2023.09.15 Reflections of Farm Life

kcm.MN · Sep 14, 2023

sourgum · Sep 14, 2023

When were the last wheat shocks made on the average farm. Is that guy testing for moisture in the shock.

Richard G. · Sep 15, 2023

My Dad talked about shocking wheat and waiting on the steam engine and thresher to show up.

caterpillar guy · Sep 15, 2023

I always like the way they can work in dress clothes or in this case a suit and apparently never get greasy. Me I would ruin a suit in about 5 minutes or less if I tried that.

Mike(NEOhio) · Sep 15, 2023

The Amish around here still shock their wheat.

Michael Soldan · Sep 15, 2023

We called it stooking wheat and the result was stooks. We put 5 sheeves per stook , sometimes 6

Hoofer B · Sep 15, 2023

or maybe the insurance adjuster checking for yield.

Majorman · Sep 15, 2023

Helped with that in my dim and distant past. Over here the crops were cut slightly un-ripe and left in shocks to ripen, then carted and taken to the stack yard and built into stacks to wait for the threshing contractor and his kit usually powered by a steam engine or Field Marshall tractor. I used to be picked up and given a ride across the field on the coal in the hopper on the steam engine, much to my mothers delight at having to wash me and my clothes.

cdmn · Sep 15, 2023

Days of Heaven. Before the soil fertility wore down and dust and grasshoppers arrived.
Looks like a Red River farm. Note the nice big house.

Goose · Sep 15, 2023

Looks familiar to me.

55 50 Ron · Sep 15, 2023

Any idea where that picture was taken? Looks like a very nice yield. I did some of that shocking at age 7 or 8 when I wasn't much taller than the shocks!

2023.09.15 Reflections of Farm Life

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