Excellent ... thank you, Harry, for sharing this with us ... I love the old machinery ...

Thanks so much for sharing Harry. We had the remains of one of these in our "bone yard" on the farm I grew up on but I never saw it operate. Now I have! Cheers from Canada!

I remember my tractor driving days, early combines and Jones Balers but then you had to hand load the bales onto a trailer. The first few rows of bales alright but when you and to throw them up to get to the top, especially if the bales were wet it was back breaking after a days of it. I do not think the modern tractor drivers know they are born! thanks I enjoyed the video James

Excellent. Thanks, Harry. My dad would have loved to see this video. He grew up in the Midwestern, U.S. farm country, and worked with a variety of farming machines when he was a kid in the 1930's. I think that machine was similar to what his family used. He always enjoyed any chance to get around them whenever he could in his later years. He moved us here to the arid Southwest part of the country to pursue better work opportunities in the mining industry, but he never lost his interest, and love of farming machinery.

Here is a link to my film on threshing wheat by steam power:kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fpx-iJOEv52wemg.html

Wow what a great video. Thank you we're sharing it.

Such an interesting film,it must have been wonderful to see these at harvest time.Some times i just wish we could turn the clock back.Thanks for the video Harry...

"The binder is an attractive instrument. Especially as seen from a little distance, its gently turning 'sails noiselessly paddling back the lake of corn. At close quarters the ingenuity of the thing is fascinating. To cut at that rate is in itself an achievement; but also to take up convenient portions of what is being cut, and bind it, and then chuck out the bound sheaf - that is something remarkable. Yes, one feels, the cutting was a straightforward invention perhaps, and the elevating of it upward on a moving canvas; but to have it tied firmly into separate parts and then flicked out - how accomplish that with robot fingers?" - John Stewart Collis, The Worm Forgives the Plough (London: Charles Knight & Co Ltd, 1974), p.134

Great video . It would be good to include a history of these machines in the video. When was the Reaper and Binder first introduced . Who invented it ? Which companies manufactured them ? Over what period were they used ? I am from Ireland and I remember them being used by farmers in Ireland in the 1960's . Also the Trasher . Trashing was a special social occasion on farms when local farmers came together to help each other . I remember there would be alcohol brought in . It was at a Trashing that I tasted Guinness for the first time .I remember I thought it tasted awful.

Can’t beat the rattle of a Major!

Ours collected them and it was my job to trip the collection when there were 8 bundles, so my grandpa could shock them later.

reminds me of when i was a kid cuttin hay

I use to live in an area that had a very large Amish community. Within it there was a fair number of Swartzentruber Amish. They hard equipment like this but they pulled it with a team of horses. Then they would stack the bundles into shocks and leave them in the field.

This was a lovely video.

Grandfather told me stories about cutting wheat all by hand. He would have enjoyed having a thresher.

Thanks for the great video, does anyone know whether it is possible to find an old manual for one of these machines? Regards of the brand. Would be of great service in trying to get one of these old machines working again!

V. cool video. I follow the work of Dr. Stephen Jones with the Bread Lab at WSU. He has very interesting videos and papers on wheat genetics and heritage varieties. It would be cool to know what variety the wheat in your video belongs to and how it performs when baked.

I want to buy one is it possible

what happens to the wheat the kernels how do they take them off?

could you please merge right and left audiotrack. the jumping between them is a tad annoying!