Harvesting oats in the West of Ireland with a New Holland Clayson 1545 Combine Harvester

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Жыл бұрын

At the end of August, the harvest is in full swing in the West of Ireland. A few decades back, when the summers were warmer and drier in this part of the world, this land produced great crops of oats and barley - nowadays, with the shift in global weather patterns due climate change, the climate in the West of Ireland has become very unpredictable, and in general much damper and cooler. So farmers needs a bit of good fortune to get a well ripened crop from their fields - and Tim Lehane, local farmer in West Cork, could count himself lucky with a field of golden oats ready to be cut! So an old New Holland Clayson 1545 Combine Harvester was pulled out and put to use.
A few years ago, we attempted to grow oats on our farm - we weren't into film making back then so only have a few photos to show:
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but we can confirm that it is a labour intensive but rewarding job when all goes right! But getting it right can be tricky - and doing it all by hand compared with a Combine Harvester is a different story again...
Tim Lehane didn't only bring in a great yield of grain from the field that day, he also managed to raise €6435 of donations towards the Irish Air Ambulance Service. Well done!!!
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@davidquerry8869 Жыл бұрын

Sandra, I seriously think you should look into reading for childrens audio books. You could make the phone book sound exciting.

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Haha, I'll test that theory one day! Will consider your suggestion, you are not the first, so there must be something to my tone and pronunciation...

@paganpride464 Жыл бұрын

@@WayOutWestx2 I watch your videos with my two youngest and they like listening to you.

@davidhaywood8029 Жыл бұрын

I'll add my vote: Irish meets German (with Ireland in the ascendant) is an unexpectedly soothing combination to my tinnitus-ridden ears...

@tonydewey3023 3 ай бұрын

Spent ten years selling spare parts for clayson combines in hampshire, good memories

@rolfbrunner3016 Жыл бұрын

Nice to watch.Greatinfs from a German,living in Indonesia

@SteveeCee Жыл бұрын

What a lovely feeling of wellbeing we get after watching your Blog Sandra and Tim. Thank you.

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Aww, thanks.

@gordanmilne7034 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the craic.

@lincolngrove2808 Жыл бұрын

What a gentle pleasure your blog is. Lovely, thank you.

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

@jenhofmann Жыл бұрын

It's wonderful to be reminded where our food comes from and the people who make it possible. Thank you for this informative video!

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

It's a lot of work when you start thinking about it!

@rubygray7749 Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing haycocks and corn stooks on farms when I was very small. There was great excitement when the first combine harvester came to my grandfather's farm in Tasmania. I also have a photograph of my great grandfather on that same farm, driving 3 draught horses to harvest his fields of oats with a reaper and binder. Also one of my grandfather as a boy, on the great day when it was Mill Farm's turn for the steam engine and thresher to visit. Many workers and their dogs gathered to feed oat sheaves into it, and stitch the bulging sacks of grain closed.

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Back then, harvesting was a community event, with everyone helping and celebrating afterwards. Nowadays usually there is no time for that anymore and everyone fights their own battle. Soon, there won;t be any drivers in the super modern machines anymore and they will be driven via GPS. That's what attracted so many to this event, it gave us all a chance to connect with the land, the season and the community we live in!

@DianeD862 Жыл бұрын

We will watch this on later we love watching.We watch a farmer as well in Ireland he’s called Farmer Phil he his in County Longford he’s so interesting a family farmer.We enjoy watching your farmer.Hope your getting better ❤️‍🩹.GodBless.

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Will look up farmer Phil!

@RB-wl7ct Жыл бұрын

I dont know how I missed this. What a lovely, lovely video. Thank you so much.

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@theramblingnaturalist9601 Жыл бұрын

What a lovely video, I have a small farmer opposite me, not huge farm, he uses an old New Holland with open cab, always seems to do the job. The other local farm [1200 + acres] has what they consider an "old" Claas - it's 8 years old and constantly breaking down!

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

I think the more 'modern' machines get, the more parts there are to them and the more complexity in making them all work together in harmony!

@irishjonny11 Жыл бұрын

Lovely video .. I love my trips down to Kilcrohane where the people are so friendly ♥️

@frederickmoller Жыл бұрын

Thanks for a lovely video that I learned about oats, which I never knew about before, and also the comradery involved to this special occasion!

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Amazing how much there is to oats, isn't it?

@gannas42 Жыл бұрын

This made my morning. What a nice get together for a good cause. So lovely to see everyone out having a pleasant time together. Warms my heart. Thanks for sharing!

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@yeagerxp Жыл бұрын

Very Nice 👍👍👍Thank you for sharing . Take care of yourselves, be safe, and healthy 🇨🇦

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too!

@jamesswanton9377 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Sandra for doing a fine job on the video, just to say that machine is 50 years old and had a very leisurely life with the previous owner.

@vladabocanek3703 Жыл бұрын

Way out west can be a way way western :) Nice video and nice well spended time for all.

@tomtruesdale6901 Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful trip that must have been. Beautiful countryside there.

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

It was a treat to be out on that day!

@johncourtneidge Жыл бұрын

Hurrah! What a peach of a plot of land!

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

It's a special plot alright!

@assassinlexx1993 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful country you have. With your tiny fields. There must be a reason why you keep the fields tiny.

@eckosters Жыл бұрын

First off: yes, I think you’d be an excellent audiobook reader! And I loved all of this but I am surprised the farmer owns the combine! Where I grew up, these kinds of super expensive machinery are purchased by a member-owned farm co-op. And for trivia: we had a little lunch cafe here until recently. It was called The Rolled Oat 😊

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Oh, I would have loved to visit that cafe, great name, and I love oats - porridge, oatmeal biscuits, oat bread...you name it! Nowadays these machines are collector's items really as the modern machines have taken over. They are owned by people who have the spare time to mind them. But yes, in the olden days they were shared between farms - especially when the stationary threshing machines were still used. They used to travel from farm to farm at harvest time, and everyone helped each other, it was called 'meitheal', the Irish word for coming together to support and help.

@mischef18 Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this video so thanks so much for taking us along. They only do maise (corn) in my area so it's good to see something else being harvested. Safe travels

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

A field of maize looks pretty, too, but nothing beats a golden yellow field of oats I think!

@geraldinewillis9293 Жыл бұрын

Looks like great fun

@timeflysintheshop Жыл бұрын

That was a great video about a great event! Well done! It is fun to see an older piece of farm equipment put to good use. Here in Ohio, the combines are huge! We grow lots of corn, wheat, and soybeans here, as well as clover and hay.

@peterfarmer1592 Жыл бұрын

Loved that. Thankyou. 💕

@jamesswanton9377 Жыл бұрын

What a fine video myself on the combine and a fine crowd to support a very worthy cause the air ambulance

@heronimousbrapson863 Жыл бұрын

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. - Samuel Johnson.

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Oats are very popular here in Ireland. And I am not surprised, so tasty and nutritious! But sadly, on the downside, it's mostly soy and maize and sugar beet that goes to horses these days.

@bluelilly22222 Жыл бұрын

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@H4rleyBoy Жыл бұрын

You don't say how many hours were spent chasing vermin out of the internals or how many hoses or belts were chewed on and replaced, but it's always great to see an old bit of kit out doing what it was built to do though.

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

I wasn;t there when they tried to get it going again, so no, I don't know! But it worked happily and smoothly all afternoon once it was in the field!

@jamesswanton9377 Жыл бұрын

Vermin aren't a problem if a few good cats around

@jamesswanton9377 Жыл бұрын

All first day belts on that machine 50.years old.

@martialme84 Жыл бұрын

06:55 I'm with you on the appreciation of machinery while still being horse power obsessed. "Why not enjoy both?", i say.

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Once in a while, watching machines is great, but watching horse power always goes! (Tim would not agree on this one, we are all different, aren't we?!)

@FarmingTheFens Жыл бұрын

We use an open air 1530, always done us well

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Oh yes, there are many different versions, all very handy!

@jamesswanton9377 Жыл бұрын

The 1530 was the smaller version of the 1545 , the 1545 was away bigger machine

@DisVietVetUSA Жыл бұрын

Great video and did Tim win the ratchet set by chance? In our home we sit dow to a pipping hot bowl of McCann's Irish Oatmeal with brown sugar, it is good for the heart ad want ails ya digesit wise. Me favorite is Irish Oatmeal Cookies as they are great with a hot cup of dripped coffee...... See ya round the next vidweo, be well and happy and say hello to Eor for me!

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Will do! And no, he didn't win. Still had a good day though.

@kameljoe21 Жыл бұрын

Sandra, i am guessing that oat harvest is very small in Ireland? If that is the case then I can see why its a sweet event. Where I live harvest like this a a busy time of the year. I have helped, harvest wheat, corn and other things. My neighbor Henry still have a really nice and in working condition threshing Machine which has aI think a hit and miss or a diesel engine like Tim has. He spent a lot of time working on it and fixing every old little flaw and updated it over the years and has a sweet paint job. Every few years he would pull it out and take a horse drawn sickle mower and an atv and cut some wheat and rake it and and pitch it on to a running gear and thrash it. Its a sight to see for sure. New Hollands are pretty nice machines. We have a massive amount of old 50s 60s models Gleaners combines that can be bought for real cheap in working order with good heads. I just do not have enough land to do it my self. i though have watched this channel called JunkYard Digs I think. They did a whole series about fixing up junk farm equipment and plant and harvest corn.

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Would definitely be nice to have enough suitable land to get one of those machines in, or like you describe, have a sort of work day, with reaper binder, threshing machine etc. Farmers grew a lot of oats and barley here in the West of Ireland, but the fields are too small now for those big modern machines, and the climate not really suitable to get an economically viable and reliable harvest. But further up in the middle of the county and along the east coast, there is still a lot of grain grown. Have you heard of Flahavans? Big main producers of oats for human consumption here in Ireland. And a big part of our animal feed of oats and barley is grown here in Ireland. Alos barley for brewing. The climate in the midlands and on the east coast is very different from way out west!

@kameljoe21 Жыл бұрын

@@WayOutWestx2 Now I am wondering what kind of Flahavans I should get.

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Flahavans Organic Porridge Oats are unbeatable, just had my breakfast portion, mmmh!

@hassancharaq5775 Жыл бұрын

hello how are you and how is this new season is your new season in this year

@jasonmushersee Жыл бұрын

a day of itchy

@The...0_0... Жыл бұрын

I wonder how long a field like that would take to manually harvest ... man or beast ?!💖💖💖

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

By hand with scythe? With a capable crew hopefully no longer than a day. With horsedrawn reaper binder probably a few hours?

@calvingreene90 Жыл бұрын

A good excuse for a party.

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

And a good cause!

@candiwallace6605 Жыл бұрын

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@ltsmash45 Жыл бұрын

@rentregagnant Жыл бұрын

...But I've got a brand-new combine harvester and I'll give you the key!

@FarmingTheFens Жыл бұрын

Come now let’s get together in perfec armony!

@ronjones9373 Жыл бұрын

Just how far is way, way, out west?

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

A looong way ;-) Last stop before America!

@kameljoe21 Жыл бұрын

I want a box of Coco Pops. America does not have it. I am thinking it would be cheaper to pay someone in Ireland to ship me an empty box to which I can put my cocoa Krispies in ( the same thing. ) If anyone wants to do that. Let me know. Amazon says... Kellogg's Coco Pops (800g) Brand: Kellogg's 4.0 out of 5 stars 22 ratings -29% $19.99 ($0.71 / Ounce) Walmart says.. Kellogg's Coco Pops Jumbos 220 G $162.39 Out of stock What are Coco Pops called in America? Image result for kellogg coco pops american version Called Coco Pops in the UK and Ireland. The cereal was introduced in the United States in 1958. In 2003, the cereal was renamed "Cocoa Rice Krispies", as Kellogg's endeavored to unite their Rice Krispies variations under a single marketing schema. In 2006, the name was changed back to Cocoa Krispies.

@WayOutWestx2 Жыл бұрын

Ah poor you. No coco pops unless you are rich! Nearly 20 dollars from amazon is still hefty, gosh. Tempts me to start an export business ;-)