Posted by Majorman on December 07, 2021 at 14:08:04 from (86.134.80.239):
In Reply to: Re: 2021.12.07 posted by super99 on December 07, 2021 at 10:15:47:
Yes, he is feeding the drum, some drums had a self feeder., Usually the drum was pulled alongside the stack and the sheaves thrown down onto the platform until the level of the stack got below the drum then they were thrown up. I think that this picture was taken after the stack was just about finished, there is a hump on the left of the picture which could be the stack base. Stacks in my area were sometimes built on a bed of hedge cuttings to keep the sheaves off the ground.
The man in the front of the drum is tying and moving the grain sacks, looks like they are Coomb sacks which hold about 1 1/2 hundredweight. The man on the side would be cleaning the calder from underneath the drum or it could be the chaff. Both would be used for animal or chicken feed.
It must have been a hot day as the man on the corn sacks has a knotted handkerchief on his head, could also be folically challenged so he is keeping the sun off.
The lady behind the stack bottom could be the farmers wife with the tea.
All the straw was usually stacked loose, bunched or baled and used for feed or cattle bedding in the cattle yards. I have never seen a blower in Europe except on some drums and combines, there was a collector that fed a cyclone to collect the chaff.
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