HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1995-09-08, Page 15Love that music
A few couples took advantage of the entertaining music of the Tiffin Family
by taking a twirl on the tiny dance floor at the Thresher Reunion.
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Thresher Reunion
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Continued from Al 5
held all the fascination for a youngster of
one of those Rube Goldberg inventions.
That's why I enjoy going back to the
Thresher Reunion year after year to hear the
growing whine of the separator as it speeds
up, to hear the whack of the belts when the
tractor first starts to drive the thresher and to
smell the smells of warm straw.
After we watched the machine set up
there'd be a race to the granary to be there by
the time the first kernels tinkled down the
grain spout and onto the newly-cleaned
granary floor.
Working in the granary was something we
were all eager to do and the younger we
were, the more eager we were. When the
threshing began we'd shovel the first bit of
grain so many times it was nearly ground to
chop, but later, when we sank to our knees in
the mounting hills of grain, the novelty
would wear off.
Nearly everyone threshed from the stook
by the 1950s 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, but for youngsters
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.
As a teenager earning spending 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 that time. 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 neighbour-
hoods aren't the way they used to be 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 something
in the important things like human
friendship, it's hard to term it progress.
PAGE A-16. TIIE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1995.
Huron Pioneer Thresher Reunion 1995
Remembering the fascination of threshing Class act
Classic cars have become a big part of the special displays appreciated
each year by visitors to the Huron Pioneer Thresher and Hobby Association
Reunion.
The North Huron Citizen extends a warm
welcome to all visitors to the Huron Pioneer
Thresher Reunion.
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