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rrlund

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There were at least 5 of us at the Blanchard Steam Show today. Royce had to run off before the work started,Mike Henry,I was just kidding about putting a fork in your hand. LOL

Here's (I hope I don't destroy the name) Everet,RayP(Mi) and me after the first round of threshing was done.

Then there's Dave,the guy who owned the steam engine,making sure his fork doesn't tip over while I pitched bundles. lol

RayP by the wagon way back there in the background.

I'd post a few more,but they're loading painfully slow tonight. Maybe Royce can post some more of some of the things that were there.
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Enjoyed the photos.
Something I have always wondered about, why did they place the steamer or tractor so far away from the thresher? The only thing I can think of is for safety reasons, but that looooong belt isn't too safe either. Just wonderin'.
 
Belt length has nothing to do with safety, common sense is the best form of safety. The longer the belt the less tension you need for it to operate without slipping the weight of the belt helps it to grip the pulleys. If you use a short belt you have to have it banjo string tight and that is hard on bearings.
 
In the early days there were not many threshers around, so the farmers had to get the sheaves out of the field and store them in the barn. The steamer and thresher would set up a schedule to go and setup the thresher inside the barn and do 'Barn Threshing'. Sometimes the thresher was very deep inside the barn but of course the engine had to be outside safely away from the dust. Hence the need for long belts.
I remember as a kid helping out in the grainery during winter barn threshing and it was a terribly dusty job, even with the grainery doors closed as much as possible. But the men in the mows tossing the sheaves into the feeder got the worst of it.
Twas a dirty dirty job in the cold cold weather.
 
Well, Randy beat me to it... Took a bunch of pictures of him forking my oats, told him I was keeping for blackmail if I needed them! Anyway, thanks to Randy and the other guys who helped out. I loaded them, it wasn"t much fun, wasn"t looking forward to unloading them - three wagons worth. (And thanks Randy for lunch.) Had a nice visit with Randy and his wife Kim, and met some other YTmagers too. All in all a nice day. Still got one wagon load for tomorrow.
 
You might have some that are a little more incriminating than I do. I'll watch my step for sure. lol I tried to talk Fegienewbie in to coming up there tomorrow to look at that grain drill that sits there for sale. Maybe you can draft him in to pitching a load.
 

I did some heavy lookin on at some threshing at the threshermen's reunion at Kinzer's PA last week.
 
Need room to get the horses (or tractor) and wagon in there right beside the separator. When you're forking the grain, need to be careful not to fall off the wagon and right into the belt. (no puns intended!) Belt runs right close to feed conveyor, and you want the wagon as close to that as you can get it.
 
Sure am glad none of you guys got hurt holding up those heavy pitchforks. Just an occupational hazard I guess. Wish I could have been there.
 
Hey guys, beautiful day we had up there! Ray, nice to meet you!
I did take a few pictures, sorry I had to run off but I did get the
loader delivered before he changed his mind, so that's good!
Here's a link to some pictures on my PhotoBucket. I apparently got
carried away with the LP models. Let me know if they don't work for you.
Blanchard

PS, Mike Henry, sorry I missed you!
 
I'm just glad there weren't any pictures of both of us working at the same time. If that kind of thing got out,people would expect it from us all the time. lol
 
There was a tractor that I didn't get a picture of,I see you didn't either. There was an original paint Oliver Super 55 up along the fence. It was a REAL early one,had the spring steel suspension under the seat like the old Fords instead of the Bostrum rubber torsion spring. It even had the radiator/gas cap door that opened the wrong way so you were right next to the hot exhaust pipe when you were putting gas in it. It didn't take long to change that design so they opened from the other side.
 
I saw the S-55 up there, right next to that H in work clothes IIRC
Batteries went dead in my camera so I didn't get a pic of it.
 
I'd be thrilled to help pitch a few bundles next year. I don't know a lot about running a farm, but I do know which end of the pitch fork to hold onto and I'm not afraid of work. I'm going to try to make both shows next years. Buckley, after 30 years, I'm not sure.

Larryy
 
Randy, the whole purpose of going to the show was to meet a few more members. Unfortunately FIL got a call on his phone before we even made it through the flea market. Seems the MIL decided to get a quick shower while we were away. She fell and had cut herself on the door track. She takes cumidan so we were concerned of the clotting or not so we made a mad dash back home. Then took her into hospital where they kept her for observation over night. Sorry, I never even saw if my cousins, Eric and Dick Heanke were back there working with you all. They love to volenteer and Eric was in charge of exhibitions for awhile. Glad to hear that the grain got unloaded.
 
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