Nostalgia videos

[Selectamatic]

Stumbled across this....

 

[Vizslaman]

Brilliant. Thanks for posting that.
I well remember most of it except we hard Fordson Major & Super Major.
Milling the pig food was one of the jobs I was allowed to do aged 12 LOL
How times have changed

 

[mikep]

Love the 1100. Fantastic car but rotted faster than they could make them.

 

[essexpete]

I wonder if Don made old bones with all the filthy dust in the feed shed?

 

[mikep]

I wonder if Don made old bones with all the filthy dust in the feed shed?

Probably find him down the pub and still on 40 Woodbines a day.

 

[Will Wilson]

When did programming stop being so 'lovely' - not a negative word spoken, sunny weather, happy faces, rolling classical music.... it beats reality.

 

[7610 super q]

What a palaver.....

 

[New Puritan]

These videos are great - keep 'em coming. The sad thing is my farm seems fairly contemporary with this lot...

 

[Selectamatic]

These videos are great - keep 'em coming. The sad thing is my farm seems fairly contemporary with this lot...

Nothing sad about that, it's living history.

 

[New Puritan]

Yeah my friends laugh about the 'how we used to live' vibe at the farm. The video @7610 super q posted above made some scornful remarks about the "40 year old" PTO driven potato spinner some yokel was still using - we've still got a sodding land drive version.

 

[Pan mixer]

Love the 1100. Fantastic car but rotted faster than they could make them.

I am sure that Basil Fawlty had one very similar (the estate version) like that which wasn't so reliable.

 

[mikep]

What a palaver.....

Palaver? OK in those times it was graft but with company and a good craic could be had. Probably one family supported by 50 acres unlike 1000 today, simple times and I'm really glad I was lucky enough to have been there or thereabouts.

 

[Selectamatic]

I wish i had a time machine....

 

[7610 super q]

Palaver? OK in those times it was graft but with company and a good craic could be had. Probably one family supported by 50 acres unlike 1000 today, simple times and I'm really glad I was lucky enough to have been there or thereabouts.

I was thinking there was a bit of recreational cultivation.... one pass with a rotavator (were they about in the early '60s ? ) would have done.

 

[essexpete]

I was thinking there was a bit of recreational cultivation.... one pass with a rotavator (were they about in the early '60s ? ) would have done.

Not sure about the merit of the rotavator but a lot of cultivating for sure, especially when they came to the amount of clods on the harvester. I assume that the cultivation operation was staged, taking place on one day or a few. I was surprised at the density of the haulm with one lot baulking.

 

[7610 super q]

Not sure about the merit of the rotavator but a lot of cultivating for sure, especially when they came to the amount of clods on the harvester. I assume that the cultivation operation was staged, taking place on one day or a few. I was surprised at the density of the haulm with one lot baulking.

Yes, I noticed spuds were picked off , rather than the clods and stones.

 

[Vizslaman]

@mikep like you I am old enough to remember those time (just) and it was definitely sociable working

 

[Scribus]

Heartwarming little piece here, The music of the tractor -

 

[New Puritan]

What a palaver.....

Having just watched this again as I can't find anything else interesting to do, what's the 'land leveller' thing about at about 1:33 minutes in? I've not seen one of them before. I can't imagine it working on ploughed heavy clay soils? Can anyone shed any more light on them please?

 

[JLLM]

There was one youtube video doing the rounds of a farmer from Essex who was using a big chisel plough to prepare the ground and broadcasting the seed, anyone remember it or got a link?