Two old guys at the steam show

rrlund · Aug 23, 2014

All the young folks there were around at the steam show today and RayP and me ended up doing all the work. Ain't that just the way it goes though? LOL

in-too-deep · Aug 23, 2014

I'm slated to pitch bundles sometime this weekend, but I don't think the weather will cooperate.

Larry NEIL · Aug 23, 2014

I pitched half a trailer load at our show last week, but the weather was pretty good.

Dave H (MI) · Aug 23, 2014

Did you get steamed about it? Looks like the weather cooperated for you! I've been outside working today and seems pleasant enough as long as you stay in the open and catch the little bit of breeze that's blowing.

rrlund · Aug 23, 2014

I thought it was going to stay cloudy all day,but by the time we got around to threshing it was getting awful sticky. I told Ray that I'd been feeling sorry for myself cutting my own oats with a combine without air. lol

Anonymous-0 · Aug 23, 2014

Which one of the 2 are you?

rrlund · Aug 23, 2014

The guy in the bibs.

paul · Aug 23, 2014

Your show is this week?

Always something, I got to get to that some day.....

Paul

pete 23 · Aug 23, 2014

You probably would not have let them do it if they had volunteered. Right. By the way, can't remember if bundle goes in head or butt first. Been a very long time and I was pretty young when I pitched.

showcrop · Aug 23, 2014

Many young people appear to get soft after they get out of school for 6-10 years or so if they don't go to a gym or something. I was delivering hay this last summer and the customer's son was there to help. He threw twenty or so bales and was all done. I had to do the last thirty or so.

rrlund · Aug 23, 2014

Head first.

RayP(MI) · Aug 23, 2014

Young feller walked up and pointed toward a big old GarScott sitting there a steaming away between shifts on the sawmill, and the thresher. "What"s that?" he sez. (Think he was serious.) Owner and couple of us bystanders were left with our our mouths hanging open.

RayP(MI) · Aug 23, 2014

Kid in orange t shirt is my grandson! His dad was there with his '49 JD B. He also put his time in on the end of a fork. What goes in the front of a separator comes out the back...We call it straw, and it's gotta be baled and hauled!

Royse · Aug 23, 2014

"All the young folks there were around at the steam show today"

I resemble that remark! LOL
What time did you guys get around to threshing?
I've been there for a few years straight and missed it every year.

I came home and swung an 8 pound mall in the sun for an hour.
I think I would have liked the fork a whole lot better!

I did manage to get my tractor primed though.
Hopefully I'll get paint on it tomorrow.
Nice to see you all again!

Mike Henry · Aug 23, 2014

I remember your note saying that Preston and Eric loaded the wagon for you. Eric is my cousin and I know that for some time he has been lacking on the exercise dept. So I would have offered him the opportunity to loose a few pounds. I wish I could have been there. Been home taking care of the wife since her pancreas surgery. Gaining but still not really ready to leave her alone. Maybe next year.

rrlund · Aug 23, 2014

Hey,I offered to let you. lol
It must have been,what,1:45 before we got started Ray?

If you want to make the drive back up,I think there's still a load for tomorrow.

Where was Super Trucker? I saw a Fordson,but nobody around it.

Did you get any good pictures worth posting Royse?

rrlund · Aug 23, 2014

We missed you Mike. Hope you make it next year.

Royse · Aug 23, 2014

Yes you did and I'd be happy to do it.
I just gotta be there at the right time!

Trucker was there, I talked to him for a minute or two just
as his class was starting to pull and he had to go line up.
I wish I could have stayed and watched because he was running
a newly purchased tractor. I would call it "new to him", but its not.
He's quite familiar with it actually! I can't remember the year, but
its a Fordson rowcrop with electric start. Maybe he'll chime in.

I got some pics, my camera lens fogged for some reason today.
I'll get them cleaned up as best I can and post them.

Royse · Aug 23, 2014

I'm glad to hear of positive progress Mike.
Joan and I will be glad to see you all back at the shows.

JD John · Aug 23, 2014

I see you threshing while I was in the tractor parade. Maybe tomorrow I will get back down there.

Royse, did you find that studebaker pick-up?

Royse · Aug 23, 2014

No John, I never did find it today.
What tractor did you have up there?
Maybe I got a picture of it. (as bad as they are)

JD John · Aug 23, 2014

I had my JD R and 420

Royse · Aug 23, 2014

Here are few of the pics I took. The JD AR shows you the nice
moisture ring in my camera. By the time I got to the model A's it
had cleared up pretty well. The rest of these I took with my phone.
Slideshow

Dick2 · Aug 24, 2014

Did my share of threshing when I was a kid; you couldn't get me near enough to that machine today to do any work. If the young folks think that is fun, let them do the work!

Alan K · Aug 24, 2014

Nice pictures. I remember hearing a couple "older" (much older) gentlemen at a town centennial a few years back when someone had set up a threshing demonstration. One said to the other "I don't know why everyone thinks this is so much fun, when we did it, it was work"

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