Wow. Wonderful. Memories. The smells of TVO or petrol. The pipe smokers, the engines . Wonder there were no fires. The baler is a stranger to me. The good contractor had a "straw pitcher". Lister engine, PETROL driven. !!!Saved the need for 4 or 5 men. The bottles of Stout. The tea and sandwiches. Some houses noted for good food. Some only gave bread and jam. And the little Jack Russells... Treasures👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
The threshing was some craic, a farmer near my parents still does this just for the hell of it. Ballydown near Banbridge in County Down Northern Ireland
First time I have seen a grown up " threading " the baler. This filthy eye contaminating (no eye protection in those days) job was always given to we cubs !!.
Wow flailing.. Just like it was done in NW Portugal 🇵🇹 the stick is exactly the same. Amazing how similiar Ireland and Portugal are especially in Portugal 's NW a still very Celtic area.
When the Irish say " corn " they mean wheat/barley. You won't see too much regular corn in Ireland because the place is too cold to grow a successful crop.
Its not too cold.. Ive seen it grow many times.. Farmers cant be bothered because there is way too many grass fields to be bothered with Maize or the expense of growing it.. If you have grass fields, its far cheaper..
I've seen them calling this corn in a couple of videos I'm from the Midwest here in the US and that does not look like any corn that I have ever seen can somebody explain that to me
I'm an American, and I had the exact same question. I grew up working 25 acres of corn, and I was very confused watching this video. Thanks for clearing that up!
Yea but a ton of coal only cost something like a tenner. Sometimes the farmer had to buy it and have a number of barrells of water on standby. Different world. Amazing that the whole shebang didn't cause fires. Gosh.. no risk assessment. No fire safety officers. No pulley guards. No crowd barriers. Operators ducking under flying belts... Seems as if not many died. There is a pool of thought that when people grow up with danger, they develop an instinct to be alert and survive, but having every angle of protection plotted leaves a type of complacence... So swings and roundabouts😄😄😄
Corn is a collective noun used to describe all course grains - wheat rye oats and barley - The early settlers in America were well used to the term, there were after all "corn exchanges" in every British town where grain was bought and sold. When they first encountered maize they called it "Indian corn" to differentiate it from other grains. The term "corn" has, through common usage, come to be used - incorrectly - to describe maize.
Wow. Wonderful. Memories. The smells of TVO or petrol. The pipe smokers, the engines . Wonder there were no fires. The baler is a stranger to me. The good contractor had a "straw pitcher". Lister engine, PETROL driven. !!!Saved the need for 4 or 5 men. The bottles of Stout. The tea and sandwiches. Some houses noted for good food. Some only gave bread and jam. And the little Jack Russells... Treasures👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
The threshing was some craic, a farmer near my parents still does this just for the hell of it. Ballydown near Banbridge in County Down Northern Ireland
My old lad was telling me of doing this when he was young in West Cork. A barrel of Guinness at the end of the day to celebrate. Simpler times.
Also a pack of Marlboro Red for those Farmers to accompany the Guinness
Excellent bit of history for sure.
Many thanks to all involved
Sir .Thanks for ur video. I have seen this in India in my childhood and even today more or less passing through the same hard work
First time I have seen a grown up " threading " the baler. This filthy eye contaminating (no eye protection in those days) job was always given to we cubs !!.
Thank you for this , it takes me back to my roots in Ireland. I did imagine that I was smelling the chaff.
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Wow flailing.. Just like it was done in NW Portugal 🇵🇹 the stick is exactly the same. Amazing how similiar Ireland and Portugal are especially in Portugal 's NW a still very Celtic area.
Thanks for posting, this takes me back to the threshing days on my parents farm in Canada.
Thank-you!
When the Irish say " corn " they mean wheat/barley. You won't see too much regular corn in Ireland because the place is too cold to grow a successful crop.
Good info!
I’ve seen corn grow in Kilkenny
Its not too cold.. Ive seen it grow many times.. Farmers cant be bothered because there is way too many grass fields to be bothered with Maize or the expense of growing it.. If you have grass fields, its far cheaper..
Aint nothin like the good ol days was .
Great video, as always!
Ty for your comment
my mother said grandad use to put the chaff on to the dung heap to let it rot down
I've seen them calling this corn in a couple of videos I'm from the Midwest here in the US and that does not look like any corn that I have ever seen can somebody explain that to me
That flailing job is setting off my Carpal tunnel syndrome just looking at it.
Why burn the chaff? Would it not be a good component of compost or maybe even feed supplement?
The threshing machine is not threshing corn as indicated by the announcer? It was either wheat or oats.
Hi there, Corn is what Oats was called in Ireland and other parts of the UK in the past, Thanks for your comment, Chris
I'm an American, and I had the exact same question. I grew up working 25 acres of corn, and I was very confused watching this video.
Thanks for clearing that up!
Corn in Europe is wheat, oats, barley. There are other crops that are not so called as corn,. Rye. Linseed, maize. Yankees only know maize as corn
ears of corn??? who writes these stories??
I never saw corn that looked like wheat
half a tone of coal f sake hard ouwl times
Yea but a ton of coal only cost something like a tenner. Sometimes the farmer had to buy it and have a number of barrells of water on standby. Different world. Amazing that the whole shebang didn't cause fires. Gosh.. no risk assessment. No fire safety officers. No pulley guards. No crowd barriers. Operators ducking under flying belts... Seems as if not many died. There is a pool of thought that when people grow up with danger, they develop an instinct to be alert and survive, but having every angle of protection plotted leaves a type of complacence... So swings and roundabouts😄😄😄
Yep
I’ve seen proper cork grown after the rats had it
That"s not corn silly !
Its not Maize or its not Corn?lol
Corn is a collective noun used to describe all course grains - wheat rye oats and barley - The early settlers in America were well used to the term, there were after all "corn exchanges" in every British town where grain was bought and sold. When they first encountered maize they called it "Indian corn" to differentiate it from other grains. The term "corn" has, through common usage, come to be used - incorrectly - to describe maize.
@@dendrus1949 thanks didn't know this info and I was confused by why they were using the term corn.
@@dendrus1949 It can mean any particle of similar size. Peppercorns, or coarse grained salt, for example.