I woke up this morning thinking about childhood days shocking grain that had been cut and bundled by a farm machine I could not remember "binder" for anything. Did a Google search for "machine to make grain bundles. That turned up a very interesting link with a pdf of McCormick 1903 grain, hay and forgage machines. Sure enough, images of several of the old machines my father was still using. One other memory from those days. We had oat bundles shocked in the field. Dad hired a 90 year old neighbor who knew how to stack bundles. Jens Peter Jensen got it done as if he were a 30 year old. Anyway, below is a link to the old machinery which will probably still work today if anybody held onto the antiques.
University of Nebraska Digital Ag History 1903 McCormick Advertising Brochure (Scroll down to get to the brochure. )
So much for old memories. At first I did not know how to save the ad brochure, but it is easy. Right click on the brochure and select "download page". It is fulltext.pdf and has about 35 pages. Just takes seconds to download. Worth having if you are at all interested in old farm equipment or had the misfortune of riding on the back of a binder or dump rake originally made to be pulled by horses.
****Stay tuned even if the information probably preceded the invention of radio--- Doug Wiken
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