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Feb 9, 2011 · An early threshing machine, patented in 1837 by Hiram A. and John A. Pitts, Winthrop, Maine, was powered by horses walking on a treadmill. Improvements were made to the original machine until late in the 1800s. The threshing machines used early in the 20th century were basically the same, except for the power source.
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- Threshing: How It Actually Was
By far the most popular threshing machine size was the 36...
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1926 threshing machine "The expense of horse labour, from the increased value of the animal and the charge of his keeping, being an object of great importance, it is recommended that, upon all sizable farms, that is to say, where two hundred acres [800,000 m²], or upwards, of grain are sown, the machine should be worked by wind, unless where local circumstances afford the conveniency of water ...
Jul 2, 2022 · An animated explanation of how an early thresher worked.
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- The Long Shop Museum
@rockymountainhousemuseum774 Jean-Marie Mason, Curator, interviews Walter Atchison, Director, asking for an explanation on how a threshing machine works. Thr...
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- Rocky Mountain House Museum
thresher, farm machine for separating wheat, peas, soybeans, and other small grain and seed crops from their chaff and straw. Primitive threshing methods involved beating by hand with a flail or trampling by animal hooves. An early threshing machine, patented in 1837 by Hiram A. and John A. Pitts of Winthrop, Maine, U.S., was operated by ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The McIntosh Threshing Bee of 2021 was, for the sake of the times, scaled down to a much smaller, safer group of participants. As for implements, they employed their Case threshing machine, an old Oliver tractor for belt drive and a John Deere grain binder. All of the equipment has been well maintained and is fully operational. Two days before the scheduled threshing, the Case separator was ...
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Sep 1, 1992 · By far the most popular threshing machine size was the 36 inch cylinder with the 58 to 60 inch separating width. Usually eight bundle wagons would do the job, rarely more than 10. The frame wagons, until the last few years of threshing, were of the drop center design with the higher level extending over and beyond the wheels.
