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The evolution of mechanical wheat harvesting

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David from Kansas

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Wanted to share this. It is an ad of a wheat header for sale in Kansas. Think the header came into use just before the pull-type combine. It eliminated having to bind the wheat into bundles, shocking the bundles for ripening and hauling them to the threshing machine. The header cut the heads directly from the wheat and elevated them into a wagon (header barge), taken to the threshing machine where they were threshed. Of course, this is strictly my opinion based on what I heard my dad talk about.
http://www.nextechclassifieds.com/listings/view/904046/
 
Friend and I used his header to cut oats one year for a demo. Friend of his had 4 horses push the header and all the long canvass dropped the heads in a header trailer. We then pitched them into my 22-37 Case thresher. Less work than using a binder. Lot smaller straw stack also.
 
Hello, Do you have a phone number for the party that has the header? I tried your link but no header comes up.....I own a McCormick Plain Header and I have some looking for parts for a Deering Header
 
A stripper harvester pushed by horses was invented by John Ridley in South Australia in the early 1840s.

It was used to overcome an acute labour shortage in harvesting wheat in the new colony. Prior to its use, wheat was harvested using sythes or sickles.

The stripper harvester worked because of the very dry harvest climate in South Australia. This early machine did not work well in other climates.

More successful machines were built later by H V McKay in Ballarat in Victoria.
 
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