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Stationary Thresher 3451
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Jerry Sodorff
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Photograph
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Harvest Fest at the Yamhill County Historical Society McMinnville, Oregon is a rare opportunity to watch old-time farming history.
Years ago, farmers used stationary threshers to harvest their crops. The thresher was powered by a steam engine driven tractor.
It has always amazed me that this method was used on our own farm in the rolling hills of the Palouse!
The standing crop was cut and hauled to the stationary thresher. Once at the thresher, the kernels of the crop were separated from the stalks.
The kernels went into burlap sacks which were then stitched shut. The straw was blown into a pile near the thresher and used for bedding livestock in the barns.
The first thresher was invented by Scottish mechanical engineer Andrew Meikle for use in agriculture. It was devised (c. 1786) for the separation of grain from stalks and husks. For thousands of years, grain was separated by hand with flails, and was very laborious and time consuming, taking about one-quarter of agricultural labor by the 18th century.
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August 26th, 2015
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