EPISODE 727 HORSE DRAWN GRAIN BINDER AND CORN BINDER…CAN YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE? (OHIO AMISH FARMS)
alan skeoch
Jan. 31, 2023
A motorized combine harvester does the work of harvesting now. One man and another couple of drivers
with triple axle trucks and attached trailers do all th harbrding o drbrtsl 100 acre farms in one day.
Harvesting has not always been that easy.
In the early 1990’s we were able to find older machines and horses at work in Central Ohio on Amish farms.
Today, in 2023 the same early machines will be harvesting much as it was done between 1880 and 1950.
Two binding machines .. A grain binder nd s corn binder. Binder? Both machines did the same
thing. They cut grain and corn into bundles that were then tied by a length of binder twine although the first
binders used wire which was not nearly as edible as twine. Once bound into sheaves there were other
labour intensive steps…stooking to assure the tassels were dried in the sun and then the sheave ere loaded and
hauled to that dinosaur of the harvest…the threshing mach ior the less well known corn shelling machine.
who said farming was easy?
EPISODE 727 HORSE DRAWN GRAIN BINDER AND CORN BINDER…CAN YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE? (OHIO AMISH FARMS)
Do you remember that line from Oklahoma …”The corn is as high as giraffe’s eye”…or was it an elephant’s eye?
This power driven corn sheller is rare….maybe none left other than this painting
Horses were one ugly clued. Now there is no place for them in farm labour. Bath anyone?