Northville Farm Heritage Center

We had a lovely sunny day to explore Northville Farm Heritage Center. It is about a 45 minute drive from our house. The center focuses on agriculture from the past. There are 6 building and we looked in 3 of them this trip. 
In the first building was a variety of haying equipment. 

Pulleys of all sort. The wall were lined with hand farming tools

Hay tines for lifting hay into a loft or stack

Hand plows, seeders and other items

More donated items used to farm the land

Steam engine built in Kentville not far from the farm

Steam Engine

The second building housed a lot of small tools that would be found in the house or a shop. There was so much to photograph and I didn't get many pictures. It was also very busy. 

History of barbwire

Tools found in a shop and the house. 

A huge collection of wood planes

And brace and bit drills

We found a potato scuffler similar to the one we gave away. The Spousal Unit had used the potato scuffler when growing up. 

In the third building we saw wagons and buggies. 

Hay rack

A doctor's buggy

The collection of sleighs were hard to photograph - a dark corner and tightly packed together. 
A fellow brought this to the farm and drove it around showing it off. We thought it was really interesting. 

It is a working lawnmower. 
There was reaping and they brought the grain shooks in to be combined. 

There was even people out scything down the oats but we didn't see the competition. We assumed it was happening later on. 

The old combine. People were invited to get in close and watch the process 

Putting the oats into the machine from the wagon

And the straw coming out

After that demonstration was the ox pulls. I caught on to the judging at the end of the second class. You get three chances to hook up to the drey and three chances to pull the dry three feet. 

Young oxen pulling the drey

Ox in the Young class being hooked up to pull the drey

Placing is based on the weight of the team to weight of drey ratio. Some competitors would leave when their team had a 1:2 ratio and place 2nd or 3rd. No owner made their teams pull more than they knew they could. The videos are now being downloaded but the winning team of the heavy class pulled a ratio of 1:2.23. His team pulled 6200 lbs with ease. There was an extra heavy class but we didn't stay to watch it. 
We will be going back out for the tractor pulls and for the provincial plowing match (tractors and horses). This is the Spousal Units place of choice and he is in his element.