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Post by pontiac1940 on Jun 6, 2023 16:15:54 GMT
An old house that I have posted on PSEM before. June 5, 2023. Would not normally shoot "straight on" like this but it seems to work.  |
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Post by hmca on Jun 6, 2023 16:23:58 GMT
Always enjoy seeing pictures of this old house. Not sure I ever noticed that little structure in the rear. Is that another old house in the distance? It would be great to see your many pictures presented in a series somewhere local to you.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jun 6, 2023 18:14:11 GMT
Is that another old house in the distance? Thanks Helen. Yes, the wee tiny house is a long way behind the main house. Looks the size of a doghouse but it is a house. It is a lovely part of the world albeit not lush with greenery. This house is at the south end of the Porcupine Hills, that are an "island" of high hills surrounded by grassland and cropland. The tops of the "Porkies" was above (or between) the Laurentide and Cordilleran Ice sheets during the last Ice Age. Perhaps one day I'll make a scrapbook page.  Perhaps. |
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Post by hmca on Jun 6, 2023 23:13:28 GMT
Looks the size of a doghouse My first thought  |
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Post by jackscrap on Jun 7, 2023 1:30:33 GMT
Very picturesque, do you know any of the history of this old homestead?
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jun 7, 2023 2:23:33 GMT
do you know any of the history of this old homestead? No, I do not Jacki. I could ask a local who would likely know. So easy for this sort of info to be lost. Families pass away, or move on and the land sold etc., and 3 generations later the history is gone. I spoke with a friendly rancher up that way last summer. I will ask if I see him again. There are some spectacular ranch houses up this way. A cool $20 million would probably get you a small ranch. Out of my league. |
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Post by jackscrap on Jun 7, 2023 3:33:25 GMT
A cool $20 million would probably get you a small ranch. Out of my league. Yeah, me too.... |
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Post by WayneS on Jun 7, 2023 20:38:50 GMT
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Post by hmca on Jun 7, 2023 22:40:17 GMT
How wonderful to have these old family pictures, Wayne.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 8, 2023 5:11:12 GMT
Wayne's Picture For whatever reason, it refuses to allow me to include Wayne's picture within this post -- not in a normal Quote and not by simply using the url thingie. I thought we used to be able to include photos within quotes, but maybe I am wrong.Hard to tell from your picture; but, I think this is the predecessor to your machine.
I believe your machine goes a step further and actually binds the shocks of Wheat, hence the spool of wooden slats that this machine lacks.
Also, this machine brings the standing Wheat in from the opposite side as the one in your photo.   Deering Reaper
As best I can find out, manufactured some time between 1907 and 1922; after 1922, it would have had a metal table.
Team drawn, this cut the standing wheat, gathered it on the table, and then swept the table, leaving a shock-sized pile of wheat on the ground to be picked up and hand-tied.
The electric motor is for demonstration purposes only and kept the mechanism in action while it sat stationary.
The machine was ground-driven by the ribbed wheel.
Although this is a far cry from the combines of today, it was a vast improvement over hand scythes and wheat cradles.
Fall 2018__Masiker's Shop-Hill-Billies' Day
Emory Masiker Family
Shop Hill Road - Liberty - Casey County - Kentucky
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jun 8, 2023 14:20:10 GMT
this machine brings the standing Wheat I recall my uncles making stooks and threshing in the 50s. A lot of labor was needed to harvest a wheat field. |
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Post by WayneS on Jun 8, 2023 15:57:26 GMT
A few more pics of early harvesting! And a little trivia, we did not have electricity on the farm, until 1948, every fall, we would process chickens to eat over the winter. As I recall, somewhere between 80 and 100 chickens would be plucked and cleaned! So how do you store them?? We would tie a length of binder twine to a leg, and bury them in the wheat in the granary!! In Manitoba, the temperature over the winter gets down to -30F to -40F, and these chickens would stay frozen till about May!!! i.ibb.co/bBd37SP/1928-Threshing.jpgi.ibb.co/XkSFC28/1935-Farming-1.jpgi.ibb.co/gZB71Pj/1940-Loading-Grain.jpg |
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 8, 2023 19:54:59 GMT
I really enjoy these old photos.
Notice how everyone has paused in their activities and are looking at the camera; there was no such thing as an action shot back in those days; film and developing was much too expensive to be wasting it trying to get an action shot.
In good productive land like that, the horses will always be sleek and fat, even though they are worked hard, and the women are always plump and content; whereas, in flint-rock and sawbrier Kentucky, where a barefoot might get sliced open on an Indian arrowhead and you get tangled up in the sawbriers and get your feet yanked out from under you just trying to walk behind the mule, the horses, mules, men, women, and youngens will all be walking skeletons and the women will always have that dark shadowy haunting eyes sunk back in their heads look about them. tie a length of binder twine to a leg, and bury them in the wheat
So that's why, when the preacher came to fill his hide at Sunday dinner, he thought that the biscuits tasted a bit like a wet chicken...
I am going to speculate and say that the grain sucked the moisture from the chickens and helped in their preservation.
I never saw a crib or bin that wasn't just swarming with mice and rats; how did you keep them from eating the chickens ?
Back in those days, granny would trim away any mouse or insect damage and feed us the rest; nowadays, if a housewife suspected mouse or insect intervention, she would throw the whole lot away..
.... and then let a spoilt lapdog or nasty old cat have free reign over the eating table and kitchen countertops... which is why I won't eat anything at a potluck dinner or family reunion.
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Post by WayneS on Jun 8, 2023 22:40:44 GMT
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Post by WayneS on Jun 8, 2023 22:44:08 GMT
I am going to speculate and say that the grain sucked the moisture from the chickens and helped in their preservation.
I never saw a crib or bin that wasn't just swarming with mice and rats; how did you keep them from eating the chickens ?
We never found the chickens that had been frozen and buried in the wheat to be dry, and mice and rats were never an issue, as we had barn cats that kept them under control, and the chickens were buried a few feet down in the wheat! |
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