Each year I thresh a few acres of oats, and this year we used the rare 20 inch McCormick-Deering thresher that's been in the family for almost 60 years. This machine was made in 1930, and was meant to be sold to a small farmer who wanted his own threshing rig, rather than have to wait for the custom thresherman, who might not be there till fall or even winter. But with the coming of the Great Depression, very few small family farmers could afford a luxury like a threshing machine, so IHC stopped making them after only a few years.
This 92 year old machine worked like new and gave as clean a sample as you could want. Not sure how many of the contemporary harvesting machines will be around in nearly a hundred years, much less still be usable.
This 92 year old machine worked like new and gave as clean a sample as you could want. Not sure how many of the contemporary harvesting machines will be around in nearly a hundred years, much less still be usable.
