Header and Binder

<reference the IH sickle, scythe, etc>

http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/05/mccormick-binder.html

Agriculture was revolutionized in the second half of the 19th Century as machines were developed to replace manpower with horsepower.

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Video of a corn binder. (Binder is the term the poster used, it looks more like a buncher to me.)

Video of a steel wheel IH tractor pulling an IH binder.

Video of horse drawn wheat binder/buncher.

Video of a binder from several different angles.

Screenshot from video, pulled by a couple of Percherons, used
[Skip to about half-way through.]

Screenshot form another horse-drawn corn-binder video. (Facebook broke the link.)

Glassic Green posted
A 12-20 Rumely pulling a John Deere corn binder through 250 bushel plus corn at the Bos Brothers Fall Harvest Show this weekend at Erie Illinois, super impressive!!!! The engineers one hundred years ago never imagined corn yields like we are accustomed to today. The 12-20 would have been the direct competition to John Deere’s Waterloo Boy.
Randy Ahrens shared

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[Includes an old 4WD Massey]

Combines Harvesters Threshers posted
[A header dumping wheat directly into wagons.]

A self-propelled header?!

Hugh Macague commented on a posting: "1929 sunshine auto header! Repainting and varnish"

Chicago & North Western Historical Society posted
It's the fall season, thus this photo. The back of the photo says "Southbound Twin Cities-Chicago train #508, the "Viking," near Lodi, Wisconsin. March 16, 1957." The photographer was William D. Middleton. It is held at the archives of the Chicago and North Western Historical Society.
[This is the first photo I have seen of corn shocks.]

It is interesting that I'm finding more pictures of corn shocks in railroad pictures than farming pictures.

Norfolk Southern Corp posted

NS posted
A boy, his dog, and a train…doesn’t get much better than that on this Flashback Friday. Wishing everyone a safe and happy weekend.
#NationalPuppyDay

Update: David Koieng posted three photos with the comment: "What I dug out of farm and sold last year."

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J.I. Case 175th Anniversary Show posted
A Case binder in action.
Tod Buenger Our Club gets 1 acre of wheat donated every year form a local grower.. 1 acre is about 1 acre to much. When you're on the wooden end of a pitch fork in July. LOL

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Northern Illinois Steam Power Club added several photos with the comment:

Thanks to everyone who helped cut our wheat today! We had great weather and the wheat was in great shape and ready to be cut. We also had a great crew of bundle pitchers so the work wasn't too bad. We loaded 11 wagons and got them into the barn to dry ready to thresh during our show.

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