74 Replies to “And They Still Ain’t Got The ’42 Crop Off”

  1. Too freaking funny. First I thought this was just Kate putting up a good ol’ picture with a caption, but just for fun went to the CBC story… and there it was.

  2. … honestly I think it may be a complete combine harvester – not too sure
    Now there’s an understatement.

  3. Glasnost, so this is what it looks when it’s surfacing, I can hardly wait for the call “dive dive dive”

  5. Spent many an hour on the Versatile swatter, glasnost. Swatting rape seed no less! Can you imagine the horror of a CBC type reading this? OMG they would say, RAPE on the family farm! Hurry and get the grief councilors out to the country! heh heh!
    How ’bout a viber-shank? Not “vibra” shank, like it’s spelled, but VIBER-shank!!!
    This is fun!

  6. Eskimo at 5:24 PM: “And Kate, you’re right…where else but SDA could we have a thread like this?. And tomorrow the topic might be economics or nuclear theory!”
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    And that’s the Saskatchewan I know and love.
    And isn’t Melita right beside the Souris River?
    Thrashing, threshing. I grew up hearing both.
    I was about 10-12 years old when the last harvest done by a threshing/thrashing crew was taken in in the area where I grew up. People came from miles and miles around to take pictures of the passing of an era. That was a half century ago, CBC, just so you’ll know.

  7. OK somebody has to say it . . . this is obviously proof of global warming causing the oceans to rise.
    That is salt water.

  9. Don’t know about anyone else but I clicked on the link, found out it was CBC, went straight to Kate’s comment section where old machinery was being discussed. I mean really who cares what CBC has to say? We’re talking about old farm machinery here!

  11. We threshed with a McCormick Deering separator and a JD D on steel on the belt right up until 1970. Great memories. That was on a farm north of Whitewood Sask on the Qu’Appelle Valley.

  12. Most of the old timers I knew that used the machines called them thrashers. They knew that the job they did was threshing.

  13. And now at our farm we run a 480 HP JD 9870 with a 400 bushell hopper and a 42 foot header out front, harvesting 250-300 acres a day. Makes you wonder what we will have for equipment 40 years from now….

  14. Definitely a thrashing machine. Tons of them standing around southern Ontario rusting. Drills too.
    The flat-fendered JD tractor is a -little- old, don’t see many except at the fall fair. But 40’s-50’s tractors are seen out getting the job done every day.
    I’m thinking about getting one of those crazy old garden tractors that look like they’re on stilts. Just the thing for killing the weeds in a large tomato/herb/pepper patch, and its another antique to fiddle with. Two hobbies satisfied at one go. ~:D

  15. The Phantom
    I’m with ya on the trashing machine and leaning towards the IH WD6 as Al the Fish noted and if I’m not mistaken that is a set of drills behind the thrasher.

  16. Phantom, neighbours of ours when we were on the farm had a mid 60’s John Deere 4020 that they bought new. They still use it to feed cows every day. I recall talking to them a few years ago and they said it now has in excess of 30,000 hours, maybe closer to 40K as the hour meter broke years ago! We had two 4020’s that each had a respectable 15 to 20,000 hours that are probably still running today even after we sold them back in 1986. Not too many people could claim they have 30,000 hours on their prime use automobile. Multiply that 30K by 80 to 100 km/h and you’ll see why!
    ryan…..think what Grand Dad would have thought if you told him that there would come a time when farm equipment would have GPS guidance and auto-steer like they do today.
    And the city folk think THEY are the only ones that are hip and modern. Real men text their wife and kids from the cab of the tractor, not from the Starbucks! heh heh!

  17. altaguy at 7:02 PM: “That was on a farm north of Whitewood Sask on the Qu’Appelle Valley.”
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    Hey Altaguy, I’m a valley girl, too. North of Indian Head.

  20. I’m sure CBC sent that imbecile so called commedien Rick Mercer out to Sask. for this report. Rumor has it, he is still wandering around looking for that Johnson Bar they told him about. Those tricksters at CBC.

  23. The caption mentions the location, but does not credit the artist. Maybe another billion per year and we’ll start seeing work one would be willing to put your name on. Who’s the real antique, the machinery in the photo or the CBC?

  24. altaguy at 10:29 PM: “Hey Louise. Then you know the Qu’Appelle is a very beautiful place.”
    Indeed. It’s a jewel. I grew up right beside the river, which is pretty swollen right now.

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