Country Farming: Innovations of the Modern Tractor (1955-1959)

Country Farming: Innovations of the Modern Tractor (1955-1959) | British Pathé

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10 жыл бұрын

In this Pathé documentary from the '50s, labour practices in country farming are examined with the helping hoe of a tractor.
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Titles: 'Helping Hands - Produced by The Nuffield Association in conjunction with Associated British-Pathe Ltd.'
A look at the many labour-saving devices that can be attached to and run by Nuffield tractors (somewhere in the British countryside).
General views of countryside; sheep grazing. Farmer in farmyard uses a tractor with a loader on the front to lift manure and dump it in a trailer. Commentator talks of the structure of this kind of tractor. A man on a tractor pulls the trailer of manure onto a field and unhooks the back before tipping the trailer up to empty it. Another man uses a tractor with a reversible plough in a field. Commentator gives details of this type of plough. A multiple furrow plough is seen in action on another field. A disc harrow is used on a field. Mounted disc harrow in action. Rotavator attached to a tractor tilling a field - this piece of machinery can be used for ploughing, cultivation and harrowing.
A man drives a tractor across a field with another man sitting on the rear machinery to guide it along - they are hoeing the field, with the second man steering to make sure the young plants are not damaged in the process. M/S of weeds being dug out by the mechanism as the tractor drives along.
In the farmyard we see a chemical spray tank being attached to the back of the tractor. A man drives the tractor into a field of cows, sets up the spray mechanism and moves off. He sprays the chemical weed killer all over the field, while the cows watch and attempt to move out of the way! Another tractor with a hay sweep / stacker gathers hay from a field and dumps it on top of a large haystack. Threshing machine in the farmyard is attached to the tractor by means of a conveyor belt. Good shots of the thresher in action and bales of hay coming out the other end. Sacks of grain are tied up by workers. Portable hammer mill is mounted on tractor and seen in action - oatmeal (?) is produced by the mill and bagged up on the spot. End titles: 'The End'.
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@ColinMill1 Жыл бұрын

I'm still using our 1963 Massey Ferguson 35x. Still does a good days work and will undoubtedly see me out. Tractors back then may have been basic but they were built to last.

@Mr.Safety. Жыл бұрын

We still use our massey ferguson 65! Its had so much done to it ovet the years but you just cant beat them, and certainly cant fix em like a new tractor

@michaelpjeffries1521 6 ай бұрын

It will for generations to come. Daniel Massey thought enslaving machines was better option than other people. He was a tinkerer who recognized the need, his descendents recognized the business side.

@kerrysupporter Ай бұрын

I’m still on a 35x

@annalorree Ай бұрын

I grew up on a farm in California, USA with very similar equipment and farm work. I do think that as fewer people are needed to work in agriculture, we lose something of our respective nation’s souls. A strong countryside is the heart of a heathy nation, and the work of the farmer is essential to all people’s survival.

@andrewmellon5072 24 күн бұрын

I couldn't agree more. Small to medium farms, where all the family helps produce very good stable citizens, essential in a democracy. Here in Ireland this has changed with smaller family's and everyone working off farm.

@VideosofIrishFarmingLife 5 жыл бұрын

Great video from a great era.. So good that all this have been captured for future generations. Thanks for uploading to your channel

@craigcorrigan9353 Жыл бұрын

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@craigcorrigan9353 Жыл бұрын

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@ristopyykkonen8719 Жыл бұрын

Nuffield still runs 17.09.2022 same Job in Finland! beautiful video.

@alisdairmclean8605 Жыл бұрын

Tosin hyvää trakori!

@HrLBolle 7 ай бұрын

those are some sharp looking Nuffields

@JRattheranch Жыл бұрын

I wonder what they'd make of the farming world today? Fascinating to see and remember how it used to be! A tractor with 30 HP? Wow! 🤔🤭🤭

@ravnodinson 6 ай бұрын

And these geezers wore suit jackets out in the field.

@JRattheranch 6 ай бұрын

@@ravnodinson 🤣🤣🤣 They certainly did! I remember it well! I learned to plough on a prewar Fordson tvo and the farmer had a jacket and 👔 tie, would you believe! 🤣🤣🤣

@happytoaster1 7 ай бұрын

I thought the guy was going to get burried when he stood behind his trailer and opened it.

@Fernandwinnie 9 ай бұрын

Three point linkage and a reversible ploo!

@joemalone9380 Жыл бұрын

really enjoyed that huge fork on the loader. saw a horse drawn version on here somewhere

@andyelliott8027 2 жыл бұрын

Spraying the cattle and the grass they're eating with weedkiller. The innocence of those days !

@JonathanEngblom Жыл бұрын

Imagine that today 😂 we have learnt stuff since then.

@andyelliott8027 Жыл бұрын

@@JonathanEngblom How many people have died because of ignorance like this?

@scottpecora371 7 ай бұрын

I was thinking OMG! That should keep the cows in good health!

@scottpecora371 7 ай бұрын

Even with the addition of all the new machines, how are labor-intensive things still were.

@user-ih3uk1ye8f 6 ай бұрын

@@scottpecora371😊

@djdaz72 Жыл бұрын

What a great video

@davidcollingwood1262 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant video

@mathieudelarue3086 5 жыл бұрын

Ahh, nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.

@michaelball4683 Жыл бұрын

plus ça change

@garyburchgb Жыл бұрын

The early days of intensive farming. If only they knew what is known now about the products and methods they used.

@totaltwit Жыл бұрын

I winced at the weedkiller section, application and the chap under the spray. When was parquat banned? I remember the smell of the weedkiller tank, we had the blue one too.

@alanrogs3990 7 ай бұрын

@@totaltwitExcept for that (weedkillers and such) I kind of wish we went back to simple smaller farms and local production.

@tomsale5142 4 ай бұрын

@@alanrogs3990it will come the large ones will colla😮e when they go vegan and small ones will cater for the rest

@johnwanjala4311 3 ай бұрын

Good video

@davepayne586 9 ай бұрын

i used to plow with one. good tractors

@davidshultz4986 Жыл бұрын

Wish we could go back I'm only 33 I love old times

@cdjhyoung Жыл бұрын

The only folks that want to live this way again are the ones that never lived this life. See the guy hauling straw bales away from the baler? 60-75 lbs each, and he will do this from first light until the sun goes down, for weeks on end. That is a lot of manual labor, and that isn't the hardest task he'll be challenged with. Those old tractors ran rough across the fields. Twelve hours in that seat made your back so sore you could barely get off the tractor. I grew up in the 1960's on a farm that used 1950's style equipment in the US. There was a lot of hard dirty work and long hours of it. I had adventures I still talk about today, like having a skunk be baled and kicked on to the hay wagon my brother and I were loading. That was fun. Not. Plowing over night to beat the rain, only to drive out of the field and get the rig stuck up to the axle in a swamp on Sunday morning. That was fun extracting too. Simpler times do not mean better times. Much that we do with machine used to be done with human hands. Much slower, more inaccurate and far less production. Farming like this barely produced enough crops to feed the farm family and the hired help, let alone leave enough to sell for profit.

@apebass2215 Жыл бұрын

@@cdjhyoung at least people still knew what men and women are. You worked hard but one wage could buy a house and support a family.

@cdjhyoung Жыл бұрын

@@apebass2215 People still no who men and women are, stop reading that rubbish. Sure, one income could support a family. Then the Republicans busted the unions, driving down wages. Then we got Reagan nomics where making the rich richer was suppose to make everyone better off. Turns out we only made the rich richer. If you want some form of the good old days, stop supporting a political party that spends its time setting one part of the country against another part. And no, that isn't the democrats. Support unions. Join one or start one. If the owner of the business you work for doesn't bring you your paycheck every week, shake your hand and thank you for your contributions to the company and ask about your wife, then you need to have a union to represent your interests to the powers running the company. Films like this look great, until you remember the disease, the bigotry and racism, the denial of equal rights to women, people of color or the folks that worship the wrong god. If you were male, white, protestant and already middle class, this was a great time to live. But for everyone else, things got better.

@tomsale5142 8 ай бұрын

You can get the old machine snluke ourselves

@davedavis4269 Жыл бұрын

This when Britain was still Britain. 😢

@richardhaywood9474 Жыл бұрын

Do you mean that there’s not much farming going on there now?

@freebornjohn2687 10 ай бұрын

If its not still Britain what is it? Did it fly off the globe and in to space?

@Fernandwinnie 9 ай бұрын

Eh can smell the dung fae here. 😊

@tomsale5142 8 ай бұрын

@@freebornjohn2687 yes think it did

@ravnodinson 6 ай бұрын

Ah yes, when brave men fought dragons to save the princess. King Arthur would be sad to see Britain today.

@oliveringram3056 Жыл бұрын

What ever do you mean sir, health and safety, never heard of it.

@cdjhyoung Жыл бұрын

Such a different farming philosophy between the Brits and Americans in this era. I found it unusual that they would still be using a stationary thresher for grain. Those would have been disappearing in the US 20 years earlier. The way they were storing hay, no baler, out door in the elements storage. In rainy England I would have thought farmers would have been early adopters of storing hay in barns. The tractor horsepower being so low also got my attention. American tractors were growing quickly to be twice this horsepower, some as much as 80 horsepower. Field tillage speed is relatively low as reflected in the declared 1 acre per hour plowing speed, The three bottom plow would be able to plow 1/3 acre per hour per mile per hour. That means that tractor was going only about 3 mph, 2/3 the speed of most North American tractors. I'm sure a lot of these differences can be attributed to the post war economy and the small sizes of farms and fields being the norm in England.

@andyelliott8027 7 ай бұрын

Yes, don't forget that 11 of America's 50 states are bigger than the entire UK.

@Pinzpilot101 5 ай бұрын

I did the same tractor work as these older men...I was 10 years old???

@poilochien 2 жыл бұрын

what is the area ?

@garethjudd5840 Жыл бұрын

Ever increasing population? In the 1950s, 2 billion. Today 7.6 billion. 😳

@3Mudbone1 Жыл бұрын

Those two farmers were smoking a bowl behind the barn.

@alanrogs3990 7 ай бұрын

A bowl of manure

@ladygardener100 Жыл бұрын

Nowadays lounging and all the rest of it is not worthwhile, it's all minimal cultivation.

@bigteddy66 Жыл бұрын

I have a 1954/55 nuff. Perkins. Running order. Anyone fancy it?

@richardmellersh5531 Жыл бұрын

Interested. TVO model had subsidy, P4 was a good interim before BMC. L4 conversion better still.

@bigteddy66 Жыл бұрын

@@richardmellersh5531 first tractor I drove was a universal 4 bmc, the old girl I have I bought just because. But its a good tidy old tractor. Don't use it so thinking of selling

@ColinMill1 Жыл бұрын

Yes, but the "management" wouldn't approve.🙂

@danclatworthy2861 9 ай бұрын

Where abouts are you to? UK?

@bigteddy66 9 ай бұрын

@@danclatworthy2861 it's in the north of Scotland.