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.)

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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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