{"id":25376,"date":"2023-09-18T14:52:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T18:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=25376"},"modified":"2023-10-21T04:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T08:24:53","slug":"episode-881-how-i-found-robert-downey-and-his-threshing-team-labour-day-at-steam-era-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=25376","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 881 HOW I FOUND ROBERT DOWNEY AND HIS THRESHING TEAM LABOUR DAY AT STEAM ERA 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 881   HOW I FOUND ROBERT DOWNEY AND HIS THRESHING TEAM  LABOUR DAY AT STEAM ERA 2023<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
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STEAM  ERA \u2014 THE HUME FARM \u2014 LABOUR DAY 2023<\/div>\n

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The huge Sawyer Massey steam powered tractor was taking a long slow turn on the Hume<\/div>\n
Farm near Milton.   A good chance to get a picture with a clearly rural background.  what I found<\/div>\n
was more than expected.  <\/div>\n
something was happening in the distance.,, a threshing team of four med a little boy<\/div>\n
shoving cornstalks into a most peculiar machine\u2026a McCormick Deerng corn harvester \u2026ancient, rusty, confusing, mysterious.<\/div>\n
The machine had been rescued and renovated by Robert  Downey,  a young inspired mechanic.   It was in full operation with no audience.<\/div>\n

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I did not know that until I got closer and talked with robert downey.  Nor did I know that the little boy would steal the show.<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 881   HOW I FOUND ROBERT DOWNEY AND HIS THRESHING TEAM  LABOUR DAY AT STEAM ERA 2023 alan skeoch sept. 18 , 2023 STEAM  ERA \u2014 THE HUME FARM \u2014 LABOUR DAY 2023 The huge Sawyer Massey steam powered tractor was taking a long slow turn on the Hume Farm near Milton.   A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}