"train them up," when they're young. hard working young men. obey and respectful. nice video.

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

They are very skilled at a young age and sure know how to work

Those boys look to be in comfort and full confidence standing tall. It reminded me of how kids my age wanted to do grown up work, and were so pleased when we were deemed trustworthy enough to pitch in to help the family. The way those boys stand, and work, it seems they know who they are, and what their place in the family is, and what their dreams for the future are. They have hope and confidence, security and safety. May it always be so! 🙏🏻

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

Great video I can remember doing that when I was a kid and then a couple farms got combines and dad would get them to cut the grain thanks for bringing back some old memories take care

Oh yes that was the good old days, brings back good memories. I loaded the wagon when I was younger than was handed a pitchfork as I got older.

Memories memories memories, I was lucky that my grandfather was one of the last to use horse in my part of Aberdeenshire. Different pace and a different time 😀😀😀

Good Evening from South Africa.

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Good evening, and thanks for watching!

my grandfather worked with horses in s. Idaho. this was a joy to watch, thank you

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@Volks1950

Жыл бұрын

Yea for Idaho!

I remember my Dad and his cousin had resurrected an old binder and thresher one year for oats. I was only 5 or 6 years old but I remember helping to stack the bundles and my sister sitting on top of them. She was only a baby and is going to be 40 this fall!

Hi from the wallon region(French speaking part of Belgium) I loved the video, my father used that kind of mower with his two horses (baron and bijou) "he always said:when you go to the field with the horses and the dog, you are not alone! Now, the work is do e with a tractor, you see far away, your neighbor alone too on his noisy machine. I didn't drove horses, my brother (85)used to. Most of the farmers cried when they had to sell their companions an friends to buy the tractor.

Big load thanks for sharing where interesting footage lots of work nice to see how they did things in the olden days

Great scenery, reminds me of my childhood days in Bavaria. We had no Amish there, but that was how it was done, way into the 50s.

This gives more meaning to 'team' and 'colabourers'; animals and men in one mind.

Brings back memories of my youth. We didn't have the level ground that you have. Oats was always planted on the side hills and so we couldn't load the wagons as high. Also the horses couldn't handle the weight on the steep side hills. I have allergies to oat dust so I left the farm at 21. My dad sold the farm three years later. He couldn't make a profit without the free labor. No regrets on my part.

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing

Awwwwwwwww Jim a teaser is what we call this, none the less its so great to see the respect of the youth as well as you as you take great care in protecting there identity. GOD is so GOOD if we could only remember that on a daily basis. Thank you again Jim and your Amish friends.

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

wow it's a real cliff hanger... dang it.. I wanna see the work being done .... thxs for taking time to video it

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

stayed tuned....

I was a spoiled boy I guess.......we actually picked up the bundles onto a front end loader and took them to the wagon. 1 wagon and team in the middle and the tractor did most of the work. I loved to watch the thrasher so your next video will be great

Thanks Jim, my favourite way to relax at the end of my day! :o)

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, nice to hear

What a beautiful day for loading wagons. Nice to see good " team" work. Neighbors and horses

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

It sure is

greetings horse lovers from Indonesia.... 👍👍👍😊😊

Do the Amish talk to each other in German when working? I used to drive truck an I would pick up frozen sheep's milk in Iowa City Iowa and at various places in Wisconsin. The little pre school kids would talk to me on German. Isaac told me they learned English when they went to school. His wife milked 170 sheep twice a day. He had a super inulated milk house with a reefer off a truck to freeze the mill on 50 lb bags. He had a tractor with steel wheels. All his equipment had steel wheels. It was sometimes quite interesting in the winter on the ice loading pallets of milk in the back of my semi trailer with a steel wheeled tractor. He had a large white dog that lived with the sheep and kept the wolves at bay. Also. If they blow the straw in their barn dont you need Any? Sory for the long story. Really enjoy your videos. Steve

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Yes they often do. Thanks for the story, very interesting. They are keeping the straw, it is part of the deal that was made

@cathiwim

2 жыл бұрын

The large white dog was probably a Great Pyrenees. They are excellent herd protectors.

Hard work throwing those sheathes up so high.

@wssides

2 жыл бұрын

Not near as hard as throwing 40 to 80 lb bales the same height!

Gone are the days of labour intensive farming, which is sad in many ways. Jobs and skills are lost. back when i farmed we used to reap cotton by hand, no waste, no regrowth in the land at the next planting and our staff loved to earn a fair wage for fair work, combine harvesters can waste so much. I respect the Amish for their hard work and horses make life interesting. No smelly exhaust (well no smelly diesel exhaust!)

@sandib4234

2 жыл бұрын

Right to much technology has taken the place of people getting outside and doing good work.

@michealfigueroa6325

2 жыл бұрын

"reap cotton by hand" is that like picking cotton by hand? "a fair wage for fair work" is that very hard work for very low wages? this smells of the plantation philosophy when cotton was king and the boss man ran things

@mfc4591

2 жыл бұрын

@@michealfigueroa6325 its good to ask context before you make a judgement

@michealfigueroa6325

2 жыл бұрын

@@mfc4591 "ask?" I can only go by what the writer writes and the writers ability to clearly set the "context" If you think that I've failed you as the reader of your writing, then I can only believe that you as the writer have failed me, the reader.

@jerrylansbury9558

2 жыл бұрын

@@michealfigueroa6325 I read MFC s comment and I gathered he meant .... not many people are use to hard work now days. A lot of the crop remains in the field.....wasted. Wages.....depend on what the crop brings at the market. I am one of the old time farmers and I promise hard work never harmed anyone. Pitched manure out of the barn gutter into a wheel barrow until I was 30 yrs old. Im now 64 yrs old. Baled 2000 square bales a day.... then went home to milk cows. I still found time at 11:00 pm to go out and run 10 miles. ( I was a distance runner ) and I was always happy to restart the day at 5 am each morning. Do it all again! The work ethic is gone now days !

The 4 or 5 teams I saw as a teen all did the oat stook and the hay bundle pickup in the field by voice command. Took a small amount of retraining each year. They were all rein driven up to the thresher or stack. One was terrified of the belt and thresher and was hand led past the equipment.

A lot of talent is required, from forking onto the wagon to stacking properly, and...a lot of hard work!

Love this! I used to live in Amish country in PA. (Punxsutawney) lott of lumberers.

makes me very happy there gunna be 2 videos. was getting to the end with no thrashed and was worried you were not allowed to record that. hopefully you will be able to record it so you can maintain the Amish wishes. love all that you do keep up the great work.

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

@seriouslyconfused1

2 жыл бұрын

Ill be honest with ya. Your channel is so far the only one my father has asked about "has the guy with the horses uploaded any new shows yet?" Yes dad, lets go and get a coffee and watch it.

Well, this really brings back memories for me! When I was 17 years old I worked for a neighbor farmer that had a team and wagon that I ran on a threshing crew in northern Saskatchewan. It turned out to be the last time threshing was done north of Prince Albert. That was in 1957. I weighed 139 pounds and about the same age and size of those young lads on the wagon. It was hard work but I really enjoyed working with that team. Thanks for the video and look I forward to the actual threshing.

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing the memories

Interesting operation w/ all working together. Looking forward to the finish product at thresher. Thank you for sharing. 🐴🐴

I wished that I would have raised my boys the Amish way. Been waiting for this video looking forward to the "thrasher". Always good to see ya and love watching! Take care and be safe please!

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Take care!

Great video Jim I can't wait till the second part

Jim I will watch you anytime .That is how we did it on the farm . We did not have Amish neighbor's in our area we just had neighbor's helping neighbor's worked very well. Julien Lamarche

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Julien

Love how that machine works.

Nicetripdownmemory lane. Did this as a teenager in sw Wisconsin. Highlight of summer was oat harvest and then tobacco came. Lots of August heat, but great fun. 17 years of age was the last threshing year for me as I joined the Navy after Silo Filling was done. Binder was pulled with an 8N Ford tractor.the worst was shocking oats that were full of Canada Thistles - no matter how callused one’s hands were, you still got stuck.

the good old day s in Belguim Europe in the sixties , this is what we dit when i was a verry young boy, in flanders fields ,never forget it

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing

I've never liked the expression "unskilled labour." To me, all jobs, no matter which, requires a skill of some sort. Those bundles wouldn't be loaded so well otherwise.

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, they were very skilled! You're right, it isn't a very good term

A good day's work! Reminds me of working on a potato farm n throwing a basket full into a big bin n got pd 25 cent's a basket!! Talk about moving fast n sleeping good that night n I was only 11 yrs. old. Kid's these day's are lazy!

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a lot of work

@sandib4234

2 жыл бұрын

@@WorkingHorsesWithJim It was But I liked having my own money. When I was 12 years old I went out in the field and started picking onions and we called it piece rate so the more you pick the more you got paid and I flew LOL. Just made me a stronger person and I still work part-time to this day 😀

sometimes we would thrash around labor day so instead of letting the shocks stand out in the field that long because they would start to go down from the weather we would haul up to where we were going to thrash and make two big stakes just far enough apart to pull the thrasher between them that works good also the stack would be ten to twelve feet across

We had a neighbor when I was a young boy that very seldom drove his team most everything was voice command only.

Totally fascinating. What you call bundles we call sheaves. Long time since I've seen a sheaf of oats or wheat. There's a hymn. Long summer holidays came from old times when all the kids would help with harvest like this. Now we are left with long summer break and no harvest. Greetings from Australia.

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Oh man, I was hoping you'd get some footage of the thrashing. Oh well, thanks for what you do.

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Coming soon!

Great to see the whole process thank you

Been there done that, when I was a kid.

Very nice,, now we know why the farmers call it a 'pitchfork',,,

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Right!

Nice to get oats off the field so fast. Many hands make less work.

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

You got that right!

Good one.Nice to see the boys working.And the horses to with just voice commands.The next one should be good too.

All the Amish posts I have seen just call then "The Amish". Can you call them by name, just not on a video. Such hard workers and skilled to boot. Bob in Nevada

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

We certainly call the by name when we are with them. And we know a lot of them. To protect their privacy we speak of them as a group.

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

They are very hard working people., you’re right!

buenos dias! aqui a miles de kmts esta amaneciendo y mientras desayuno pienso que tu tambien te levantaras temprano para atender la granja! un saludo y buena jornada!

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

¡Buenos días tenga un buen día!

Good afternoon Jim,lt must be so satisfying at the end of a long day to stand back and see all that work has been done,all is quite and still,such a lovely atmosphere 😀 l .could watch this for hours.....lve been reading up on the Amish people so l can get to know them a bit better.They seem to be very caring and helpful. We don't have any Amish people hear,but one day l might meet some of them,apparently the Lady's are very good cooks and bake excellent bread and cakes,l could learn a lot.Anyway lm rambling on ☺ All the very best Jim,looking forward to the next instalment,your videos are really very good and relaxing.Regards to Brenda and girls 🌱🌱🌱💕🇬🇧

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Joyce. Yes, the Amish way of life is very interesting

So interesting -- I really enjoyed watching this! I look forward to seeing the oat threshing.

Great video! Can't wait to see the next one!

Schönes Video,gute arbeit👍👍

That's the way we did it love your videos Jim

I remember riding on top of the wagon going along until the load shifted, tipped over.. I was buried in the pile..when someone coined the phase not knowing which way is up I found that out quickly..lol Thanks, for the video, mr. jim..

Great video Jim

Thanks for sharing

I often wondered how they brought it in how it was placed on the wagon. Thank you for a wonderful video. 🌟🇨🇦

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Another great video! Can't wait for part 2. From some of the other comments, looks like you may end up with a side hussle, selling your used horse shoes... never thought about it, but it would be kind of cool to have one, like one person said, from Lady😊 ❤️🌵☀️⛈️🌈☮️🐎🐐🐕🐿️🐝

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

We may have to do that...will have to check into shipping costs

My goodness what a job. Thanks for sharing. Have a great week. 👍

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too!

Very interesting video

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it

The good old days of threshing

Great video thanks

Good video

Very interesting ! they work like the know what they're doing!

Labai patinka,sekmes

Thanks for sharing, really looking forward to the thrashing video.

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Coming soon!

As others have noted....steel rimmed wheels. Sound of them 'crunching' on the gravel driveway, one of a kind memory. Does the county road commission give them grief for using steel rims on the blacktop?

Guess you gotta have the knack of using those pitch forks without injury to somebody on the stack...🤪

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!

Interesting to see the difference in Amish guidelines. This group doesn't even allow rubber tires.

So Jim, did you barter with them to keep the oat straw?

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

Hi Jim, asking about the shoes and I’m wanting one so I send you $25, would that bring it to Florida. I really want a shoe from Lady, but the others would be great too!

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

We will check into what it would cost for shipping etc. and will keep it in mind!

What do the carts full of your oats weigh? They are so tall compared to you Jim! Very interesting process

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

2300 lb of oats on the wagon, plus the straw

So they keep the straw by doing at there place I know you said something about baling it so you wont have the straw for your own use right. Do you plan on making a vidio of the thrashing of it. Thank you Tom from Nebraska

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, coming soon

@tomboysen7592

2 жыл бұрын

@@WorkingHorsesWithJimthank you for responding. Tom from Nebraska

Wondering do you loose much grain in the handling between harvesting and threshing? JIM

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Surprisingly little

Do you estimate theres much head loss in tossing the shocks up and moving them around.?

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

no, not really

Is that a big load for the horses

Were the oats a mother crop for the alfalfa? 👍

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

No, clover , Timothy and a little bit of alfalfa

This video got recommended to me after watching Good Simple Living's recent video. 🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️

Steel wheels on their wagons I see.

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

will you get the oats from that load

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

I'll explain it on the next video

Can you estimate how much grain falls out of the head during stacking n the wagon?

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

not too much

@seaknightvirchow8131

2 жыл бұрын

@@WorkingHorsesWithJim Thanks. I used to cut wheat and I recall that certain strains of wheat in Montana could fall out when the wind came up according to a rancher I worked for. The Amish are using a technology that was used for decades and before that grain was beaten out by hand for centuries. I watch another KZread channel where the family farms thousands of acres and they have millions invested in machinery. The contrast is beyond striking and it basically contrasts 50 years of change in agriculture. I prefer the older, smaller albeit labor intensive methods of yesteryear when families produced their own meat and canned from their garden but I don’t romanticize that life. It meant chores every day and potential injury. I really enjoy your videos.

bad part you lost the straw,oat straw they love to chew on,is good feed for cows and thinking horses would like also

I was wondering which language the Amish speak to their horses. Here in Pa we say all animals speak Pa Dutch.

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

PA dutch, whoa seems to be the same in both

When do they do this.....September or October?

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Actually August

What are you saying to your horses? What are the commands you use?

@kimfleury

2 жыл бұрын

"Careful step."

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Here is a video on the commands I use kzread.info/dash/bejne/k3x6qbOYmKScqMo.html

If the oats are dry would you not loose a bunch with all that moving about.??

@billschengbier7940

2 жыл бұрын

that's another reason why you stack the bundles with the heads towards the center of the wagon very little is lost

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

No not really

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Jim do you have t shirts for sale im in 🇨🇦 and would love to have a t shirt thanks in advance

@WorkingHorsesWithJim

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, we can ship to Canada

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Thrash? Thresh?