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1999 Huron Pioneer Thresher Reunion & Hobby Show
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Writer shares memories of theway it was
blower and finally, lay out the belt and
manoeuvre the tractor into just the right
place to make it drive the engine most
efficiently.
I think that another reason today’s kids
A warm welcome to friends & visitors attending
the 38th Annual Thresher Reunion
can never have as much fun remembering
combines as we had remembering threshing
machines is that, efficient as they are, they
just don't have the personality of an old
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ON TOP OF THINGS
On a hot, summer day, it was far better working outside the mow than in it,
though the job was never easy.
By Keith Roulston
Are we really just nostalgic about the days
of our youth? Is that why we who remember
threshing days think things haven’t been the
same since the combine took over or was
there something really special about
threshing?
I sometimes wonder if youngsters growing
up on the farm these days will have as
pleasant memories of the combine as we
who grew up in an earlier era have of the
threshing machine.
I think they won’t.
I grew up on a Kinloss township farm in a
period that spanned both methods of
harvesting. My earliest memories are of the
threshing machine but our family was also
one of the earlier families to switch to the
combine.
Yet despite my pride in my family being
“progressive”, 1 somehow thought we were
missing out on something when the
threshing gang pulled in the lane of my
friends’ homes.
Part of the feeling of missing out was
because threshing wasn’t just harvesting, it
was a social event of the year. It brought
men together to swap tall tales and
memories. It brought women together to
exchange talks about kids and men and swap
recipes. It brought all the young bucks in the
neighbourhood together to try to outdo each
other lifting whole stooks to the top of the
wagon and to flirt with- the younger girls
helping serve the food.
Working on the combine, by comparison,
was a lonely job. It was as dusty and noisy
and hot as the worst of the threshing gang
but without the camaraderie.
The big threshing gangs weren’t part of
my early memories. Our neighbours had a
threshing machine so my father and uncle
worked with them doing their two farms and
our two farms.
Still there was excitement being around
that machine and we’d wait all day when we
knew that they expected to be finished at one
of the other farms and move onto ours.
My brother and my friend and I would go
squealing “they’re coming” when we saw
the threshing machine coming up the road.
Then there was the magic of watching
them set up the threshing machine, hoist the
elevator, level her up, crank out the straw
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