Farms: Farming The Palouse In The 40's

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1. Cool videos. I love the smells of harvest season on the Palouse. A little sunshine is alwys welcome too!
2. Stevo....that wasn't Don driving that combine, but it was Jim in the truck. That was my older brother Dave when he was in late high school. You can also see him driving the same machine much earlier before my dad converted it to a leveling combine. It looked much different then, as did Dave. Don only shows up in another video, "More Farming The Palouse In The 1930's". There he is the little six year old boy standing with his dad, George, at the very end of the video. That was about 1939.
3. It was great watching this video and seeing my grandpa Don Druffel (the one driving the combine at the begining) and my uncle Jim Druffel (driving the truck at the begining after the combine). Thanks for posting these videos! this mas filled out on the rimm wasent it? Thats what i was told
4. My cousin added this to facebook. Fantastic. I can just picture my grandpa farming in the Palouse. He lived in Oaksdale. I wish my parents were alive to show this to them. Thanks for sharing. Great music choice.
5. Neat to watch, but kinda sad in a way. This was the start of farming as a solitary and lonely pursuit. Ten years before, half the town would have turned out with teams, steam engines, water wagons, and whole families to do that work. There it is two men to run a combine. A few years later, one man could run the combine alone. 
6. No way, anyone notice that it has lateral tilt.
7. do you still farm there
8. Wow! My wife is from Colton (last house on the right heading toward Uniontown). Her maiden name is Keller, and her mom was a Becker—are we related?
9. The "Viking" part of your name gave me a hint. I sometimes get up to your town (and school) to watch volleyball tournaments. Also I know the person that runs the museum. Some of my videos are played there. Thanks for your interest.
10. Colton
11. wonderful! and that's the youngest combine operator I've ever seen. I didn't start until I was 13. It must have been a joy to operate the swather mounted on the rear of the farmall M. I'm only in my 40's but I remember riding in a 1946 KB6 IH truck here in Ontario, similar to yours.
12. Sorry about the doubt, it's just very rear to see. I'm glad you've archived it. I sat down with my grandmother and did the same thing with there farm in the Yakima Valley.
13. These films were taken by my father in the years immediately following WWII. The farm was our family's home and the children shown are myself and my siblings. I was born in 1941, the littlest kid you see there. There are one or two minor scenes that may have been slightly into the 50's, but the majority is definitely back in the 40's. I still have the original films and the camera that took them. My dad was concerned about the expense of color film, but he could buy it and get it processed.
14. I like the video. Thanks for posting but this is more likely from the late 1950's or 1960's. Color film technology wasn't really available for the most part.