HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe 25th Huron Pioneer Thresher Reunion, 1986-09-03, Page 15Director of the Huron PioneerThresher and Hobby Associationfor 1986 include: [front row, left
to right] TomLeiper, JoeHallahan, JohnEllacott and Norman Cook; [back row] Frank
Hallahan, Darryl Searson, Bruce Thomson, Jim Sloan and Bob Reid.
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1986. PAGE A-15.
The threshing machine
CongRotalations
on Che 25th
ThReshet? Reunion
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mounting hills of grain, the
novelty would wear off.
Nearly everyone threshed
fromthestookby the 1950’s but
one neighbour still gathered his
grain into the barn to wait for
the threshing crew to finish
elsewhere then come and
thresh his grain out of the barn.
Some of the earliest money I
earned was helping in the mow
to move the sheaves around
after they’d been dropped into
the mow from slings.
One experience I never had
was working with the steam
engines butforyoungsters, this
must have been even more
exciting. The ordinary tractor
just doesn’t have the interest of
the chucking, whirring, steam
whistling steam tractor.
About the closest I came to
the steam engines was visiting
my uncle’s farm on the next
concession where a neighbour
across the road had a threshing
gang that used what must have
been one of the last steam
tractors in the area. It was a
mysterious thing, black and
green and gleaming.
Asa teenager earning spend
ing money by working on farms
in the summer I got to
experience being part of the
threshing crew, probably one of
the last ones in the township by
thattime. I was one of the young
bucks who tried to spear a
whole stook and prove my
manhood by heaving it to the
top of the load. The oldtimers
would shake their heads and
express dire warnings about
being worn out before dinner. I
ignored them of course. They
were right, of course.
The farm isn ’t the way it used
to be in the days of threshing
crews. Farm neighbourhoods
aren’ttheway they usedtobe in
the days of the threshing
gangs. Technology changes of
course and in a competitive
world we have to change with it
or find ourselves changed
against our wills. Yet when the
cost of change gains something
in efficiency but loses some
thing in the important things
like human friendship, it’s hard
to term it progress.
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