Cutting organic weeds-I mean beans. With a binder.

[ajb07]

I'm guessing this is a Massey-Harris binder? later model with power take-off? I've never really understood how these machines manage to tie a knot when binding the sheaves with twine, but after watching your vid I can appreciate the action a lot better. So thanks for posting and a nice bit of nostalgia :)

[modernblacksmith]

what is "bindering" supposed to do for you?

[ajb07]

@modernblacksmith - (adapted from wikipedia) The reaper-binder was a farm implement used in harvesting. It improved upon the mechanical reaper, which merely cut standing crop such as wheat; it would also tie the stems into small bundles, or sheaves. In the case of cereal cropping, these sheaves were then 'shocked' into conical stooks of about 12 sheaves, to allow the grain to dry for several days before being threshed in a thrasher. Nowadays a combine harvester does the job in one go.