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FarmBoy1950
Canada
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Farm and ranch life in southern Alberta including working horses, range cattle, rodeo, Thoroughbred horses, chuckwagon racing, threshing machines, binders, steam tractors, growing up on a farm or ranch from youngster to adult.
Rocking P Ranch Horses
Horses have been a staple of the Rocking P Ranch ever since Rod McLeay began raising Clydesdale and Clyde-Thoroughbred cross horses in the early 20th century. They supplied cavalry and artillery mounts during WWI and the actual horsepower to 'fuel' Alberta's early agricultural development. Now the Blades' family raise top Quarterhorses that work well either on the ranch or in the rodeo arena, sometimes both. The raising and training of these horses falls to the competent hands of Blake, Monica and Stran Schlosser with ready assistance from the rest of the Blades' family. We see the results of their training displayed in the corrals as the entire family, friends and neighbors heel, brand and process calves during a late May branding bee.
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Mothers
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Mothers play a major role in all of our lives, and in this Caleb & Me story our Old Timer introduces us to three different mothers. Since he is eight years old at the time of the tale the Old Timer's own mother plays a crucial part and since he's telling the story to his two little granddaughters his wife Emeline has to be involved but the main focus of the story is his Ayrshire milk cow Daisy....
Winter of '49
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This is an audio selection from my Caleb & Me collection of short stories. It is the first of a series: a tall tale told by our Oldtimer to his granddaughters about how he and his family and his faithful dog Caleb survived the brutal 'Winter of '49'. As their food, firewood and vital chewing tobacco begin to dwindle sacrifices must be made by all and sundry. They are finally saved by - well I c...
Rocking P Ranch: The Buffalo (Bison)
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For decades the Blades family's Rocking P ranch has used buffalo, bison, in their grazing program. Although much more challenging to handle, especially in tight quarters like corrals and sorting pens, these bearded grazers have unique and useful qualities. The buffalo utilize higher ground, the tops of the ranch's Eastern Slopes hillsides. But if a buffalo lifts its tail, Mac Blades knows from ...
Reding Family Threshing 1910 2022
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The Full version of Reding Family Threshing with Robin's rebuilt Minneapolis thresher and George White Steamer. Ever since Zeno Reding moved from Switzerland, via Minnesota, to Irricana the Reding family has been involved in agriculture in Alberta. Horses, threshing machines, steam tractors and hard working men and women have participated in harvesting the grain on this farm, grain that helped ...
Hotcakes to High Stakes: The Chuckwagon Story
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This year the Calgary Stampede celebrates the 100th anniversary of chuckwagon racing! This is the full story of the open range cowboys home away from home, their mobile kitchen, the chuckwagon. In 1923 the last of the old chuckwagons left the range to rumble around the Calgary Stampede racetrack for the first Rangeland Derby, the world famous chuckwagon race! Originally driven by actual range c...
Reding Family Threshing: rebuilding the old equipment
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Robin Reding took 25 years to rebuild his Minneapolis threshing machine from the bottom up. There are few people who know more than Robin about the intricacies of running a threshing machine. He also rebuilt his George White steam tractor and both machines play a pivotal role in the 2022 Reding Family Threshing Bee. Horses pull the unique Stewart Stook Loader to fill numerous bundle racks with ...
Hotcakes to High Stakes: The Modern Chuckwagon Race
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Chuckwagon racing adapts to a new world with a tighter barrel pattern and better tracks and racing conditions with new rules and regulations to make the race safer for man and horse. From racing at the Calgary Stampede to driving across country to the smaller WPCA and CPCA shows, drivers and outriders tell their own stories about their favorite horses and some of their wild and wooly experience...
Reding Family Threshing: The Draft Horses
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Draft horses played a huge role in the settling of Canada's prairie agricultural land base. They pulled the plows, cultivators, seeders, mowers, hay rakes, binders and bundle racks. Horse power in its basic form acquired its strength from the land itself, a truly organic form of propulsion. And horses even supplied an equine form of GPS in that once a team understood what was expected of them t...
The First Rangeland Derby 1923
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100 years ago the open range chuckwagon rumbled onto the Calgary Stampede racetrack. The 100th anniversary of chuckwagon racing in 2023! The old Open Range chuckwagon moves from being the cowboys' mobile kitchen for trail drives and roundups to a four horse racing vehicle on the Calgary Stampede racetrack. In 1923 Guy Weadick organized the very first Rangeland Derby with horses, cowhands and ch...
Reding Family Threshing: the stook loader
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What a labor saving device for a threshing crew! A stookloader could take the place of a half dozen bundle pitchers and reduce the number of wagons and horses required to harvest a grain field. The Reding family employs two stookloaders each pulled by four horses to supply a steady stream of bundles for their Minneapolis threshing machine.
Open Range Chuckwagon
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The open range chuckwagon not only served as mobile camp kitchen for trail drives, spring and fall roundups but was basically a range cowboy's home away from home. On trail drives and roundups the chuckwagon carried provisions enough to feed a dozen men. Cowboys would proudly proclaim: "I follow the Bar U, the Lazy H or the Rocking P wagon." They had passionate loyalty to their outfit, represen...
I am an artist in Montana, and I am currently developing a few paintings from old black and white photos of threshing and other farming activities I've found in antiques shops. Your video contains a wealth of knowledge for the paintings I am going to do. Thank you for preserving and sharing these old ways.
Ces courses avec le c h u c k w a g o n ,seraient l'équivalent de nos jours aux poids lourd, avec un certain nombre de chevaux dans le moteur.( fictif), mais vous au Canada, vous avez eu la bonne idée de continuer la course de chariots avec les chevaux (animaux) pour montrer comme c'était autrefois, cette course pourrait rappeler les couses de char de la Rome antique même au temps des pharaons avec des préparations similaires aux vôtres aujourd'hui. étant photographe amateur, j'aurais bien envie de venir vous voir dans votre pays pour faire des photos et peut -être une expo pour glorifier votre s t a m p e d e de Calgary, je manque de finances pour le voyage, et si vous pouviez me trouer une bonne famille qu'il-y-ait un échange, et avoir un boitier N i k o n codage D X D 7500 optique 12 - 24, 100 - 400 vous ne le regretterez pas. ( pour le matériel, une sacoche) p e r i c l e s 32410 Si vous acceptez réellement
That would be great if you could make it over to Alberta for the races.
@@FarmBoy-1950 J'aimerais venir, mais je n'ai pas de finances, et comme je fais de la photo en amateur, (N i k o n codage D X avoir un D 500 si je peux avoir le J p e g dessus, ainsi que les cartes mémoire avec lecteur qui va avec, que je pisse le brancher sur un a s s u s portable:avec 2 objectifs 14 -24 et un 100 - 400 avec la sacoche pour les porter. S'il n'est pas possible d'avoir un D 5OO, avoir un D 7500 et suivant s'il ne se fait plus. D'avance je vous en remercie Félicitations pour votre pays d'avoir eu une médaille à Paris ( jeux olympiques ). p e r i c l e s 32410
Wonderful! Well worth watching. Best regards from the UK.
Glad you enjoyed it!
What state are you in ?
We are actually in Alberta, Canada
@@FarmBoy-1950 wow!
Good old times.
Dad told me this! He was ridding with his brother, pushing a go devil on a John Deere A. They slid the go devil under a shock of wheat. The shock started rattling loud enough you could hear it over the A John Deere at an idle. Dad was born in 1923. Passed in 2018.
Will Mr.Reding and his family plan on having another harvest bee in 2024?
IN 1957 I DROVE A TEAM FOR MY DAD THRESHING FOR OATS. IN MINNESOTA. SUPER VIDEO AND GOOD MEMORIES,THANKS FOR TAKING US ALONG
I grew up on a small family dairy farm. We used tractors, but the techniques were like farming around the WW-2 era in the United States. Self-powered hay baler (and old New Holland baler with a Wisconsin engine), no self loaders for hay. Yes, we used milking machines, but they were applied manually. It was a good way to be a child, learning to be independent, working with your hands, working in nature.
Was there much grain lost during threshing ?
I am sure it depended upon who was running the threshing machine. If it was someone who knew how to set it correctly it wouldn't have been any worse than a combine that was set properly, and vice versa; if not set properly it would have thrown grain over like an improperly set combine. Hope this helps.
Thanks
Thank you Joey!! Sure brought back some memories!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
We used to thresh oats with threshing machines. My father in law taught me to use used motor oil for belt dressing. Use sparingly and let it soak in before giving it a load. It works great and is not hard on the belt like belt dressing. It's good for the belt. Former Amish man.
Thanks for sharing
Great video 👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
The physical work is pretty much gone today with all the modern machinery, but so is the companionship that used to exist in agricultural work.
Yes, took a lot more folks as well as horses to produce our grain back then.
Excellent video, thanks so much for sharing. My grandparents thrashed many years ago.
Thank you seems such a small thing. Pure enjoyment.
Great video and equally great still photos. I’ve always wanted to visit Alberta, see the Oilers play in Edmonton (Let’s go Oilers!) see the Calgary Stampede, get to know some ranchers there, and maybe see some Bighorn sheep. Thank you for sharing. Well done! 🍻
Thank you for posting this wonderful film. Regards from Scotland.
Where is this ranch?
The Rocking P Ranch is west of Nanton, Alberta Canada Steve.
Good brand Massey Harris.. convert to Massey Ferguson
The reason some used Longhorns was because they would eat the rough that other cows wouldn't eat.
What was it that they were working? Hay, straw, oats, barley, I have zero experience in farming
Watching from Wales , I’m 73 this year born farming and it’s great to see my grandads way of life ,only horses on the farm and I had the benefit of living this way
Thank you for the Welsh POV.
Hello good videos and channel😀😀
Thank you for the kind words.
When I was younger there was a steam engine just sitting in the field and I asked my buddy what is up with that. He said grandpa and the neighbors brought the feed to the engine not the engine to the feed
Impressive the whole story the thrasher to the steam engine I'm in awe
Yes, amazing what a job Robin did to refurbish both the threshing machine and the steam tractor.
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!
Do you ever bale the corn stalks for bedding? Common practice here.
What a very informative, and well put together video. Everyone involved needs to be congratulated and thanked for their time and effort in getting the machines in running order, and then putting on the demonstrations.
Difícil um trabalhando no pesado,,, e uma equipe de parasitas dos democratas tramando em como tirar mais ainda desses que derramam suor nas lavouras e outros trabalhos
aussie 1970s after i left schoool i probably did one last big sheep droves 2,500 head on a 17.5 horse the sheep go in every broken fence & railway line the pay was crap but it was ok till i went to the city got some history down young big homestead also tractor driving etc
Awesome
Thank you...
Excellent, fantastic. Thanks 😅
Very good video! I enjoyed seeing how people worked in the fields back then.
Yes, totally different world in the fields with actual horsepower compared to our present mechanized monsters.
Pan Bóg dał człowiekowi rozum żeby go używał,możesz używać Twój rozum ażeby pracować na ziemi z koñmi które ciągną twoje maszyny,dlaczego nie używasz Twego rozumu ażeby oracować używając traktor lub kombajn,miałbyś lżejszą pracę i więcej czasu dla Twoj Rodziny i Boga na modlitwę,nie rozumię.Na bardzo małej farmie miało by to sam's,ale na dużej więcej ciężkiej pracy,utrzymać stado koni tylko poto aby mieć zwierzęta pociągowe strasznie dużo pracy
horse suck
It is a good thing that not very many farmers think like you.😊
The way people are going to back to
Hi I am Barry McLaughlin from Manitoba and I have been looking for some stookloaders as I am going back in to farming with horses as I did when I farmed with my dad years ago, would you be able to point me in the right direction thankyou Barry
Hi Barry: I myself wouldn't be of much help although Robin and J. R. do have one older version they are not using right now. You should be able to find something much closer, though one would think, since they were built there.
fantastic
Thank you for the kind word...
Thanks for the video from a fellow cowboy on UA-cam @ MushE The Cowboy Cook
Thanks for the kind words Mush...
I'm 85 and experienced all of this as a kid. Didn't think of it so much as a youngster but it was valuable.
Yes, a different world back then. My father probably would have preferred that life to the more mechanized version of today.
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Awesome video. Thank you
Thanks for the kind words.
tis is how dit it in Europe in the 1960 till 1976
When I was a kid I asked my dad what those were. his dad had one in 29 I think he said grampa payed 200. for and worked it until 1936 we still have it sitting on the farm
Beautiful
thank you
We consummate underaceivers figured out how to live and live well..