Simpler times, simple machines. An umbrella was your “cab” and the wind was you’re AC. To think how much has changed in less than 100yrs. Autosteer, auto height sense, 200bu+ hopper capacity, 300+ HP, 50’ headers, flex drapers and yield monitors.....but I’d still like to travel back to those times just to experience it.

The day's when people actually cared about each other. Nice footage thank you.

Great video. Thanks for sharing. Any young person interested in agriculture should view this to see how far we've come

Those old Chevy trucks were practically new back then and look great!

Extraordinary footage of brave people using rudimentary technology, how things have progressed since then! Thanks for posting!

I experienced the harvest run from texas to Canada in the early 1980s. Its an experience everybody should have.

The early shots show the CORN PALACE in Mitchel South Dakota ,,. I saw it in 1994 , Each year they change the Mozaic facade with grain that is grown in North America to reflect Current events or simply to celebrate life ,,. I saw the previous Years work in their archives and was in Awe of the Painstaking talent it takes to make all of these pictures come to life ,.. the W W 2 pics depicting the Nazi regime and Japanese and Russians are very interesting ,

My mom drive a grain truck on a harvest crew in the early 70s. Thanks for sharing this footage!!!!

My dad had an Oliver drag combine he pulled with an Oliver tractor back in those days. It was probably late fifties before they used self propelled combines.

cool video! i can't believe they just hauled the combine on the back of a truck! wow!

Very good footage. Not much from this era out there.

Holy cow, am I the first to notice that silver combine? I'd love to know more about it. Looks like an old pull type with another header mounted on front and an operator's station. I wonder if it was made self propelled somehow? Some kind of tractor hiding under it? I see an engine on the threshing unit and another exhaust pipe up front. Could probably cut 35 feet at a whack.

i still have one of those round mh grain tanks

Nice

Memory's of being young

Kevin this is cool... do you have information on it... your family?

2 ton Chevy seenm on eBay now for sale 1500!

Nothing new here, these chaps invented contract harvesting and moving their gear around. All we have done is made the machinery ten times bigger. The modern day machinery still work on the old days technology, Combines still have rotating threshers and reciprocating knives and fingers and feeder housings , sieves and a fan to blow the shit off the sieves. So they put a computer in them , its not really necessary , because if the grain isn't at the right moisture, you still cant harvest it economically. Guess the modern day kids cant do maths in their heads going along to work out the yield as the crop is being harvested ?

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