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Farming on the Palouse in 1938, using a horse-drawn combine. Filmed by Leonard Young for Washington State University. This silent film was digitized and uploaded at Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University from a film held in the WSU Libraries (Pullman, Washington).
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A lot of respect for those guys but even more for those horses usually with wheat harvest it is .......hot
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This is mesmerizing....seeing how hard they had to work back then. Humbles me somehow....
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That looks like about 16 to 18 horses pulling the combine. The guy sitting down and tying up the sacks as they get full and then shoving them off the combine has a more difficult job that it looks. I did a little of that on a tractor-drawn combine in the 1950's. It is hard work.
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do you know the names of the Farmers? My Great Grandfather worked the Palouse with his horses like this :) W.D. Largent
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wow, you how many break downs they had in those days? We have lots on these days!
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I have some still prints and the negatives that look like possibly the same scene. They were old JI Case promo materials and the information card with them say Pullman, Washington I believe. One of them shows a young native american girl on a paint pony standing nearby.
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see what farmers can do,farmers are special people and i am still farming and living memories
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Men were men in them days,and no health ans safety,
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I'm guessing the combine is a John Deere 36 (or Holt). This year (2014) we had a 1923 Harris 22x33.5 pulled by 8 mules at the Davenport Vintage Harvest. See the video 00067
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nice video, thank you. all that fresh air, blue sky, and golden wheat -- awesome. despite the hard work, that family must have loved it there. those wide expanses and rolling hills made me think too that it was probably once wild prairie, teeming with bison, and home to a different people, just a hundred years prior to the video. things can change so much in a long lifetime. now in 2014 its over 75 years since the video, and I wonder what is there now. are the kids and grandkids still on the farm? that would be nice. in any event, the video sure is a beautiful snapshot of part of the life on that farm in 1938. (and as always, love the draft horses too...).
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We used to play on an old red thresher in a barn when i was a kid in the 60's It was all wood and very ornate with fancy scroll work and such. It was very tall (10-12feet) and had a large wheel for a belt drive. It had no cutter so the crops would have been brought by wagon to the stationary thresher for processing
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Lovely Film/Video Thanks for your efforts to digitise and uploading- Priceless !
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CONT> Grandmother had pictures of the harvest and they used a similar horse drawn combine, usually around 30 head.
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Rob C My grandfather farmed over a 1000 acres in Rollette Co North Dakota from 1890's til mid 1920, and yes the drought got them and they just got up and left. The land is once again being farmed. mostly wheat. That land destroyed a lot of people.
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Might want to check around at some auction houses, or companies that deal with the amish community. weird, but they still use them today.
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20 years ago a fellow here brought home all the iron parts from a horse drawn wood machine. It took him 10 years but he completely rebuilt it. I would love to have one also but I am having trouble just finding a 30's Baldwin to restore anymore.
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Anyone know where I can find one of these for sale?
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Do you suppose anyone thought about the pressure under each horse hoof? Maybe this is one reason why land needed to go fallow. See 'Miastrada Dragon At Work' for a low pressure alternative.
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this is awesome! my Great Grandfather use to do that i guess! thanks for sharing!