The Wheat Farmer (1974)
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- Опубліковано 23 січ 2013
- This 16mm film shows, without narration, one season in the life of a wheat farmer in the wheat belt town of Corrigin, Western Australia. Accompanied only by music, we see aspects of farming which includes the ploughing, seeding, fertilizing and harvesting of a wheat crop. Also shown is the farming and shearing of sheep, as well as a glimpse of the farmer's
recreational time. This film was produced by WAVE (West Australian Visual Education) in 1974. - Наука та технологія
every time I want a trip down memory lane I watch the wheat farmer 1974. Our family farmed at Mukinbudin until 1973. You can take the boy out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of the boy.
Yes, I have a few more which I will be uploading. I am just redoing the ones already here and then will post up more. I just got new restoration software and learning to drive it. Glad you enjoy these.
Great piece of history. Im old enough to remember using bags and combines. And we have a Case 930 "Comfort King". also the 830.
Nice old tractors the case comfort kings
Mr. Epps;
One Way was the Kansas name. We farmed while dad worked at Shaffer Plow Company, "Best Built Plows In The Earth" was the motto. Our plow was a 9 foot swath, you could plow all day and piss across the final days work. Later on I begged my dad to build a frame to carry two of which one was pulled backwards, he refused, they are now referred to as tandem offset disc. Poverty has limited imagination.
Grew up on a farm like that in the Wimmera area of western Victoria. Brough back so many memories, right down to the Chamberlain tractors and the sheep. My dad could have well been that farmer. Thank you so much
So nice to see that old gear back when it was new
great memories of the farm just down the road from there, ten miles east of Ardith
Thanks for showing this...the farmer is my father, filmed on our farm. I'm also in the video but I'm wondering if the year might be more like 1972.
Hi Neil, thanks for your comment. I have sent an email to your youtube channel email. As to the year, the film was published in 1974, but would have taken more than a year to do, so it could easily be '72 or '73 as you suggest. Regards, Rob
Are u the kid
Nice to have a video of your farm like this.
Hi Neil, I know this comment is from a while ago, but I'm doing some research for a fictional work set in the 70s and this video is a gold mine. Please let me know if you'd be able to answer a few questions!
great stuff
I like the international 1800 ,short bonnet acco.my father had one of them in the 70s he used to cart rock out of the shoal haven river with,then hay in the late 70s and early 80s.good video.
北海道で農家やっています。それにしても、1974年当時のオーストラリアの小麦の栽培風景とは。当時の農業機械は、こんなんだったんだなって、ビックリしますね。
Cool was in my recommend videos in 2021… I used to wear those short shorts in the 70-80s
3:27 That looks like a bridle draught scarifier, they went in but took some pullin.
Nice work do you mind if I use a few of these first clips for a windmill documentary I'm doing for school - I'll be sure and give credit. Thanks!
Farmers grow our food and God bless them
Curious as to what the Aussies call that implement being used at 4:00. Western wheat belt of USA calls it a one-way because it turns a whole lot better to the left than it does to the right - you can safely only turn one way. Other parts of USA have never seen one or call it any number of things. At any rate they want to blame it for the Dust Bowl of the 30s instead of the only real decent reason for it. A decided lack of rain for some ten years or so. We were still using them to a large extent at the time frame of this video too, today most are using sweeps with a one year fallow for moisture build up primarily. I had a massey super 92 of 64 vintage which has some similarity to the combine used here. Confused because mine was bigger and more modern but this one has some real shiny paint on it - looks new. If I had to guess, I would put this one at latter 50s vintage - anyone know for sure?
Lee Barnes yes that would be a one way plow used before seeding and when the farmers cleared their land
Lee it is a Chamberlain Disc Plough, 18 I reckon, very common in the 70's & 80's, all but obsolete these days.
Here's a link with some pictures of a very similar : www.maryboroughmachinery.com.au/products.php?id=2558 cheers.
From that time when the sun was less dangerous and spring came when it was supposed to.
Fantastic footage! Is it possible to re-use/repurpose with credits or licensing? Who can get in contact with? Thanks
この動画のBGMは80年代の秋田県内の天気予報BGMにも使われてましたね。
Do you have any more of these vids besides the ones on your channel? These are great.
anybody recognise the shearer?Looks like Mr Anderson from Bruce Rock
What kind of tractor do you see at 9:55?
Australian tractor, Chamberlain
Lee Barnes,
Do you guys from wheat country ever call one ways "disc tillers". Back here South Carolina we've had a few tiny ones to match our tiny fields and tiny tractors. The largest I had was a six disc Athens. I thought it plowed good but they're famous for throwing so much dirt to the edge of the field that it began to look like a bowl.
Harold Epps
Gday Harold
well we call em stump jump ploughs or just straight up disc ploughs. that is an issue that sometimes happens but you can solve it by doing one or two laps around the edge of the paddock going the other way before you start the main ploughing. but getting back to the ploughs they were the absolute staple across every farm in aus and i doubt there is a farm even to this day with at least one on them. they were origionaly designed so that we could clear our land as aussie scrub and trees and the like have massive big woody taproots and normal ploughs either broke got caught up or just bounced around achieving less that tits on a fish.
charlie
From wheat farmer to weed farmer o how the times have changed
I'm wondering why your tractors were running duels and duel hydraulics but you didn't take advantage of it by using a device for pulling two implements, the name escapes me at the moment but it was a clear advantage back in the 70's when no one could afford the really big equipment nor was it actually available. On a side note, the neighbors told me I was crazed when I told them what I had learned in vo-ag college, minimum tillage, using the same tire track for row crops, burning crop residue to kill weed seed. So I'm still snickering, 50yrs later.
Even by 1974 standards, that was obsolete.
Sure looked like WAY older combines than in the 70s.. we have a 1460 international combine with a 24ft head and air-conditioned cab from the 70s! The combine in this video looked to be from the 50s.
Massey Ferguson produced that style of harvester until the late 70s. They were the stalwart of many wheat farms especially through the 60s and early 1970s. Internationl 1460's were introduced in the early 80s and were considered a big machine used by contractors or large farmers.
@@mark4990 actually the 1460 ih combine as well as the other axial flow combine were released in 1977 and 1978
Great, but the music !
I’m a celiac so ...
you did not need so many acres to survive in farming then. you need to plant at least 10000 acres to survive now it all big machinery now the first time you till the paddock is when you seed lots of herbicide to control weeds
Hate the music.
That's a crop?
Hee hee hee.
Maybe if you didn't pound the soil into dust you would get one.
.....and how much land do yo farm?
This is the process around the world - with some variations dependind on equipment.....
The Aussie style IH truck was cool!
Les Brown I would love to see your operation. I grew up working on a dairy farm in northern New York here in the states. I got one thing out of this experience, this was not for me! But looking back it taught me a bunch about being a man. I've worked with men that grew up as apartment dwellers and I feel bad for some - not all of them. no common sense....
Les Brown this is 1972 mate, zero till wasn't around in Australia in them days ......typical seppo, it's not always about how good you are
So, how good did you do in wheat ?
We had around 12 ton / hectare (12.000 kg / 10.000m2)
Les Brown Wow, lack of knowledge much? Because it is not a bumper crop where you live does not make it a bad crop for this arid region of Australia! I am also sure they farmed differently back then than they do today. Just enjoy without criticizing!
Australia?