My dad renovated an old farm to be made into a museum when I was younger and i saw all kinds of old farm equipment like this, Its absolutely incredible working with the equipment now and seeing just how similar and ingenuitive the farmers were back then.
The item at 11:50 is an old binder. It would cut wheat, hay, barley etc., and bind it together to be collected by pitchfork, a team of horses pulling a wagon and then the wheat was run through a thresher. The roll of wire at the end that's in the spreader belongs to an old planter and was used back in the day when corn was planted so you could run anyway in the field without hitting the stocks. This method of planting was called checkering. I grew up on the farm before my military career and love farming, and antique farm equipment. You pretty much figured out the rest of those pieces laying out there.
You can post videos like this any time! Sometimes I come across abandoned farm machinery during trail rides through the woods and I'm fascinated by it. You're right - we shouldn't let that kind of history just disappear on us.
That last piece was called a wheat binder. It would cut the wheat, with a canvas conveyor tie it into small bundles, which were then left behind to be stacked into shocks. That round can on the back is where the twine was stored.
You got it, we've got two back out in the woods behind the barn, have pictures of my granddad and uncles using it, I can still remember the piles of shocks in the fields, can remember only one end was tied on each bundle, long time ago :0)
My grandfather was a blacksmith and when I think about all the old horse-drawn hay rakes that we cut up and made things out of them it makes me sad. The quality of the steel was so much better then. Spring steel from the old tines was great to make fireplace pokers, knives etc. I'm like you Beau in that I hope they are preserved! Great video!
Love this video! As a former farmer I love looking at old equipment. That first piece of equipment you asked about was a dump rake with the teeth missing. From before they had balers they would drag the hay into piles with that and dump it. The second thing you asked about looked a grain binder. It would have cut the wheat, fed it into the binding mechanism and bound it with twine, which then would have been gathered on a wagon and hauled to a thresher.
Nathaniel Cusack extremely relaxing. was a month there I really needed something then I found Chigg.love his underwater videos when I just really need to relax.
I love it!! That's the stuff I used to do as a kid, go exploring old fence rows checking out old implements. It's a shame all that history is rapidly disappearing. That last machine you looked at was a grain binder. You say on the seat and put your feet on the plate with the star, and worked the levers controlling the cut and other operations. It would tie the grain into shocks and drop it out. I operated one like that in good condition about 6 years ago. It's a fun piece of equipment to operate when you don't need to make your living with it.
Videos like this are beautiful. When you said that it's really great to think about the people who used them and their lifestyle etc, when it comes to machines like this, I share the same interest. I looooove old technology and tools. Without stuff like this we wouldn't have the stuff we have now.
My aunt lives on an old farmstead here in Tennessee. It's been in my uncle's family since the early 1900's. They have a two story grist mill and old barn with all of this old machinery around it. The grist mill was built in the late 1800's and still has all of the belts and pulleys in working order inside, it would probably work if it had the wheel and water run to it. I'm itching to do some detecting on their land with my AT Pro.
At 13:03-04 by the foot rest was a support for a seat. The mechanism was apparently controlled from there. I'll have to do some searching but I have some pictures of what I think was a manure spreader in South Dakota. I also have a picture of my dad and his boss spreading manure with a horse drawn spreader. That was in Ferndale Calif. about 1953/54.
I enjoy your metal detecting videos but I also really enjoy your explorations of old houses, barns and yeah farm equipment too. I love history of any kind!
i used some of this equipment, the planter was for wheat, oats, barley, the tall grassy crop. The spreaders are 30's-40's-50's. I saw a baler just like the one I used. My first experience farming was 1957, my Uncle in Belleville Michigan needed me because at F.M.C. a set of racking fell on him injuring him and had a few years previous had bought this farm. My first tractor (to drive) was a 1936 Farmall, crank start magneto powered 4 cylinder, and the pickup I used was a 1949 Ford. With the pickup hooked to a flatbed 4 wheel trailer I would (by myself) engage the "creeper" gear, get out of the drivers seat after snapping up the steering wheel with a dog chain and pick 8 rows of corn. When I got to the end of the row I drove the rig to the mill just east on Rawsonville road. Great memories of 3 years after starting "my summers" as a kid.
I really enjoyed this video! I live in a small town in Missouri and I often go for walks just like you were doing on this video! The only thing I did not know what it was was the last item with the flat table! What is sad, is the fact that the farmers in by gone days did not store their equipment out of the weather. Thanks for the video!
Pretty interesting that a lot of old industrial and farming equipment is made in western New York. I need to go explore more around here and see what I can find.
That piece of farm equipment at 1:45 is a manure spreader! The item to the right side of the wagon axles at 0:22 looks like a spring harold, not sure if I spelled that right. This was used to smooth our clumps of soil and loosen up the ground for planting. The item at 3:10 is a hay side rake. That item at 4:04 looks like a hay baler. I sure hauled my share of bales while working on the farm. My two brothers and I each made $0.02 per bale of hay that we picked up from the field, loaded onto a truck, hauled and stacked in the barn or other building. Many times we started at daybreak around 5 am and we worked till midnight or later depending on the weather. Nothing worse than not being able to get the hay off the field due to rain. LOL You know how those pop up thunderstorms are; getting caught out on a hay field was never fun! Thanks for sharing and best of luck in 2017! ;-)
Beau, the implement with the large narrow steel wheels is a horse or mule drawn hay rake. the tines are missing on the one you found. The windrow was created by driving across the field dragging the hay along with you, when you reached the windrow area, you pushed a foot pedal and raised the tines dumping what hay you had gathered. Then you repeated the process by moving to the side and raking another pass and dumping it beside the first. I have one of these in working order which I occasionally use. It was a much slower process than the newer rakes which used rotating ground driven rails with tines. The implement with the sycle bar cutter is an early combine. basically a ground driven self contained, self feeding thresher. The ole threshers were stationary and the farmer brought the grain to the thresher where as the newer combines were able to do it all in one pass down the field! It would have had a "curtain" like a belt which was the width of the bed behind the cutter, and also the width of those wide wire assemblies which rotated and moved the curtain bearing the grain stalks into the machine where the threshing took place separating the grain from the stalks and chaff. Grain went into a bin, or some down a chute where a sack boy directed it into a sack which was filled, tied, and dropped off the side to be picked up by a wagon. The Chaff and stalks fell loosely out the back onto the ground. That is an interesting place, I wish I had that old equipment on my farm! Very Interesting!
I'm just like you, I get very excited when I find stuff like that while wandering around. As you said, I hope that someone will see this video and will want to rescue some of those. Very cool!
Very interesting video. I love Old Farm Equipment. About 20 years ago one of my art classes went on a field trip to an old farm in the middle of Glendale Arizona. Mr. McGill was the last holdout on his piece of land. It was surrounded by homes and apartment buildings. He had a ton of old farm equipment and I took many pictures. All of us in the painting class set up our easels and painted away. Some very interesting paintings came out of that field trip.
I love this this video. When I was a kid , my grandfather was caretaker of this farm , and I used to play in things like this , not knowing what they were . But as a kid , they were , beast from the past , that I climbed and made my forts out of. Thanks for the video and memories .
That farm tool you found was a hay rake! I know this because when I was a kid I lived on a farm in Bethel, Ohio. We owned one. One time we hooked it up to our tractor stead of our horse and my father rode on the seat. He didn't have a seat belt and I drove the tractor. When he would rake up enough hay he would pull the handle and leave a pile of hay, which we would go back and throw on our hay wagon! Anyway I was going along just having a great time when I looked back and saw my father had fallen off the seat and I had raked his butt up in the forks. He beat the hell out of me for not paying attention to him until I had drug him about half way across the field! I got even though! When I got back on the tractor after my beating I hit a ditch in the field, that was used to drain the water out of the field, at about 20 miles a hour! He fell of again and I jumped off the tractor with it still running and ran home! My mother called the neighbor who got my dad out from under the rake. When he got out of the hospital he was so sore he couldn't do anything but lay in bed and groan. I was never aloud to drive the tractor again! Thank God! I hated driving that damn thing anyway.
Would love to take a week and devote it to Mr. Beau. Livin' the dream! Edit: Hey Beau, if you are ever in the Tulsa, Claremore area, you have a room at my house!
Nice! I love finding old stuff like that. I actually got shot at recently exploring a spot with a bunch of cool old stuff. Put an end to that exploration real quick.
The one with the seat is a hay rake ...Mule draw. The hay rolls straight under it and when full the rider would push a pedal and the tines would come up and empty and return back down to collect more hay. Loved the old equipment!
That was awesome!!!! I love old farm equipment like that. Would love to have some of those wheels. They would look great in a flower bed. Great video, as always
9:00 the house I grew up in had one of those in the front yard, it was found on the property when they built the house. We where always told it was a hay spreader. The one in the video is not complete.
At 14:07t the roll of wire was for a check planter. It spaced the plants so they could be cultivated from more then one direction to keep weeds down.The knots on the wire tripped planter so the spacing was even.
Nice video Chigg, I grew up on a a cattle and wheat ranch and there was tons of this old stuff left abandoned in fields and back pastures. The guy that my dad managed the ranch for was too cheap to buy new equipment and was always having my dad scavenge parts from this old junk. You video really brought back good childhood memories of playing on the old farm equipment.
That long piece of equipment with the seat your were looking at was a dump rake. The tines are missing, but they were used before the side rake like you also saw. You would pull it along, lift a lever and dump piles of hay before baling as they used to put loose hay in the mow. That wagon running gear looks like "cut offs" that they cut down the wooden spokes and screwed a metal tire rim onto the old hub.
the last thing you looked at is called a binder,used one with my grandpa.you cut wheat with it and hold the pedal down until you have 6 bundle , then release and leave in field. come back later and pile 5 up against one another and use the 6th as a cap,to shed rain. once dried for a few days ,use a pitch fork to load on a wagon. it was horse drawn ,and later modified to use with tractor. hope this helps ;-)
Good video Aquachigger. thats called a springtooth narrow' those wooden spoked wheels were cut down from high wagon wheels and had car rims put on. Hay baler from early '50's maybe and has a Wisconsin v4 engine. the machine with the seat is an older hay rake that dumps the hay in piles. the tines are missing. The wheat cutter is called a binder. I've ran and fixed those.The crop gets cut and there are reels turning on the front that lay the crop onto a canvass stretched between two rollers and are conveyered up to the knotter that tied the grain into a bundle. The bundles (sheaves) fell onto a cradle and when you let that foot pedal up the cradle released several sheaves into a pile and then someone came along and stood them up into stooks to dry. Watch the Amish they still do this with oats.
Disposable Channel This particular grain drill was manufactured here in East Rochester from 1901 until 1961. They were horse drawn until the mid 30s, and then adapted for tractors.
Disposable Channel They were Ontario Drill Works until 1961 when they were purchased by The Ontario Corporation and moved to Medina, NY. I live in the area and it's part of local history.
Oh, I love how the trees have grown through the equipment! I'de try to photograph the whole FOREST!!! lol. Beautiful! Thank you for sharing that with us! Epic!
Cool. We had a spot with Old Farm equipment we hung out at back in the seventies. The old swamp too. All developed now. The machines were left in a circle. Old barn. Upstate NY.
The first piece is a spring tooth harrow, as opposed to a spike harrow. They predated disc harrows and were used for breaking clods and leveling the soil after the plow, but they didn't do the greatest job. The second piece is an old wooden wheeled farm wagon, probably from the 1910's, which someone retrofitted onto a set of early automotive rims. I have a friend who did that with a wagon here in Ky. You scribe a line around the spokes and cut them off, and then wedge them into the rim. Its a way to get a little more use out of them after the felloes rot, if you don't have a wheelwright around. The third piece is a steel wheeled manure spreader. You are correct that they are ground driven. It looks like it might be a New Idea 10A. The baler looks early fifties, and looks very much like one a friend has. You may have stumbled on a cache of Amish equipment there, that motor may be a retrofit for baling with horses. The piece after the baler is a grain drill, for seeding wheat, barley or rye. It isn't a disc harrow, it is for cutting a slice in the ground that the grain then drops into. It probably would not drop corn, as grains of corn would be too big, and it was grown differently in that era. There was a separate planter for corn. There is video on youtube of people planting with these. I'll see if I can link it for you. After the grain drill was another side delivery rake. After that is what is left of a dump rake. The side delivery rake made a windrow for baling. The dump rake predated it, and was used to make piles of hay to put in the barn or in a haystack loose. The little wagon is actually the back half of an early pickup. That second manure spreader actually has another wagon in the bed. It might be a grain wagon, or it might have been a cart for a stationary engine. Those early hit and miss engines were heavy, and big enough to run a tractor, but they hadn't figured that part out yet. They were often mounted on a wagon body so the horses could move them from job to job, for running sawmills or threshing machines, or stationary balers, or what have you. Behind the manure spreader is a wheat binder. I don't know if that one ties the bundles or not, but it would have had a canvas conveyor belt which is long rotted away. The grain landed on that conveyor belt, collect there until there was enough grain to trip a latch, which allowed it to then go up over the apparatus on the side, and drop in a windrow as a bundle ready for shocking. It looks like it does tie the bundles.
6:15 we always called it a planter. 13:00 it's a combine's grandfather. 14:04 the spikes are just for traction...so the wheel will spin, instead of slide.
Raised in a children's home with a large farm. I shoveled tons of mature from the barn to the pile and then to the spreader. One thing to watch out for shoveling out the troughs behind the cows being milked, is the cows tail going up. You know what's coming! Chig, thanks for making this video. Brings lot of fond memories. Sad, that farm land is a big subdivision now.
From SmokStak.com The bailer at 04:00 is, according to FWurth: The old baler is an New Holland 77, one of the best in it's day. Around 1950 made. (search UA-cam for videos of this running) The binder at 11:45, according to Kothe: grain binder cuts the grain and elevated it up and then makes it into a bundle and ties a string around it and pushes it out the side , also had a reel to help lay the grain on the table. From me: The grain shock from the binder would be gathered on a wagon and taken to a threshing machine that was powered by either a steam traction engine or a tractor. They would throw the bundle in, string and all and thresher would separate the grain from the stalks. All this is now done in a single pass by modern combines.(which combined all the other machines that use to do this work.)
8:50 its another rake :D there would be many thin and curved metal branches attached to it. These originally were dragged by horses but usually they were later modified for tractors :)
we moved from Arkansas in 1950 or 51 and the farm my dad worked on and we share cropped on was still using horses and wagons they had a couple of tractors too, that roll of wire in the spreader was a roll of corn planter wire the knots in it tripped the gear that dropped the seeds it was strung length wise down the field the planter was hooked to it on the side to a pulley and gear set come to the end of the field turn the planter around re hook it to the other side had to flip the wire over to the other side of the stakes for the return trip. the fields was not all that long back then it was pulled by one horse that was a while back for sure..
Awesome! The old farm implements and machinery is a bygone time. REALLY nice to you to take the time for the tour of them. Many people would never experience seeing things like this may appreciate the hard working farmer more. There are a few things like this on a pal's property that i know. He has them all in one field and we joke that it is his scrap gold mine because once in a while he tows them in to the scrap yard. Funny, the field that they are in should be used for crops. He'd probably make more money using that area for corn or soy beans. Thanks for the fun video!
She's got wheeels, wheels of steel. interesting video as always. I'm really happy I found your channel some time ago. Exciting, educational and relaxing all at the same time.
That one with the single rubber tire is a grain binder! A canvas belt behind the cutter bar carried the grain to be lifted and bound into sheafs, dropped back onto the ground for stacking or pick up!
The item you were looking at at 8.50 is a horse drawn hay rake with the tines removed. You attached a horse to either end and took the hay to a stationary bailer. I have one of the John Deere stationary bailers.
Hey Chig, that machine with the sickle bar and the "table" is an old time wheat binder. The long thin one with the big wheels is what's left of an old hay rake. There was a spot like that in the woods near my parents house in Illinois where some old farmer had an equipment dump. I always wished I could drag some of them out.
Most of the old horse drawn equipment was converted to be pulled by a tractor, they mainly changed the tongue. Horses needed 12 ft tongues. Those were removed and a shorter 4-6 ft tongue were installed. You have a draft horse persons dream right there.
The drill is for small grain. The piece with the sickle bar is a binder for binding shocks. The knotted wire role you found was for a trip planter. You would string it out across the field where you wanted a row and it fed into the planter. Every time you got to a knot it would trip the planter and drop a seed. Lots of work setting up the wire and not to mention running a team in from of it.
Also the piece with the large wheels and the long span between them is called a dump rake. It seemed to be missing the tines but you would ride on it behind a horse and gather hay, when you got to your wind row you trip the tines and it would dump the hay in a nice pile.
The big spool of wire at the end is Corn Planter check wire, it was used to insure the planter would drop hills of corn at uniform spacing. The knots in the wire would trigger the release to drop the kernels of corn. If a farmer was good at checking his field he could cultivate in both directions because all the hills of corn would be the same distance apart no matter which direction you drove.
It's a wheat binder. The sickle cut the wheat, and there was a canvas belt that moved the wheat to the side of the machine where the farmer sat, then it automatically tied the wheat into bundles to be picked up later in a wagon and hauled to a thresh machine that was powered by a steam traction engine or, in later years, a tractor. The binder was usually pushed through the field by horses, which were behind the header so they would't stomp the wheat down.
That last piece is a grain binder. you were right you rest your foot on that spot and there is a peddle that you trip once there is enough grain in the bundle. then the machine automatically ties the bundle together. once there are enough bundles on the machine it drops them on the ground. after that the crew goes through and picks them up and takes them to the thresher. I belong to my local antique tractor club and we bind and thresh grain every year for our tractor show.
That old manure spreader, is a new idea, i know because of the double beater bars to even out the flow of manure. That old drill is definitely 30s or 20s. 8:58 that is a frame of an old dump rake, they would have massive fingers that curl from behind that old seat and scrap the ground gathering up the hay or straw, and then you would dump it in a pile and lower it again. 12:00 that’s an old binder, they cut the crop and the crop is carried along the plat form amd into the knotters and it is dropped.
The wooden spoked wheel, axle, and bunk is probably a Studebaker farm wagon circa 1905. It was converted later to take rubber car tires and rims, a lot of farmers did that, here in Montana, to convert a wooden wagon to pull behind a tractor.
That sickle with the table top is a 10' Deere PTO grain bender. Cool place you found. Here in South Dakota we have lots of old farms with all kinds of old equipment. One more thing. I'm pretty sure the piece the large spoked wheels is a rake of another kind. It's tines a bunch of them about five inches apart had about the same circumference as the wheels. are raised and lowered and used to rake a field and expose rock to be gathered, or to gather hay into piles. I have seen a few before, but never being used.
My dad renovated an old farm to be made into a museum when I was younger and i saw all kinds of old farm equipment like this, Its absolutely incredible working with the equipment now and seeing just how similar and ingenuitive the farmers were back then.
The item at 11:50 is an old binder. It would cut wheat, hay, barley etc., and bind it together to be collected by pitchfork, a team of horses pulling a wagon and then the wheat was run through a thresher. The roll of wire at the end that's in the spreader belongs to an old planter and was used back in the day when corn was planted so you could run anyway in the field without hitting the stocks. This method of planting was called checkering. I grew up on the farm before my military career and love farming, and antique farm equipment. You pretty much figured out the rest of those pieces laying out there.
An old hay baler?? I would've been in heaven around all that old farm equipment!!! Thanks for taking us along, once again...makes me miss the farm.
You can post videos like this any time! Sometimes I come across abandoned farm machinery during trail rides through the woods and I'm fascinated by it. You're right - we shouldn't let that kind of history just disappear on us.
That last piece was called a wheat binder. It would cut the wheat, with a canvas conveyor tie it into small bundles, which were then left behind to be stacked into shocks. That round can on the back is where the twine was stored.
You got it, we've got two back out in the woods behind the barn, have pictures of my granddad and uncles using it, I can still remember the piles of shocks in the fields, can remember only one end was tied on each bundle, long time ago :0)
My grandfather was a blacksmith and when I think about all the old horse-drawn hay rakes that we cut up and made things out of them it makes me sad. The quality of the steel was so much better then. Spring steel from the old tines was great to make fireplace pokers, knives etc. I'm like you Beau in that I hope they are preserved! Great video!
Love this video! As a former farmer I love looking at old equipment. That first piece of equipment you asked about was a dump rake with the teeth missing. From before they had balers they would drag the hay into piles with that and dump it. The second thing you asked about looked a grain binder. It would have cut the wheat, fed it into the binding mechanism and bound it with twine, which then would have been gathered on a wagon and hauled to a thresher.
Anyone else find this kinda relaxing to watch?
Nathaniel Cusack extremely relaxing. was a month there I really needed something then I found Chigg.love his underwater videos when I just really need to relax.
Nathaniel Cusack No not relaxing made me want to go snooping around the woods! But it's dark out now, so what I got a head lamp ,Im going!
Most always.
I love it!! That's the stuff I used to do as a kid, go exploring old fence rows checking out old implements. It's a shame all that history is rapidly disappearing. That last machine you looked at was a grain binder. You say on the seat and put your feet on the plate with the star, and worked the levers controlling the cut and other operations. It would tie the grain into shocks and drop it out. I operated one like that in good condition about 6 years ago. It's a fun piece of equipment to operate when you don't need to make your living with it.
There is a bunch of those manure spreaders around Georgia. We call them politicians.
John Wilson lol
Same here in Australia! lol
That's odd, here in Connecticut, we call them mechanical professors :-)
I REALLY want to visit the Netherlands. Great history. Beauty everywhere.
Videos like this are beautiful. When you said that it's really great to think about the people who used them and their lifestyle etc, when it comes to machines like this, I share the same interest. I looooove old technology and tools. Without stuff like this we wouldn't have the stuff we have now.
My aunt lives on an old farmstead here in Tennessee. It's been in my uncle's family since the early 1900's. They have a two story grist mill and old barn with all of this old machinery around it. The grist mill was built in the late 1800's and still has all of the belts and pulleys in working order inside, it would probably work if it had the wheel and water run to it. I'm itching to do some detecting on their land with my AT Pro.
At 13:03-04 by the foot rest was a support for a seat. The mechanism was apparently controlled from there. I'll have to do some searching but I have some pictures of what I think was a manure spreader in South Dakota. I also have a picture of my dad and his boss spreading manure with a horse drawn spreader. That was in Ferndale Calif. about 1953/54.
very cool video! I love the old farm machinery that was the top of the line stuff in the 30's and 40's . great video!
I enjoy your metal detecting videos but I also really enjoy your explorations of old houses, barns and yeah farm equipment too. I love history of any kind!
i used some of this equipment, the planter was for wheat, oats, barley, the tall grassy crop. The spreaders are 30's-40's-50's. I saw a baler just like the one I used. My first experience farming was 1957, my Uncle in Belleville Michigan needed me because at F.M.C. a set of racking fell on him injuring him and had a few years previous had bought this farm. My first tractor (to drive) was a 1936 Farmall, crank start magneto powered 4 cylinder, and the pickup I used was a 1949 Ford. With the pickup hooked to a flatbed 4 wheel trailer I would (by myself) engage the "creeper" gear, get out of the drivers seat after snapping up the steering wheel with a dog chain and pick 8 rows of corn. When I got to the end of the row I drove the rig to the mill just east on Rawsonville road. Great memories of 3 years after starting "my summers" as a kid.
I really enjoyed this video! I live in a small town in Missouri and I often go for walks just like you were doing on this video! The only thing I did not know what it was was the last item with the flat table! What is sad, is the fact that the farmers in by gone days did not store their equipment out of the weather. Thanks for the video!
Pretty interesting that a lot of old industrial and farming equipment is made in western New York. I need to go explore more around here and see what I can find.
That piece of farm equipment at 1:45 is a manure spreader! The item to the right side of the wagon axles at 0:22 looks like a spring harold, not sure if I spelled that right. This was used to smooth our clumps of soil and loosen up the ground for planting. The item at 3:10 is a hay side rake. That item at 4:04 looks like a hay baler. I sure hauled my share of bales while working on the farm. My two brothers and I each made $0.02 per bale of hay that we picked up from the field, loaded onto a truck, hauled and stacked in the barn or other building. Many times we started at daybreak around 5 am and we worked till midnight or later depending on the weather. Nothing worse than not being able to get the hay off the field due to rain. LOL You know how those pop up thunderstorms are; getting caught out on a hay field was never fun! Thanks for sharing and best of luck in 2017! ;-)
Beau, the implement with the large narrow steel wheels is a horse or mule drawn hay rake. the tines are missing on the one you found. The windrow was created by driving across the field dragging the hay along with you, when you reached the windrow area, you pushed a foot pedal and raised the tines dumping what hay you had gathered. Then you repeated the process by moving to the side and raking another pass and dumping it beside the first. I have one of these in working order which I occasionally use. It was a much slower process than the newer rakes which used rotating ground driven rails with tines. The implement with the sycle bar cutter is an early combine. basically a ground driven self contained, self feeding thresher. The ole threshers were stationary and the farmer brought the grain to the thresher where as the newer combines were able to do it all in one pass down the field! It would have had a "curtain" like a belt which was the width of the bed behind the cutter, and also the width of those wide wire assemblies which rotated and moved the curtain bearing the grain stalks into the machine where the threshing took place separating the grain from the stalks and chaff. Grain went into a bin, or some down a chute where a sack boy directed it into a sack which was filled, tied, and dropped off the side to be picked up by a wagon. The Chaff and stalks fell loosely out the back onto the ground. That is an interesting place, I wish I had that old equipment on my farm! Very Interesting!
I'm just like you, I get very excited when I find stuff like that while wandering around. As you said, I hope that someone will see this video and will want to rescue some of those. Very cool!
Great stuff Beau.
Great history lesson ty ty ty
Such sweet old machines. Sad that they're just going to rust...
Very interesting video. I love Old Farm Equipment. About 20 years ago one of my art classes went on a field trip to an old farm in the middle of Glendale Arizona. Mr. McGill was the last holdout on his piece of land. It was surrounded by homes and apartment buildings. He had a ton of old farm equipment and I took many pictures. All of us in the painting class set up our easels and painted away. Some very interesting paintings came out of that field trip.
seeing that old harrow just rotting away was...... harrowing
I love this this video. When I was a kid , my grandfather was caretaker of this farm , and I used to play in things like this , not knowing what they were . But as a kid , they were , beast from the past , that I climbed and made my forts out of. Thanks for the video and memories .
That farm tool you found was a hay rake! I know this because when I was a kid I lived on a farm in Bethel, Ohio. We owned one. One time we hooked it up to our tractor stead of our horse and my father rode on the seat. He didn't have a seat belt and I drove the tractor. When he would rake up enough hay he would pull the handle and leave a pile of hay, which we would go back and throw on our hay wagon! Anyway I was going along just having a great time when I looked back and saw my father had fallen off the seat and I had raked his butt up in the forks. He beat the hell out of me for not paying attention to him until I had drug him about half way across the field! I got even though! When I got back on the tractor after my beating I hit a ditch in the field, that was used to drain the water out of the field, at about 20 miles a hour! He fell of again and I jumped off the tractor with it still running and ran home! My mother called the neighbor who got my dad out from under the rake. When he got out of the hospital he was so sore he couldn't do anything but lay in bed and groan. I was never aloud to drive the tractor again! Thank God! I hated driving that damn thing anyway.
I very much enjoy dinking around and looking at old equipment, boats, and aircraft. Super cool video.
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The machine at around 9:00 was a hay dump rake , the small trailer afterwards was an old military surplus right down to the tires
Also known as a buck rake and the thing at 12 would be for cutting hay or a grain crop and bundling it into sheefs.
Good to see other uses for the military tyres.
Nice! I love finding old stuff like that. I actually got shot at recently exploring a spot with a bunch of cool old stuff. Put an end to that exploration real quick.
The one with the seat is a hay rake ...Mule draw. The hay rolls straight under it and when full the rider would push a pedal and the tines would come up and empty and return back down to collect more hay. Loved the old equipment!
I love the tree growing through the hay rake! Cool!
That was awesome!!!! I love old farm equipment like that. Would love to have some of those wheels. They would look great in a flower bed. Great video, as always
9:00 the house I grew up in had one of those in the front yard, it was found on the property when they built the house. We where always told it was a hay spreader. The one in the video is not complete.
love seeing old stuff like this..i find it very fascinating to see how things where done "back in the day" so to speak
At 14:07t the roll of wire was for a check planter. It spaced the plants so they could be cultivated from more then one direction to keep weeds down.The knots on the wire tripped planter so the spacing was even.
Enjoy all your videos, thank you.
The equipment at 15:00 was a binder. It cut, and tied corn or sorghum into small bundles. the round box on the back held a bale of binder twine.
That old abandoned farm is more like an antique farm equipment museum. Very cool informative video.
Great video. I really enjoy the history behind old machinery. Thanks so much for the tour...really enjoyed it!
Nice video Chigg, I grew up on a a cattle and wheat ranch and there was tons of this old stuff left abandoned in fields and back pastures. The guy that my dad managed the ranch for was too cheap to buy new equipment and was always having my dad scavenge parts from this old junk. You video really brought back good childhood memories of playing on the old farm equipment.
Fantastic. I love old machinery like that.
At 12:00 it is a old binder for collecting grain for the threshing machine
LOVE this video, I could walk with you all day and check out this old farm equipment out! Love it! Do some more!😊
So glad I found this channel, learn something new every episode. Voice and video is always relaxing. By far my favourite channel
I really liked this video. I like any thing old. Farm equipment included.
That long piece of equipment with the seat your were looking at was a dump rake. The tines are missing, but they were used before the side rake like you also saw. You would pull it along, lift a lever and dump piles of hay before baling as they used to put loose hay in the mow. That wagon running gear looks like "cut offs" that they cut down the wooden spokes and screwed a metal tire rim onto the old hub.
the last thing you looked at is called a binder,used one with my grandpa.you cut wheat with it and hold the pedal down until you have 6 bundle , then release and leave in field. come back later and pile 5 up against one another and use the 6th as a cap,to shed rain. once dried for a few days ,use a pitch fork to load on a wagon. it was horse drawn ,and later modified to use with tractor.
hope this helps ;-)
That is a dump rake at 8:40. So much scrap metal! Wow! Those axles are still big money! ;-)
Good video Aquachigger. thats called a springtooth narrow' those wooden spoked wheels were cut down from high wagon wheels and had car rims put on. Hay baler from early '50's maybe and has a Wisconsin v4 engine. the machine with the seat is an older hay rake that dumps the hay in piles. the tines are missing. The wheat cutter is called a binder. I've ran and fixed those.The crop gets cut and there are reels turning on the front that lay the crop onto a canvass stretched between two rollers and are conveyered up to the knotter that tied the grain into a bundle. The bundles (sheaves) fell onto a cradle and when you let that foot pedal up the cradle released several sheaves into a pile and then someone came along and stood them up into stooks to dry. Watch the Amish they still do this with oats.
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Nice Video.
Love 'em all!
fantastic really appreciate that video and the information great work keep it up
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Improved Double Force Feed Drill
Patent March 4, 1902
Made no later than the late 20's
Disposable Channel This particular grain drill was manufactured here in East Rochester from 1901 until 1961. They were horse drawn until the mid 30s, and then adapted for tractors.
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Ontario Drill Company was bought by McConnell Manufacturing Company in the 1920's from what I gather.
Disposable Channel They were Ontario Drill Works until 1961 when they were purchased by The Ontario Corporation and moved to Medina, NY. I live in the area and it's part of local history.
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Pala Luka Not sure what you are questioning.
Oh, I love how the trees have grown through the equipment! I'de try to photograph the whole FOREST!!! lol. Beautiful! Thank you for sharing that with us! Epic!
Love old farm equipment great video , thanks for the video
Thank you, I love old farm equipment.
Cool. We had a spot with Old Farm equipment we hung out at back in the seventies. The old swamp too. All developed now. The machines were left in a circle. Old barn. Upstate NY.
Yes, this is a standalone video! Thanks for taking the time.
The first piece is a spring tooth harrow, as opposed to a spike harrow. They predated disc harrows and were used for breaking clods and leveling the soil after the plow, but they didn't do the greatest job.
The second piece is an old wooden wheeled farm wagon, probably from the 1910's, which someone retrofitted onto a set of early automotive rims. I have a friend who did that with a wagon here in Ky. You scribe a line around the spokes and cut them off, and then wedge them into the rim. Its a way to get a little more use out of them after the felloes rot, if you don't have a wheelwright around.
The third piece is a steel wheeled manure spreader. You are correct that they are ground driven. It looks like it might be a New Idea 10A.
The baler looks early fifties, and looks very much like one a friend has. You may have stumbled on a cache of Amish equipment there, that motor may be a retrofit for baling with horses.
The piece after the baler is a grain drill, for seeding wheat, barley or rye. It isn't a disc harrow, it is for cutting a slice in the ground that the grain then drops into. It probably would not drop corn, as grains of corn would be too big, and it was grown differently in that era. There was a separate planter for corn. There is video on youtube of people planting with these. I'll see if I can link it for you.
After the grain drill was another side delivery rake. After that is what is left of a dump rake. The side delivery rake made a windrow for baling. The dump rake predated it, and was used to make piles of hay to put in the barn or in a haystack loose.
The little wagon is actually the back half of an early pickup. That second manure spreader actually has another wagon in the bed. It might be a grain wagon, or it might have been a cart for a stationary engine. Those early hit and miss engines were heavy, and big enough to run a tractor, but they hadn't figured that part out yet. They were often mounted on a wagon body so the horses could move them from job to job, for running sawmills or threshing machines, or stationary balers, or what have you.
Behind the manure spreader is a wheat binder. I don't know if that one ties the bundles or not, but it would have had a canvas conveyor belt which is long rotted away. The grain landed on that conveyor belt, collect there until there was enough grain to trip a latch, which allowed it to then go up over the apparatus on the side, and drop in a windrow as a bundle ready for shocking. It looks like it does tie the bundles.
Grain or corn bine 13:26 for make the bundles to put into the shocks.
Your videos are always awesome. You should have your own TV show! Let's call it Aquachigger Adventures 😆 Love your videos!
I love old farming stuff too. thanks for that. Wendy nz 🇳🇿
6:15 we always called it a planter.
13:00 it's a combine's grandfather.
14:04 the spikes are just for traction...so the wheel will spin, instead of slide.
donHooligan there's a difference between a planter and a grain drill.
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Raised in a children's home with a large farm. I shoveled tons of mature from the barn to the pile and then to the spreader. One thing to watch out for shoveling out the troughs behind the cows being milked, is the cows tail going up. You know what's coming! Chig, thanks for making this video. Brings lot of fond memories. Sad, that farm land is a big subdivision now.
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The bailer at 04:00 is, according to FWurth: The old baler is an New Holland 77, one of the best in it's day. Around 1950 made. (search UA-cam for videos of this running)
The binder at 11:45, according to Kothe: grain binder cuts the grain and elevated it up and then makes it into a bundle and ties a string around it and pushes it out the side , also had a reel to help lay the grain on the table.
From me: The grain shock from the binder would be gathered on a wagon and taken to a threshing machine that was powered by either a steam traction engine or a tractor. They would throw the bundle in, string and all and thresher would separate the grain from the stalks. All this is now done in a single pass by modern combines.(which combined all the other machines that use to do this work.)
Chig, I really appreciate and enjoy your explorations. I work all night as a writer and artist in North Texas.
8:50 its another rake :D there would be many thin and curved metal branches attached to it. These originally were dragged by horses but usually they were later modified for tractors :)
we moved from Arkansas in 1950 or 51 and the farm my dad worked on and we share cropped on was still using horses and wagons they had a couple of tractors too, that roll of wire in the spreader was a roll of corn planter wire the knots in it tripped the gear that dropped the seeds it was strung length wise down the field the planter was hooked to it on the side to a pulley and gear set come to the end of the field turn the planter around re hook it to the other side had to flip the wire over to the other side of the stakes for the return trip. the fields was not all that long back then it was pulled by one horse that was a while back for sure..
Awesome! The old farm implements and machinery is a bygone time. REALLY nice to you to take the time for the tour of them. Many people would never experience seeing things like this may appreciate the hard working farmer more. There are a few things like this on a pal's property that i know. He has them all in one field and we joke that it is his scrap gold mine because once in a while he tows them in to the scrap yard. Funny, the field that they are in should be used for crops. He'd probably make more money using that area for corn or soy beans. Thanks for the fun video!
great clip ,i like looking at that old stuff to
I love old farm equipment! love this!
She's got wheeels, wheels of steel.
interesting video as always. I'm really happy I found your channel some time ago. Exciting, educational and relaxing all at the same time.
Love your videos. You really do have a lot of interesting facts to share! I always learn something new.
That old Stewart Warner gauge on the bailer... still shiny!
the thig withteeth at the end is a binder and was used to cut corn and bundle it into sheaves :)
That was really cool. I too am easily amazed but that was really interesting to see.thank you
Love the farming history. Thanks for sharing.
That one with the single rubber tire is a grain binder! A canvas belt behind the cutter bar carried the grain to be lifted and bound into sheafs, dropped back onto the ground for stacking or pick up!
The item you were looking at at 8.50 is a horse drawn hay rake with the tines removed. You attached a horse to either end and took the hay to a stationary bailer. I have one of the John Deere stationary bailers.
Hey Chig, that machine with the sickle bar and the "table" is an old time wheat binder. The long thin one with the big wheels is what's left of an old hay rake. There was a spot like that in the woods near my parents house in Illinois where some old farmer had an equipment dump. I always wished I could drag some of them out.
OMG!!! I'm live in East Rochester NY I literally shouted when you showed this! Amazing! :)
Most of the old horse drawn equipment was converted to be pulled by a tractor, they mainly changed the tongue. Horses needed 12 ft tongues. Those were removed and a shorter 4-6 ft tongue were installed. You have a draft horse persons dream right there.
The little spikes/ knots on the wheels of the manure spreader are for traction so the wheels don't slip when dumping/running the chains and sprockets.
We loved this look back in time
Farm archeology, very enjoyable. Moar!!!
Loved this video!! Just hated to see it end!
The drill is for small grain. The piece with the sickle bar is a binder for binding shocks. The knotted wire role you found was for a trip planter. You would string it out across the field where you wanted a row and it fed into the planter. Every time you got to a knot it would trip the planter and drop a seed. Lots of work setting up the wire and not to mention running a team in from of it.
Also the piece with the large wheels and the long span between them is called a dump rake. It seemed to be missing the tines but you would ride on it behind a horse and gather hay, when you got to your wind row you trip the tines and it would dump the hay in a nice pile.
The big spool of wire at the end is Corn Planter check wire, it was used to insure the planter would drop hills of corn at uniform spacing. The knots in the wire would trigger the release to drop the kernels of corn. If a farmer was good at checking his field he could cultivate in both directions because all the hills of corn would be the same distance apart no matter which direction you drove.
Hi! Really neat history. Someone somewhere should save them for display.
One of your best videos yet Chig!
Very cool. Thanks for sharing👍👏🙋
It's a wheat binder. The sickle cut the wheat, and there was a canvas belt that moved the wheat to the side of the machine where the farmer sat, then it automatically tied the wheat into bundles to be picked up later in a wagon and hauled to a thresh machine that was powered by a steam traction engine or, in later years, a tractor. The binder was usually pushed through the field by horses, which were behind the header so they would't stomp the wheat down.
The round container held the twine. The square one, tools.
Awesome video. Love old fam equipment
I loved the video chigg very interesting!
Love your videos chigg. As soon as I've watched the latest one I can't wait for the the next upload.
That last piece is a grain binder. you were right you rest your foot on that spot and there is a peddle that you trip once there is enough grain in the bundle. then the machine automatically ties the bundle together. once there are enough bundles on the machine it drops them on the ground. after that the crew goes through and picks them up and takes them to the thresher. I belong to my local antique tractor club and we bind and thresh grain every year for our tractor show.
That old manure spreader, is a new idea, i know because of the double beater bars to even out the flow of manure. That old drill is definitely 30s or 20s. 8:58 that is a frame of an old dump rake, they would have massive fingers that curl from behind that old seat and scrap the ground gathering up the hay or straw, and then you would dump it in a pile and lower it again. 12:00 that’s an old binder, they cut the crop and the crop is carried along the plat form amd into the knotters and it is dropped.
The wooden spoked wheel, axle, and bunk is probably a Studebaker farm wagon circa 1905. It was converted later to take rubber car tires and rims, a lot of farmers did that, here in Montana, to convert a wooden wagon to pull behind a tractor.
awesome video you were right about the wheat machine. all this stuff is very old and collectable. I hope you can steer them to be saved
That sickle with the table top is a 10' Deere PTO grain bender. Cool place you found. Here in South Dakota we have lots of old farms with all kinds of old equipment. One more thing. I'm pretty sure the piece the large spoked wheels is a rake of another kind. It's tines a bunch of them about five inches apart had about the same circumference as the wheels. are raised and lowered and used to rake a field and expose rock to be gathered, or to gather hay into piles. I have seen a few before, but never being used.