HOW THE AMISH THRESH OATS!!! Watch the full process!

[Music] okay here we are at the amish farm and we're gonna check out this machine that makes oats so this is their detroit diesel motor that have to run this [Music] this belt must be about i don't know it's long quite a long belt and actually i didn't realize this but it's set up in their barn so that means they've got to drive the wagon up into the barn with the horses and they unloaded two loads already and the third load is the last one that's sitting there so they came i'm here because i knew that they would be at lunch right now and so that's why i wanted to come and do more of a close-up and and get some good footage of this uh uh thresher and and uh show you what's going on and then we'll still be able to show it to you when it's running awesome so anyways it's this long belt and now this is the first time i've ever seen one of these rigs work so i can't even completely explain things to you it's a little dark in here so i'm hoping it's going to work for us but that is their straw pile and it's going to be quite large by the time they get one more loading and they have holes down into the barn so they would fork this down into their barn but this is interesting because these are all chopped up i wonder if they have i'll have to ask and see if they've got some sort of a a unit on this so i asked them after they came out if they have some sort of a unit on their thrasher to chop up the straw and they said they did and it makes a lot better straw because of it and then this which i know you can't see is their green bin and these must be the oats that they've already harvested i'm going to take them outside in the light and show you what they look like let's say they're a little bit weedy at least compared to the oats i've been usually using but anyways i'm going to climb up on this rig while while i can and it's not running that looks like a way to jump up i'm not sure how much i can do when it's actually running and it is kind of dark in here [Music] they have a ladder right there i'm gonna climb up on that ladder and i bet i can get some footage from there but i'll climb up here when this thing's working obviously you got to be very careful with all these belts up top there's really not much to show anyways it's all covered up and sealed up and uh like i said i don't know much about it so it's hard to explain to you guys but i'll get more information when they come out after they have their lunch that black stuff is some sort of a belt dressing i'm hoping maybe they have a approximately i approximate idea how old this machine is [Music] there's some writing right there but it's not very clear that's a an international emblem so it's obviously an international now just to make things clear to everybody it is the mccormick d-ring we can see that right there but then it has the international emblem there because and somebody from my channel probably can explain it a lot better than i can at some point international bought out mccormick deering and so that's why they have their emblem on their also the ih meaning international harvester and the date that that happened i surely have no idea but maybe some of somebody in my channel can tell us i bet when this is running it gets very dusty in here probably need a dust mask to work in here very long but i'm not going to be in here too long and to tell you the truth i hope they don't need me to do any more forking because i've had enough forking for today [Music] here's what they used to unload the hay with i'm not exactly sure how that particular one works i've never seen that one work someday i'll maybe come and video it there's a couple silos that they actually put up and those are tops that they buy and put on these saddles i believe probably some amish somewhere make those when they first moved into our area they actually took down a bunch of silos here they're in different places um they have a crew that would go in and put scaffolding up in the middle of the silos and they would take them down block blood block by block and then they would move everything to their farm and then put these silos back up again so they could continue using a lot of times they would take big silos like 60 and 70 footers and most all of them now make them i think 12 by 40 something like that and but it's a very interesting process when we when they first moved to our area we had a 20 by 60 saddle and i hired them to come and take that silo down and they put up my small silo um and that was a very interesting process we had i don't know there must have been 15 or 20 amish there doing that job and they were there for several days and we put on a big meal for them and we were actually going to put a big meal on for these guys today if they'd brought the thrash over to our place that's what we would have done and fed them there but since uh they decided to do it this way they ate here so their lunch hour is just about done and they'll be back out so they will be hitching their team under that wagon and pulling up this pretty good grade right here and they will park it in here and they will leave their horses right hitch to the wagon while they unload it and then they'll back it out down the hill at least that's what i'm expecting so we'll see what happens when they get here so to the new viewers on my channel um this is actually the third video on getting my oats combined with the amish and we will leave a link in the description below to those other videos [Music] so i'm up in the side bay where they have put their hay from this summer for those of you that have never seen putting hay in the barn loose this is what they use and this is some sort of rope contraption i'm not familiar with this particular one there's several kinds that uh lift the loose hay off of the wagons and pick it up into the peak and slide across and drop into the hay barns [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i had asked the boys how big of a motor this is and they thought it was about an 80 horsepower motor and the belt is 80 feet long so doubled up like that it's 40 feet between the motor and the thresher as you can see it takes quite a while to unload this wagon the thrasher can only take so much oats at a time so they have to pace themselves and just steadily put it on so the wagon's empty and they back that out now they just got to clean up all the oats that missed the thrasher and fell in the ground and clean up all the oats scattered around on the ground here are where the weed seeds have been separated from the good olds and are on the ground [Music] so it turns out there's actually some ladders up on the side of the thrasher that i was able to climb up onto the top of the thrasher with and of course it's coming in slower now because they're just cleaning up but this is the counter that is on this machine it's a half a bushel counter and so every time that fills up it opens up this door and drops down into the auger which then takes it across into the grain bin our original plan was to bag it right off the thresher but since we decided to do it this way all the grain is going directly into his grain bin and we've decided instead of trying to take all the bag all my portion of the grain out i just decided to sell him the grain and i would just purchase my grain where i've always been purchasing it so this is this is actually the counter it has three spots here on the right hand side that counts every bushel so every time that dumper goes around twice it'll make a it'll turn a notch and the center one counts every 10 bushels and then the one on the left counts every 100 bushels so right here we're at 222 bushels and we will get two more bushels before we're done so that'll be 224 bushels total on my farm we don't know for sure how many acres i did have on my field but if there was four acres that would mean it's 56 bushels per acre which is a very good yield and it's very possible it wasn't even four acres it was less than four so it'd even be higher than that our agreement was to have him keep the straw so by doing it this way it also saved me from having to bail it up i wish pete had allowed me to let his voice in the video because he could explain things a lot better than i have been but here he's explaining to me how to change these dials around so every time he goes to a different job and he's going to go to another job after this he has to put all these back to zero so it's a bit of a process to spin these right and have them snap back into place so they're at zero again here he's taking the blower pipe down and this crank here actually acts as a telescopic type of thing and it will actually bring the blower down short it's about a 20 foot blower all the way out the full length this crank is to lift the pipe up and down and this one over here is to turn it side to side so here p is pulling the thrasher out of his barn down the hill with his horses so that they could head to the next farm to do the next job the neighbor that they help with is about a mile from them so that's where he'll be he'll be heading i'm not sure they may have a power plant there so they might not have to bring their power plant but maybe they will i'm not sure so anyways if you have been liking these videos please hit the like and subscribe if you haven't and hit the bell so you'll be notified when more videos are coming out have a great day [Music]

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Length: 17min 16sec (1036 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 18 2021