Heatwole Threshing Association President Corey Henke is shown pitching bundles of grain into a threshing machine at a past show. He and dozens of club members have organized the group''s 43rd ...

Pioneer Village Museum received a donation of a threshing crew’s cook car originally used in the 1920s. The cook car’s ...

Old-time wheat threshing with side dishes of broom making, blacksmithing, basket weaving and other "hands on" historical skills were all on the menu at the Bos Bros Fall Harvest, an old-fashioned ...

How Combines Work No component on a combine functions independently; the header, feeder house, thresher, separator, cleaning fan and straw chopper all interact with effects that can reach all the ...

The threshing machine was predecessor to the combine. The binders that are used to harvest the wheat at one time didn't have tractors to operate them.

Threshing crews would travel from farm to farm with these large machines that would thresh the wheat and oats, separating the grain from the straw. Crews would spend several days at each farm ...

For more than 50 years, the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. (MTM) hired hundreds of Czech and Scandinavian workers to build massive machines that transported farmers into the 20th century.

Before the age of combines, wheat, oats, rye and barley were harvested with a threshing machine. My earliest memory of threshing grain is with a steam engine and wooden threshing machine.

Later, all the men would gather to haul the bundles by mule teams to the threshing machine that separated wheat kernels from straw stalks, while women and girls cooked huge meals for the crew.

Thomas McClure, ot McConnellsville, 0., has taken measures to secure a patent for improvements in the above. These are of such a nature as to prevent the grain from be ing thrown out of or beyond ...

A frightful accident occurred at Rolling Praitie on Monday last, which, as near as we can learn, happened as follows: A number of bands were engaged in threshing wheat at the farm of Mr. BROWN ...