A Day in the Hayfields (1904)

[JimStall]

I loved this video> it was very heart warming. Can't really explain it. Thank you.

[OmegaWolf747]

I always get a slight tinge of melancholy when I watch these old films. I can't explain it.

[britfan90]

I swear I did this as a kid. Like ten years ago :p

[truckereleven]

45 years later in the state of Maine, we mowed, turned over, raked and loaded the hay wagons exactly the same way. The only thing we didn't do was play in it the way it shows in the video. Too hot, dusty and extremely itchy to do that.

Thanks for the video, brought back great memories of a time we cannot go back to.

[MrMjym]

i am 59 and i work with these old farm machinery

[chanctonbury63]

We used to roll around in the hay like that at my Grandmas. She was a smoker and when we came in for supper shed light one up and then burn the ticks of each of us in turn.

[chanctonbury63]

Where is this?

[Balenza345]

Sad to think these people are all stiffs now!

[Roy1537]

can't think of anything better to be doing. coming soon!!

[oilpressing]

JUST FANTASTIC

[rudolfvonlvasquez]

This field might be now a sky scrapper. This people might fought in the 2 World War of the 20th Century.

[jodelhole]

Wonderful video! I was raised on a farm in northern Indiana, where we still used these methods. We made the best hay ever; alfalfa, clover leaves and grass blades weren't crushed, held onto the stems. Jackson forked' it into the barn, cut it with a hay saw and fed stock. Hard work, great memories... Thanks for posting.

[mmmbeachlover]

Beautiful.

[KYGuyz]

This is the way we still farm. I think the world would be alot better place if more people still did!

[remindbender]

those are the days the wörld that sümmer ;-))

immortii te salut ante!

[59acres]

Those young rascals need a whooping for flaten' all that good hay!!!!!

[burnleyfan11965]

Hard to think some of those older lads would have ended up in the trenches 10 or more yrs later

[AndrewKaz]

The bird up on the steeple,

Sits high above the people.

ah-tishoo, ah-tishoo.

We all fall down.

[wattever333]

where can we see "rescued by rover" 1904?

[the1rjmac]

I was born in the first half of the last century-really don't want to say when- and I did this sort of thing as a teenager. I don't remember it as being so hard but it did raise a sweat and cool water never tasted as good.

Lots of laughs in those days. And no---I am not as old as this film. thanks for the posting.

[asonofleemarvin]

whats the date/year of this film?

[Flowdroid]

...Seriously? It was made in 1904, as it says in the title. :q

[chanctonbury63]

@asonofleemarvin Ill give you a clue. Its in the title.

[HardThing88]

do they have any carabaos that time?

[VENGEFULSPIRITof911]

Look how old this is! It makes me want to go back in time.

[crownofcreation68]

you mean little kids didn't always just waste their lives away playing xbox all day!?!

[palehorsepalerider]

yeah and men and women worked outside instead of in a coffin,uh, I mean cubicle

[yampydoo123]

real men doing a real days work. this work would kill most of them today

[CarlosTadeus]

Quem bom existir o You tube , eu voo alto,jamais imagineu ver cenas como esta , parabens para quem veiculou essa materia...

[etypebob]

Excellent! It's wonderful to look back like this.

[kghjgl]

very good thanks a million

[workingcowhorse]

i love to see this...

[madbob73]

Sobering thought that all of those boys frollicking in the hay would have been fighting a war in 10 years time

[daveholt777]

indeed!!

[BreadBoardpan]

Good show.

[TheSanityInspector]

ah-CHOO!

Very bucolic, love the footage of the frolicking tots. Thanks for posting.