The machine was built in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire and is made of oak and ash. It can still thresh oats,barley and wheat. When used on the farms it took ten people to work it and threshing was a ...

Threshing was always a much-anticipated and exciting time for everyone, but eventually threshing machines were replaced with combines. My dad's last year of threshing was 1953. We still have the M.

For 80-plus years, from 1870 until the last production threshing machine by a major farm equipment rolled off the line in 1956 or so, harvesting was done like this.

STRATHCONA, Minn. - In September 1965 Marshall Wiskow thought it would be fun to fire up the old steam engine in his pasture and invite his neighbors over for a threshing bee.

The money, which will be combined with matching funds of $72,697, will be used to clean, stabilize, and conserve a threshing machine that was used by […] Skip to content. All Sections.