Sun On The Separator

[rusty6]

Been so many cloudy and overcast days here that when the sun finally makes an appearance I need to get out and take a picture or two. This morning looked nice with the hoar frost back ground to the Red River Special separator.

 

[55 50 Ron]

Ah yes. That's the one we can see from a satellite view. Looks like a lot of snow. Your photo talents continue. Thank you.

 

[rusty6]

(quoted from post at 11:19:31 12/26/19) Ah yes. That's the one we can see from a satellite view. Looks like a lot of snow. Your photo talents continue. Thank you.

Thanks Ron but looks are deceiving. That is a fraction of the snow we would normally have this time of year. I walked out there no problem and could have gone a lot further. But at 10 degrees my hands were a bit cold on the camera.

 

[Moonlite37]

Be nice if that old machine could tell of its days of glory making a W-40 or am L Case earn its lunch. The threshing crew also had a great appetite. Do you have any idea how long it has been idle? I remember the last threshing around here in 1955. The Allis Chalmers and 12-A John Deeres put them out of work and threshing days became history. Keep that monument of the past and I assure that your cold dry climate will help to preserve it

 

[unc]

A friend's dad had a Red River Special in the Alberta Foothills. He bought it when they became available after the war, and used it until 1957. They powered it with IH tractors, and cut their bundles with a McCormick Deering power binder. He claimed two good men pitching bundles into the double wing feeder couldn't stall it. unc

 

[rusty6]

(quoted from post at 11:41:36 12/26/19) . Do you have any idea how long it has been idle? I remember the last threshing around here in 1955. The Allis Chalmers and 12-A John Deeres put them out of work and threshing days became history. Keep that monument of the past and I assure that your cold dry climate will help to preserve it

Dad got his first combine about 1950 and I think they last used the separator about 55 just for some oat sheaves. I wish I knew more of it's history but don't have much. It likely had a John Deere D running it here I'll have to post a pic of the Huber thresher on my other grandfather's homestead.

 

[Pete in Holland MI]

Ah yes........Low angle sun pictures in the late afternoon. Tough to get without your shadow in the foreground.
Often have to go commando and lay flat on your belly to get the shop.

Fun times !

 

[larbear]

Field Art at it's finest. I have a vivid memory of a threshing. It would have been in the mid 50's, uncle Bill walking around the corner of the barn with a bit of
a mid morning smirk on his face. I was standing at my mothers knee. Dad and men were threshing and blowing straw on to the straw stack. There was a wooden frame
which held things up and was shelter for livestock through winter. The straw stack was a great place to play all year round, a mountain behind the barn. I am in
what is now called Chatham Kent Ontario Canada, flat land, and glad to be here. Merry Christmas.

 

[55 50 Ron]

I'm pretty sure that is a mid-morning shot and looking generally northwest.

 

[fastfarmall]

I seen one double feed thresing machine operate,I don't know how wide it was maybe a 40 or 48 inch machine, powered with a early WD-9 with a Simms injection pump,like unc said it would gobble up a lot bundles!

 

[rusty6]

(quoted from post at 16:23:09 12/26/19) I'm pretty sure that is a mid-morning shot and looking generally northwest.

Ron your guess is the closest. In fact it was about 10:30 am. The angle actually starts at Southwest on the left and travels to North-Northeast on the right. It is a pano shot in which I move the camera in a half circle while shooting. It distorts the perspective a little but I like the wide angle view.
Here is another pano shot from this afternoon showing what we were up to on this beautiful sunny day. I didn't get any photos of the bonfire but my nephew got some great drone shots.

 

[mjbrown]

If I may suggest, try some angles toward
the sun with the separator shadow coming
toward the camera. See if you like the
effect.

 

[rusty6]

(quoted from post at 18:16:13 12/27/19) If I may suggest, try some angles toward
the sun with the separator shadow coming
toward the camera. See if you like the
effect.

I took this one a couple of years ago looking more into the sun. I like this effect.