The Red wrote on Monday, May 01, 2000 (PDT): Michael that was a very nice article. Thanks for sharing! Jim Handy wrote on Monday, May 01, 2000 (PDT): I day dream about a "Farm in the 50's" - we used a AC B on a silo filler, didn't know one would run a thresher. Sounds like you have a neat place. Farmer Bob wrote on Monday, May 01, 2000 (PDT): Michael, Great article which brought back many fond memories of my growing up on a farm in the Midwest (USA). I was just old enough to have experienced one of the last threshing rings ever used in our area in 1958 so I can relate to what you had to go through to put that rig into operation. David Gray wrote on Wednesday, May 03, 2000 (PDT): I liked the article. I think that Michael is well enough versed and experienced with equipment to do an article with photos about how a binder operates. We had one, but I was too young to have seen it work. Michael is enjoying life in the best way! jim&liz stokes wrote on Sunday, May 14, 2000 (PDT): howdy,we saw your article and enjoyed it.We enjoy farming the "old way" as our son puts it, as well.We have recently relocated to northern Ontario,and we now have room to pursue our hobby of collecting working antique farm equipment,hopefully when we take our holidays in the summer 2002 to Eastern Canada we'll be able to see your equipment first hand.The best of luck and hopefully you'll expand your collection. Ron wrote on Tuesday, February 27, 2001 (PST): Hi, I noticed in your write up that you mention a fanning mill. I have found what I have been told is a fanning mill in the barn that we just purchased but Im not sure. It is hand propelled with a crank that turns a drum with wooden fins to blow air across the grain as it drops on to a moving screen. There is also a drawer at the bottom which I beleive collects the fines. It says Chatham Mill on the end of the drum and I think Bell Co. Its warn off and hard to read. Does this sound like a fanning mill. I would appreciate you emailing me a picture of one if you have one. Any info on them would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Ron Greaseman wrote on Tuesday, February 26, 2002 (PST): I hope to have a full time farming operation not unlike what Mike has, only it will have Elk, Llamas, and the like for livestock. Hugh MacKay wrote on Sunday, December 11, 2005 (PST): Michael; Enjoyed your article very much. As a displaced Maritimer, living in SW Ontario, you bring back many memories of a Hall threshing machine. At home in Nova Scotia our binder was a McCormick. We did not own the thresher. It was owned by a neighbour Stuart Archibald. Stuart's thresher was mounted on a trailer complete with blower. My earliest recolection, he powered this Hall with a very small Case, probably close to 20 hp. One year he got my dad to belt up his W4. The very next year Stuart had a new Cockshutt 30. In the early days in our area they stored the sheaves of grain at harvest time, and at some later point during late fall and winter they would thresh, as they called it, "in the barn". This proceedure was very dirty work as there were no breezes to take the dust away. My dad was one of the first to build a storage for blown in loose straw, near enough to the livestock to use for bedding. They threshed then from the field about two weeks after binding. One of the big fears of blowing straw directly into barn, was the possibility of a small stone creating a spark in the blower, thus igniting the mass of straw in barn. That practice became very short lived, due to the risk of fire. Very soon balers were on every farm and straw was blown in a pile, then baled the day after threshing. Some folks removed the blowers from threshers at that point, built a conveyor to feed straw from thresher directly into baler. Two problems here those small Hall threshers would not keep baler working anywhere near capacity, and one could not keep baler engine air intake clear of dust. PTO driven balers with tractor fared no better. One guy lost all by fire, well all the straw, baler, tractor running baler plus thresher. Only the tractor on thresher was saved. This fire started by buildup of straw around engine of tractor on baler. The very last pile of straw I baled was about 1962. We had combined our grain that year. My dad wanted some extra straw for bedding for our 50 holsteins plus 40 replacment heifers. I forked that pile into baler with thrower putting bales right on wagon. I worked a circle around the pile. Once I had all wagons loaded, I let thrower put the balance out on ground. Hugh MacKay wrote on Sunday, December 11, 2005 (PST): Michael; One other short comment. I was at a threshing event much like yours, in Nova Scotia, about 5 years ago. They had a restored Hall powered by a Cockshutt 30. This machine was hand fed by an 85 year old thresher guy named Hugh Kaulback. Hugh insisted his entire threshing crew had to be on old age pension and chew tobacco. There were a few pale faces before that event was over, some guys even had to be replaced. Chewing tobacco, like threshing was an acquired art. Hugh had it on both ends, not sure which he enjoyed most, standing on platform in control, or seeing his crew loose their dinners. danct wrote on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 (PDT): this great article brought me back many years to my childhood in Ireland ,in the early 1950,s all the farmers would help each other at the Treshing ,we used to be assigned jobs according to our age and strength,we used to pike the sheaves onto the machine where the binder twine would be cut and the crop ,it could be wheat ,oats or barley would be fed into the drum ,as the straw came out the back it would be made into a pile which we called a Reek ,the grain would come out into bags and be taken up into a loft and be spread on the floor around a foot high,this was a hard days work for everyone but we loved it ,the big feeds cooked by the women and the general atmosphere stays in my memory as i get old ,the combined harvester came along soon after and so we lost another part of what makes country life special , Nice article and picture Thanks Danny hd6gtom wrote on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 (PDT): michael Thanks for sharing. We that grew up in the 50 s and 60 s caught the tail end of this lifestyle. We love to talk about it and read or listen to others discuss it. If you have the time to post more pictures we would love to see them. Mike wrote on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (PDT): A wonderful story. I've been to PEI a couple times, last year my wife and I camped at the national park near the ocean. There are potato fields as far as one can see. The red soil is quite unique. Glen M Taylor wrote on Sunday, August 16, 2020 (PDT): I always wondered how such a small province with low population could have four federal MP's ? Look in comparison how many square miles and how much population a typical western Canada MP has in their riding .

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