Thanks for sharing these treasures with us. I remember those precious days working with my family. Days like those are what molds us into the person we are today.

Thank you for bringing these back to life. I was 24 (56 now) at the time this video was taken. We ran a gleaner Cii (c2 with 20 ft header) just like the one in the video and a 1981 gleaner N6 with a 24ft header. Had a green Ford bobtail like your red one and a big dodge tandem bobtail followed by a 1958 international bobtail with no brakes. We harvested our 1000 acres of wheat and custom cut another 1000 acres for some small farmers around us that the big custom cutters would not talk to. Were some fun times but it was hard work and long hours. 1988 was also the year I got to run an old gleaner A combine for a neighbor who had 3. His son got sick, so dad sent me over to help out and run one of his As for a few days. Best cleaning combine I ever ran. He was an old custom cutter and had retired out of Oklahoma to Texas. Told me at one time he ran 14 gleaners A combines (two crews of 7) out on harvest from Oklahoma north to south Dakota. Miss the old days when things were not as complicated and so technical. GPS to us was aim the combine at the post at the other end of the field and try to cut a straight line.

Back in the 60s, the Massey Harris, Special 92 combine had a 16' header, I thought it was huge.

So glad you and your family told the time to document the family harvest journey - - - priceless !!!!

The opening shot with three red giants...classic :)

Thanks for the memories. This brings a lot of memories to me. I was born in 1961 and from 60 to March 66, my family owned the grocery store with the house through the screen door in the back of the store in Humphreys Oklahoma in addition to farming and my Dad was a custom hay harvester and custom cotton harvester. He even went to Alice, TX considering a harvest run in cotton, but didn't do it. Each summer and fall, all the Combine Harvesters and the cotton boll pickers and later machinery cotton harvesters were my best friends and I could safely walk the line of grain trucks or pickups pulling trailers of cotton to invite everyone to our store. In 66 we moved to our new house on the farm and as a little kid I always went trucking with the wheat harvest crew all day. In the early 80's we had a wheat harvester, Ben Droste, Lawrence, KS, bring a Massey from their family's farm in Tribune KS and his wife's Uncle's Massey from Cutback, MT picking up George from the Birch Creek Huterite Colony. I remember the day in the early 80s that George cried and cried as he said goodbye to my Dad as he loved my Dad so much. It was Geoge's time to return and marry at the colony. A few years ago, George called here, for the first time since we had talked to him that day on his last harvest before returning to the colony, hoping to talk to my Dad and I sadly had to tell him that he went to Heaven in 2005. George and I have remained great friends and I get calls from the Colony every few weeks. Great memories for my 92 year old Mom and I on our farm here in Southwest Oklahoma. So good to see your generations and the Legacy of all of them continuing on in you and Jim!

OH THE MEMORIES ! When my father moved into a retirement home in town , my wife and I got the chore of going thru the house . My father always kept a daily journal of what we were doing . It is like going back 20-30-40- years . i can sit and read these day after day , back when hard manual labor was the way . Picking ear corn with flare box wagons , then a combine with a 13' head and a two row corn head , shelling ear corn , cobs for the feeder cattle .The memories of way back when .Some people don't realize how agriculture has changed so much in such a short time frame . THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE MEMORIES !

These videos are so cool, thank you for sharing them. I love seeing the old stuff working. Watching the crew is fun too.

Looks as if everyone was having a good time. You can't put a price on memories like that. Take care and God Bless.

Thank you so much for these videos. Bring back lots of memories of my own.

This old footage has been great to watch … Jim stands and talks exactly the same no mistaken him 😂 ,, and your Grandfather had some stylish overalls Tracy..thanks again for sharing your family history and memories with us 👍

You are really lucky to have these old videos. Thanks for sharing.

These videos are purely magical. Thank you so much for sharing these golden memories with us

Gotta love those coveralls. Every color of the rainbow. Awesome videos.

Really enjoying this series. A great way to have winter content.

I can still here the purr of the combine and that’s been 55 plus yrs.ago..late into the evening dust trailing of in the heavy dewed air and cooling of the air with the blistering sun setting over the horizon..coming home and only me an dad sitting at the table him serving me. Lukewarm food as every one was in bed sleeping..Loved his commitment as a true hands on farmer

I used to joke about my mom and dads 40th wedding anniversary Most farmers would buy their wives a new car for those occasions. MY Dad bought mom a brandnew 1 1/2 ton Chevrolet grain truck lol

This is awesome! I am so glad you documented this stuff. Taking video in the mid to late 80s was very rare. I and my family would have always thought of it as being “ proud” or “ showboating “ but now, 40 years later I so wish we would have done things like this. It is an awesome glimpse into the past that we could have shown our kids. Very valuable

Thanks! Another look back in time. Love it!

Biggest thing that stood out to me was a nice young man named Jim!!! Great video Tracy. You certainly deserve it for as long as you've been harvesting wheat. John T

Enjoyed the history, lookin forward to the next video

Enjoying these family treasure moments of custom harvesting👍👍

Took a whole flock of those bobtails to keep up lol, great combines, the older ones rarely broke down, the middle ones were a pain when they tried to lighten them up and speeded the beaters up, Japanese bearings with no grease in them, Todd thing they fixed some of that

Great video again, memories.

Thanks 4 the great vid!

thank you for sharing another great video of remembering you are so fortunate to have these memories they are priceless!!!!!

Thanks again for the memories, did a lot of cutting in the Lodgepole area.

Used to have a 550 Massey years ago brings back a lot of memories watching them Harvest.

good for the New Year.

Brought back a lot of memories. Spent quite a bit of time in a 750 then a 860.

Nice looking back to the early days

Oh the good old days! Love it! These are precious memories!

Tracy these videos remind me of the wheat harvest I went on in 1971 at age 16. Field in Michigan

Very nice

Those are great treasures of Jim, your dad and grandfather, great memories for you.

Elden Boon(John Deere combines) is still farming today in Virden Mb.

Excellent footage, always wanted one of those big red 760's and thanks for including some data like header size grain capacity etc.

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Good times.

Awesome video thank you for sharing part of your life with us

I'm sure it wasn't an easier time but sure was more simpler time thank you I do enjoy the old videos

Hello from Rensselaer Indiana how you guys doing and it is cool bring old combine again and stay safe

We used to play Yard Darts at every family gathering. Great fun. Thanks for sharing.

Hope y’all are doing well...enjoying the series take care and keep em comin 🇺🇸💪🏻👌🏻#GBR😎

Fantastic thanks James in France

I can imagine what it would be like to cut wheat and run a camcorder at the same time I have a challenge with a I phone. Really enjoyed the video. Some really nice crop going through the massys lots of fun to go with the work. Good times

My grandpa well step grandpa used to have a custom harvesting crew way back in the 70s. I always enjoyed the stories.

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Jim was a lot more talkative back then i guess he is like myself everything i ever had to say i already said three times lol thank guys play more home video films

I like old videos but it seems like yesterday. Great videos.

That makes ‘02 look easygoing. 36’ heads, 9650sts’s, grain cart, and semi’s.

Great stuff. Worked what harvest 1983 for the Hurn's. Ran a IH 1460. GOOD MEMORIES. Kirk

These videos are great. Jim has a lot of knowledge and experience. Lots of sweat equity.

Watching all this footage from before i was even born is cool to see how it was done back then, like seeing all the old equipment too! I think the best part was noticing all the different colored cover-alls your grandfather (i think?) had on every time he was in the video lol.

Hello jim and Tracy my frist combine i drove was a Massey 51o and pull type combine then we had a Massey 760 now we have 2 jd9600 the good old days were the best i think these videos brings back how hard it was in the good old days .the farmers worked a hell of a lot harded back then. Thank you both. Sam

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was remembering while watching these last two video's and thinking that in 1988 was the beginning of the Grain cart as the new exhaust systems on Trucks were beginning to burn down equipment in the fields. WOW you have sure come a long ways indeed.

Its funny seeing the little "gas pot" grain trucks back then. I guess just before the CDL's came in and everybody moved up to bigger diesel rigs. Todd Konoske the retired trucker.

great video

I had a uncle that was a mechanic for the jd dealer in Esther Ville Iowa so we brought all jd combines and tractors from they on. Like jim said in one of your videos they all break down sooner or later. But still to me gleaners are the best combine.sam

I miss the 80s really

Neat seeing the older equipment. We had a service truck just like the red Ford except it wasn't a 4 door. Didn't realize you could get 4 doors back in the day. We were running an L2 Gleaner and 7700 JD on my uncle's farm at Little River Kansas. We thought we were kings. Always wanted to go on a custom crew but life got in the way. Thankfully I was able to satisfy my farming needs helping family. Thanks for bringing back some great memories!

Great video forgot all about the lawn darts.

Surprised to see Duane in your video. He was a local farmer that went on the harvest run. I can think of about a dozen local farmers that did that within a 20 mile radius up here back then. I think there is only one that does it on a very limited bases now. Love the old videos. Keep them coming.👍

I'm sure you were corrected on the Massey model. It's amazing those 20 & 22 ft header2 were probably the largest available and now you are running double that.

So you folks had a 760. Do you or Jim remember what was one of Massey's advertisements for those machines? Answer: the sieve area was wide enough to drive a Volkswagen in!

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My dad ran a 760 Massey, Then upgraded to the big 800 series combine. He was 💩 in tall cotton when he got that machine.lol. Same time he bought a Ford FW 60. .

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Really interesting video , almost 34 years have passed since those days that's how long we are in what we call "agri hire " here in Tipperary , i think we have a lot in common with the way you describe the highs and the lows of custom harvesting, for us the lows would be waiting on work or money to come in but then there's nothing to beat the feeling of flat out working , getting payment from a happy customer or a new piece of equipment. Regards from Ireland

I bet Jim would like to have his Toyota back just for the memory.

Back when u could cut wheat instead of today when have to mow it

Any idea , custom harvesting how much it cost per acre , corn , beans & wheat ? Pictures are great , they all worked very hard daily , keep up the good work , stay safe ! Memories !

Thank you so much for sharing these memories, my husband and i are enjoying them so much. We are looking so forward to the next video. Is the Berry's Farm still in existence?

I grew up in the 80's myself I worked for a local farmer and that's when my love of harvest "wheat harvest" grew my question is back in the 80's how many acres did you typically harvest for your customers. Just an average??

Ask Jim if he ever went to the bar on the hill at Timken?

Funny how people make the same remarks and questions as you were thinking. Same like you ask a farmer after church : how much yesterday, and he replies 15 and a half.....

I remember back in about '91 our custom combiner handed my dad a 15 000 dollar bill. The next year we bought a used Massey 750 grey cab and never hired again. No offense to you, but the "settling up with the farmer" scene reminded me. Anywho, blah blah blah. Great videos.

Obviously no auto steer !!! Lol.

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Did any of those Masseys have a v8 engine?? I thought some did.. I was 32 yo in 1988. Kinda tough times on the farm then. I had to work for a neighbor to keep farming!! But it all worked out got me to where I am today!! I really enjoy those old videos!!!

Tracy is it more difficult to do custom combining now compared to when you started out. i know the cost have sky rocketed since you started.

Custom harvesting seems quite easy in those days, just fishing an playing. ;) Jim laughts more in the old videos... The three Masseys look quite impressive in a row! Do you know what these metal bows on the header dividers were for?

Need big trucks when you run JD combines...🤣

Recognize a few scenes from Timken/Rush Center area. And the guy in the Polack joke clip…….Kurt Pechanec. Lol. He still lives nearby. Is that who you were harvesting for, or did he just stop by to drink beer and tell jokes (I could more easily believe the latter) ?

I was waiting for a Jim (Yeah)😂😂 How many years did you and girls not go with Jim? Not that they were all born when you started.

What was the yield on some of those crops? I remember 88 as a drought in the northern plains and southern prairies in Canada. Many fields not worth cutting. Very similar to 2021.

Excellent video! Lots of memories of harvest past. Did Jim make more clear money with the 850 Massey than the big New Holland?

How many acres did they custom harvest back then?

How many acres did they costom harvest back then

Which combine did Jim like running, the Massey Ferguson from the late 80's or the New Holland of today?

Really nice Videos .At 4 minutes and somethig you wrote the day before GP , what does GP mean ?

Was the 850 masseys the last combines your dad and grampa ran before retiring.

How many bushels per acre was you guys cutting back then

So the single TR does more in a day than the 3 760s did, right ?

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It was fun to see the good old days. back then it was rare to see conventional semis,mostly cabovers. Rain was in short supply too in 88. How old was your dad and grandpa at this time?

Did you always run red machines?

Add to the question on how many acres then…… and can the current New Holland out cut all 3 of those masseys?