I remember my cousin, who was really into tractor companies, telling me all about IH being run into the ground, but I have to admit that’s all I remember😅
Wow, that's amazing. I had no idea they had all those different parts on them and did all those things. They definitely must have put a lot of people out of a job! 😎
Yes, but I do kind of wonder how well manual labor in agriculture supports large populations. Would be interesting to know if population booms trigger mechanized labor of if it’s the other way around because of the food surplus.
That's a great point, yes. A higher demand for food, would require a quicker way of processing it. And it could also be linked to the fluctuating prices they're getting for their crops, too, and the need to find cost savings through mechanisation... 😎
The International Harvester combine harvester, a machine of metal and gears, rolled across the fields like an inexorable force of nature. It did not ask permission. It did not wait for applause. It simply arrived, and with its arrival, the old way of life was swept away like so much chaff in the wind.
Once, the land was tended by hands—rough, calloused hands that swung sickles and scythes, that knew the rhythm of wheat and rye, that toiled under sun and rain for a meager wage. It was not a good life, but it was a life, and it had its rituals, its laborious communion with the earth.
Then came the machine, hulking and indifferent, with its cold efficiency. Where once there had been crews of men, laboring side by side, now there was only the combine, a monstrous thing that cut and threshed and cleaned in a single pass. The need for human hands, for human labor, shrank to almost nothing. A single operator, perched high in the cab, was all that was left, overseeing the work of what had once been many.
Tens of thousands of workers, those who had relied on the rhythm of harvest, found themselves rendered obsolete. They drifted to the cities, seeking some new purpose, some new means of survival. The fields, once full of voices and the sound of scythes, grew silent, save for the relentless hum of the combine. The machine did not mourn the loss. It never does.
Wow! That captures it beautifully. Because it isn't just jobs that are lost, it's a whole way of life and all the camaraderie that comes with it. Of course, it's happening again now with AI, which is almost certainly going to take work away from a lot of people soon, too... 😎
All the critters chewed
by the combine recombine -
a giant made of mice
That is a story I want to read🙌🖤
International harvester, Deere
Mafia mobster monster
No cement blocks please.
I remember my cousin, who was really into tractor companies, telling me all about IH being run into the ground, but I have to admit that’s all I remember😅
Reaping at light speed
discriminates food from chaff
and flesh from bone (ow!)
Oo great imagery and I love the comparison 🖤
A clogged conveyor
The matted straw cleared by hand
Lost to driver's haste
You might appreciate this… I found it while researching🤦♀️
https://www.reddit.com/r/JustGuysBeingDudes/s/CLo1zYm7Ws
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Dear God, good thing no one ever showed me that when I was a kid or I would've done it!
Complete insanity. That just has to go wrong one time☠️😂
I live near farmlands
You hear it on news a lot
Machine kill our men
So dangerous! I do kind of wonder what the injury rate was with scythes though, it has to have been high.
A metal menace,
Robbing farmhands of work, and,
Farmworkers of hands... 🚜👨🌾😎👨🌾🚜
Ha! Farmhands! I see what you did there🖤
Haha! It's always fun to slip in a bit of wordplay, if possible... 😎
Wow, that's amazing. I had no idea they had all those different parts on them and did all those things. They definitely must have put a lot of people out of a job! 😎
Yes, but I do kind of wonder how well manual labor in agriculture supports large populations. Would be interesting to know if population booms trigger mechanized labor of if it’s the other way around because of the food surplus.
That's a great point, yes. A higher demand for food, would require a quicker way of processing it. And it could also be linked to the fluctuating prices they're getting for their crops, too, and the need to find cost savings through mechanisation... 😎
The International Harvester combine harvester, a machine of metal and gears, rolled across the fields like an inexorable force of nature. It did not ask permission. It did not wait for applause. It simply arrived, and with its arrival, the old way of life was swept away like so much chaff in the wind.
Once, the land was tended by hands—rough, calloused hands that swung sickles and scythes, that knew the rhythm of wheat and rye, that toiled under sun and rain for a meager wage. It was not a good life, but it was a life, and it had its rituals, its laborious communion with the earth.
Then came the machine, hulking and indifferent, with its cold efficiency. Where once there had been crews of men, laboring side by side, now there was only the combine, a monstrous thing that cut and threshed and cleaned in a single pass. The need for human hands, for human labor, shrank to almost nothing. A single operator, perched high in the cab, was all that was left, overseeing the work of what had once been many.
Tens of thousands of workers, those who had relied on the rhythm of harvest, found themselves rendered obsolete. They drifted to the cities, seeking some new purpose, some new means of survival. The fields, once full of voices and the sound of scythes, grew silent, save for the relentless hum of the combine. The machine did not mourn the loss. It never does.
Wow! That captures it beautifully. Because it isn't just jobs that are lost, it's a whole way of life and all the camaraderie that comes with it. Of course, it's happening again now with AI, which is almost certainly going to take work away from a lot of people soon, too... 😎
Life is constantly evolving second by second.
A harvest promise
Lies bleeding in the field with
Barley-crossed fingers
Amazing imagery, and I love all the possible stories here🖤
No escape from Fate
Chews you up, grinds you so fine
You're better after
Just some fertilizer ☠️
in the style of:
1. metal god awakens
fields tremble at its approach
harvest ritual
- Jane Reichhold
2. cosmic reaper
swallows stars and spits out chaff
universe shivers
- Matsuo Allard
3. iron beast stirs
dreams of grain and endless fields
time bends to its will
- Roberta Beary
4. alien monolith
crawling through golden waves
devouring summer
- Michael Dylan Welch
5. teeth of the old ones
grinding reality's fabric
new world emerges
- Deborah P Kolodji
6. dimensional rift
combine crosses the threshold
reaping other worlds
- Jim Kacian
7. eldritch harvester
whispers secrets to the corn
ancient pact renewed
- Fay Aoyagi
8. quantum combine
probability fields collapse
futures crystallize
- Ferris Gilli
9. chrono-harvester
reaping moments, sowing myths
history reshaped
- Stanford M. Forrester
10. dream-eating machine
childhood memories its fuel
adulting begins
- Garry Gay
These are so cool! I love the theme! Probably #5 is my fave, but so hard to choose!
Also my poetry TBR list is getting so long😅😂