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.

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.

Add the diesel engine, attach the threshing drum, and secure all parts with bolts and welding. Clean and paint the machine for durability. Finally, test it to ensure smooth threshing.

Men and machines traveled from farm to farm, plowing in the spring, threshing each fall. For several decades, they were an institution in rural America, their steam traction engines, like noisy ...

If attending this weekend’s Heatwole Threshing Show whets your appetite for more antique tractors and threshing machines, you are in luck. One or two similar shows are within a two-hour drive ...

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 ...

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 ...