Old school haying pic

Smalltowner · Jun 13, 2019

Very labor intensive. Tractor is a Fordson.

M Nut · Jun 13, 2019

Threshing grain, oats, wheat, etc. the straw is being blown into a stack. Likely it was used for livestock feed or bedding.

Smalltowner · Jun 13, 2019

I believe you?re right M Nut, I failed to see the thresher.

No smoking on that job.....

Bruce from Can. · Jun 13, 2019

This isn?t haying. Threshing the grain from the straw. We nearly always had the threshing machine in the barn, so the grain could flow directly into the grainery, and blew the straw on top of the hay in the mow.

Smalltowner · Jun 13, 2019

Right you are Bruce. That work was before my time. My first ?threshing? experience was on a Gleaner model A without a cab in the summer of 1961. Wage was $1 an hour and I averaged $90 a week, good money for a high school kid.

Michael Soldan · Jun 13, 2019

That's exactly how we did our threshing as well. A few years when there was lots of straw on the grain we opened a door and shot the straw out into a stack in the yard below. When winter came the cattle would rub against the stack and knock straw off , then lay down in it and on the coldest days of winter they were warm and content burrowed around the stack.

jeffcat · Jun 13, 2019

Ahhhh the days when you just wanted to go to bed at the end of the day. I am poooped just looking at the picture. Trouble is I can hear every little noise. A 4 cylinder Tractor, no muffler, belt slap, the blower running, guys yelling at each other. Yup flip the photo for you .

IaLeo · Jun 13, 2019

Looks like they are about done with that setting as the stack is about as high as the blower pipe can be extended. The dude has built a nice stack. He had to wear a bandana around his neck, a tight fitting straw hat, a good three tine fork, strings around his pant legs to keep the chaff out of his shoes. It would never do to let that blower pipe get blocked, looks like the hood has been pulled wide open, trying to get the straw up as high as possible and it is no fun to somehow get into the direct blast!

BTDT Leo

jd adict · Jun 13, 2019

how about that human kid belt guide they told to stand there and keep the belt from running off the pulley of the tractor.
wow the farm safety personel would have a fit if they seen this take place.
it must be an endless belt, otherwise that kid would be caught on the join and wound up around and around.

IaLeo · Jun 14, 2019

I see no wagon parked on the kid's side of the machine, so I think that "kid" and the one behind are holding sacks to catch the grain. And the wagon leaving looks to me to loaded with sacks.

I remember the Case CC bellowing with no muffler and the howl of the rear blower. One did not ever want to take an untested horse up near the threshing machine to stand quietly by the noise while the bundle wagon was unloading.

The covered can of drinking water with long handled dipper sitting in the shade of the tractor wheel was always a welcome feature. Leo

Old school haying pic

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