Posted by Dr. Ed on December 26, 2011 at 08:28:55 from (71.38.205.137):
In Reply to: What are they doing posted by Stephen Newell on December 26, 2011 at 05:52:37:
They are threshing, probably wheat. There are two bundle wagon, one on either side of the drive belt. These wagons go out into the grain field and bring the "bundles" or sheaves of unthreshed grain to the threshing machine. It looks as though they were using a "feeding table" where three men were removing the twine (or wire sometimes)from the bundles and feeding the stalks evenly into the threshing cylinder. Later machines used a long conveyor upon which the bundles were placed with a pitchfork and a "twine cutter" mechanism cut the twine automatically just before the stalks entered the threshing cylinder. This was much safer and saved a lot of manpower, but progress came slowly.
The large pipe extending up diagonally to the left from the rear of the thresher is the "wind stacker", basically a big blower that blew the straw and chaff up into the straw stack. It looks like they had been in this set up for some time because the straw stack is huge.
This is a very interesting family heirloom photograph. My family threshed wheat for many years but no one thought to take a picture.
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