Old-time threshing scene

Bob · Dec 21, 2016

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Believed to be in the Bisbee, ND area, date unknown.

Who's pitching bundles, there's material coming out of the stacker!

Bob · Dec 21, 2016

Another Bisbee-area threshing scene...

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4520BW · Dec 21, 2016

Neat old photos. What did they do with the massive pile of straw?

Bob · Dec 21, 2016

For one thing, let the farm animals graze/root through it for grain that was thrown over the sieves.

Dick2 · Dec 21, 2016

Farmers didn't have pole barns in those days, so cattle outside ate caves in the stack and created a place to get out of the weather. We had to watch when they got so deep, then cause the cave to collapse so cattle couldn't accidentally get caught inside and smother.

Living in flat country, those big stacks were also our toboggan/sled hill during the winter.

farmboy48 · Dec 21, 2016

I watched a few old threshers at the Makoti (ND) show this fall, I noticed that the grain going into the wagon was about 30% dockage. I doubt if the elevator would take a sample that bad these days. The old boys probably needed new or better sieves.

Dick ND

notjustair · Dec 21, 2016

That "cab" on the steamer wouldn't be hot or anything.

notjustair · Dec 21, 2016

I love that the water tender is in the picture. I don't know that I've seen a picture where the water tender was anywhere in the photo.

JimIA · Dec 21, 2016

Great pictures! The first picture appears to be a Case engine and a Port Huron in the second.

Thanks for posting.

fixerupper · Dec 22, 2016

The fellows in the first picture might have been the spike pitchers. That's quite a mountain of straw and to think the bundles that fed that pile were handled by hand at least three times before the straw made it to the separator. If the wheat yielded maybe 25- 30 BPA I wonder how far the bundles had to be hauled in a radius surrounding the separator to accumulate that much straw. How many wagons and teams did it take? How far away did the water come from? Most of the crew as I understand slept under the stars at night. How were the horses fed? I'm just rambling tonight.

CCCHS77 · Dec 25, 2016

Year unknown, but the crew was on my Grandpa's place in southern Hamilton county, Kansas. Late teens or early twenties is my guess.

tractorguy2 · Dec 25, 2016

Here are some old threshing photos. A 90 year old lady gave them to me last fall. She said they were of my great grandfather. They can't be. He had a Sandusky model E tractor.

01gentdc · Dec 26, 2016

loox to be a rumely oil pull in the 3rd pix ,, but what do I know?; I was born in 1956 ,. I barely remember pops team of horses, and his sc and f2 case combine ,.. we did have a neighbor that had a corn shredder and another neighbor shokt his corn so they could have an old time sreding ,, they blew the stalks up in the hayloft and fed it out,.. that same neighbor lso had a binder and a thresher that he powered with a dc case ,,. until dad bought his f2 rig in 1951 ,. joe schmelz and his boys threshed for my dad ,. I am 5th child of 8 ,2nd son of 3,.then dad combined for joe schmelz,, but he still threshed for a few folx until about 1965,. I know where3 threshers are rite now in this county ,,.. sadly all are sitting in the weather ,. and they are only parts machines at best,,.

J. Schwiebert · Dec 26, 2016

It is an Oil Pull model is a 20-40

Tul01 · Jan 23, 2017

(quoted from post at 22:45:35 12/21/16) I watched a few old threshers at the Makoti (ND) show this fall, I noticed that the grain going into the wagon was about 30% dockage. I doubt if the elevator would take a sample that bad these days. The old boys probably needed new or better sieves.

Dick ND

We resurrected a 28-46 McCormick thresher and threshed with it fo r the first time last summer. The seive adjustments are still frozen so we went with what it was last used with when it was parked I guess. We got one of the cleanest samples I have ever seen. Sometimes better to be lucky than good!

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