I could watch 10 hours of this... 1943 hi quality machinery

This is absolutely outstanding.

http://farming-videos.com/farm-machinery-power-on-the-land-1943/ best viewed in full screen with sound up loud, popcorn, and dimmed lights.

John THANKS for posting this. I really enjoyed seeing how they where doing thing at that time.

The British terminology makes it even more interesting.

Way cool. Thanks for posting. I really enjoyed it.

Very interesting video.

Thanks for sharing the video with us.

Anyone else struck by how it's always a guy sitting on his ars driving the tractor and women doing all the repetitive and tiring work on the implement? And we dare refer to them as the weaker sax (correct spelling will not allow me to post--something about keeping a clean site). Some of them standing on those implement are clearly one slip away from being badly injured. Just jumps out at me. In dresses of course.

I remember as a kid driving the tractor while my grandpa walked behind working a horse drawn plow digging potatoes. I couldn't have handled the plow but could drive the tractor and he could work the plow and yell left, right, stop, etc. at the same time.

Yes, their corn looks like our wheat !!!! LOL !

Lorrie's = grain truck, though I've heard that used before.

Some great old footage, I liked the opening and closing scenes, nothing but sparse hedgerows and fields.

The tree removal using wire rope on a steam tractor, that certainly was different. Great to see some track type tractors in there, and that spinning/rotary tillage implement used after clearing, the ditching and piping equipment too.

Remember this was England, 1943, there were very few men not in uniform, women took over the majority of farm and manufacturing work.

Thanks for posting , I enjoyed it.
I was amazed how straight them two guys plowing with the horses kept the furrow.

If I had tried that stunt with the steam engine,I would have broken both wheels and spindles.

You and me both! When they showed it sliding sideways, as if that's standard operating procedure for pulling trees over, that would be my cue to exit stage left immediately LOL !

Good point! Still I see the guy drove.

Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed it.

Billy , the term "corn" is used to refer to any small grain or kernel , even if the kernel is salt. eg. corn beef/salted beef.It is their language, we just think it is ours. Even though they are speaking "English" it is made up of many languages , French, German ,Latin, just to name a few. The corn we grow to feed cow,pigs etc. is really Maze ,it is us north Americans that do not use the proper term on that one. When the Normans ruled over the Saxons, in old England , they spoke French and the Saxons did not. The Norman rulers would say Bovine ,Saxons would say cow. Porcine/pig or pork, poulet /and the Saxon chicken . As time went by the English language evolved from this, and is still changing today I love languages, and their history, just too bad I can't speak or spell any . Bruce

Bruce, that's really interesting ! Like you, I do enjoy languages/history as well, makes you wonder how and where it all started.

Now in regards to the above, that would have been nice if they taught some of that kind of history in school.

That was very interesting. Saw a few things I've
never seen before. Thanks for sharing.

I've never seen an Allis Chalmers green chopper like that before! It looks like the front could be an All Crop 40 maybe?

The European farming practices have always been a bit ahead of the US. I see it now with the forage dump carts and some of the newer Fendt tractors that use more front 3 point equipment.

Back then, I know no one in this area was green chopping until the 1950's. Maybe it is just here? My dad started green chopping in the early 60's.

We always had enough pasture so that it was not necessary. Maybe that was the reason? Lack of pasture to support the number of animals the had?


I am still blown away by the quality of the footage. I find quite a few nice old films, but never saw this quality in color from WWII.

I'm glad everyone enjoyed it as much as I did!

When's the last time you changed the sparking plugs in your lorrie ?

Well I guess I better change my title to bovineboy just doesn't sound as cool for some reason?

Have you ever see the plow they drag back and forth across the field with a cable with the engine sitting on end of the field

Sparking plugs! I love that! I wish I could break down all the terminology they use!

(quoted from post at 10:53:21 12/11/14) Anyone else struck by how it's always a guy sitting on his ars driving the tractor and women doing all the repetitive and tiring work on the implement? And we dare refer to them as the weaker sax (correct spelling will not allow me to post--something about keeping a clean site). Some of them standing on those implement are clearly one slip away from being badly injured. Just jumps out at me. In dresses of course.

I remember as a kid driving the tractor while my grandpa walked behind working a horse drawn plow digging potatoes. I couldn't have handled the plow but could drive the tractor and he could work the plow and yell left, right, stop, etc. at the same time.

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Gotta put it in the perspective of the day Chris. 39-45 was a bad time to be British. The men were all gone to war, all you had was old men ( who were probably working as the Home Guard too), boys and women. Women back then were not machine operators prior to the war, they didn't drive and mechanized farming in Britain just wasn't that common according to the documentaries I've seen, like "The Wartime Farm". The British gov't purchased huge numbers of modern tractors and power implements and produced something like 90% of the food Britain the island needed.. The horses went to war too and there just weren't enough of them, plus the gov't wiped out vast numbers of livestock and turned the pastures and hay land to grain production. They had to or they'd have starved since imported food was near non-existent. It figures women would be doing the repetitive, non-skilled work since they probably came right out of the kitchen or maybe even off the streets of London or other major cities as part of the "Land Girl" program. Watch "The Wartime Farm" and see what those folks went through. It didn't matter how much money you had, you simply couldn't buy what you wanted, not legally anyway. And the rationing system continued until somewhere around 1955 IIRC. Why? Because Britain was doing it's best to feed most of Europe too. While Britain had it bad, places like France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy and many other areas had it lots worse. They had no one to work, no equipment to work with, lands that were torn to shreds, little livestock, no distribution networks, etc. That's all part of the reason the US prospered so after the war.

Thanks, we do need to remember the past and not just nostalgically. I'm afraid us humans keep repeating or mistakes.