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"The idea of combining the operations of cutting and threshing grain so that both are done at the same time by one machine is not new. On the contrary it seems.
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A close second is corn shredding, which takes place in the winter months. Temps are lot more comfortable, but something is different in the feel, probably the random days of work. Shredding happens as the need arises, threshing happens day after day, until its done, weather allowing. Even though it made you feel hotter, bundle pitchers almost always wore shoes or boots.

The reason was snakes. Apparently snakes like the shocks and hide in them, probably to catch the rodents that feed on the grain. Most wagons have a snake or two in them when you got them empty. There were no live snakes in the grain wagon, so I shoveled grain! Occasionally, there was a dead one that went through the threshing machine. After what happened in Genesis, the Amish attitude is the only good snake is a dead snake.

Despite the heat, I loved threshing. I still do. I have been accused of being in love with a threshing machine by my Amish friends.


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I will always consider the men and boys of the threshing ring to be my very best friends on this earth. I hope to see all of them in the next life. I read this to post to my son, Mark. He said that he had helped with the threshing this year. One of his friends called him and asked him to help.

You have the pitchers. They are pitching the sheaves of oats on to the wagon.

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You have the stackers. They stack the sheaves while on the wagon. Mark says the heads are pointed out or something. Then you have somebody driving the team of horses pulling the wagon. When the wagon is loaded up to the top it heads for the threshing machine. In the meantime another wagon has been unloaded and is on its way back to the field. Back at the threshing machine the sheaves need to be pitched into the threshing machine with the heads of the sheaves going in first.

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The oats are separated from the chaff and the straw. The straw comes out baled. After threshing the straw needs to be stacked away in the hay mow. Mark says there are two threshing rings in his community each with its own antique thresher. They are belt powered to a tractor. Someday I would like to go out and see all of this in operation, myself. Oh, and he said that this Friday evening is the threshing supper for anybody that helped thresh. But, in a way, I learn quite a lot about it just listening to Mark explain it to me. Thanks for the info here Don, this does sound very interesting….

Do they get watered down along with drinking water in that heat? Maybe you can tell me, Lance? How do you know when the horses are heat-stressed? As long as the horse is sweating, it is probably okay. If its body runs out of water, watch out, its in trouble. Been there, done that, saved the horse, felt blessed, horse got a 14 day vacation.

So, you water them before you go to the field, when you take a lunch break, when you go back to the field, and when you get back home. During our lunch break, we also gave the horses grain and hay, they are working hard too. In the severe heat of summer, you probably wanted to avoid ground corn, as it heats up in the horse. Oats are just fine, and not far away on threshing day. People need lots of water, too. You can over do it real easy doing this task. One man did that in his early 20s and at almost 40, he is still unable to work on hot days. During cool weather, he is the hardest working man you could ever see, but on the hottest days, its all he can do to sit in the shade and drink water and live until tomorrow.

Thanks for answering, Lance. You are exactly right. It was just a few minutes before noon lunch time when these photos were taken.

They were going to un-hook the horses, water and feed them, and hitch them in the shade until time to go back to work. I asked one of the men how in this world they could stand to work as they were in the heat? As long as I sweat, I am as cool as a cucumber. I should mention something else, here. The week before that he was also asked if he wanted to thresh but he declined. The temperatures were over They can just be fierce on the horses as they are out in the fields. This also adds to the difficulty in driving a team because the flies make the horses just miserable.

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This makes them ansy and unpredictable. I guess if I were standing somewhere and somebody was sticking a sewing needle in me every few seconds I would be ansy, too. When he is driving he likes to have one person walking along beside the horses just to swat the horse flies. I never knew that oat shocks had to be stacked in a certain way. I just thought they were stood up on end in a circle.


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    4. Mark told me that there is a very specific way that oats are shocked. The oats sheaves are stood up three to a side leaning against each other. This makes like a little house.

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