Wheat Harvest 1961

16mm footage of the 1961 Wheat Harvest in southwest Ellis County, Kansas captured by Carl Kraus and his son Harold Kraus.
Aerial over Golden Spring Beach Farm and Hays, Kansas
Minneapolis Moline combines
1955 Chevrolet grain truck

[@stephenhenderson9871]

Thank you, this takes me back to my Dad and Granddad and their farming days.

[@tedkingham9594]

My great grandfather farmed in Ellis county during this time period so I’ve always felt a connection there. Never seen a Minneapolis combine like that.

[@jeffanderlik7695]

Best combine Dad ever owned. His was on the older "L" tractor (we had two of those). Our brown one like this seemed to have issues, and Dad never liked the hydrostatic steering. If something happened to the pump or a hose, you were stranded.

[@AJ67901]

Nice footage of the uni-tractor and combine module. I never knew of them until I watched this video. Very interesting.

[@johnkelly903]

We had a mm 88 which was the pull type of this combine it was nice to run simple to run and dependable

[@1murder99]

I was on wheat harvest in 1961 with my father, I was 13. When you were cutting we were cutting wheat over in Goodland. I was with a harvesting crew from 1959 to 1965 and I never saw a MM combine working.

[@rodcody7278]

Remember cutting in Burlington on July 4 with a 55 when I was 8 to 10 in 64 used to take it to kanarado did the fairs in good land and Burlington good times like to go back

[@slundgr]

@@rodcody7278 I grew up in the Oklahoma Panhandle and worked on a harvest crew’69-‘71 and we would cut in Burlington after we got done in the Panhandle. We had Gleaner-Baldwin C-II and G model combines. We liked going to Burlington because it was cooler than Oklahoma and cooled off at night. I remember the 55 model John Deere and the 95 and 105 models.

[@rodcody7278]

Did a boat load of silage in guymon ok back in 80,s loved it

[@slundgr]

@@rodcody7278 Did you take it to Hitch’s Feedlot or Master Feeders? My uncle owned Master Feeders

[@rodcody7278]

@@slundgr all I know is the feed lot was huge spent two months there

[@rickmatz4456]

That is a very wide feeder house. Cool design.

[@dmchristner]

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[@user-wb5cx2hm7r]

wow thats a uni mule isnt it

[@Eddie_Schantz]

I remember when my dad and uncle cut wheat with a 1948 Moline that looked just like the machine at 8:20. The machine we had had a tricycle rear wheels instead of the wide wheels. I couldn't tell in this video which one this machine had. A few years later, a cousin of mine had a Moline model 168 combine which I learned some of my skills on. That was a nice machine to run. It had power steering on it but I don't know when the 168 came out. The one big drawback about those machines was where the engine sat. If you were cutting heading east and had a south wind, the heat off the engine would almost cook you. I do have to ask though, at 10:30 what is all that hardware under the unloading auger? Never saw that before on a MM machine. Great vid.

[@frankwurth5375]

The early model S Moline Combines had the Tricycle steering wheels. The machine at 8:20 is the later improved S, it had a feeder house chain instead of a canvas apron like our had. The 168 was a vastly updated version, it had power steering , different transmission drive, and all sealed flange bearings at most all points( a constant problem on the earlier S) At 10:30 the only thing I see is the motor and drive of the power unit of that Uni harvestor. also behind that is the recleaner of the seperator. On that machine the threshing unit was removeable from the Mule (tractor), so it could be used for other chores.

[@Eddie_Schantz]

@@frankwurth5375 Thanks for you reply. That machine at 8:20 had a metal shield over the engine. That would stop a lot of that heat from being blown on the driver. We did not have that. Getting back to the 168. The one I drove had either a 3 or 4 speed transmission with a variable speed drive. That was a nice feature.

[@perisher1976]

мой дядька убирал хлеб на Кубани в 60е годы в колхозе на подобном комбайне, на СК-4. А возили хлеб на колхозный ток на Газ-51. Уборка была похожей как тут: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmLPoHiGqtt3pNU

[@rodneycody8746]

Where's Toto

[@hansgrehoner9847]

Do you know your roots in europe?

[@mrpaulkraus]

Traben-Trarbach, Germany and Yorkshire, England

[@hansgrehoner9847]

@@mrpaulkraus I`m from Ostwestfalen,thats about 80km west from Hannover near Bielefeld,the pudding-town. Traben-Trarbach is about 380km south-east from here in the middle of the vine yards.

[@morenorasiadani4640]

Fine. If you want to watch old Italian scenes Storie di civiltà contadina veneta ITALIA kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5Ldi4mhhbGqn9U