"Yesterdays Farming" Harvesting

[@michaeldixon8424]

my grandad had a735 6 foot cut bagger, he drilled the pedals and put wooden blocks on so i could reach them, i was ten at the time. we combined all day and then picked up the bags in the dark. happy days, the best of my life.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Great memories. Thanks for sharing.

[@petergardner2334]

allways good to see harvesting by vintage combines you never get enough videos of them

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I will try to post more if I can. Thanks.

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

Events such as this take place all across the USA every year. Thankyou this was so lovely.

[@shapwick0046]

What a brilliant video. My name is Steve Dunster and I run the harvesting section at Yesterday’s Farming, it takes a lot to get it together and I have brilliant exhibitors who support me. This year we had lovely weather which makes for excellent demonstrations. I’m sat on the binder which is my father’s and was restored in 1978-9. My son George is driving.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Great to hear from you Steve. I appreciate how much work goes into the event and I was impressed to see how many helpers you had. I'll be there again next year I hope. It would be good to bring an exhibit but it's hard work fitting everything into the time available! Well done and thanks for the comment. The cultivation section will be in next Sundays video.

[@johnbarham7718]

I now understand they had not done any of his before. Very well done to those. If you were a bit closer, I probably would have attended. ( ive driven Binders, , stooked sheaves, loaded and unloaded, and been the caving boy under the thresher.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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[@johnbarham7718]

2:35 we used to have loaders on the wagon. I see there is aloader later on but he is not packing butts outward to form a firnm outside wall for the load to tie into.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Yes, they needed some help but they were putting on a great event so we can excuse them I think. Thanks for commenting.

[@nickbeer2658]

It was a wonderful event - gets better every year

[@Casterton-Vintage]

My first visit. It was a very good show. Working tractors video coming next Sunday

[@nevillewalker6299]

My grandfather wwould have gone mad if we produced sheaves like that. That binder needs a good looking at. Our combine was a Claas bagger with exposed drivers seat. 2 1/4 cwt railway sacks built your muscles up.

[@kevinmothers904]

My grandad would have thrown his pipe on the ground and used bad words. It's only binding every other one, surprised they didn't stop him and sort it out.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Mine too 😂

[@Larry-jv6he]

this is one great vidieo.many thanks to all who helped with it. larry in USA

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks Larry. It's good to hear from the other side of the pond.

[@juancarlosmunoz6127]

Fantástico vídeo!!! Este video es memoria historica de como trabajaba la maquinaria antigua, de otro tiempo, de granjas familiares pequeñas. Saludos desde México 🇲🇽.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

It's good to hear from Mexico. Thanks.

[@robmorgan5876]

Thanks again for a great video. I remember having massey combines around us whilst we had a class matador.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@simonhuddlestone5766]

Lovely. The MF 780 Special brought back happy memories of when I was a little boy. My Dad’s farm had 2 MF combines in the 1970’s, a 525 (no cab) and the funny little 780. In about 1980 they replaced them both with a New Holland 8060… it was like a leap into the space age.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I bet it was! Great memories.

[@stevedrane2364]

Brilliant video, good to hear all the machines working. .

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks

[@charleshart6992]

Another excellent video! As a youngster l never tired of sitting watching these combines - when the Class Senator first appeared in the 60's l thought what a fantastic piece of design work exemplified here by the wonderful Mercator!

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@paulleaver8820]

Really good video when I was a young lad I used a 990 now I am 71 thanks for bringing back some good memories 😀

[@Casterton-Vintage]

No problem 👍

[@casto-]

Lovely see so many old combines out working 👍 they cope very well in the modern crops (heavy crops compared to when the combines were new??) hoping to come down to casterton vintage this year 🤞

[@Casterton-Vintage]

We will look forward to seeing you there.

[@astral_sorceress]

My combine (mine in the future, it belongs to my grandparents right now) is in the video! It's amazing to see people watching it online as well as in person 😂

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks for your support.

[@elladailylife]

I love how connected you are to nature and the land

[@Casterton-Vintage]

👍

[@Chris-td4yd]

Thanks. I always look forward to your videos. I went to a similar event yesterday Nr Thorsby in Notts. 👍🇬🇧

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I was there too 😊

[@donstravelsandrants.]

Super cool to watch. 👍😊🇮🇪🇬🇧

[@Casterton-Vintage]

👍

[@johnd7288]

I really enjoyed the harvest video ! Great work again !

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks 👍

[@spreader4]

Great video brought back a lot of memorys as a kid seeing thosecombines working ,just wish some one had told the men loading the sheafs on the trailer allways cereal heads i n toward the trailer then the corn if it sheds , its on the trailer not on the floor .

[@Casterton-Vintage]

😊👍

[@tays8306]

I'm from saskatchewan canada. Neat to see similar kind of stuff my dad grew up farming with. We live on an acreage still, and my big tractor for rough cut mowing and winter blading is a 63 international 414 diesel. Can't imagine doing a 1/4 or half section with it!!! The neighbours farm around 40 sections with 27 full time summer employees! 11 fairly recent New Holland combines!!!

[@Casterton-Vintage]

A 414 is a nice tractor. I have a 434 that I use for topping gras. 40 sections is a big operation. I bet you get some impressive working machinery around you! Thanks for the comment.

[@tays8306]

@@Casterton-Vintage Thats what my wife's grandfather left out here (434 gas) before we came back. We gave it away years before we decided to build a house out here. Needed lots of work though. But the implements were still here which is nice. Very impressive operation next door. Funny though, in the one shop they have tucked away in the corner is a David brown of some kind that they use for some yard work.

[@whathasxgottodowithit3919.]

Great video thank you for posting. The Albion Binder certainly needs an adjustment, sooner than later.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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[@paulflynn9351]

Fantastic video, my father worked with a thrashing crew . Great memories.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thank you very much!

[@DonaldFraser-c9v]

Another fantastic trip down memory lane. It brought back memories of our Mc Cormick binder back in the 60s before the local contractor splashed out on 3 New Holland Clayson M133 combines one year all with consecutive numbers on their registration plates. The old binder found its self a new home somewhere in the Orkney islands after a very dodgy loading on to lorry from a roadside bank with the assistance of some strong planks of wood after the combines arrival on the scene and made it redundant.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I plan to run my McCormick Deering binder at Casterton Vintage Working Event and had it working last week. There will be a video coming soon. You can see a short clip on Casterton Vintage Working Event Facebook page.

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

Lovely video, thankyou so very much. From USA.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks for watching!

[@TMxl-w5t]

All very nice, I don't remember seeing many small combines here in North Essex. but I do remember a farm having a pair of Massey Ferguson 780 combines, one 8' cut, and the 10' cut 👍

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@DavidWillams-u4y]

Great to see an IH 431 in action. It has brought back some memories of Service Engineering days in the 1970s and early 80s. Along with the 321 and larger 531 good combines and for their day and had some interesting features. As you say not that many about. An unusual exhibit.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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[@Mark-d1q4i]

Either way it doing a Awesome job sir

[@eugenehall910]

great video i had an allis chalmers ED 40 on our farm here in the USA

[@Casterton-Vintage]

That's an interesting fact. I might have said this in the video but the ED40 was made about 5 miles from my location in England.

[@noelstractors-firewood57]

Seen an Allis Chalmers ED 40 at a show here in PEI, Canada. Rare tractor around these parts. And I have a toy Massey Ferguson 780 Special combine. Made by Lesley. Great video. Will be looking for the next one.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

It's interesting that an ED40 made it all the way to PEI. Thanks.

[@philgardener7018]

Wow another great video thanks. You seem to find all the best shows, Think I will have to go down there next year

[@Casterton-Vintage]

You should!

[@bobpaterson1845]

Great content again thanks 👍 a few bits of design on the Massey 31 that were carried on to the 4 and 500 series combine particularly the hood at the back 🤔👍

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Yes, I noticed the hood. One of them looked very battered though.

[@nickcox6556]

I was there....great little show!

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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[@andyhutch8262]

After leaving school in 64, i went to work for the family agricultural engineers, Ferguson/MF dealers. one of my first jobs was to assist a mechanic repair, or should I say get it ready for harvest, MF 735,, i was trusted to adjust all its chains, being motorbike mad, they let me lose, using the fitters tools, as I had none my self............Fast forward, I had left the family firm to try my hand at felling tree work, I was lucky to see a brand new JF combine bolted onto a DB of early 70's, pre cab days. I had a chat with the farmer, he was expecting any day, a Ferguson combine with a Ferguson FE35, it never materialised. The JF combine was on this farm working for 8 years.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Great memories. Thanks for sharing.

[@kevinwilliams1602]

Another good video, sir. I do love your content and I have in times passed, visited your show at Casterton. I would recommend anyone on here to give you a visit.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Many thanks for your kind words.

[@byrneagri]

Very enjoyable video

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thank you very much!

[@markchambers3269]

Excellent video makes you wonder how they managed to get everything done with such small combines

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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[@williambowman7589]

Another fantastic video 😊

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks 👍

[@Denis.Collins]

My uncle (Co Cork, Ireland) had a David Brown (not sure of it was 990). At one stage it pulled a Dronningborg combine with a four and one half feet cut! Just imagine that now?

[@Casterton-Vintage]

That would be a steady job!

[@noelkeane5603]

I own a Dronningborg Dania Bagger of the above dimensioned cut. A very rare spectacle. Enjoyed watching the video. 👍👏👏👏

[@theholeinthewater9452]

Massy 735 combine puts the Allis Chalmers All Crop 40 {38 inches} in the shade. Would harvest about an acre and hour.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

That's no too bad for a small machine.

[@derekdickins7256]

The Claas combine was imported from Germany by ot's owner, Ken Gibbs. It would be a Senator in this country.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks. That's just what I needed to know. We were trying to work out where it fitted into that model range. It was going very well.

[@geofflake8599]

Great video again, i was surprised to a cart with the name John Lake as this is my late fathers name

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Interesting!

[@PeterStevens-p8g]

You asked if anyone had driven an Allis Chalmers ED40, my grandfather bought a new one in 1967 from J L C flew from Broadclyst in Devon and at the time I was only 12 years old but I drove it lots of times.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks for the info.

[@paulthompson8467]

Brilliant video 👍

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks

[@timnewton3166]

The small combines were mostly for small farms, but the main criteria was the small gate sizes usually about 8 foot

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks.

[@noelmaher2301]

Good Times, people worked together, happier wt less.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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[@KlepsGarage]

You just don’t see harvesting with vintage equipment in the states. I was in shock when I seen the man look in the bin to see how full it is. Today they have on board comp screens that tells you how much when full when planted and how much moisture how much it cost and how much your making per acre and on and on. . You couldn’t pay our farmers to look in a bin 😂😂😂😎 nice vid cheers

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Hi Bruce, That's a bit like saying they don't drive model T's any more in the states 😂😂. There are always a few of us mad men out there. It's nice to have a play but I am always pleased to get back to the self drive tractor with GPS. Thanks for the comment.

[@KlepsGarage]

I just don’t see antique combines at work. Seen threshers. Powered by steam traction engine. But. Old combines get in demolition derby’s. Cheers.

[@danielleloy7945]

merci pour la vidéo ,

[@Casterton-Vintage]

No problem. Hope you enjoyed it.

[@hansgrehoner9847]

My Claas Mercator from 1972 had a Perkins 6-354 with 95 DIN PS. Baler 440 from IH didn`t work,the knotters had problems,i bought a Welger.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

The IH knotters were a bit different to others and it's not uncommon to hear criticism of them. Thanks.

[@leof9571]

Thanks for share

[@Casterton-Vintage]

No worries

[@hansgrehoner9847]

IH 431 was a wheat combine,had problems with long ray in germany.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

That's interesting. It was French built and would normally be expected to work better in Europe than the American machines. Thanks.

[@davidbrennan3613]

Excellent video. The claas combine is immaculate as is the rest of the machinery

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks

[@OFTENUSER]

Great show! Liked the Claas Mercator very much. Reminded me of the Claas Dominator 80, with extra shakers built in afterwards, although I liked working with the New Holland 286 baler more. Driving a tractor, more speed and seeing more customers a day. I love the video very much

[@chrisberg609]

its wheat that is going to the thresher not corn the binder needs some major adjustment ,, the blokes forking the sheaves are hopeless so is the fella stacking the cart probably bother issues I missed but other than those few things a very good video Cheers

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks.

[@donvoll2580]

Good day from Ontario Canada Yes we look at ED-40, boy I am glad we did not buy it, it was too small for power I think we have dinky toy MF 780 combine Yes we had some JF combine or swather, I think it was a rear mounted swather Ths Interesting

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks

[@Wheels_of_Interest.]

See you at Casterton with the Hart-Parr and Oliver 70 👍

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Lets hope the sun shines for us. It should be a special event.

[@glennlingard7851]

Back in the 70’s l transitioned from a Massey 780 special to a Massey 400, immediately the concentration was halved!

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Great memories. Thanks

[@brendanrapple5361]

Superb Video

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks

[@kenshort8901]

Please can you let me know the exact location of the Casterton Vintage Working Event - I can't seem to find the address on your Facebook page. TIA Ken

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Pickworth Road, Great Casterton, PE9 4DF What Three Words even,sketching.sprinkle

[@johnhargis4566]

The David Brown 880 was a popular tractor in my community here in the US they were reliable & performed well 😊

[@Casterton-Vintage]

👍

[@aala7337]

Havn’t seen an international bailer in action since 80’s

[@Casterton-Vintage]

They were quite popular at one time I think.

[@genelegear5418]

A 40 acre field was about it's limits...

[@Casterton-Vintage]

👍

[@umwhatthistime]

No Ransomes?

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Unfortunately not

[@umwhatthistime]

@@Casterton-Vintage Are they rare?

[@JoeFoley-s4d]

😀🚜👍

[@Casterton-Vintage]

👍

[@franshegge4840]

i really wanna be at the working event! its a shame i live on the other side of the channel

[@Casterton-Vintage]

No problem. Plenty of little rubber boats heading over every day 🤣🤣