Exactly the model that used to visit the farm down the road from us in Fife! As soon as we heard it I'd be down the road like a shot to watch it. The farm still worked with Clydesdales and the Binder, and my Grandfather and i would go out and scythe the end rig and build the stooks, then once the harvest was dry the mill would arrive.
I remember following Bowler's Threshing Mill in the Castlemaine area as it went from farm to farm. It was a great social occasion in the old "meitheall" tradition.
I remember climbing on that when i went on my holidays. Thats 15 years ago now. Too bad the people who knew how to use a threshing machine are now more or less all gone. Fascinating machine it is
We thrashed until 1967, we put Standard Fordson to drive Thrashing Box, problem was as I saw there have to chock wheel as no parking brake with clutch and brake combined.
There are many people who still know how to operate them. Look for antique societies and museums that specialise in them. Antique power land in Oregon in the USA have 4-5 working threshers that volunteers power up every year
Exactly the model that used to visit the farm down the road from us in Fife! As soon as we heard it I'd be down the road like a shot to watch it. The farm still worked with Clydesdales and the Binder, and my Grandfather and i would go out and scythe the end rig and build the stooks, then once the harvest was dry the mill would arrive.
Lots of us around and hope to be for a long time
Lovely grand treshing machine
I remember following Bowler's Threshing Mill in the Castlemaine area as it went from farm to farm. It was a great social occasion in the old "meitheall" tradition.
I remember climbing on that when i went on my holidays. Thats 15 years ago now. Too bad the people who knew how to use a threshing machine are now more or less all gone. Fascinating machine it is
We thrashed until 1967, we put Standard Fordson to drive Thrashing Box, problem was as I saw there have to chock wheel as no parking brake with clutch and brake combined.
There are many people who still know how to operate them. Look for antique societies and museums that specialise in them. Antique power land in Oregon in the USA have 4-5 working threshers that volunteers power up every year
Nice!
the basic concept hasn't changed much since the threshing machine.