Old Thrashing Machine

John Athey · Jul 31, 2016

Hi - I just saw this in craigslist. Says It is a 1893 clover seed separator. Thought you all might like to see it. It is for sale. Did anyone ever use one of these?

John Athey · Jul 31, 2016

Tried to upload the photo. What is the secret to uploading photos?

gene bender · Jul 31, 2016

Yes back in 40s or so thats how we got our seed here in IOWA took it to an upstairs room that was dry ect till spring then sowed it with oats sold excess at local seed store many small towns had them would also clean your seed if needed. Straw was baled for bedding and feed.

DJB · Jul 31, 2016

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El Toro · Jul 31, 2016

Click on Browse and select picture. Then click on Continue then click on Upload. Your picture should then appear. Hal

The Dukester · Jul 31, 2016

Yeah, there used to be a Birdsall clover huller in our family. Grand-dad was a custom operator of harvesting machinery in the 1900-1950 era, having a Avery thresher, Rosenthal corn husker, Rumely silo filler, Birdsall clover huller, and a Frick portable sawmill. Through the years he used a Model F Rumely, a 24 Horsepower Port Huron steam traction engine and a 30-60 Rumely Model S for power to run these various machines.. In my younger years I worked with all these outfits until they became obsolete.
Clover hulling (threshing) was a dirty job, usually it was the second cutting of various legumes that was cut with a sickle mower/windrower then hand bunched and left a couple to five days to dry in the field then brought to the huller on flat rack wagons and hulled. If you got over 5 bushels of clean clover or alfalfa seed off 10 acres it was considered worthwhile to do this back in those days.

cool hand · Jul 31, 2016

I recall in my very young years a neighbor had a "clover huller" that did the job for the whole neighborhood, but I was too young to be involved with it. In my later youth years another neighbor had a grain threshing machine that seemed to do the job just as well. We'd harvest a second cutting of clover (sometimes alfalfa) for seed every year for our own use and for sale to others.

Angle Iron · Jul 31, 2016

Back in the late seventy's to the early eighty's George Ryks and his brother in law had their uncle Walter Shoemakers machine set up and being run by Walter for alfalfa seed on Georges farm west northwest of Ethan, SD a few miles. Looked like a lot of work for a little seed. I don't recall the brand of the machine. This was a long held family farm that Walter had grown up on and had some nice vintage stuff. Good memories.

Leroy · Jul 31, 2016

The clover huller was just a small scale treashing machine. The was not much straw on clover so it did not need the volume for that. The clover seed is so much smaller that it would not be able to be seperated in a normal trashing machine so the clover huller was made with smaller opening screens and the like so the dirt-chaf could be seperated from the seed.

Cory Schmidt · Jul 31, 2016

Don't need another(its to far anyway). have 2 bigger ones in the shed(one is useable other parts). I would really like to get it out one year again and run a load through it.

Case Collector · Jul 31, 2016

The clover huller had rasp bars in the cylinder to rub the seed out , the threshing machines had teeth in the cylinder

Cory Schmidt · Aug 1, 2016

NOT true our clover huller has the teeth for a cylinder. Ours is also bigger then the 22x38 McCormick thresh machine that's next to it in the shed(for those that say clover hullers are smaller)

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