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.

Frank — serious as a farm mechanic can be when necessary and by turns a practical joker — drove his classic Stearns-Knight from its shed a couple times in summer. The Stearns-Knight, which was ...

So they shared the machines and in the work associated with using them with friends and neighbors. Threshing Day was a major event in rural Iowa between 1870 and 1930 with as many as 30 or more men ...

It takes quite a bit of work to get ready for the annual Camp Creek Threshers show outside of Waverly. One process involves harvesting wheat for the threshing machines. We visited with Fred ...

He purchased a vintage Keck-Gonnerman threshing machine in Rosholt, S.D., with the notion of someday using it with his antique tractors. He also restored a 1923 Minneapolis 17-30 tractor and was ...

Both machines were purchased from Gary Royer, who had owned them with his father, Harold Royer, since 1966. The machines have been stored, used and displayed at McLouth since that time.