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Real early thresher

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iowa_tire_guy

12-15-2006 20:00:30




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The picture of the Ground Hog thresher got me to thinking about the thresher they have rebuilt at Mt Vernon in Virgina. (George Washington's plantation) He had the idea and had his people build a 16 sided two story barn about 30 foot diameter. The floor of the upper story had alternating boards and spaces each about 1/2 inch wide. It also had a fence about 10 feet out from the center. This created a ring just inside the outside wall. They would put the bundled wheat from the field on the floor several inches thick and run a horse around the ring and it's hooves would thresh the wheat letting it and the chaff fall through to the lower floor where it was winnowed and put in barrels for storage. Quite a novel idea. I did a web search and found some pictures and they still do demonstrations in the rebuilt barn.

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Mn Dave

12-16-2006 05:49:39




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 Re: Real early thresher in reply to iowa_tire_guy, 12-15-2006 20:00:30  
The history of threshing grain has a long and varied history. They tried many ways to modernize the operation, even back in the 18th century, any thing to take all the labor out of it. I owned one thresher at one time that I kinda wished I had back, it now is owned by the Hampton County Museum in Hampton, Iowa. It is a 1876 Nichols and Shepard Vibrator, hand feed and the paint and lettering was still visible.

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iowa_tire_guy

12-16-2006 15:58:52




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 Re: Real early thresher in reply to Mn Dave, 12-16-2006 05:49:39  
It has been a few years since we were back there but I believe one the goals in building the barn was to keep from loosing so much grain in the mud and dirt as they were doing by using a threshing floor as they had since Biblical times. Also I am sure it saved labor. This was just another step in the evolution to what we have today.



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