It was a step back in time for those visiting the Dave Weber farm north of Springside Saturday as a demonstration of harvest techniques from decades earlier took place; including an oat crop being cut by a John Deere binder circa 1946 pulled by a vintage 1953 John Deere tractor. Matthew Weber rides the binder while Harvey Drotar, Milton Wurks and Harvey Penner ride the tractor. Once the bundles of oats were left behind by the binder it was the job of other farm workers to collect them into stooks where they stayed in the field until collected and hauled to a stationary threshing machine (the precursor to the modern combine). Bottom left Natasha Berriault and Marion Ockochinski team to makes stooks.
