social occasion on farms when local farmers came together to help each other . I remember there would be alcohol brought in . It was at a Trashing that I tasted Guinness for the first time .I remember I thought it tasted awful.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Yes. I remember my Dad working on a farm back in the mid 1960s . On a summer evening they'd work until it grew dark at harvest time. That was in Scotland . But I did see the same machines in action in Donegal.....as a child I didn't realise what a brilliant piece of engineering it was !!

[@VencelBiro]

This was a lovely video.

[@harryrogers]

Vencel Biro Thanks very much Vencel

[@patgilliland3187]

Ours collected them and it was my job to trip the collection when there were 8 bundles, so my grandpa could shock them later.

[@bobsyeruncle6107]

reminds me of when i was a kid cuttin hay

[@tangle70]

I use to live in an area that had a very large Amish community. Within it there was a fair number of Swartzentruber Amish. They hard equipment like this but they pulled it with a team of horses. Then they would stack the bundles into shocks and leave them in the field.

[@harryrogers]

Tom Angle Interesting Tom...I believe an earlier version of this machine was horse drawn and may have come in different widths...for four horses or six horses etc....not that I really know much about all this...thanks for your comment. Regards Harry

[@tangle70]

I really do not know much about it either. The video brought back memories. If you ever find yourself in Ohio you need to visit Holmes County. An added bonus for you would be the leather shops.

[@harryrogers]

I'm just booking my flights...seriously sounds tempting!!

[@TheRedFox1995]

Thanks for the great video, does anyone know whether it is possible to find an old manual for one of these machines? Regards of the brand. Would be of great service in trying to get one of these old machines working again!

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Genius invention !!

[@tropifiori]

Grandfather told me stories about cutting wheat all by hand. He would have enjoyed having a thresher.

[@johnsweda2999]

what happens to the wheat the kernels how do they take them off?

[@harryrogers]

John sweda You can see that in the film on threshing that I did last year! It's well worth seeing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmexhmOJj5x_gJY

[@VOL-colors]

I want to buy one is it possible

[@rbwiginton7541]

V. cool video. I follow the work of Dr. Stephen Jones with the Bread Lab at WSU. He has very interesting videos and papers on wheat genetics and heritage varieties. It would be cool to know what variety the wheat in your video belongs to and how it performs when baked.

[@harryrogers]

Randal Wiginton Thanks Randal...the wheat here is marius widgeon.

[@rbwiginton7541]

Harry Rogers awesome, reading about it, a good hard winter wheat and excellent thatch material.

[@christianpercy2416]

could you please merge right and left audiotrack. the jumping between them is a tad annoying!

[@harryrogers]

Christian Percy Thanks I am not sure if I can...I will look into that.