another hobby.

[MercuryMac]

It's written on the calendar that September should be our harvest month, up here, but, the weather very rarely co-operates. We got a few days of harvest in though. Here are some threshing pictures. I got to put my Cockshutt 80 on the Case threshing machine. There were two teams pulling bundle racks.

[bob w]

I love the pictures, Mac. Reminds me of a simpler time.

[Burgerman]

Originally Posted by bob w

I love the pictures, Mac. Reminds me of a simpler time.

2X. Keep em coming. 😁

[MercuryMac]

Our vintage tractor club has a vintage combine section in it and they performed this September.
Here is a smattering of old harvest pictures from last week.

[dutch]

that first picture is really nice....
great machines

[BillM]

Thanks MM, those are fantastic pictures. Growing up I can remember watching my dad and Grandfather using our threshing machine here on this farm. I remember my dad cursing trying to get the tractor aligned enough to keep the flatbelt on. I don't remember the brand of the thresher, but it was all wood, kind of a reddish colour and covered in pinstriping. It was a piece of art. All that's left of it here now is the whippletree. Co-incidentally, my wife just saw it in the shed the other day and asked me to clean it up as she wants to hang it in the mud room.

Thanks for the memories......

[MercuryMac]

You're welcome, Bill.
Participating in these demonstration days is just as much fun for me as for you.

[MercuryMac]

I've heard that we will have a small plowday about 30 miles from home, so today I thought I'd better get a tractor and a plow ready. The plow has not been used in 50 or 60 years, but on closer inspection it has been abused. It's a two bottom, three point hitch, Ferguson plow to fit behind a TE 20 Ferguson. pic one is me with the back wheel off welding up a cast piece on the guide. I had already 'flapper wheeled' the rust and the lichens off of the moldboards and fixed up a few other horrors. pic two is plowing part of the garden. I had a little trouble going too deep.

[bob w]

[dutch]

nice combo!
Here there are very few left doing some work with small machines although there are lots of small patches of ground on the old estate.
I recently went through my old hay rake and right now I`m restoring the tedder ( is that the correct name?)