1955 Photo

Threshing in 1955

What is the size limit to post a photo? I have a couple more but they time out upon upload attempt.

Nice looking Farmall H in the picture. I remember back in the 50ies going with Grandpa up to the farm to help threshing. One farmer had the machine and went to all the neighbors and they all worked together. The best part was the big dinner and the small bottle of beer that you got at dinner. Bob

Have you tried using the Advanced Posting Tools?
It may resize your pictures. Hal
Click on "Upload"
Click on "Browse" and select picture you want to post
Click on "save" and again on "upload" then your pic should appear and if it appears and you want to post another pic don't click on "Continue". Go back to "Upload and select another picture, then on "Browse", then on "save" and again on "upload". Once that pic appears click On "Continue" then click on "Preview Your Reply" and both pics should appear.

Thank you.

That picture brings back good memories. Thanks

Joe

I remember the large pile of bean straw (what we called it) from the stationary bean thresher back in the 50's also. I was just a kid then. We would play on that pile, until we were so covered with chaff mom would need to clean us with a broom. The good old days Stan

Our neighbor had a threshing machine and a 15-30 McCormick Deering tractor that he only used for belt work. It had solid rubber on the rear wheels so it could travel on the main road towing that thresher when he did custom threshing
for the farmers in the area. This was back in the late 1940's when I was a teen and I followed it since they paid pretty good for the times and they fed you like a king. In 1950 when we were at the last farm for that summer they were blowing the straw into the straw mow. There happened to be a light bulb in that area and it started a fire. The tractor owner jumped off the wagon he was unloading and tried to use the 15-30 to pull the thresher out. With the solid rubber on the rear wheels it couldn't get enough traction and the barn and the thresher were lost. There wasn't very many dry eyes around that afternoon. The Korean War started that summer and my brother joined the Air Force the following year when we graduated and I was drafted 18 months later. Hal
PS: We never had lights in the hay mow or the straw mow. My late dad had a flood light installed on the outside of the hay mow at a window so we could see up there and so noone would fall through the hay and straw chutes. We had a combine and we baled the straw.