Re: Question about harvesting wheat in the 1930s

Posted by Goose on September 17, 2012 at 06:00:53 from (174.253.143.118):

In Reply to: Question about harvesting wheat in the 1930s posted by Berth 29 opinions on September 16, 2012 at 22:22:39:

I remember my father saying his uncle talked about "stack threshing", before they had a binder.

They would indeed cut the wheat with a sickle mower when it was just short of being completely ripe, rake it, and put it up into stacks. The wheat would go through a "sweat" in the stack and finish ripening.

Then they would load the stacks onto hayracks and haul the wheat to the thresher. They couldn't take the thresher to the stacks or they would have had straw piles out in the field where they didn't want them. That would probably go back to about 1900 or before.

Some of my earliest memories of farming (around 1940) are of riding the grain binder and tripping the bundle carrier with a foot pedal at the right time to make windrows of bundles.

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