Farming In Sask. In The 70s

rusty6 · Mar 18, 2019

This film from the 1970s is from my part of Sask. showing a Co-op farming effort. It went pretty well for a time but eventually dissolved.
Maybe I have posted it here before.
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rusty6 · Mar 18, 2019

Interesting sound clip of the GM diesel powered Cockshutt tractor working summerfallow at the 9:50 mark. I think it is a 1950.

kienkelly · Mar 18, 2019

I love them old civil swatgers my neighbor had 2 when I was a kid in the early 80 . When he moved he kept them and another friend recognized them in his new yard 30 years later and stopped to visit him he has since passed and they were probably sent for scrap

kienkelly · Mar 18, 2019

Stupid autocorrect I meant to say ccil swathers

Jim in Sask · Mar 18, 2019

That was interesting, Rusty. Thanks for posting. I've heard of co-op farms but not this one. I wonder how it ended up? Seems there was a fair amount of disagreement amongst the members.

rusty6 · Mar 19, 2019

(quoted from post at 19:58:30 03/18/19) That was interesting, Rusty. Thanks for posting. I've heard of co-op farms but not this one. I wonder how it ended up? Seems there was a fair amount of disagreement amongst the members.

Not sure just how many years they kept it going but at it's highest point they were farming 82 quarters. Had the biggest machinery around. One of the first big Belarus four wheel drive tractors. And that CCIL 30 foot swather was huge for the times. I watched one sell dirt cheap at an auction a few years ago.

SVcummins · Mar 19, 2019

Well the guy at the end was right about one thing either coop farming witll increase or corporate farming will increase well you sure don?t see many co op farms . I liked that video everyone smoking makes me want one

rusty6 · Mar 19, 2019

(quoted from post at 01:51:13 03/19/19) Well the guy at the end was right about one thing either coop farming witll increase or corporate farming will increase well you sure don?t see many co op farms . I liked that video everyone smoking makes me want one

Yes, the heavy smoking looks unusual now that we are used to not seeing it so much. Of course you have to remember this was a really early version of "reality tv" where the guys had to try and act normal and pretend the camera wasn't rolling. I'd guess it was not easy to do.
And that CCIL swather was really innovative for it's time. Nobody had seen one that wide. It would move right along powered by the ubiquitous Wisconsin V4 engine.

ADB-Ia · Mar 19, 2019

Enjoyed the video. I think I am too independent to fit into that group but it is an interesting perspective. It bears out my philosophy that there is more than one way to do just about everything. ADB

Bruce from Can. · Mar 19, 2019

Really enjoyed the video, watching it reminds me of my uncles and cousins farming in South Saskatchewan. Everyone seemed to smoke then. One of my uncles had a big Oliver with a cab. I also liked the Dodge hi way tractor

rusty6 · Mar 19, 2019

(quoted from post at 08:08:09 03/19/19) Really enjoyed the video, watching it reminds me of my uncles and cousins farming in South Saskatchewan. Everyone seemed to smoke then. One of my uncles had a big Oliver with a cab. I also liked the Dodge hi way tractor

Dodge? I must have missed it. I saw (and heard) the White pulling the big grain trailer. Also the GM cabover but don't recall a Dodge.

unc · Mar 19, 2019

There was a scene where the one fellow was welding on the end gate of the old chevy grain truck- when he flipped up his welding helmet, he had a smoke going all the time he was welding! Makes my eyes sting just to think about it.
That CCIL swather was something. unc

55 50 Ron · Mar 19, 2019

Is the music (singing) being done by Wilf Carter? Sounds familiar to me like it might be Wilf.

rusty6 · Mar 19, 2019

(quoted from post at 17:39:55 03/19/19) Is the music (singing) being done by Wilf Carter? Sounds familiar to me like it might be Wilf.

No, it was nobody that famous. Song was written, and I assume performed by, Geoffrey Ursell. Born right here in Saskatchewan.

Bob · Mar 19, 2019

(quoted from post at 21:53:37 03/18/19) Stupid autocorrect I meant to say ccil swathers

Since you brought "CCIL" up, you mite have told us what it meant, "Canadian Co-operative Implements Ltd.".

Sadly enough, "back in the day" some of those abominations somehow sneaked across the 49th parallel down into North Dakota. (Pre "Homeland Security".)

After bouncing around the auction circuit for several years, most were scrapped.

NOT sure what the deficiency was, but they sure didn't last long around here.

rusty6 · Mar 19, 2019

Since you brought "CCIL" up, you mite have told us what it meant, "Canadian Co-operative Implements Ltd.".

Sadly enough, "back in the day" some of those abominations somehow sneaked across the 49th parallel down into North Dakota. (Pre "Homeland Security".)

After bouncing around the auction circuit for several years, most were scrapped.

NOT sure what the deficiency was, but they sure didn't last long around here.

I assume you refer to the self propelled folding swather. The rest of their machinery was quite competitive and state of the art for the time. That pull type combine in the video was popular and sold well. CCIL also built their own diskers right in Manitoba and they were highly regarded as a seeding tool. The big CCIL 4WD tractor of that time was actually built by Steiger. Smaller tractors sold as CCIL were actually Deutz painted red.

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